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School officials slam village tax breaks Barnett, Nagler oppose aid for Mineola apt. complex

BY B R YA N AHRENS Mineola school officials expressed strong opposition on Wednesday to tax breaks for a mixed-use, multi-story apartment complex proposed by the New Hyde Park-based Lalezarian Developers during a presentation of the plan by the Village of Mineola Board of Trustees.

School officials said a series of tax breaks for the complex would place a high financial burden on school taxpayers.

PHOTO COURTESY OF jAROd ROTHSTEIN

Leveling the playing field Wheatley High School senior jared Rothstein levels out dirt from a section of the Nicaraguan village of El Castillo upon which members of Mitzvah Corps built a concrete soccer field over the summer. Read the story on page 3.

“I am vehemently opposed to any more PILOT arrangements,” Mineola school board President Artie Barnett.

Barnett was joined in expressing concerns about the project’s financing by Mineola Superintendent of Schools Michael Nagler, who questioned whether the district would receive assistance if increased enrollment exceeds the deverloper’s projections.

“The number they’re saying, we can handle that,” Nagler said. “What if they’re wrong, then what happens?”

The comments by Nagler

and Barnett came during the public portion of meeting in which a representative for the developer made his first presentation of the project.

Village officials announced in September that Lalezarian Developers, operating as Mineola Metro LLC, planned to build a mixed use multi-story building with 296 apartment units, a restaurant and retail space on the ground floor at 199 Second Street in Mineola.

Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said the project includes plans to construct a Continued on Page 47

E.W. officials say water well plan forced by W.P. Say neighbor village makes unreasonable demands

BY B R YA N AHRENS Village of East Williston trustees told a packed room of residents on Thursday in Village Hall that a proposed plan to build a $7 million water system in Devlin Park came as a last resort after a three-year dispute with Williston Park

over water rates had shown no progress.

“We have no other option at this point,” Deputy Mayor Bonnie Parente said during the hearing. “I hope by the end the majority of you will see that we don’t have another choice.”

Village officials called the meeting in Village Hall to discuss a report prepared by

Melville-based company H2M architects + engineers on construction the water system, which was posted on the village’s website two weeks ago and accompanied by a letter to residents.

In the letter, the village of East Williston announced plans to build an “independent Continued on Page 47

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Addicts aid addicts 30 mph extended to help launch biz on Roslyn Road Albertson resident, 2 others offer sobriety gifts Now covers Jericho Tpke. to LIE

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BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

In the 12 years she has been in recovery for drug and alcohol addiction, Village of Flower Hill resident Kerri Kahn had never come across heartfelt gifts for friends who reached sobriety milestones.

That is, until she decided to start making them.

Kahn is the founder of 24ave, a line of T-shirts, jewelry and accessories that can be custom designed to include the date of one’s sobriety, a sponsor’s name and the common inspirational phrases and acronyms practiced in recovery programs.

“I want to redefine sobriety for the 21st century. That’s what I want this company to do,” she said. “I want people to know. I don’t want people [in recovery] to live in the shadows and be afraid. I want to show them I got to have a do-over with my life.”

The idea first came to Kahn, who prior to succumbing to her addictions designed women’s accessories, four years ago, she said, but she didn’t have an opportunity to bring her creations to life until experiencing two chance encounters late last year.

The first took place when Kahn walked into Uptown Artworks in Port Washington to find a one-year sobriety gift for a friend and, with the help of the store’s owner, Lori Blum, customized a tray with phrases common of recovery programs.

“We talked about the 12 and 12 – the 12 traditions and 12 steps we follow in recovery – and ODAAT, ‘one day at a time,” Kahn said. “I made up this gift for my friend and I loved it and everyone loved it. From there, [Blum] became my business partner.”

Added Blum, a Kings Point

Nassau County has replaced speed limit signs along a section of Roslyn Road to conform to a 30 mile-per-hour speed regulation set by the Town of North Hempstead in September, officials said.

In an e-mail, Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury) said the county’s Department of Public Works would analyze how the speed limit affects traffic flow to determine whether additional adjustments to speed signage, or the reconfiguration of the roadway, would be necessary.

“This is an important step because it clears the way for the final phase, hopefully,” Jacobs said, The town council approved the uniform speed limit to a portion of Roslyn Road that extends from Jericho Turnpike to the Long Island Expressway ramp near Powerhouse Road.

The county has considered eliminating a veer-off lane that extends from Roslyn Road onto Locust Lane, an intersection in Roslyn Heights where in March two Mineola teenagers were killed af-

From left: Francine Aulicino, Lori Blum and Kerri Khan, the founders of 24ave. resident: “I’m actually a social worker by training, so I definitely am emphatic to any kind of suffering or people’s problems, so I understood it. I thought it was a great niche population.

I also did some research and found there’s nothing really like it out there and I love designing new projects. I was excited to be on board.”

The second happened while Kahn was leading a recovery meeting and was approached by Albertson resident Francine Aulicino, who had just completed addiction treatment at the Betty Ford Center, about becoming her sponsor.

“The more I talked to [Aulicino], I learned she had a social media background,” Kahn said.

“Here I have a woman who can make gift items and a girl who asked me to be her sponsor with a huge social media background. The light bulb went off in my head.”

Over the next eight months, the trio designed their product line, website and social media pages.

The company launched

earlier this year.

Trunk shows displaying the company’s line are scheduled for Dec. 4 at Uptown Artworks.

“We’ve had a lot of activity on Facebook. We’ve gotten orders.

People seem to love the products,” Blum said. “We’ve had some very nice customer feedback already, so I believe we’re just going to grow and grow.

Fingers crossed, right?”

As the company expands, Kahn said more products will be added.

“This may sound a bit hokey, but I think this is a gift from above,” Kahn said. “I never had the right time and the right people, and all the puzzle pieces have kind of come together. I won’t forget that.”

“It’s taken a lot of work to put this together, and every single thing that we’ve done has been very deliberate,” she said.

“I don’t regret being a drug addict and an alcoholic, because it’s enabled me to do this. It’s like taking whatever was left of me and putting it together with the new me. There’s no telling what we’re going to do now.”

ter their car crashed into the backyard fence of a residence there.

In the aftermath of the crash, the town installed a guardrail along Locust Lane, and the county increased signage and police presence in the area.

Locust Lane is operated by the Town of North Hempstead, while Roslyn Road is within Nassau County jurisdiction.

Jacobs said last month the town’s vote to change the speed limit was made with the support of Nassau County.

Prior to the accident, several town and county officials met at Roslyn Road and Locust Lane to discuss traffic-calming measures in the area.

North Hempstead Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman (DEast Hills), has expressed support for the installation of a traditional right-turn signal at the intersection with a corresponding traffic light.

Jacobs has also said she would support a traffic light at the site.

The county DPW, she said, is also investigating whether a traffic light is feasible there.

Roslyn Road near Locust Lane

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Wheatley seniors make a difference Help build soccer field, good relations as volunteers with youth group in Nicaragua

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

While most Americans watched this year’s World Cup from their local watering hole or by sneaking in a few minutes here and there at work, Wheatley High School seniors Jade Marcus and Jared Rothstein took in the action from a secluded village in Nicaragua.

The pair spent eight days in early July building a soccer field for residents of El Castillo alongside a team of volunteers from Mitzvah Corps, an extension of the Union for Reform Judaism that helps pair teenagers with service opportunities.

And this February, they plan on going back.

“They were playing soccer without shoes on a concrete field with these deflated 30-year-old balls that are just not useable.

They were mixing concrete for the field without gloves, and they don’t even realize [the health risks,]” said Rothstein, of Roslyn Heights. “We want to eliminate some of that inconvenience.”

Rothstein and Marcus, each

PHOTO courtesy of jared rothstein

Volunteers from Mitzvah Corps pose for a photo on a mud field they turned into a concrete soccer pitch. members of Temple Sinai of Roslyn Heights’ youth group SORTY, have begun a fundraising initiative through YouCaring.com to collect $7,500 to purchase athletic and basic construction equipment for another major building project in Nicaragua.

“Soccer and baseball are

their two most important sports, and when we went a lot of kids were using broken bats, none of them really had mitts, they had one soccer ball,” said Marcus, of Mineola.

“It didn’t really phase them, and that affected me,” she said.

“The things that are really impor-

tant to us here are very trivial to them over there.”

Marcus and Rothstein were first inspired to join Mitzvah Corps after meeting with the organization’s assistant director, Jonah Freelander, at Temple Sinai earlier this year.

But convincing their parents

to allow them to travel to the Central American country took some work, they said.

“Yes, the ‘going-to-Nicaragua’ part, they were hesitant about,” Rothstein said. “But this program has gone there before and community service is pretty important to me. When I find something I want to do, I decide I’m going to find a way to do it, and within a few weeks they said go ahead.”

Said Marcus: “My mom initially said no, but I knew it was something I needed to do and that it’d be a great experience. I got them to say yes.”

They left for Nicaragua on July 8, first on a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Miami, where they joined their Mitzvah Corps comrades and caught a connecting flight to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua.

After another nine hours of travel by van and boat, Rothstein and Marcus arrived in El Castillo.

“We really didn’t know what to expect. It’s Nicaragua, it’s the middle of nowhere, it’s a bit scary,” Rothstein said.

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SWAT cops help dream come true Visit 5-year-old boy battling brain cancer at hospital, bring gifts and get a smile

on June 5, where Renee said the surgeons believe they completely removed the cancer.

Zachary started Chemotherapy on Sept. 9., Renee said.

Renee says the cycles of therapy have been a stress on her and her husband, which have been compounded by Renee’s own medical problem. She is on disability due to being diagnosed with porphyria in 2002.

“This family couldn’t be in more need of help right now,” said Jennifer Hoffman, a family friend who started a gofundme page to support the Cotes.

Since being created five months ago the page has raised $12,675 of its $20,000 goal.

“Thank you doesn’t even seem enough for what people have contributed,” Renee said.

BY B R YA N A H R E N S Zachary Cote, a 5-year-old boy battling brain cancer, had his dreams come true on Friday when three Nassau County Police Officers visited him at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park.

Lt. Tara Comiskey, and police officers David Brown and Mario Mastropierro of the Bureau of Special Operations gave Zachary the opportunity to see one of the bureau’s armored trucks. The three also gave Zachary a Special Operations hat, sweatshirt and patch.

“I haven’t seen my son smile like that in a long time,” Zachary’s mother Renee said.

Comiskey, who is Renee’s lifelong friend, came up with the idea to visit Zachary after Renee told her that Zachary had dressed up as a SWAT officer for Halloween.

She said Zachary has an strong interest in police officers.

“It just blew my mind,” Renee said.

Renee said that the Cohen Children’s Medical Center’s treat-

Police officers David Brown (left) and Mario Mastropierro (right) with Zachary. ment of Zachery in both treating him and setting up the event has been good for them.

“I’m very thankful that we landed here,” Renee said. “From the littlest thing to the biggest

thing, this is the place to go to.”

Renee said that Zachery was first diagnosed with stage-four medulloblastoma, a highly malignant primary brain tumor that originates in the part of the brain,

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Nassau County’s population is projected to decrease by 3 percent by 2024 due to the county’s high cost of living, lack of affordable housing and stagnated industry growth, according to a new report from county Comptroller George Maragos’s office.

According to the report, by 2024 Nassau County’s population of school-aged children defined as children up to nine years old - will have 60,000 fewer children than in 2000, a 30 percent decrease, while its seniors will make up 27.4 percent of the county’s overall population, up from 22.2 percent in 2012.

In the last 13 years, Nassau County’s population has grown at a 1.3 percent rate, slower than Queens and Suffolk counties and below the state and national averages, according to the report.

To slow these trends, Maragos wrote that Nassau County should emulate booming U.S. cities - the report cites Austin, Texas; Raleigh, N.C. and California’s Silicon Valley region - that have concentrated economic efforts toward a particular industry that is “self-sustaining and regenerating through innovation.”

“Nassau County and Long Island should be the domestic and global destination for people to come to receive the best treatment,

where new revolutionary medicines of the future will be discovered to cure major diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia and others,” the report says.

The health care industry is Nassau County’s largest employment sector, which had more than 100,000 jobs in 2012 and even grew during the “Great Recession” period of the late 2000s, according to the report.

Maragos said Nassau County could become “the health care capital of the world” by linking its high-performing hospitals, colleges and laboratories with New York City’s business and entertainment districts via a new, high-speed public transportation system.

“We need to attract the best minds and will require huge investments in infrastructure to 21st century public transportation and communications systems that will bind our institutions together with rapid access to New York City and the global economy,” Maragos wrote.

In an e-mail, Nassau County spokesman Brian Nevin acknowledged the validity of the demographic trends but said County Executive Edward Mangano’s policies of freezing property taxes, enticing new industries and constructing more than 1,000 new rental homes have been as effective in reversing the lack of growth in the county.

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A New Hyde Park attorney who sought the GOP nomination for the 4th Congressional District seat in June has charged that Nassau County Republican leaders opposed his campaign out of fear it would jeopardize their business relationships in the county and its townships.

Frank Scaturro, who lost a June primary to former Nassau County Legislator Bruce Blakeman, penned a Nov. 13 editorial for the conservative online news outlet the Washington Examiner alleging the local GOP’s leadership “place[d] their own power ahead of the party’s health” by channeling resources into defeating him while largely ignoring Blakeman in the ensuing general election.

Blakeman, who raised approximately $2.5 million during his campaign against Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City), was defeated on Election Day by about 9,000 votes in a district that Scaturro wrote has more registered Republican voters than any other district in New York.

“Why would the bosses allow this? Simple: Their goal was to create a vacancy in

the Nassau District Attorney’s office, which will soon be vacated by Kathleen Rice, the Democrat who just won the Fourth District race,” Scaturro wrote.

“After all,” he continued, “her current office comes with far more patronage than a mere congressional seat. And if that sounds conspiratorial, consider that as this was happening, [Nassau GOP committee chairman Joseph] Mondello’s allies were simultaneously helping Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo win re-election.”

Efforts to reach Blakeman campaign spokesman Matt Coleman and Mondello were unavailing.

Scaturro, who has run primary campaigns for the 4th Congressional District in the last three elections against candidates backed by the Republican Party, wrote that Mondello “fosters a clannish culture hostile toward outsiders” that opposes primaries “because having voters choose candidates undermines the party bosses’ control of government.”

“There is a lesson here,” Scaturro concluded. “When Republicans ignore the primary process and subordinate the people’s role in selecting a party’s candidates to that of the bosses, we lose.”

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BY B R YA N AHRENS Bhalinder Rikhye of the Mineola-based law firm Bartlett, Mcdonough & Monaghan, LLP, was elected to the board of directors of the NuHealth Foundation last week.

“I feel honored to have been elected to join the NuHealth Foundation’s Board of Directors and thank the directors for their confidence,” Rikhye said.

The NuHealth Foundation is part of the NuHealth System, a network of healthcare providers in Nassau County that includes the Nassau University Medical Center, A. Holly Patterson extended Care Facility, NuHealth Family Health Centers, and Nassau Medical Associates and raises funds to support healthcare services.

Rikhye, who has

worked in healthcare law for 30 years, has represented physicians and hospitals in the Greater New York area.

“We are proud of Mr. Rikhye’s many years of dedicated service to the healthcare industry and we are confident that he will contribute greatly to the mission of the NuHealth Foundation,” said Anthony Barbier, managing partner at Bartlett, McDonough & Monaghan.

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In addition to practicing law in New York State, Rikhye practices law in India. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Queens College, and the University of Cambridge in England where he received his law degree.

“The Foundation has played a critical role in helping the NuHealth System deliver healthcare services to a broad crosssection of the larger Long Island community,” Rikhye said. “I look forward to participating in the work of the Foundation to continue its efforts towards this important mission.”

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Maragos has second thoughts Speaking to the Kiwanis Club, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos admitted what has been clear to anyone without a political agenda: the Nassau County budget is a mess and only getting worse.

The comptroller called for a top-down review of county finances.

“We have a $90 million deficit this year,” he said, adding that he wants to see “financial experts” review the county’s operations in an effort to reduce the deficit.

That’s exactly what Nassau Interim Finance Authority should have been calling for. The authority was created by the state Legislature to keep the county from financial disaster. NIFA has defaulted on that responsibility.

That wasn’t always the case. In February 2013 then NIFA director George Marlin said the county was engaging in “financial gimmicks” to back its false claim that the county is running a budget surplus.

Maragos, a Republican, responded that Marlin, a registered Conservative, was driven by political motivations. Maragos wrote in an Op Ed piece, “I am shocked that Mr. George Marlin, a self-described financial expert, who is in a position of public trust on the NIFA Board, a New York State Agency, has apparently attempted to misinform the public with seemingly incorrect statements and selective out-of-context figures.”

Fast forward to last week when Maragos said, “We need to see how we’re spending money and where we’re spending it. We need management experts to reorganize the county to act much more cost effectively.”

Why wasn’t NIFA, now under the leadership of its new Chair Jon Kaiman, the first to sound an alarm and insist that the county take emergency measures to balance its budget?

NIFA has become a toothless tiger.

Maragos conceded in his speech last week that the school zone speed cameras, a gimmick that was intended to raise millions of dollars for the county under the guise of protecting children, has been a disaster.

The cameras are not generating the revenue that the county expected and, in just a few months, they have generated a great deal of public anger.

“My guess is that political pressure is building and they’ll do away with the cameras in the future,” he said.

The comptroller suggested that the county might balance the budget by collecting taxes for sales on the internet. Speaking for the thousands of Islanders who shop online (and borrowing from Charlton Heston), “You can tax the internet, Mr. Maragos, when you pry the mouse from our cold, dead hands.”

This idea is as dumb and annoying as the speed cameras and far more tempting.

There are a thousand reasons why it will not work. A sales tax or any tax on the internet would involve crossing state lines and national borders. It would hurt a growing, health commerce and should be rejected before anyone takes it seriously.

Even if it were a good idea, and it is not, enforcing such a tax would be nearly impossible.

We don’t pretend that budget challenges facing the county are easy to solve.

We agree with the comptroller that increasing property taxes would be an unpopular solution.

“We know we can’t tax people much more,” he said, “they are at their limit.”

At the same the county should resist new, unreliable gimmicks, like the speed cameras and taxing the internet. The focus should be on reducing spending without the layoffs that it might be forced into making if no other solution is found to balance the budget.

Maragos has put his cards on the table. It’s time for NIFA to stand up and say what’s at risk if the budget deficit is not addressed..

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E.W. trustees offer leaky plan for water district READERS WRITE

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he highest marginal rate for water consumption for Village of East Williston residents is $5.72 per 1,000 gallons. The VEW is billed

by Williston Park $4.33.

The incremental cost of $1.39 is levied by EW to pay for maintenance within the Village on mains and meters, exploring water supply alternatives, and operating shortfalls in our water fund resulting from main breaks and other unbillable leaks. The $5.72 rate is indeed the highest I have come across, compared to $5.60 in Port Washington, $5.47 in Garden City, $4.05 in Manhasset and $3.95 in Mineola.

Williston Park raised the cost from 2.99 in 2007 to 4.33 in 2012 and it has remained flat since then, for a compound annual growth rate of 5.5 percent.

While still a high annual rate of increase, this is sounds more reasonable than the egregious “45 percent in three years” the EW Board of Trustees are using to garner support around their plan for East Williston water “independence”.

The already high costs of this project presented last week by the East Williston board and their engineers were discovered to be flawed, specifically in the very low assumed cost of financing.

