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THE PULSE OF THE PENINSULA
vol. 89, no. 48
Guide to ty Health, Wellness & Beau
a blank slate media special section November 28, 2014
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Proposed parks debate scrapped Great Neck Parks candidates cite conflicts, non-unanimity as reasons BY A DA M L I D G E T T A debate proposed by the League of Women Voters between the candidates for the two open Great Neck Parks District commissioner spots never made it past the planning stage, the league said. Judy Jacobson with the League of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset said only two candidates she spoke to said they would do the debates no matter what – Neil Leiberman, who is running for the three year position, and Sharon Epstein, who is running for the two year position. Leiberman, a former guidance counselor and physical education teacher, said his opponent, current park commissioner Dan Nachmanoff, accepted the invitation to debate on Dec. 3. But because the Wednesday date wouldn’t allow for the debate to be covered by some news media in Great Neck, Leiberman said he thought the date
should be changed. Leiberman, the husband of Great Neck News columnist Karen Rubin, said he suggested doing the debate Dec. 1 also, which he said Nachmanoff did agree to at first, only to decline later. Nachmanoff said he did agree to participate in a debate on Dec. 1 initially, but when he agreed he did not have his calendar in front of him, and forgot he had scheduled to be at the Greater New York Dental Meeting that same day in New York City, and wouldn’t be back until late in the evening. Nachmanoff said he had to decline to do the debate Dec. 1. Regarding the Wednesday, Dec. 3 date for a debate, Nachmanoff said it does not matter if the news media can cover the event, and that a debate is for community members to come to it and get more information on the election. Nachmanoff said he was schedContinued on Page 52
Running 26 miles for friend G.N. South grad completes race BY A DA M L I D G E T T Around mile 21 of the New York City Marathon, Ellissa Schneider’s left knee went out like a tire rolling over a nail. “It just went numb,” said Schneider, 40. “But I still continued to run. I just kept running.” Schneider, a member of Great Neck South High School’s class of 1992, played tennis as a teenager but had never run long distance before. But, she said, she had a goal of completing a marathon by her 40th birthday. The coaching team that trained her for the 26.2-mile run stationed themselves across the marathon’s sidelines, feeding her encouragement throughout her five-hour, 16-minute trek through New York City. They told her she’d finish the race no matter what. Schneider, like so many that run the marathon each year, did not compete solely for the sake of getting in shape. She was also running, she PHOTO COURTESY ELLISSA SCHNEIDER said, in memory of Henry Latasa, her best friend Jennifer LaGreat Neck South graduate Ellissa Schneider runs across tasa’s father, who died last year the finish line at the 2014 New York City Marathon with a due to complications with nontime of 5 hours and 16 minutes. Continued on Page 52
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