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Nachmanoff, Cilluffo win park district races Candidates win by large margins in two-election race

By A dA m L i d G e t t

Frank Cilluffo and Dan Nachmanoff win the two open seats on the Great Neck Parks District Board of Commissioners

Frank Cilluffo was elected Tuesday to the Great Neck Parks District Board of commissioners, and board Chairman Dan Nachmanoff was reelected.

Nachmanoff won a threeyear term with 782 votes in a three-person race, with former guidance counselor and physical education teacher Neil Leiberman garnering 325 votes, and North Shore Décor owner Jeffrey Meier Stein receiving 171.

Cilluffo, a retired New York City police officer, won a twoyear seat recently vacated by Ruth Tamarin with 621 votes, defeating former president of the Parent-Teacher Associa-

tion at E.M. Baker Elementary School and founder and owner of Body Dynamics Inc. Sharon Epstein, who received 383 votes; insurance broker Eileen Falk, who received 153 votes;

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and North Shore Hebrew Academy executive board member Laura Cohen, who received 278 votes.

Both Nachmanoff and Cilluffo will join current commissioner Bob Lincoln on the three-member board.

Cilluffo had run for parks

district commissioner last year, but lost to Tamarin.

He said after a significant time waiting for the election results – nearly an hour and a half after polling places closed, as opposed to the half hour it usually takes – that his first order of business is to get a light on the flagpole at the Parkwood Sports Complex.

Cilluffo said it is an honor and a privilege to serve alongside Nachmanoff and Lincoln.

“I’d like to thank my family for their support, sacrifice and dedication, to the residents who battled the weather on my behalf and to vote for me and to all the residents who participated in the election process,” Cilluffo said, referContinued on Page 61

Manhasset park commish wins M-LWFD

By B i LL sAN ANtoNio

missioner, was elected on Tuesday to a three-year term as one of three commissioners for the Mark Sauvigne, a Village Manhasset-Lakeville Water and of Munsey Park resident and Fire District.

Sauvigne, bond trader on Manhasset Park District com-

Wall Street for the last 28 years, defeated Great Neck resident and former Nassau County Legislator Lisanne Altmann 547276.

“Despite the weather conditions, I think it went pretty well,” Sauvigne said, referring to heavy rains that fell across Long Island on Tuesday. “In special district elections, there’s always a

chance for voter apathy, and given the weather, I e l e c was pleased with how many people showed up. Of course, you’d always like more people to come out and vote, but when the election is in the second week of December that’s not always easy.”

Sauvigne will replace

Manhasset-Lakeville Commissioner Andrew DeMart i o n tin, who is stepping down at the conclusion of his current term after serving in the position since 2008.

DeMartin, a Great Neck resident, told Blank Slate Media in October that he plans to focus on Continued on Page 61

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Legendary radio host G.N. Plaza seeks celebrates 69 years improved parking

Oscar Brand hosted Guthrie, Dylan and other folk greats Village hires parking consultant

By A da m L i d g e t t Folk music is not simply music that sounds old. It is music that sounds as if it were derived from old traditions.

That is how Great Neck resident Oscar Brand defines folk music, and he should know – he has been hosting a radio show on the subject longer than any other person has ever been on the radio.

Brand, 94, celebrated the 69th anniversary Saturday of his milestone folk music program “Folksong Festival” on WNYC-AM. Brand, a musician himself, has performed with and had as guests on his show that include great folk figures from the past 75 years– from Leadbelly to Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan.

Brand’s wife of 44 years, Karen, said there are two reasons Brand has continued to do the show through the years.

One, she said, is because he loves the music, and the second is to provide a platform for singers that would not normally be heard.

Brand, who was unavailable after the anniversary celebration, is from Canada, Karen said, and came to the U.S. very early in his childhood with his family.

Karen said her husband’s biggest commitment is to folk musicians, young or old, having their music heard.

“These singers are not going to be heard on the popular stations, because of the nature of the music,” Karen said. “There needs to be a venue where this music can be widely disseminated.”

Karen said the shows are meticulously organized, typically by a theme. Saturday’s show was a retrospective of the greatest performances on the show.

The performances could be considered legends in their own right, almost like stories you would find in a folk song.

Karen said one of the high-

parking where they shouldn’t be parking to begin with,” The Village of Great Neck Trustee Pamela Marksheid said.

Giosa gave a series of recPlaza is looking at ways to improve parking conditions in the ommendations to the trustees, village, with the possibility of one of which is shortening the increasing rates at meters and parking time limit on Middle decreasing the parking time Neck Road from two hours to an hour and a half hours. limits.

“It makes it more inconJerry Giosa, a parking consultant, who was hired by the venient to go feed the meter,” village to study the village’s Giosa said. “It also encourages parking and come up with rec- more turnover on the streets.”

Giosa said he has seen a lot ommendations, said Wednesday he has met with officials in the of pushback from other comvillage, including Great Neck munities when the time limits would go from Plaza Mayor two hours to an Jean Celender, hour. the Great Neck e need to get He also Plaza Business down to the main recommended Improvement increasing the District and issues brought up, parking fee the Great Neck which are the need from a quarter Chamber of to get employees out to 50 cents for Commerce. an hour. He said “We need of parking spaces to get down intended for shoppers, this will also allow for more to the main issues brought that there is not enough money to be put up, which are employee parking and back into the parking garages the need to that there is not for repairs and get employees enough turnover. upkeep. out of parking “At a quarspaces intended Jerry Giosa ter an hour, for shoppers, parking consultant it’s almost an that there is not incentive for enough employsomeone to ee parking and that there is not enough turn- come out and feed the meter. over,” Giosa said at the board’s These days it’s just change on your dresser,” Giosa said. “At 50 regularly scheduled meeting.

Giosa said he studied the cents an hour, it becomes a burmain shopper parking areas, den over time.”

A third suggestion Giosa including along Middle Neck Road and Gussack Plaza, as gave to the board was shortenwell as the parking lot near ing the parking limit in Gussack Plaza from its current four Grace Avenue.

He said that most cars that hours. He said he found 75 perpark in these sections are park- cent of the cars located there ing for 30 minutes or less, but are there for two hours or less.

Celender said the trustees that the issue comes from people parking for the limit – two will look at Giosa’s memoranhours – then moving their car dum and start to move forward soon on improving the village’s to another spot.

“These are store keepers parking.

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Oscar Brand’s “Folksong Festival” radio program has been broadcast continuously for 69 years this past Saturday. lights was Bob Dylan’s first performance on radio when he moved to New York City in 1961.

Another was Arlo Guthrie’s first performance of his famous 1967 extended song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre.”

“Oscar said ‘alright you have 25 minutes’ to Arlo,’ and Arlo said ‘well, I’ll have time for one song then,’” Karen said.

Karen said the show eventually ended with a song of Brand’s own, called “There Were No Yellow Ribbons For Us,” a song Brand wrote about Vietnam veterans and how they were vilified when they returned home from the war.

Another tale of Brand’s life starts when he was on the board of the Children’s Television Workshop, which would eventually produce the children’s classic “Sesame Street.”

The character of Oscar the Grouch was named after Brand, Karen said.

Karen said her husband thinks folk music is so important because

more than other forms of music, it reflects people’s religion, their politics and their lives. She also said even though he has been around some of the greatest figures of American folk music, Brand said they were just thought of as his peers.

“He always provided for every entertainer, whether it was Dylan or a newcomer,” Karen said. “He created an equal playing field for them.”

Besides his radio show, Brand has recorded more than 100 albums, and he even won the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 1982. He has also hosted national television shows, written Broadway musicals and is a founder and curator of the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

“Folksong Festival” can be heard every Saturday at 10 p.m on WNYC-AM at 820 on the dial.

“Everyone who worked with him knew they would be pleased,” Karen said. “He would always stand aside and let everyone shine.”

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Congregation talks race, history Culture of racial discrimination in justice system explored through film and discussion

BY B I LL S A N A N TO N IO

While Bruce Knotts was a student at Pepperdine University in the late 1960s, a family friend and former police officer working at the school as a security guard shot and killed an unarmed black man near a women’s dormitory.

“His crime was walking while black,” said Knotts, 65, the executive director of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s United Nations Office. “…That white, Irish former police officer and the family settled out of court, and at the time I wished that would be the last time I experienced something like that,” he said. “Unfortunately, that has not been the case.”

Knotts was a panelist Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset for an assembly commemorating the 66th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel took place following a screening of the 2012 documentary “Bro-

Members of women’s choir Willow perform as part of the congregation’s Human Rights Day celebration Sunday. ken on All Sides,” which uses the Philadelphia prison system as a lens to explore an alleged culture of racial discrimination within the United States’ criminal justice system.

But the event took on added significance for participants and members of the congregation’s

social justice program in wake of recent grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo. and Staten Island to not indict white police officers accused of criminality in causing the deaths of unarmed black men, sparking protests across the country.

“When we began planning

this program six months ago, we could not know that our nation would face an issue not unrelated – the deaths of unarmed black men by law enforcement officers,” said Claire Deroche, the congregation’s social justice coordinator.

Those interviewed for the

68-minute film – including activists, academics, legal experts and formerly imprisoned U.S. citizens – formed a central thesis that skyrocketing incarceration rates in the last 40 years have been due to a criminal justice system conditioned to repeatedly target and harshly punish predominantly non-violent offenders in low-income neighborhoods, notably black and Latino men. One in 15 black men and one in 36 Latino men in the United States are imprisoned, according to a 2008 Pew Research Center report cited in the film.

The United States makes up approximately five percent of the global population but imprisons 2.3 million people, the most in the world, according to the United Kingdom-based International Centre for Prison Studies.

The film notes that Philadelphia prisons have become overcrowded with people accused of petty drug crimes - not convicted criminals - who often await judicial hearings behind bars because they cannot afford bail.

Despite a slight decrease in Continued on Page 70

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G.N. South student wins biz award

By A da m L i d g e t t

Great Neck South High School student Andrew Schneider was member of the winning team at the ninth annual “Adelphi Apprentice Challenge” at Adelphi University last month.

A Great Neck South High student was a member of the winning team of a business competition sponsored by Adelphia University, the university said Thursday.

Andrew Schneider participated on Nov. 21 in the “Adelphi Apprentice Challenge,” a competition to plan and present an effective marketing strategy, the school said. The competition is inspired by Donald Trump’s reality television program, “The Apprentice.”

Schneider, a senior, said he entered the contest through his school’s business Distributive Education Club of America, of which he has been a member for four years.

“It’s a great way to continue to practice your marketing skills,” he said.

Schneider said all the competitors were divided into 20 teams.

He was then elected project manager of his team, which meant he was the one who had to present the final marketing strategy the team would develop, he said.

Great Neck South principal Susan Elliott said this is the first year the school has sent one of its students to the competition.

“The things that [Schneider] is involved in he genuinely feels passionately about,” Elliott said.

“It’s not surprising that he should have this kind of success.”

More than 220 students from 20 different high schools competed in this year’s challenge - the ninth year of its existence.

Schneider said the teams were then given case studies from Sol Republic, a real company that sells headphones. He said the teams then had to make a marketing presentation, as well as debate another team on the effectiveness of their marketing strategies.

Schneider said his history with debate helped him, along with his idea to have not only a public relations events for the company but also a strong social media campaign, which included the creation of the hashtag #releaseyoursol.

He said he plans to attend college next year, and eventually go into either business or politics.

“I like trying to persuade people to buy into something, in

either politics or in business,” he said.

The apprentice challenge is hosted each year by Adelphi’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, the school said.

“The Adelphi Apprentice Challenge is a terrific opportunity to invite exemplary students in our community to share in the excitement of Adelphi’s business program and to emphasize our commitment to educating tomorrow’s leaders,” said Brian Rothschild, assistant dean of the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business. “Engaging bright high school students is a top priority at Adelphi and we look forward to providing this learning experience year after year.”

Since the start of the competition, more than 1,400 students have participated, some of whom have studied at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, the university said.

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plan to pull school zone cameras

GOP county legislators propose repeal of law after criticism from residents, Dems

By B i LL sAN ANtoNio Republican Nassau County lawmakers proposed legislation on Monday to repeal a controversial school speed zone camera program that has garnered widespread complaints from motorists and criticism from Democrats about the quality of the program’s rollout this past summer.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow) said at a news conference at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Tuesday that she expects the legislation to receive bipartisan support during a Dec. 15 vote.

“Just as we implemented it unanimously, we’re going to repeal it unanimously,” Gonsalves said.

“That’s the message.”

The program was implemented in July with support from legislators from both parties to improve pedestrian safety near schools and increase county revenues, Gonsalves said, but was quickly met with complaints from constituents about inconsistencies with speed limits and its hours of operation.

From left: Republican Nassau County Legislators Donald McKenzie (Oyster Bay), Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (East Meadow), Dennis Dunne (Levittown) and Richard Nicolello during a news conference about proposed legislation that would repeal the county’s school speed zone camera program.

Gonsalves said safety is still the Legislature’s top priority.

She said Acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter told her patrols would increase near schools, and that

flashing lights placed in school zones as part of the camera program will remain in operation.

The county will have to assess how to make up for more than $30 million in projected revenues

from the school speed zone camera program in 2015 and whether outstanding tickets from school speed zones would have to be paid.

Gonsalves said no specific proposals have yet been discussed, but

that lawmakers would work with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and county Comptroller George Maragos, both Republicans, to find a solution without raising taxes.

“It was not an easy thought on our part, but we knew something needed to be done,” Gonsalves said.

The legislation was first announced Monday evening, shortly after Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone held a news conference announcing the county would abandon its school speed zone camera program, which was set to be rolled out in 2015.

Democratic legislators on Tuesday said they welcomed the legislation after having called for a suspension of the program last month until a consistent countywide rollout of the cameras could be implemented.

“It became evident that it was less about safety and more about the financial burdens of our county’s mismanagement onto the motorists,” said Nassau County Legislator Kevan Abrahams (DFreeport), the Legislature’s minor Continued on Page 54

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G.N. alum pens play on genocide

By A dA m L i d G e t t When Anoush Baghdassarian wrote a play about the Armenian Genocide during his senior year at Great Neck South High School, she said, she only intended it to be a learning tool.

Now Baghdassarian, who studies psychology and literature at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., can say she is a published playwright, with her play, “FOUND,” published by Xlibris.com, and available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

“I just want people to know that this play is available to put on in communities, and to give to students to learn about the genocide,” she said.

As part of that effort, she said, she is having a book signing on Jan. 8 at the Barnes and Noble in Manhasset at 1542 Northern Blvd.

Baghdassarian said she is not really interested in making money from the play, but that she wants instead to raise awareness and educate people about the Armenian Genocide.

April 24, 2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the genocide, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ot-

Great Neck South graduate Anoush Baghdassarian wrote her play “FOUND” while still in high school, and will be at a book signing on Jan. 8 in Manhasset. toman Empire from 1915 through 1916.

Baghdassarian said with the anniversary coming up this is the right time for schools as well as churches, temples and mosques to use to help others learn about the “forgotten genocide.”

The play centers on an Armenian woman named Lucine, who lives through the genocide.

The stage is split in two, with

one side of the play being a young Lucine in 1915, and the other side being Lucine in 1925, Baghdassarian said.

Baghdassarian, who is of Armenian decent, said the show starts in 1915, with Lucine’s home being invaded and her brother being kidnapped by the Ottomans. The rest of the play involves Lucine, in 1925, writing out the events as she saw them during the genocide.

As Lucine’s character writes about her experiences on stage them, they are played out on the 1915 portion of the stage.

The play’s plot is driven by Lucine trying to find her brother, and her worries about what happens to him.

“The most relevant message to spread in Great Neck would be to teach people that when Hitler was planning the annihilation of the Polish Jews, he justified himself by saying, ‘who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?,’” Baghdassarian said. Hitler said this during his “Obersalzberg Speech” he gave on Aug. 22, 1939.

Baghdassarian directed the play initially during May and June of 2013 at the Levels Teen Center at the Great Neck Library, she said.

The play then was produced at the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs in Bayside, Queens, later than June.

The show eventually moved to her college in California in 2014, where she directed, produced and acted in it, Baghdassarian said.

Baghdassarian said she has been involved in theatre since she was in the fifth grade, and that she has always loved to write.

She said that while taking a

playwriting class she was required to write a monologue, which would eventually, after a time, morph into the first scene of “FOUND.” Baghdassarian said she has been trying to educate people about the Armenian Genocide since she was in the sixth grade.

She originally starting by doing educational posters, and eventually would move on with her drive to educate with the play, she said.

“People have said to me ‘someone asked me about the Armenian Genocide and I knew it because of your presentation,’” Baghdassarian said.

She said many of her family members were killed during the Armenian Genocide, and that various members of her family also had to escape to other areas of the world, including Egypt and South America.

Baghdassarian said she is currently in a screenwriting class at Claremont McKenna College where she is working on a screenplay about the Palestine-Israel conflict.

She said she eventually wants to practice law in the human rights field, and would also like to write plays about human rights issues as well, that would be both entertaining and educational.

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Town to accept plans to revitalize park

BY B I LL S A N A N TO N IO If you’ve got a vision for improving North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington, town officials are willing to hear your pitch.

The town will now accept conceptual plans for recreational amenities that council members on Tuesday said they would consider as part of a revitalization plan for the park.

“This will be something that would be used for everybody throughout the town,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth (D-Great Neck) said. “We’re going to want input from all different areas to better develop that area.”

Town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio (R-Port Washington), whose 6th

A 2013 rendering of the extension to a nature trail in North Hempstead Beach Park.

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DA Rice’s parting gift

Town seals deal on park at Roslyn Country Club

In one of her final innovations as the county’s district attorney, Kathleen Rice has demonstrated both creativity and an understanding of the challenges that the victims of crime who come into her office sometimes face.

Rice has announced that a two-year-old female Labrador retriever named Mega has joined her team to assist in interviewing the victims of crimes such as child abuse and sexual assault.

According to Rice, “Mega is a highly-trained facility dog who’s already started her work in helping vulnerable and scared victims and witnesses open up about horrific events in the daunting surroundings of a prosecutor’s office.”

Anyone involved in law enforcement and even those who watch “Law and Order” or any of the other popular crime dramas knows that the traumatized victims of criminal acts can find it hard to open up to prosecutors who are there to help them. A friendly dog like Mega can make a world of difference.

At the moment Mega is one of only two “facility dogs” doing this kind of work in the state. Rice said there is the possibility that Mega will someday be used in trials and grand juries.

Don’t worry about Mega – Assistant District Attorney Amanda Burke, of the office’s Special Victims Bureau, will take her home each night.

Mega was made available to the county free of charge by the non-profit Canine Companions for Independence, who will retain ownership. This organization, which has trained dogs to help the disabled, has once again demonstrated its generosity and its understanding of the valuable role that a properly trained dog can play.

“These placements are exemplary of the animal-human bond mostly because animals are non-judgmental, live in the moment and are always happy to have that companionship,” said Debra Dougherty, the northeast regional director for Canine Companions.

If this project is a success, it will become part of the lasting legacy of DA Rice, who will be moving on to Congress in January where she will represent the 4th District..

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At long last after years of negotiation, Nassau County is moving forward with a plan that will allow for the formation of new Town of North Hempstead park district making the best possible use of the Roslyn Country Club property.

The deal, approved this month by the Nassau County Planning Commission, will create new recreation space for the county at minimal expense to county residents.