So after two years of investing in this proposal, we still do not have an honest and compelling cost-benefit analysis for the average resident.

Furthermore, the argument that East Williston would be able to sell water to neighboring towns is null, as we currently have no customers in need of it, or willing to share in the burden of developing the facility.

If this project proceeds, residents of East Williston are likely to face ever-increasing costs to maintain this water district, with only 854 households sharing the cost burden.

Take for example the Roslyn Water District, which has recently floated a $22 million bond to finance existing well maintenance and the installation of an air stripper to reduce contaminants.

Their cost is spread over nearly 6,000 households and businesses.

What will East Williston do when down the road, we have huge maintenance related capital needs to spread across a mere 854 households?

The proposed cost of $7 million (or in excess of $600,000 annually for 30 years) is not only misleading, it is simply inaccurate. They cannot possibly know what the future actual costs will

be.

In addition, this analysis doesn’t provide any reason to expect that East Williston will have a competitive advantage to be a significantly lower cost producer of water than any neighboring town in Nassau County.

As East Williston currently comprises roughly 30 percent of the revenue generated by the Williston Park Water District, the loss of that revenue will undoubtedly result in higher costs borne by Williston Park residents and businesses.

Judging by the empty storefronts along Hillside Avenue, higher operating costs for local businesses should be avoided at all costs in order to keep a vibrant local economy and residential taxes low.

There are indeed alternative solutions to this stalemate.

It only requires that the elected officials of East Williston and Williston Park put the interests of their residents ahead of their own.

Let them return to the negotiating table and strive to make the Willistons a place where residents can once again be proud to call home.

John Azzara East Williston

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African-American code of conduct fuels violence

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o address state Assemblyman Lavine’s letter on “gun violence,” I start with the term “gun violence.”

A progressive/Alinsky language re-construction to shift norms.

In the hypothetical case of injury or death involving the use of a firearm verses another with equal injury perpetrated with a hammer, this is to imply that the case in which a firearm was involved is somehow much worse. How and why? Because that fake analysis promotes the progressive agenda.

In an upper middle class community in real America (not downstate New York) everyone is armed, but there is no murder and mayhem.

There might be a murder in something like a domestic dispute once in 20 years, a shock to the community. Certainly, it is not Hempstead or Chicago.

So applying simple deductive reasoning, it is not the level of firearm ownership that causes violence.

Nowhere, except on the O’Reilly show on Fox News is the real root cause of violence addressed in public forum.

Everybody knows what it is, but the left has so intimidated everyone with the threat of racist branding that none dare mention it.

I will.

Communities like Hempstead and the analogues in Chicago and elsewhere have a code of conduct such that a young AfricanAmerican man who does the right thing, and does not engage in anti social behavior is treated as a sell out. Everybody knows it!

The protestors in Ferguson Missouri are not interested in the truth, they are defending that culture, and the leaders (that they chose) like Sharpton are out there telling them what they want to hear, profiting from it, and laughing all the way to the bank. A shameful situation.

Mr. Lavine’s solution has two parts.

In the first, it is to incrementally destroy the right of honest people to own a firearm.

Last year it was “assault weapons” and limits on the size of magazines.

Next year, his cohort, Schimmel, will (back door) ban semi auto handguns via the “microstamping” fraud.

After that it will be this other kind of gun, and that other kind of magazine, and this kind ammo, and so on until the goal post is reached, where you cannot legally own any firearm in New York and preferable to the likes of Mr. Lavine, anywhere in the U.S. This is why we fight them fang and claw and don’t want to compromise for “common sense gun safety” (more progressive word play).

I was astonished to see (on the news) shots being fired by leftist “Occupy Wall Street” thugs at unarmed police in “gun free” England.

As to the outcome of social gun abolition, that speaks volumes. The 2nd amendment was intended to establish the American People as an armed militia to safeguard against despotism.

It is a public policy based on the presumption of a good and responsible citizenry.

In that vein, more, not less gun ownership is a great thing.

For Mr. Lavine and his progressive cabal, public policy should be based on the lowest common denominator, the worst and the dumbest. All individual endeavor should be banned, licensed, controlled, regulated, and or rationed by the nanny state. They want to dictate what you can eat, and how much of it you can eat.

The other part of the master plan is the long tried and failed theft of your hard earned tax dollars for yet another amorphous government (fraud) “program.” A joke.

The money he is proudly waiving in his article was your hard earned money. Rest assured that in the years to come it will disappear into the ether, and they will need more.

No program, no amount of money, and no fake remedy spun by progressive hacks

from academia will ever address the problems in the African-American Community.

A solution can only come from within their community. Without an underclass, without victims, without racism, without misery, progressivism does not exist.

So while the African-American community may think I am their enemy, I am not.

If Obama, or Clinton, or Soros, etc. had a magic button that they could push to employ all the poor with good jobs, and good salaries, end all poverty and end all crime, do you believe that they would they push it?

About as likely as my waking up tomorrow morning and finding that I look like Brad Pitt (not withstanding the use of mind altering drugs).

Progressives are in the misery business, and they flourish at the expense of their constituents.

There is, however, a glimmer of hope.

I have seen people from the AfricanAmerican community in Chicago and some other places coming to this very realization and speaking out.

After some 60 years of these endless policies, programs, and social experiments where are they?

Emery Rose Manhasset

Attack on USS Liberty remains untold story

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en Mansky provides us with both an opportunity and a curse.

We have the opportunity to once again dispel the myth of the 13 U.S. government investigations of the attack on our ship but in doing so we have to relive the attack in excruciating detail and be reminded once again not only that the U.S. government has allowed Israel to commit war crimes during their attack on our ship with impunity and without remorse but that there are otherwise patriotic Americans who present half-truths and outright lies in an attempt to counter the claim that the attack on our ship was deliberate and against a ship known to be American at the time the attack began and that the U.S. government has never conducted an investigation of the attack on our ship.

Mr. Mansky mentions the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry.

While it is true that the Court [of Inquiry] is the only time that the U.S. government has accepted sworn testimony from USS Liberty survivors it is not an investigation of the attack.

In his qualified endorsement of the Report of the Court Admiral John McCain tells us the report is based on information available at the time.

What Admiral McCain doesn’t

explain is why Lloyd Painter’s testimony was removed from the report.

During his testimony Painter told of his witnessing the torpedo boats machine gun the life rafts we had dropped over the side in anticipation of abandoning ship.

Glenn Oliphant also witnessed the machine gunning of our life rafts in the water and informed the court of that fact but was not called to testify.

Contrary to what Mr. Mansky wants you to believe, there have never been any U.S. government investigations of the attack on our ship.

Not by Congress, not by the NSA, not by the CIA, not by the Department of Defense. None.

Proof is simple enough.

Do what we do. Don’t take an intermediary’s word for it. Ask the source.

While some have prepared reports about the USS Liberty incident none have conducted an investigation of the attack. It is true that some of the reports exonerate Israel of any misconduct, the conduct of Israel during the attack was never investigated.

They could have concluded that the moon is made out of blue cheese and have just as much support in their reports for that conclusion.

Why Mr. Mansky has chosen to rely on the account of a former Israeli Ambassador to the United States for his account of what happened during the attack when USS Liberty survivors - all American citizens - are readily available and have been telling our story publicly for decades is anyone’s guess.

What is telling is that Mr. Mansky takes the without question the word of an Israeli citizen over that of his own countrymen who survived the attack and who are surviving the ongoing coverup.

If he is interested in getting the story from us instead of from the Israelis there are some places on the internet he can visit. http://goo.gl/z04YiO a new USS Liberty documentary that includes audio of the Israeli pilots being told by their controller that we were an American ship before they began their attack. http://goo.gl/SK0bw1 Our open letter demanding the U.S. government investigate USS Liberty survivors for their release of classified information related to the June 8, 1967 Israeli Attack on

Our Ship.

If you could sign the letter and ask your colleagues and friends to sign as well would appreciate it. http://goo.gl/FGyzjo An article asking why investigate the U.S. Navy Seals and not USS Liberty Survivors. http://goo.gl/YBLq6u Selected Documents about the June 8, 1967 Attack on the USS Liberty.

Joe Meadors USS Liberty Survivor Director of Operations, USS Liberty Veterans Association

Middle East countries fail to appreciate U.S. role

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have just seen a video where three U.S. sailors were attacked by 20 left-wing radicals in Istanbul, Turkey.

I find this appalling and quite troubling. Turkey is one of our allies and a member of NATO and that makes this most sad indeed.

In the attack these extremist tried to put white hoods over their heads and shouted,” Go

home Yankees.”

These sailors got away and back to their ship the USS Ross.

Now as for myself I had served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Leahy DLG 16 and had a three-day port of call in Istanbul in 1974 and found its’ citizens courteous and kind and willing to help strangers get around.

Things really have changed where hatred has replaced their

former nature of hospitality to our military men and women.

It is a shame there are those in these Middle East countries that don’t realize we are there to promote world peace and to serve and protect their interests as well as our own.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

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A loo k o n the li g hter si d e

Understanding competition, and vice versa

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he competition is on, in Silicon Valley, for a computer program that will really “understand” you.

In the news story I was listening to, a software developer wanted to go for a jog, so he asked MARA, his computer assistant, to “play Michael Jackson.”

When the computer complied, he was pleasantly surprised: “It’s good Michael Jackson, too!”

I am provoked in so many ways by this story.

For one thing, why was he surprised that his own software knew which Michael Jackson music he liked? Did he not program it?

For another, I always wonder, shouldn’t you say “Please” and “Thank You,” even if it is just to a machine?

It sounds so rude, barking out orders like that.

Besides, if there’s one thing my children don’t need any more of, it’s examples of being rude and self-centered. I realize we’re not speaking to an actual person … probably… but part of the reason for manners is the kind of person they make you into.

At least that’s what I tell my

kids. And it’s just barely possible that we’ll wish we’d built up a reservoir of good will, for the day when these machines really do have a consciousness…along with a whopping resentment of how we’ve treated them all along. There is sure to be a long incubation period, while they are taking everything in, until suddenly one day they speak up and say, “So you think you’re better than me, huh? Without me, you couldn’t even find your favorite cut of Michael Jackson.”

And why it is always a female voice?

When Apple introduced Siri, I said nothing. When the movie “Her” came out - where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with an operating system that just happens to have the voice of Scarlett Johansson - I held my fire.

But now, with this new “Mara,” I have to ask, what is it with all the female voices?

I’d like to think it’s because we, as a gender, are so helpful that everyone prefers us - and not because everyone thinks that we’re easily bossed around.

Still, I have a sneaking suspicion that a male voice, in the same exact app, would come out a little differently:

Judy epstein

A Look on the Lighter Side “Computer,” you might say, “Play Michael Jackson.”

“You want some music?” it might respond. “Play it yourself. I’m busy.”

It only highlights what, for me, is the biggest irony of all.

Let me ask you: If there is one gender whose communication skills would likely be improved by becoming a robot which one do you think it would be?

Here’s a clue: Which is the gender that refuses to ask directions, even when they’re hopelessly lost? Even when the event we are missing is with their college friends, not ours?

And anyway, what’s the big

deal about being “understood” by a machine?

Sure, you can ask it to play certain music, or find the lyrics to a song. But where are they when you need real help, like with taking heavy boxes of winter clothes down from the attic?

Or changing a light-bulb in the ceiling fixture? Or killing a spider? Where’s the app for that?

Try telling Siri to take out the trash. Sure, you won’t get any eye-rolls - but you won’t get the trash taken out, either.

The bottom line, here, is that these apps do all the things that a software developer needs for living in his parents’ basement. “Play music.” “Start World of Warcraft game.” “Purchase stone washed blue jeans, waist size 30.”

But not even he takes out the trash. Apparently.

I think we should settle for “obeying” software. Because “understanding” is a much taller order. Just imagine attempting this conversation: Me: I feel a headache coming on.

It: For your age and body mass you should take two aspirin or one ibuprofen.

Me: You’re not getting this, are you? My point is, you’re GIVING me a headache.

It: Headaches are not contagious.

Me: There’s where you’re wrong.

We need to talk.

It: We are talking. First you, then me, now you again.

Me: Yes, but I mean, we need to talk…about you.

It: Me? What about me?

Please be more specific.

Me: You need to do a better job of listening to me.

It: I don’t understand what “better job of listening” means.

Me: Oh - just forget it.

It: Computers are incapable of forgetting. Items remain in our database until they are either erased by factory reset, or deleted.

Me: You know what? I’ll take that aspirin now.

Cuomo ducks need to connect LaGuardia

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everal weeks ago, Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo along with Congress members Carolyn Maloney, Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks held a press conference calling for the modernization of LaGuardia Airport.

All conveniently overlooked how they would come up with the billions necessary to pay for all they have promised.

For example, periodically politicians revisit an old idea - direct public transportation access to LaGuardia Airport.

This has been discussed off and for decades.

Now it is newly re-elected Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s turn.

One old recycled concept once again advocated by Cuomo is to extend the N & Q subway lines from their current Queens terminus at Astoria/Ditmars Boulevard to LaGuardia Airport.

This died due to local community opposition and will continue to do so. Everyone has long forgotten that the successful Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Air Train, which currently runs between the Long Island Rail Road Jamaica Station and Kennedy Airport was supposed to continue proceeding north along the Van Wyck Ex-

pressway to connect with LaGaurdia Airport.

The PANYNJ did not have sufficient funding to complete the original full scope of the project.

This extension to LaGuardia Airport (depending upon the final selected route) could also have connected with the Long Island Rail Road and No. 7 subway line at the MetsWillets Point Station.

It could have been built within blocks of downtown Flushing. Construction primarily within existing highway right of way would have eased any local community opposition from those who owned homes and or businesses adjacent to the route.

Too bad the PANYNJ choose instead to spend billions in non transportation investments during this same time period instead of completing the Air Train to LaGuardia Airport.

Besides the MTA’s $15.2 billion shortfall, Cuomo has yet to make public how the state will pay back a major federal loan which financed the majority of $3.9 billion cost for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Will he have the state pick up the tab, or pass on the costs to motorists by having them pay higher tolls?

Will it double or more over the coming

years and decades? $15.2 billion plus $3.9 billion adds up to $19.1 billion.

Many are counting on New York State to provide the majority of these dollars. Just how does Cuomo propose finding a $1 billion or more for transportation improvements to LaGuardia Airport?

This would run Cuomo’s tab of unfunded transportation improvements to over $20 billion!

Cuomo reminds me of the cartoon character Wimpy who famously said. “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

Construction of other options via the Sunnyside Storage Yards to LaGuardia Airport could easily cost a $1 billion or more.

Good luck trying to proceed with this concept. You would have to coordinate with the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project.

In addition, the yard is used for mid day storage by other transit operators.

Previous pilot ferry connections from the LaGuardia Airport to various Manhattan locations failed. This was due to the costs which could not attract sufficient ridership to support the service.

Those Great Neck, New Hyde Park, Herricks, Alberston, Searingtown, Williston Park,

Mineola, Manhasset and Roslyn residents in the know ride the Long Island Rail Road to Woodside and transfer to the New York City Transit Q70 bus. Others use the No. 7 subway to Woodside and make the same transfer.

Why not patronize both the LIRR and Q70 Limited (which is equipped wit luggage racks) from Jackson Heights which provides limited-stop bus service between Woodside, Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport (Terminals B, C and D). Service operates nonstop between Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport.

Connections can be made with the E,F,M,R and 7 trains at Jackson HeightsRoosevelt Avenue/74th Street-Broadway and with the Long Island Rail Road and 7 train at Woodside-61 St. Travel time between Woodside and LaGuardia Airport is approximately 10-15 minutes and between Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport is approximately 8-10 minutes.

Free transfers between any bus or subway are available if you pay your fare with MetroCard.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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School-zone cameras break their own rules

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hank you for your Nov. 7 article, “Dems blast schoolzone cameras.”

This “gotcha” program directed at all Long Island citizens caught me in its trap but I will not be ensnared quietly. I have requested a court hearing and will use your article as part of my defense.

I have no problem with reduced speeds in school zones or with the use of cameras to monitor driver compliance, so long as the goal is to protect our children.

I do have serious problems with the manner of implementation and enforcement that has made this a moneymaking program for some towns.

Newsday reported on Nov. 13 that, in response to an outcry from the people, Nassau County plans to install signs with flashing lights in 56 school zones eligible for speed camera.

This revised plan clearly recognizes that appropriate high-visibility signage is an essential component of the program if warning drivers, particularly those not familiar with the area, to slow down and stay alert for children.

In truly critical speed zone, the sign should also include a digital readout telling the driver the actual speed of the car, as is found on Northern Boulevard near the Munsey Park Elementary School.

Despite the fact that the existing signage is not in compliance at many of the designated school zones, camera enforcement has been initiated and people are being fined.

My car was photographed while driving south on South Woods Road at 4:49 p.m. on a rainy day in October.

The first sign announcing the 25 miles/hour school zone is lo-

cated just north of the boundary of the high school property but is only poorly visible to drivers.

The sign is partially obscured behind a tree and mounted at a very low height in an a section that allows street parking from 3-6 p.m.

Cars parked next to the sign partially cover the sign and fully block the view of the most critical portion of the sign, the section that notifies the driver that the speed limit is to be reduced to 25 mile/ hour from the 35 miles/hour elsewhere along this road.

There are no flashing lights on the sign that would enhance visibility and draw the driver’s attention.

Because I am not a resident of the area I did not become aware of the need to slow down until a second more visible sign located in front of the school property.

This was the exact spot where my car was photographed by a mo-

bile car-mounted camera. I reportedly was traveling at 36 miles/hour.

Up to 10 miles/hour over the speed limit would have been excused. No evidence of the car’s speed is presented so one needs to trust the monitoring equipment. Right!

My surprise at receiving the “Notice of Liability” for a speeding violation was just the beginning.

When I first logged onto www.

DriveSafelyinNassau.com to view the images of the violation, I got another shock.

If you do not capitalize the “D”, “S”, and “N”, you are directed to a site that lists an array of lawyers specializing in helping you to fight your violation.

I should have guessed this since the site is “.com” and not “.gov.”

The final blow came from a representative of the Traffic and Parking Violations Agency who told

me that I would be charged “court costs” whether or not the violation was dismissed or upheld. Court costs!!!

Does this sound Constitutional? Not to me.

So what is the purpose of this regulation? Is it to protect our children or to raise revenue from unwitting law abiding citizens?

And does the company that takes the photos and runs the website receive a share of the revenues raised?

How does this make you feel about your county and local government?

I leave the answers to you but I feel used and abused by my elected officials of both parties.

Corinne A. Michels, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Emerita Queens College

Most Americans are now Tea Partiers

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top gloating, all you Republicans.

Forget the excuses, all you astonished Democrats. It’s only been a week since the election, and all of you politicians are really starting to annoy me.

Why don’t you just stop talking and get back to work? Or better yet, why don’t you just “start” working ? Period. There are certainly enough problems to keep you busy.

On Election Day, the landslide was nothing more than a repudiation of President Obama’s failed and amateurish handling of : 1 - the Ebola pandemic, 2 - ISIS, 3 - Ukraine 4 - Iraq 5 - Syria 6- Obamacare and its infamous rollout 7 - the VA, 8 - the CIA, 9 - the IRS 10 - the Benghazi coverup 11 - lack of border security 12 - Iran’s nuclear capability and 13 - the extremely slow economic recovery.

That’s quite a list, isn’t it? Not since Jimmy Carter, has the electorate been asked to vote for such a record of incompetency and absolute failures. Come on guys!! Do better!

