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BY B R YA N A H R E N S Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said on Thursday that criticism of the village by the Mineola School Board of proposed tax breaks for a mixed use residential and retail buildings at 199 Second Street tax breaks was a “poorly judged action” and that school trustees claim of being left out of the loop about previous projects that received tax breaks was untrue.

“People make mistakes,” Strauss said of the school board’s criticism. “So be it.”

Strauss’ response came in the form of a letter to the school district, dated Tuesday, Dec. 2. that he read aloud on Thursday during a Board of Trustees meeting.

The letter was accompanied a three-inch document filled with exhibits of correspondence between the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the Mineola School District on hearings on payment-in lieuof-taxes agreements known as PILOTs issued to past apartment Continued on Page 53

Local residents created holiday wreaths at the Williston Park Library craft program on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Club drops new building from plan E.W. residents remain opposed, citing concerns over legality

BY B R YA N A H R E N S The Wheatley Heights Golf Club announced Thursday a revised plan to update its facility at 147 East Williston Ave. that would no longer include an addition to its property after oppo-

sition from residents.

“This club has been here 100 years and the club’s determination is that we do not want to bring anything that would cause fights with our neighbors,” said Kevin Walsh, an attorney with the firm Walsh, Markus, McDougal & DeBellis LLP who is representing Wheatley Hills.

Walsh said during his presentation at the hearing that the club will still be performing renovations inside

to accommodate its staff, something he said is necessary for the golf club.

“The gold club competes with a lot of other facilities, a lot of other golf clubs, that need quality housing because they’re competing,” Walsh said.

The renovations include new rooms on the first floor of the staffing wing of the building, which extends out of the main building on the property.

Currently there are “ap-

proximately 10 or 11 bedrooms” on the main floor and three bedrooms on the second floor above a women’s lockerroom, Walsh said.

The renovations call for the 10 or 11 bedrooms on the main floor to be replaced by eight larger bedrooms with two bathrooms and the three bedrooms on the second floor to be converted into storage space.

Walsh said the basement of the Continued on Page 60

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Carnevale loses bid 8 Sumter Ave. for re-election in GCP house sale seen Chimenti gains seat as fire, water district commish Demo plans put on hold, again

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The order, which Blinkoff Village of East Williston At- said he drafted for the judge’s torney Jeffrey Blinkoff said Mon- signature, affirmed a ruling Mcday that a potential buyer of a Cormack issued in a June 9 property at 8 Sumter Ave. that hearing to permit the village to has been a consistent source of demolish the Sumter Avenue resident complaints in recent house. At the time, McCormack years is expected to finalize the gave the house’s owners, John property’s purchase before the and Theresa Muzio, 45 days until July 28 to remove their personal end of the year.

“This is as close as its ever belongings from the house.

Blinkoff said he was also conbeen” Blinkoff said.

Blinkoff said that the buyers tacted in September by an attorof the property do not intend to ney who said he represented the demolish the dilapidated house Muzios and an attorney who said at 8 Sumter Ave. but intend to he represented a buyer seeking to purchase the house and the renovate instead.

He said that it was not de- property.

He said both attorneys said termined that the property was there was a contract of sale in beyond repair.

“Ultimately that is their deci- place for the property with the sion,” Blinkoff said. “Hopefully Muzio’s attorney indicating that a closing would take place in a that is good news.” few weeks.

Village of The buyer’s atEast Williston torney, BlinkMayor David off said, told Tanner said him the buyer that before the was willing to buyer is able to close within submit plans days. to the building “The buyinspector for er’s attorney renovations is very anxthe current ious to get this property has done,” Blinkto be made off said in Sep“water tight.” tember.

“The propA previerty needs to ously schedbe made safe,” uled auction Tanner said. of the property The house scheduled has been a The property at 8 Sumter Ave. for Septemsource of ber was canrecurrent celled. complaints from residents over The Muzios have repeatedly health, safety and aesthetic concerns, including the presence of said they had a deal in place to sell the property. raccoons living in the home.

Blinkoff had earlier secured In September, Blinkoff received a copy of a signed order a court order granting the village from Nassau Supreme Court the right to refurbish or destroy Judge James McCormack giving the house. the village permission to raze the Continued on Page 53

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BY B R YA N A H R E N S New Hyde Park resident Peter Chimenti defeated 12-year incumbent Augustine Carnevale on Tuesday to gain a spot as commissioner on the board of the Garden City Park Fire and Water District.

Chimenti received 246 votes to Carnevale’s 143.

“I’m glad it was a nice cordial election,” Chimenti said.

“I thank everyone for voting in spite of the weather.”

Chimenti, who has served in the Garden City Park Fire Department for 34 years, said last week that he feels it is time for a change in the Garden City Park Fire and Water District.

“It’s time to get new blood in there,” Chimenti said.

Chimenti, who is a former Fire Chief of the Garden City Park Fire Department, said his background made him well qualified for the position.

“My experience as a firefighter, my positions as a leader and manager, and my integrity, are the qualities needed to be an effective commissioner,” Chimenti said.

Chimenti retired from the NYPD as a sergeant in 2006 and now works for the MTA’s Department of Security as a special inspector.

“I’m not naive to how businesses operate,” he said.

Chimenti said during the campaign that he wants to scrutinize the way the district purchases new equipment.

“I want to keep costs down while also buying the highest

Peter Chimenti Hyde Park, parts of quality equipMineola, parts of ment,” he said. “I himenti North Hills, parts of have a lot of new Roslyn, parts of Wilideas to work with received liston Park, parts of the district.”

246 votes to Albertson and parts Carnevale, who has been com- Carnevale’s 143. of Garden City. missioner for four terms acknowlReach reporter edged his defeat.

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Ferguson, S.I. an assembly backdrop Human Rights Day presentation in Manhasset alleges legal system discrimination

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

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.

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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.

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H H H H H ELECTION 2014

Roslyn water commish wins 5th term Treasurer William Costigan, of Roslyn Heights, receives 33 votes in re-election bid

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Roslyn Water District Commissioner William Costigan

Roslyn Water District Commissioner William Costigan was elected to his fifth term as the district’s treasurer on Tuesday.

Costigan received 33 votes, district officials said. There were no write-in votes.

“I’m very happy and I’m very appreciative of the fact that people came out on such a miserable day to vote,” he said Wednesday.

Costigan, a Roslyn Heights resident, was first elected to the water district in 2002.

The Roslyn Water District covers the villages of Roslyn, Roslyn Estates, Roslyn Harbor, East Hills, Flower Hill, North Hills and parts of Port Washington and the unincorporated areas of Albertson, Glenwood Landing, Greenvale and Roslyn Heights.

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“ m very happy and i’m very appreciative of the fact that people came out on such a miserable day to vote .”

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Voting took place at the Bryant Library at 2 Paper Mill Road in the Village of Roslyn from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Costigan, now retired after running a printing and binding company for many years, said

last week that he is proudest of the water district’s modernization of technologies that monitor its eight wells, and looks forward to the completion of a 10-year, $20.9 million capital plan that includes projects to rid contaminants from three wells that were taken offline in the last few years.

He also said he fully supports a project to build an air stripper device at Christopher Morley Park to rid the water district’s well along Diana’s Trail in the Village of Roslyn Estates of the chlorofluorocarbon Freon-22.

“We’re looking to provide a safe, adequate supply of drinking water,” Costigan said. “It’s up to us to treat it so the water distributed to the community is safe for consumption. That’s what we do. It’s one of our biggest missions, if not our biggest mission.”

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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 minorContinued on Page 54

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New park district in Roslyn clears hurdle

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The Nassau County Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved an application to subdivide more than 400,000 square feet of Roslyn Country Club property for the formation of a new Town of North Hempstead park district alongside a catering hall operated by the land’s current owner.