Under this creative arrangement, the property will be divided into a 320,231 square-foot space for the new Roslyn Country Club park district and 134,906 square feet for Corona Realty Holdings, which will maintain the Royalton at Roslyn Coun-

try Club catering hall.

The town will purchase the site that closed two years ago for $2 million and restore it as a club with a pool area, tennis courts a new locker room facility, playgrounds and basketball court.

Residents living nearby will pay a median $1,320 assessed valuation in 2017, based on a home valued at $730,800.

It took time and a great deal of difficult negotiations, but, in the end this is a winning arrangement for the residents of North Hempstead.

The quality of its parks and recreation space helps to make Nassau County one of the best places in America to raise a family.

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Shame on candidates for not participating in debate

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hat is in the best interest of our community when it comes to local elections?

As I read the local papers (and I do hope that many people read the local papers for the Great Neck - Manhasset area), I see all the written statements from the candidates who are running for election for commissioner of the Great Neck Park District, Manhasset Park District and the Manhasset – Lakeville Fire Water District.

I actually know some of these candidates.

However, I don’t know all of them or their viewpoints and I

am not alone.

Usually, an important pre -election event is for the candidates to participate in a “Meet the Candidates Night” moderated by the League of Women Voters. If you couldn’t make it on that one night, PATV was there to videotape and cablecast the “Meet the Candidates Night”.

For years, PATV partners with the League to ensure that these events are videotaped and cablecast.

Recently, the Great Neck Library and the local candidates for the midterm elections “Meet the Candidates Night” were cablecast on PATV Ch. 20 (Ca-

blevision), Ch. 37 (Verizon FIOS) and also on demand on the PATV website.

For the Dec. 9, elections, there will be no “Meet the Candidates Night” moderated by the League of Women Voters.

There will be no cablecast on PATV or on demand on our website. Why, because only a minority of the candidates were willing to take part in a “Meet the Candidates Night.”

What a shame!

Shirley Ann Bruno Executive Director PATV www.patv.org

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Thanks for aid to homebound seniors

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hank you, so very much, to all those who contributed in some way to our project of delivering meals to homebound senior citizens and those in need on Thanksgiving afternoon.

Through the generosity of so many, 313 hot dinners were delivered throughout Nassau County, along with a visit, and 31 families were provided with the fixings to make their own Thanksgiving meal.

We are grateful to everyone who contributed in some way – by donating food,

beverages, or money; cooking a turkey, making a dessert or bread.

We are grateful to all the children who made cards or baked in their Girl Scout Troop, Youth Group, or classroom.

We are grateful to Ms. Pashayan and the Art Classes of Stewart School in Garden City for the beautiful artwork on the bags in which the meals were delivered. We are grateful to those who gave their time on Thanksgiving Day to help us pack the meals and to those who helped us deliver them.

None of this would be possible without the generous support from the following groups: the Williston Park Rotary, the Garden City Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the Kiwanis Club of County Seat, the Mineola - Garden City Rotary Club, Restaurant Depot, St. Joseph’s Human Services, Garden City Special Police, Garden City High School Sunshine Fund, and Cathedral Nursery School.

A special thank you goes to Robert Auricchio, whose generous donation of fresh produce made the meals extra special.

This year the need was greater than ever and we took on more than we had in previous years. We are always amazed, but somehow never surprised, by the kind and thoughtful hearts that help us with this project.

We are honored to coordinate this program, which only continues because of your generosity.

Have a wonderful holiday season!

Melinda and John Alford Garden City

Manhasset earns thank you with budget vote

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ith sincere gratitude P.A.S.S. (Parents Aligned to Support our Schools) thanks and congratulates all 2,333 voters who voted on the Capital Projects bond.

Passing this bond with a 61.47 percent majority is a clear mandate from the community that responsibly investing in education and in the future of our fine schools matters. It matters to your property value and it matters to the quality of education.

Most importantly our willingness to invest in our schools and support our schools defines who

we are as a community.

P.A.S.S. remains committed to educational excellence with fiscal responsibility. As we always have, we will continue monitor and work closely with the school board to ensure that all taxpayer money is spent responsibly and appropriately. Members of the school board are your neighbors, who represent you and care deeply about what is best for Manhasset’s students and taxpayers.

They operate transparently at regular meetings and your input is not only welcome but crucial.

Remember, Albany’s unfunded mandates strangle school

budgets, and Manhasset is no exception.

One example: pensions are not negotiated locally, rather they are determined by our legislators in Albany. Laws governing public schools and their budgets and finances are vastly different from laws governing private entities, and the school board is obligated to meet the dictates of state law.

If there are changes you want to see, we need your help. Get involved and learn more about the process of governing our schools.

We urge everyone to do at least one of these three things: Reach out to a school board

member and introduce yourself.

Voice your concerns. Contact them at boe@manhasset.k12. ny.us or individually here: http:// www.manhasset.k12.ny.us/ board_members.cfm Attend a Board of Education meeting, ask questions and make your voice heard. Meeting schedule: http://www.manhasset.k12. ny.us/board.cfm?subpage=23350 Join one of the Board’s Advisory Committees on finance, legislative affair, technology, athletics or audit.

Applications are available here: http://www.manhasset.k12.ny.us/files/filesystem/

CAC%20Application%209-13-13. pdf Nobody likes paying more taxes, but smart public investment in our schools has served our community and our students very well over the years. It’s with that clarity of vision and a commitment to excellence for the future of our schools that we as a community voted YES. On behalf of all the members of P.A.S.S., thank you!

Dino Moshova P.A.S.S. - Parents Aligned to Support our Schools

Unanswered questions about USS Liberty

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en Mansky’s decision to revert to personal attacks only reflects poorly on him and does nothing to dissuade us from trying to persuade the U.S. government that an attack on a U.S. Navy ship warrants Congressional scrutiny evermore so when the survivors of that attack are alleging war crimes and capital violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice were committed during the attack.

I understand that treason is the only crime that is defined in the US Constitution.

Article 3, Section 3 tells us in part, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

Among the awards won by the officers and crew of the USS Liberty are the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, 11 Silver Stars, 20 Bronze Stars, nine Navy Commendations, 208 Purple Hearts, 294 Combat Action Ribbons and the Presidential Unit Citation, which makes the USS Liberty among the most decorated ships for a single action in U.S. Navy history.

One of the requirements that

must be met before any of the aforementioned medals or ribbons are awarded is that they be awarded as a result of combat action against an enemy of the United States.

That requirement must be met even in the case of friendly fire.

As a result, for June 8-9, 1967 (the qualifying dates for USS Liberty medals and ribbons) Israel was officially an enemy of the United States and anyone giving them aid and comfort for their actions during this period is guilty of treason.

I am well aware of former Israeli AMB Oren’s bona fides.

His bona fides do not render him an unbiased observer of the attack. Remember, he wasn’t there and cannot speak of the attack in the first person but has to rely upon sources he has contacted during his research.

Unfortunately he only found it appropriate to contact Israelis to get their version of events – a tactic used by Jay Cristol during the research that resulted in his apologia about the USS Liberty.

Neither can be accused of being unbiased given their refusal to interview USS Liberty survivors.

It is not a question of our being objective. It is a question of our being allowed to testify at the U.S. government’s investigation of the attack.

An eyewitness isn’t asked to be objective. He is asked to present his evidence as succinctly as possible.

It is those who review and analyze that evidence who must be objective in their review of that evidence.

Why doesn’t the U.S. government want to conduct an investigation of the attack on our ship?

Perhaps the answer is contained in the documents we have accumulated at http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/files/docs.pdf.

I encourage anyone interested in the USS Liberty to include a reading of these documents in their research.

Read Lloyd Painter’s statement. He witnessed the machine gunning of our life rafts in the water and testified to that fact during his testimony before the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry only to find out later that his statement was removed from the Report of the Court.

In that document you can also read Glenn Oliphant’s statement

where he tells of his witnessing the barbaric act as well. Included in the files linked in the “docs” file is the War Crimes Report we filed on June 8, 2005 which was ignored by the U.S. government as well as a statement by USS Liberty Commanding Officer William McGonagle that it is his opinion that the attack was not a mistake.

The “docs” file also contains the documented facts about the attack that Mr. Ellis is soliciting in his letter of December 4, 2014.

Mr. Mansky is correct when I dispute his allegation that the attack on the USS Liberty was the subject of an investigation by numerous U.S. government investigations for the simple reason that it was not.

Note that I am not disputing his claim that numerous U.S. government reports have included the finding that the attack was not deliberate. If I were to be given the task of eliciting a statement out of as many members of official Washington, D.C. that the attack was a mistake the line would circle the Beltway a number of times.

The question they would not be able to answer – and that Mr. Mansky is afraid to ask -- is why they believe as they do.

What evidence and testimony did these “honest closed-door inquiries” base their finding about the deliberateness of the attack upon?

Since they didn’t elicit nor accept any evidence and testimony about the actions of either USS Liberty crewmen or Israelis who conducted the attack it couldn’t be that.

If Mr. Mansky were to do more than the cursory review of the reports it would become clear to him that there is no foundation for the finding that the attack was not deliberate. That finding is simply made out of whole cloth.

At the end of Mr. Mansky’s drivel is his offer to discuss other investigations.

Let me take him up on that offer and ask him to discuss specifically the House Armed Services Committee investigation of 1991/1992. While the report of that “investigation” is included in Jay Cristol’s “Myth of the 13 US government investigations” it doesn’t exist.

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

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

The king is dead; long live the king The King Kullen in Port Washington is closing; its last day will be Dec. 31. And it’s hitting me hard.

It’s not as if it’s the only grocery store in town. There are several bodegas and two produce/gourmet stores, plus a Stop & Shop, which is probably clapping itself on the back, taking the lion’s share of the credit for finally beating the big competition.

But King Kullen is where I spent many hours, every week, for more than 20 years. There is no getting around the fact that it’s been a huge part of my life, like it or not (and I have done both).

It’s crazy to think that this is the blow I cannot withstand, to my quality of life in Port Washington.

Surely I should save that for when something happens to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation thrift shop on Main Street; the Boston Market in Soundview; or Dairy Barn. Oh, wait, they’re all gone already.

Port Washington is a place

about which even Gertrude Stein would have to concede, “There sure is a there, there.”

It’s the end of a peninsula, so it’s not on the way to anywhere else; if you’re here, you probably meant it.

It’s a place that feels like what you imagine people mean when they say, “my hometown.”

As Bill Moyers once said in a documentary about his own hometown of Marshall, Texas, “It’s a place where people know when you’re sick, and care when you die.”

This was a revelation to me, growing up as I did in one of America’s generic suburbs.

Silver Spring, Maryland was nice, but it always felt a bit as if someone had measured it out, like a bolt of cloth in a dry goods store: “From here to here, you’re Takoma Park; from here to here, you’re Wheaton; everything else, you’re Silver Spring.”

By comparison, when my husband and I moved to Port Washington, we seemed to have stumbled into a Frank Capra movie.

Judy epstein

A Look on the Lighter Side For example, there was a market on Main Street which stocked a little bit of everything (including saffron, losing me a $20 bet with my husband), and which would deliver it, too - every week if you liked - long before Amazon or Peapod existed.

I even heard that you could make an arrangement so that the delivery person not only brought your order inside the house, if you were out, but put the milk and eggs in your fridge.

That, of course, was a centu-

ry ago. Falling upon hard times rather literally, the building went empty and for at least a few years, didn’t even have a floor, sporting a sign to that effect so that trespassers had some warning. At least the literate ones.

Actually, grocery shopping was never my thing. If I were to suddenly win one of those Publisher’s Clearing House prizes, (also a Port Washington business), I would not jump up and down and shriek, “We’re going to the grocery store!” But after long days spent wrangling two rambunctious boys until their father or a sitter could arrive, trips alone to the supermarket became my oasis.

Finally, all the time I needed to read a soup can label! Even the Muzak was quieter than what was waiting for me back home, and I didn’t have to settle whose light saber was which.

When Stop & Shop opened nearby, I heard tales of cheaper prices; but whenever I tried to shop there, I got lost. I just couldn’t fathom the logic of a store where every aisle’s con-

tents were labeled, “All The Ingredients.”

“Clearly NOT ‘All’,” I wanted to answer back, “if you needed another 14 aisles for it!”

What I most treasured about shopping at King Kullen was catching up with acquaintances and friends I bumped into there. Perhaps most important were my encounters with people who weren’t friends at all: people who attended all the same school board meetings I did and yet were on the opposite side, from me, on every question. People with whom I disagreed about virtually everything — even the time of day.

Suddenly, there I was, in line with them for a turn at the deli counter, and somehow I had to pass the time of day that we couldn’t agree about. Somehow, I had to find a way to stay civil and converse; to be agreeable, although we did not agree.

Gradually, I think I learned how.

I know I am a better person for it. And it happened at King Kullen.

from the d es k of se n ator j ac k marti n s

Time to dream big in New York State Have you ever stepped off a plane in another state and thought, “Wow, this airport is really nice?” Or hopped on a commuter train from that airport that was absolutely pristine?

Maybe you’ve taken a road trip with your family and subconsciously noted how new and beautiful their highways were.

Oftentimes, when you speak to a New Yorker who has visited another state, you almost always hear these kinds of observations.

Then you hear the rants about how New York, one of the richest states in the union, can’t seem to do better.

But to be fair there are reasons for that. For starters New York is old. I mean real old. And it’s big, with so many people that infrastructure use is extraordinarily heavy. To think we have numbers crossing bridges and tunnels on an average day that exceed the population of some states! The size and scope of our infrastructure puts the task into

perspective.

Let’s start with the grand dame of New York City, home to some 9 million New Yorkers. On average, her 6,400 miles of sewage lines are 84 years old while her 6,800 miles of water mains are 69 years old. The gas mains clock in at about 56 years old.

Travel around the state and you get an even clearer picture: · Of the 17,420 bridges in New York, 2,169 are considered structurally deficient and 4,718 are considered functionally obsolete · We have 114,546 miles of public roadways and 60% are ranked in poor or mediocre condition · We’re home to 141 public use airports and all need upkeep and reinvestment · There are 5,736 state regulated dams and 403 are considered “high hazard” The categories are too endless to delve into here, suffice to say our state comptroller,

jack m. martins State Senator

Thomas DiNapoli, put together a comprehensive report that summarizes the situation best. New York will need to spend about $250 billion on its water, sewer and highways over the next 20 years.

That’s a tall order to be sure.

But we should also remember that there was a time when the rest of the world would literally send their engineers to New York to see how it was done. Our leaders managed to build some

of the biggest, most creative, long-serving infrastructure projects the world has even known.

They included bridges, tunnels, highways, sewers, aqueducts, subways and railways, and millions of acres of parkland and thousands of public schools – and did most of it within the span of 100 years. We built big because we dreamed big.

Unfortunately, it was followed by a period of mismanagement and inactivity that’s led to decay. But today, we’ve managed to right New York’s fiscal ship and that’s key to everything else. It’s time now for us to dream big again. A sound infrastructure not only improves the health and quality of our lives, it also builds commerce. Can anyone truly question how important infrastructure improvements made over 100 years ago, like our railroad and the City’s subways, continue to drive commerce all these decades later?

To be sure, we don’t have

$250 billion lying around in the couch cushions. But we’re now on target with $160 billion for these improvements over the next twenty years. And we have even come into surpluses, most recently the $3.6 billion dollar settlement with BNP Paribas Bank. As I’ve written in the past, I’ll be working to see that a good portion of that is reinvested in New York’s crumbling infrastructure. From rebuilding local roads and bridges, to key environmental initiatives like clean water and sewer upgrades here on Long Island, we have to invest in projects that bring short and long-term economic growth throughout the state. I’ll never tire of repeating the old proverb: A society grows great when old men plant tress whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Friends, New York is not without her problems but we are making a comeback. It’s time we dream big again.

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Assessment Things backed by Dems system broken to be sick and tired of

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ur assessment system is broken. Using marketing value as a basis to determine assessed value is asinine, as well all know.

The market goes up and down and assessments along with it.

It may be more just or fair.

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To assess house values by square s. Rubin’s explanation feet of property and square feet of the prefatory clause of living space. of the 2nd amendment Using such a formula would (“to protect the governmake it more difficult to chal- ment, not overthrow it”) is interlenge assessments. esting.

This direct quote is from HellLuap Rediensch er vs. D.C., Supreme Court of the New Hyde Park United States, majority opinion, Scalia, et al. 2008.

Hopefully, it provides some clarity “the prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Fedternet button to process an order eral Government would disarm please take a stroll around your the people in order to disable the local town. citizens’ militia, enabling a poFeel the ‘fabrics,” smell the liticized standing army or a select perfumes, try the dress on and militia to rule. The response was get to know us. We won’t disap- to deny Congress the power to point you. abridge the ancient right of indiHappy Holidays! viduals to keep and bear arms so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia Michael and Staff would be preserved.” at En-toto Couture It was my understanding that Great Neck the standing army, not the militia, protects the government.

Further, “a politicized standing army” would certainly imply a standing army defending a tyranny. I will inject that in 1791, the country was not yet afflicted with “progressivism” so the meaning of “well regulated” was that the good men of the militia should gather, and practice their tactics and marksmanship regularly. school tax relief plan.

Ms. Rubin is “sick and tired” I, as well as other veterans liv- of hearing this because the lawing in Great Neck, have proudly lessness and despotism of the served our country without hesitation and with great honor.

I do not believe that we are asking for very much, just a “thank You” for our service to our country.

Support your local retailers

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t this time of the holiday season we’d like to remind everyone of the local retailers who help shape a town.

We can be found for donations, for the quick special gift and we help pay the local taxes.

We at En-toto Couture offer our patrons a 50 percent off sample sale and a discount on special orders. Many of our neighbors offer similar specials.

So before you push the in-

Tax exemption for vets a no brainer

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any thanks to Gerald Peretsman and you for publishing his letter entitled : G.N. ed board falls short for veterans.

What a great shame that the Great Neck School Board decided to defer action regarding this matter.

This should be a “no brainer” for the board to pass a veterans

Frank Taub Great Neck

Accidents occur during wartime

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eader William Hothan attempts to endorse John O’Kelly’s anti-Israel diatribes by claiming Israel paid compensation to the USS Liberty’s victims and families as an admission of guilt.

Sorry Mr. Hothan, but even if Israel did pay out this compensation as you allege, it does

not necessarily mean they admitted to deliberately attacking the USS Liberty.

It was almost certainly a gesture of compensation for a tragic accident.

Accidents of this nature do occasionally occur in wars.

Michael Ellis Great Neck

standing administration advances the tyranny that she likes. What about if and when it ever goes the other way?

Let me enumerate a few things that I am sick and tired of.

I am sick and tired of paying for the Democrats’ feckless permanent underclass that multiplies in geometric progressions and cannot pay for their children.

They cannot pay for any aspect of their lives, so the rest of us are stuck with the bill. I am sick and tired of being told that I can only have those freedoms that they can handle, and they cannot handle any freedom.

I am sick and tired of being told that I have to pay for other peoples’ health care.

I am sick and tired of hearing the intelligence of the American People insulted with such preposterous assertions that poor people cannot afford ID to present at the polling place (because they, of course, want to cheat), and women need for their “birth control” to be paid for because they cannot afford it.

I did not know that there was a constitutional right to free sex.