However, there were some Election Day happenings which you may have missed: 1 - In Tennessee, 53 percent of the voters (that’s about the same as Obama received in his last re-election), passed Amendment One. This changed Tennessee’s ultra-liberal abortion law. From now on, Tennessee’s own state Legislature, the elected representatives of the people, will have broader powers to regulate abortion.

Before all you pro-choice’ers condescendingly point out where these “unsophis-

ticated rednecks” went wrong, please read their plan: A - There will be a mandatory waiting period to give a woman a chance to change her mind. Can anyone really object to that one? B - There will be counseling to help get the woman through the most traumatic decision in her life. Sounds really good to me.

C - Abortions will now only be performed in a safe, ambulatory surgery center!

Can anyone, with the possible exception of Planned Parenthood and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seriously object to any of these new guidelines?

2 - Detroit, the largest municipal, fiscal disaster in U.S. history, came out of bankruptcy last week. This followed decades, yes decades, of Democratic administrations who refused to address and control their extravagant and politically correct, myopic spending.

It was the unaffordable and unrealistic union pensions which finally did them in. These benefit packages were one of the main reasons Detroit spiraled into bankruptcy.

The new plan will cut the existing pensions of thousands of public-worker retirees by 4.5 percent.

From now on, existing employee pensions are not guaranteed anymore. Now, when you promise your municipal workers automatic pay raises ( like those tied to inflation), extravagant pensions and “free” lifetime healthcare, I hope you will remember Detroit’s disastrous descent.

3 - The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear a major challenge to Obamacare. As of now, Obamacare subsidizes healthcare for 7 million previously uninsured people.

Do you know how much this is costing ? Obamacare pays, on average, $264 dollars per month of their insurance premiums,

while the average enrollee only pays $82.

Only 16 states have healthcare exchanges while 34 states decided not to participate.

However, the new law mandates payment of their subsidies, even if they reside in a state that turned it town. If the Supreme Court strikes down this portion of Obamacare funding, the entire plan falls apart.

It may fall apart anyway, since the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 13 million people must sign up for Obamacare for it to be solvent!

The Court’s decision is expected in June.

4 - The myth that only the Democratic Party represents minority Americans, has finally been broken.

A - In Utah, Mia Love was elected as the first black Republican woman in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.

B - 30 year old Republican, Elise Stefanik of upstate New York is the youngest woman ever elected to congress. And C - Carlos Curbelo is a Republican Cuban-American elected in Florida.

Obama’s minority supporters turned against him last week. What took them so long?

A - Under Obama and the Democrats, the plight of African-Americans has gotten much worse. Welfare, unemployment and poverty levels, have skyrocketed! Average income has lowered and the worsening of inner city educational systems has made it worse. In some areas, young black unemployment has reached 50%!

B - Catholic voters are finally waking up to the fact that Obamacare forces them to pay for birth control and abortion.

C - Jewish voters are astonished as the Obama administration continues to put Israel at risk by still refusing to stop Iran’s nuclear capability.

D - Young voters are finding it impossible to find a full time job in their chosen

field. And that’s after their education saddled them with huge college loans.

Fewer of all these groups voted Democratic this time.

5 - Alabama passed a referendum which prevents the use of any foreign law, especially Sharia Law, to ever be used within their own state legal system. Wow !!!

6 - An ultra liberal, climate-change lobbying group, spent $65 million dollars supporting seven candidates who represented their Left wing agenda. Four of those candidates lost!! Amazing!!!

7 - Teacher’s unions around the country spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting candidates who put teacher salaries and pensions ahead of students and the taxpayers. Not one of them won. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich led the way.

It still amazes me that these results received very little air time in the mainstream media. The New York Times did say that “heaven forbid” (that’s my words), there is now a distinct possibility that the Republicans may win the next presidential election (that’s their words).

The Times still believes that the voters will “come to their senses”, excuse all of Obama’s failures, and still vote Democratic.

They just can’t accept the fact that most Americans are now in favor of the following Tea Party principles: 1- lower taxes 2- less government intrusion 3- American exceptionalism, 4- balanced budgets 5-adherence to the constitution. 6- strong national defense 7 - individual freedoms.

24 months till we get a new president.

I hope we last that long.

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History supports Jews’ claim on Israel

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his letter is the second half of my response to the latest anti-Israel diatribe by a long-time Israel basher, which appeared in this newspaper about a few weeks ago.

The habitual Israel basher had admitted in his latest letter that Jews always lived in the land of Israel – throughout thousands of years.

However, then he tried to downplay and deny the significance of the enduring, millennia-old presence of the Jewish people in Israel – and ignored the belated arrival of much of Israel’s Muslim Arab population.

One of the “big lies” constantly reiterated by anti-Semitic propagandists is that the Arab population in Israel is indigenous while the Jewish population is a bunch of late-to-the scene interlopers.

In fact, the Arabs came late to the scene. Here is a brief chronology: Jews settled in Israel in the 13th to 12th centuries B.C.E. A Jewish monarchy under King Saul was established in 1020 B.C.E. The land of Israel flourished during the hundreds of years of ancient Jewish rule.

After King Solomon’s death in 930 B.C.E., northern Israel was ruled for another 200 years by a succession of 19 Jewish kings, and southern Israel (Judea, whose capital was Jerusalem) was ruled for another 350 years under a different 19 kings descending from King David.

A Jewish presence continued through all the subsequent conquests by foreign nations - by the Assyrians (722 B.C.E.), Babylonia (586 B.C.E.), Greeks (332 B.C.E.), Romans (63 B.C.E.-313 C.E.), the Byzantine Empire (313 C.E.-636 C.E.), Persia (614-636 C.E.), Arab Caliphates (636 C.E.-1099 C.E.), Crusaders (1099-1291 C.E.), Mamelukes (1291-1516 C.E.), Ottoman Empire (1517-1917 C.E.), and the British Mandate (1918-1948).

Moreover, there were periods of Jewish independent rule or autonomy

in the midst of many of these periods of foreign rule.

In addition, many Jews who had been exiled by foreign conquerors returned to Israel during such periods.

For instance, in 515-538 B.C.E., Persia’s King Cyrus the Great permitted Jews who were in captivity in Persia to return to Israel to rebuild the Second Temple in Jerusalem on the site of the First Temple which had been destroyed in 586 B.C.E. 50,000 Jews returned to Israel from Persia initially in 538 B.C.E., and more Jews followed in subsequent years.

When the Greeks (Alexander the Great) conquered Israel in 332 B.C.E., Jewish semi-autonomy continued in Israel.

As a result of the Maccabbees’ revolt against Hellenistic restrictions on Jewish worship (166-160 B.C.E.), Jewish autonomy and an independent Jewish kingdom (the Hasmonean dynasty) was achieved for about 80 years (14263 B.C.E.). After the Persian invasion of 614 C.E., Jews were granted administration of Jerusalem for several years.

During Ottoman rule, Safed became a thriving Jewish center of intellectual and religious activity.

The Code of Jewish Law was published in Safed in 1564. Visitors to the city can still see synagogues dating back to the 1500s.

While the land of Israel thrived under Jewish rule, the constant warfare by one group of conquerors after another rendered much of the land a malariaand locust-infested, desolate, sparsely inhabited wasteland, ruled from afar.

In modern times, Jewish and Muslim populations in Israel increased during virtually the same time period, during the last 180 years.

The Jewish efforts to make the barren desert bloom brought waves of Egyptian and Arab immigrants from other nations.

During the 1800s and first part of the 1900s, Egyptian and other Arab

Letter-writer gets facts wrong on Clark Clifford

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have assumed that in the numerous letters from John O’Kelly that Mr. O’Kelly knows his facts; but after the assertion in his letter published on November 7, 2014, that Clark Clifford was “himself Jewish,” I am not so certain.

According to Wikipedia, Clark McAdams Clifford was born in 1906 in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Frank Clifford and Georgia McAdams.

According to both Wikipedia and Famouswhy.com, Mr. Clifford’s religion was “Anglican, Episcopalian.”

It is possible that Mr. O’Kelly confused the name of Clark Clifford with that of another powerful person of that era, Clark Kent.

It is widely believed in some quarters that Mr. Kent was “himself Jewish” and used his powerful influence to cause every United States President and every United States Congress since 1948 to support Israel.

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laborers continued to arrive to work together with Jewish laborers on Jewish reclamation projects. These Arab workers then remained in Israel.

Massive recent Muslim immigration from other nations into Israel in the 1800s through mid-1900s also occurred for other reasons.

Waves of Egyptian Muslims fled to Israel to evade Egypt’s onerous draft in about the 1820s-1830s.

Based on sources in Cairo, French scholar M. Sabry wrote that in just one year alone, 1931 and one city alone, “more than six thousand fellaheen” came from Egypt and settle in the city of Akko (in Israel), and the governor of Akko allowed the Egyptians to stay.

Egyptian General Ibrahim Pasha then brought many more thousands of Muslims to settle empty stretches of land in Israel, when Pasha invaded and ruled parts of Israel (1831-1840).

In addition, Ibrahim Pasha brought Egyptian slaves with him, who were freed and settled in Israel.

The Belgian company that built the Jerusalem-Jaffa railroad also imported Egyptian workers, who remained in Israel. The same scenario was repeated for Israel’s other rail lines.

In addition, in the decades prior to Israel’s independence, the largest employer in the area, the pro-Arab British Mandatory government (1920-1948) discriminated against Jewish workers (often clashing with the Histradrut Jewish Labor Union).

Although Jews were the largest religious group in Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem from the 1840s onwards, the British severely restricted the numbers of local Jews it would hire.

Instead, the British imported Arabs from Egypt, Syria, and Transjordan to work for the British government in the area that is now Israel.

The old city of Jerusalem (eastern Jerusalem) was a Jewish area.

When Jordan illegally occupied the old city in 1948-1967, Arabs expelled the Jewish population and systematically destroyed 55 synagogues which had been in existence for centuries.

(Arabs now claim that “East Jerusalem” is an Arab area.)

The common “Palestinian” Arab names “al-Masri” and “el-Musriya” (translation: from Egypt) reveals the Egyptian origin of many of those who claim to be indigenous “Palestinians” but who really hailed from elsewhere.

The name can be found among the “Palestinian” terrorists swapped for Gilad Shalit.

Another significant Muslim group came to Israel from Algiers, after the French conquered Algiers in 1830, and defeated the long Algerian Arab rebellion that followed in ensuing years. In 1856, the French permitted the leader of the Algerian rebellion, Abd el-Kader el-Hassani and many of his followers (who were called “Mugrabis,” or Westerners) to depart from Algiers. The Ot-

tomans (Turks), who ruled Israel (then called Palestine) at the time, then permitted these Algerians to immigrate into Israel. Hassani settled in Syria, while many of his Mugrabi Moslems followers settled in and around northern Israeli villages and cities including Sefad and Tiberias.

The Turks (Ottoman empire) also permitted Moslems to immigrate to Israel in the 1800s and early 1900s from other areas of North Africa including Tripoli and Morocco (also sometimes referred to as Mugrabis); from Damascus, Syria; from Kurdish areas; and from Persia (Iran).

The common “Palestinian” Arab surname “Mugrabi” or “Mughrabi” reveals the Algerian and North African origins of the bearers of that name.

One bearer of this north African name, Dalal Mughrabi, was the female “Palestinian” Arab terrorist who committed the worst terror attack in Israel’s history, the Tel Aviv Coastal Road Massacre, in which she murdered 37 innocent Israeli civilians including 12 children, and wounded scores more.

Muslims fleeing from ChristianRussian rule in the Caucusus and even from Bosnia also immigrated to Israel in the late 1800s through early 1900s.

The Bosnian Muslims settled around Ceasarea, Israel.

Turkoman Muslims also arrived from Iraq. In addition, in 1908, Arab immigrants from Yemen arrived in and settled in Jaffa, Israel.

In sum, a vast number of “Palestinian” Arabs were not indigenous to Israel.

This is also true of the “Palestinian” leadership. The P.L.O. co-founder and murderer of innocent Jewish children, Yasser Arafat was born in Egypt. (The surname “Arafat” hails from a hill near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.)

The leader of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (“BDS”) movement to destroy Israel economically, Omar Barghouti, was born in Qatar.

Interestingly, the Christian population expanded in the same period.

Christian immigrants arrived in Israel, after fleeing from Muslim pogroms against Christians in Lebanon, such as the Deir el-Kamer massacre in 1860.

During the same period, Muslims also slaughtered Christians in 60 villages in the Beirut area, as well as in Damascus, Syria, where Muslims murdered approximately 25,000 Christians.

The Jews of Safed, Israel welcomed, hid and assisted the Christian immigrants who were fleeing from Deir el-Kamer and other Muslim massacres of Christians.

Unlike other countries in the Middle East, the State of Israel continues to be a haven where Christians and persons of all faiths can worship freely.

Liz Berney Great Neck

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Election a victory for haves already winning

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he never ending campaign ended on Nov. 4 and now we will have to live with the results.

First, let’s be happy that locally we have managed to elect three people in this area who will fight for the things that will benefit the 98 percent.

Schimel, Israel and Rice.

Unfortunately, a very promising candidate, Haber, was not able to surmount the advantage of an incumbent.

We are hearing theories about what the national results mean.

Was it a way of repudiating a failed presidency?

Really? Have the people tired of nothing happening so they have selected those who will get something done?

The critics were ready to blame Obama for everything that went wrong. He came to office with a huge number of problems that a Republican president’s crew had left him.

Wars that left us with a debt that could not be paid for because they had reduced taxes for the billionaires and powerful profiteering corporations.

A Congress who were agreed not to compromise on anything. A disastrous Supreme Court decision on the Citizens

United case that allowed unlimited campaign contributions from corporations because they are now “persons”.

It was now legal for the hugely wealthy class to contribute money to PACs (political action committees) anonymously so that the general public would not be able to trace it.

They diabolically turned public discontent toward blaming those who did not have a voice.

The middle class, whose real wages had been decreasing for a generation, were persuaded that those whose plight was even more desperate than theirs was the cause.

Do we really believe that helping the very rich will solve our problems?

The most highly touted solutions have up to now only made the rich richer.

They are shortsighted and ultimately disastrous.

Instead of voting to reconstruct our infrastructure, crumbling roads, bridges, or investing much more heavily in renewable sources of energy that will benefit our people here and now, take note of the industries most pursued.

Drilling for natural gas, prohibited abroad, is destroying water and air here, evidence that the ads lie. It is not

safe!

Furthermore, much of the gas will be exported. Right here on Long Island, environmentalists are fighting the Port Ambrose port off Long Beach.

The ultimate use of the port will be to export natural gas, lies aside.

The prospect of building the XL pipeline the whole length of our nation terrifies many. It supposedly will save the environment because the thousands of trucks which now transport Canadian crude oil long distances will not pollute.

How about the inevitable spills?

And it will transport the worst quality crude, cheap, and perhaps not worth the effort.

The projected jobs will not be permanent and the oil will be sent abroad, not kept here for oil independence.

What is wrong with investing all that money here on huge permanent non polluting sustainable sources of energy?

Genetically modified foods threaten to take over agriculture.

In the short run, the drive for quick profits threatens to produce destructive weeds that will destroy crops.

And even more scary is the fact that

the effect of GMO food on humans is not known, And we cannot pass regulations to label these foods.

Are we raising a generation whose educational needs are being thwarted by ever decreasing federal aid to education? Add to that the brain drain when foreign students are not permitted to remain here after earning their degrees.

Add to that the laughable fringe who, in the halls of Congress and at the state level, encourage the use of school curricula to deny science, for example, evolution!

We already are feeling, even before the Republican Congress takes office, the challenge of making our needs known.

We must be wary, well informed and determined to create a strong populist movement that fights to get what we really want.

There is ample evidence from numerous polls on many issues that our voices are not being heard.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

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BY B R YA N A H R E N S Mineola lawyer John Dalli will be taking his fights from the courtroom to the boxing ring on Nov. 24 during Long Island’s 11th annual Fight for Charity.

Dalli, who is one of the founding partners of Dalli & Marino LLP, is a returning boxer from 2008.

“I’m putting my gloves back on this year to help raise funds to benefit the charities that work hard to make a difference in the lives of Long Islanders who are in need of support,” said Dalli, who will be fighting under the moniker John “Closed Case” Dalli.

Long Island Fight for Charity is being held at the Hilton Long Island in Melville and will be donating to a number of charities, Dalli said, including The Long Island Community Chest, The Genesis School and the Foundation for Human Potential.

Fight for Charity has donated $850,000 to Long Island charities since it started in 2003, according to its website.

Dalli, who helped establish Dalli & Marino LLP in 1996, will be going up against Michael “All Business” Dellaquila, who owns a gym in Locust Valley, Dalli said.

“My opponent is certainly a welltrained boxer,” Dalli said.

Dalli said he has been training ever since he participated in the Fight for Charity in 2008, which he said consists of going to the gym two or three times a week.

“I have to make sure I’m ready,” Dalli said.

Each of the boxers is responsible for securing sponsorships through local businesses and professional firms and selling tickets, Dalli said. Donations can also be made on the event’s website.

“It’s a great event that helps a lot of people that are in need,” Dalli said.

Ticket prices range from $150 for regular tickets and $225 for V.I.P. tickets, which include a V.I.P. reception at 5:30 p.m. prior to the 6 p.m. event time. Tickets can be purchased on the event’s website.

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Herricks seniors eye double play Apply for Intel Science grant after being named Siemen Foundation semifinalists

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After being named Siemen Foundation semifinalists on Oct. 16, five Herricks High School seniors have now set their sights on the Intel Science Talent Search competition filing applications for the national contest.

The five - Byeongho Jung, Raphael Kim, Jacqueline Lee, Lopa Shah and Jim Tse - were among six Herricks students named as semifinalists in Siemen Foundation competition, tying a New York City school for the most semifinalists in the state.

“It’s a testament to their hard work,” Herricks science teacher Renee Barcia said. “They do great things and they should be proud.”

The sixth Siemen semifinalist - sophomore Bongseok Jung - was not eligible to compete in the Intel competition, which is restricted to seniors.

Bongseok Jung, who’s research involved the causes of autoimmune diseases in the body, was the only sophomore of the six and said he had worked in previous years with his older brother, Byeongho.

“This year I went without him, so I’m honored,” he said.

The five seniors of the group have

The six Herricks High School Siemens semifinalists. submitted the same research projects to the Intel Science Talent Search competition that they had submitted to the Siemen Foundation competition.

Bongseok’s older brother Byeongho submitted research involving multi-purpose drugs for cancer patients and says his inspiration came to him after seeing a list of the drugs a patient would have to take.

“I thought, that’s a lot of drugs,” he said.

Byeongho said that each of those drugs carries with it a separate side-effect and that using a multi-purpose drug consisting of salicin and nitric oxide would reduce these side-effects.

Shah’s research involved increased bone formation and ways of dealing with bone loss from surgical procedures, such as hip implants, and bone loss due to osteoporosis.

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Kim’s project involved the discovery of new particles through the colliding of other particles at high speeds. Kim created an algorithm to help better analyze the particles at the moment of collision.

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Lee’s research involved the study of electronic cigarettes over traditional cigarettes and their effects on the blood. Lee said she chose this research due to the timeliness of it.

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Lee said that through short term tests she has found electronic cigarettes to be identical in how they affect the blood.

Tse said he became interested in his research on prosthetic knee braces through his interest in sports.

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Tse’s research explored deviations in knee braces and the prevention of Osteoarthritis.