The approval paves the way for the Town of North Hempstead and current owner Corona Realty Holdings to finalize a $2 million acquisition of the 320,231 squarefoot site for the new Roslyn Country Club park district, officials said.

Corona Realty Holdings, operated by Manouchehr Malekan, plans to maintain the 134,906 square feet of the property used by the Royalton at Roslyn Country Club catering hall, with off-street parking.

“This is a very good project moving forward that has been ongoing for years, and I’m glad it was able to be worked out,” said Jeff Greenfield, planning commission chairman.

The two sides agreed to the acquisition in 2012. The town last year created a special park district within the unincorporated Roslyn community to restore the country club, which was shuttered several years ago.

“The County Planning Commission’s decision is great news,” North Hempstead Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman (DRoslyn) said in a statement. “This approval for the subdivision of the property keeps us steadily moving forward toward our goal of building a park in the Roslyn Country Club area of North Hempstead that will be the centerpiece of this community.”

A plan to renovate the club’s pool area and tennis courts and construct a new locker room facility, playgrounds and basketball court was detailed during two public information sessions last month at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury.

North Hempstead officials have said construction on the property is projected to begin in fall 2015 and continue through 2017. A tentative date of Memorial Day 2017 has been set for the country club to reopen.

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“The response of those in attendance at both public forums was very positive,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a statement. “We are optimistic that the project will continue to move forward.”

The redevelopment would be financed using $12 million in borrowed funds, which town officials said would be repaid over a 20-year period. The town would also utilize bond anticipation notes in the first five years of the project due to current low interest rates.

The park district is expected to require $1,092,342 in operating costs in its first year, officials said.

Residents living within the country club community – the property is located within Locust Lane, Saddle Lane and Club Drive – would pay a median $1,320 assessed valuation in 2017, town officials said, based on a home valued at $730,800.

Malekan unsuccessfully sued Roslyn Country Club residents over easement rights dating back to the 1950s that provided for use of the country club’s facilities for $100 a year, then shuttered the club. Nearly 400 residents then counter sued.

The litigation is still pending in court, but Roslyn Country Club Civic Association president Todd Zarin and Town Attorney Liz Botwin said nearly all would drop their lawsuits in exchange for access to the facility.

Bosworth said the additional litigation would not affect the sale and prospective redevelopment of the country club and that the transaction would be protected by the state comptroller’s office and state Constitution.

Roslyn Country Club residents would automatically become members of the new park district, Bosworth said. Prospective membership fees were not disclosed.

Construction is also contingent on the approval of a subdivision application submitted to Nassau County, Botwin said.

She said public hearings would be held on the application and that legal notices would be sent to residents in advance of the hearings.

An artist’s rendering of the proposed pool renovation for the Roslyn Country Club park district.

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Town to accept plans to revitalize park

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO 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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Albertson water commish re-elected Albertson and parts of Roslyn Heights.

BY B R YA N AHRENS Albertson Water District Commissioner Richard Ockovic said he was pleased that he was re-elected Tuesday, but not entirely happy with how.

“It was a very poor turnout,” he said. “Would have liked to see more people voting but a win is a win” Ockovic, who ran uncontested, received 39 votes on Tuesday in capturing a third three-year term.

He attributed the low turnout to Tuesday’s heavy rain.

Ockovix, who served as a police officer in the NYPD for 30 years and as a detective for 24 of those years, said he ran again for a spot on the three-member board because he believes his work is not done.

“I will continue to keep costs down on water,” he said.

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“The meters just go bad,” facebook.com/theislandnow. he said. “We can more accurately determine water usage with new equipment.”

Ockovix said that much of the equipment is meant to last 10 to 15 years and is currently about 13 years old.

He said the district will also need to replace water mains in the district, some of which have been in place since the 1960s.

“We plan to replace a water main on Mckinley Avenue,” Ockovix said. “The main on that street is original, it may be over 100 years old.

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Kentucky provost named Adelphi prez Christine Riordan to become Garden City university’s first woman honcho

BY B R YA N AHRENS 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

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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 academ-

ic 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.

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Father-son duo bring life to Mineola eatery

BY B R YA N A H R E N S Bob and Bryan Berman said that their two years of success at Plum Tomatoes Pizzaria Restaurant in Mineola as a father and son team is largely owed to the way they treat the people around them.

“Everyone around here does a little bit of everything,” Bob said of his staff.

“You can really accomplish something when you treat people right.”

Bob, who took over Plum Tomatoes with his son Bryan on Dec. 4 two years ago, said the way the two treat people extends beyond their co-workers.

“We’ll go around and knock on people’s doors,” Bob said. “We want to know everyone in our community.”

It is this kind of approach, Bob said, that brings out the best in their food, something the two pride themselves on.

“We’ll put our food against any other food” Bob said.

Bob said upon taking over the restaurant at 228 Old Country Road, which before they took over had been in business for seven years under the same name, he and his son focused largely on the food.

The menu now features 17 specialty pizzas, a varied selection of salads and a large selection of veal, chicken and seafood entrees, including Veal Romano and Shrimp Oreganata.

There are lunch specials every day, including a pizza special of the day.

The decision to open the restaurant came during a discussion Bob and Bryan were having at the dinner table, the two said.

“I think it was destiny for us to do this,” Bob said.

Bryan had earned a bachelors degree in sports management from SUNY-Cortland and had spent a few years working in different businesses.

But, he said, he was drawn back to the business he had worked in with his father in his teenage years.

Before buying Plum Tomatoes, Bob had operated pizzerias in Suffolk County over the previous seven years, most recently Mozzarella’s in East Northport.

He said he then decided to sell his pizzeria and his house, relocate to Bellmore and look for a business in Nassau County.

Having grown up in Franklin Square, Bob said, he was already familiar with the area.

“All of the people in this area really gave us a shot, Bob said. “They gave us an opportunity to show what we could do.”

Bob said that when give the chance he and Bryan did not disappoint.

“We are 100 percent in this,” Bryan said.

“People come back and it’s all positive feedback,” Bob said. “Every business has its ups and downs and right now we’re at an up.”

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Herricks music program makes a hit Named among the top 120 music education programs in U.S. by GRAMMY foundation

BY B R YA N AHRENS The Herricks High School Music Department was selected as a GRAMMY Signature School semifinalist in mid-November, placing in it among the top 120 music education programs in the United States, according to a news release.

“I’m very proud and honored of this acknowledgement,” said Anissa Arnold, director of Herricks High School’s music department said.

Arnold said the school placed as a semifinalist last year as well and even placed in 2001 as one of the top 16 schools in the country for music education.

The GRAMMY Foundation program was established in 1988 and provides grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to benefit high school music programs that are outstanding

The entire Herricks District Music Faculty takes pride in the High School’s recent selection as a Grammy Signature School Semi-Finalist. in their music programs, according to the foundation’s website.

“Our GRAMMY Signature Schools program provides an ideal platform to raise awareness of pub-

lic high schools across the country that are providing excellent music education programs for their students,” Neil Portnow, president of the GRAMMY foundation, said in the release.

Arnold said that in the past the school was awarded the Presidential Citation of Excellence by the New York State School Music Association. The high school has also been awarded

as a GRAMMY signature school in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 according to the school’s website.

“Herricks High School boasts high levels of performance in band, orches-

tra, and chorus,” Arnold said. “Herricks High School is very proud to be among the GRAMMY semifinalists.”

The Herricks High School music department consists of a ninth grade band, a ninth grade orchestra, a combined 11th and 12th grade chorus, a chamber orchestra and a show choir.

