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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.

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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.

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Kensington receives District to collect funding from county excess oil, grease

Village to use money to install new street signs Waste to be converted to biofuel B y A dam L idgett

Village of Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin and Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) Birnbaum said signs current the village to make all the signs

BY A DA M L I D G E T T The Nassau County Legislature has approved $30,000 in funding to replace street signs within the Village of Kensington.

The funding, secured by Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, is part of the county’s community revitalization program, officials said.

“With the acquisition of new street signs, the Village of Kensington will be able to improve the safety in the Village with easier to read street signs to replace the older existing ones,” Birnbaum said in a statement.

Efforts to reach Village of Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin were unavailing.

signs were in need of replacement and that proper signage is important to residents, visitors and emergency responders who utilize village roadways to access Middle Neck Road or East Shore Road.

Village of Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin said grants from the county are helpful to the village considering the village has a two percent tax cap.

“We are looking forward to making these improvements to the village to benefit not just the residents but the public at large,” Lopatkin said.

Lopatkin said all the street signs -- including entrance signs -- will be replaced throughout

uniform. She said the signs need to be more visible at night and modernized with better graphics.

Although the funding was approved, the county said it may take a while for the new signs to actually be put up.

The inter-municipal agreement has to still be officially signed by various officials in the county then sent over the village, the county said.

The Village of Kensington has already seen the agreement, and after it is sent over to them, they can begin ordering the signs, the county said.

Those wishing to get rid of their leftover oil and grease from Thanksgiving can do so by giving it to the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District.

The district is once again collecting oil leftover from the holiday to be converted into biofuel, the district said last week in a press release.

The collection is part of the district’s “Food for Fuel” program in which cooking oils are converted into biofuel for use at the district’s plant at 236 East Shore Road, as part of the districts energy savings initiative.

District Commissioner Jerry Landsberg said the fats and oils are also bad for the sewer systems.

“The grease not only sticks to the sewer pipes in your homes and business, but also under the street,” Landsberg said. “It is equivalent to cholesterol clogging the arteries.”

Landsberg said knowing how to properly dispose of used cooking oil is a significant benefit to the protection of the local environment.

Excess oils can be found in meat fat, cooking oils and marinades, the district said. The dis-

trict said when people pour these items down a sink drain or flush them down the toilet, they stick to the inside of sewer pipes, reducing the space in the pipe and causing blockage, which the district wants to stop, according to the release.

Other “problem substances,” the district said, include shortening, butter, margarine and some other dairy products.

When the oil cools after cooking is done, residents should collect all the excess grease and oil and put it in a sealable container, according to the release.

The district will pick up the grease and oil for free, pouring it into a collection vessel for transport.

For more information on the pickup call the district at 516482-0238 or visit its website at www.gnwpcd.com.

The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District serves residents and businesses in the villages of Saddle Rock and Kensington, part of the Village of Great Neck and those parts of Thomaston, Great Neck Plaza east of Middle Neck Road, as well as all unincorporated areas north of the railroad and a part of Manhasset.

The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District will be collecting used cooking oil and grease from Thanksgiving and converting it into biofuel at the district’s plant as part of an energy savings initiative.

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Combining gift giving with charity

Local not-for-profits receive money under Port Washington jewelry store’s program

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Shortly after the September 11 attacks more than 13 years ago, North Shore jeweler Glenn Bradford decided to join the relief effort.

Roughly three weeks after two Roslyn firefighters and a police officer died while responding to the falling World Trade Center, Bradford cut checks to the local fire departments that were split between the grieving families.

As New York continued to recover that spring, Bradford and his then-Village of Roslyn shop partnered with the early incarnation of the Manhasset-based Tuesday’s Children to provide relief and funding to the sons and daughters of Long Islanders who died in the attacks.

Bradford enlisted his clients in both instances to donate a portion of their purchases toward his cause, a tactic he has utilized in his philanthropic efforts ever since.

“What happened was, we raised a substantial amount of

money for Tuesday’s Children that put them on the map,” said Bradford, who now operates a shop with his wife Sharyn in Port Washington.

“It was a total grassroots effort,” he added. “We began doing more of them semi-annually, for the [2004 Thailand] tsunami.

It’s just gotten bigger and bigger every year.”

Bradford called the annual event “Shop for Charity,” and this year has organized 19 local charities to feature various raffles and donation opportunities that he said could raise more than $50,000.

“We live and breathe philanthropy,” Bradford said. “It’s in our business DNA and it’s in our personal DNA.” The charities involved are: Community Chest of Port Washington, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, Friends of the Port Washington Library, Friends of the Sands Point Preserve, the Glen Cove Boys and Girls Club, Hearts of Port Washington, Landmark on Main Street, the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Long Island Council on

Washington Library Foundation, the Port Washington Parks Conservancy, Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, Tuesday’s Children and the Women’s Fund of Long Island.

The event began on Nov. 15 and will run through Christmas Day. During Shop for Charity, Bradford will be donating 10 percent of sales from his shop’s “Buddha,” “Love Locket” and “Diamond Dust” collections, 5 percent of other sales, 25 percent of Bradford’s e-gift cards and Sharyn’s fine art as well as 100 percent of the event’s raffle for various prizes. Raffle tickets are $25 each or five for $100.

The raffles will be drawn during a Dec. 3 cocktail event at Bradford’s shop at 279 Main St. in Port Washington from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“This is all about local charity and local Main Street being a Glenn and Sharyn Bradford in the jewler’s Port Washingston store. winning formula for a healthy, vibrant and philanthropic comAlcoholism and Drug Dependen- Spectrum Designs Foundation, munity for us to raise our famicy, the Nassau County Museum the Port Washington Children’s lies. We’re all in this together,” of Art, NCRT of Glen Cove, the Center, the Port Washington Bradford said.

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G.N. North grads finish second book

BY A DA M L I D G E T T

Jeffrey Cohen, a graduate of Great Neck North High School, is releasing his second book “More Cheese Please and Other College Articles” with fellow Great Neck North graduate, Robert Wallman.

Two Great Neck North High School graduates have come together once again to publish a book.

Jeffrey Cohen and Robert Wallman plan to release “More Cheese Please and Other College Articles,” a series of humorous essays about their collegiate experiences, on Dec. 2.

Cohen – who graduated in 1981 wrote the essays, while Wallman – who graduated in 1980 - did the cover art.

All the articles were taken directly from the student newspaper at Queens College, where he graduated from in 1987 with a degree in communications, Cohen said.

“I stumbled onto my clippings from the Queens College newspapers,” Cohen said. “ I wrote a large number of articles, but there were about two dozen that had stuck with me over the years.”

Cohen, currently a senior editor at the Manhattan-based software company Information Builders, said the articles are mostly on the social commentary of the 1980s – with references to “Hill Street Blues,” “General Hospital” and Ronald Reagan.

He said now more than ever since he graduated college he has been in touch with people from that period of his life, through social media.

People he said he hasn’t talked to in years had been messaging him about funny things he had written in college that they remembered.

The book is an ebook and will be available at Amazon, the iTunes Book Store, BN.com and other retailers, Cohen said. He said he didn’t want to go to a print publisher because he thought

Jeffrey Cohen there wasn’t a tremendous marketplace for the kind of stories he had.

He said the book is mostly for people who grew up in the period of time and knew him then.

“If anyone else wants to come in and experience them, that would be great too,” Cohen said.

Cohen said he started collaborating with Wallman in their 2013 book “Dad Confidential,” a fictional book

written by Cohen with illustrations by Wallman.

The story is about Michael Kauffman, a Long Island suburban father who has three children, Cohen said.

“I had a bunch of experiences with my son,” Cohen said. “And hearing other people tell anecdotes about there kids, I thought I had enough material to write a book – but I didn’t want to write a novel.”

Cohen said social media brought him and Wallman back together after a decade of not seeing each other.

They had both worked for Information Builders at the same time, but Wallman had left to pursue other opportunities, Cohen said.

“Facebook provided the means for me to inquire about his services for artwork for “Dad Confidential,” which I envisioned as a “Wimpy Kid” for adults,” Cohen said.

Currently Cohen is doing a podcast called “Mr. Jeff Explains it All,” and does do screenwriting sometimes, but nothing he has written has been produced, he said.

He said he does have a series of stories he wrote after college for a string of local newspapers at which he worked, but he isn’t sure he wants to publish them yet.

“I’ll have to look for those clippings next summer,” Cohen said.

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New tea shop Man who underreported seeks permit his income sentenced

B y A dam L idgett Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees on Wednesday threw some cold water on a company’s application for a conditional-use permit to sell cold fruit teas at a store at 2a South Station Plaza.

“We had a tea store on Bond Street and it didn’t last,” Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said. “We hate to see people invest in a business and it just doesn’t last.”

Village trustees also expressed concerns that the company, New York Tea Island, was only applying to sell cold drinks, as every time they would want to sell something else, they would have to come again to the trustees and ask permission.

The trustees also expressed concern about New York Tea Island’s intention to start selling tea as soon as Dec. 16.