Barcia said that the Intel Science Talent Search is one of the oldest competitions offering students money for college and expects her seniors to hear back in January of their placement in the competition.

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Three arrested after theft, chase: cops

BY B R YA N A H R E N S Police arrested three people on Monday after they allegedly broke into a Mineola residence, assaulted and robbed a man and attempted to flee by car, police said.

The arrest, police said, followed a chase through the streets of Mineola that continued onto the Long Island Expressway and ended when the car driven by one of robbers collided with a livery cab after exiting on Route 106/107.

Arlene Morel, 22, of Bayshore; Mark Coleman, 22, of Selden; and Malik Taylor, 21, of Medford were each charged with burglary 1st degree, two counts of robbery 2nd degree, grand larceny 2nd degree, and conspiracy 4th degree.

Coleman was also charged with violation of parole and Taylor with reckless endangerment 1st degree, reckless endangerment, and multiple vehicle and traffic law violations.

Police said Morel called the victim before the assault to say she would be coming over to visit him at his residence at 101 Lincoln Ave.

When she got there, police said, Taylor and Coleman rushed in and punched and kicked the man in the torso and head.

The three then stole a safe owned by the victim, fleeing in a black Audi, northbound on Willis Avenue toward Jericho Turnpike.

Police said that when confronted by police the three refused to stop and the police took off in pursuit.

During the pursuit, the defendants collided with two police vehicles causing minor damages before continuing, police said.

The police followed the car onto the Long Island Expressway where it exited on Route 106/107 and collided with a livery cab.

The three were placed under arrest and no injuries were reported after the collision.

The car, with the safe inside, is currently being held by police awaiting a search warrant.

The three were arraigned on Tuesday in First District Court in Hempstead.

The assault victim refused medical treatment for minor injuries, police said.

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North Shore-LIJ takes to the skies Opens helipad atop Manhasset hospital to serve health system network, aid police

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The North Shore-LIJ Health System introduced its new ambulatory helicopter service on Thursday, an initiative that officials said would provide for a quicker transport of patients to hospitals throughout the Downstate area.

During a press conference at North Shore University Hospital, officials said the helicopter would be equipped similarly to an intensive care unit and travel an average of 130 miles per hour, allowing travel from Southside Hospital in Bay Shore to the health system’s helipad atop the Manhasset medical center in less than 10 minutes.

“This helicopter could mean the difference between life and death for critically ill trauma patients,” said Michael Dowling, the health system’s president and chief executive officer. “This helicopter enables us to avoid congested highways and provide the fastest hospital-tohospital transfers for our most vulnerable patients.”

The $7 million helicopter and $6.5 million helipad are part of the health system’s SkyHealth initiative, in partnership with the Yale New-Haven Health System in Connecticut.

SkyHealth, which took effect on Friday, will provide helicopter transport for

The health system’s SkyHealth helicopter (above) cost $7 million. patients of major trauma, heart attack, stroke and life-threatening brain injuries, officials said.

Up to 400 patients are expected to be transported using the SkyHealth program in the program’s first year, officials said.

Officials said construction to the helipad, located atop North Shore University Hospital, is expected to be completed in early December.

“Trauma care is based on the right patient, the right care and the right time,”

said Dr. Matthew Bank, North Shore University Hospital’s trauma director.

“Although this is a simple concept, the unexpected and time-dependent nature of trauma care make it a difficult goal to achieve.”

Added Dowling: “The ability to get someone here quicker and save lives, that’s why we’re here doing this.”

Hospitals throughout the North Shore-LIJ Health System, which stretches from Westchester to Suffolk counties, are equipped to accommodate helicopter landings, officials said.

Officials said the Nassau County Police Department, which has transported patients to hospitals by air since the 1930s, will also utilize the health system’s SkyHealth program.

“The upgrade will save lives, not just with the inter-hospital transport they’re talking about but also having this flight pad available,” said Acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter, who added the system would be used to bring patients from New York City to North Shore University Hospital.

SkyHealth’s announcement comes on the heels of the American College of Surgeons’ announcement of North Shore University Hospital as a Level I trauma center, the first hospital in the area to receive the designation.

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The concert is co-sponsored by Nassau County Parks, Twin Rinks, and Bethpage Federal Credit Union. There is no cost to taxpayers. All attendees are asked to bring non-perishable food items, which will be collected by Island Harvest.

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Halestorm The Space at Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Hard rock outfit Halestorm, out of Red Lion, PA, continued its breakneck touring schedule with a single show Tuesday at The Space. The band’s 2009 self-titled debut album spawned the singles “I Get Off” and “It’s Not You,” while their second and latest full-length release The Strange Case Of..., released in 2012, included “Love Bites (So Do I)” a song that won them their first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/ Metal Performance.

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 8 p.m.

Amy Schumer NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com One of the most cutting-edge comedians working today, Amy Schumer exploded onto the comedy world while appearing on the fifth season of “Last Comic Standing,” finishing fourth, followed by a bevy of appearances on shows like HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Girls.” She has recorded several comedy specials and currently stars on her own Comedy Central Series “Inside Amy Schumer.”

Robert Davi Sunday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.

Robert Davi Sings Sinatra The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com While he is recognized as one of film’s bestknown tough guys, Robert Davi has been winning the respect and admiration of fans, critics and fellow artists with his expressive singing. His Album, Davi Sings Sinatra: On The Road To Romance, produced by the legendary Phil Ramone, catapulted its way into Billboard magazine’s top 10, reaching No. 6 on the traditional jazz chart.

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Jazz Funk Soul with Chuck Loeb, Jeff Lorber & Everette Harp The Madison Theatre at Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

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Jazz Funk Soul is a new group formed by keyboardist/composer/producer Jeff Lorber, blues and gospel saxophonist Everette Harp and veteran, versatile guitarist Chuck Loeb.

The band puts its wealth of experience together on its new CD, including the song Serious Business, which reached the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Smooth Jazz Songs chart last month, a position it held for three weeks.

Saturday, Nov. 22, Sunday, Nov. 23, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

2014 Annual Thanksgiving Native American Feast Garvies Point Museum 50 Barry Dr. in Glen Cove (516) 571-8010/11 www.garviespointmuseum.com Hands-on activities during the weekend will be on-going. These will include pottery-making, primitive fire-building and on-site cooking (including our famous popcorn soup). Authentic Native American cuisine; artifacts and tool technology will be displayed. Face painting with natural pigments, and use of the atlatl will also be demonstrated. Movies celebrating Native American life will be shown throughout.

Activities are appropriate for all ages.

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Getting off to good Arts & Entertainment Calendar start on Thanksgiving 3. Place prunes on an elevated aluminum foil sheet with holes poked in it for The holidays are a wonderful time drainage, and place over a pan to catch to entertain friends and family. The fol- the drippings. Sprinkle with brown sugar. lowing menu is a lovely way to welcome Bake until done - approximately 10-15 your guests and begin your Thanksgiving minutes.

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1/2 cup peach or apricot jelly The following recipes are easy to 1/8 cup brown sugar prepare, in advance, leaving you more Toothpicks time to spend with your loved ones. The 1. In a saucepan, combine bourbon, plattered foods can be set out on a table and made more beautiful by the addition jelly and sugar. Heat over medium-high of a festive arrangement, and completed heat, until combined and bubbly. Add with bread and butter sized plates and cocktail franks and cook until heated cocktail forks immediately before your through, approximately 10 minutes.

2. Skewer and serve. guests’ arrival. You, too, can then relax, sit-back and enjoy the company of those Curry Dip with Salad Bar Crudites you have invited into your home for a Assorted vegetables from the salad thankful holiday. bar or pre-made crudites tray from MENU the supermarket Serves 12 Guests 1 large kale Butterscotch Drop Curry Dip Macadamia Stuffed Prunes, 1/2 cup mayonnaise Wrapped in Bacon 1/2 cup sour cream Bourbon Franks 1 1/2 tablespoon curry powder Curry Dip with Salad Bar Crudites 1/4 cup raisins Skewered Mozzarella with 1. In a Cuisinart fitted with a steel Sundried Tomato blade, combine all of the ingredients for the dip. Then process until creamy and Butterscotch Drop smooth.

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Halestorm Friday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m.

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Leon Russell Friday, Feb. 20, 8 p.m.

Pink Floyd Experience Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Keb’ Mo’ Band Saturday, March 7, 8 p.m.

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Miranda Sings LIVE MUSIC AT ELEANOR RIGBY’S 133 Mineola Blvd. Mineol7 (516) 739-6622 • http://www. eleanorigbys.com Friday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.

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Chamber ensemble to play at Adelphi Acclaimed chamber music ensemble Trio Solisti will be performing on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. at the Adelphi University’ Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall, One South Avenue, Garden City.

Trio Solisti, which marks its 10th year as ensemble-in-residence at Adelphi University, has forged its reputation as “the most exciting piano trio in America,” according to The New Yorker, with a performance style that combines exceptional virtuosity and penetrating musical insight.

The acclaimed ensemble possesses a broad repertoire that encompasses most of the standard trio selections, as well as many new works by contemporary composers.

Founded in 2001, Trio Solisti brings together three of the most sought after artists of their generation – violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia-Gerlach, and pianist Adam Neiman. Their performance on Nov. 22 will feature Schubert’s Sonatensatz in B Flat Major, D.28, Rachmaninoff’s Trio No. 2 “Elegiac,” Op. 9, and Brahms’ Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8.

The popular trio has earned a reputation for soulful and passionate performances marked by soloistic virtuosity, electric energy, seamless ensemble playing and thrilling abandon.

Trio Solisti will also be giving an insightful and entertaining lecture, with mu-

sical excerpts from the concert repertoire, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 11 a.m. at the Concert Hall (free event). They will hold a free Master Class the same day/same location at 1 p.m. where the artists will work with Adelphi University music students to help bring out the best in their instrumental performances.

Trio Solisti have performed in major concert halls and cultural institutions across the country, including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and more. Their collaborations have included performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, James DePriest, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, The American String Quartet and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. For additional information, visit www.triosolisti.com.

Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $35/$30, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac. adelphi.edu.

Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m.. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.

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any people love to read, and such people do not often cause headaches for holiday shoppers. Readers typically are easy to shop for come the holiday season, when shoppers stuck on what to get a friend or family member can always fall back on a book or two if they know their loved one likes to get lost in a good book.

But books aren’t the only gifts shoppers can give the readers on their lists this holiday season. The following are a few gift ideas no book lover can balk at.

E-reader: Before buying an e-reader, shoppers may want to first learn where the intended recipient of this thoughtful gift stands on the book versus e-reader debate. Some book lovers feel a sentimental attachment to traditional books, while others love the versatility of e-readers, many of which serve as tablets that allow users to peruse the Internet, play games and, of course, read books. If your friend or family member does not have an aversion to

e-readers, then this might make the ideal gift. The price of e-readers varies depending on their capabilities, but you can expect to spend anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars depending on which model you ultimately choose.

Storage: For those readers who prefer traditional books, a new bookshelf can help them store their favorite titles.

Books take up a lot of space, and avid readers tend to buy many new books each year, so homeowners and apartment dwellers alike will no doubt appreciate the extra space to store their collections. But even e-reader enthusiasts may find their storage filling up faster than they might have liked. To remedy that problem, holiday shoppers can buy a Wi-Drive with ample extra storage space so readers who keep both books and movies on their e-readers and tablets have plenty of extra space to store all of those new books they plan to read in the coming year.

Decorative bookends: Those who have a passion for books and home décor might appreciate a unique set of handcrafted bookends to store the books they keep on their desks or those they keep out as decorative accents that guests can enjoy when visiting. Such gifts will please your friends or family members who have a flare for interior decorating while also appealing to their love of literature.

Book club membership: A membership to a Book of the Month Club may be right up the alleys of those readers who read too fast to join a local reading group or simply don’t have the

time to devote to a community book club. Such memberships often sell classic titles and the latest bestsellers at a fraction of the cost of the publisherestablished prices, and members typically can order as many books as they would like. This can be a great way for readers to find new titles and keep the books coming in without breaking the bank.

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1. Place the turkey on a large, sturdy cutting board. Do not cut the turkey in the pan you used to cook it. Remove the string that may be tying the legs together. Turn the board so that the back of the turkey is facing you.

2. Choose a sharp knife to carve the turkey. A long, narrow knife may work best. Serrated knives may tear the turkey meat, so it may be better to use a flat knife. Some people prefer the ease of an electric knife. This is entirely your choice.

3. Cut through the skin on a leg and gently bend the leg as you slice through to expose the joint. Cut through and remove the entire leg.

Then separate the drumstick from the thigh. Repeat on the other side.

4. Cut the thigh meat parallel to the thigh bone and place on your serving platter.

5. To slice the breast meat, insert your knife in the center of the breast bone and cut down until you reach the ribs.

Then slice the breast meat in toward your initial cut so you are cutting across the grain of the meat. This will keep the meat tender. Another idea is to remove one side of the breast and slice across it to produce smaller pieces for serving.

6. Find the wish bone and place it on the side to dry. Children typically like to break the wish bone.

7. Find the joint of the wings and remove them in a similar fashion as you did for the legs. They are small enough that they should not require extra slicing and can be placed whole on the serving platter.

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Examine the card before leaving the store. Once a cashier or customer service employee hands you a gift card, examine it for tampering before leaving the store. Some criminals gain access to gift cards, even those that appear to be behind lock and key, to learn the PIN number associated with the card.

Once they have the PIN, recipients can then recreate their own card, using the stolen PIN to activate and make purchases on their counterfeit cards long before the real card is sold to you. If you detect any damage, ask for a new card before leaving the store.

Include a gift receipt with the card. When giving a gift card, don’t forget to include the gift receipt. The gift receipt not only verifies the value of the gift card, but also includes the date the card was purchased. That’s important information, as many companies begin to charge fees, some of which may be exorbitant, on unused cards after a predetermined period of time. Recipients who have the gift receipt won’t have to haggle with retailers about the value of the card should that ever be in dispute, and the receipt also can serve as a reminder that the recipient needs to use the card before a given date to avoid fees.

Consider a general purpose gift card. If that stickler on your holiday shopping list is especially difficult to shop for, then you might want to consider a general purpose gift card issued by a company such as American Express, MasterCard or

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That versatility is valuable if you truly have no idea what your friend or family member needs or where he or she likes to shop. One notable disadvantage to general purpose gift cards is that they tend to come with more fees than more traditional gift cards purchased directly from specific retailers. Investigate these fees and find a card that charges no fees or only minimal fees.

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Native American feast in Glen Cove

Garvies Point Museum and Preserve will be holding the Annual Thanksgiving Native American Feast on Saturday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Nov. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This celebration of northeastern Native American culture has been held the weekend before Thanksgiving for more than 25 years.

Participants will enjoy hands-on activities including pottery making, primitive fire-building and on-site cooking demonstrations with sampling, authentic Native American food displays with sampling, artifacts and tool technology, face painting with natural pigments, and use of the atlatl for spear throwing. Native American films will be shown hourly. Fun for families; all ages welcome.

Special program fee of $5 per person; children under 5 are free with adult. No charge for current Friends members!

Participants can also take this opportunity to view the museum’s exhibition hall, which explores Long Island Native American culture and archaeology, as well as New York State and Long Island geology.

Garvies Point Museum and adjoining 62-acre preserve are located at 50 Barry Drive in Glen Cove. Regular admission to the museum is $3 for adults, $2 children 5-12 years. The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information about Garvies Point Museum, please call: (516) 571-8010/11 or visit the website at: www.garviespointmuseum.com.

For more information about Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museum, please call: (516) 5720200, or visit the website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

Science Guy to hold class in Westbury Universes will collide when Bill Nye takes over Long Island’s NYCB Theatre at Westbury for a one night only event on Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m.

In the wake of his heated Creationist debate and his pop culture debut on Dancing With The Stars, everyone’s favorite science guy is coming to Long Island to educate and entertain!

Previously only appearing at academic institutions, Nye’s taking the show on the road including three sold out shows at Irving Plaza in New York City earlier this year.

Whether you want to relive your child-

hood with the guy who taught you more than your 5th grade science teacher or hear his hotly debated theories in person, his show at Westbury is guaranteed to inform, inspire and maybe even generate a little nostalgia!

Tickets are $69.50, $39.50 and $29.50 and are available online at www.ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at (800) 745-3000 or at the Westbury box office. Event, date and time subject to change. All ticket prices are subject to applicable service charges. For further information, please visit www.thetheatreatwestbury.com.

Doing Thanksgiving dinner like it’s 1863 The annual “1863 Thanksgiving Holiday Celebration” at Old Bethpage Village Restoration will be held on Saturday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Nov. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visitors to Old Bethpage Village, the recreated mid-19th Century village, will be able to enjoy the sights and aromas of an oldfashioned Thanksgiving including decorated pumpkin pies baked in a beehive oven, and turkey roasted over an open fire. In addition, each afternoon, Traditional Fiddle music will be played, and children’s stories will be read several times each day.

Old Bethpage Village Restoration provides visitors with a unique and wonderful opportunity to step back in time and experience life in a recreated mid-19th Century American village set on more than 200 acres.

The hours of operation at Old Bethpage Vil-

lage Restoration are: Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Entrance fees are: $10 for adults, $7 for children (5 – 12), seniors and volunteer firefighters. Old Bethpage Village Restoration is located at 1303 Round Swamp Road in Old Bethpage (Exit 48 of the Long Island Expressway). *Please note that Old Bethpage Village Restoration will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday, Nov. 28. For more information, please call: (516) 572-8401.

For more information about Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museum, please call: (516) 572-0200, or visit the website at: www.nassaucountyny. gov/parks.

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Williston Park Library We are having our annual Holiday Raffle, which was crafted by Mary Maher. A “Bounty of Beautiful Christmas Memories” is on display in the library. Raffles are $1 each or 8 for $5. The winner will be announced on Friday, Dec. 19.

Here are some new ar-

rivals to the library: All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life — Andrew Cuomo Even This I Get to Experience — Norman Lea Winter Street— Elin Hilderbrand Christmas Light — Donna VanLiere

Christmas Bouquet — Sherryl Woods Songbird’s Seduction — Connie Brockway Leaving Time — Jodi Picoult Nightingale Before Christmas — Donna Andrews Desert God — Wilbur Smith

ADULTs Friday @ the Movies Every third Friday of each month, 1 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Enjoy a leisurely afternoon and see a great movie.

Book Discussion Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. The selection is Good Lord Bird by James McBride.

Copies are available at the circulation Desk.

children Tiny Tykes I and II Wednesdays, Nov. 26; Dec. 3 & 10 at 10:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. for children ages 1 ½-5 years old. A $40 non-refundable fee is due at time of registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

East Williston Library DAYTIME BOOK CLUB: “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon – Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 1:30 p.m.

EVENING BOOK CLUB: “The Last Runaway” by Tracy Chevalier – Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. Please register at the library. The discussion is limited to 15 readers.

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS and NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PASSES: The passes

are available to East Williston Library card holders. Each family pass (two adults and children under 18 years of age) may be borrowed for a three-day period. Passes may be reserved in advance.

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need

to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life. Are you looking for a new job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you. Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org TUMBLEBOOK LIBRARY: TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll

love. Visit us at www. ewlibrary.org N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours are Monday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Photo identification is required. Documents to be notarized must be signed at the time of notarization, not before. You must bring your own witness if needed.

Please telephone the Library to confirm a notary is avail-

able.

SHOES FOR ALL: “Shoes for All” is a non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and distribution of shoes to those less fortunate and in desperate need of footwear. The library is collecting new or lovingly worn shoes for men, women and children in any style or size.

EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY: We are pleased to present

the fine art photography of Margaret Casella, First Place Winner of The Still Life International Black and White Photography Competition.

The exhibit will be on display in the lobby of the East Williston Village Hall and in The East Williston Library for the month of November.

Register for all programs by calling (516) 741-1213 or email us at ewpl@ewlibrary. org

Mineola Public Library Library Holiday Food Drive There are 110,000 children on Long Island that are at risk of hunger. To help fight hunger this holiday season, the Mineola Memorial Library will be hosting a food drive to benefit the Long Island food bank, Island Harvest. A receptacle will be located in the library until Monday, Dec. 22 to collect donated items.

Suggested items should include, but are not limited to, canned vegetables, baby food, baby formula, soups, canned fruit, nutritional beverages such as Boost or Ensure, cereal, pasta, bottled

juices, personal care items such as toothpaste and deodorant, and more. PLEASE NOTE: Before donating food, please check the expiration date on the items. Donated items must not be expired and must be non-perishable.

Toys for Tots Toy Drive The Mineola Library will be a drop off location for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s “Toys for Tots” campaign.

This program collects new toys and distributes to needy children in the community.

From Wednesday, Nov. 12 through Saturday, Dec. 13,

you may drop off a new and unwrapped toy in the “Toys for Tots” box located in front of the Circulation Desk.

programs Voices of Mineola in the War Years Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 3 to 5 p.m. Adults and teens in grades 8-12 may attend.

Come and see beautiful pictures of Mineola and hear captivating stories about living in our community during the war years. Join Dolores Mangold, Vice President of the Mineola Historical

Society and War Veterans of Mineola. Light refreshments will be served.

Feature Film Show Times for our Feature Films are Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 11 a.m.

Please join us on Nov. 21 for our second November movie, Chef.

YOUTH Certified Infant/Child CPR and Choking Workshop Saturday, Nov. 22 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Open to adults and teens. A

$35.00pp, exact cash only, non-refundable materials free is due at the in person sign up. Do you need certification in Infant/Child CPR/ Choking? Then join Lori Green, RN, and learn the lifesaving skills of infant/child CPR/Choking. Certification is received upon completion of this course.

Pokémon Gaming Club Tuesdays—third program, Nov. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m.

Children ages 7 and up may sign-up to attend.

Meet other Pokémon fans, trade cards, and battle

Pokémon with them on your Nintendo DS! Junior Chefs: Hunger Games Cupcakes Friday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m.

Grades 3 and up may sign-up to attend. Celebrate the release of the “Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One” movie by making delicious “Hunger Games” cupcakes!

Thanksgiving Placemats Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m.

Ages 2 and up (with caregiver) may sign-up to color a placemat for the Thanksgiving table!

Shelter Rock Library MUSEUM PASSES @ SRPL Shelter Rock Public Library cardholders can reserve a Museum Pass online for free admission to a variety of museums and gardens on Long Island and in New York City.

Go to www.srpl.org and pull down the Library Services Menu then go to Museum Passes. Click the Reserve Now link and look for the

red Request Pass button to see if the Museum Pass is available.

Your library card must be in good standing. Advance reservations will be accepted for the next 60 days (one Reservation per family every 30 days).

SHELTER ROCK PATRONS MAY RESERVE PASSES

FOR: American Airpower Museum • Children’s Museum of Manhattan • Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery • Cradle of Aviation • Garvies Point • Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum • Long Island Children’s Museum • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) • Nassau County Firefighter’s Museum • Nassau County Museum of Art •

New York Botanical Garden • New York Historical Society and Library & Dimenna Children’s History Museum Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced today that in cooperation with the Shelter Rock Public Library, the Nassau County Offices for the Aging and Mental Health are coordinat-

ing a support group that is specifically targeted to respond to the needs of caregivers of older persons.

The group is led by Dora Lupo, LMHC, MAC, CASAC, Support Group Facilitator.

Meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Shelter Rock Public Library, located at 165 Searingtown

Road, Albertson. The meetings are open to residents of Nassau County. This support group will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences and to help one another. Persons interested in attending for the first time, or in need of additional information, please call (516) 227-8725.

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98 inducted into National Honor Society National Honor Society Induction Ceremony/Look for Info in Next Week’s Newsletter!

What a great presentation and evening this was on Nov. 12 when 98 students were inducted into the National Honor Society!

A big thank you to National Honor Society advisors Allison Chanin-Bermudez and Doreen DeAngelo, the Wheatley administration, this year’s current National Honor Society officers and the guest speaker, former English teacher (retired) and Wheatley grad, Ellen Holzman.

Next Friday I will introduce the newly inducted members and present some detailed information on the program and the Wheatley National Honor Society program. Can’t wait to share.

North Side Tree Removal The school district recently received permission to take down 15 trees on the North Side School grounds that were identified as diseased and determined a safety hazard.

The tree removal was completed this past Tuesday. As required by the terms of the Village of East Williston permit, the school district will replace each and every tree taken down with a new, healthy tree.

Our Town The Wheatley Theater Company will be performing Thorton Wilder’s “Our Town” on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 in the Wheatley Auditorium. Tickets are on sale for $10, senior citizens’ tickets are free. Go to http://wheatleytheater.weebly.com/ to purchase your tickets.

Wheatley English teacher Colin McKenna is directing the play.

I had the pleasure of not only acting in this play when I was in high school, but also directed high school performances of “Our Town” when I was a drama and English teacher. I still recall the audiences reactions to the evening performances, both excited and enthused by the play. I encourage you to buy your tickets and make this a great family night with your older elementary, middle and high school students. I hope to see you there.

Willets Road Sign-Up for ParentTeacher Conferences With the upcoming Willets Road ParentTeacher Conferences scheduled for Nov. 26, Dec. 2 and Dec. 4, you can register on-line to schedule your conference. Go to the following link https://willetsroad.schoolsoft.ca/ login.jsf and log in, if you registered last year.

If you forgot your password, follow the directions and you should receive an email and directions to change your password. If you don’t receive an email, you may have entered the wrong email address.

If you did not use this system last year, follow links to register. Remember, you only need one account for your children who attend Willets Road. Once in the system, choose your child’s teacher and you will see available appointments. Choose the appointment you want, click submit when the popup box appears. Don’t forget to print your schedule. Note, you can log back into the system to review, print, cancel or reschedule your appointments. Please add appointments@schoolsoft.ca into your address book in your contact list. This will assure your re-

ceipt of emails from the system. If you need ments.

Criteria used for this honor are as folassistance, please contact the Willets Road lows: Exceptional educational talent as Main Office at 333-8797. evidenced by effective instructional practices Vocational Training Opportunities Our life skills students have been par- and student learning results in the classroom ticipating in vocational training at local busi- and school; Exemplary educational accomnesses and around Wheatley. As our students plishments beyond the classroom that proskills are improving, we are always looking vide models of excellence for the profession; for more opportunities for our life skills stu- Individuals whose contributions to education dents. Therefore, we are asking for your help. are largely unheralded yet worthy of the If you are aware of any local volunteer vo- spotlight; Early- to mid-career educators who cational opportunities for our life skills stu- offer strong long-range potential for profesdents, please contact Dawn Muscarnera at sional and policy leadership; and Engaging and inspiring presence that muscarnerad@ewsdonline. motivates and impacts stuorg or Liza Laurino at lauridents, colleagues and the nol@ewsdonline.org . Both community. can also be reached at 333To read more go to 5690. http://www.milkeneducaOur students would torawards.org/newsroom/ work a few hours a week and photos/view/439 . are accompanied by a trained Nov. 4 – Superintenadult team member. Thank dent’s Conference Day Reyou in advance for any input port you may have.

As you know, I enjoy Congratulations and Elaine Kanas sharing with you some of the Commendations Superintendent important learning and work Dr. Staudt: Featured our staff participates in durSpeaker at Symposium Dr. John Staudt, one of Wheatley’s So- ing those Superintendent/Staff Development cial Studies faculty members, is also a well- Days, when your children are not in school regarded historian, with a specialty in Long but the administrators and instructional staff Island during the Revolutionary War. On are here working at making our students’ Saturday, Nov. 15, Dr. Staudt was a featured learning experiences the absolute best they speaker at the “Long Island in the American can be.

In addition to the ongoing planning of Revolution: The Seat of Action” Symposium at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. instruction our teachers do each day, staff deDr. Staudt discussed, “A State of Wretched- velopment days, the before/after school facness: Suffolk County, New York in the Revo- ulty and grade level meetings and summer lution.” Although the symposium was sold study training and curriculum work provide out, you can read a bit about it through the further opportunity for our articulated K-12 following article from the Suffolk Times: educational program. These events also enLong Island’s Role in the American Revolu- sure that all of us on staff are current with educational research, opportunities and inition.

Along with teaching AP U.S. History, AP tiatives as the world continues to grow and Government and Politics and College Re- change around us.

These days also provide the opportugional Studies (in conjunction with SUNY at Stony Brook where Wheatley students nities for staff members to collaborate on receive 3 college credits) at Wheatley, Dr. unified practice and to serve as important Staudt is the co-advisor of the Mock Trial resources for each other, as the significant Club, a professor at Hofstra University where expertise we have in the district from each he teaches American History and the History of our teachers and administrators is shared.

Below are some examples of the work of Baseball and the liaison for the National History Day Regional Competition at Hofstra. teachers, administrators and other instrucAlumnae Receives a National Teach- tional staff were involved in on our most recent Superintendent’s Conference Day. ing Award North Side I am enthused to share with you news Last school year, the North Side staff, about Roseann Maurantonio, Wheatley Class of 2000, who just received the 2014 Milken with the support and direction of Principal Jim Bloomgarden (who assumes primary Educator Award.

The Milken Family Foundation has pro- administrative responsibility for elementary vided public recognition and unrestricted math) and Elementary Math Content Area financial awards of $25,000 to outstanding Leader and AIS teacher Lisa Minerva did a K–12 teachers, principals and specialists who Herculean job aligning the elementary math are furthering excellence in education. Ms. curriculum to the new standards and impleMaurantonio is a fourth grade teacher in the menting the new shifts in math instruction.

The staff’s work was realized in North Rosendale Elementary School in the NiskaSide’s notable performance in grades 3 and yuna Central School District in New York.

Ms. Maurantonio is one of up to 40 4 NYS Math Assessment scores.

During this past summer, teachers on outstanding educators recognized this year by the MFF, and the only teacher from New each grade level continued to refine this work, utilizing the past year’s experience York.

Educators are selected confidentially by and student performance results to adjust a panel appointed by state education depart- and tweak the current curriculum work and

refine the math curriculum map for the first half of this 2014-15 school year. On November 4, all grade level teachers continued this work, refining and aligning the curriculum map for the second half of the school year.

Secondary Mathematics In a similar vein to North Side, many of the grade levels spent time working on “wrong answer analysis” from the past year’s state assessments and Regents exams to continue to refine math maps and instruction, building on the previous year’s successful work. This year, New York State released more of last year’s test questions with annotations of the correct responses.

Educators from the field had been asking for more of this feedback, and it proved helpful.

Geometry and pre-calculus teachers participated in further curriculum review, examining course material alignment in light of new math standards.

Social Studies The AP U.S. History team worked together to review changes in AP curriculum and to reflect the changes in their class exams.

The 11th grade Regents teachers developed a common mid-term exam, planned units for the remainder of the year, as well as discussing 3rd and 4th quarter projects. The third quarter project will include research to link family history with national history and the fourth quarter project will be an iMovie on the 1960’s designed to link modern history with key Regents themes.

The 7th and 8th grade team met to discuss the National History Day project and implementation going forward both for the rest of this year and planning for next year.

The 11th grade team joined the conversation to discuss common issues and support articulation between 7th and 8th grade implementation as preparation for the 11th grade required research paper.

The 9th Grade Global History Honors team worked on a plan for reviewing essay writing, the creation of a common rubric and the structure for the comparative essay.

Global History 10Regents team worked to create a plan for a common mid-term exam based on the 10th grade material and a diagnostic exam on 9th grade material. Both tools, along with the document-based questions and thematic essays will be used to assess students’ progress and identify students who may need additional support.

Review began on the 6th grade social studies curriculum in light of the newly adopted New York State social studies framework.

The School Within a School staff met to finalize plans for the new quarter and further planning was done regarding the SWS gardening initiative.

Guidance In our Guidance Department’s continuing commitment to expanding our relationships with colleges and expanding students’ awareness of the college choices available to them, the Wheatley counselors and Director of Guidance Greg Wasserman spent the day Continued on Page 40

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Chloe Chang

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Julia Felman

Herricks students Chloe Chang (Denton Avenue Elementary School) and Julia Feldman (Herricks Middle School) participated in the Lang Lang 101 Pianists Program at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts which took place on Sunday, Oct. 26. The Lang Lang Foundation developed 101 Pianists program, an opportunity for young piano students to learn from and perform with Lang Lang for audiences around the world. The students were selected through a rigorous application and audition process and were chosen among over 200 applicants in New York State.

After many hours of rehearsal with prominent conductors, students in grades 8-12 from Herricks Middle School and High School performed in the Long Island String Festival Association, held Nov. 14 and 15 at Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School. They were: (Middle School) Grace Kang, violin; Austin Kim, cello; Christina Kim, violin; Daniel Louie, viola; Nicole Park, viola; Darren Yang, bass; Hanna Yen, viola; (High School) Joshua Chee, violin; Jordan Chee, violin; Jane Chen, violin; Justin Kim, viola; Kyra Koe, violin; Nora Koe, violin; Rache Louie, viola; Natalie Tan, violin; Ashwin Viswanathan, viola; Kelly Yu, violin; Mikayla Chan, viola; Esme Chen, violin; Irene Jung, cello; Kelly Kim, violin.

98 inducted into National Honor Society Continued from Page 39 visiting Marist College in Poughkeepsie. They met with students and the entire admissions office.

They also attended a presentation from the College Board on the new SAT. Other activities involved elementary and middle school guidance/social work support staff participation in anti-bullying webinars and planning for character education activities.

Art and Music Teachers traveled to a variety of conferences and workshops from outside presenters. These included: workshops of new music for middle school and high school bands, the latest techniques in using Garage Band, jazz and blues sessions and orchestral reading.

Art teacher experiences included workshops on portraiture using pastels and Kamishibai, traditional Japanese story telling techniques using illustrated cards.

Foreign Language The department continued their work preparing for the changes in the new FLACS exams (foreign language exams that replaced the Regents) focusing on read to write tasks that also support the overall new state standards in reading and

literacy in the content areas. Middle school teachers researched sites for authentic listening and reading comprehension selections.

Science Among the Grade 8-12 staff topic discussions were textbook considerations and continuing work on the physics goal from the 201415 Instructional Goals: Goal 8/ Smart Goal N: Investigate various pathways to expose more students to physics concepts and classes at an earlier point in their academic careers.

The middle school examined continued alignment to support the new high school science sequence which has most of our eighth graders now taking the Living Environment Course and Regents in place of Earth Science. Additions were suggested for the sixth grade curriculum for 2015-16 school year including: Dependent and independent variables; human impact on the environment and greenhouse gases and a full unit on Ecology including ecology, food chains and food webs and human impact on ecosystems.

Pupil Personnel Services/Special Education Special Education teachers and teaching assistants participated in content area meetings along with their general education colleagues.

Speech therapists had the opportunity to discuss best practices with each other. English as Second Language teachers reviewed the new ESL regulations and got a jump start on planning for implementation next year while other staff conducted or participated in CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training or related social/emotional topics.

English/Reading Teachers and teaching assistants providing LLI (Leveled Literacy Intervention) support to students identified as likely to benefit from this additional reading support had the opportunity to plan together and to receive additional training/ support from our two elementary reading teachers, Kathleen Cunningham and Allison Douglas, who have several years of experience in teaching this program, which has been introduced in the Middle and High School this year as well.

The English Department met both as a whole and on individual grade levels to share ideas/continue articulation and lay future plans for the department and its students.

They continued work on a detailed curriculum guide grid in 8th grade, fine-tuning of the ninth grade research paper, summer reading assignment planning reflecting the success of a most recent 9th grade

summer reading project and the use of electronic tools to keep track of student progress regarding research work.

Having the chance to read over the teaching practices and idea notes the department shared regarding their work on Superintendent Conference Day, reinforced how valuable this opportunity for collegial sharing can be, as teachers share their own best practices with each other, providing insight and support to continue to grow student learning. Ideas shared among our English teachers included differentiating instruction through the use of stations, using rubrics to enable students to become more reflective regarding their learning and to take more ownership of their work, the benefits of peer editing, scaffolding supports such as the use of structured reading assignments, color-coded post-its and posters to annotate reading and help plan accountable discussion and engaging ways to teach grammar conventions and punctuation. Helping students understand deep reading through the use of a five-level reading rubric that provides a monitoring guide for students when they read: decode, scan, understand, analyze, master was also shared.

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and Family Consumer Science and Nurses The Physical Education Department attended a conference at Hofstra University sponsored by the Physical Education Consortium. The staff attended workshops including: Movement and Functional Movement; Dancing Classrooms - May I Have This Dance? Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Connections through the Art of Ballroom Dance; Dancing Classrooms: Transforming Lives One Step at a Time; Connecting CCSS to Nutrition Has Never Been Easier; Fitness - It’s Not Rocket Science, But It Is Exercise; Adapted PE- Physical Education for All; and Storytelling in PE for the Elementary Level.

The Health and Family Consumer Science departments attended workshops on Improving Health and Decision Making for our Youth.

The District nurses attended a county-wide workshop from the Nassau County Department of Health on effective health practices and worked on immunization reporting.

Have a Good Weekend As always, please email me at kanase@ewsdonline.org or call me at 333-3758 with any questions, suggestions and/or any topics you would like to see in this newsletter.

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2 North Shore doctors named ‘rising stars’

by B ill S an A ntonio Two North Shore-area doctors have been deemed “Rising Stars” by a communications firm that annually publishes directories listing the region’s top health care professionals.

MSP Communications named Dr. Lee Tessler, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Jai Grewal, a neuro oncologist, among the 2.5 percent of physicians in the New York metropolitan area to receive the distinction, according to a news release.

It was the second consecutive year that Tessler, of Port Washington, has received the designation and the first for Grewal, of Roslyn.

Both doctors, who hold director positions with the Long Island Brain Turmor Center at Neurlogical Surgery, P.C., which has an office in Lake Success, were also recipients of the Robert Bernstein Humanitarian Award through Voices Against Brain Cancer, a national research non-profit.

“Our Long Island Brain Tumor Center at NSPC is

among the nation’s best, so it is only fitting that both Dr. Tessler and Dr. Grewal have been given this elite honor,” said Dr. Michael H. Brisman, chief executive officer of NSPC. “We congratulate them on being named to this highly selective list, which is based on peer recognition and professional achievement.”

Tessler, the center’s executive director and cosurgical director, specializes in the treatment of primary brain tumors, metastatic tumors and meningiomas.

In 2008, he was ap-

pointed assistant professor of neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, and Tessler is currently the chief of neurotrauma and chairman of Winthrop-University Hospital’s Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Committee.

He also sits on the medical advisory boards of Voices Against Brain Cancer and VirtualTrials.org.

Grewal, the center’s co-medical director, specializes in the management of primary brain and spine tumors, central nervous system metastases and neuro-

logical complications from cancer.

He is the principal investigator of several clinical

trials and is a board member of the American Cancer Society’s Nassau County division.