“We offer a lot of opportunities for music,” Arnold said.

The school will be notified in March of whether it has made it to the finals, he said.

“We’re at the last stage in this,” Arnold said.

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NHP vets offer doses for wolves Animal hospital donates medicine to treat animals in the wild for ticks and lice B R YA N A H R E N S While dogs and cats are their usual customers that has not stopped the New Hyde Park Animal Hospital from extending its care to wolves.

For the last three years the animal hospital has donated doses of flea and tick medicine to Mission:Wolf, an organization that helps treat wolves in the wild.

“We try to do anything,” said Mara DiGrazia, co-owner at New Hyde Park Animal Hospital. “We wanted to do something out of the box, something for the environment.”

DiGarza said New Hyde Park Hospital has been donating Frontline and Certifect, medicine used to treat fleas and ticks, for the past three years, This year, she said, the animal hospital made its largest donation 259 doses.

DiGrazia said she heard about Mission: Wolf from one of her patients.

“Fleas and ticks can carry parasites,” she said. “You want the animals to be comfortable.”

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“Small steps can make a difference in the quality of life for animals,” she said in a news release.

Although the wolves are wild, DiGrazia said the organization has trained the wolves to apply the medicine used to treat fleas and ticks.

“They developed a system in Colorado where they taught the wolves to rub up against a fence,” she said. “They’re able to apply the medication through the fence.

In November, DiGrazia said, she met with Kent Weber, founder and executive of Mission: Wolf at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz where she and the organization presented on wolves.

“It was very nice to be able to present,” she said.

DiGrazia said that the organization plans to reduce its visits around the country but that the hospital will continue to donate its flea medication annually.

“Our hospital staff is greatly rewarded by the satisfaction of helping the animal community whenever we can,” she said.

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Food shop seeks to be cut above the rest

BY B R YA N A H R E N S Even in the rain Giancarlo’s Gourmet brought out its grills for a barbeque on Saturday to celebrate its grand opening in New Hyde Park.

Giancarlo Cali, who worked at the 783 Hillside Ave. location when it was known as the Fork and Cleaver and Joe’s Meat Market, and co-owner Alexsandria Musso said they wanted to bring their own style and name to the store.

“We wanted to make this our own,” Musso said.

Giancarlo’s Gourmet offer a full service butcher shop, delicatessen, catering and outdoor grilling, Cali said.

“We carry certified angus, organic and natural free-range cuts to appeal to the health and humane conscious meat eaters,” according to the shop’s website.

Cali, who worked as a butcher for the two prior businesses, said he started

working as a butcher when he was 13 years old and prides himself on the selection of services that his business provides.

“We do outdoor grilling with these huge grills,” Cali said. “We’ve catered to over 600 people using those grills.”

Musso, a Queens resident, said that Giancarlo’s, which opened on Nov. 24, is unique in offering prepared meals to its customers.

“If you’re in a rush and can’t make dinner you can pick up food here quick,” Musso said.

Cali, a Ridgewood resident, said that Giancarlo’s also offers catering, delivery and lunch specials as well as flavored and specialty roasts.

Musso said it is the customer service that allows Giancarlo’s to stand apart from other delicatessens.

“People feel more than welcome here,” Musso said. “It’s not so much an in and out type of thing with our customers.”

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BY B R YA N A H R E N S The CBS show “Blue Bloods” strayed from its Manhattan setting last week and into the ice rink of New Hyde Park’s Iceland.

The show, currently running its fifth season, follows New York Police Department Commissioner Francis Reagan, played

by Tom Selleck and his son Danny Reagan who is a hard-nosed NYPD detective played

by Donnie Wahlberg.

Marcus Terry, locations assistant for the show, said that the show’s production team scouted a variety of locations before choosing to shoot at Iceland on Dec. 3.

“We liked the size of it,” Terry said. “The rink has the space around it to set up lights and the parking for all of the staff trucks.”

Terry said that the Iceland staff was excited to have the show use the 3345 Hillside Ave. location.

“The Iceland staff was very eager and accommodating in allowing us to do this,” Terry said.

Farah Gholamazad, a skating school instructor at Iceland, said that some of the staff were used as extras in the show.

“It was a really cool experience,” she said. “Everyone was really excited.”

Gholamazad said that the show’s crew brought in approximately 100 extras of their own for the shoot.

“They were very streamlined, quick and responsive in getting the shot done” she said. “They were very pleasant to work with.”

Gholamazad said there was a lot of preparation before the film crew shot the scene, which she said began around 8:30 a.m. and finished around 1 p.m.

“They brought in a lot of extra lights, changed the posters on the walls, she said.

“They really transformed out rink.”

Terry said that the show shoots most of its scenes on the streets of New York City, particularly Manhattan.

“If you’ve ever been to New York City you’ll know that you’re always walking through some set for some show,” Terry said.

While Terry said he was unable to provide details on the scene being shot he said it would air as part of the show’s fifth season in late January.

“Blue Bloods” airs Friday nights at 10 p.m., most recently airing its eighth episode of the season.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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hanukah, Christmas and New Year’s Eve are right around the corner. That means neighborhoods, buildings and stores will soon be awash in holiday splendor. Social schedules will be full, and men and women everywhere will shuffle to complete their holiday shopping.

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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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.

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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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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.

Magnets Small magnets can be swallowed and become lodged in the digestive system of a child. If two or more magnets or a magnet and metal component are swallowed, they can attract to one another through intestinal walls. This can cause blockages, perforations and infections. Avoid toys that use small magnets, and check the CPSC website to ensure that magnetic toys are not among recalled products.

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Williston Park Library From the Director: While we appreciate donations, please do not put them in the return bin outside the library. The bin is for library material only.

“Bounty of Beautiful Christmas Memories” is on display in the library. Raffles are $1 each or 8 for $5. The winner will be announced on Friday, December 19th.

Please be aware that smoking is prohibited in the restrooms of the library. Not only is this a fire hazard, but it is also illegal.

We are once again collecting new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots. There is a donation box available until December 17th. We thank you for your generosity.

We are having our annual Holiday Raffle, which was crafted by Mary Maher. A

Here are some new arrivals to the library:

Let Me Be Frank with You — Richard Ford Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography — Fred Schruers Havana Storm — Clive Cussler Good Son: JFK Jr, and the Mother He Loved — Christopher Andersen Us — David Nicholls Yes Please — Amy Poehler American Duchess — Sharon Page Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery — Robert M. Poole

Ship of Brides — JoJo Moyes Lila — Marilynne Robinson Family Furnishings ­— Alice Munro

ADULTs Friday @ the Movies Every third Friday of each month at 1 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Enjoy a leisurely afternoon and see a great movie.

Author Appearance Thursday, Jan. 22 from 7 p.m. in he Assembly Room of Village Hall. Bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan will discuss her new book, Truth Be Told. Copies will be available for purchase at the Circulation Desk and the night of the event.

children Visit from Santa Friday, Dec. 19 from 3:30

to 5 p.m. in the Library.

Children of all ages are welcome!

Tiny Tykes I & II Wednesdays, Jan. 14, 21 & 28; Feb. 4, 11, & 25 at 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Open to children 1 ½-5 years old.

There is a $45 fee due at registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

East Williston Library OLD WESTBURY GARDENS and NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PASSES: The passes are available to East Williston Library card holders. Each family pass (2 adults and children under 18 years of age) may be borrowed for a 3 day period.

Passes may be reserved in advance.

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life.

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to helping you get the one that’s right for you. Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org TUMBLEBOOK LIBRARY: TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love. Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org

N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours are Monday & Thursday from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm and Wednesday from 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Photo identification is required.

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firm a notary is available.