Village Commissioner of Public Services Michael Sweeny said that the start date is not feasible. He said it would take at

least two or three months just to get all the necessary approvals.

Celender also said New York Tea Island would need to get approvals from many other agencies, including the health department, the fire departments and the sewer departments.

New York Tea Island representative Lisa Li said New York Tea Island would reassess its business based on the trustees’ comment and come back at a later meeting.

Li said New York Tea Island had already rented the shop at South Station Plaza. She said the store would be the company’s first and only location of New York Tea Island, The shop, she said, hopes attract commuters coming off the train at the Cross LIRR Station.

Lis said New York Tea Island wants to try out the market initially with cold tea, and ask people what else they would like to see the shop offer.

B y A dam L idgett A Great Neck man was sentenced Friday to a conditional discharge – which includes up front restitution of $22,732 - for under reporting his income from a Manhattan rug business.

Omid Chaman, 39, must complete 70 hours of community service as well as pay restitution for under reporting his income to get taxpayer-funded benefits he was not entitled to, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office said.

District Attorney Kathleen Rice said Chaman the owner of Chaman Antique Rug Gallery, a business with two Manhattan locations - falsely reported his income to the Nassau County Department of Social Services from April 1, 2009 until July 31, 2012, and also did not report rental income from the property he owned.

The District Attorney’s office said Chaman received $22,732 in Medicaid benefits he was not entitled to, which he must pay back as part of his sentence.

Chaman pleaded guilty to fourth degree welfare fraud in September before Nassau County Court Judge Francis Ricigliano, the District Attorney’s office said.

A joint investigation by the District Attorney’s Public Assistance Fraud Unit and the Nassau County Department of Social Services’ Department of Investigations led to the arrest of Chaman in March, the District Attorney’s office said.

Omid Chaman, 39, of Great Neck, was sentenced Friday to a conditional discharge with 70 hours of community service and $22,732 restitution for underreporting his income from his Manhattan rug business.

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READERS WRITE

Nachmanoff, Cilluffo the right choices

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am writing this letter in support of the re-election of Dan Nachmanoff and the election of Frank Cilluffo for the seat vacated by Ruth Tamarin.

Dan deserves to be reelected to his position based on his demonstrated hard work and com-

mitment to the park system. He has proven to be an informed, involved, and accessible commissioner.

Dan has a well-established record of public service and has worked effectively on behalf of all park district patrons. He has

earned our continued support.

This year offers a unique opportunity to select a new commissioner to a two-year term as a result of the resignation of Ruth Tamarin.

Ruth provided 16 years of tireless service to the park dis-

Leiberman would be a passionate champion

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o one is more passionate about Great Neck parks than my dad, Neil Leiberman.

Being one of Great Neck’s park commissioners has been a dream of his for as long as I can remember.

He would lead by example Not a day goes by that he doesn’t make use of our beauti- and do right by the parks and his ful parks or come up with ideas constituents. to improve them.

Eric Leiberman My dad isn’t your typiGreat Neck cal politician, and therefore wouldn’t be your typical park commissioner.

trict and filling her shoes will not be easy. There is only one candidate who has demonstrated the commitment and dedication worthy of Ruth’s seat.

That candidate is Frank Cilluffo.

Although there are several other individuals vying for this seat, none can come close to matching the ongoing interest and steadfast involvement demonstrated by Frank.

I am a bit offended by the arrogance of those who feel you can wake up with less than two months before the election and decide you have what it takes to be a commissioner.

It diminishes the position to think so.

Such impulsive acts do little to instill confidence.

Frank is different; he has taken the time and made the effort

to listen, learn, analyze, question, and offer suggestions.

He has attended meetings and work sessions, been present at almost every park event, and involved himself in the many advisory councils.

I chair the park district’s Marina Advisory committee and can attest to the fact that Frank, although not personally involved in boating or fishing, takes a genuine interest in our discussions and has participated actively for two years.

Serving as a park district commissioner requires the kind of tireless dedication and true commitment demonstrated by Dan and Frank.

Please recognize that when you cast your ballot.

Ilene Brandon Great Neck

Epstein would be a worthy successor

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s a recently retired commissioner of the Great Neck Park District, I enthusiastically endorse Sharon Epstein for Great Neck Park District Commissioner.

It is my belief that the Board of Commissioners benefits from having a qualified woman on the board.

Sharon has the ideal background for the position. Her education, knowledge, experience and enthusiasm make her

an ideal choice. She will be a tremendous asset to the Board and community.

Sharon is a graduate of Bard College (with honors) and has an M.S. from Hunter College.

Her education has led her to a career in health and welfare. She has been an active participant in the community both as a teacher and volunteer and is passionate and savvy about the needs of the District. Her work experience and business skills enable her to address the needs of all segments of

our community. She will undoubtedly encourage more and more participation in the parks.

Sharon was raised in Great Neck and returned in 1999 with her family. Prior to returning, she participated in the parks and schools of New York City.

It was there that she got first-hand experience. She first became involved with parks and recreation when she served as president of the Battery Park Parent Association that worked with the New York City Parks

Department.

She worked as well with the New York Board of Education to help build P.S. 89, that involved numerous meetings with the Board of Education.

When she returned to Great Neck with her husband and children she immediately became active by introducing quality programming in health, wellness, recreation, sports and the arts. She served as president of the PTA at E.M. Baker School, was co-leader of the Drama Club

at North Middle School, and is presently co-president of the Junior Booster Club at North High.

She is also an active member of Temple Beth-El where her husband is president.

Sharon is a hard worker and is passionate about anything she undertakes. She will be a tremendous asset to the board.

Vote for her on Dec. 9. She’s the one we need to do the job!

Ruth J. Tamarin Great Neck

Cilluffo has my vote for park Epstein: Smart, district commish this time cool, capable

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eople in the Great Neck Park District who know me are aware that I supported Frank Cilluffo’s opponent, Ruth Tamarin, in last year’s election for park sommissioner.

This year I am enthusiastically supporting Frank in his campaign for the two remaining years of Ruth’s term.

My decision to support Ruth last year was based on my belief that the experience she had acquired as the senior member of the board could not be equaled by her opponents. Unfortunately, Ruth could not complete her term, and she resigned in mid September.

In the past year, I’ve observed

Frank’s enthusiastic participation in the affairs of the park district. He has attended most of the board’s twice monthly work sessions and business meetings. He has actively contributed to the events the district held in Kings Point Park with Great Neck High School students, and United States Merchant Marine Academy midshipmen.

He has increased the number of the advisory committees in which he is a member. Frank has attended the park district’s public hearings for the Repair and Improvement Bond and the 2015 Budget.

Frank is a long-term resident of Great Neck, and an active user

of the parks. He coaches and plays hockey and soccer. He also plays softball and tennis.

I believe Frank’s experience is head and shoulders above that of his opponents.

Before deciding to run for commissioner, Frank’s rivals did not even attend the board’s 2015 budget hearing in early September.

I am happy to see newcomers taking an active interest in the administration of the park district, but I believe that it is Frank Cilluffo who deserves your vote on Dec. 9.

Marty Markson Great Neck

I

have known Sharon [Epstein] for several years. She is one cool, capable, and intelligent woman.

Our parks are one of Great Geck’s shining stars...so is sharon!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson Great Neck

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Theshown next on film matinee will be film matinee will 4beatshown Thursday, Dec.r 2 p.m.on Thursday, Dec.r 4 at 2The p.m. at the Station Branch, at the Station Branch, Gardens at Great Neck,The 26 Gardens at Great 26 Great Neck Road, Neck, 2nd level Great Neck Road, 2nd level (near Waldbaum’s). Refer to (near Waldbaum’s).

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Doors open at 1:45 p.m. Arrive Doors at 1:45 p.m. Arrive early asopen seating is limited.

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minutes before the film begins minutes beforewill thebe filmseated beginsif non-residents non-residents be seated space permits.will Please do notif spaceseats. permits. Please do not hold hold seats.

Socrates Salon with Ron Socrates Salon with Ron Gross at Station Branch Gross at Station Branch Celebrating Our Creativity Celebrating Ourand Creativity Join Ron Gross other Join Ron Gross andfor other like-minded people the next like-minded people for the next thought-provoking Socrates thought-provoking Socrates Salon on Friday, Dec. 5 at 3 Salonaton 5 at 3 p.m. theFriday, StationDec. Branch, p.m. at the Branch, Gardens at Station Great Neck, 26 Gardens at Great 26 Great Neck Road, Neck, 2nd level.

Great Neck Road, 2nd level.

Celebrating our creativity will Celebrating ourofcreativity will be the subject the conversabe the subject of the Salon. conversation at this Socrates tion at one this of Socrates Salon.

Share your creative Share one and of your creativeby moments, be inspired moments, and be ininspired others.