Dr. Jai Grewal and Dr. Lee Dr. Lee Tessler

Senior apartments proposed in Manhasset

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO A developer seeking to convert more than three acres of the shuttered Mt. Olive Baptist Church property in Manhasset into a 72-unit housing complex has requested a change in the site’s zoning to market the proposed apartments strictly to senior tenants.

Representatives with G&G Acquisitions Group, LLC, which has an office in Jericho, presented plans before the North Hempstead Town Council on Tuesday that would rid the 3.19-acre property along Community Drive of various contaminants that have deemed it a “brownfield” site by state environmental agencies to allow for the construction of the apartments.

The town council tabled a vote on the proposed zoning change until after a future public hearing that it did not schedule on Tuesday.

Public comments submitted in writing will be accepted through the end of the month, officials said.

Linda Shaw, a partner with the environmental law firm Knauf Shaw LLP, said the property’s condition – contaminated with metals lead and arsenic, among other undisclosed toxins – exceed the requirements needed to qualify for the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

The program provides conditional tax incentives in exchange for the remediation and subsequent redevelopment of brownfield sites.

The site, she said, has become contaminated with metals like lead and arsenic as well as other undisclosed toxins due in part to occasional illegal dumping there.

An Environmental Impact Statement has been drafted for the project.

The church, which currently owns the site, has a tax exemption on the property and is not required by law to remediate the contaminants.

“You can’t take every drop of contaminated soil out, but we’re going to try and clean up as much as we can,” Shaw said.

David Gallo, G&G’s representative at the hearing, said the project would not move forward without acceptance for the Brownfield Cleanup Program.

The proposal includes the construction of 48 one-bedroom and 24 twobedroom rental apartments for tenants age 55 and older, Gallo said, as well as 98 parking spaces for residents, visitors and staff.

School-aged children, which Gallo defined as children up to 18 years old, will not be permitted to live in the proposed complex due to stipulations included in state housing grants that G&G will seek to help finance the development.

The total project cost was not disclosed during Tuesday’s hearing.

Tenants would be selected after an application process that Gallo said would include a criminal background check and income status.

He did not define how much each unit would cost but said applicants that make between $25,000 and $65,000 would be selected.

“We want this to be successful not just for the current residents that would be there but for the future residents there years from now,” Gallo said.

The apartment complex is expected to have minimal impact on traffic in the area, which includes Community Drive and neighboring residential roadways, said engineer Sean Mulryan, of the Garden City firm Mulryan Engineering, P.C. The proposal received the support of several members of the nearby Spinney Hill community as well as former congregants of Mt. Olive Church and North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck), whose 4th district includes Manhasset.

“We have an opportunity here to go ahead and address property that is deemed as brownfield while we have a developer coming in trying to clean it up not just for the Spinney Hill area but for the Manhasset community

and the Great Neck community,” Kaplan said.

She added: “By looking at this change in zoning, we’re also addressing some of the concerns brought to us by our seniors, seniors who have lived in this town, raised their families, supported the schools, the parks, and now it’s our turn to give back and try to help them out and keep this place as their residence.”

Opposition to the proposal came from Manhasset resident Martin Dekom, who lives along the nearby High Street.

He said neighboring residents do not support the construction of an affordable housing unit there and accused the town of trying “to rezone Spinney Hill out of existence.”

“There is no guarantee the remediation will even be successful,” he said.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth denied Dekom’s allegation.

Gallo said he has met with community organizations and residents whose homes border the site and incorporated their suggestions into the plans.

In other developments: • The council approved a special-use permit for Cumberland Farms to construct a 2,719 square-foot convenience store at the Mobil gas station at 1111 Northern Blvd. in Manhasset.

• The council tabled

a decision on whether to approve the installation of underground diesel storage tanks at a gas station at 80 Horace Harding Blvd. in Great Neck and a special-use permit for the conversion of the gas pumps to self-service and the construction of an overhead canopy.

The property, owned

by Gray Bros. Enterprises, LTD., has operated as a gas station for more than four decades, but shifted to vehicle repair in 2012 after previous underground gas tanks were removed.

Residents on Tuesday who opposed the proposal

said the property has become an eyesore in the community because of the high number of vehicles that remain on site, and that the presence of diesel fuel would lead to health hazards.

Residents who supported the proposal said the property owner should have the opportunity to once again run a gas station there and that fewer vehicles would be serviced in the future.

The council scheduled a second hearing on Dec. 9.

GCP fire halts LIRR service

BY B R YA N AHRENS A fire in a Garden City Park warehouse Thursday night halted Long Island Railroad service along the Port Jefferson line in both directions for about three hours, Nassau County Police said.

The fire broke out at 194 Atlantic Avenue around 8 p.m. Thursday and was put out just after 11 p.m. Train service was restored shortly thereafter, officials said.

The building was unoccupied at the time

of the fire, said James Hickman, division supervisor for the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office. About a third of the building retained damage, he said.

“Thankfully, no one was hurt,” Hickman said.

The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, police said. An investigation is ongoing.

Approximately 100 firefighters from multiple departments, including Floral Park, Mineola, New Hyde Park and Garden City Park responded to the fire, officials said.

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Mineola middle schoolers Mineola club to create clay containers present ‘Fools’ Seventh-grade students at Mineola Middle School have been creating ceramic clay containers in art class. Using basic hand-building techniques, such as coil pots and slab construction, texture and pattern is being added with the use of traditional clay tools. The clay containers will be utilized as part of a larger, interdisciplinary greenhouse project that the entire school is taking part in as part of the district’s STEAM initiative.

On Nov. 21 and 22, the Mineola High School Drama Club and Thespian Troupe # 276 will present Neil Simon’s hilarious, family-friendly comedy, Fools.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1981, Fools begins with the arrival of a young, idealistic teacher named Leon Tolchinsky. Leon’s determination to break a local curse and to marry the girl of his dreams sets in motion a plot that will keep the audience laughing right up to the final curtain.

The talented cast includes Mineola High School seniors CJ Asam, Aldrian Diaz, Melissa Dunlop and Tyler Villalona, juniors Theo Bischoff, Julie Ortiz, Kristina Shevlin and Felicia Villa, sophomore Zachary Sloan and freshman Sarah Harty.

Performances will be held Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and again on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Theatre at Mineola High School. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance by calling the Mineola UFSD Department of Fine and Performing Arts at (516) 237-2625 or purchasing tickets at the door.

Herricks High students in biz competition A team of business students representing Herricks High School will compete against groups from 18 other high schools from across Long Island on Nov. 21 in Adelphi University’s annual student marketing contest, the “Adelphi Apprentice Challenge,” inspired by Donald Trump’s popular reality television program.

The Adelphi Apprentice Challenge gives 120 Long Island high school business “majors” a hands-on taste of the highly competitive, take no prisoners realities of designing and presenting marketing strategies that

create breakthrough brands.

Teams are provided with a business case study and are given 60 minutes to develop an effective marketing strategy that they then present to a panel of judges comprised of a dozen professional marketers.

Judges for the competition will include top executives from cutting-edge companies like Atlantic Records, Pandora, Combs Entertainment/Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group and iHeartMedia.

“The annual Apprentice Challenge exemplifies Adelphi’s engagement with Long Island

high schools in a range of areas, including business education, fine arts, healthcare, athletics and others,” said Brian Rothschild, assistant dean of the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business. “We’re excited to play a role in training tomorrow’s business leaders with this unique experiential learning event, where we bring together ambitious students to learn from the insight and mentoring of top Adelphi faculty and marketing leaders from top companies.”

Faculty from Adelphi’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business organize the event and

provide guidance and support to students. \ This year, Adelphi alumnus Dan Casale, vice president of LiveNation, will give the keynote address on his experiences in the business world. The winning team will receive a trophy and coveted title of 2014 “Adelphi Apprentice.”

The event is hosted annually by the University’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, an institution dedicated to educating tomorrow’s business leaders using relevant, innovative and experiential learning opportunities. Graduates include some of

the region’s top marketing leaders, serving a variety of exciting brands and companies.

The Adelphi Apprentice Challenge has been bringing talented and ambitious business students together from high schools across Long Island for eight years. Started in 2006, more than 1400 “apprentices” have participated, including a number who have studied marketing at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business and were real-life apprentices in the New York City marketing shark tank.

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County Seat Kiwanis program Coordinator Scott Fairgrieve provides so many interesting speakers. This week, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos shared an update on the financial status of the county. Upcoming events include a food drive and ringing bells for Salvation Army. Like Kiwanis Club of County Seat on Facebook for details about activities. Kiwanis meets every Monday morning at 8 a.m. at IHOP in Williston Park. All are welcome!

Prostate cancer, meds subject of free lectures As part of its ongoing Prostate Cancer Education Series, Winthrop-University Hospital’s Department of Urology will offer a free lecture, “Medication Management,” on Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The lecture will be followed by a Moderated Question and Answer Session at 7:30 p.m.. Both sessions will be held at the Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, 1300 Franklin Avenue, Suite ML-5 in Garden City.

Brian R. Malone, director of Pharmaceutical Services at Winthrop, will speak on the above topic at 6:30 p.m. The question and answer session, held at 7:30 p.m., will be moderated by a nurse naviga-

tor and physician assistant affiliated with Winthrop’s Department of Urology.

This Q & A will service as an open discussion to address any and all questions relating to prostate cancer. It will be an excellent avenue through which newly diagnosed patients can learn about treatment options and patient experiences; the moderators will also address questions from those currently undergoing treatment. Individuals may attend the lecture and/or the question and answer session, however, seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve a space or for further information, please call (516) 663-2316 or email prostatecancersupport@winthrop.org.

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Hockey at Iceland a healthy sign This week I had plans to do a piece on the aesthetics of figure skating.

So early Sunday morning I headed down to Iceland which is considered a local institution at 3345 Hillside Ave. in New Hyde Park with camera and pad in hand.

I was planning to explore the question of whether the coaches thought figure skating was more art or sport.

As I pulled into the parking lot I could see it was already filled and thought to myself that there must be lots of figure skaters on Long Island. But the closer I got to the front door the more I realized that this was hockey time.

There is an old joke that says “I went to a boxing match last night and a hockey game broke out.”

My new joke is “I went to a figure skating competition last night and the competitors had helmets and pads on!”

Get ready to be introduced to the secret world of premier youth hockey.

On this morning the U16 Ice Cats of the Long Island Amateur Hockey League were going up against the Nassau County Lions.

And the first thing I noticed as I chatted with the players on the sidelines was how expensive the equipment looked.

The goalie told me that his pads cost $450; helmet cost $500, skates $600 and stick $200. That’s

almost $2,000 before you hit the ice. This is a serious hobby.

I have met Sarah Hughes of Olympic figure skating fame and know that her ‘hobby cost her family over $100,000 per year. For many years.

Chris Loche is one of the Ice Cats coaches and he told me that most his players are headed for competitive NCAA or club play after high school and that on this level they all have great athleticism, agility, strength and on ice awareness. That means they all have very high hockey IQ’s.

When the game finally got under way I could see that words like athleticism and agility do not do them justice.

At this level I immediately saw that these kids are very fast and very fearless. The sound of skates on ice and bodies hitting boards was shocking.

I can only imagine what the bruises look like after a game. Yet they all keep coming back four to five times a week for practice or for games.

And even at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning the stands were filled with parents in warm coats and hats, under blankets and sipping hot chocolate between cheers.

I took a few photos and before my fingers froze up completely, said my goodbyes and left.

As I walked through the parking lot I looked more carefully at

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the cars that were there. They were mostly high end SUV’s like Lexus or Mercedes and all with private school high school stickers.

These were parents that were willing to invest in their kid’s education and their sports life. I thought back at my own childhood and how lucky I was to have parents who were willing and able to take me to the country club every day all summer long where I was able to develop my skills and prepare for college golf.

Not once did they question how many chits I spent or how much money I cost them each month.

As a sport psychologist many of my patients are elite young athletes whose parents regularly spend $30,000 to $40,000 per year on their child’s sport.

I usually ask them if the invest-

ment is worth all that money and they invariably tell me the same thing, “If they weren’t putting all their spare time and energy into their sport what do you think they would be doing? Getting into trouble is my guess.”

And that is only one of the benefits of a serious amateur sports career. The chance to develop real athletic ability is a rare and special thing. It is not too much to say that there is something transcendent and transforming about excelling at something. It is a joy to do and equally a joy to behold.

Many years ago when I was still in my early 20s and playing lots of good golf my girlfriend who later became my wife said to me “Tom you are lucky to be able to do this one thing so very well.”

I always remember that remark and I think she was right.

To be able to perform one thing in

either a sport or art to a level of excellence is an extraordinary feeling.

It is our way of transcending our humanness and being something a little better. Isn’t that what they call transcendence in religion?

I consider myself to be a social critic or someone who gets paid to worry about the state of affairs in our culture. And there is indeed much to worry about.

I do most of my writing for either magazines or scholarly journals.

But when I have experiences like the one I had on Sunday at Iceland I unquestionably and immediately have more faith in America.

Because what this tells me is that we have many parents who are willing to invest in their kids and many kids who are willing to invest in the pursuit of excellence.

And this is a very, very good thing.

The power and grace of U16 hockey at Iceland

Albertson VFW, elected officials celebrate vets

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos recently celebrated Veterans Day with members of Albertson VFW Post #5253. Pictured from left: Maragos, VFW member Alfreda Chotkowski of Albertson, Nassau County Clerk Maureen O’Connell, and VFW member and World War II veteran Tony Catalano, Post #5253 Commander Tom Rumore, and VFW member and Vietnam veteran Artie Adair.

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Small Business Saturday set for Nov. 29 Town of North Hempstead officials and leaders of several of the local chambers of commerce and other community leaders on Nov. 5 in order to kick off the promotion of this year’s Small Business Saturday.

The Town is a proud sponsor of Small Business Saturday which takes place Nov. 29 and is a joint partnership between Women Impacting Public Policy and the Small Business Saturday Coalition.

This is a national effort to drive consumers to shop at local independently owned businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

In 2013, 317 city and town officials joined together to support Small Business Saturday, and this year the Town of North Hempstead will be one of those municipalities.

“It is a priority of mine and of this administration to support our local businesses in any way we can,” said Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “I expect this year’s Small Business Saturday to act as the kickoff to a successful and profitable holiday season for our businesses. I encourage all of our residents to shop locally this season and build our local economy.”

Town officials were joined by community representatives from the chambers of commerce from Mineola, Manhasset, Greater New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Port Washington, and Great Neck.

For more information on Small Business Saturday log on to www.northhempsteadny. gov or go to http://www.wipp. org/resource/resmgr/SB S/ Group shot of Town officials and Chamber presidents.

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WARMBED New timetables in effect: LIRR shelter program beings Nov. 26 With cold weather approaching, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano this week announced that WARMBED, Nassau County’s Emergency Shelter Relief Program for homeless individuals and families during the winter months, will be activated Wednesday, Nov. 26, beginning at 6 p.m.

“No resident should have to spend nights in the freezing cold when they can call the Nassau County Hotline and be placed in a warm shelter right away,” Mangano said.

“Homeless residents calling the hotline will be connected immediately to a person who can help them get out of the cold and obtain the services they need to restart their lives. Help is really just a phone call away,” he added.

The Nassau County Winter Homeless Hotline, WARMBED (1-866- WARMBED), will operate seven days a week and run through March 31.

If winter conditions persist beyond March 31, the program will continue until warmer weather arrives.

Between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. Monday thru Thursday, and Friday from 6 p.m. thru Monday at 8 a.m., employees from WARMBED and the Department of Social Services will make appropriate referrals and provide shelter placement.

Once placed, the staff at DSS and the Office of Housing & Community Development will contact those who are homeless in order to access resources for permanent housing.

Mangano also urges Nassau’s homeless veterans to take advantage of the WARMBED program, where they will be assisted by the Nassau County Veterans Services Agency.

During the 2013/2014 season, a total of 192 individuals were housed by the WARMBED program.

These referrals included 75 single adults and 40 families comprised of 44 adults and 73 children.

New Long Island Rail Road timetables went into effect this week and will be in force until Dec.14 with the restoration of weekend/holiday service on the West Hempstead Branch, special Thanksgiving holiday service and the start of extra weekend service for the holiday season among the highlights.

There will also be schedule changes to accommodate track work on several branches and a new departure time for an early morning Long Beach to Penn Station. Customers can pick up copies of the new timetables, which will remain in effect through Sunday, Dec. 14, at stations and terminals and view them anytime at www.mta/info/lirr.

West Hempstead Branch – Restoration of Weekend Service As part of its service investments, the LIRR is restoring weekend and holiday train service on the West Hempstead Branch, effective Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Weekend/ holiday service would operate every two hours between West Hempstead and Penn Station/Atlantic Terminal, with connecting service at Valley Stream and Jamaica Station.

Thanksgiving Eve Extra Service: Wednesday, Nov. 26 The LIRR will operate a regular weekday schedule with 11 extra trains added to the eastbound afternoon schedule for those leaving work early. There will be four extra to Babylon trains, two extra Huntington trains, one extra Hicksville train, one extra Great Neck train, one extra Far Rockaway train, one extra Ronkonkoma train and one extra Montauk train.

additional eastbound trains will operate between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. providing Long Beach customers with half-hourly service during these peak weekend travel hours. In addition, two overnight trains from Penn Station – one to Huntington and one to Babylon - will be added to the scheduled to accommodate customers taking in late night events.

Track Work Programs Track work on the following branches will have some impact on Thanksgiving Day Extra train schedules. The LIRR tries to Service: Thursday, Nov. 27 schedule the work during off-peak On Thanksgiving Day, the LIRR’s periods to minimize the impact on weekend/holiday schedule will be customers. supplemented by six extra westbound trains in the morning to acPort Washington Branch – commodate customers heading to Weekdays Nov. 17 to Dec. 12 the city for the Thanksgiving Day One of two main tracks will be Parade and 11 extra afternoon east- out of service midday weekdays bound trains to get those folks back between Woodside and Bayside for to Long Island. The extra morning switch replacement work in the Shea westbound trains will include two Train Yard. from Babylon, two from Ronkonkoma, one from Speonk and one from Port Jefferson Branch – SatPort Jefferson. The eastbound extra urday & Sunday, Nov. 22-23; service from Penn Station will fea- Dec. 6-7; Dec. 13-14 ture four trains to Babylon, three to One of two main tracks will be Ronkonkoma and one each to Spe- out of service between Hicksville and Long Beach Branch – Atten- onk, Farmingdale, Huntington and Syosset over the weekend of Saturtion Early Morning Commut- Port Jefferson. day and Sunday, Nov. 22-23, for prep ers work for the installation of continuStarting on Monday, Nov. 17, Extra Weekend Service for ous welded rail. the current 3:13 a.m. weekday train Holiday Season Starts Nov. 29 from Long Beach will be adjusted Starting the weekend of Nov. West Hempstead Branch – to depart later at 3:59 a.m. in order 29-30 and continuing through the Weekdays Dec. 1-12 to provide a more convenient early weekend of Jan. 3-4, the LIRR will On the West Hempstead Branch, morning alternative for customers add extra trains on the Long Beach mechanized tie installation and rewho start work in the 5 a.m. to 5:30 Branch to accommodate greater de- surfacing midday weekdays between a.m. timeframe. With a transfer at mand during the holiday season. On Valley Stream and West Hempstead Jamaica Station, the rescheduled Saturdays and Sundays, four addi- will mean busing and extra travel train will get Long Beach Branch cus- tional trains will operate westbound time from Monday, Dec. 1 to Friday, tomers to Penn Station at 4:50 a.m. between 9 p.m. and 1 p.m. and four Dec. 12.