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

EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY: We are pleased to present a beautiful Santa Claus collection in the lobby of the Village Hall generously lent to us by Anne Messina.

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Mineola Public Library In The Gallery During the month of December, view Spiritual Paintings in acrylic by artist Barbara Lewin

EXPIRATION DATE ON THE ITEMS. DONATED ITEMS MUST NOT BE EXPIRED AND MUST BE NON-PERISHABLE.

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

Suggested items should include, but are not limited to, canned vegetables, baby food, baby formula, soups, canned fruit, nutritional beverages such as Boost or Ensure, cereal, pasta, bottled juices, personal care items such as toothpaste and deodorant, and more. PLEASE NOTE: BEFORE DONATING FOOD, PLEASE CHECK THE

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

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

From Wednesday, Nov. 12 through Saturday, Dec. 13, you may drop off a new and unwrapped toy in the “Toys for Tots” box located in front of the Circulation Desk.

ADULTs Yoga Classes* Mondays at 7 to 8:15 p.m.

December 22, 29; January 5, 12; February 1. Robert Crowe will introduce you to the beneficial practices that

help you relax, meditate and reach optimum health.

AARP Smart Driver Course* Friday, Dec. 12 at 10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. The AARP Smart Driver Course is open to individuals 50 and over.

Checks are payable to AARP, $20.00 for AARP members and $25.00 for all others.

Registration at the Reference Desk will begin on Monday, November 10. A limit of 35 participants may attend the course.

Art Lecture: The Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art* Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.

Every year the Metropolitan Museum installs in the Medieval Hall its Christmas display, which includes a towering spruce, illuminated with glowing lights and decorated with silk robed

angels, and a vivid Nativity scene with a large number of life-like figurines. Join Ines Powell, Art Educator, for the fascinating history of this event.

children Volunteer Programs: Adopt-a-Shelf Volunteers Grades 6-12—Open registration. Volunteer/community credit will be given.

Chat ‘n’ Chew Club Wednesdays, Dec. 3, Jan. 14, Feb. 25 at 4 to 5 p.m.

Grades 5-12—Open registration Volunteer/community credit will be given.

Toy Paramedics Volunteers Grades 6-12—Open registration Volunteer/community credit will be given.

Teen Online Writing Club Begins Monday, Dec. 15.

Teens in 8th – 12th grades may sign-up to participate.

Join a lively online community of fellow teen writers! Share your writing and earn achievements by giving advice and critiques.

Participation is all online on a librarian-moderated message board. Call or visit the reference desk for registration information.

“Max and Ruby” Meets “The Fresh Beat Band!”

Monday, Dec. 8 at 4:30 p.m.

Children ages 2 and up may sign-up to attend. Read “Max and Ruby” books, make a “Fresh” tambourine, play “Freeze Dance” to the tunes of the “Fresh Beat Band” and enter to win tickets to see the “Fresh Beat Band” or “Max and Ruby” at NYCB Theatre at Westbury!

Mouse Ornaments Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 4:30

p.m. Ages 2 and up may design a mouse ornament for the holidays!

Teen Online Writing Club Begins Monday, Dec. 15 Teens in 8th – 12th grades may sign-up to participate.

Join a lively online community of fellow teen writers! Share your writing and earn achievements by giving advice and critiques.

Participation is all online on a librarian-moderated message board. Call or visit the reference desk for registration information.

Pokémon Gaming Club Tuesdays, Jan. 13, Feb. 3 from 4 to 5 p.m. Children ages 7 and up may signup to attend. Meet other Pokémon fans, trade cards; battle Pokémon with them on your Nintendo DS or on the library’s Nintendo Wii!

Shelter Rock Library MUSEUM PASSES @ SRPL Shelter Rock Public Library cardholders can reserve a Museum Pass online for free admission to a variety of mu-

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Go to www.srpl.org and pull down the Library Services Menu then go to Museum

Passes. Click the Reserve Now link and look for the red Request Pass button to see if the Museum Pass is available.

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

SHELTER ROCK PATRONS MAY RESERVE PASSES FOR: American Airpower Museum • Children’s Museum of Manhattan • Cold Spring

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‘Speech off’ at Wheatley High School Student Orators This was a great week to see our students and teachers in action!

On Dec. 5, I attended a “speech off” where a group of juniors gave speeches based on their study of historical documents and rhetorical strategies learned in their Social Studies and English classes.

Congratulations to Shawn Chubalashivili, Melissa Farhangian, Allie Giordano, Shannon McLean, Limor Tabib, John Theotokas and Devin Waxman who were chosen by their peers to participate in the “speech off” finals.

This event was the culmination of an interdisciplinary project developed by Wheatley teachers Natalia McMillan, Jennifer Fatone, Gena Topping and Mike Haig in Regents-level English and Social Studies classes.

Students studied the U.S. Constitution, analyzed the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers and developed speeches in support of or in opposition to the Federalist position.

Students delivered their speeches during their English classes and then selected the students with the most effective and convincing arguments to compete in the “speech off.”

I was so impressed listening to the finalists’ speeches.

As the social studies teachers noted, it was so exciting to see the students applying their deep understanding and knowledge gained in social studies to their writing and speaking project in English.

The students’ use of historical evidence in crafting their arguments was extensive and impressive.

The finalists’ speeches were evaluated for presentation (Was the speaker clear and engaging? Consider eye contact, tone of voice, volume, emphasis on important ideas.), argument (Were you convinced?

Was the opinion/argument clear, logical and convincing?), counter-argument (Did he/she include counterargument? Stating the opposing point of view and providing a preemptive rebuttal.) and rhetorical technique (Were you interested? Did he/she use rhetorical strategies? Pathos, ethos, logos, metaphor, anaphora, alliteration, etc.).

Congratulations to the final winner, Shawn Chubalashivili who was voted Friday’s orator champion and first runner-up Allie Giordano.

This project is an excellent example of the collaboration between departments that helps students connect their learning.

Mock Trial Tournament/Impressive!

On Dec. 4, Wheatley hosted its 32nd Annual SWS Mock Trial Tournament.

Teams from Syosset, Glen Cove, Roslyn, Great Neck North, Kellenberg, Manhasset and North Shore joined three Wheatley teams in the courtroom competition.

What an exciting day this is…I am always amazed to see our Wheatley students “transformed” into dark-suited legal professionals and our classrooms changed into courtrooms.

A first semester course, Mock Trial,

is given by Wheatley’s School Within A Mike Mazur and Christine Truskiewicz and School program and taught by Wheatley to our wonderful second grade students Jana Fishman, Angela Krimitsos and Adrisocial studies teacher Pat Clarke.

It prepares students for this tourna- an Petrizzo who shared how these science ment. Members of the SWS team that standards are coming to life in their classcompeted this week included Kayla Bellan, rooms.

As was presented on December 3, Kelsey Beresheim, Briana Clarfield, Ethan Cohen, Jonathan Goodman, Taylor Keen- 2014, the Next Generation Science Stanan, Leah Kopelman, Amanda Liparato, dards hold a vision for science education Jessie LoBocchiaro, Mike McCleary, Eden in which students, over multiple years of school, actively engage in science and enSinger and Avery Tanenhaus.

Bob Bernstein, a retired Wheatley gineering practices and apply crosscutting teacher, who started this Mock Trial Tour- concepts to deepen their understanding of nament so many years ago and Dr. John the core ideas in these fields.

The three dimensions of the NGSS are Staudt, Wheatley social studies teacher, are the co-advisors of Wheatley’s Mock Trial the practices, the disciplinary core ideas and the crosscutting concepts.

Club.