(When am I going to get some of that? – just a joke).

I am sick and tired of a corrupt media promoting a common career criminal who robs a store, punches a cop and tries to grab his gun as some kind of fallen hero.

When the cops finally get sick and tired enough of this crap to walk off the job in mass for as long as it takes (which they should!), I

would pay money to see what would become of Ms. Rubin, who does not believe in owning a gun.

Now that might make for a great reality show. Real entertainment. LOL. I am sick and tired of a corrupt administration that opens the borders and has the worst population of all Mexico and Latin America pouring across our border, not only with impunity, but with the aid of the Administration to increase the number of Democrat voters.

They will all be voting illegally after Obama’s executive order, and he damn well knows it.

They will be given free ID, and there will be no way to catch them. A part of his temper tantrum after loosing the midterms badly.

I am sick and tired of an administration that gives an enemies list to the IRS to persecute their enemies, and a corrupt media that acts in concert with their silence.

The one true journalist, Sharyl Attkisson, who had the integrity to address this was fired, and later on, had her computer hacked as a veiled threat.

Can you imagine the response of the media if a President Rick Perry would have perpetrated this?

Remember Nixon?

Small potatoes compared to this outrage. I could go on probably even longer than her piece, but you get the point.

Emery Rose Manhasset

Remember those trying to get home for Christmas

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hristmas is fast approaching and much more to do. There are last minute cards to send out and a few last minute presents to wrap and a few more decorations to hang up.

I think though we should take time out and think of our brave men and women serving our country in far away lands in a attempt to preserve all that we hold most dear. It is truly most difficult for them this Christmas season and especially so for their children who will be missing mothers and fathers most dearly.

Let’s therefore remember to keep them in our prayers in their most difficult of times.

Let us also keep in our prayers all those who are trying to get home to their families this Christmas.

And may they all get home safe and sound to their love ones who are anxiously awaiting for their love ones to return.

I know how difficult a chore that can be. I was in the U.S. Navy in 1974 and had to travel a day before

Christmas Eve from Great Lakes Ill. and had to battle a snow storm and a car accident and had to hitch awhile but finally made it back to New York for Christmas Eve. I had two sons named Tommy and Bobby and I always tried to keep my promises to them and could not fail them on this most important day.

I had brought them two special presents which I said to them, I had gotten from Santa Claus when I was at the North Pole and Santa told me to give it to them.

Which I did as they gave me a big kiss and a hug, and that made the trip a most worthwhile adventure indeed.

So let’s keep them all in our prayers. And finally in closing let me say,” Keep Christ in Christmas because Jesus is the reason for the season.”

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village Letters Continued on Page 56

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‘A Christmas Carol’ for our time

This is the time of the year when those who make more money in a year than four families earn in an entire lifetime - who spend the rest of the year blocking an increase to the minimum wage, refinancing student loans, immigration reform, tax reform (the list goes on and on) get to feel noble by giving to the poor - buying a turkey for a family’s table or helping stock a soup kitchen which even as the economy has rebounded, is being taxed beyond its means.

They shield their guilt behind the mythology of “The American Dream” the notion that begins with the notion that America is exceptional because it affords equal opportunity and anyone who works hard enough can achieve success.

The corollary is that those who are poor are somehow deserving of their misery, while those who are phenomenally wealthy are equally deserving, rather than their success the result of being born into an advantageous zip code to a well-connected family, who from the very first moments, had all the resources to position this person for success, fostered by a system that is very literally rigged in favor of a lucky few.

The so-called American Dream has come to be the American version of Social Darwinism - not the fact that the mechanisms for success are institutionalized - which serves to justify (and ignore) the great and growing gap between rich andNewspaper poor. (America now hasVerthe largest 1 Ad 8.75 x 5.6 6_Layout

gap among industrialized nations and counties, rose to become CEO of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Apranks the worst in mobility.)

This is the season for stories with “A palachia.

His pathway to success was by virChristmas Carol” being one of the most tue of being the guy who emblematic of the holiday. was so amoral, so ruthless Charles Dickens depicts the he had no thought or care rehabilitation of Ebenezer of the lives he exploited or Scrooge, a confirmed Social destroyed.

Darwinist, who comes to “Early in his career, Mr. embrace the spirit of ChristBlankenship became famas. mous for breaking the grip The lesson of “Christof unions at Massey mines. mas Carol” was taught by Investigations described a three spirits, but as fantasKAREN RUBIN climate of intimidation at tical as Dickens’ story was, Pulse of the Peninsula Upper Big Branch in which his genius is that he so accuminers were afraid to report rately described the inequities in society, not in macro terms, but as unsafe practices, and two sets of books the result of the decisions people make were kept to conceal hazards from inin their lives that impact the people spectors,” Trip Gabriel reported in the around them, and by extension, to larger New York Times (Dec. 1).

“Mr. Blankenship overrode managand larger groups of people.

In that same spirit, we offer two ers who sought to strengthen roofs to stories that illustrate the difference in prevent cave-ins or install ventilation choices of how people live their lives and systems to prevent explosions, ordering affect the lives of others. Instead of spir- them to ignore ‘construction jobs’ and inits, they are real people who provide the stead to ‘run coal.’

“After a passageway flooded fourmoral of the story: The first is Donald L. Blankenship feet deep and a federal inspector shut it whose rise from poverty to being one down, fearing miners might drown, Mr. of the wealthiest, most powerful men in Blankenship ordered mining to continue, West Virginia could stand as the epitome scolding the mine’s president for ‘letting M.S.H.A. run’ the mine, referring to the of the American Dream.

Except it was more like a Mafia gang- Mine Safety and Health Administration.

“When Upper Big Branch did not ster’s rise: Blankenship, who was raised in a trailer onePage of the 12/5/14 6:07inPM 1 state’s poorest make its quotas or cut costs deeply

enough, Mr. Blankenship threatened the mine president. ‘You have a kid to feed.

Do your job,’ he wrote. In another note scolding the executive for not producing enough coal, he wrote: ‘I could Khrushchev you. Do you understand?’”

But Blankenship managed to evade all responsibility - criminal and otherwise - by basically buying politicians, including judges.

“A prime example was the $3 million that Mr. Blankenship contributed to defeat a justice on the state’s Supreme Court in 2004, replacing him with one sympathetic to Massey at a time when the company was appealing a $50 million judgment against it.”

Hopefully, there will be a happy, “Wicked Witch is Dead” ending to this story because Blankenship is now under indictment for the deaths of 29 in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.

“Levels of coal dust were so high — a threat to human health as well as a fire accelerant — that autopsies of the dead men found 71 percent had black lung disease, compared with an industry average of 3.2 percent.”

“The 43-page grand jury indictment paints a portrait of Mr. Blankenship, 64, as a mine boss out of Dickens,” Gabriel wrote.

Blankenship made his deal with the devil and hopefully, when it is his time, he will rot in hell.

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Russell Gardens to G.N. library board fix tennis courts chooses contractor

By A dA m L i d G e t t

Village of Russell Gardens Mayor Steven Kirschner tried to clarify to residents at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting the reasons the village has decided to spend $220,000 to refurbish its tennis courts, arguing that if the courts are made to look better, people will want to use them more.

Kirschner said some village residents have complained about the village spending money to refurbish the courts, located on Wensley Drive, when they are not used that much.

“The hope is that when we refurbish them more people will want to play,” Kirschner said. “It’s open to all members of the village and it has no users fee.”

Kirschner said like many other issues that deal with tax money, there is large group of people who don’t get use out of a project, so they don’t think tax money should be spent on it.

Kirschner said that being part of a community means that sometimes things will be done that don’t benefit you directly, but will benefit someone else.

The project will mostly be paid for by a state grant, Kirschner said, which will be worth about $150,000.

Kirschner said the project total will be about $220,000, and the village will pay the rest of $70,000 not covered by the grant.

“I’m very optimistic we will get the grant,” Kirschner said. “But if we don’t, the project will have to be deferred for another year.”

Kirschner said the project will be a massive overhaul of the tennis courts, as they have not been maintained as they should have been for 30 to 40 years. He said some of the work will include installing new drainage system, sprinkler system and fencing.

“It’s like we’re building three new courts,” Kirschner said.

The only thing that still needs decided upon is whether the court will have a Har-Tru surface or a traditional clay surface, Kirschner said. Kirschner said he is scheduled to have a meeting soon with tennis players from the village to get their input on what surface they would prefer more.

“Our goal is to have the facilities used,” Kirschner said.

The village voted to purchase the tennis courts in March 2013 from Russel Gardens Association, a homeowners group.

By A dA m L i d G e t t The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees voted Monday to select a Holbrook, N.Y., contractor for the renovation of the Main Branch.

The board chose VRD Contracting to do the library overhaul for $9.1 million - the lowest of the seven bids received by the board, said Dominic Calgi from Calgi Construction, who is the library owners’ representative on the project.

Calgi said the three lowest bidders all made very similar bids, and were all invited to be interviewed for the project.

“We interviewed the three lowest bidders to go over the scope of the work,” he said. “We wanted to make sure there were no questions on any of the details and we wanted to be confident among ourselves that our contractor had the whole package.”

Calgi said the people the contractors did work for in the past were called, and he was impressed with all the top three contractors records.

Residents of the Great Neck Library system authorized a $10.4 million bond

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in a November 2013 referendum vote to fund the revamping of the library’s interior, along with the installation of a new roof, insulated windows, a revamp of the building’s HVAC system and new lighting.

The three branches have changed their hours to accommodate for the closing of the Main Branch. Station Branch, located at 26 Great Neck Road, and Parkville Branch, located at 10 Campbell Street, will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

During the renovation process, the Levels program will be moved to Saddle Rock Elementary School, located at 10 Hawthorne Lane, on weekdays and the library’s Station Branch, located at 26 Great Neck Road, on weekends.

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second Shop Delight store could traffic congestion on Middle Neck alleviate traffic congestion at the Road as well as how delivery trucks current location on Welwyn Road. would maneuver through the locaSean Mulryan, the traffic engi- tion’s small parking lot.

A second Shop Delight Glatt Mulryan said Great Neck Kosher supermarket has been pro- neer for the project, said the Welposed within the Village of Great wyn Road store has an average of Gourmet is considering trafficNeck Estates that officials said 89 customers during peak hours, calming measures as part of its apcould attract even more shoppers while the proposed location could plication, including valet parking Gregory Menu features accommodate up to 125contemporary people service to a nearby municipal lot duringChef peak hours than theKearns current Fall seasonal specials along with and transporting stock from marduring theour sametraditional time period. selections store on Welwyn Road in Great The store currently has a five- ket to market by van rather than Neck Plaza.

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Under the waste disposal and the effect on Rite Aid pharmacy, which is about Lunch: Tuesday - Friday from 12-3pm plan, which was from intended to allevi- neighboring businesses.

10 blocks away from the smaller Dinner: Tuesday - Saturday 5-10pm “There is a lot of information ate parking traffic problems in Shop Delight store.

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Though details of the traffic was a lot of rejection. But of course of concern to the village including traffic and garbage disposal,” study for the new store were not we’ve taken care of looking at everything so the questions are not disclosed, Mulryan said afternoons 234anHillside Ave., Williston Park, NY 11596 said Alan Stein, attorney repreand weekends were considered surprising - but I believe we have senting the applicant, Great Neck 516.746.1243 the answers.” c times of day.

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By A dA m L i d G e t t The Village of Great Neck Plaza will hold a public hearing Dec. 17 on a proposed law that would ban businesses that profit from on-site smoking.

The hearing will be held at 8 p.m. at Village Hall, located 2 Gussack Plaza.

Trustees approved a moratorium in June on businesses that profit from on-site smoking, so the trustees could study the health effects of hookah smoking before deciding if the village would enact a permanent ban on smoking-related businesses.

The issue of smoking-related businesses came into the public eye after The Fountain Blue Hoo-

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The owners of the controversial lounge had come under fire from trustees previously who claim the business’ owner made “misrepresentations” during their conditional-use permit application process.

The Village of Great Neck had said they may impose sanctions on the hookah lounge, but have since decided not to.

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Temple Beth-El of Great Neck sponsored an event on Sunday to help raise awareness about what is appropriate for girls to wear during religious services, but not in the way most would think.

The temple partnered with Lord & Taylor Manhasset in the “What NOT To Wear Fashion Show,” to show what is and is not appropriate dress, said Amanda Greenawalt, director of Youth Engagement at the temple, said.

“The event, while fun in nature, was serious in tone,” Greenawalt said. “While clothing choices can often polarize adults and teens, this event brought everyone together.”

The event featured teenagers from JTC, the temple’s senior youth group, Greenawalt said.

Greenawalt said the kids would model fashion that “may have been appropriate at a party, but needed some transforming to be worn inside a prayer service.

Lord & Taylor worked closely with motherdaughter co-chairs Randi and Leah Fried, event organizers said.

Lord & Taylor community outreach coordinator Maureen Cunningham provided for all the clothing, setup, music and breakfast.

The looks of each of the models was rounded out by the Clinique counter, Greenawalt said.

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thomaston looks Adelphi names for budget approval first woman prez

By A dA m L i d G e t t

The Village of Thomaston presented a $2,018,600 budget for 2015-16 on Monday that calls for nearly $400,000 less in spending than in 2014-15 and no increase in the tax rate.

Village Administrator Barbara Daniels said this is the sixth year the tax rate will not change.

Village of Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg said the reduction in spending was, in large part, a result of a decrease of $490,000 in contract road repairs - from $873,000 to $350,000.

The village does expect an increase in tax refunds from $35,000 to $60,000.

Weinberg said the number is essentially an educated guess with respect to possible tax refunds.

“It’s just a matter of trying to forecast for certain tax certioraris that are pending that could result in orders to refund taxes up to that amount,” he said.

Another increase in spending will be in tree planting and beautification of the village. The proposed amount for the coming year’s budget is $70,000, while the previous year’s adopted amount was $31,000.

Weinberg said the village would like to

plant more trees because of the toll taken on trees in the village by recent storms.

“We would like to plant street trees that will not only beautify the village and be acceptable to residents but will also have no harmful effect to the streets,” Weinberg said.

He said the village is using what is left of a $35,000 grant they received for tree planting to help pay for the increase in plantings.

The village also expects to pay a $34,287 increase - to $325,000 - in contract refuse collection.

Weinberg said the village is in the final year of a three-year contract with the company that collects refuse, and that the price for this year was agreed upon years prior. He said in the first year of the contract, the village received a reduction in price as well.

He said the village expects to collect $1.5 million in taxes and $367,050 in revenue other than taxes. The village, he said, also will use a cash surplus of $122,732 to keep taxes down.

The fiscal year will begin in March and go on until February 2016. A public hearing will be held by the village at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12 where they will further discuss the budget.

The village will be able to change the budget at the public hearing, Daniels said.

By B r yA N A H r e N s Adelphi University announced last week that University of Kentucky provost Christine Riordan will become its 10th president and first woman to hold the post in the school’s 118-year history.

Riordan will succeed Robert Scott, who served as the Garden City university’s president since 2000.

“This is a breathtaking moment for me,” Riordan said. “I feel so very privileged and honored to be named as the 10th president of Adelphi University and as the first woman president.”

Riordan, whose term starts on July 1, 2015, was chosen unanimously out of more than 125 applicants by a search committee that included university trustees, students and faculty, according to a news release from the school.

Robert Willumstad, chairman of Adelphi’s board of trustees, said he was worried that selecting candidates would be a difficult process, noting that the search committee was tasked with narrowing potential candidates down to four.

“As it turned out, I was wrong, because I expected this process to be arduous and take a long time,” Willumstad said. “We

were able to easily select the top four candidates and it wasn’t even close.”

Willumstad said he was surprised again when it came time to chose from the four candidates.

“At the end of the day, once again, I was wrong,” Willumstad said. “We wound up with overwhelming support for one candidate, and that was Dr. Riordan. “My fear was if she wasn’t going to take the job I didn’t know what we were going to do.”

Riordan has served as provost at the University of Kentucky since 2013, overseeing all of the university’s academic operations. From 2008 to 2013, Riordan served as dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, Willumstad said.

Riordan has written more than 28 articles for various media outlets and academic journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal.

She graduated from Georgia State University with a Ph.D. and an MBA and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Textile Engineering degree, according to her website.

“We felt very strongly that we wanted to find the right person and I believe we have,” Willumstad said.

IDA gives tax break to G.N. Plaza business

By A dA m L i d G e t t The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency on Tuesday approved tax breaks for a technology business incubator located at 3 Grace Ave. in Great Neck Plaza LaunchPad, a business that allows start-up companies to rent space in an office building, will receive up to $32,344 in sales and use tax exemptions and up to $41,580 in mortgage

recording tax, IDA Executive Director Joseph Kearney said.

Kearney said the business will also get a 10-year paymentin-lieu of taxes program, which will freeze taxes at current level for three years, and increase 1.66 percent for years four through 10 of the PILOT payment.

The current tax level for the property is $120,162.81, but the IDA will base that the tax break on the left at the time the agree-

ment between the IDA and the business is completed.

Kearney said the transaction may not take place officially for weeks or months.

“We don’t know positively when it will happen,” he said.

“It could happen in December, it could start after 2015. It depends on when they get the documents ready and when we get ours ready.”

Peter Goldsmith, president of LISTnet, which operates the

Golf club employee charged with burglary of apartment An employee of the Fresh Meadow Country Club in Lake Success was arrested Wednesday for the burglary of a resident’s apartment after he was seen on a video entering the man’s apartment, Nassau County Police Department said.

David Pierre, 27, of 41 Ponds Hill Road in Great Neck was charged with second and third degree burglary and forth

degree grand larceny, police said.

Police said a 49-year-old resident of the Fresh Meadow Country Club, located at 255 Lakeville Road, reported that someone had gone into his apartment while he was away between Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.

The resident reported that someone had removed $1,200 that he kept hidden in his kitch-

en, police said.

The club and the resident both notified police that they had found Pierre, an employee of the club, on video entering the man’s apartment without permission, police said.

Police said they arrested Pierre without incident.

Pierre was arraigned Thursday at the First District Court in Hempstead, police said.

LaunchPad program, said the company is excited about opening the fourth LaunchPad in Great Neck.

“Bringing tech companies to Great Neck will be a win-win for all, and it could not have happened without the support of [Village of Great Neck Plaza] Mayor Jean Celender, the Nassau County IDA, and the vision of County Executive [Edward] Mangano,” Goldsmith said.

“LISTnet will have its headquarters and I will be located there and we look forward to working with everyone to create more jobs and help tech startups grow in Nassau County.”

The $4 million project is expected to create 50 new jobs, generate $12 million in economic impact and $90,000 in net tax benefits, Mangano’s office said.

Mangano said the project will help improve the economic growth of the area.

“My administration has helped create an environment where businesses can produce viable high technology products and fuel the county’s future economic growth,” Mangano said.

“LaunchPad, with the assistance of the IDA, will move this forward.”

Great Neck Plaza trustees approved a conditional-use permit for LaunchPad in August.

“I am so glad that this is coming forward,” Celender said at the time. “I think you’ll be a driver of new activity in the village.”

The company will occupy parts of the first floor of 3 Grace Ave. as well as the entire basement of the building, according to its application with the village.

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jingle Bells, Batman Smells at tilles Music and holiday fun for all ages will be on tap at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post this weekend.

Junie B. will be on the stage in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.