Creativity diverseby others.will Creativity in diverse areas be discussed includareas will be discussed includ-

ing parenting and caregiving, ing parenting and caregiving, cooking and homemaking, cooking and business andhomemaking, professional business work, the and artsprofessional (writing, paintwork, arts (writing, ing, orthe performing, etc.),painting, or performing, etc.),travel, social/political activism, social/political travel, humor -- all theactivism, ways we humorsomething -- all the ways wefresh bring new or bring something new orinto fresh or useful or interesting the or useful or interesting world.

Each participant into will the get world.

Each participant will get a glowing Creativity Light Bulb a glowing with whichCreativity to spark Light futureBulb with which to spark future creativity. creativity.

“We Great Neckers are great “We Great Neckers are great talkers,” says Salon-keeper talkers,” says Ron Gross.

“AtSalon-keeper these sessions, Ronalso Gross.

“At--these sessions, we listen to new we alsofresh listenperspectives, -- to new and voices, voices, freshpoints perspectives, challenging of view.”and challenging points ofare view.”

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of the University Seminar on of the University Seminarbyonhis Innovation, and inspired Innovation, inspiredsaint by his book about and the patron of book about theSocrates’ patron saint conversation, Way,of conversation, Socrates’ Way, which has been published in which has been published in 26 countries including China, 26 countries including China, France, Russia, Mexico, and France, Russia, Mexico, and Greece.

Greece.

Enjoy light refreshments and Enjoyconversation. light refreshments and deep deep conversation.

SAT Prep Course SATSAT PrepPrep Course The Course will Theheld SATonPrep CourseDec. will 2, be Tuesdays, be held on Tuesdays, 9, Jan. 6, 13 and 20 atDec. the 2, 9, Jan. 6,Branch 13 and 20 at the Parkville Library from Branch Library from 6Parkville to 9 p.m., 10 Campbell Street 6(off to Lakeville 9 p.m., 10Road), Campbell NewStreet Hyde (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park.

Park.SAT Prep Courses are The The SAT CoursesNYS are taught byPrep experienced taught byteachers. experienced certified HighNYS School certified teachers. High School

juniors and seniors, and juniorswho andhave seniors, those not and taken this those who have taken this course in the pastnotwill be given course inRegistrants the past will be given priority. must be priority.

Registrants must be Great Neck School District Great NeckThere School residents. is aDistrict $25.00 residents.

Therefor is athe$25.00 fee per student course fee per student for the course (fee includes the textbook). (fee includes the textbook).

Advanced registration is Advancedand registration is is required the course requiredtoand the course is limited 25 students. limited 25 students.

ContacttoCourtney GreenbContact Greenblatt, YoungCourtney Adult Librarian, latt, Young Adult Librarian, 466-8055 ext. 218 regarding 466-8055 ext. openings 218 regarding any remaining for any remaining openings for the class. the class.

Great Neck Library Closing/ Great Neck Library Closing/ Cancellation Information Cancellation Information Online Online patrons connected to Library Library patrons to the Internet are connected asked to check the Internet are asked to check

the website: www.cancellathe website: tions.com for www.cancellaLibrary weather tions.com for Library weather related closings/program related closings/program cancellations. cancellations.

In order to access this service, In orderDistrict to access this service, Library residents can Library residents can log on toDistrict cancellations.com, log on to cancellations.com, type in their zip code or Great type inLibrary their zip or Great Neck andcode obtain inforNeck Library and obtain information on program cancellamation on program cancellations or Library closings. In adtions oratLibrary closings.

In addition, no charge, residents dition, at no charge, residents can request automatic e-mails can request automatic e-mails from cancellations.com when fromLibrary cancellations.com when the has posted any inthe Library has posted any information. This is a great way formation.

This is a great way for Library District residents for Library District residents who are connected online to whoadvised are connected online to be of weather related be advised weather related changes in of Library hours or changes in Library hours or programs. programs.

Great Neck Park District programs Weekend Film Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. the film The Monuments Men (2014), directed by and starring George Clooney will be shown at Great Neck House. Matt Damon and Bill Murray also star in this film. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. It is rated PG-13 and runs 118 minutes.

A park card required for admission.

Commuter Parking Window Decals are Expiring!

If you are a Great Neck Park District resident with a commuter parking window decal on your car, your decal is about to expire!

All residents are entitled to a free registration for the

first car per household; the second car is $12. You can pick up your new window decal as of Dec. 1, at Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue. Please be sure to have your current car registration and a valid park card with you. Call Great Neck House at (516) 482-0355 for more information.

Sunday @ 3 Series: Maya Nova Trio Sunday, Nov. 30 at 3 p.m., the Maya Nova Trio, will be at Great Neck House.

Bulgarian singer Maya Nova cut her teeth in pop, funk and jazz bands in her native Sofia, before relocating to Singapore in 2002. There, she successfully established her presence on the local jazz scene as a passionate and soulful jazz vocalist.

Born into a family with great love for music and singing, Maya started playing classical guitar at age ten and later on took piano as her second instrument. She

graduated with a master’s degree in jazz and pop voice from the National Music Academy in Bulgaria and immediately started appearing on stage. Nova wraps her vocal chords around a selection of mostly standards, extracting the most out of familiar tunes with her surprising vocal range and uninhibited improvisations. A park card is required for admission.

Defensive Driving Classes at Great Neck House Great Neck House continues to offer Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Classes.

The classes run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The next class is Saturday, Dec. 6. To sign up for a class or for more information, call Great Neck House at 482-0355.

Nature Program: Long Walk Bear Hockey RegisTake a long walk in tration Kings Point Park on It’s never too late to Sunday, Nov. 30 at register for the Bears 12:30 p.m. You will get Hockey Program! Chil- The Maya Nova Trio will entertain you some exercise and dren between the ages at Great Neck House this weekend learn about nature of 5 and 12 can have also, as we tour the fun learning hockey perimeter of our own activities scrimmages, all through the season.

175-acre preserve. Meet in games and more. Reduced Fees will be prorated if you the first lot at the Redbrook rate equipment packages register mid-season. Enjoy Road entrance. No registraare available. For more learning hockey through information call Dan at (516) tion is necessary. Children exciting drills, special under the age of 16 are not 487-2976, Ext. 128.

permitted to attend.

Great Neck Park District Election for Commissioner It is important for all Great Neck Park District residents to come out and vote for your Park Commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 3 to 9 p.m. If you need to vote by absentee ballot, the Board of Commissioners will provide one to you. Applications for absentee ballots are currently available at the Park District Office, 5 Beach Road and Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue. If you are unable to pick up an application, call (516) 482-0181 to have one sent by mail.

Work Session Meering The Board of Commissioners of the Great Neck Park District will hold a work session meeting at the Park District Office, 5 Beach Road on Tuesday,m Dec. 2 at 10 a.m.

Great Neck Community Calendar FREE ESL/CITIZENSHIP CLASSES Free access to legal counsel at St. Aloysius R. C. Church, 592 Middle Neck Rd. Great Neck. Classes run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, please call (516) 867-3580.

KOCHAVIM GROUP FUNDRAISER The Kochavim Group of Great Neck Hadassah is holding its biggest fundraiser for the year, a ladies night out, on Dec. 3, at Temple Beth-El, 5 Old Mill Road, Great Neck at 6:30 p.m., featuring Karen

Bergreen, comedian and author, a regular at Gotham and The Comic Strip in NYC. She has appeared on VH1, Court TV, and USA Networks. It’s a fun night to shop at exciting boutiques and includes a buffet dinner and cocktails. Hope Gany, former Chapter and Kochavim president will be honored at the event.

Womanspace A discussion group devoted to issues concerning women. Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Great Neck Senior

Center, at 80 Grace Ave, Great Neck. New members welcome. For more info call Joan Keppler at (516) 487-5844.

Lions club hearing aid program The Great Neck Lions Club is pleased to announce their participation in “Lions Lend An Ear,” a program of the Nassau County district of Lions Clubs International. The program provides hearing aids and related products and services at no cost to hearing impaired individuals who qualify based on financial need and communication

need. Great Neck Lions Club is asking the local places that accept donated eyeglasses to accept used hearing aids as well. Note: The hearing aids should be placed in the eyeglass collection boxes located in all the Great Neck Libraries as well as offices of the Village of Russell Gardens, Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Village Hall on Baker Hill Road.

Free Exercise Classes Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strength-

ening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors. Monday through Saturday. Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck. Call for more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, (516) 745-8050.

LIONS CLUB OF GREAT NECK The club meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at Bevanda Restaurant, 570 Middle Neck Road at 12 p.m. If you would like to attend or become a member of the Lions Club, contact fernweiss@aol.com or (516)

829-5192.

ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS The Rotary Club of Great Neck currently meets every Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank, 2 Great Neck Road. Community residents and business members are welcome to visit Club meetings and discover how meaningful and satisfying it is to give back service to the community while networking through Rotary. For further information please see: www.clubrunner.ca/ greatneck/ or call (516) 487-9392.

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Reminder: we are a nation of immigrants

For years now, I have devoted my Thanksgiving Day column to immigration and the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

After all, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of immigration to these shores.