The practices involve: Competing members asking questions and definof the two Mock Trial Club ing problems; developing teams are Ron Aldad, Sam and using models; planAvila, Michaela Balboni, ning and carrying out inJoy Bestourous, Ellie Chen, vestigations; analyzing and Jacob Chimerine, Caroline interpreting data; using Crimmins, Chintan Datt, math and computational Jakob Gilbert, Lianna Goldthinking; constructing en, Andrew Hirsch, Bruce explanations and designKardach, Brett Katz, Abing solutions; engaging in hishek Kumar, Vani Kumar, argument from evidence; Michael Laginestra, Chrisobtaining, evaluating and tina Mille, Aliza Moezinia, Elaine Kanas communicating informaJulian Nathan, Justin Superintendent tion.

Parker, Jeffrey Poomkudy, The crosscutting conDavid Rosenzweig, Brooke Schwartz, Courtney Schwartz, Caleb Var- cepts (those that cut across all the science ghese, Thomas Vella, Emily Wang, Harris disciplines) are patterns, cause and effect, scale, proportion, quantity and systems and Wekselblatt and Kenton Wu. Preparing for mock trial competitions models.

The disciplinary core ideas are physical takes countless hours of work and preparation on both the students’ and teachers’ science, life science, earth and space, energy and matter, structure and function and parts.

Students are presented with fact pat- stability and change.

As Mr. Casamento explained, “The new terns and then develop either a prosecutoscience standards represent a shift in our rial or defense case, including witnesses.

Students must fully understand, pre- thinking from what do we want students to pare and anticipate all possible arguments know and what do they need to do to know regardless of which side the team repre- it to what do we want students to do and sents in the competition, in order to be most what do they need to know to do it.”

Our presenters certainly provided us competitive. The Mock Trial program is an excellent opportunity for students to build with some real life East Williston examples public speaking skills, develop analytical of active science learning.

They shared experiences from their and quick thinking skills, as well as gain deep experience in using evidence to craft Forces and Interactions and Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Units. arguments.

Mock Trial is performance based and For the power point presentation and more students not only gain experience in draft- information on this topic go to the district ing their written argument, but learn to pay website at www.ewsdonline.org > click on added attention to the role of rhetoric when School Board > hover on BOE Meeting Presentations > click on 14-15 BOE Presentadeveloping themes.

A special thank you to Wheatley Social tions > go to December 3 Work Session.

More New Curriculum Frameworks Studies and SWS teacher Mr. Clarke for coAlso at Wednesday’s Work Session, ordinating this event.

Thank you to Mr. Bernstein and Dr. Dr. Danielle Gately, director of Secondary Staudt for their support, as well. Also, Curriculum Services and Social Studies, thank you to Ellen Kotin and Robert Vella, presented the new social studies standards our community members, who volunteered that were adopted for New York State just their time to become our courtroom judges. last month.

The social studies department, along Next Generation Science Standards with social studies departments across the Presented at December Work Session What an informative and exciting pre- state, will now begin the process of seeing how these new standards will translate into sentation this was.

Special thanks to David Casamento, classroom practice and begin the practice director of Science and Technology, North of alignment, as necessary. In next week’s Side Teachers John Coyne, Kelly Powers, newsletter I will share a brief overview of

the standards as they were presented on Wednesday, and a link to Dr. Gately’s power point presentation.

Science Olympiad Takes Over Wheatley If you were to walk the halls near Wheatley’s science department on Nov. 25, you would have heard the exciting buzz of Wheatley’s Annual Science Olympiad Night! It was a successful night of friendly scientific competition. Nearly 100 students gathered to participate in events such as anatomy and physiology (students show off their knowledge of various human body systems), chemistry lab, forensics (a “who done it” style lab), Experimental Design (this year students used everyday household objects to design a lab based on projectile motion) and Write-it Do-It (a fan favorite where one partner writes a blueprint on how to build a pre-built abstract model and the other partner must use these directions to construct the model with the raw materials).

This event helps foster the Science Olympiad program but also encourages students to participate in a competitive but fun atmosphere with their friends!

Thank you to science research teacher Mary Alexis Blondrage for her coordination of this event.

Congratulations to the following teams who placed in our Science Olympiad: For chemistry lab: In 3rd place Andrew Zuckerman and Jake Williams In 2nd place Samantha Lessen and Courtney Schwartz In 1st place Krista Chen and Jordan Shaked For Anatomy and Physiology: In 3rd place Shalini Bansal and Gabbie Leccese In 2nd place Jessie Cao and Cindy Zhou In 1st place Jeff Poomkudy and Ashwin Reddy For Forensics: In 3rd place Sarah Barbey and Tori Ormonde In 2nd place Margaret Giacinto In 1st place Brian Gong and Ethan Cohen For Experimental Design: In 3rd place David Fisher and Ethan Cohen In 2nd place Seungmin Yi and Hebah Hassan In 1st place Arihant Jain and Chris Shen For Write it Do it: In 3rd place Crystal and Kayla Barroca In 2nd place Krista Chen and Joy Bestourous In 1st place Chris Shen and Mohammad Khanzada 2,579 Cans on the Wall The Willets Road Student Government organized and collected 2,579 cans and non-perishable food items for the hungry on Long Island.

The food was given to rock CAN roll, a volunteer, non-profit hunger relief organization who distributed the healthy nonperishable food to local agencies and into Continued on Page 51

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St. Aidan, Schechter hold service together On Monday, Nov. 24, Saint Aidan School’s Grade 7 and 8 students and faculty joined with the Schechter School of Long Island’s middle school students and faculty for an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service.

Held in Monsignor Kirwin Hall, the morning service began with the Pledge of Allegiance and welcom-

ing remarks from Saint Aidan’s Principal Eileen Oliver followed by a scripture reading and lessons from Father Kevin Dillon and Avi Siegel, Jewish Life coordinator at The Schechter School. Saint Aidan’s Celestial Choir, directed by music teacher Helen Mochwart, and The Schechter School’s Choir, directed

by Joan Cohen, performed hymns of praise and joyful songs. After a closing prayer, students and faculty socialized over juice and treats. The Schechter Upper School Principal Ofra Hiltzik expressed her thanks for this ongoing tradition of meeting as partners in faith-filled education.

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Hampton Street School in the Mineola Union Free School District hosted a family dinner for participants in the Dual Language program. Joined by their families, kindergarten through second-graders in the program participated in a potluck dinner reflecting multiple cultures. Besides dining together as a Dual Language community, the evening allowed teachers the opportunity to demonstrate how the children are learning in two languages and to provide a question-and-answer dialogue for parents.

‘Speech off’ at Wheatley High School Continued from Page 50 the hands of children, seniors and families who live with hunger and in poverty.

Wheatley Guidance News Wheatley Guidance Facebook Page Wheatley’s Guidance Department is excited to share with the community our facebook page. You will find frequent updates with timely articles, important information and helpful events in and around the community. If you have any topics you would like us to highlight, please reach out to Greg Wasserman, director of guidance, at wassermang@ewsdonline.org. h t t p s : / / w w w. f a c e b o o k . com/pages/Wheatley-Guidance/870903156267993 Congratulations and Commendations Soccer Players Honored at Section VIII Dinner* Wheatley junior forward Pedro Lamarre was honored this week at the Nassau County Sec-

tion VIII Boys Soccer Dinner.

The Wildcat forward found out that he was named an All New York State player. This is a big accomplishment considering Pedro missed the playoffs due to an injury late in the season.

Coach Steve Cadet informed me that our soccer program has had other players honored with this award over the years, “but it has been more than 10 years since we had a junior receive this accolade.” Congratulations Pedro!

Wheatley senior midfielder Brandon Cervone received the Mike Dillon Memorial Scholarship at the Nassau County Section VIII Boys Soccer Dinner.