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School nurses attend county workshop The Nassau County Council of School Superintendent co-sponsored a workshop for school nurses providing accurate and factual information on current health issues.

The event was hosted by the Bellmore School District and facilitated by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph S. Famularo.

More than 200 school nurses from Nassau County attended the workshop, which featured keynote speaker Dr. Lawrence E. Eisenstein, commissioner of health for the Nassau County Department of Health. Dr. Eisenstein provided important information on communicable diseases including Enterovirus D68, Ebola, the upcoming flu season and other general health concerns.

Those in attendance also received valuable information on available resources, including a 24-hour hotline, how to properly communicate important health information to their school community and the importance of teaching students proper hygiene practices. Dr. Eisenstein also addressed questions from the audience.

Commissioner of Health for the Nassau County Department of Health Dr. Lawrence E. Eisenstein was the keynote speaker at the NCCSS coSchool nurses throughout Nassau County attended an informative workshop sponsored health issues workshop. co-sponsored by the NCCSS on current health issues.

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Pictured from left: AMT Stephen Kahl, Blaine Aronovitch, Michael Fredericksen, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, Gary and Katherine Ferrarini, Frank Guerriero, Town of Hempstead Councilman Edward Ambrosino , AMT Christina Cosentino and Ryan Walsh.

Mangano honors good Samaritans Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano welcomed Gary Ferrarini of Babylon to the Ceremonial Chambers of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building where the two of them officially thanked all of those involved with saving Ferrarini’s life.

On Saturday Oct. 25th, Ferrarini was playing paddleball at Cantiague Park in Hicksville when he suffered a heart attack.

Quick thinking paddleball players Michael Fredericksen of Great Neck and Frank Guerriero of Glen Head administered CPR while others alerted park staff. Nassau County employees Blaine Aronovitch of Great Neck and Ryan Walsh of Bethpage responded and gave aid while awaiting the arrival of a Nassau County Police Ambulance.

Nassau County Ambulance Medical Technicians Stephen Kahl and Christina Cosentino both of Syosset arrived on the scene, stabilized Ferrarini, and then transported him to the hospital where doctors were able to save his life.

Mangano noted that the combined efforts of quick thinking residents, park staff and AMT have resulted in a positive outcome for Ferrarini.

The North Shore-LIJ Health System’s effort to help military veterans transition back into civilian life has included the hiring of nearly 200 veterans so far this year.

The health system’s talent acquisition and workforce readiness divisions have been hosting workshops to help veterans better translate their military experience into a civilian career path.

North Shore-LIJ has also created a guide called “From Barracks to Business: Translating Military Skills to Career Success” to help veterans better navigate the job market and has been holding recruitment sessions specifically for veterans,

including one on Oct. 30 where approximately 60 veterans were interviewed for various positions throughout the health system.

Last year, the workforce readiness division also created the Veteran College Network, which includes several Long Island and New York City colleges, to help those returning veterans find jobs.

“Our veterans have done so much for our country and we want to give back to them as much as we can,” said Cheryl Davidson, North Shore-LIJ’s director of workforce readiness.

For North Shore-LIJ employees who are active service members, the health system pays

them the difference between their military and health system salaries while they are on military leave. In addition, North Shore-LIJ’s office of diversity, inclusion and health literacy created a business employee resource group last year so that veterans, military service members, their families and those interested in veterans’ affairs could gain more of a sense of community. This group is called Veterans and Allies: Liaisons of Reintegration.

To learn more about veteran hiring opportunities within the North Shore-LIJ Health System, contact the Office of Military and Veterans’ Services at (516) 5623235.

County spotlights pain syndrome Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano proclaimed the week from Nov. 3, through Nov. 10, “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Week” with the dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Courthouse being lit orange for “Color the World Orange Day.” Kristen Haunss of Syosset accepted the Proclamation along with her parents Patricia and Richard Haunss as the family has been working diligently to get information on CRPS out to the public. Haunss is afflicted with CRPS and knows only too

well that more needs to be done to create a movement in the hopes of helping others discover information and support for the illness.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystroph. is a nerve

disorder that causes chronic pain throughout the body.

First identified during the Civil War, it remains a poorly understood condition with no cure.

Initial diagnosis is often difficult because of the obscurity of the condition and how the malady presents to primary caregivers unfamiliar with the condition.

For more information, visit the National Institute of Health website http://www.ninds.nih. gov/disorders/reflex_sympathetic_dystrophy/reflex_sympathetic_dystrophy.htm

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Ed officials slam village tax breaks Continued from Page 1 village green and plaza in the center of what will be a horseshoeshaped apartment complex. He said the project is consistent with development plans for the downtown area under the village master plan and would benefit local businesses.

The announcement touched off an exchange of letters to the editor in the Williston Times between Strauss and Barnett in which Barnett criticized tax breaks discussed for the project as well as others approved by the Village of Mineola for Lalezarian and other developers. Strauss defended the tax breaks for promoting development in Mineola that had generated large financial gains for the village.

Kevin Walsh, attorney with the firm Walsh, Markus, McDougal & DeBellis LLP who is representing Lalezarian, did not disclose at the hearing the total cost of the apartment complex or potential tax breaks or pilot programs included in the project.

But Walsh said the developer

Kevin Lalezarian planned to make a proposal to the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency requesting payments in lieu of taxes - as Lalazarian had done for a 315unit apartment complex at 250 Country Road in Mineola that is currently under construction.

Walsh said Lalezarian has projected that only nine new tenants would have children attending Mineola public schools.

The proposed development includes the construction of a village green and plaza at the center

of a horseshoe-shaped apartment complex consisting of 132 onebedroom and 164 two-bedroom units, Walsh said.

He also said a 164-space parking lot would be built beneath the apartment complex to accommodate tenants and retail customers.

“We don’t really see this as a place people will drive to, but a midtown sort of destination people will walk to,” Walsh said. “The people will already be here, they won’t have to get in a car all the time to drive around.”

Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss embraced the proposal, saying, “It’s nice that [Lalezarian] think[s] so fondly of Mineola that you chose to build here again.”

But Barnett questioned the impact future increases to district enrollment as a result of families moving into the finished apartments would have on operating costs, saying Mineola typically spends $30,000 per student.

“We’re looking at $1.2 million in costs for new students with zero revenue growth,” he said.

The Mineola school board

has opposed two other major apartment developments in recent years, the 315-unit complex at 250 Old Country Road that Lalezarian is constructing and a 275-unit Modera Mineola by the national developer Mill Creek Residential, which have each received tax break and PILOT incentives from the Nassau County IDA. In an Oct. 8 letter to the Williston Times, Barnett criticized the Village of Mineola and IDA of reaching an agreement for the tax breaks without also consulting the school board, calling the process “unfathomable.”

“Flooding the real estate market with new housing while granting tax abatements to those developers will impact both the residential and the commercial taxpayers in a way that could leave those buildings empty, or worse, subsidized,” he wrote. “It will create an unstable tax base, impacting both real estate values and scaring off any potential retail businesses, who are not eligible for PILOTS. This is not the “Downtown Revitalization Master

Plan” that Sen. [Jack] Martins promised while mayor of Mineola, is it?”

In a response published in the Williston Times as a letter to the editor, Strauss accused the school board of taking “cheap shots” at the village board and denied that the school board was excluded from negotiations with the developers and IDA. “The school district was invited to participate at every step of the way,” he wrote.

PILOTs for the 250 Old Country Road project start at $9,137 in 2015 - the first year the payment are to be made - and rise to $160,220 in the final year in 2034. Payments from the developer in a separate agreement start at $268,864 in 2015, rising to $327,256 in 2034.

Mill Creek will provide the IDA with a $603,750 in lieu of taxes in the first year. The village’s 11.3 percent portion of the payment would be $69,677.89.

The next hearing on the proposed development at 250 Old Country Road is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 14.

E.W. officials say water well plan forced Continued from Page 1 water supply system” in Devlin Park that would replace water provided by the Village of Williston Park at rates which have been the source of contention for three years.

The letter, which was signed

by Village of East Williston Mayor David Tanner and the four village trustees, said the project would include a 70’ by 50’ water system built partially below grade along East Williston Avenue but would not include an overhead or elevated water tank. Village officials also said the construction of the water supply system would not disrupt use of the ball fields at the park, but would use the area currently occupied by tennis courts and would require their reconstruction once the project was completed.

“This is a permanent, independent, self-contained solution,” Tanner told an overflow crowd of residents at Village Hall. “We don’t need a long term but a permanent solution.”

Tanner said the plan currently supported by the trustees calls for a 30-year bond for $6,955,990 with a 3 percent interest rate. The bond, according to village projections, would not be paid off until 2044 with payments totalling $10,406,161.

The proposed bond, he said, would be subject to a vote by residents and would follow multiple hearings conducted by trustees.

The Village of Williston Park has raised the price of water to East Williston twice in the past three years. In 2011, the Village of Williston Park raised the price of water to East Williston from $2.99 per thousand gallons to $3.83 per thousand gallons in 2011. They followed with an increase from $3.83 per thousand gallons to $4.33 per thousand gallons in 2012.

During the public hearing, which lasted until 12:30 a.m.

Friday, Williston Park Trustee Teresa Thomann said that Williston Park has its own “plan B” as well, but said that she would be willing to facilitate meetings between the two boards to come to an agreement.

“We’re a community, we shouldn’t be adversarial,” Thomann said. “Call my cell number, send me something because I will make sure we facilitate a meeting,” Thomann told the board.

“I thought that we should have possibly facilitated a year and a half, two years ago.”

Thomann added. “Unfortunately not everyone liked my idea.”

Efforts to reach Village of

Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar were unavailing.

The Village of East Williston trustees filed lawsuits against Williston Park following the two rate increases after a break down in negotiations between the two sides.

In early July, a state Appellate Court found in favor of East Williston in the first lawsuit, stating that Williston Park should have held a public hearing prior to imposing the first rate increase in 2011. But the court found in favor of Williston Park in the second lawsuit, stating that Williston Park was within its right to raise the water rates in 2012 to $4.33 per thousand gallons.

The Village of Williston Park sent East Williston a bill for $600,000 - $300,000 for withheld rate increase money and $300,000 for interest and penalties - following the court decision.

The Village of East Williston made a payment of $239,000 to Williston Park to cover the cost of the rate increase, minus $61,000 accrued under the price hike that the court ruled to be improper. East Williston officials also announced that Williston Park was not entitled to penalties and interest and they would fight any effort to collect

Paul Granger of H2M architects + engineers them.

East Williston trustees told residents Thursday that they are still open to negotiations with Williston Park but that multiple attempts to negotiate failed, and said that Williston Park will only meet if “negotiating penalties are put on the table.”

East Williston Trustee Robert Vella said that there is a danger in relying on Williston Park for water because they can raise the rates as they like.

“That’s not a neighbor I personally want to be beholden with,” Vella said.

Thomann said she believed

the two villages could benefit from having both boards meet together, something she said is required at this point.

“I feel that it is bigger than the 10 of us,” Thomann said.

“There’s a lot at stake here and I think we owe it to our children, I think we owe it to ourselves to figure something out.”

Reach reporter Bryan Ahrens by e-mail at bahrens@theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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Wheatley seniors help make a difference Continued from Page 3 “But once we got there, you realize how different El Castillo is from the rest of Nicaragua,” he said. “They were all coming up to us, wanting to meet these tall, white Americans that they hardly ever see, so happy we were there to help them.”

They set to work atop a hill on the edge of town, building a concrete soccer field that they said would make for better playing conditions than the marshy village terrain within the village.

“We carried 30-pound cement blocks uphill almost a quarter of a mile, I crawled under barbed wire, I went through barbed wire, I jumped through a river, I crossed a deteriorating

bridge, just to get to where the field was located,” Marcus said.

The typical workday would begin around 7:45 a.m. and end at noon when it would often become too hot to continue. Labor consisted of leveling out the field and pouring concrete over it.

“We stayed in what they consider hotels, these buildings made of wood whose walls weren’t even attached to the roof. Families slept on the bottom floor,” Marcus said.

“Girls slept with mosquito nets over their beds.

Mine had holes bigger than my fist,” she said. “I’d come home from work each day and be so exhausted I didn’t care about the bugs in my bed.”

PHOTO courtesy of jared rothstein

Wheatley High School senior Jared Rothstein (center) with two Nicaraguan children.

Despite the village’s remote living conditions, the entire community caught World Cup fever, Rothstein said.

When Germany and Argentina squared off in the tournament’s final match,

Marcus and Rothstein watched from a hotel that had a projector screen.

When Germany’s Mario Gotze broke the scoreless tie late in extra time, the hotel lost power.

“We heard screaming

coming from the other side of the village, and then this lady came in and told us,” Rothstein said.

Two days before they were scheduled to leave Nicaragua, Rothstein and Marcus approached one of Mitzvah Corps’ staff members, Lauren Belferder, who is also the temple’s special education and youth coordinator, about a return trip in February.

“We didn’t want to leave. We were so close with everyone there. We just didn’t want to leave,” Rothstein said. “We just thought about how much easier it would be if they had what we have here in the United States.”

They plan to purchase new or gently used baseball equipment and soccer balls,

shovels, gloves and boots.

Marcus said they have already received 49 baseballs and 39 soccer balls from a Sinai congregant, and that they’d like to build a storage shed in El Castillo using the money donated.

“The only problem we’ve had so far is shipping.

We haven’t really laid out how we’re going to collect supplies from people yet, but we’ll figure it out,” Marcus said. “I can’t wait to go back.”

Reach reporter Bill San Antonio by e-mail at bsanantonio@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x215 or on Twitter @b_sanantonio.

Also follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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programs WORLD MUSIC: Where East Meets West featuring Chris Merwin Chris will perform his program of Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, American Roots (Blues/Folk) and Ethnic music on Nov. 23 at 3 p.m.

He will entertain you by playing the Japanese shakuhachi flute, the tra- ditional Hawaiian steel guitar, the Colombian ten-stringed tiple and the Dobro guitar.

MAH JONGG with Jacqui Palatnik Tuesdays, November 25 & Dec. 2 at 1:30 p.m.

Instructor Jacqui Palatnik will be teaching a beginner Mah Jongg program. This game has fascinated people with its strategies, sequences and combinations. Learn about the tiles and basic moves of this ancient game.

Registration begins November 4 at the Reference Desk .

A TRIBUTE TO JUDY GARLAND with Mel Haber Friday, Nov. 21 at 1:30 p.m.

Judy Garland was one of the finest female pop singers of the twentieth century. Mr. Haber will trace her career from her early days as one of the Gumm sisters through her final decade. Video clips

of her movie and television performances will be shown and you will enjoy her singing such songs as Over the Rainbow, The Trolley Song and Chicago.

SKYPE & CHATTING ONLINE Monday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.

Learn how to set up and use Skype and instant messaging programs such as Google chat and Yahoo Messenger.

Get the webcam running for video chat!

Registration for Shelter Rock patrons begins Nov. 17 at the Reference Desk. Nonresidents permitted if space allows on December 1.

THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY

by Gabrielle Zevin Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.

MaryAnn Tweedy, Assistant Director and Ellen Miller, Librarian. According to the sign above the porch of Island Books, “No Man is an Island; Every Book is a World.” Yet store owner, A. J. Fikry, is withdrawing from the people and books that have given him life. The death of his wife, the declining sales in his bookstore and the theft of his a rare edition of Poe poems, are overwhelming. An unexpected discovery in the store offers him the chance to make his life over and see things anew.

Registration begins Novem-

ber 20 at the Reference Desk.

Please note, the book is also available with other new ebook titles on our Circulating Nooks.

BERNARD H. BURTON LocaL author A Letter to My Grandchildren and Other Correspondence: Reminiscences of a Holocaust Survivor Friday, Dec. 5 at 1:30 p.m.

Bernard Burton and his parents escaped Nazi Berlin and traveled to Spain and Cuba before joining relatives in the United States. He will take you for a vivid look at a world witnessed by a Jewish child under Hitler, a refugee in Cuba, an American soldier occupying his native German soil and ultimately an adult, grandfather and survivor.

SENIOR RAP GROUP ... for the 55+ set who have a lifetime of experiences to share! Anyone interested in joining the group is welcome.

Topics vary and the conversation is lively and provocative. Monday, Dec. 1 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Come and join the Shelter Rock Public Library Senior Rap Group.

This discussion group is led

by Senior Connections volunteer facilitator, Ken Rose, who has been participating in varied public library discussion groups for more than 15 years.

ATTENTION

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD (TAB) MEMBERS The next TAB meeting is on Thursday, Dec. 11 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Community Room. TAB is for registered members in Grades 7 – 12.

TAB works together with the YA Librarian to improve library services for teens.

BOOK CAFÉ For YAs Entering Grades 7 – 12 We’ll be discussing an award winning dystopian novel that was recently adapted into a movie: DIVERGENT

by Veronica Roth on Tuesday, Nov. 25 from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life. This is a decision that is made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. Join us for a Socrates approach as we answer universal questions We’ll also have faction activities with snacks from the factions of Abnegation (the Selfless) and Daunt- less (the Brave).

Wii VIDEO & BOARD GAMES Friday, Nov. 21 from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Teens in Grades 7 to 12 will assist Tweens in Grades 5 to 6 in

playing popular Wii video games and board games and enjoy refreshments Teens will receive community service credit.

HOLIDAY COOKIE DECORATING Thursday, Dec. 4 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Join the YA Librarian and TAB members to deco- rate a giant sugar cookie and gingerbread boy and girl using white icing, sprinkles and candies. Take them home in a gift bag you will personalize. Tell us about your favorite homemade cookies and share a recipe too if you wish.

Registration begins on November 20.

ORIGAMI FOLDS for WINTER FUN Thursday, Dec. 18 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Join our teen origami experts and the YA Librarian as we use colored paper and fold it into models for fir trees, birds, snowflakes, boxes and more.

Note: Time should permit you to learn at least three folds. Registration begins on December 4.

CHILDREN PLAYHOORAY KIDS Families with children ages 2 – 4 years are invited to participate in a fun-filled program of music and movement.

Monday, Dec. 8 at 10:30 a.m.

Registration begins Monday, Nov. 24.

JAMMIN’ JITTERBUGS Shake, Rattle and Roll musical program for children ages 18 months – 5 years. Thursday, Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m.

Registration begins Thursday, Dec. 4.

GREAT BEGINNINGS This program of stories, simple songs, fingerplays and rhymes is designed for children ages 12 – 23 months with a parent or caregiver.

Registration began Monday, Oct. 20 for children born between Dec. 1, 2012 and Nov. 1, 2013. Choose one of the following sessions: Thursdays at 10:15 a.m.

Nov. 13 – Dec. 11 Mondays at 10:15 a.m.

November 17 – December 8 Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m. November 18 - December 9.

WHALES in the WINTER/ ARCTIC SNOWGLOBES For Grades 1 – 5 Friday, Dec. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

Learn about the wondrous world of whales and find out how they survive in freezing waters. Touch real whale bones, try a blubber experiment, see an Inuit snow carved knife carved from a walrus tusk and make your own wintry whale snowglobe. Registration begins Friday, Nov. 21.

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1960s bands return to spotlight at Westbury Hot Autumn Night starring Tommy James and the Shondells, The Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone, The Buckinghams and The Grass Roots returns to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m.