Especially at the turn of the century when immigrants were welcomed in massive numbers to man factories, pave streets, construct buildings, build railroads, and clean houses, Thanksgiving was used politically as the theme to acculturate immigrants into the American melting pot.

That all changed in the 1920s when the national mood changed to hostility against immigrants who were associated with socialists and communists (and not surprisingly, was linked with anti-Semitism since it was mainly Jews like Emma Goldman who were rounded up and deported.

But as much as I am sympathetic to what Obama wanted to achieve, I am really furious that he timed it so early in this lame-duck session.

He couldn’t wait five weeks? A month?

He couldn’t dare the Republicans to make good on their hint of some kind of working order for the last few weeks of Democratic control of the Senate in order to get his judicial nominees, the Surgeon General and the Attorney General confirmed?

To get the budget passed Dec. 11 without a government shutdown or some poison pill (like repealing Obamacare or rescinding this executive order)?

He couldn’t have dared the Republicans

He could have taken up the Senate Bill to follow up on their wishy-washy acknowledgement that the 2014 election was about for a vote. Now the ball is firmly in the Revoters wanting an end to Washington’s dys- publicans’ court. They are solely responsible function so that something could actually be for the completely dysfunctional immigration system. accomplished?

As Obama made clear over and over He still could have done issued his exec(though I’m not sure it regisutive order on immigration in ters on Fox News or conservathe lame duck, before the Retive media): as soon as Conpublicans take over on Jan. 6. gress passes comprehensive And it wasn’t as if just immigration bill, his executive about anything Obama does order is moot. would not trigger the exact But perhaps Thanksgivsame threats of lawsuits, goving is the reason that Obama ernment shutdown and even has chosen this time to make impeachment. his bold executive action on I can only think that the immigration - the time of the calculation was that it would KAREN RUBIN year when there is hypothetiforce the House to take up Pulse of the Peninsula cally at least, the greatest emthe Senate’s bill - passed with pathy and appreciation for 14 or 15 Republicans - before the lame duck ended, so that the process immigrants and America’s long tradition of wouldn’t have to start all over from scratch immigration.

As President Obama said in his address in the next Congress.

The Comprehensive Immigration Re- to the nation last week, “My fellow Ameriform bill that passed the Senate has lan- cans, we are and always will be a nation of guished for more than 500 days in the House immigrants. We were strangers once, too....

“What makes us Americans is our shared - never put to debate, never even out of committee, and certainly never voted on - so commitment to an ideal -– that all of us are Boehner’s sneer that Obama is disrespecting created equal, and all of us have the chance “Democracy” is bogus to say the least, con- to make of our lives what we will.

“That’s the country our parents and sidering that 75 percent of Americans favor grandparents and generations before them immigration reform.

Indeed, Obama’s executive action is a built for us. That’s the tradition we must gift to Boehner, who has said for years now uphold. That’s the legacy we must leave for that he wants immigration reform but was those who are yet to come.”

That’s the message we like to tell ourgetting push back from the Tea Party.

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selves as we gather around the Thanksgiving table, congratulating us on living in a country we consider “Exceptional”.

And what is it that Obama actually did with his executive order? He made it possible for families to stay together, which is something that the Family Values crowd professes (but doesn’t actually practice).

Perhaps Obama was also calculating that Thanksgiving begins the season of faux “good will toward men” when everyone is feeling most charitable.

After all, on Wednesday, the President continued a 67-year old tradition of pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey in a ceremony in the Rose Garden, as a demonstration of kindness and charity.

Why not show that same demonstration of kindness and charity to people taking 5 million people out of the shadows, out of the fear of being snatched up and deported away from their children while they are still in school and come home to an empty house?

Why are 5 million people not worthy of the same kindness as a turkey?

But the fact is the reason there are so many undocumented immigrants - by some calculations 11 million - is that the system is completely broken, and has been for decades.

That’s why when George H. W. Bush issued a similar executive order that also affected about 40 percent of the undocumented people in the country at that time, it impacted 1.5 million - still a large number Continued on Page 51

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BY B R YA N A H R E N S About 350 backpacks filled with survival supplies will be distributed to Village of North Hills residents who attended an emergency management seminar in September, trustees said Wednesday.

The backpacks, which cost $38 each and were purchased from ProPac Inc., will contain batteries, a blanket, nutrition bars, flashlights and a radio, officials said.

The village plans to hold additional seminars going forward but no dates have been set yet, Village of North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss said.

“The turnout was great, we had over 100 people show up,” Natiss said.

Natiss said the village began bulking up its emergency management system well before Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The village installed a backup generator five years ago to assist residents whose homes lose power.

“People will come in, they’ll charge their phones, their computers,” Natiss said.

The backpacks will be ordered in increments, Natiss said.

He said the village would be prepared to order more backpacks in the future.

Additional emergency management seminars have been planned, but Natiss said they have not yet been scheduled.

In other developments: • Trustees said North Hills’ code enforcement officers have reinstated a practice of checking the identification of patrons using the village’s shuttle bus service.

Though the service is exclusive to North Hills residents, Natiss said four non-residents were found to have used the shuttle.

• Trustees discussed beautification plans for village hall and areas of North Hills, which include the planting of trees and shrubbery due to the lose of trees during Hurricane Sandy.

Reach reporter Bill Bryan Ahrens by e-mail at bahrens@ theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x204 and on Twitter @ BryanSAhrens. Also follow us on Twitter @theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

National Cooperative Bank announced Thursday that it has provided the Great Neck Terrace apartment complex at 2 East Mill Drive in Russell Gardens with a $25 million mortgage and $2.5 million line of credit for improvements to the complex.

“We were excited to once again work with Great Neck Terrace to facilitate a loan that would serve ownership and continue to make the community an attractive place to live,” said Edward Howe III, managing director in NCB’s New York office.

The money is intended to help the apartment complex at

make upgrades to the building’s boilers, garages, façade, plumbing and lobbies, the bank said, as part of routine repairs and improvements The $25 million mortgage replaces a $19 million first mortgage NCB previously gave to Great Neck Terrace, the bank said in a statement. The previous first mortgage was coming due in 12 months, and Great Neck Terrance paid off the previous mortgage with the $25 million mortgage.

The repairs, the bank said, could not have been completed without the new mortgage.

The original loan was from 2005, and the relationship be-

tween the bank and Great Neck Terrace dates back to 1995, bank officials said.

But, bank officials said, Great Neck Terrace had to go through the process of reapplying for the new mortgage.

The previous mortgage of $19 million had an interest rate 5.37 percent. The new mortgage has a 3.4 percent interest rate, the bank said.

National Cooperative Bank is a financial services company that serves cooperatives and housing communities worldwide.

The bank said it is common to do this for multiple reasons, including to get better interest rates.

Bus strikes three pedestrians, no serious injuries reported B y A dam L idgett

Police said a bus traveling on South Station Plaza hit Three people were hospital- two women and a toddler as it ized on Wednesday after they turned onto Middle Neck Road.

The victims, identified only were struck by a Nassau InterCounty Express bus in Great as being 64 years old, 34 years Neck, Nassau County Police said. old and 2 years old, were taken

to a local hospital. No serious injuries were reported, police said.

A police investigation yielded no criminality in the incident, officials said. No charges were filed.

Thomaston changes Sauvigne ducks debate recycling schedule for M-L seat: Altmann B y A dam L idgett The Village of Thomaston announced Thursday that it has changed the day of recycling pick up to Saturday for the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.

The village said in a statement that the change was based on an oddity in this year’s calendar in which all three holidays fall on Thursday.

Normally, the village noted, the only holiday on Thursday is Thanksgiving and recycling pick-

up is skipped for one week.

But this year Meadow Carting will pick up recyclables on Saturday all three weeks, the statement said.

During the three holidays, there will also be no regular garbage pickup on Thursday, the village said.

Garbage is normally picked up three times a week on two schedules, the village said. One schedule calls for pick up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; the second calls for pick upon Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Lisanne Altmann, a Great Neck resident running for a commissioner’s position with the Manhasset-Lakeville Water and Fire District, has accused challenger Mark Sauvigne of dodging an attempt by the Port Washington-Manhasset chapter of the League of Women Voters to unite the candidates for a debate in advance of the Dec. 10 special district election.

In an e-mail to Blank Slate Media on Monday, Altmann said she received notice from the League of Women Voters that Sauvigne has not replied to phone messages or e-mails from the league to schedule a debate.

League of Women Voters rules require both candidates in a two-candidate race to be present for a debate to take place.

At least two candidates

must be present for a debate in a three-candidate race.

“There’s a lot at stake in these smaller elections - millions of dollars of taxpayer money and important issues like water quality and support for our volunteer firefighters,” Altmann said. “The fact that he can’t be bothered to show up and speak to these issues is really appalling.”

In an attached e-mail sent

by Altmann, Judy Jacobson, the voter service director of the League of Women Voters’ Port Washington-Manhasset chapter, said she has “done everything possible to contact Mark Sauvigne” and left her contact information.

“I am very sorry to say that there will not be a debate,” Jacobson said.