The performance is based on the book

by Barbara Park. It’s holiday time, and everyone’s favorite first grader is back to celebrate.

But how is Junie B. supposed to enjoy anything when she’s drawn the name of her arch nemesis, Tattletale May, for her Secret Santa Gift? Appropriate for ages five and up.

This performance is sponsored by NIC Holding

Corp. and is preceded by a Tilles Center Family Fun Workshop.

At 1 p.m. in the Patron’s Lounge, kids and parents can make holiday crafts and act out parts of Junie B’s story. The workshop is sponsored by Rose Tumarello and Associates.

Performance tickets range from $18$28 and Family Fun Workshop tickets are $5. Tickets can be purchased online at tillescenter.org or TicketMaster.com, in person at Tilles Center box office, or by telephone at (516) 299-3100 or 1 (800) 745-3000. The box office, located at 720 Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville, New York, is open Monday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Ticket prices include a $3 per ticket facility fee. There are no refunds, and no exchanges on single ticket purchases.

Internationally-acclaimed chamber music ensemble, Amphion String Quartet performs the next day, Sunday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m.

The program will include Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade in G Major, Beethoven’s String Quartet E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, and Grieg’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27.

The performance will take place in Hillwood Recital Hall. The performance, part of the Hillwood Music Series, will be introduced by Artistic Director Caroline Stoessinger. The series is sponsored by Roger and Jerry Tilles.

Performance tickets are $43 and can be purchased online at tillescenter.org or TicketMaster.com, in person at Tilles Center box office, or by telephone at (516) 299-3100 or 1 (800) 745-3000.

Ticket prices include a $3 per ticket facility fee. There are no refunds, and no exchanges on single ticket purchases.

For a complete list of participating students, additional program information or press photos, visits tillescenter.org/press.

Later that night, the Long Island Youth Orchestra rounds out the weekend, performing a 7 p.m.T Conductor Scott Dunn will lead the orchestra’s performances of Franz Schubert’s Overture to Rosamunde, George Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 and Michael Gandolfi’s Chesapeake: Summer of 1814 Tickets will be on sale one hour priot to the performance and are: Adults $15; Student/Seniors $10.

For further information about the Long Island Youth Orchestra visit www.liyo.org

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Savor the Season: the pleasure of Wine and Chocolate pairing Old Westbury Gardens 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568 (516) 333-0048 • www.oldwestburygardens.org through a guided tasting, New york’s chocolate sommelier, roxanne Browning, will pair the pleasure and fine nuances of exceptional artisan chocolates from around the world with wine. enjoy the fusion of aroma, texture, and flavor in multiple flights of chocolates amongst the dazzling holiday décor of Westbury House.

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(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com oliver, an emmy and Writer’s Guild Award winning writer and host of HBo’s Last Week tonight, returns to his first love of stand-up. oliver was a correspondent and guest host on the multi-award winning the daily show with Jon stewart. He also co-writes and copresents the hugely popular weekly satirical podcast the Bugle with long-time collaborator Andy Zaltzman.

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Saturday, Dec. 13, 7 & 9:30 p.m. joe deVito Governors’ Comedy Club 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 http://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm Joe deVito has the power to start fires using his mind, and he also does stand-up comedy.

Whether taking on relationships, his italianAmerican family, or current events, deVito’s dead-on timing, unexpected twists and sheer flights of lunacy make him a favorite at clubs and colleges across the usA, and at the top venues in New york city.

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Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m. a john Waters Christmas The Space At Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com using his rapid-fire monologue, the cult filmmaker explores and explodes the traditional holiday rituals and traditions as he shares his religious fanaticism for santa claus, and an unhealthy love of real life holiday horror stories. delving into his passion for lunatic exploitation christmas movies and the unhealthy urge to remake all his own films into seasonal children’s classics, Water will give you a Joyeaux Noel like no other.

Darlene Love Sunday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. darlene Love Landmark On Main Street 232 Main Street, Suite 1, Port Washington (516) 767-1384, ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org rock and roll Hall of Fame inductee darlene Love returns to Landmark on main street for her fourth consecutive holiday concert sunday evening. Love captivates audiences with her gracious stage presence and sensational performances. rolling stone proclaimed her “one of the greatest singers of all time.” tickets: Premium* $72 • Friends $67 • standard* $67 • Friends $62

Buckcherry Monday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m.

Buckcherry The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300, ext. 303 www.paramountny.com california hard-rock outfit Buckcherry stumbles into the Paramount theater for a single show monday night. Led by lead singer Josh todd, the band first reached success in 1999 with their self-titled debut album featuring the hit “Lit up.” their 2005 release 15 cemented the band’s place in the limelight, hitting the charts with “sorry” and ‘crazy Bitch.”

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Thursday, Dec. 18,. 8 p.m. trans-Siberian Orchestra Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale (516) 794-9300 • www.nassaucoliseum.com trans-siberian orchestra will perform their rock opera “the christmas Attic,” featuring one of the band’s most popular songs “christmas canon,” when the ensemble plays the coliseum thursday. it is the only album of the group’s christmas trilogy never to be performed live. the album will be re-released, to coincide with the tour, complete with bonus tracks, as well as a special vinyl edition.

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SECOND FLOOR GALLERIES Through March 8 Long Island Collects the Arts of China An exhibition drawn from the holdings of Long Islanders whose collections include exceptional Chinese art in a variety of media. Many of these works have never or rarely-before been seen by the public.

PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERY Through March 8 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works on Paper Tiffany artworks from the museum’s permanent collection CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS GALLERY Through March 8 Gavin Rain A native of Cape Town, South Africa, Gavin Rain works primarily in a neo-pointillist style. He cites two main narratives in his work: Hidden in plain sight, in which the subject cannot be seen until the viewer takes a few steps back; and Pseudo digital, in which the artist uses rows of dots in a pattern similar to television or computer screens. He credits Seurat, Russian avant garde art of the 1900s and the work of many architects as his main artistic influences. Rain’s work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world.

ONGOING Sculpture Park More than 40 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property.

Walking Trails The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods,

perfect for family hikes or independent exploration.

Gardens From restored formal gardens of historic importance to quiet little nooks for dreaming away an afternoon, the museum’s 145 acre property features many lush examples of horticultural arts. Come view our expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum.

EVENTS Through March 8(with exceptions for specific programs) FILM: The Other Eye The Other Eye is the first film about artist Liu Dan, China’s major modern-day exponent of ink painting. A selection of the artist’s work is on view in the museum’s current major exhibition devoted to the arts of China, from earliest times to the present.

In The Other Eye we see a remarkable glimpse into Liu Dan’s creative process as he creates a large-scale landscape.

Filmmaker Fan Xiaochun, has customized a 15-minute excerpt for the Museum from her longer documentary film about Liu Dan’s work. Free with Museum admission. Reservations not needed; first come, first seated.

Sundays, Dec. 14, 21, 28 from 1-4 p.m.

Family Tour at 1 p.m.

Converse, collaborate and create together during our Family Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.

Each week be inspired by exhibition based gallery conversations, and explore new art materials, vocabulary and ideas with our museum educator. Family Sundays provide children and the adults in their lives the opportunity to take time from their busy lives to reconnect while talking about and making art together. New Projects are featured every week! Not offered on Dec. 7 and 21; please plan to attend the special family programs those days!

Thursdays, Dec. 18, Jan. 8, Feb. 5 from 1 to 2 p.m.

Brown Bag Lectures: Riva Ettus Bring a sandwich and enjoy lunch with friends as Museum Docent Riva Ettus presents an informative talk on the extensive range of art included in China Then and Now. Afterward, join the 2 p.m. public exhibition tour. Free with museum admission. Reservations not needed; first come, first seated.

Saturday, Dec. 20 at 3 p.m.

A Thousand Graces: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in America Then and Now Daisy Yiyou Wang, curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, traces the journeys of Chinese Buddhist sculptures from early 20th-century temples to their display in American art museums as they fascinated noted American collectors such as Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, Charles L. Freer and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Wang shares her new research on Charles L. Freer, the founder of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, exploring his collection of Chinese Buddhist art. She is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Freer and his collection.

Admission is $15 (museum members, $5) and includes museum admission. Register at nassaumuseum.org/events.

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he best holiday gifts are often those that encourage their recipients to pursue a passion or favorite hobby. Tickets to a ballgame might be right up a sports fan’s alley while the family globetrotter would no doubt love a contribution to his or her travel fund.

When gifting the family foodie, that one person who loves to cook or simply can’t get enough of his or her favorite cuisines, shoppers have a host of options at their disposal to ensure this holiday season brings a smile to their favorite foodie’s face.

Spice rack: Few home cooks can get by without a vast selection of spices, so a spice rack that includes all the essential spices makes perfect sense for the family foodie. Some spice racks even come with several years’ worth of free spice refills, so do your homework and find one that will have your friend or family member spicing things up for years to come.

Cooking lessons: Cooking lessons can be a great way for men, women and even children to cultivate their love for food.

If your friend or family member prefers a specific type of cuisine, then find him or her cooking lessons where he or she can learn how to prepare and not just eat some favorite dishes. Cooking lessons

also make a great opportunity to bond with a loved one. If you, too, want to expand your cooking horizons, buy your own lessons and go with your friend or family member.

A night out: If your favorite foodie prefers his or her meals made by someone else, treat that friend or family member to a night out at his or her favorite restaurant.

You can give a gift card to the restaurant or take this special someone out yourself and enjoy a great meal and great company to boot.

Serving dishes: Many foodies not only love to eat but also love to serve up their favorite foods to family and friends. If your friend or family member has played host to guests many times in the past, surprise him or her with some new serving dishes.

You probably have a sense of their serving style already, but if you don’t, make a mental note the next time you visit or simply buy them a gift card so they can buy whichever dishes they need to make their next soiree a success.

Wine rack: A great bottle of wine completes a great meal, so why not buy your family foodie a place to store all of his or her bottles of wine? Wine racks can range from the simple, inexpensive standup models to more complex or expensive models that need to be installed. If the eventual recipient of your thoughtful gift rents rather than owns his or her home, avoid buying a wine rack that needs to be installed, as that might cause damage that will cost them some money when the time comes to move out.

But if your friend or family member owns their home, then look for a wine rack that fits in with their established décor. You even can christen the new wine rack by supplementing your gift with a few bottles of your loved one’s favorite vintages.

With so many potential gifts to choose from, shoppers often find foodies are fun to shop for come the holiday season.

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he holiday season is a time to share happy experiences with friends and family. But reconnecting with loved ones come the holidays is not always possible, especially when family and friends are spread out across the country, if not the globe. Even though these people may not be close geographically, they’re still close in our hearts and, therefore, still on our holiday shopping lists.

Some issues arise when sending gifts to faraway friends and family.

Distance necessitates shipping gifts or making travel arrangements. To make that process less complicated, consider these suggestions.

Package gifts wisely. When shipping gifts, exercise caution to ensure the item arrives on time and in one piece. The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for the shipping industry, and packages may endure a few bumps along the way. For fragile items, use extra packing peanuts, newspaper or other protective wrapping material.

Choose the right size package so the gift does not move around much inside of the box. If the gift is expensive, insure the package in the event it gets lost or damaged. Also, you may want to spend a little more money to have the shipment tracked and a confirmation sent when the package is delivered. This can offer some peace of mind during a hectic time of year.

Take advantage of free shipping offers. Many retailers offer discounts on shipping rates during the holiday

season. Shop at retailers that offer such discounts, as shipping costs can be exorbitant depending on the sizes of the packages being sent. In addition, online retailers may allow you to ship the gift directly to its recipient, which can help you ensure the gift gets to its destination on time.

Give gift cards and certificates.

Gift cards are an easy item to ship, and can be sent within the regular mail for the cost of a stamp. Certain retailers may have digital gift cards or certificates that allow buyers to email a special code to the gift recipient, who can then redeem the code for a purchase credit. This is a convenient, fast and inexpensive way to send holiday wishes.

Don’t forget about inspections and customs procedures. Items shipped out of the country may be delayed by customs inspectors at their ultimate destination. Assume that certain packages may be opened or detained, and ship such packages early so the gifts still arrive on time. Packages that look unusual or like they’re hiding something may be prone to inspection more so than others. Be honest about declarations of value and what is contained in the package. Also, realize certain items, like fruits, vegetables, plants, or seeds, may be prohibited. Learn the international shipping rules for your gift’s destination prior to sending anything.

Distant family members and friends may be out of sight but certainly not out of mind come the holidays. When it comes to sending gifts, ship smart.

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Eco-friendly gift ideas for ‘green’ giving Locally made products Locally made products make great holiday gifts. Such gifts are not produced halfway around the world, meaning they don’t contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming like products that need to be flown or driven across the globe. Craft fairs and artisan shops are good sources for locally made gifts, which also are a great way to support businesses in your community.

Music lessons and other gifts of service do not require a great deal of natural resources, making them ideal eco-friendly gifts.

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iving eco-friendly gifts is now easier than ever before. As more and more people are conscious of reducing their impact on the planet, the demand for environmentally conscious products and services has grown.

Choosing earth-friendly gifts is not only generous, but giftgivers also can rest assured they’re doing their part to safeguard natural resources for future generations. The following are some gift ideas for the eco-conscious people on your holiday shopping list.

Gifts of service A massage or music or tutoring sessions are examples of gifts of service.

These gifts do not require much use of natural resources, and recipients find their personal nature very thoughtful. Gifts of service also can include tasks you do yourself for the gift recipient, rather than paying another person to handle. For example, teach a senior member of your family

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Trivets and spoon rests made from recycled and melted wine bottles make for clever and attractive gifts. Recycled fire extinguishers have been turned into vases, and you can even find bike parts that have been used to make wind chimes and belts if you know where to shop.

Natural gifts Natural gifts are among the most environmentally friendly ones you can give. Foodies may appreciate an herbgrowing kit that enables them

to experiment with freshly picked basil or thyme in the kitchen, while tree-growing kits and flower seed packets are nice stocking stuffers for budding gardeners. Offer to purchase a living Christmas tree for a relative, so that he or she can plant the evergreen after the holidays have come and gone.

Antiques New, shiny gifts are not the only ones that have appeal. Gifting a sentimental piece of family history is an earth-friendly way to share the holidays. Pass down a cherished piece of jewelry or, if you do not have anything in your own collection, browse antique shops for items that have interesting histories.

The holiday season is often a time of excess, but giving doesn’t have to be detrimental to the environment. Givers can seek out earth-friendly gifts and share even more this time of year.

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Steps to take before giving pets as gifts some people may be allergic to certain animals or simply not have the time or energy to devote to pet ownership.

No one wants to return an animal to a kennel, and forcing a loved to take on the unwanted responsibility of pet ownership does not make much of a gift.

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t’s not uncommon for families to welcome a new pet into their homes during the holiday season. Parents may give their children their first pet during the holidays, but those who choose to give a pet to someone outside their immediate family or to someone they don’t live with should consider the following advice before going through with that decision.

Consult the eventual recipient first The element of surprise is part of what makes the holiday season of giving so special, and few things may inspire more enthusiastic responses than new pets under the tree. But however appealing you may find such reactions, it’s still best to first consult the intended recipient before buying or adopting the pet. Pets make wonderful additions to a home, but

Let the recipient choose the pet Aunts or uncles may think a cute puppy is an ideal holiday gift for their nieces and nephews, but it’s best to let those youngsters’ parents choose the pet rather than going it alone. Once mom and dad have given you the greenlight to gift their kids a pet, let them decide which type of pet will become the newest member of their households.

Parents may not feel their children are ready to handle the significant responsibility of dog ownership, and they may prefer their kids first receive a more low-maintenance pet, such as a fish.

Pay for everything Pets are expensive, even those that are adopted from nearby shelters. Cats and dogs adopted from local shelters or even animals bought directly from breeders will need some immediate

medical care, including shots and initial examinations at the veterinarian’s office, as well as food, dishes, leashes (if giving a dog), and bedding. When giving pets as a gift, men and women should fit the bill for these additional expenses, which can be significant. Recipients may not be able to afford these additional expenses, especially during the holiday season, nor did they ask to take on such a financial burden. So men and women giving pets as gifts should be capable of handling the oft-overlooked costs of adopting or buying a new pet.

Be willing to take the pet Some households simply are not a good match for pets. Men and women looking to give pets as holiday gifts should be willing to take the pet into their own homes if things are not working out with the recipient. This does not mean gift-givers have to keep the pet forever, but they should be willing to temporarily care for the animal until it finds a new home.

Pets sometimes make wonderful gifts, but men and women who are considering giving pets as gifts this holiday season should not approach such gestures lightly.

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Grab bags are a staple of this season of giving, and the following are a few dos and don’ts to ensure participation in gift exchanges is fun and friendly for all involved.

DO set a gift amount limit. Holiday grab bags are more about having fun and exchanging a little something with friends and family members than walking away with amazing prizes.

Establish a spending limit so everyone receives a gift of roughly the same value and no one feels slighted or left out.

DON’T exceed the spending limit. It can be tempting to spend more to make your gift appear more impressive. But overspending defeats the purpose of the gift exchange. Grab bags typically are anonymous, so being overly generous will not win you any style points.

DO make it a game. Tossing gifts in a bag only to have others reach in and grab one is certainly effective. But the concept can be even more fun if you make a game out of it. Try passing wrapped gifts around in a circle to a holiday song. When the music stops, the gift you are holding is the one you open. Experiment with your own variations to make gift exchanges more fun.

DON’T let anyone see the gift you bring. The idea is to keep things as secretive as possible so as not to sway the selection of presents.

DO ensure your gift is unisex. Unless you know specifically that only men or women will be opening the presents, select items that will appeal to both genders. Food, gift cards, music, or home staples make great grab bag gifts.

DON’T forget to consider ages as well. Gift exchanges may include both children and adults, so include gifts that appeal to all ages when necessary.

When the exchange has ended, allow participants to swap gifts if they want to.

DO expect some grab bag gifts to be gag gifts. Such gifts are entertaining and may make up the majority of the grab bag gifts. Keep your sense of humor and you’re likely to enjoy grab bags a lot more.

DON’T regift items to use as grab bag picks. Should the person who gave you the gift participate in the grab bag, he or she can trace that gift back to you and may be offended.

DO make sure everyone is aware that there will be a grab bag gift exchange, as there needs to be an equal number of gifts to participants so everyone gets a treat. Hosts may want to have a few extra wrapped gifts around just in case someone forgets to bring their contribution.

Gift exchanges in the form of grab bags, auctions, swaps, and other games make for fun additions to holiday festivities. They also can be a part of any family or friends gathering to add excitement and entertainment to the occasion.

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Easy ideas for holiday wreaths

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reaths are synonymous with the holiday season, and they can range from intricate to simple to flashy to rustic. Creating festive wreaths does not necessarily require a lot of skill, and wreaths can be fashioned from a variety of different materials.

The first step to crafting wreaths is to gather the foundation pieces.

This usually involves a sturdy material that will serve as the wreath round. It can be vine, foam, branches, or even wire. You’ll also need decorative items that fit the theme of your wreath. These may be berries, ornaments, ribbons, bows, and other trinkets that will be attached to the wreath. Florist wire and tape can be used to attach the ornaments to the wreath.

“Say cheese” wreath

Purchase a premade evergreen wreath or wrap boughs of pine around a wreath frame to make your own. Glue or tie on small wooden frames with photos of the family to the wreath. Fill in the barren spots with small bows and ornaments.