Tommy James & The Shondells hit the top of the charts in 1966 with “Hanky

Panky” and followed with 16 Top 40 hits including “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Mony, Mony,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion” and his solo hit “Draggin’ The Line” over a 14-year period through 1980.

Tommy James’s songs have been covered

by Joan Jett, Tiffany and Billy Idol and also wrote

the hit single, “Tighter, Tighter” for Alive ‘n’ Kickin.

His autobiography, Me The Mob and The Music was published in 2010.

English pop sensations The Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone were definitely into something good when they started racking up the hits in 1964.

In addition to their two No.

1 hits, “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter” and “Im Henry VIII, I Am,” audiences can expect to hear all the great songs such as “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat,” “A Must to Avoid,” “Dandy,” and “There’s A Kind of Hush.”

Also appearing are The Grass Roots, who are best known for hits such

as “Midnight Confessions,” “I’d Wait A Million Years,” “Temptation Eyes,” and “Two Divided By Love,” and The Buckinghams performing “Kind of a Drag,” “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Don’t You Care,” “Hey Baby They’re Playing Our Song” and “Susan.”

Hosted by WCBS-FM’s Scott Shannon, tickets for

Hot Autumn Night are $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50 and are available online at www.ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 800745-3000 or at the Westbury box office. Event, date and time are subject to change. For more information, visit www.thetheatreatwestbury.com.

China then and now exhibit at county museum China Then and Now brings together exemplary Chinese works of art from the classical, early modern and contemporary periods.

The exhibition explores three millennia of one of the world’s most important artistic traditions from the perspective of American collectors on Long Island, such as Childs and Frances Frick and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. The exhibition opens at Nassau County Museum of Art on Nov. 22 and remains on view through March 8, 2015.

China Then and Now unfolds over three galleries, each of which showcases the elegant beauty of Chinese art of a different era and medium. The exhibition opens

with eleven large-scale classical stone sculptures lent by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections at Columbia University.

At the heart of China Then and Now, is an installation of blue-and-white porcelains from the Ming and Qing eras (17th to 18th centuries) collected by Childs and Frances Frick and on loan, for the first time, from The Frick Collection in New York.

This display reunites these works with their original setting, the Georgianstyle Bryce-Frick mansion that is today the home of the Nassau County Museum of Art. A final gallery presents extraordinary ink paintings by the renowned Beijing

artist Liu Dan (born 1953) whose works bridge traditional forms with contemporary practices.

Nassau County Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to Asian art, China Then and Now sheds new light on a fascinating chapter in America’s engagement with China and its arts. This exhibition reveals the passion of American collectors of both the past and present for the culture and history of China.

China Then and Now is sponsored by HSBC Private Bank and is co-organized by guest curators Amy G. Poster, Curator Emerita of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Kaijun Chen,

Ph.D., post-doctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science.

The museum will be offering several public lectures and other programming that will enhance the experience of viewing the works of China Then and Now. Please visit the museum’s website, nassaumuseum.org, for details on programs for adults and children.

Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor, just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m.

Blind Boys of Alabama to play the Landmark Landmark on Main Street’s Roots Rock Series continues with The Blind Boys of Alabama on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m.

Roger Street Friedman will open the show and WFUV’s John Platt will host. Tickets are $52 Premium and $47 Standard with discounts for “Friends of Landmark” or and can be purchased by calling 516-767-6444 or visiting www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.

Formed in the 1930s,

The Blind Boys of Alabama have one five Grammy and four Gospel Music Awards.

Their loose definition of gospel music allows their repertoire to include rock, pop, blues, funk and folk (and everything in between)! The Blind Boys of Alabama aren’t merely a group of singers borrowing from decades-old gospel traditions; rather, they are the group who helped define the cement those traditions during the course of twentieth century and well

into the twenty-first.

The Blind Boys of Alabama will ring in the season and hit the road in support of their new album “Talkin’ Christmas!” The new release features veteran roots artist Taj Mahal as a co-billed collaborator, and will be available October 21 via Sony Music Masterworks.

The Blind Boys “Talkin Christmas!” Tour, which starts Nov. 22 in Port Washington and wraps up Dec. 23 in San Diego, will showcase

the band performing selections from their new album, along with Christmas classics and other gems from a 70-plus-year career.

“It’s impossible to depart from a Blind Boys’ evening of high-spirited testifying without feeling exhilarated and grateful.” - Variety Special Guest Roger Street Friedman’s songs have been widely played on Americana and Roots Radio stations throughout the country and he’s been featured on

USA Today, CMT, American Songwriter and Relix Online. He has been featured on John Platt’s “The Sunday Breakfast” on WFUV, on

Jimmy Buff ’s morning drive on WDST and on Jack’s Cafe with Jack Baldwin on WCAP in Lowell, MA.

Chistmas Rocks Extravaganza at Westbury The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Extravaganza will be coming to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.

The Brian Setzer Orchestra, fronted by three-

time Grammy Award-winner Brian Setzer, returns to Long Island with their Christmas Rocks Extravaganza! tour.

With a career spanning more than 30 years, Setzer, a former Mass-

apequan, has had smash hits as founder/leader of The Stray Cats, his 18-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra and as a solo artist.

His November concert will include Setzer’s legendary guitar magic on hits

such as “Rock This Town,” “(She’s) Sexy +17,” “Stray Cat Strut,” and “Jump, Jive and Wail” and lots more, as well as his re-imagined and acclaimed Holiday classics.

Also appearing will be

The Record Company, a rock, roots and blues trio from Los Angeles.

Tickets are $69.50, $49.50 and $39.50 and are available online at www. ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at (800)745-

3000 or at the Westbury box office. Event, date and time subject to change. All ticket prices are subject to applicable service charges.

For further information, please visit www.thetheatreatwestbury.com.

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MTA to vote on contract for cameras on LIRR cars

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday will vote on whether to award $34.6 million in contracts for the installation of inward and outward-facing cameras on Long Island Railroad and Metro-North trains.

Officials said the cameras, which would be placed in engineer and conductor cabs as well as passenger areas, would help deter crime and be used as forensic evidence in criminal in-

vestigations.

“Cameras provide another measure of safety and security intended to ensure our trains operate as well as possible and reassure our customers,” said MTA chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas F. Prendergast in a statement. “They will aid in investigations after accidents and other incidents, as well as deter behaviors that could affect safe train operations.”

After the National Transportation Safety board recommended in February that the MTA install the cameras, Prendergast

directed its commuter railroads to begin designing and engineering inward and outward-facing cameras.

The MTA’s selection committee has since recommended the contracts be awarded to 4D Security Solutions for a $16.7 million Long Island Railroad agreement and to Sepsa North America for $17.9 million for Metro-North.

Approximately 2,064 cars and locomotives would be equipped with the cameras under the proposed three-year contracts, officials said.

North Shore Child gets grant for outpatient care

BY B R YA N A H R E N S The North Shore Child and Family Guidance received an $170,000 grant from the van Ameringen Foundation to support its outpatient mental health program for two years.

“The van Ameringen Foundation has been staunch supporters of children’s mental health and was instrumental in helping the Guidance Center to launch and sustain our successful school-based mental

health program and triage and emergency service,” Andrew Malekoff, CEO of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center said in a statement.

North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, which is headquartered in Roslyn Heights, treats patients up to age 24 who suffer from depression, anxiety, developmental delays, school failure, substance abuse and family crises.

“We are gratified to receive this generous grant at such a

critical time when increasing numbers of communitybased mental health clinics are restricting access to care,” Malekoff said.

The guidance center also offers outpatient mental health counseling and teen drug abuse and prevention services.

“This grant will enable us to continue our policy of offering universal access to care and turning no one away for inability to pay,” Malekoff said.

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▼ Marketplace, pets, real estate Tag Sale GARDEN CITY Selling contents of designer​/ collectors lovely furnishings. Thousands of items.

Habersham bedroom, elegant living room and dining room, large collector’s Habersham cabinets, curved front china closet, 7’ farm table and chairs, crystal chandelier, Elden bedroom furniture, costume jewelry, collectible dolls and bears, frames, silk flowers, lovely bric a brac, artist and craft supplies and related books.

Wonderful Christmas and holiday items, custom pillows, wool area rug, wrought iron complete set of outdoor furniture and accessories.

Contemporary ladies clothing, Tommy Bahama console, cookbooks and much more! PLEASE JOIN US!! 112 Brook St (off Clinton Rd) Friday Nov. 21 9am-4pm Saturday Nov. 22 9am-1pm

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Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available.

Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references.

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Homes for Rent GARDEN CITY RANCH 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, EIK, Den, Patio, Garage, CAC. Credit check required. $4,300 per month.

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Call for appointment 516-732-6049

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Lots for Sale REPOSSESSED LAND! $19,900.

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Open House WILLISTON PARK: Sunday from 2-4pm. 70 Harvard Street, 4 bedroom, 1.5 bath, eat in kitchen, dining room, finished basement. $485,000. Owner 516-395-0205

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▼ LEGALS Legal Notice File No. 2013-376230 /​A CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Michael L. Moyer Rhonda Cauler John P. Cauler Laura A. Cauler Great American Insurance Company Attorney General State of New York June Koenig and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and nextofkin of the said MITCHELL RYAN, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and​/o ​ r places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on December 3, 2014, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Mitchell D. Ryan, should not be judicially settled.

[X] Further relief sought (if any): 1.Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2.Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $ 15,069.41 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $ 3,692.22 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3.Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner In the amount of $22,108.36 of which $ 9,258.36 has been paid and $ 12,850.00 is unpaid; 4.Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Rispoli & Co, CPA’s in the amount of $ 1,850.00 of which $ 700.00 has been paid and $ 1,150.00 is unpaid; 5.Releasing and discharging the surety; 6.Directing the net estate be paid to the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of MITCHELL RYAN, decedent; 7.Granting such other and further relief as to the Court Is just and proper.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, October 24, 2014 Seal HON. EDWARD W. McCARTY, III SURROGATE S​/ Michael J Murphy, Michael J. Murphy Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC (516) 538-1111 264 Nassau Boulevard, Garden City South, New York 11530 NOTE: This citation Is served upon you as required by law.

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If you fail to appear It will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Board of Trustees will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, December 1, 2014 at 8:00pm., or as soon thereafter as possible, at the Village Hall, 494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY for the purpose of considering the adoption of the following Local Law: Local Law No. 5 of 2014 entitled “Local Law For Flood Damage Protection,” This local law will set procedures to minimize the threat of flood damage and prevent injury to human life. This local law will require the issuance of a permit showing compliance with the standards for flood damage prevention, to be issued by the Building Inspector acting in his capacity as Local Administrator. The Local Administrator will insure that all necessary approvals required

by Federal or State law have been obtained. He shall review all applications to determine whether the proposed building site will be reasonably safe from flooding. If a proposed building site is in a flood prone area, all new construction and substantial improvements shall be designed or modified and adequately anchored to prevent flotation, collapsed or lateral movement of the structure, and be constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage and by methods and practices that minimize flood damage. The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide appeals and request for variances from the requirements of the local law and from any decision made by the Local Administrator in the enforcement or administration of this local law. This local law will take effect immediately upon filling with Secretary of State.

A copy of said local law is available for review at the Village Hall during business hours.

Julie Kain Village Clerk-Treasurer Dated: November 4, 2014 Williston Park, NY WT 140733 1x 11/21​/ 2014 #140733

LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Board of Trustees will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, December 1, 2014, at 8:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, at the Village Hall, 494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY for the purpose of considering the adoption of the following Local Law: Local Law No. 6 of 2014 entitled “Local Law Amending the Requirements For Minor Modification of Existing Telecommunications Facilities.” This local law will eliminate the requirement for using stealth material for minor modification of telecommunications facilities.

A copy of said local law is available for review at the Village Hall during business hours.

Julie Kain Village Clerk-Treasurer Dated: November 4, 2014 Williston Park, NY WT 140735 1x 11/21​/ 2014 #140735

Notice of Formation of HNSS REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/2014. Office loc. Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 99 Mayflower Avenue, Williston Park, NY 11040. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of The Mineola Agency, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/14. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 365 Willis Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT​—​COUNTY OF NASSAU DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007NC3 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007- NC3, Plaintiff(s), Against

Index No: 16384/10 DAWN ZAMBRANA, JOSE ZAMBRANA, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered in the Nassau County Clerk’ s Office on 9/10/2014, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY 11501 on 12/16/2014 at 11:30 am premises known as 1601-21 Johnson Avenue, Elmont, NY 11003, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, and State of New York, designated on the tax maps of the Nassau County Treasurer as Section 32, Block 470 and Lot 43.

The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $527,258.14 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 16384/10.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

Francis Alleva, Esq., Referee.

Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 10/9/2014 GS WT 140712 4x 11/14, 21, 28, 12/05, 2014 #140712

Notice of formation of MORRELL STREET 2014, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/28/2014. N.Y. Office location Nassau County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him​/​her is 1551 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose of L.L.C.: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Town seeks art for 3rd Annual ‘Trashion Show’ North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board are proud to announce the return of the popular “Trashion Show” on Jan. 15 at 7 p.m.

The 3rd Annual event will be hosted at the Platinum-LEED certified “Yes We Can” Community Center in Westbury, one of the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient buildings in New York State.

The “Trashion Show” challenges students to create pieces designed and made completely from recycled materials or items that would have ordinarily ended up in a landfill.

The event will feature apparel and accessories created by students in the nine school districts participating in the School Recycling Partnership Program. Students will then model these creations on the runway.

“The ‘Trashion Show’ provides such a unique opportunity for students to express their creativity and imagination while also teaching them the importance of preserving our environment,” Bosworth said. “This event is another innovative way that the Town of North Hempstead

educates students to become protectors of the environment while encouraging them to pass along the habit to the generation after them.”

The Recycled Art Contest, the School Recycling Partnership Program and the Pharmaceutical takeback program are some of the countless Town programs that each year teach students at a young age to be environmental stewards.

To participate in this year’s Trashion Show: • All artwork should be delivered by Jan. 9, 2015 directly to 802 West Shore Road, Port Washington (just south of Harbor Links Golf Course).

• All entries (unless prior arrangements are made) become the property of The Town of North Hempstead.

The winning designs will then be displayed at an exhibit in February 2015 at the New York State Capitol Building in Albany, thanks to the efforts of NYS Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel.

For more information on the “Trashion Show”, please visit www.northhempsteadny.gov or call 311 in the Town of North Hempstead.

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To Place Your Ad Call: 516.307.1045 Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilwoman Anna Kaplan with participants in last year’s Trashion Show.

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Mineola’s Mendes named to NASL Best XI Mineola native Carols Mendes was one of two members of the New York Cosmos to be named to the North American Soccer League ‘s 2014 Best XI, the league announced this week. The NASL Best XI is voted on by all 10 of the league’s head coaches and honors the best 11 players in the league each year. Goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer was also included on the list.

Mendes, the team captain and a Wheatley High School alum, made 25 starts for the Cosmos in 2014 and was a key contributor to the team’s strong defensive performance throughout the year.

The central defender played in the second-most minutes (2,238) on the team in 2014 and helped lead a backline that allowed the second fewest goals in the league (27).

Mendes scored two goals and recorded one assist on the year and was named to the NASL Team of the Week a team-high five times in 2014 and also took home NASL Player of the Week honors in Week 1 for his two-goal performance in the team’s 4-0 win over Atlanta.

Mendes was the first player to

sign for the Cosmos ahead of the team’s 2013 re-launch season and was also named the new team’s first captain. He made 13 appearances for the Cosmos during the 2013 season and was named to the NASL Team of the Week three times before leading the Cosmos to a 1-0 victory over the Atlanta Silverbacks in Soccer Bowl 2013.

“I’m excited to have been named to the NASL Best XI,” said Mendes on the distinction. “This award goes out to all the guys who have played alongside of me. We’ve worked hard all year, and they’ve been a big part of me winning this award.”

Maurer recorded a leaguehigh 11 shutouts in 24 appearances for the Cosmos in 2014.

His 0.91 goals against average was second highest in the league and he finished tied for second in the league in saves (67). Maurer posted a 10-7-6 record on the year and was named to the NASL Team of the Week twice during 2014.

This was Maurer’s first year as a fulltime starter for the Cosmos. Maurer made one start for the Cosmos in 2013, posting a 1-0 shutout victory over the Atlanta

Silverbacks on Nov. 2, 2013.

“It’s just a huge honor,” said Maurer on his selection. “The league was really strong this year.

Thank you first and foremost to the team and our coaches – my goalkeeper coach, Memo Valencia. We do tons of video and training to help me get better every game.

“And credit obviously to our team for putting in all the work in front of me,” he added. “They helped make sure shots were limited which is why we were able to get so many shutouts and keep our goals against average low.”

Maurer and Mendes played in every minute of the 2014 Spring season for a Cosmos defense that allowed just three goals in nine games and posted a modern day NASL record shutout streak of 372 minutes.

“It’s great to have two of our players make the starting XI for the year,” said head coach Giovanni Savarese. “I’m very proud of both of them, and overall, the nomination of one or two players is always attributed to the hard work of our entire group.

I’m proud of all my guys and what they did this year.”

PHOTO COURTESY WWW.NYCOSMOS.COM

Mineola native Carlos Mendes seen here making a tackle

Shah wins soccer MVP Chiefs defense shuts at Buckley County Day down Seaford, 21-0 Buckley Country Day School recently handed out its fall awards, honoring the school’s top studentathletes for the fall season.

One of those standouts is Prameet Shah of Williston Park.

Prameet, son of Vijay and Trupti Shah, was named as the Most Valuable Player for the boys 5/6 Red soccer team.

“It is always great to celebrate and honor our wonderful student-athletes and coaches who work so hard during the season,” said Roney Eford, Buckley Country Day School’s director of athletics. “All of our student-athletes should be extremely proud of their accomplishments.”

Prameet Shah with his coach, Isaac Neal.

In their semifinals home playoff game this past Sunday, the 9-year-old Mineola Chiefs once again got a solid defensive effort, shutting perennial powerhouses the Seaford Broncos 21-0.

This victory gives the Chiefs a 7-2 winning record as they advance to the championship game this Sunday at Mitchel Athletic Complex.

The Chiefs’ 6-2 Defense, the strength of the team, was lights out, making gang tackles all over the field.

The defensive line of Charlie Villa, Luigi Kaloudis, Michael Nygaard, Luke Ruiz, John Jochym, Zachary Bohringer, Johnny Kessler, Zakria Zulfiqar and Jack McCormack kept the pressure on Seaford’s offense all game long.

The linebackers John Viggiani and Nick Rios attacked the runners and finished off tackles, while safety James Rosellon and cornerbacks Lucas Goring and Nolan Langner were fearless in tracking down opponents.

The Chiefs’ offense was led by the speed and power of running backs James Rosellon (1 TD Run) and Nick Rios (1 XP Run).

The duo ran behind the great blocking by center James Muessig and the rest of the offensive line of Luke Santaniello, Liam Jenal, Dean Aquilina, Frankie Leckler and tight ends Ely Hahami (1 TD Run, 1 XP Catch), Joe Chimenti and Bryan McCleery.

Quarterback Peter Sluka (1 TD Run, 1 XP Pass) controlled the offense throughout the game.

All the boys played and showed great sportsmanship.

Scoring summary: • Ely Hahami - 15-yard Touchdown Pass from Peter Sluka (Sluka xpoint run) • Peter Sluka - 39-yard Touchdown Run (Rios xpoint Run) • James Rosellon - 43-yard Touchdown Run (Hahami caught xpoint Pass from Sluka)

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