The Manhasset-Lakeville Fire and Water District covers Manhasset and portions

of Great Neck and north New Hyde Park.

Sauvigne, a Munsey Park resident and Manhasset Park District commissioner, denied that he was ducking the debate, saying in an e-mail that Altmann did not have all the facts.

In her e-mail, Altmann, a former Nassau County Legislator who is now an account executive for PSEG Long Island, slammed Sauvigne for his campaign platform of increased transparency between Manhasset-Lakeville and residents.

“Now I guess if he was running on a platform of less communication that not showing up would make sense,” she said.

“But he’s running on more communication with constituents, more transparency - not less. In fact it’s the only opportunity for voters to have a chance to ask him questions in a public forum before the elections.”

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Munsey Park claims review authority

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

An attorney hired by the Village of Munsey Park Board of Trustees presented arguments before the village’s Board of Zoning Appeals on Monday questioning the legality of a proposed Manhasset-Lakeville Water District project to replace its water tower there.

William Hurst, special counsel to the Munsey Park board of trustees from the Albany firm GreenbergTraurig, said he believed the village zoning board had the right to review the water district’s plans based on previous cases in which government entities have litigated over claims of immunity from zoning laws in undertaking major projects.

Hurst specifically cited a 1988 dispute between Monroe County and the City of Rochester, which he said set precedents regarding the public review of building and engineering plans.

But, Hurst said, the village board would rely on zoning board’s opinion in determining whether the water district would have to abide by village building regulations in constructing the proposed tower.

The zoning board hearing was scheduled to determine whether

Manhasset-Lakeville would be immune from the village’s zoning code, as the water district has asserted since introducing the water tower project late last year.

The Manhasset-Lakeville Water District declined to participate in the zoning hearing.

A five-page letter signed by Christopher Prior, an attorney for the firm Ackerman, Levine, Cullen, Brickman & Limmer LLP, which is representing the water district, was sent to Munsey Park village counsel Robert Morici on Nov. 21 and submitted to the zoning board Monday calling the hearing “inappropriate, untimely, invalid and unlawful.”

In his letter, Prior said the water district has kept the village and Munsey Park residents informed of its intentions to replace the water tower through scheduled public hearings and regular district meetings, thus waiving a balancing test in court of the two sides’ interests in controlling the project’s development.

Prior also said the zoning board lacks jurisdiction because no application for construction of the water tower has been filed to the village’s building department.

“The BZA’s authority under village law...is to reverse or affirm, to modify any order, requirement, de-

A proposed project would replace the 85-year-old Manhasset-Lakeville Water District tower located in Munsey Park. cision, interpretation or determination by the village administrative official charged with enforcement of the village code,” the letter states. “...Accordingly, the BZA has no jurisdiction to conduct this hearing.”

During his remarks to the zoning board, Hurst said of the water district, “They have a position, the village has a position, and ultimately we’ll work our way through the issues and come up with a determination.”

The zoning board did not discuss the matter during the public portion of Monday’s hearing.

The water district has proposed

replacing the current 500,000 gallon-capacity tower located on Eakins Road in Munsey Park with one of the same 165-foot height that holds 750,000 gallons.

Residents and village officials at public hearings have requested Manhasset-Lakeville explore the feasibility of constructing a groundlevel tank that they said would be safer and more aesthetically pleasing.

The current tower is one of the district’s two elevated water storage tanks that distributes water across the 10.2 square miles in Manhasset and parts of Great Neck and New

Hyde Park served by the ManhassetLakeville Water District.

The proposed tower would cost $3.2 million that the district intends to pay for using money in its capital fund. Officials have said a new tower would increase the water district’s annual operating costs by approximately $90,000.

The village filed for a temporary restraining order against the water district in late July, saying Manhasset-Lakeville officials had not adequately sought alternatives for the project.

Manhasset-Lakeville officials have said that the current water tower does not comply with building and safety codes, while the proposed tower would meet regulations and be able to withstand extreme weather conditions in the future.

The water tower was last rehabilitated in 1998, and the water district has since made regular repairs to curtail its corrosion and deterioration.

But citing recent analysis and testing conducted by H2M Architects + Engineers, water district officials have said the tower would have to undergo major rehabilitation in the next few years or be replaced completely.

Viscardi chief awarded Dole prize

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO John D. Kemp, the president and chief executive officer of the Viscardi Center, has been named the recipient of this year’s Dole Leadership Prize, given annually by the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, the center announced on Wednesday.

The award recognizes an individual or organization whose public leadership inspires others, according to the Dole Center, named after the former Republican senator and presidential candidate.

Kemp will be awarded the prize, which includes a $25,000 award that Kemp plans to donate to the Albertson-based center, during an interview-style event at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas on Dec. 14.

“I am humbled to have been chosen by the senator to receive this year’s Dole Leadership Prize and to join an elite group of past recipients who have made positive impacts on the lives of people around the world,” Kemp said in a statement. “I have dedicated my life to improving the quality of life for all people with disabilities and it is my hope that this distinction

shines the spotlight on the Viscardi Center and the work it does every day to build the leaders of tomorrow and contributing members of society today.”

Kemp, who uses four prostheses, holds degrees from Georgetown University and the Washburn University School of Law. He has also been a board member, chairman or chief executive officer of several disability and nonprofit organizations.

Kemp, who has been president and CEO of the Viscardi Center since 2011, has served on the Medicaid Commission and the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Persons With Disabilities.

In 1995, Kemp co-founded the American Association of People With Disabilities, and in 2001 became a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C. Kemp was asked in 2012 to serve on the state’s Ready Commission, which prepares to maintain health care, transportation, communication and energy services in future disasters.

He joins former South African President Nelson Mandela, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, former Ukranian President Viktor

Yushchenko, former U.S. Health Secretary and current University of Miami President Donna Shalala, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former U.S. senators Howard Baker (R-Tennessee) and George McGovern (D-South Dakota), former Polish President Lech Walesa and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) as past recipients of the award.

“As a wounded veteran and tireless advocate for disability rights, Sen. Dole has taken a personal interest in Mr. Kemp’s outstanding service to the disabilities community,” said Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute. “Sen. Dole and the Dole Institute are passionate about highlighting the unique work and inspiring life of Mr. Kemp and what he has accomplished for

the disabilities movement. He simply couldn’t be more deserving of this award.”

The Viscardi Center, which is located at 201 I.U. Willets Road, is a network of non-profit organizations that educates, employs and empowers children and adults with disabilities.

G.N. Estates receives funding from county B y A dam L idgett Nassau County has approved a $30,000 grant to the Village of Great Neck Estates for village streetscape improvements.

The county approved the funding unanimously Nov. 17 as part of a Community Revitalization Project for the village, according to a release.

Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum worked with the Nassau County Executive’s office

and David Fox, mayor of the Village of Great Neck Estates, to see the project received funding, the release said.

“I, as the mayor representing all of the residents of Great Neck Estates, am most thankful for the efforts that Legislator Birnbaum has put forth to help with several much needed projects which will benefit our residents and our community,” Fox said.

The village plans to use the funds for a series of improve-

ments, including the replacement of an ornamental iron protective fence on Clover Drive, LED lighting for the Village Hall pathway and trash cans throughout the village, the county said.

“The improvements to streetscapes in the Village of Great Neck Estates will improve safety and add to the beautification of public areas,” Birnbaum said.

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Temple offers best wishes G.N. teacher to all for holiday season named ‘master’ On behalf of the officers and trustees of Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Ira Rosenzweig-Cooper, president, extends his best wishes for a happy holiday season to the Great Neck community. Ira and his wife, Sandi, have been members of Temple Emanuel for nearly 25 years. Their daughter, Jamie, and son, Arnie, celebrated their B’nei Mitzvah at Emanuel and are graduates of its religious school.

More recently, Rabbi Robert S. Widom officiated at Jamie’s marriage to Henry Graham. Ira, an attorney, is managing partner of Cooper Paroff in Forest Hills. Sandi teaches 6th grade English at Great Neck South Middle School. Most recently, Sandi and Ira became grandparents for the first time with the birth of Addison, daughter of Jamie and Henry.

Alan Schorn, science research and physics teacher at North High School, has been selected as a New York State Master Teacher Finalist. The selection process for this honor included a thorough review of his application and supporting credentials by the State Education Department, and participation at a regional center in an in-person interview, group discussion, and a writing sample. Schorn was interviewed by SUNY-Stony Brook staff.

Master Teachers are recognized for their commitment to professional growth and excellence in the classroom. They are leaders in their

educational communities and are dedicated to working as mentors to pre- and early-career teachers.

“The Master Teacher Program allows for our best classroom leaders to share their expertise with their peers, furthering student success and helping to build the foundation for college readiness and the skilled workforce that will keep New York competitive in the 21st Century global economy,” said Chancellor Nancy Zimpher of the State University of New York.