Fruitful wreath

Instead of an evergreen wreath, create something festive and edible. Fruit and vegetables in vibrant colors can be used to fashion a wreath. Use picks or wire to attach oranges, lemons, limes, clementines, and any other produce desired to a foam wreath.

Use leaves to fill in sparse areas and a thick ribbon to hang the wreath.

Holly vine wreath

Purchase a plain grapevine wreath and decorate it with sprigs of holly leaves and stems with berries. Simple and festive, this wreath should take only a few minutes to make and then hang.

Metallic wreath

Add a glamorous touch to an evergreen wreath with faux fruit and pine cones that you paint with glimmering metallic colors. Intersperse items in gold, copper and silver for an eye-catching piece that can adorn any spot in your home. Add a few twinkling lights to reflect off of the metallic elements to add even more appeal.

Bells or glass ornament wreath

Use flexible wire to string a wreath of metal bells or glass ornaments together in a ring shape. Bells not only look nice but also lend a gentle twinkling sound anytime the door is opened.

Floral wreath

Make a fresh flower wreath from a florist’s wreath and fresh blooms.

Soak the foam wreath in water according to the packaged directions. Trim flower stems (carnations are durable) and insert the stems into the wreath. Attach a bow to the bottom of the wreath and then hang. This is one wreath that is best displayed the day of the festivities because it has a short shelf life.

Cinnamon wreath

This wreath looks beautiful and gives off that quintessential holiday aroma. Begin with a foam wreath and wrap with a two-inch wide ribbon to cover. Use hot glue to secure cinnamon sticks all around the wreath. For more color, add sprigs of holly, bows or mistletoe.

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Emphasize safety when buying gifts for children

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oys will once again be high on kids’ wish lists this holiday season, when advertisements will highlight this year’s most coveted gifts. But just because a particular toy is this year’s must-have item does not mean it’s the safest gift for kids of all ages.

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were an estimated 265,000 toy-related injuries treated at hospitals in the United States in 2012. Of those injuries, an estimated 72 percent happened to children younger than 15 years of age while 69 percent affected kids 12 years of age or younger. In addition, an estimated 34 percent of those injuries happened to children younger than five years of age. Many toy-related deaths were the result of drowning and asphyxiation.

No one wants to think about injuries or deaths involving kids, but holiday shoppers must keep safety in mind when purchasing children’s gifts to safeguard youngsters from injury.

Balloons The CPSC notes that balloons are the leading cause of suffocation death in children. Children may swallow broken or uninflated balloons, which can then stick to the throat and airway, making it impossible to breathe. Holiday shoppers should avoid giving balloons to children age eight or younger. In addition, dispose of balloons if or when they deflate.

Painted toys Lead paints and toys containing lead are not legal in North America, but that doesn’t mean that imported toys are made in adherence to stringent safety guidelines. Before buying a toy, confirm that it is lead-free, as exposure to lead can cause serious neurological problems, especially in young children.

TOY SAFETY TIPS • Read the packaging to ensure that toys are age-appropriate.

• Avoid projectile toys or those with sharp points.

• Store toys that belong to older children out of reach of younger kids.

• Don’t buy toys with removable parts that can be swallowed.

• Only buy toys made from nontoxic materials.

• Only buy fabric toys that are labeled as flame-resistant or flame-retardant.

• Only buy stuffed toys that are washable.

• Graciously decline hand-me-down toys that may not meet current safety standards.

Button batteries Button batteries, or the small-sized batteries found in some toys, watches and hearing aids, can be hazardous.

Batteries can become stuck and cause chemical burns.

Adults should always verify that the battery compartments on children’s toys are secured with screws. Other products that have remote controls may contain batteries that are not adequately secured. In addition to button batteries, AAA batteries, which are small, can be hazardous to kids.

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‘The Nutcracker’ at Molloy College theater The Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts and Leggz Ltd. Ballet presents Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, “The Nutcracker” at The Madison Theatre of Molloy College Friday Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. and Sunday Dec. 21 at 4 p.m.

Under the leadership of artistic director and choreographer Joan MacNaughton, international ballet stars are joined by gifted young dancers from all over the metropolitan area.

This year the lead role of Clara will be performed by Sarah Hunt, of Dance Moms, and will feature Francesca Forcella from Ballet X, Washington Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, Houston Ballet performing the Sugar Plum Fairy; Richard Villaverde, from Ballet X, performing Cavalier; Katelyn Prominski, from the Boston Ballet, Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet, performing the Snow Queen and Arabian Coffee; Maximillian Baud, from Pennsylvania Ballet and the

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Great Neck Library Extended Hours at the Lakeville Branch Library The Lakeville Branch, located at 475 Great Neck Road, will now be open on Friday evenings until 9:00 p.m. Follows are the new Great Neck Library Branch hours in effect while the Main Library Building prepares for renovations. When one door closes, other doors open at your Great Neck Library. The Library continues to provide services, materials, and programs without interruption, and Library staff looks forward to assisting you at the three branch locations.

New Hours at the Branches Station Branch

The Gardens at Great Neck 26 Great Neck Road, (2nd level) Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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(Open Sundays through June 14, 2015) Lakeville Branch 475 Great Neck Road, Great Neck Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Thursday Film Matinee at Station Branch All film matinees will now be held at the Station Branch while the Main Library is being renovated. The next film matinee will be shown on Thursday, December 18 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch, The Gardens at Great Neck, 26 Great Neck Road, 2nd level (near Waldbaum’s). Refer to the Library Newslet-

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Doors open at 1:45 p.m.

Arrive early as seating is limited. Priority seating is given to Great Neck School District residents.

Please bring your Library card, driver’s license or other ID showing your Great Neck School District address. Ten minutes before the film begins non-residents will be seated if space permits. Please do not hold seats.

Great Neck Library Closing/Cancellation Information Online Library patrons connected to the Internet are asked to check the website: www.cancellations.

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Great Neck Park District programs Weekend Film Friday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13 at 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. the film Heaven Is For Real (2014), directed by Randall Wallace and starring Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly and Thomas Haden Church will be shown at Great Neck House.

A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. It is rated PG and runs 99 minutes. A park card required for admission.

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The film “Heaven is for Real” starring Greg Kinnear will be shown at Great Neck House this weekend.

Cove at the Wonderful Welwyn Preserve. We’ll explore various habitats in this county park, including wetlands,

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482-0355. Children under 16 yrs. not permitted to attend.

December Holiday MiniCamps

The December holidays will be here before you know it! Keep the kids busy at the Junior Mini Tennis Camp. The program runs at the Parkwood Indoor Tennis Center on Dec. 22, 23, 24 and 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 1 to 4 p.m. Resident fee: $192; Non-resident : $250. Call (516) 8299050 for more info or visit www.greatneckparks.com. Or if you prefer to skate come to the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice RInk for the Holiday Skate Camp. Camp runs on December 22, 23, 24 and 26 from 9:15 a.m.to 2:30 p.m. $100 per day for residents; non-residents $125. Call (516) 487-2976, ext. 114.

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) 8673580.

ROTARY CLUB OF GREAT NECK Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth will address the Rotary Club of Great Neck at their weekly breakfast meeting, to be held in the TD Bank

boardroom, 2 Great Neck Road on Dec. 17 at 8 a.m.

REAP REAP, retired, energetic, active people, meets Tuesday, Dec. 16 at the Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck. At 9 a.m., Mischa Schwartz will discuss, “Mary WollstonecraftFeminist Writer, Thinker of 18th Century.” The Business Meeting will commence at 10:30 a.m.

“My Opinion” will be offered by Rose Simon.

Jerry Berkson, speaker of the day will discuss, Growning Up in New

York in the 40’s and 50’s.

We break for lunch at 12 p.m. Join us; bring your lunch! Current Events discussion will take place at 12:30 p.m. led by Mildred Klar. Refreshments, coffee and tea will be served. The Science Club meets every week at 1 p.m. The book club is also to be meeting.

COMMUNITY HANUKKAH LIGHTING The Lake Success Jewish Center will hold its annual Community Hanukkah Lighting on Wednesday, Dec. 17. The lighting begins at 6 p.m.

and will be followed by Hanukkah refreshments as well as games for students. The entire community is invited to attend. Prior to the lighting the community is invited to a special program with renowned puppeteer Len Levitt. Levitt has been entertaining and educating for three decades.

He is the co-creator of several Jewish family series and has performed in films like “Men in Black.” The show begins at 5 p.m.. The Lake Success Jewish Center is located at 354 Lakeville Rd. in Lake Success. For

more information please call the synagogue office at (516) 466-0569.

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) 4875844.

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.

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Winter Wonderland Celebration 2014

The Great Neck Park District’s Fifth Annual Winter Wonderland Celebration was held Sunday, Dec. 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. Hundreds of people came to the festively decorated Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink, which offered a feeling of being outdoors on a frozen pond. There were family for all ages; activities included skating, arts & crafts, photo op’s, cotton candy and more.

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A new ‘Christmas Carol’ for our own time Continued from Page 17 Then there is another story of the American Dream. This one is about the rise to success

by Gerard Leeds - a member of our own community, who passed away on Thanksgiving Day, at the age of 92.

Leeds escaped the Holocaust, emigrating from Nazi Germany in 1939, at the age of 17.

Starting with virtually nothing, he became a sales manager and assistant to the president of a Westchester electronics firm, and in 1953 (two years after marrying Lilo, who also escaped Nazi Germany), he struck out to form GG Leeds Corp, representing makers of electronics components. “After four years of soaring prosperity.. Leeds formed Lumatron Electronics to manufacture a new oscilloscope,” according to LI Daily Commercial Review (Feb. 16, 1965).After merging his company, he again had the call to start his own company and in 1963, started Data Device Corp., which manufactured components for automatic test equipment, control systems and analog computers.

Six years later, he put this expertise in the electronics and nascent computer industry in forming yet another new company, CMP, which became a major publisher of trade magazines for the electronics, computer and travel industries.

1971 coincided with the emerging Women’s Revolution, and the Leeds’ pioneered “workand-life” balanced approach at CMP. They established policies and programs to remove the obstacles that were holding women back from advancing in their careers. Fortune and Working Mother magazine repeatedly listed CMP as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” I can testify to who Gerard and Lilo Leeds were as employers because I worked at CMP. They were pioneers in making a workplace a welcoming place among the first to open fitness center on the premises; holding seasonal parties (not just the

annual Christmas party).

But most important of all, they were pioneers in facilitating access to daycare (they actively supported CLASP Day Care Center as well as the ManhassetGreat Neck Child Care Partnership). They created a summer day camp on the premises (my happiest days at the company), while they worked for years to overcome the obstacles to opening one of the first (and still one of the only) corporate onsite daycare centers.

They recognized the vast social and economic implications of having access to child care: as Lilo Leeds told me, “We wanted to make it easier for women to become managers. We wanted to change the world in little ways.” Except they weren’t “little” at all, but big ways.

The Leeds did not just help chip away at the glass ceiling that held women back in their careers - with the implications for families’ financial security and advancement - but by working to increase the availability of quality, affordable child care, they improved the lives of our children, as well, at a time when pre-school programs were (and still are) woefully scarce. Great Neck’s own CLASP Children’s Center was one of the first of its kind and became a national model for early childhood programs.

I think of the Leeds all the time when I consider the opportunities my sons had because they were in quality, affordable, accessible day care - what it meant to their success in school and ultimately their careers because of this excellent head start they had at CLASP. The Leeds proved that contrary to the myth perpetrated at the time to keep women out of the workplace, that children were disadvantaged in day care, our children thrived because of it. The difference, of course, is the quality of the program.

Think about the Leeds’ approach to women in the workplace in context of the Supreme Court case being heard this week, where UPS refused to accommodate a pregnant woman

whose doctor restricted her to lifting no more than 20 pounds.

She was put on unpaid leave, meaning she not only lost her income but her health benefits as she was going through her pregnancy. How cruel. How absolutely Dickensonian (UPS has since voluntarily changed its policy).

As Ellen Bravo, executive director of Family Values @ Work, Milwaukee, noted in a letter to New York Times (Dec. 1), “the lawmakers who drafted New Jersey’s temporary disability insurance legislation back in the 1940s....excluded pregnancy from coverage, lumping it in with ‘injuries that are willfully self-inflicted or incurred during the perpetration of a high misdemeanor.’ Until women stop inflicting pregnancy on themselves, we’ll have to rely on reasonable accommodations: a stool, a glass of water and a few bathroom breaks.” (Congress refuses to take up legislation that has languished for a year, which would correct the problem.)

The Leeds sold CMP in 1999 to what became United Business Media for just under $1 billion.

It is not uncommon for fabulously wealthy people to be philanthropists, but the Leeds went beyond merely their resources (Gerard used to say simply - and modestly - “How many pairs of skis do I need to own?”) and devoted themselves to the betterment of others - they practically invented the term “social entrepreneur” creating institutions that would fundamentally become engines for progress.

Recognizing that access to education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty, they created institutions to support public education for disadvantaged communities and at-risk students, as well as continuing to support efforts to make child care more accessible, affordable and available.

They also founded the Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation, headquartered in Boston, Mass., named for Mrs. Leeds’ mother and father, which works on early childhood edu-

cation and care, gender equity, and education financing issues.

And they founded The Alliance for Excellent Education (all4ed.org), a Washington, D.C.-based national policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship. The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future.

The Leeds also launched the National Academy for Excellent Teaching at Columbia University’s Teacher College, which brings together prominent faculty, experts, researchers, and outstanding teachers to reinvent how the nation can upgrade the skills and knowledge of high school educators for higher student achievement.

But well before they sold CMP and became near-billionaires, in 1990, the couple launched the Institute for Student Achievement, which works in partnership with low-performing school districts to help at-risk middle and high school students.

I met one young woman during the shiva for Gerard at the Leeds’ house. Joy said she was 14 years old when she first met the Leeds, and was in the inaugural “class” of their Institute of Student Achievement.

She had no family - was in foster care - and said that the Leeds’ effectively “adopted” her into theirs. She has gone on to become a school psychologist, working in the same district she attended all those years ago (“Coming full circle,” she told me), her own daughter now in college.

Now I factor in the numbers who have been able to fulfill their potential because of the work the Leeds have done to create scholarships and educational opportunities for children

who happen to be born to less advantageous circumstances.

And I multiply the number of families like Joy’s and mine, the number of children who now have families of our own, as just a small measure of the lives the Leeds have touched in a positive way, to put people on a path toward the American Dream, so that their scion would not require the momentary beneficence of charity in this brief season of giving, but who can provide for themselves.

Poverty will never be eradicated. And there will never be nor should there be - a situation where the owner and the janitor are legislated to make the same income.

But poverty should not be a capital sentence, either, and it shouldn’t be perpetual, unto the generations. There should be a situation where the janitor, if he has the talent, skills, motivation and perseverance, has the ability to rise out of his situation, and create the opportunities for his children to make their own choices based on their ability and motivation.

That was the American Dream before it became corrupted. We need to restore the means for upward mobility which is the essence of the American Dream.

Gerard Leeds was a man who lived the American Dream and made it possible for others to, as well. He has left a mark on this world. He has truly left it a better place. What a legacy he leaves. He is a man who will be missed and remembered for a blessing.

People generally take from Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” the lesson of Christmas charity - that Scrooge loosened the grip on his coins to spread them around the street urchins and into the coffers of charities that provide for orphans.

But the lesson people should more appropriately focus on is that he raised the salary of his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and gave him the means to provide a better life for his family.

Great Neck Community Calendar Continued from Page 49 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, strengthening, 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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G.N. school music programs among top Great Neck North and South High Schools have been named 2015 GRAMMY Signature School Semifinalists by the GRAMMY Foundation. They are among 120 public school music programs in the nation to receive this honor.

To qualify as Semifinalists, schools were judged based on an extensive survey of their music programs. Surveys were completed by the music teachers.

For the next stage of the competition, to be named a GRAMMY Signature School Finalist, music teachers at Semifinalist schools are asked to submit additional documentation, including audio (CD or MP3) and printed materials highlighting the school’s programs in choral, string,

wind/percussion, and other areas (such as chamber, jazz, guitar, etc.). Materials are reviewed by an independent committee of top music educators and professionals. Each GRAMMY Signature School Finalist will receive an Award Certificate and a monetary grant to benefit its music program. Winners will be announced in mid-March 2015.

“Our GRAMMY Signature Schools program provides an ideal platform to raise awareness of public high schools across the country that are providing excellent music education programs for their students,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation. “The GRAM-

MY Foundation is committed to arts education and believes in the long-lasting interdisciplinary benefits it provides for young people.”

North High School’s music teachers are Joseph Rutkowski, instrumental; and Dr. Janine Robinson, vocal. Neil Saggerson is fine & performing arts department head. Music teachers at South High School are Michael Schwartz, performing arts department head/instrumental; Mark Boschen and Anthony Virgilio, instrumental; and Dr. Pamela Levy, vocal.

Both North and South High Schools have been named GRAMMY Signature School Semifinalists numerous times and have gone on to receive the distinction of

being named GRAMMY Signature School Finalists—North once and South three times.

The GRAMMY Signature Schools program, begun in 1998, is made possible in part through the generous support of Universal Music Group, Royal Bank of Canada, National Endowment for the Arts, Microsoft, McNally Smith College of Music, The Flourish Foundation, ASCAP Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, NAAM, Disney, Hot Topic Foundation, The Recording Academy, Ford Motor Company Fund, Box Tops for Education, Starkey Hearing Foundation, Tickets for Charity.Com, Journeys, and Converse.

South High performs in second concert Great Neck South High School musicians will perform in their Winter Concert II on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the school’s auditorium, 341 Lakeville Road. The Concert is free and the public is invited to attend this special evening of music.

The event will feature the Chamber Choir, Mixed Choir, Symphonic Band, and Symphony Orchestra.

The Chamber Choir will open the eve-

ning with “Si chi’io vorrei morire.”

The Mixed Choir will follow with “Sanctus,” “Agnus Dei,” and “Libera Me,” from the Fauré Requiem; “Make Our Garden Grow,” from Candide, by Leonard Bernstein; “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” by George Gershwin; and “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” and “This World is Not My Home,” by Mark Hayes.

The Symphonic Band will perform “Captain America March,” “Flight of

Valor,” “Testimonium,” “Highlights from Finian’s Rainbow” (“If This Isn’t True,” “How Are Things In Glocca Morra,” and “Old Devil Moon”), and “Brazilian Sleigh Bells.”

The Symphony Orchestra will close out the Concert with “Hatikvah—The Hope”; “Smooth,” as performed by Santana; “Overture to Candide,” by Leonard Bernstein; “An American In Paris Suite,”

by George Gershwin; and “Hoe-Down,”

from Rodeo, by Aaron Copland.

The Concert will be under the direction of Michael Schwartz, performing arts department head/instrumental teacher, and Dr. Pamela Levy, vocal music teacher.

For further information regarding this Concert or other musical activities at South High, please contact Mr. Schwartz at 441-4851 or at mschwartz@greatneck. k12.ny.us.

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Local clergy came to the PATV studio facility in Lake Success to videotape their holiday messages to the community. Participating this year in the holiday tradition were: Kim Losack, Jennifer Sappell, Rev. Natalie M. Fenimore, Rev. Paul S. Johnson and Rev. Jennifer L. Brower, members from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock; Rabbi Michael Klayman, of The Lake Success Jewish Center; Rev. Monsignor Riordan, of St. Aloysius R.C. Church in Great Neck. Please check the PATV Great Neck – North Shore Facebook page or website www.patv.org, for information on cablecast time and dates and for the latest updates.