To apply for this scholarship, soccer players are required to write an essay. Brandon, a standout player on Wheatley’s Nassau County Championship soccer team, wrote about how his inspiration to play and excel in soccer has come from his brother, who has been diagnosed with a level of autism that requires

24/7 care.

Brandon recognizes that his ability to play soccer is a gift, and he feels that his play on the soccer field should always be a testimony to his brother, Phillip, and his mother -- who has always been there to care for both of them. After the emcee read Brandon’s essay at the dinner, he walked up to receive his award to a standing ovation.

Wheatley senior sweeper Brendan Doherty was also honored at the soccer dinner for his outstanding play in the post season and received the award for Playoff Most Valuable Player.

Congratulations Pedro, Brandon and Brendan! *Other soccer and athletic awards were listed in my Nov. 21 newsletter.

Speaking of my last newsletter … a correction … Wheatley tennis players Brittany Groveman and Jillian Gothelf both received All-Conference awards for their season.

Science Student Research To

Be Published Congratulations to Wheatley senior Alex Boubour who was recently notified that a paper she co-authored will be published in the February 2015 volume of The North American Skull Base Society From June to August 2014, Alex interned at the New York Head and Neck Institute at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan under the mentorship of both the senior otolaryngology surgeon Dr. Peter D. Costantino and their head of research Dr. Tristan Tham.

Alex spent much time in the operating room, observing cases as part of her research and ultimately co-authored three papers.

Following a research trip to Maryland Alex helped author a paper that presented the success of a novel hemostatic agent successful in neurosurgeries on pig sterna following cardiothoracic surgery.

She also authored a paper

regarding the novel use of a Crawford stent in parotid duct injuries. These papers are currently pending peer-reviewed publications.

Alex’s final co-authored paper, which will appear in The North American Skull Base Society is titled Probable Immunoglobulin Subtype – G4 Related Disease in the Head and Neck from Foreign Body Injection: A Case Report.

This study strengthens the ways in which Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease may be diagnosed based upon the symptoms with which the patient presents.

As Alex enters college in the fall of 2015, she plans to continue her studies in biology and biomedical engineering research.

Congratulations, Alex!

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

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Dunkin Donuts a treat for the holidays Dunkin Donuts: “Everyman’s way to start the day” We have arrived at everyone’s favorite time of year, the time of gift giving. It’s the chance to show the ones you love that you appreciate them and all their hard work. And this does not mean you have to spend a small fortune.

My plan this year is to give a gift to my life saver Susan Welgrin and staff, to my foot savers Dr. Brook and Dr. Einhorn and staff, to my skin saver Dr. Bob Paltzik and staff. Of course I cannot leave out my Buddy Steve Parmett of Minuteman Press and his staff. You may recall that Steve was voted as being “The most interesting man in the world” in this column by being over 60, have good facial hair and being well liked by younger women. That’s all it took.

So now the decision must be made. What do I give them?

Simple answer. The most yummy, most fun, most cheerful gift I can think of: a dozen donuts in a box!. Okay but where to get them. Oh yes we have a Dunkin Donuts right at 270 Hillside Avenue a little west of CVS. I’ll go get some there. They have those

big flat boxes with all the pretty donuts laid out in front of you.

The glazed ones, the chocolate glazed, the Boston Crèmes, the plain old fashioned. Joy to the world! I could get a few boxes and act like Santa Claus carrying a big bag full of calories. And I actually get to burn off some calories during the walk. Perfect.

To find out more about why ‘America runs on Dunkin’ I called up Mike Imperato who has been a Dunkin Donut franchisee for 28 years, once worked at the Dunkin on Herricks Road and who is now co-chair of their national marketing committee and a Long Island representative for the Metro-NY Advertising Committee. He told me the history of Dunkin Donuts started in 1950 in Quincy Mass by William Rosenberg. When Rosenberg saw that coffee and donuts were so popular at factories and construction sites he realized how much people seemed to like his stuff. He soon started to franchise and today Dunkin Donuts successfully competes with Starbucks as an American global doughnut company and coffee house with over 11,000 restaurants in 33 countries. Mr. Imperato told me that Dunkins fills

Dr. Tom Ferraro Our Town

a niche by providing great coffee that everyman can afford and enjoy. They are most popular in the Northeast and Korea and will soon be available in California.

Imperato said their secret was in having high quality ingredients, only selling fresh donuts, providing quick service and completely updating every store every ten years. You may have noticed that all Dunkin Donut stores look brand new. He also told me they are now expanding into Europe.

Now it’s time to go local and have a chat with the owner of our very own Dunkin Donuts on Hillside. I stopped down during the torrential downpour this Tuesday and discovered that heavy

rain does not deter the locals from getting their donut and coffee.

The line was steady as people ordered there afternoon coffee and donuts. And there they were just as I hoped. All those pretty Boston Crèmes, the sweet looking glazed and wonderfully robust looking jelly donuts. I briefly interviewed the manager Azee who was really too busy to spend time with me and who I think did not actually believe me when I said I was from the Williston Times and doing a piece on the store.

This store is owned by Ron

Portnoy and has been there for years. It seems that most folks on the line wanted coffee, coffee and more coffee but beverages were the last thing on my mind. I just kept gazing at all those fresh looking donuts, thinking about how they would look in a big flat box and how Dr. Welgrin, Dr. Brook, Dr. Paltzik and Steve Parmett would enjoy them. ‘Tis the season to be merry so forget the calories for a moment. Life is so short so let it be as sweet as possible.

Indulge your sweet tooth, dig in, enjoy, happy holidays!

Operation Santa Clause

Winthrop Tree Lighting Winthrop University Hospital recently held it 29th annual tree lighting ceremony. Hospital administration, staff and local community officials, helped 4-year-old Joseph Palmersen of Westbury, one of Winthrop’s Child Life patients, light the tree. The community event also featured musical performances by the Mineola High School Concert Singers. Pictured from left: Mineola Village Trustees Paul Pereira, Dennis Walsh, George Durham and Paul Cusato, Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, Mineola Village Mayor Scott Strauss, North Hempstead Councilman Peter Zuckerman, North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Senator Jack Martins, Senator Kemp Hannon, Winthrop Hospital President and CEO John Collins, Winthrop Hospital Board of Directors Chairman Charles Strain, Legislator Laura Schaefer, Winthrop Hospital Senior Vice-President and CFO Palmira Cataliotti, Assemblyman Ed Ra, and Winthrop Hospital Board of Directors members Maureen Clancy and Veronica Renken.

If you are a Village of Williston Park resident and would like Santa to visit your home on Christmas Eve, email Eileen at ehoran@villageofwillistonpark.org or call (516) 746-2193 the week of Monday, Dec. 15 through Friday, Dec. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. only please.

Families who are expecting a visit from Santa Claus can insure his prompt arrival by displaying their house number prominently. Large numbers printed on cardboard and taped to the front door and a well- lighted front entrance will help Santa find the houses where he is expected. Please leave all gifts on your front step for Santa to deliver when he arrives at your home.

Volunteer Santas and Drivers are needed. You will be on your merry way by 5:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. This task takes approximately one to two hours. If you have your own suit, please bring it.

We will have Santa suits available as well. Help keep the magic of Christmas alive for the children of Williston Park.

If you would like to volunteer to be Santa or Santa’s helper on Wednesday, Dec. 24, please email Eileen at ehoran@villageofwillistonpark.org

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Strauss says ed board had facts; Barneett says no Continued from Page 1 projects in the Village of Mineola dating as far back as May of 2012.