Schorn will hear if he is chosen as a Master Teacher sometime in January

Skating lessons at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink

The Great Neck Park District Skate School offers programs, for children and adults, that are designed to develop a skaters’ natural ability. Call to learn about private or group lessons, too, at (516) 487-2975, Ext. 114. Private lessons may be arranged with a professional and can be taught during any of our many public or freestyle sessions.

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Reminder: we are a nation of immigrants Continued from Page 47 - but today, Obama’s order also affects 41 percent, but that amounts to 5 million people.

And the argument is stupid.

Obama has already deported more undocumented immigrants than any other president; the number of people coming across the southern border has dwindled to a trickle - and even with the onslaught of children from Central America this summer, those people didn’t sneak in - they surrendered to authorities and are now in the judicial process as they should be.

The larger number of “undocumenteds” today are coming from South Asia - people who come by air and overstay their visas, not by sneaking across the Rio Grande.

But that is not the focus of the Tea Party ire.

They are crazed about brown people coming from the South.

I am not in favor of wholesale amnesty and I am only in favor of a path to citizenship that does not automatically bestow citizenship on everyone - I think that people who have come in illegally should be given some sort of strike against them when their turn for review comes up.

But there should be a review process. That’s what has been lacking and isn’t fixed by the President’s executive order. Congress must do that.

Most critically, there has to be some kind of legalization so that, as Obama points out, we know who is in the country, people have fulfilled their obligations to pay fines and back taxes (many of these people actually pay into Social Security without any hope of getting the money back), and then get some kind of a work permit.

I am not thrilled that this order is only for a three-year period.

I would imagine that out of the 5 million people who might be eligible, millions will be too fearful of revealing their identities, only to have Congress launch a widespread roundup, or the next President (most probably a Republican judging by the voter suppression, campaign finance and election tactics so successfully implemented) rescind the order.

Even if Congress does come up with some kind of comprehensive immigration reform, it could prove more punitive and target the people who have come out of the shadows.

I am furious that Obama has been forced into this impossible situation - that the rest of his agenda will be undermined (climate change, nuclear treaty with Iran, minimum wage) largely because Hispanics were pissed that he delayed his action (to give the Blue Dog Democrats a fighting chance -

it didn’t work), so didn’t come out and vote, and that is a big reason why Republicans could take over the Senate.

Instead of punishing Republicans, they empowered them.

It enables the Republicans to foment fear by distorting what his executive action actually does (and even now, there are complaints from the immigrant community that Obama didn’t go far enough).

Here it is from his own speech: First, we’ll build on our progress at the border with additional resources for our law enforcement personnel so that they can stem the flow of illegal crossings, and speed the return of those who do cross over.

Second, I’ll make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates, and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to our economy, as so many business leaders have proposed.

Third, we’ll take steps to deal responsibly with the millions of undocumented immigrants who already live in our country.

He emphasized, “I want to say more about this third issue, because it generates the most passion and controversy. Even as we are a nation of immigrants, we’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable -– especially those who may be dangerous.

That’s why, over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80 percent. And that’s why we’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who’s working hard to provide for her kids. We’ll prioritize, just like law enforcement does every day.

“But even as we focus on deporting criminals, the fact is, millions of immigrants in every state, of every race and nationality still live here illegally. And let’s be honest -– tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans. After all, most of these immigrants have been here a long time. They work hard, often in tough, low-paying jobs. They support their families. They worship at our churches. Many of their kids are American-born or spent most of their lives here, and their hopes, dreams, and patriotism are just like ours. As my predecessor, President Bush, once put it: ‘They are a part of American life.’”

Here’s the deal: “If you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if you register,

pass a criminal background check, and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes -- you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is.

“Now, let’s be clear about what it isn’t. This deal does not apply to anyone who has come to this country recently. It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive -- only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you.”

Obama made a key point: “That’s the real amnesty - leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair.

Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character. What I’m describing is accountability – a common-sense, middle-ground approach: If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you’re a criminal, you’ll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up.

“The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican President and every single Democratic President for the past half century.

“And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.”

At Thanksgiving time, we like to trot out this mythology of America as the land of opportunity, a patchwork quilt of people from many cultures, Lady Liberty welcoming the downtrodden. In reality, our history with immigration has been shameful - as shameful as our history with how we treated the Native Americans, which was no less ethnic cleansing than what we see today in the conflicts we condemn.

This was starkly demonstrated in the hysterical reaction to the “invasion” of brown children fleeing violence in Central America this summer (the reason that Obama put off his executive action in the first place because Republicans were charging that his earlier Deferred Action for Dreamers spurred the exodus).

A few weeks ago, the Gold Coast International Film Festival premiered “A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald,” a documentary by Shuli Eshel about James G. McDonald,

a U.S. diplomat who helped rescue Jewish refugees from the Nazis.

McDonald told President Franklin Roosevelt as early as 1933 what Hitler was intending to do, because Hitler told him directly that his plan was to rid the world of this scourge (of the Jews), and the rest of the world would thank him. Instead, the State Department only tightened its restrictions on Jews seeking refuge - even sending back the ship, the St. Louis, whose passengers were most probably consumed in the Holocaust.

But even after the Holocaust was revealed and the hell of the concentration camps, the U.S. refused to take survivors, despite McDonald’s pleas.

Survivors languished for years in refugee camps not much better than the concentration camps.

Regina Gil, the executive director of the Gold Coast Arts Center, was born in one of the camps.

The immigration policy we have in place today is founded in the same racial bigotry.

It certainly isn’t based on economics or the old meme, that immigrants would take jobs away from Americans. If anything, bringing these people out of the shadow economy, who are already working (in jobs Americans refuse to do), but are exploited by employers, by having some legal status will push up wages for everyone.

The fact is that immigrants have always been an engine for economic prosperity - as Obama noted, 30-40 percent of the Silicon Valley enterprises were started by immigrants.

No, the real fear is that immigrants will not just change American culture (and yet we still celebrate Thanksgiving!) but that it will change the landscape for political power.

So what do the right-wingers do? Foment fear.

Sen. Tom Coburn declared, “The country’s going to go nuts, because they’re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it’s going to be a very serious situation..You’re going to see - hopefully not - but you could see instances of anarchy. ...

You could see violence.”

The hysteria fomented around this issue is the same tactic used against Obamacare (death panels!) - not founded on facts at all, because if there would be an actual debate, well then, Congress would actually act.

In fact, one part of Congress already did.

Boehner can bring an end to this latest manufactured crisis by allowing a vote on the Senate bill in the lame duck. Indeed, Obama’s executive action would go away if the House voted.

But Boehner won’t, because

this is the crisis that the Republicans were itching for in order to make sure Obama can’t function in his last two years in office.

They were looking for any excuse - so they are using the same tactics they have used to prevent universal access to health care: they are threatening to shut down the government, not pass any legislation including budget resolutions, filing lawsuits and even impeaching the President for his “lawless” emperor-like action that basically mimics every president since Washington President Obama tried to put things into reasonable perspective.

In his speech in Las Vegas, he gave what could have been a Thanksgiving message: “This debate deserves more than the usual politics, because this is about something bigger. This is about who we are. Who do we want to be?

“We’re not a nation that kicks out strivers and dreamers who want to earn their piece of the American Dream. We’re a nation that finds a way to welcome them.

We make them earn it, but we welcome them in as fellow human beings, fellow children of God. And we harness their talents to make the future brighter for everybody.

“We didn’t raise the Statue of Liberty with her back to the world, we did it with her light shining as a beacon to the world. And whether we were Irish or Italians or Germans crossing the Atlantic, or Japanese or Chinese crossing the Pacific; whether we crossed the Rio Grande or flew here from all over the world -- generations of immigrants have made this country into what it is.

It’s what makes us special.

“And whether we fled famine, or war, or persecution; whether we had the right documents, or connections, or skills; whether we were wealthy or poor -- we all shared one thing, and that was hope that America would be the place where we could finally build a better life for ourselves and for our children, and for future generations. Hope that America is the place where we could make it.

“That’s what makes us Americans. It’s not what we look like. It’s not what our last name is. It’s not where we come from. It’s not how we pray. What makes us American is a shared commitment to an ideal that all of us are created equal, all of us have a chance to make our lives what we will.

“For generations, America -- by choice and Americans by birth have come together to renew that common creed and move this country forward that brought us to this moment. That is the legacy that we now have to deliver to the next generation.”

Happy Thanksgiving.

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G.N. South grad raises money to run marathon

Continued from Page 1 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 75.

At Henry’s wake, Schneider declared she would run the race for him.

“I remember saying ‘I can’t believe it – I actually completed this,” she said, upon completing the race.

Schneider said Jennifer introduced her to running, as well as the Team in Training runner’s group through the New York

City chapter of the national nonprofit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Schneider, whose parents Charles and Patricia Schneider operate Patricia Schneider Design Consultants in Great Neck, entered the marathon by raising $5,644 for the organization, exceeding the $3,900 minimum required to gain entry to the marathon.

“I just reached out to friends

and family and my colleagues,” she said. “I also reached out to some of [Latasa’s] family.”