Clockwise from top left: Rev. Monsignor Riordan standing in St. Aloysius R.C. Church in Great Neck; Mike Peters, PATV programming manager, Erica Bradley, PATV director of Technical Operations, Rabbi Michael Klayman, Lake Success Jewish Center and Shirley Ann Bruno, PATV executive director, in the PATV control room after taping their holiday messages; and the UUCSR in PATV studio. Pictured from left: Kim Losack, Jennifer Sappell, Rev. Natalie M. Fenimore, Rev. Paul S. Johnson, Rev. Jennifer L. Brower and Shirley Ann Bruno, PATV Executive Director.

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Former chief of staff to talk ‘empire’

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson will be guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel’s Sabbath Eve Service, Friday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, will be guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Friday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. He will offer the talk: “Troubled Empire.” All members of the community are invited to attend.

(There is no charge for admission.)

The Sisterhood of Temple Emanuel will sponsor a Sabbath dinner preceding the service at 5:45 p.m., to which congregants and all members of the community are invited. The donation for dinner is: $30/member; $35/non-member; and $18/child, 12 or under. Call (516) 482-5701 for further information.

Wilkerson is the distinguished visiting professor of government and public policy at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He also taught for six years in the University Honors Program at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. In addition to serving under Powell, Wilkerson was also associate director of the

State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass.

Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army, including as deputy executive officer to Powell when he commanded the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989), special assistant to Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as director and deputy director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Va. During the course of his service, Wilkerson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star, among other awards and decorations. At State, he earned the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, as well as two Superior Honor Awards. Wilkerson retired from active military service in 1997 and worked as an advisor to Powell.

Since leaving the State Department, Wilkerson has spoken to groups all over America—World

Affairs Councils, university and war college audiences, and members of local and state governments and the U.S. Congress and their staffs.

In addition, he has been published in The American Conservative, Playboy Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald, the New York Daily News, and other magazines and newspapers across the country, as well as appeared on television with Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Wolf Blitzer, the BBC’s Hardtalk and Newsnight, among others.

He has appeared in several documentaries also, including Alex Gibney’s “Taxi to the Dark Side” and Charles Ferguson’s “No End in Sight.” He was also chairman of the U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane. For further information, call (516) 4825701.

G.N. schools will honor tax exemptions The Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education will continue to honor partial school tax exemptions at the same limits as last year for three categories of taxpayers: senior citizens with limited income, persons with disabilities and limited income, and volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers. Exemptions apply to the 2014 tax year.

Applications for all partial tax exemptions are due before the taxable status date of Jan. 1, 2015. Applications are available in person from the Nassau County Department of Assessment,

240 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501. The Department is open weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Applications may also be requested by phone from the Department of Assessment at (516) 571-1500, or printed off the Nassau County Web site at http://www.nassaucountyny. gov/3575/Exemption-Forms/.

Senior Citizen Tax Exemptions Individuals who are at least 65 years old, have owned and occupied property in New York State as their legal, primary residence for at least one year, and

whose annual income is less than $37,400 are eligible to apply for a partial school-tax exemption.

The exemption of between 5–50 percent of assessed property valuation is determined by a graduated schedule according to income. The income limit is set by the State Legislature.

Since 1970, the Board of Education has provided relief to qualified property owners age 65 and older, for the maximum allowable exemption under State law.

Disability & Limited Income Tax Exemptions

In accordance with New York State law, the Board of Education continues to honor the Real Property Tax Exemptions for Persons with Disabilities and Limited Incomes.

The amount of exemption is based on individual income. The percentage of exemption and the amount of income, as set by the State Legislature, ranges from 50 percent, for those with income up to and including $29,000, to 5 percent, for those with income of at least $36,500 but less than $37,400.

The Board of Education has

provided tax relief to persons with disabilities and limited income since 1984.

Volunteer Firefighters & Ambulance Workers Tax Exemptions In accordance with New York State law amended in 2005, the Board of Education offers a property tax exemption to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers. The exemption follows strict guidelines for applicants to qualify for the tax assessment exemption. The exemption will be 10 percent of the qualified applicants’ real property assessed value.

Church to celebrate Christmas tradition Under the direction of Dr. James Shepherd, Choir Director and Organist, All Saints Episcopal Church will offer a Service of Lessons & Carols in the Church located at 855 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, on Sunday, Dec. 21, beginning at 4 p.m.

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was first introduced in 1918 at King’s College in Cambridge, England, where it is still held each year on Christmas Eve and is broadcasted around the world. In the United States, the ser-

vice is a popular fixture of the Episcopal Church.

The lessons tell the story of God’s loving purpose through the ages through the windows and words of the Bible. In addition, the service looks forward to the redemption brought by the child Jesus, who is welcomed with reverence and joy through music and song.

We invite the community to join us in this wonderful seasonal tradition. For more information, please call the church office (516) 4825392.

Dr. James Shepherd

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By B i LL sAN ANtoNio Nassau County has launched a new public safety initiative to provide 911 call operators with additional information about residents assisted by law enforcement and ambulance services during emergencies.

The program, Smart911, allows users to create profiles documenting the number of people within a household, illness and allergy history, pets and emergency contacts, among other details, which would then be made available to the Nassau County Police Department for use in future incidents.

Residents would also be able to opt-in to the county’s “Mass Emergency Alerting” service to learn details of major crises. The alerts could be sent by phone, text or e-mail.

“Smart911 streamlines the time necessary to elicit critical information and allows faster assignment and dispatch of responders to call locations with more information to assist the residents quickly,” said Thomas

Krumpter, acting commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department.

During an emergency, a household’s “safety profile” would be displayed to 911 call operators who county officials said could then offer quicker service.

The program also enables first responders to identify which households are in greatest need of assistance, officials said.

In a statement, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said the program would help cut down on the county’s crime rate, which he said is already at an historic low.

“Smart911 allows us to provide an even higher level of emergency service to residents while also enhancing officer safety,” said Mangano. “The more information we are able to gather about any situation enables responders to make better decisions more quickly when lives and property are at risk.”

Registration for the program is available at Smart911.com.

Information provided to the site may be updated or changed at any time, officials said.

Plan to pull school speed zone cameras would be removed under a contract with the Arizona-based ity leader, in a statement. “I American Traffic Solutions, Gonam glad the presiding officer and salves said. Termination fees for the Republican legislative majority the contract, she said, would total chose to do the right thing and fi- about $1.8 million. nally come around to our side and Republican legislators began join the action to repeal the failed floating the idea of repealing the speed camera program.” program after Mangano in August If the legislation is approved, declared amnesty for fines issued the school speed zone cameras in error from speed zone cameras

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throughout the county, Gonsalves said.

Mangano on Dec. 3 changed the hours of operation of the speed zone cameras from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., which began Monday.

But Gonsalves and other Republican lawmakers Tuesday said the changes to the program, com-

bined with installed signage at school zone sites, became confusing to motorists.

“We all [heard complaints],” said Nassau County Legislature Deputy President Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park).

“Everywhere we went in our communities, it was a subject people - neighbors, friends, family - kept bringing up.”

Gonsalves also balked at questions of whether the legislation was politically-motivated, as legislators are up for re-election in 2015.

“We serve the public, it doesn’t matter if we’re Republicans or Democrats or if they’re Democrat or Republican, we take calls from our constituents,” she said. “I think we’ve done the right thing.”

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district covers North Hempstead Beach Park, said the town will be “looking at the big picture, in terms of a master plan, before we adopt one or more amenities in the park.”

Council members unanimously voted during Tuesday’s meeting to authorize the town’s commissioner of administrative services to advertise a request for potential plans.

De Giorgio clarified the language of the resolution on

the meeting’s agenda, which said the plans requested were for a restaurant, saying no project at the park has yet been approved.

“For those concerned, we haven’t agreed to put a restaurant there,” she said.

The town earlier this year began extending a nature trail around the Hempstead Harbor waterfront. There are also plans to renovate the harbor’s peer area and beach.

Bosworth said the town

would seek amenities to complement the restorations, like boating, water sports and additional trails.

“We just want to make sure the park gets used to its fullest potential,” she said.

Reach reporter Bill San Antonio by e-mail at bsanantonio@ theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x215 or on Twitter @b_sanantonio. Also follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/ theislandnow.

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Letter-writer takes low road on parks

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n the Dec. 5 issue of the Great Neck News, Ms. Elizabeth Allen writes about Ruth Tamarin and the many nice things she accomplished in her tenure as a park district commissioner.

This is no surprise to us, as Elizabeth has been a strong friend and supporter of Ruth over the years.

So we wonder why, now that there is no time for a response to her letter prior to the election, that she (Elizabeth) takes Ruth to task for indicating support for a particular candidate?

She admits that Ruth, “has been fair, honest and courteous throughout”, so where does “her heavy hand on this election’s scale” come from?

Isn’t Ruth doing what she has been all these years? Working for the betterment of the parks?

Would it be better if she said nothing . . . when so many of us have come to trust her so completely?

Why not continue praise for her efforts even though she’s no longer a commissioner?

The answer is not that hard to figure out. Elizabeth is supporting a different candidate, that’s why, and thinks by smearing Ruth that her candidate will somehow look better.

There’s a real irony here.

And that is that we have a full field of outstanding candidates, and whomever we end up with as our new commissioners, we

will be in good hands, with persons endeavoring to do a good job and make a name for themselves.

Shame on you Elizabeth, for taking the low road!

Michael Flamhaft Great Neck

Tea Partiers do stand Barkley speaks for for personal freedom black silent majority

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atthew Zelidman’s response to Dr. Stephen Morris’ letter, asserting that the Tea Partiers don’t stand for personal freedom, is

wrong.

The Tea Party has only two principles; 1). limited government and 2). lower taxes.

Both of these principles are consistent with America’s Founding Principles.

Zeidman’s raises social issues such as abortion, marriage equality, drug legalization as inconsistent with the Tea Party.

These policies are not ingrained into the broad umbrella of the Tea Party.

I am a Tea Partier and an advocate for

pro-choice in abortion, marriage equality, drug legalization...freedom to do whatever one wants as long as the activity does not violate the rights of others.

Zelidman’s incorrectly implies that the Affordable Care Act does not usurp the rights of doctors and patients; when in fact the act is fascist and usurps almost everyone’s rights.

The Tea Party most certainly is a champion of liberty, personal and economic; and certainly more so that expressed by Zeidman.

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harles Barkley a long retired black NBA great has always been outspoken.

A week or so ago on national radio Barkley commented on Ferguson with an obvious sincerity that stunned me. His comments since then have constantly been on TV. I thought maybe a white person would eventually make similar comments but for a black person to have done so is nothing short of astounding.

He is certainly courageous well beCliff Sondock yond most of us.

It wasn’t just a single or a few critiJericho

cal comments but a series of comments about the Ferguson affair and more.

I am not going to quote his, in my opinion, profound comments. If you are inclined to be rational you will track the article down.

If you are irrational you won’t want to hear it.

Barkley has not only spoken for the vast majority of white people but the vast majority of black people as well.

These are the silent majority.

Theodore Theodorsen Manhasset

Learn from Prohibition, legalize marijuana

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ec. 5 marked the 80th Anniversary of the repeal of the 18th Amendment.

This act previously repealed outlawing the production and consumption of alcohol. Fast forward to today.

The crusade against tobacco, marijuana, pornography, adult entertainment and unhealthy food still continues by both government and those who believe they know best what is good for you.

Consumption of marijuana for both medical and recreational use has been part of mainstream America, transcending generations.

If anyone ever conducted any anonymous survey, results would reveal many members and staffers of city, town, county, state and federal public officials just like Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, [state] Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama have in their younger days “inhaled” or consumed illegal substances.

Who knows what some of them may do

on their own time after work hours and on weekends today?

Despite the best efforts of both government and the Moral Majority social police to outlaw marijuana consumption, just like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s - both have been total failures.

Creative entrepreneurs will always provide the citizens desire, regardless of government approval. Consumers have voted with their dollars, making marijuana consumption a multibillion dollar enterprise today.

Legalize it and add a sales tax. Revenues will more than cover the costs of any abuse.

Our tax dollars would be better used if police and judges spend more time prosecuting those who commit real crimes against individuals or property than going after those who consume or distribute marijuana.

Residents of Great Neck, New Hyde Park, Herricks, Albertson, Searingtown, Williston Park, Mineola, Manhasset and Roslyn have more to fear from murder, arson, rape, muggings, robberies, auto and identity theft or home break-ins along with ever increasing levels of confiscatory taxation and debt by government than individuals who get high in the privacy of their own home.

Law enforcement authorities should be

free to pursue those who commit real crimes against citizens and property.

Organized crime is always looking for new opportunities. They continue to prosper after adoption of even higher taxes on cigarettes which were adopted last year.

The underground economy continues making even more money selling tobacco products. New York State continues to lose tens of millions of dollars in uncollected tax revenues, on top of what is already lost on a yearly basis.

This happens every time so called “sin” taxes on the legal purchase of cigarettes have been increased. Both the New York City Council and New York State Legislature have repeatedly used this vehicle as a revenue generator to plug shortfalls in annual proposed budgets.

These tax revenues have also been used to support increased spending.

At 18, you are old enough to vote, have a beer, be a parent, pay taxes, own a car, take out a bank loan, serve in the military and die for your country - but not consume marijuana makes no sense.

There continues to be a steady stream of insane and expensive legislation coming out of Washington and Albany that is infringing

on both our economic and civil liberties.

Despite the best efforts of both government and the Moral Majority social police to outlaw consumption of cigarettes, marijuana, pornography, prostitution and adult dancers, like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s - they all have been total failures.

Consumers have voted with their dollars making the pornographic, drug and adult entertainment industries multibillion dollar enterprises today. The same is true for tobacco companies along with producers and distributors of marijuana.

What consenting adults consume, inhale, perform, read or view in the privacy of their own home or private social club isn’t the concern of government. Individual economic and civil liberties prosper best when government stays out of both the bedroom and marketplace.

Let us hope that we have finally learned from the obvious failures of Prohibition.

It is time to permit consenting adults to access any so-called illegal products or substances without fear from government harassment.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Ex commish has right Ed board sez to endorse a candidate thanks for vote

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e wholeheartedly agree with Elizabeth Allen’s analysis of Ruth Tamarin’s years as Commissioner on the Great Neck Park District’s Board.

On the other hand we cannot comprehend, why Ms.Allen conjured up her malicious account of Mrs. Tamarin for using her first amendment right on behalf of

Sharon Epstein.

Does this attack reveal what Ms. Allen’s motivations might have been, were she in Ms.Tamarin’s position.

We do not believe that Ms. Tamarin, while she was a park commissioner, would have the right to endorse a candidate for park commissioner.

But as a former commissioner we believe she has

every right, almost a duty, to endorse the candidate that she feels is the best qualified person to fill the office.

We want to applaud Ms. Tamarin for her years as a visionary and effective commissioner and for her devoted and unselfish service to our community Irma and Allen Leboff Great Neck

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ecember 3, 2014 was a very special day for the Manhasset school community.

The district received overwhelming support (a supermajority of nearly 61.5 percent yes votes) for the capital projects bond proposition.

2,333 community members exercised their right to vote – a terrific turnout.

This bond is an essential component of the District’s on-going commitment to long-term facilities planning.

Your vote plays an important part

in maintaining a solid foundation of educational excellence for students now and into the future.

We thank you for your continuing support.

The Board of Education, Regina Rule, President Carlo Prinzo, Vice President Patricia Aitken Craig Anderson Ann Marie Curd Fruhauf

Letter-writer wrong to criticize ex commish

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e were completely shocked and disturbed by Elizabeth Allen’s vitriolic letter in your Dec. 5 issue berating Ruth Tamarin for her alleged involvement in the selection and endorsement of an individual to replace her as a [Great Neck] Park Department Commissioner.

After praising Ruth for the magnificent service she performed during the last 16 years in making the Great Neck parks some of the finest in the country, she goes on to berate Ruth for encouraging and endorsing a highly qualified individual whom Ruth believed would be the best candidate to follow in her footsteps and continue the good work to make bur parks even better than they are now.

Ruth retired from her elected position because of personal issues and nothing could be further from the truth than that she wants to be “the guru behind the throne” and that she “went to this wom-

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an and that woman and another and another and so on until someone said yes when she asked”.

We have been close friends with Ruth for many years and know that the Great Neck Park District was a high priority in her life.

She fought vigorously to achieve what was best for our parks and the results are visually evident. Ruth thought carefully about who her replacement should be and would only encourage a candidate who would be a strong asset to the board of commissioners.

She preferred a woman candidate (as do we) and spoke only to the one woman who she knew would be right for the job and I wholeheartedly encouraged Sharon Epstein to run for the position. Ruth’s only involvement in the campaign was to simply endorse her in her letter in your Nov. 28th issue.

Since she is no longer a sitting com-

Time for E.W. to pay W.P.’s price

can imagine that many who read the Williston Times have had more than enough of East Williston and the water.

The first aspect of this situation is that moochers can’t be choosers.

This week is wanting to renegotiate the rates with Williston Park who should give E.W. the ultimatum: Okay, $5.00 per thousand gallons or we shut it off in six months.

I can imagine that W.P. would fare very well without having to supply them with water. There are countless rural homes in this country with their own wells and water systems that they paid for themselves at no great expense.

Last week it was blaming W.P. for forcing them to drill their own wells.

What are they? Cry babies? Mentally ill? Sicko-sickoo?

No one I know ever goes to E.W. There are no stores or the like that I know of.

Perhaps they feel themselves to be somewhat ‘upscale’ as a community and if so, that is how they should act but they sure can talk trash.

It is time that E.W. pays W.P. what it owes, drills their own wells and shuts up!

Charles Samek Mineola

missioner she can endorse the candidate of her choice without any accusation of politicking ..

We do not know what prompted Ms. Allen to compose such a diatribe since she and Ruth have been friends for a long time.

Because of your time requirements, this letter is submitted prior to the Dec. 9

election and we do not know if Ms. Allen’s letter had any effect on the outcome, but at the very least a formal apology to Ruth is warranted!!

Ronnie and Vie Beecher Great Neck

G.N. park candidates ran a clean race

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ue to this newspaper’s letter submissions schedule, I’m writing this letter on the morning of the Great Neck Park District Commissioner election, when the outcome of the election is unknown.

However, no matter which candidates win the two contested commissioner seats, I would like to commend all seven candidates (Frank Cilluffo, Laura Cohen, Sharon Epstein, Eileen S. Falk, Neil Leiberman, Commission Chair Dan Nachmanoff and Jeffrey Meir Stein) for the honorable, ethical, clean, hardworking races that they all ran.

Throughout the race – which began many months ago – I never heard any of the candidates say anything derogatory about any other candidate. Each candidate focused on his or her own qualifications, dedication and ideas for the Parks District. It reminded me of judicial races, where ethical rules do not allow judicial candidates to bad-mouth other candidates. However, here the candidates acted with decency without any ethical rules requiring them to do so.

This was impressive in an era when so many political races – even local ones – are marred by ugliness.