Strauss challenged comments made by Mineola School Board President Artie Barnett during a November hearing on the mixed project proposed by Lalezarian Developers at 199 Second Street that school officials had not been informed of proposed tax breaks for local developers.

“When specifically asked whether the District had been notified of the proposal for the PILOTs as was the village, the president of the Board of Education unequivocally stated that it had not,” Strauss said regarding a comment by Barnett . “Well, that’s absolutely not true.”

The bottom line is that the Board of Education was in fact ‘brought on board’ by the IDA with reference to the PILOTs for the prior projects through eight separate notices and communications,” Strauss continued.

“The Village spoke with the IDA with reference to these notices and communications. The Village appeared at the public hearings conducted by the IDA. The Board of Education, which claims it was denied input in the matter, was notably and unexplainably absent.”

In an interview with the Williston Times, Barnett said Strauss’ comments distorted the school district’s complaints and called on the village trustees to engage in direct talks with the school board.

“This is a misdirection,” Barnett said. “They need to sit across the table from us and talk to us.”

“The problem here is that the Village of Mineola will not speak to the school board,” he added. “How about a letter sent by the Village of Mineola, not the IDA...They need to put on their big boy pants. It’s all bulls--t and I’m getting tired of it.” Barnett said during the hearing that the school district

was not informed of PILOT hearings for previous Mineola apartment projects.

“Well, the hearings, actually, on the two PILOT arrangements for the Old Country Road buildings we were not notified of,” Barnett said at the Nov 12. hearing.

Barnett said he opposed more tax breaks.

“We are vehemently opposed to any PILOT arrangements, and certainly any for residential development.” Barnett said during the hearing.

Barnett, accompanied by Mineola Superintendent of Schools Michael Nagler, also said the proposed tax breaks for the Lazazarian project would place a high financial burden on school taxpayers.

The Village of Mineola has approved tax breaks to several developments in Mineola that have been touted as part of the village’s master plan for developments of the village’s downtown.

Among them are two Mill Creek apartment buildings with 311 units and a Lalezarian Developers project at 250 Old Country Road,.

Mill Creek, a national developer, is currently building the 275-unit Modera Mineola on Old Country Road and recently started renting units in the Hudson House, a 36-unit apartment building for senior residents.

New Hyde Park-based Lalezarian Developers has been constructing a 315-unit apartment building at 250 Old Country Road, the site of the former KeySpan building, during the past several months.

Strauss has defended the tax breaks for promoting development in Mineola that had generated large, financial gains for the village.

He said on Thursday that Lalezarian Developers have made a request to the IDA for tax relief, emphasizing that the village does not have jurisdiction in the decision to grant tax breaks.

Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss He said at board meeting Wednesday that the IDA had sent Nagler at letter dated May 9, 2012 informing school officials of a public hearing on May, 25, 2012 on “financial assistance from the Agency in the form of potential exemptions or partial exemptions from real property taxes, mortgage recording taxes and sales and use taxes” to the Mill Creek project and the Hudson House project on Front Street and Roslyn Road.

Other letters provided by the village and sent by the IDA were dated June 28, 2012, July 3, 2012, Jan. 4, 2013, March 6, 2013, May 20, 2013, Aug. 1, 2013 and Dec. 11, 2013 which included lease agreements and PILOT schedules for the Mill Creek and 250 Old Country Road projects and were sent to Nagler according to the letters.

Strauss’ presentation at the board meeting was the latest in a series of heated exchanged between the village and the school board that began following the publication of a Oct. 8 letter from Barnett in the Williston Times and an accompanying news story in which Barnett criticized the Village

of Mineola and IDA of reaching an agreement to tax breaks without consulting the school board, calling the process “unfathomable.”

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

In his letter on Thursday, Strauss addressed the school board’s concern that the PILOT law was flawed because it did not “While the tax cap law presents challenges to municipalities at every level, it is difficult to say that it is ‘flawed’,” Strauss said. “Its drafters appear to have clearly intended the consequences with respect to PILOTs.” During a Nov. 20 Board of Education meeting Barnett said that the board will continue to speak against PILOT programs.

“Until the law is fixed I think the board is obligated to

oppose the PILOTs,” Barnett said.

Strauss said on Thursday that the village is aware of the affects that PILOTs have on the municipalities in Mineola “This Board was and is aware of the impact of a PILOT upon a municipality’s ability to raise its levy,” Strauss said.

“Several years ago, the Village participated in a workshop sponsored by the New York Conference of Mayors which dealt specifically with the tax cap and its impacts on the tax levy and became well-versed in these issues.”

Strauss also addressed concerns the school district had concerning the number of increasing children due to the additional apartments in Mineola.

“We stand by our numbers; and the Board of Education admits that it can handle the number of students we projected,” Strauss said.

During the Nov. 12 hearing Nagler addressed the Village board, concerned with an influx in the district’s students.

“The number they’re saying, we can handle that,” Nagler said during the hearing.

“What if they’re wrong, then what happens?”

Strauss said on Thursday that the approved projects have helped Mineola in its Downtown Revitalization Master Plan.

“One of the principal goals of the Master Plan is to create a vibrant, walkable and accessible downtown which will contain a transit-oriented residential base to support successful businesses in the area,” Strauss said. “The Village Board is committed to that goal. We believe that the projects which we approved will help to get us there.”

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

Sale of 8 Sumter Ave. house seen The Calleos dropped plans to purchase the home after failing But the village delayed action to get a variance from the village last year when Mineola-based BNL planning board to subdivide the Construction co-owners Bruno property to allow two houses to be and Luigi Calleo expressed interest built on the property. in acquiring the property.

Luigi Calleo said in recent Continued from Page 2

months he and his brother were hoping to purchase the property to construct a single house on it, but said his company had been unable to strike a deal with the Muzios.

In September, Theresa Muzio said the buyer in contract to pur-

chase the property is not a developer.

One resident asked Blinkoff Monday if the buyer could be related to Muzios.

“I have no reason to believe that,” he said.

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

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Nassau County launches new safety initiative

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 am American Traffic Solutions, Gonglad the presiding officer and the salves said. Termination fees for 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 Continued from Page 6

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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READERS WRITE

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.

C

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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READERS WRITE

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

D

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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READERS WRITE

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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Alleged stolen funds went to fake inheritance

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

Joaquim Canario

A Westbury man accused of stealing more than $360,000 from an Old Westbury church where he served as treasurer was allegedly duped into believing he was in line for inheritance money in England and South Africa, Nassau County prosecutors said.

Joaquim Canario, 74,

of Westbury, faces up to 15 years in prison on a top charge of 2nd degree felony grand larceny if convicted of stealing $366,730.12 from the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Old Westbury, according to Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s office.

Canario was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday before Nassau County Court Judge Philip Grella,

who released Canario on his own recognizance, prosecutors said. He is due back in court on Jan. 20.

“People have the right to exercise their freedom of religion without fearing that their house of worship will be targeted by someone for their own selfish financial gain,” Rice said in a statement. “That this defendant was a member and trusted employee of this congrega-

tion makes his crime all the more inconceivable for men and women of faith.”

Efforts to reach Canario’s attorney, Larry Flowers, of Huntington, were unavailing.

According to the DA’s office, Canario stole the money from a church bank account between April 2008 and January 2012, when he was employed there as its treasurer.

Canario often used the

funds for non-church purposes, prosecutors said, including payments to banks in South Africa and England toward a fake multi-million dollar inheritance for which he was allegedly tricked into believing he was the beneficiary.

The alleged theft was discovered in November 2013 by a church member, who referred the matter to the DA’s office.

Golf club drops new building from proposal Continued from Page 1 wing, which is currently used for storage, will be renovated to add four bedrooms and a bathroom with the other half left for storage.