The marathon’s course crosses all five boroughs, starting in Staten Island and finishing in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Though race day does not promise ideal weather conditions, forcing runners to bundle up, Schneider said she found herself shedding layers as the run progressed.

“Being a new runner I don’t have much to compare the cold to,” Schneider said. “I did feel like I was being blown off the Verrazano Bridge, though.”

When Schneider crossed the finish line, she said, she did not collapse in exhaustion. In fact, she said so much adrenaline pumped through her body that she just kept moving.

She said that following a race, she walked from 86th

Street to 58th Street to meet her mother.

“I couldn’t stop moving,” she said.

Schneider said she plans to continue her training and compete in the marathon again next year.

Though she has mostly rested since her first tour of New York City, her next race is in June.

Proposed G.N. parks district debate scrapped Continued from Page 1 uled to work at a nursing home Wednesday morning, but that he would do a debate that night with the stipulation that all three candidates vying for the three year spot commited to attending.

The third candidate, Jeffrey Meier Stein, did not respond to the league about participating in the proposed debate.

According to League of Women Voters rules, there must be at least two candidates in the same race willing to do a debate for one to happen, Jacobson said. Even though there were two candidates willing to debate, they were not running for the same seat, so there couldn’t be a debate, Jacobson said.

The league does this, Jacobson said, to not be partisan.

She said that even if two candidates would want to do it while the others wouldn’t, they would have still had the debate between the willing candidates.

Leiberman said he couldn’t believe a debate didn’t happen.

“We need more participation from people [in the parks district],” Leiberman said. “One of

the ways is to allow them to see us debate on TV.” Nachmanoff said he did not have control over the proposed debate, and that it was being run entirely by the league, not the parks district. Nachmanoff also said that most people in the parks district knows both Leiberman and Nachmanoff, and that if would not be fair to Stein if Nachmanoff and Leiberman debated without having Stein present.

Stein said he hadn’t gotten back to the league on if he wanted to do the debate or not because he jumped into the race so late. He said he is still a novice when it comes to the electioneering part of a political campaign.

“Since I jumped in sort of late so I’m behind on a lot of stuff,” Stein wrote. “It’s my busy time of year also, so preparing for a debate probably would have been a little difficult for me.”

Stein is one of the candidates that has not run for an office before, the others being Eileen Falk and Laura Cohen, both of whom are running for the twoyear seat. He said he has lived in

Great Neck for the past 10 years, and that he currently works for North Shore Décor.

Although, Stein said he has been focusing his efforts on campaigning. He said he has been printing flyers, ordering signs and working on his social media campaign. He has also been networking with members of the Great Neck Synagogue, of which he is a member also.

In the race for the two-year commissioner seat that was vacated by Ruth Tamarin earlier this year, the candidates are focusing mostly on their campaigning.

Sharon Epstein said she has been reaching out to people all over the Great Neck community to try and get an idea of what they want to see happen with the parks. To handle to load of work she has also gotten some help in the way of three interns from Great Neck South High School, with whom she meets with weekly to discuss campaign strategies.

Epstein is the founder and owner of Body Dynamics Inc., a business that teaches people

yoga, dance, meditation and fitness. Epstein has also said she teaches classes throughout Great Neck and Port Washington.

Epstein said she was one of the candidates that wanted to debate. She said it would give her an opportunity to answer any questions the community had about her.

“I don’t want to hold back any information at all,” Epstein said. “I just want to be transparent.”

Frank Cilluffo, who is running for the two-year seat also, said he would have done the debate, but not all the candidates involved agreed to do it.

However, Cilluffo said he has been campaigning heavily, and has said that he has reached out to many people in the parks district to get their opinions on what they want with the parks.

Cilluffo is a former New York City Police Officer. He had run against Tamarin for parks commissioner before, but was defeated.

Candidate Eileen Falk said she was split on whether she wanted to do the debate or not.

Falk, who is running for the two-year seat, said all the candidates she talked to were “50/50” on whether they wanted to do the debate or not, and they decided not to do it in the end.

Falk said she is speaking to everyone in the district she can speak with about her positions and her campaign. She said she is putting posters up on lawns and is working on her social media campaign to get the word out.

Residents of the Great Neck Park District, which includes all Great Neck villages and unincorporated areas - with the exception of Great Neck Estates, Harbor Hills, Lake Success, Saddle Rock and University Gardens - can cast their votes on Dec. 9 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., at one of four polling sites.

The polling sites are Great Neck House, located at 14 Arrandale Avenue, E.M. Baker Elementary School, located at 69 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck Social Center, located at 80 Grace Avenue, or at the ManhassetLakeville Firehouse, located at 97 Jayson Avenue.

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G.N. teachers present at technology summit

Great Neck South Middle teachers were presenters at the LI Technology and Education Summit. From left: Sandi Cooper, Catherine Graybosch, and Justin Lander.

Three South Middle School teachers—Sandi Cooper, Catherine Graybosch, and Justin Lander—were workshop presenters at the 2014 Long Island Technology and Education Summit. The event, held last month, was sponsored by Nassau, Western, and Eastern Suffolk BOCES. In their workshop, “Building Community, Breaking Down Walls,” the teachers showed how a one-to-one iPad program provides opportunities for students’ social and academic growth. By using tools that allow for real-time collaboration, the

“walls” of a traditional classroom are “broken down,” encouraging growth, maturation, individual responsibility, and a sense of community that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. The workshop focused on middle school students, particularly those in the sixth grade.

Sandi Cooper is an English teacher, Catherine Graybosch is the media & informational technology department head, and Justin Lander is the technology staff developer/English Center teacher.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead​—​ Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town

will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #19887​—​Loren & Adriana Minsky (Owner)​/​ Harras, Bloom & Archer, LLP (Applicant), variances 70-29.C, 70-30.B, and 70-32 to maintain conversion of a porch to habitable space exceeding the permitted floor area and within required front and rear yards; SW​/​cor. 308 Mill Spring Rd. and Castle Ridge Rd., Manhasset, Sec., 3, Blk. 160, Lot 289, R-A District.

APPEAL #19889​—​Heinz R. Jufer and Leanne Ussher, variances 70-50.C and 70-51.A to construct additions to a dwelling within required front and rear yards and with insufficient aggregate side yards; N/side #7 Second Avenue, 115’ E/ of Main St., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 44, Lot 39, R-C District.

APPEAL #19890​—​Scott Shafranek, variances 70-29.B and 70-208.F to construct additions to a nonconforming dwelling exceeding the permitted floor area; SE​/c​ or. #12 Orchard Farm Rd. & St. John Pl., Port Washington, Sec. 6, Blk. 23, Lot 24, R-A District.

APPEAL #19891 ​—​ Kumar Sharma, variance 70-100.1.B to maintain a detached garage within the required rear and side yard setbacks; S/side #12 Maple Lane, 118.75’ W/of Haddon Road, New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. B-06, Lot 37, R-C District.

APPEAL #19892​—​Jinok Chang (Owner)​/J​ ung H. Choi (Applicant), variance 70-101.B to maintain a porch within a required front yard; N/side #36 Sutton Hill Ln., 446.7’ W/of Country Village Ln., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 282, Lot 22, R-A District.

APPEAL #19893​—​Myank Shukla (Owner)​/V ​ ictor Thomas, Architect, P.C. (Applicant), variances 70-19.C and 70-20.C to construct additions to a dwelling exceeding the permitted floor area and within a required front yard; S/side #32 Schoolhouse Ln., 590.88’ W/ of Bunker Ln., Roslyn Heights, Sec. 9, Blk. 545, Lot 19, R-AA District.

APPEAL #19894 ​—​ Marie Piepol, variances 70-208.F, 70-50.A, 70-100.1.A, 70-102.C(5)(a) and 70-100.2.A(4)(b) to maintain a portico on a nonconforming dwelling within a required front yard, accessory structures in the side yard, a pool with insufficient side and rear yard setbacks, and a fence exceeding the permitted height; W/side #1 Second Street, 100.96’ N/ of Waldo Avenue, Greenvale, Sec. 19, Blk. 3, Lot 26, R-C district.

APPEAL #19895​—​Wojciech Kraewczyk, variances 70-100.2.H and 70-100.1.A to maintain 2 A/C units within a required front yard; SE​/c​ or. #82 Dyckman Ave. & Nassau Blvd., New Hyde Park, Sec. 33, Blk. 517, Lot 87, R-B District.

APPEAL #19896​—​Northern 90 Realty, L.L.C. (Owner)​/​Recovery Racing VIII L.L.C. (Applicant), variances 70-196.J(1) (a) and 70-196.J(1)(f) to erect signage exceeding the number permitted on a wall and exceeding the permitted height above grade; SE​/​cor. #90 Northern Blvd. and Buttonwood Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 2, Blk. 68, Lot 1, B-A​/R ​ -C District.

APPEAL #19897​—​Chanel, Inc., variance 70-196.J(1)(a)

to erect signage exceeding the number permitted on a wall; SW​/​cor. #2040 Northern Blvd. & Searingtown Rd., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 183, Lot 12, B-A District.