Whenever I saw the candidates together, campaigning at the same locales such as the ice-skating rink, the candidates were genuinely friendly towards one another.

In addition to presenting their own ideas for the parks, the candidates also solicited ideas from the public – in the best tradition of representative government.

Also, from what I observed, the Park District candidates’ election signs remained up. There seemed to be no sign stealing, other than one isolated third-hand report. (Sign stealing is one of my minor pet peeves, as it requires candidates to keep killing trees and wasting scarce time and money printing and putting up new signs.)

Best wishes and congratulations and happy holidays to all!

Liz Berney, Esq. Great Neck

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Speed zone ticketing is unethical

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ith the errors inherent with radar detection units used in school speed zones, it is clear that radar detection units deployed in Nassau County school speed zones can result in the issuance of tickets in error to motorists driving in full compliance with the law. Due to these limitations in the technology, this program should be immediately discontinued, all tickets issued should be nullified, and any fees collected should be returned. It is unethical to knowingly ticket any innocent drivers who are driving in full compliance with the law.

Many Nassau County motorists who reported diligently monitoring and controlling their speed have been issued School Speed Zone Tickets regardless. Their complaints have fallen on deaf ears in the Mangano administration, where the administrators of the system do not acknowledge the inherent limitations of the overly simplistic radar technology in use. These administrators stonewall those who protest their innocence and instead ignorantly insist upon the infallibility of the radar systems in use.

The https://www.radars.com. au/police-radar-errors.php article is titled “PROBLEMS AND FAULTS WITH POLICE RADAR AND POLICE SPEED GUNS”

Despite the widespread public misconception of the infallibility of police traffic radar (due to the public’s lack of understanding of the technology), radar makes mistakes and is actually very, very errorprone. Some experts estimate that 10-20% of all radar-backed speeding tickets are issued in error.

Automobile Traffic radar is far more simplistic than rotating antenna radar used to track and predict weather, control airport commercial air traffic, and control military air traffic.

Police traffic radar uses a stationary (non-rotating), single antenna that points in a single direction only, does not transmit a modulated signal (versus AM Radio that uses Amplitude Modulation and FM Radio that uses Frequency Modulation), and does not use a cathode ray or other display screen to display information.

All radar uses a microwave beam on a specific frequency. Targets that are struck by the beam reflect microwave energy back to the antenna. A computer analyzes any changes in the frequency and makes this information available for further processing or display.

Sophisticated military-commercial type radar uses a modulated beam which provides details about an object’s shape, speed, and direction

for the operator. In contrast, police traffic radar with its stationary beam and digital readout of speed yield only one piece of information, which is how fast a target is approaching or receding from the radar antenna.

Police traffic radar, inherently simplistic, does not tell its operator (or its systems interface) which object it is measuring or the direction that the object is travelling.

False speed readings can be due to the presence of CB radios or police radios, among other reasons, which include temperature variations, mis-calibration, and unacceptably wide beam widths.

The Beam width concerns the spreading out of the signal as one moves further away from the antenna. It is like a cone that is narrow at the radar antenna but widens as it heads for the horizon.

Even the narrowest of radar beams, 11 degrees of angle, is 38 feet wide when 200 feet down the road and 57 feet wide at 300 feet away from the antenna. Some radar units even transmit a beam as wide as 24 degrees of angle. A radar beam can target an area as wide as an expressway and beyond. With a roadway having multiple vehicles in motion, and with the radar unable to tell which vehicle it is monitoring, or even whether the target is

approaching or moving away from the antenna, one can readily realize the great potential for misidentification.

Another error is due to most radar units not being able to correctly interpret the effect of the Doppler shift. The Phase-lock loop processing logic used to exploit the Doppler Effect can lock onto the wrong target, double or triple low speed readings, and produce “ghost” readings.

Common sources of radar errors include: airport radar; microwave transmissions; transmission of CB, ham, VHF/UHF, cellular twoway radio/telephones including police and business radios; faulty spark plug wires; mercury vapor and neon lights; high tension power lines; and high voltage substations. The radio energy from these sources can overload or confuse the sensitive circuitry used to interpret returning radar signals.

Mechanical interference includes any moving object, including another vehicle that is a better reflector of radar waves, and multiple targets in the main radar beam, causing multiple reflections and making the display (or the systems interface) read high, low, or blank.

Unless an error condition is recognized, there is a high likelihood of a ticket being wrongfully

issued.

The following errors are described in more detail in the article with the assistance of diagrams which make the concepts less abstract.

1. Antenna Positioning Error, 2. Look-Past Error {closest vehicle may not return the strongest signal}, 3. Vehicle Interference Error {not applicable to fixed radar antennas], 4. Cosine Error {due to a stationary object such as a building, or a sign, which may be an efficient radar reflector}, 5. Double Bounce Error {any bouncing of signals off of other vehicles or stationary objects produces erroneous readings}, 6. Beam Reflection Error {any reflection of the radar beam causes erroneous readings}, 7.

Road-Sign Error {road signs are a common source of erroneous radar readings}, 8. Radio Interference Error {any radio transmissions can cause erroneous radar readings}, 9.

Fan-Interference Error {only affects mobile radar units in motion such as in police vehicles}.

Joseph A. Hobel Garden City

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Landsberg claims water pollution spot

By A da m L i d g e t t

Jerry Landsberg won his uncontested race for the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners with 377 votes.

Landsberg, who has lived in Great Neck for 51 years, has served on the water pollution control district for seven years. He also served as a Village of Kensington trustee in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

There was only one write-in vote, but the name was illegible, district officials said.

Landsberg said he wants to continue the work he has been doing with the district in the past and he was happy so many people came out to vote even though it was an uncontested race.

“I have no doubt the reason for large turnout was because of the contested election for the parks district,” Landsberg said. “But I’m always happy for a big turnout.”

In the Great Neck Parks District Race, Dan Nachmanoff won a three-year seat, and Frank Cilluffo won a two-year seat.

Landsberg said he takes pride in overseeing many projects while on the board including the grease receiving station.

The grease that the plant will receive from local restaurants will burn off methane, which the plant will use to generate power to the micro turbines that power the facility. The plant treats sewage for the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Plaza, Kensington, Thomaston, Saddle Rock and parts of Manhasset.

The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District last December completed a

consolidation project with the Village of Great Neck that allows for all village sewage to be handled through the water pollution control district’s new plant. The plant was designed to reduce nitrogen dumping into the Long Island Sound in accordance with rulings from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The $60 million project was intended to “expand all necessary treatment processes, install connecting sewer mains, and increase the overall capacity of the facility.”

Nachmanoff, Cilluffo win parks spots Continued from Page 1 ring to the heavy rains across Long Island.

Nachmanoff was elected to the board in 2011, following the retirement in 2011 of former Commissioner Ivar Segalowitz.

He won the election in a fourway race with 404 votes.

He said that he wants to team with the other commissioners to ensure that the parks district provide great services to residents.

“I’ve been pretty busy these past three years,” Nachmanoff

said. “We got a bond passed for infrastructure, we increased the non-tax revenue and we got a budget passed and did not have a tax increase.”

Nachmanoff, who worked as a dentist for 40 years, served as mayor of Russell Gardens from 1997 until 2003. He also served as the president of the Great Neck Village Officials Association, from 1999 to 2001, and as the director of intergovernmental affairs for Nassau County.

Leiberman, the husband of Great Neck News columnist Karen Rubin, has run twice for the

parks district before, losing to Nachmanoff in 2011. He said as of now he does not want to think about running again.

“My family can be proud of the fact that I tried my hardest,” Leiberman said. “When things are down, you have to hang in there and never give up.”

Leiberman said he is trying to stay positive, that he has no regrets and he will hold his head high. He also said he will continue to attend parks district meetings.

Stein said he isn’t sure if he will run again or not, and that it

will depend on who else is on the ballot in the future.

He said he should have made the decision to run sooner, but that he still wants to be involved more in the parks district.

Falk said she will probably run again, but she is not sure when. She said that she does regret not doing the debate initially proposed by the League of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset. The league scrapped the debate after some of the candidates did not show interest in debating.

Cohen said she was proud of

the campaign she ran and that she believes the bad weather and heavy rain played a part. She said the weather compounded with the limited voting hours -3 p.m. to 9 p.m. -- limited voter turnout.

The Great Neck Park District includes all Great Neck villages and unincorporated areas with the exception of Great Neck Estates, Harbor Hills, Lake Success, Saddle Rock and University Gardens.

Stein, Falk and Cohen were political newcomers, never having run for public office before.

Manhasset park commish wins M-LWFD seat Continued from Page 1 his responsibilities as the Town of North Hempstead’s public safety commissioner and focus on “other avenues in my life that I want to explore.”

The Manhasset-Lakeville Water and Fire District serves Manhasset and portions of Great Neck and New Hyde Park.

Altmann, who served six terms in the Legislature from 1995-07 and prior to that was an assistant to former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens), said Wednesday that she “knew the race would be an uphill battle” because she lacked relationships within the fire district, adding Sauvigne’s two sons who volunteer as firefighters with Manhasset-Lakeville gave him an edge with voters.

“I was fully prepared that it was going to be a tough race, but I’m going to continue to stay involved,” she said. “I care about the issues, and I hope the commissioners don’t back down from the things they care about.”

Sauvigne acknowledged that the support of the district’s firefighters likely contributed to his election, and that he campaigned by meeting with the members of

Manhasset-Lakeville’s firehouses and learning about their needs and issues.

“I knew that if I stayed close enough to Manhasset, I’d have an advantage,” he said. “I’ve been a park district commissioner for 13 years. I think people in the community know what I’m about and the work I do. I know Lisanne’s been a county legislator, but I think the work I do hit people closer to home. You take the known versus the unknown.”

Sauvigne said he was first approached to run for ManhassetLakeville commissioner in 2013, when Commissioner Donald O’Brien was re-elected, but decided against it. He said he changed his mind this year after the water district erected a 190-foot communications antenna atop its elevated water tower in Munsey Park - a project that cost more than $200,000 – and set in motion a separate project to replace the tower that has become the focus of ongoing litigation between the district and Munsey Park village board.

“I think the biggest problem there was a lack of transparency.

I’m not going to blame one side or the other, but I don’t think all

Mark Sauvigne

Ken Weigand

the information was disseminated down the public. Now I’ll be able to get better information on it so we’ll be able to proceed,” Sauvigne said.

Altmann said Manhasset voters, particularly those living in Munsey Park, were likely galvanized by the issue and ongoing litigation in a way Great Neck voters were not.

“I don’t even think many voters in Great Neck know Munsey Park has a water tower,” she said.

In late November, Altmann accused Sauvigne of avoiding a League of Women Voters request for a debate in advance of the election, an allegation Sauvigne

has denied.

“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 wrote in an e-mail.

“The fact that he can’t be bothered to show up and speak to these issues is really appalling.”

Sauvigne said at the time that special district election debates rarely give voters a sense of the issues and often have an even poorer turnout than the elections themselves.

He reiterated his comments Wednesday, saying “If you look at the other special districts out

there, I don’t think there were any debates. Even the elections we just had, between [state Sen.] Jack Martins and [his Democratic challenger] Adam Haber, the debates they had, they didn’t get much turnout. What you want is the best way to get the message out. If that means going door-to-door, [fire] company-to-company, then that’s how you do it.”

Sauvigne in October said he considers himself a fiscal conservative but would support district spending to replace outdated equipment.

He said Wednesday his main priority as commissioner would be to increase transparency between Manhasset-Lakeville and district residents.

“Take the water tower issue.

I think more people should have been told what’s going on, and I think people in Munsey Park were looking for someone to listen to their concerns. There’s no guarantee you can stop the thing from going up, but let’s at least talk about it,” he said. “That’s how you learn what the issues are and what people care about. You can’t make any promises, but people like to be listened to, and then you go out there and do the best you can.”

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Seeman, Berman visit ‘Talk of the Town’ North Hempstead Town Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman and Councilwoman Lee Seeman recently stopped by the North Hempstead Television (NHTV) Studio in Westbury to film the NHTV sit-down talk show “Talk of the Town.” Berman, who assumed office as Receiver of Taxes in 2010, spoke about some of the services provided by his department, including Property Tax Grievance Workshops, and online tax payments. He also provided important information on tax exemptions available to residents including the STAR program and exemptions for seniors and veterans.

Seeman, who assumed office as Councilwoman for the 5th Council District in 2006, spoke about the renovation of the Schumacher House, the promotion and expansion of Project Independence and the 2015 budget and 5-year Capital Plan, which were unanimously approved earlier this year. She also discussed her career as a community leader which has spanned six decades.

Council District 5 includes the communities of North New Hyde Park, Garden City Park, Floral Park and the villages of Saddle Rock, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Russell Gardens, University Gardens, Lake Success and other unincorporated areas.

The interviews will begin airing the week of Dec. 22 at 7:10 and 7:30 p.m., respectively, on NHTV. NHTV is Channel 18 and 63 on Cablevision or Channel 46 on Verizon FIOS. The episode is also available on www. mynhtv.com.

Town Councilwoman Seeman (left) on “Talk of the Town” and Town Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman with host Ryan Mulholland.

Mangano, officials urge residents to Shop Nassau Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and the Nassau County Council of Chambers of Commerce today reminded residents of the benefits of keeping their money local and to “Shop Nassau” this holiday season.

“I encourage all residents to support their hometown businesses this holiday season, and year-round, as local businesses are the heartbeat of Nassau County’s economy and make our communities stronger and better places to live, work and raise a family,” Mangano said.

On Oct. 27, the Nassau County IDA launched a significant new marketing campaign aimed at encouraging residents to shop at local Nassau County merchants. Utilizing television, print, radio and social media the ads featured Nassau business owners. The campaign is part of the Nassau County IDA’s effort to assist small businesses as they are the lifeblood of our communities.

“Shop Nassau” benefits include: • Money spent here stays here (keeping local dollars in the economy) • Jobs and wages (supporting local businesses provides support for the jobs they offer)

County Executive Ed Mangano addresses crowd at Alper’s True Value Hardware in Port Washington

• Stronger tax base • Nassau business owners invest in our community

• Convenience & Green-Friendly (proximity reduces gas consumption) Small businesses play a critical role in our economy as they account for 98 percent of all businesses in New York State and employ more than 40% of the State’s private sector workforce. The nation’s 28 million small businesses create nearly two out of three jobs nationwide and have generated more than 65 percent of the net new jobs since 1995.

“With Nassau employers contributing to the economic base and connectivity of our local communities, we must help raise awareness about the role they play and promote a business-friendly Nassau that attracts suppliers and distributors in similar industries,” Mangano said.

The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce is an umbrella organization acting as a spokesperson for over 40 Chambers of Commerce in Nassau County, New York. Long Island is home to more than 90,000 businesses grossing more than $100 billion a year. The vast majority of these businesses employ 50 people or less.

NY Islanders hosting New concession sought Coliseum blood drive for Planting Fields This holiday season give something that means something. The gift of life.

You can help save a life by giving blood with the American Red Cross at the New York Islanders Blood Drive: The Blood Drive will be held Saturday, Dec. 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Lower Lobby (enter through the box office), 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.

All presenting donors will receive a voucher* for two tickets to an Islanders’

home game during the 2014-15 regular season, a chance to win autographed Islanders memorabilia and more. The Islanders mascot and Ice Girls will visit the drive, take photos with donors and sign autographs.

Your gift won’t cost a thing and can help save up to three lives.

Please visit redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code: ISLANDERS or call (800) 733-2767) to make an appointment.

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Long Island Region, is proud to offer an opportunity for the operation of Food, Beverage and Catering Concession at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, Oyster Bay. New York State Parks is seeking to partner with a creative and visionary business entrepreneur in the development and operation of this opportunity.

If you are interested in learning more

about this proposal, or would like to obtain bid documents, please contact Erika Cumberland, Concession Bureau at (631) 321-3551.

All inquiries should refer to RFP number X001194. Additional bid information can be obtained online at http://www. nysparks.com/business/business-opportunities.aspx All proposals are due to New York State Parks no later than 2 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2015.

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Nassau County Off-Track Betting passed a resolution Monday to begin planning for a casino in Nassau County, according to David Chauvin, a spokesperson for the Nassau OTB. Chauvin said the agency will begin work on a bond proposal to fund a casino that is to be selected by the Nassau County Off-

Track Betting.

But he denied reports that the agency was eyeing a location in Westbury “No decision has been made yet,” he said.

“It’s important to put this into perspective,” Chauvin added. “It’s still too early to say where the site will be.”

Nassau OTB had previously looked into its Race Palace in

Plainview as a possible casino site, according to Long Island Business News, but stopped its plans after revelations that the building was unable to hold 500 gaming machines on its second floor.

The gaming facility is slated to have 1,000 video slot machines and is expected to open in 2015, according to Long Island Business News.

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A Manhasset woman who worked as Bernie Madoff’s assistant was sentenced Tuesday to serve six years in prison.

Annette Bongiorno, 66, was sentenced in Manhattan by U.S. District Judge Laura Swain, the court said.

She was found guilty in March of documenting nonexistent trades for Madoff, a former resident of Roslyn.

Bongiorno began working

for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in 1968, and testified in court that she did not know anything illegal was going on at the firm.

Published reports said that the courts gave leniency to Bongiorno because of her small stature - 4 foot 7 inches - arguing that it would have made her time behind bars hard.

Swain, who is 5 foot 2 inches according to the Daily News, also cited Bongiorno’s poor health as a reason for her sentence, accord-

ing to publish reports, including those from The New York Daily News and Newsday.

Prosecutors had asked ask for a 20-year sentence.

Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to frauding investors out of $17 billion. He is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence.

Jerome O’Hara, 51, of Malverne, was also sentenced Tuesday to serve two and a half years in prison, the court said. O’Hara worked as a computer programmer for Madoff.

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‘Santa Roll Call’ to honor Long Island volunteers Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and the Garden City Hotel will host a “Santa Roll Call” on Monday, Dec. 22 2014 at 12 p.m., that honors the myriad community volunteer Santas throughout Long Island. Those who annually don the red suit are invited to attend the competition to be held at the hotel where participants will be judged on appearance, jolliness, their ability to hoist a sack in one fluid motion and their laughter.

Judges will include the Mangano, Garden City Hotel General Manager J. Colin Grady, representatives from the U.S. Marine Corps and a youthful delegation from the Long Island Children’s Museum.

Selected winners of the “Santa Roll Call” will receive a

$100 Polo Steakhouse gift certificate from The Garden City Hotel and a Red Door Spa gentleman’s facial, which gets past all those whiskers. A number of runner ups will receive gift cards to the Polo Steak House. All participants will get valet parking for their reindeer.

“This is the start of a wonderful holiday tradition that honors the selfless volunteer work of so many people who donate their time to ensure that children are delighted by the sights, sounds, warmth and generosity embodied by Santa,” Grady said.

“This ‘Roll Call’ event allows both children and adults to take the time to reflect on the importance of not just receiving gifts, but the spirit of giving and the power of community service and the holiday season,” added Mangano. “By inviting our Santa’s to the Garden City Hotel we have the opportunity to thank them for keeping the power of the Red Suit alive.”

Volunteer Santas are invited to register in the “Santa Roll Call” by emailing mmarciano@ nassaucountyny.gov.

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Help Wanted HOSTESS PART TIME UPSCALE CHINESE RESTAURANT GREAT NECK Friday, Saturday, Sunday 4-9pm Greet customers, take names for waiting list, seat customers.