APPEAL #19898​—​Loro Piana, variance 70-196.J(1)(a) to erect signage exceeding the number permitted on a wall; SW​/c​ or. #2018 Northern Blvd. & Searingtown Rd., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 183, Lot 12, B-A District.

CONTINUED CASE APPEAL #19867​—​James Wynn, variance 70-100.2.A(2) to maintain fencing beyond the front building line; N/W​/c​ or. 199 Brook St. and Railroad Ave., Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 41, Lot 66, R-C​/N ​ ew Cassel Overlay District.

ADJOURNED CASES APPEAL #19809​—​Anjali Kakwani (Owner)​/J​ ogendra S. Bagga, variances 70-49.B, 70-50.B, 70-100.2.A(2), 70-100.2.A(4)(b), 70-100.2.H and 70-208.F to maintain additions to a non-conforming dwelling exceeding the permitted floor area, a deck within a required front yard setback, an A/C unit within a required side yard setback, fencing exceeding the permitted height and fencing beyond the front building line; N/side 355 Glen Cove Ave., 200’ W/of Rushmore Ave., Carle Place, Sec. 10, Blk. 268, Lot 323, R-C District.

APPEAL #19841​—​Angel Herrera (Owner)​/E ​ dward W. Dickman (Applicant), variances 70-49.C, 70-51.A, and 70-100.1.A to maintain an addition exceeding the permitted floor area with insufficient aggregate side yards and accessory structures in the front yard; W/side 34 Albertson Ave., 100’ S/of Coventry Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 103, Lot 13, R-C District.

APPEAL #19859 ​—​ Town of North Hempstead Community Development Agency, variance 70-195.16D to construct a single-family dwelling with an interior cellar stairwell along the perimeter wall; E/side of Third Street, 87.12’ S/of Brush Hollow Road, Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 167, Lot 32, R-C​/N ​ ew Cassel Overlay Districts.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 2:00 p.m.

APPEAL #19899 ​—​ 322-326

Main Street, LLC, variances 70-146.B, 70-202.1.C, 70-203.G and 70-103.B to construct a mixed-use building in a required side yard and with insufficient parking stall size and landscaped buffer, and to construct a retaining wall exceeding the permitted height; S/side 322-326 Main Street, 209.32’ W/of Jackson St., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 34, Lots 8, 9, 107 & 220, B-B District.

APPEAL #19900​—​The Scotts Company, variances 70-103.A, 70-103.F and 70-103.O to construct interior alterations to a commercial building with insufficient off-street parking, loading area, and stall size; W/side #800 Port Washington Boulevard, 322.01’ S/of Vanderventer Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 129, Lot 74, B-A, I-B Districts.

APPEAL #19901​—​DeNicola Realty, Inc. (Owner)​/V ​ an Buren Truck Sales Corp. (Applicant), conditional use 70-126.D and variance 70-132.B to continue the parking, storage, and sales of automobiles within a required front yard; NW​/​cor. 2299 Jericho Tpke. & Nassau Blvd., Garden City Park, Sec. 9, Blk. 251, Lot 7, B-A District.

APPEAL #19902​—​Gordon Jericho Corp., conditional use 70-208 to permit the continued use of premises for the storage & sales of materials at retail​/​ wholesale; W/side #801 Willis Ave., 214.53’ S/of Roe Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 657, Lot 23, B-A & R-C District.

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Collins leads Post to stellar season B y B rian R iley The LIU Post football team concluded an incredible season last week, filled with comebacks, heartbreaks, and exceeded expectations. After two consecutive losing seasons, the Pioneers turned it around this year winning their first Northeast-10 Conference Championship since 2006 and making their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in nearly 10 years.

The No. 6 seeded Pioneers lost to third-seeded Virginia State, 28-17, in a first-round clash Saturday at Rogers Stadium.

Much of the credit for this season’s success is due to head football coach, Bryan Collins. Before the season even started and months before training camp was in sight, Collins had the depth chartboard wide open, preparing for the season ahead.

On the railing of the depth chart sits a dirty old horseshoe that Collins found during a jog around the LIU Post campus prior to last season. Collins picked it up, hoping it was a good luck charm, after going 5-11 during the 2012-2013 season.

Collins, who is also the head Athletic Director for LIU Post, thought a little luck might be needed.

During the fall season, Collins enters the campus athletic center at 8 a.m. and leaves at 12 p.m. Collins, a husband and a father of two, struggles during the season to see his family.

“Unfortunately, there isn’t much balance. You sacrifice certain things for your career,” Collins said.

Collins played middle linebacker

Coach Bryan Collins in the huddle. throughout his high school and college careers. At St. John’s University, he won the Dr. Peter Vitulli Award, which is given to athletes with the most perseverance and courage. Collins graduated with a Business Management degree from the university.

It was a year after graduation that he realized an office job wasn’t the route for him. Although he hoped that an NFL team would give him a call, they never did. But, Collins was committed to making a living out of the sport he loved.

In preparation for a career in football, Collins returned to his high school alma mater, Saint Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, as an assistant coach.

After several years of coaching there, Col-

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lins ultimately got the head-coaching job at LIU Post in 1998.

Perseverance is a trait Collins has continually exhibited throughout his life.

He recently celebrated the seven-year anniversary of his kidney transplant. Collins had surgery in the off-season, and never missed a game.

Collins is not just a coach, but a teacher as well.

“It’s great to stand in front of a group of young men and look into their eyes and they’re looking back at you, and you just feel they are paying attention to what you have to say,” Collins said.

Mike Sollenne, junior offensive lineman for LIU Post, gets to listen to his speeches firsthand.

“He’s a yeller sometimes, but every coach is,” Sollenne said. Despite his first two seasons being losing ones, Sollenne finds comfort in Collins’ past success.

During his first eight seasons as head football coach at LIU Post, he led the Pioneers to a 73 -17 record. He also supports a 5,000-hour community service goal for all of LIU’s student-athletes.

“We are so fortunate to be able to play [and] with service you appreciate what you have,” Collins said. “Communication is paramount to every relationship.”

As a middle linebacker in college, it was his responsibility to communicate with his team and it was his responsibility to make adjustments. Collins uses those same communications skills in his role as athletic director. It is clear that Collins’ love for sports has rubbed off on his children, including his daughter, Megan, who played four sports in high school.

Collins also expects his players to progress off the field, according to Ian Schraier, a 2007 graduate of LIU Post who is now their Director of Athletic Media Relations. Schraier has firsthand knowledge of that commitment, since his office is footsteps away from Collins’.

“Collins pushed me when I was a student working in the office, and now as an employee,” Schraier said. Collins responded, “If you’re staying the same, you’re getting worse.”

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer. com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

NHP Lady Lions win LIJSL division crown The New Hyde Park Lady Lions won the GU16 division title with a 3-0 win over Oceanside, completing a 7-1-1 breakout season.

The Lions’ season started with a stellar six-game winning streak, led by team Captains Zoe Araujo, and Arianna Sinnerine, and the triumphant return of Sam “Lefty” Katsanos.

Over the first six games, the Lions dominated their opponents with a plus 17 goal ratio with goal keeping

by Christina Cardinal and scoring by Drianna Sinnerine, Marianna Vukosa, and Sydney Carlino.

In mid-season, the team placed third at the Columbus Day Tournament in Princeton, NJ, with goal keeping by tournament MVP Ali Luna, relentless defense by Michelle Winter and Hannah Ardito and key contributions by midfielder Brittany Battista.

Upon their return from New Jersey, the Lions dropped a tough game 0-1 against West Hempstead for their only league loss of the season. With the division title in the balance, the Lions played Hauppauge to a 0-0 tie led by the defense of Brina Agostini and the midfield tenacity of Brianna Gordon and Dominique Kelly.

Runs by Carlino down the left side topped off with precision crosses to an awaiting Karina Gotz, who placed the ball in the back of the net three times Sunday, capping off her first hat trick of the year.

All in all, this was a season to remember with the girls working hard together to become division champs.

Go Lady Lions!

NHP Lady Lions GU16 Despite all efforts to end the quest for the division title early, it was meant to be decided during the last game of the season against Oceanside.

The first half was a defensive struggle with Caitlyn Cloonan playing shutdown defense at sweeper and not allowing even a single shot on goal.

But this game was decided by offensive genius, with two beautiful goals set up by defensive stops and passes

by Caitlyn Cloonan to Sydney Carlino.

Stormcats win first game The New Hyde Park Boys U11 Stormcats won their first game of the season with a commanding 6-2 victory over Bellmore’s AC Milan.

Goals were scored by James Asmus (3), Colin Coope (2) and Joesph Vieni (1) with the assistance of offensive players Christopher Ribaric and Michael Windischmann.

Brendan Cooper, James Gensch, Wafik Rakib, and Ryan Wasserman showed off their defensive skills, successfully halting AC Milan in their tracks. First-year goalie Ryan Kunak impressed the crowd with many outstanding saves.

The coaches were proud of the boys for playing their hearts out and never giving up.

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