Call 917-375-5528 or email: TLeebb@aol.com AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN here​​Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician training. Financial aid for qualified students- Housing available.

Job placement assistance, Call AIM 866-296-7093 BABYSITTER​/​NANNY WANTED to watch 6 & 7 year old before and after school. Looking for someone fun, kind and responsible. Duties include getting kids to the school bus in the morning, taking kids to after school events, helping with homework, meal prep and light housekeeping. Must have excellent driving record. for more info contact imshop124@yahoo.com LEGAL: Process Server, full time, seeking well organized, detail oriented individual for office assistant in Mineola. Position entails phones, data entry and working with several commonly used computer programs.

Quick Books a plus. Email resume to: LRadler@courtsupportinc.com NEW YEAR-NEW CAREER GROUP SALES REPRESENTATIVE Fortune 500 company, voted top 30 places to start a career in USA by Business Week magazine, looking for individuals to grow with the largest provider of voluntary employee benefits in the country. Must be enthusiastic and have strong work ethic. Sales experience is welcome but not necessary.

Extensive management opportunities available. Unlimited earnings potential. Office located in Garden City. Call Bill Whicher 516-574-1064 TEACHER & SECURITY AIDES: Sewanhaka Central High School District seeking part-time teacher aides to work with students. $15.85 hour. Security aides, appropriate certification necessary​​ $16.20 hour. Send resume to ktaylor@sewanhaka.k12.ny.us

Situation Wanted BABYSITTER / NANNY available for live in or live out position 5 days a week. Experienced. References available. Call Cecelia 347-553-3944 CARE GIVER: Live in or out, experience in Alzheimer​/​Dementia, insulin, glucose levels, hospice, personal hygiene, light cleaning​/​ cooking, accompany to appointments. Please call 203-243-1358 CARE GIVER: NEED A COMPANION or nursing assistant for your loved ones? Fear of your loved ones being alone at night or even eloping & need overnight companion care at home or in a health care facility? Call 516-410-9943 for a NY State certified nursing assistant with excellent references.

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CAREGIVER AVAILABLE Experienced woman seeks full time position to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Live in. Very reliable, non driver, references available. Call May 516-292-2662

NURSE’S AIDE / COMPANION available full time with 20 yrs experience. Seeking position to care for your elderly loved ones, with light housekeeping. Excellent references. Flexible hours.

Call Gloria 347-777-5808

CAREGIVER AVAILABLE FT​/​PT. Available immediately. 20 years experience. Live in or out. Able to run errands. Excellent references.

Valid driver’s license & own car.

Please call Lorraine 646-269-9540 or 516-214-6785 CERTIFIED CNA / EMT with 15+ seeking position to care for the elderly or disabled. Able to administer medications, drive to appointments, run errancds, etc. Honest, reliable.

Available anytime. Driver with car.

References available upon request.

Please call 718-885-6572 CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AIDE Trustworthy, patient & loving caregiver. 16 years experience in hospitals, assisted living facilities & private homes. Accompany to doctor, errands, personal care, etc. Excellent references. Call 347-233-5710 CLEANING AVAILABLE for homes, apartments & offices. Monday-Saturday. Excellent references. Honest, reliable, trustworthy. Years of experience. Also available for Spring & Fall cleaning, cluttered closets, messy garages. Experienced in organizing.

Satisfaction 100% guaranteed! Call Cathy 516-582-9682 CLEANING SERVICES I clean houses and offices. I have affordable rates and great references. I do it all​​move ins and move outs, all rooms and facets of home and office cleaning. No job too big or small.

Contact Luis 516-451-6225 COLLEGE STUDENT HOME for break available full time from December 13 through February 1.

Garden City area. Has car, drivers license, CPR certification, experience. Please call Emily 516-232-6256 DIRECT HOME CARE AIDE currently seeking night position FT​/​PT 11pm to 7am (no daytime hours) to care for your elderly. Over 20 years experience including Alzheimers or CP cases. Excellent references.

Own car. Call Nicola 516-670-2975 ELDER CARE AVAILABLE full time, live out, Mon-Fri to care for female patients. Trustworthy, reliable. 10 yrs experience. Driver w/ own transportation. References available. Call Esme 516-850-0669 ELDER CARE AVAILABLE Live in​ /​Live out, 10 yrs experience, references. Will cook, clean, laundry, etc.

Please call Pauline 718-413-0941 ELDERLY COMPANION MALE available for live in​/​live out position, preferably for male client. Hardworking, honest, reliable, punctual.

Driver’s license. Call 954-670-7298 F/T COMPANION AVAILABLE Looking for someone to take care of your elderly parents in the comfort of your own home for peace and tranquility? 18 yrs. experience, references, driver w/ reliable vehicle.

Please call 516-410-1892

PRIVATE CASE WORKER seeking position to take care of elderly full time Monday through Friday. BABYSITTING also offered.

Honest, trustworthy, caring, very attentive, dependable. Lots of experience. References available. Please call 516-508-8528 RELIABLE FULL TIME BABYSITTER available immediately.

Impeccable references from Garden City family. Can drive.

Infant CPR certified. Can help with reading, writing, math.

Over 10yrs. experience. Call 347-654-9274

Announcements MAH JONGG PLAYERS WANTED: Tuesday & Thursday evenings, my Lake Success home, fun game, no snowbirds please. Call Toby 516-353-0172

Adoption UNPLANNED PREGNANCY? Caring licensed adoption agency provides financial and emotional support. Choose from loving preapproved families. Call Joy toll free 1-866-922-3678 or confidential email: Adopt@ForeverFamiliesThroughAdoption.org

Marketplace DALTON SOFA BRAND NEW for sale. Sage color with two sage and cream accent pillows. 84x40x36. $600. Buyer must pick up. Call Ed 516-242-3121 LESTER BABY GRAND PIANO Walnut. Ivory keys. Excellent condition. $4,000. Call 516-248-6142

Wanted to Buy CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, entire collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419 CASH BUYER! Used Men’s Clothing: T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Sneakers from 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.

Preferably Music​/ ​S ports related. Will travel to your home.

Greg 516-782-6066 CASH FOR OLD COMICS! Buying 10c and 12c comic books or MASSIVE quantities of after 1970. Also buying toys, music and more! Call Brian: 1-800-617-3551 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www.iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale

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INVITED SALES by TRACY JORDAN Live and Online Auction House, Estate Sales, Appraisals and Consignment Shoppe. 839 Stewart Avenue Garden City 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales. com Mon-Fri 10-6pm Sat 10-5pm, Sun 12-5pm Located next to the La Quinta and behind the Garden Gourmet Deli. Live Auctions Monthly!

Free walk-in evaluations for items to be considered for Live Auction every Thursday 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary. Auctions are live every Wednesday from 8am8pm and pre-bids are accepted at anytime. Visit www.invitedsales.com and click on the online auctions tab.

Visit www.invitedsales.com to see pictures and information regarding our upcoming tag sales and estate sales. Our 50% off room is open everyday and includes items that have been in our shoppe for more than 60 days. To receive discount coupons and promotional information, join our email list. Text “invited” to 22828 and enter your email address when prompted. Consignments are taken by appointment to provide you with the best service. Please call the shoppe at 516-279-6378 to schedule an appointment or email pictures of your items to info@invitedsales.com.

We can provide fair market values on any item that you may want to sell, consign or enter into auction. If you need advice on hosting a sale, selling an item or liquidating an estate, please call Tracy Jordan at the shoppe or directly at 516-567-2960

*BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-7468900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@atstewartexchange.org www. gardencityhistoricalsociety. org WILLISTON PARK: Christmas specials from The Thrift Shop sponsored by Resurrection and St. Aidan Churches. Jewelry, fine clothing, some designer labels, good condition, reasonable prices, household items. Thursdays 9:30am-1:00pm.

Saturdays 10:00am-2:00pm. Resurrection Church, corner Campbell Avenue and Center Street. Please call 516-746-5527

pets

Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717

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▼ Marketplace, pets, real estate Pet Services DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away.

Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references.

Limited availability. Book early!

Annmarie 516-775-4256 EXPERIENCED DOG WALKER available. Garden City resident.

Animal lover will also visit and feed your pets. Caring and reliable. Garden City and surrounding communities. CALL ANNE MARIE 516-326-7860

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Auto For Sale 2010 TOYOTA CAMRY LE, 6 cyl with only 24,000 miles! Original owner, no accidents. Charcoal grey exterior, grey interior with lightly tinted windows. EXCELLENT CONDITION INSIDE & OUT. $13,495 negotiable. CALL 516-616-0146 (leave message)

Autos Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

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Apartment For Rent

Out of Town Real Estate

MINEOLA 2 bedrooom off Mineola Blvd. Clean, excellent condition, second floor, sunny, parking, quiet, suitable one or two. Convenient to transportation, Courts, hospital, Churches, etc. Excellently maintained. $1,650. Telephone 516747-6392 or 516-280-4870

VERO BEACH, FLORIDA Newly renovated two master bedroom​/ ​b ath unit located in the exclusive and private Grand Harbor. Available only for month of January 2015. The included Club Membership provides access to two championship golf courses, oceanfront beach club, tennis courts and swimming pools. The Mediterranean style clubhouse offers three dining rooms, full fitness center, men’s and ladies’s card and locker rooms and golf and tennis pro shops. Monthly rental only $6,500. Call 516996-5735. To see photos go to www.vrbo.com​/ ​6 51048

NASSAU RESIDENCE Private entrance. New lower level 1 bedroom, kitchen, living room, closets. All utilities. Credit check. Walk to LIRR​ /​buses. No pets​/​smoking. $975.

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Condo/Co-op For Rent ATRIUM PLAZA DUPLEX CONDO for Rent or Sale by Owner. EIK, LR​ /​DR, 2 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath, office, basement, indoor parking, garden terrace. All new HVAC, wood floor, new 1/2 bath, new appliances. $2,800​/​month rental or sale $365k.

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We do all types of improvements including HANDYMAN REPAIRS. No job too small. Bob Devlin 516-365-6685. Insured License H18C730000

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Residential, commercial. Free estimates. References. Bonded and insured. Delivery service available.

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▼ LEGALS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: 111/113 FIFTH LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 10/21/2011 Office location: County of Nassau. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Coritsidis & Lambros, PLLC Trinity Place, 4th FLR New York, NY 10006 GNN 140770 6x 11/28, 12/05, 12, 19, 26, 2014, 1/02/​2 015 #140770

LRGC LLC has been formed as a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) on October 16, 2014. N.Y. Office Location: Nassau Co. SSNY is designated as Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him​/​her to: 277 Northern Boulevard, Great Neck, NY 11021 Term: Indefinite Purpose​/​Character: Real Estate GNN 140713 6x 11/14, 21, 28, 12/05, 12, 19, 2014 #140713

Notice of Formation of 1319 WHR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/14. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BLISTERING BARNACLES LLC Arts of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/30/2014. Office location: NASSAU County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him​/​her is: 2417 JERICHO TURNPIKE # 354 GARDEN CITY PARK, NY 11040. The principal business address of the LLC is: 2417 JERICHO TURNPIKE # 354 GARDEN CITY PARK, NY 11040. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

GNN 140774 6x 11/28, 12/05, 12, 19, 26, 2014, 1/02/​2 015 #140774 Notice of Formation of STERLING IH 1 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/14. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

GNN 140788 GN,11/28, 12/5, 12, 19, 26, 1/2/15 #140788 Notice of Formation LAKSHMI PT, OT, SLP, MASSAGE CONSULTANTS PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/10/2014. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 865 MERRICK ROAD STE # 201 BALDWIN NY 11510 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of STERLING SRF I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/14. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Marquis Business and Technology Solutions, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/28/11. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Royal East Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/14/2014. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 14 Lake Road, Great Neck, NY 11020.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Gould 28 West 26 Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/25/14. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 60 Cutter Mill Road, Ste. 303, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Hudson Hill Management LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/2014. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 30 Melbourne Rd, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Sterling SRF Internal I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/14. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021.

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Notice of Formation of STERLING GP SRF I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/14. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Sterling Barwis Method LLC amended to Sterling Barwis Methods LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/25/14. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the Tentative Budget for the Village of Thomaston for the 2015-2016 fiscal year, said hearing to be held at 7:30 pm on January 12, 2015 at the Village Hall, 100 East Shore Road, Great Neck, New York.

At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

Any person having a disability which would inhibit attendance at or participation in the hearing should notify the Village Clerk at least three business days prior to the hearing, so that reasonable efforts may be made to facilitate such attendance or participation.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the office of the Village Clerk, 100 East Shore Road, Great Neck, NY during regular business hours.

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Congregation talks race in justice system Continued from Page 3 property crimes since the 1950s, and a slight increase in violent crime over that same span, the U.S. incarceration rate has spiked nearly 600 percent in the last 40 years due largely to law enforcement priorities placed on the War on Drugs, according to the film.

Convicted felons often face even greater hardship once they are released from incarceration, according to the film, due to a lack of education and reform programs in prison as well as a legal stigma requiring them to disclose their criminal history, which harms their ability to gain employment or housing.

“A lot of the institutions that we supposedly left behind with the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again,” Michelle Alexander, an associate professor at Ohio State University and senior fellow at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, says in the film.

It has been this system, according to the film and later reiterated by the panel, that has led to a “racial caste” by which police brutality and repeated incarceration has become the norm for minorities, but often not their white contemporaries.

“We don’t punish white-collar crime, which robs people of more value than any black teenager,” Knotts said. “We punish people we don’t like. We punish the black teenager, not the corporate executive who steals millions from our pension fund.”

He also said the rise of for-profit prisons and the prison-industrial complex has led to a decrease in resources utilized for education, mental health and substance abuse treatment and job training.

“Locking people up does seem to have some utility. It does take some criminals off the street,” Knotts said. “However, when those people are released from prison, they’re often worse off than when they went in.”

Linda Mahabir, a panelist who interns with the Broken on All Sides project, a grassroots activism effort created follow-

ing the film’s release, said the film allowed her to see “the human side of this issue.”

“People can read the statistics, but you can still be disconnected from the issue,” she said. “What we found in the making of the film was that most of the people caught within the system are not the people you see on ‘Cops.’ They’re good people, they’re good friends and neighbors who often struggle to make end’s meet.”

Matthew Pillischer, the film’s director, editor and primary producer, was slated to appear at the congregation for a discussion about the film but was unable to attend because he was set to receive a humanitarian award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Also scheduled to participate on the panel was Five Mualimm-ak, the director of the non-profit Incarcerated Nation Campaign, who declined due to a family emergency.

Mualimm-ak, who took part in a panel at the congregation in March about mass incarceration and solitary confinement rates, was imprisoned for 12 years for drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession that was later overturned after new evidence came to light suggesting he was set up by police.

The congregation’s social justice program earlier this year lobbied in Albany for the passage of the state HALT Solitary Confinement Act, which would end the practice in New York.

Deroche and a band of supporters in June protested Nassau County’s incarceration practices outside the county correctional facility in East Meadow.

Human Rights Day is officially observed on Dec. 10. Sunday’s assembly coincided with the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i.

The event began with a performance by the congregation’s women’s choir, Willow, capped by its rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

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2 remarkable seasons end a shade early B y M i c ha e l O t e r o offensive plays than their oppoOn Saturday, Nov. 22, two sensational seasons came to an end for LIU Post. The football team had its best season in more than a decade, advancing to the Division II Championship before losing to Virginia State, and the men’s soccer squad, which made it to the NCAA Quarterfinals, losing to Charleston College, 1-0.

The football team finished the year 8-4 and outscored their opponents by more than a touchdown for the entire season. The Pioneers dominated the football, running more than 200 more

nents — leading to more points and victories on the playing field.

LIU Post senior quarterback Steven Laurino, a Manhasset native, completed 60 percent of his passes for 3,500 yards and 29 touchdowns. On the ground, he led the Pioneers in rushing with 609 yards and 19 touchdowns.

Sophomore tailback Mike Williams rushed for more than 600 yards and three touchdowns, while Laurino found a total of seven different players for touchdowns this season. Senior wideout Kamron Palmer hauled in 10 scores and right behind him was Photo / Kimberly Toledo

LIU Post football on the offense.

Seb Baxter in action.

sophomore receiver Shane Hubbard, who lassoed nine touchdowns.

On the defensive side of the ball, senior linebacker Anthony Brunetti led the team with 62 tackles and four interceptions.

The defensive line was powered by senior lineman David Sumter, who amassed team-leading 9.5 sacks with 15 tackles for a loss over the season.

The LIU Post men’s soccer team finished the season 16-5Photo / Kimberly Toledo 2 after a loss in the NCAA D-II National Championship Quar-

terfinals and, during one stretch, rolled off 10 straight wins.

Senior captain Eivind Austboe scored a team high of 17 goals, and totaled 38 points and the Pioneers had timely contributions from multiple players throughout the year.

Graduate forward Dale McDonald scored nine goals, while junior midfielder Per Forgaard netted eight. Forgaard also led the team in assists with nine.

Freshman forward Jason Lampkin provided the energy the team needed, and was clutch down the

stretch of games, as he scored six goals on the season, two of which went for game winners.

Junior goalkeeper Jesper Malmstrom went 15-4-2 on the season, marking a close to 80 percent saving rate on all shots on goal. He pitched eight shutouts on the season.

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.

Post wins thriller, falls short in field hockey final B y M i c ha e l O t e r o The LIU Post Pioneers gutted out a 3-2 win over the Skyhawks from Stonehill College in the NCAA Division II semifinals in Louisville, KY on Thursday, Dec. 4 and advanced to the NCAA Division II field hockey finals for the second time in as many years.

The Pioneers got on the board first when senior forward Lyn-Marie Wilson found the back of the cage off a pass from graduate midfielder Dani Crouse in the 20th minute.

Looking to respond, the Skyhawks weaved their way into Pioneer territory and converted on a shot attempt from junior forward Lauren Giordano.

Through the first half, the Pioneers held the advantage in shots by three, but found themselves deadlocked on the scoreboard at the break, 1-1.

The Pioneers were the aggressors early in the second half and it paid off. Senior forward Stephanie Ruhle dove in front of the cage and was able to squeak a shot passed the Skyhawk goal keeper.

Stonehill, again looking to respond, did so with a goal just three minutes later, to draw even at two.

With the score tied and the momentum hanging in

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the balance, the Pioneers seized the opportunity. In the 60th minute, sophomore midfielder Abi Sawyer fired a shot from the top of the circle into the top-left corner of the cage, giving the Pioneers the one-goal advantage.

The Pioneers did not relinquish the lead and marched on to play the Marauders from Millersville University in the title game.

The Pioneers played the final game of their 2014 campaign on Saturday, Dec. 6, the NCAA Division II Field Hockey final. Millersville came into the contest with a staggering 20-3 record for the season, two wins better than the Pioneers, who came in with an 18-3 record.

In the 46th minute, Millersville senior defender Rachel Dickinson broke the scoreless tie, converting off a penalty corner. The lone score proved to be the gamewinner.

The Pioneers, who have reached the NCAA finals in back-to-back seasons, finished both years with losses by one goal in each contest.

For their efforts through the NCAA Tournament, seniors Taylor-Bay Sutton, Wilson, and Crouse were selected to the 2014 NCAA All-Tournament squad.

The LIU Post field hockey team was led by head coach Raenee Savin.

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.

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