He said the club also intends to build a 2,500-square-foot storage facility, behind the club’s parking lot and separate of the main building, to replace the storage space being lost to the four basement bedrooms.

“Golf clubs, like most people always need additional storage space,” Walsh said.

The Wheatley Hills Golf Club had proposed a plan to build a 12-bedroom one-story building on the side of its property that fronts Ridge Road, add six bedrooms to the building that currently houses the club and build an underground area for storage during a Nov. 20 presentation to the Board of Zoning Appeals

The golf club, located at 147 East Williston Ave., said in its plans that the 18 bedrooms would be used to house staff members.

Ridge Road residents expressed opposition to the plan at the Nov. 20 meeting, saying they did not want the additional structure running along their backyards.

The residents also criticized the new plans, expressing concern over the legality of people living at the club.

“I can tell you what I have seen, I can testify to it. These folks did not live there until the last couple of years,” Ridge Road resident Kathy Rittel said.

Rittel provided photos showing lights from the building as seen from the back of her house, and said that she noticed people living on the property only within the past few years.

Walsh said the club will be

said that there have been people living at the club since the 1940s, according to the buildings plans.

“We’ve had them for many, many years, decades,” Walsh said.

“They’ve been living there many, many years and they’re legal to be there.”

Village of East Williston Deputy Mayor Bonnie Parente asked Walsh if the renovated rooms would be used for anyone but staff.

Walsh said the rooms would be used only for the staff and the club had no intention of increasing its staff. Currently, he said, the staff consists of 10 employees yearKevin Walsh round and approximately three planting a row of 12-foot trees seasonal staff members.

“I’m happy to hear that you’re along the portion of its property not extending… I’m still upset that faces Ridge Road to accommodate residents who can see light about the fact that there are a lot of people living in that building from the existing building.

East Williston building inspec- right now,” resident Michael Coptor Robert Campagna previously perstone said.

Copperstone suggested that the names of those currently living at the club be investigated.

“Can we obtain the names, their positions, how long they’ve been living there for the village records,” Copperstone said. “You have our addresses, know who we are, why can’t we know who’s living there?”

Trustee Robert Vella agreed, saying that it was in the interest of safety to know who is living at the club.

“I think it’s very important to identify the people who live there,” Vella said. “We should all know who lives in our community.”

The board left the hearing open requesting additional information from Wheatley HIlls, including records of who is currently living at the club and dates of employment.

The next hearing date has yet to be scheduled.

Shelter Rock Library Continued from Page 49 dren’s Museum • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) • Nassau County Firefighter’s Museum • Nassau County Museum of Art • New York Botanical Garden • New York Historical Society and Library & Dimenna Children’s History Museum Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced today that in cooperation with the Shelter Rock Public Library, the Nassau County Offices for the Aging and Mental Health are coordinating a support group that is specifically targeted to respond to the needs of caregivers of older persons.

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

Meetings will be held on the

third Tuesday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Shelter Rock Public Library, located at 165 Searingtown Road, Albertson. The meetings are open to residents of Nassau County. This support group will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences and to help one another. Persons interested in attending for the first time, or in need of additional information, please call (516) 227-8725.

programs SKYPE & CHATTING ONLINE Monday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.

Learn how to set up and use Skype and instant messaging programs such as Google chat and Yahoo Messenger.

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Registration for Shelter Rock patrons begins Nov. 17 at the Reference Desk. Nonresidents permitted if space allows on December 1.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT The Vic Vincent Group presents A Musical History Tour of Rock & Roll, Doo Wop, Pop and Holiday Show Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m.

Hear some of your favorite tunes from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Lead vocal- ist, Vic Vincent, will perform on keyboard and guitar, Jimmy the “K”, on trumpet, saxophone and vocals and Bill Chimento, on drums and backup vocals.

CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP with Marguerite Dilimetin, Group Facilitator, Nassau

County Office for the Aging and Mental Health Wednesday, Dec. 17 from 2:30 to 4:30p.m. This support group is designed for all caregivers.

It provides an opportunity for participants to share experiences and help one another.

No one should be alone!

First time attendees or for additional information, please call (516) 227-7055.

AFTERNOON ART TALK The Glory Of Velázquez with Ines Powell, educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday, Dec. 12 at 1:30 p.m.

Diego Rodrigo de Silva y Velázquez is one of the greatest artists of the Western world. He went to Madrid, where his fame as a portrait painter grew rapidly and he was appoint- ed the court painter. After meeting with Rubens, Velázquez went to

Rome to study. Due to the fact that he painted very slowly, only about 130 of his works, have survived. Learn about the man and his art in this interesting lecture.

made winter decoration with Joanne’s help. You’ll use brightly colored paper and sparkles to make this festive centerpiece. Registration begins on December 8.

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JAMMIN’ JITTERBUGS Shake, Rattle and Roll musical program for children ages 18 months – 5 years. Thursday, Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m. Registration begins Thursday, Dec. 4.

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Ferguson, Staten Island a backdrop for assembly 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 following 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.”

Reach reporter Bill San Antonio by email 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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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)

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• 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.

C O MMU N I T Y news

‘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

PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care & Walks Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

automotive

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

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Lots for Sale CATSKILL MTN SHORT SALE! 108 acres​​$189,900 Mtn views, new well, fields, woods, subdividable! Town rd, utils! $200k under market! Fin avail! 888-479-3394 newyorklandandlakes.com DEER RIVER / NY STATE LAND 5 acres, Deer River $19,995. Borders stateland. Excellent rouse and deer area. Borders ATV​/​snowmobile trail. Financing available. $157​/​month. Contact us by phone to receive FREE closing costs​/ 1-800-229-7843 or visit LandandCamps.com

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Home Improvements AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Vanity & Kitchen Cabinet Installations *Furniture Assembly & set up *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 22 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Owner Operated Call BOB 516-741-2154 DEVLIN BUILDERS Since 1979.

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Party Help LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

Services COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL​/​ DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential​ /​Commercial.

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Residential, commercial. Free estimates. References. Bonded and insured. Delivery service available.

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MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, PreCalc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ years experience. Critical reading, writing, grammar, essays. Lynne 625-3314 SCIENCE, SCIENCE, SCIENCE! AP & Regents Physics, AP & Regents Biology, Earth Science & Mathematics. Sol 516-384-9865 TUTORING GRADES K-6 Sharpen skills to assure a successful school year. Experienced K-6 NYS certified teacher wants to tutor your child in your home or mine. Call Joanna 516-835-8131

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File No. 2012-370394​/A ​ CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Great American lnsurance Company Attorney General of the State of New York NYS Department of Health and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said WILLADENE SHORT, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and​/​or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on January 28, 2015 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Willadene Short, should not be judicially settled.

(X) Further relief sought (if any): 1. Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2. Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $5,112.14 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office In the amount of $1,028.03 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3. Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner In the amount of $ 17,048.29 of which $ 6,048.29 has been paid and $ 11,000.00 is unpaid; 4. Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Rispoli & Co, CPA’s in the amount of $ 2,412.50 of which $ 1,262.50 has been paid and $ 1,150.00 is unpaid; 5. Releasing and discharging the surety; 6. Directing the net estate be paid to NYS Department of Health on account of its approved claim of $194,017.64; 7. Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper.

HON. EDWARD W. McCARTY,III SURROGATE Dated, Attested, and Sealed, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SEAL S​/ Michael J Murphy Michael J. Murphy, Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC (516) 538-1111 254 Nassau Blvd., Garden City South, New York 11530 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law.

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File No. 2013-376000​/A ​ CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Travelers Casualty Vincent Matarese Kenneth Matarese Dawn Matarese Michael Matarese Linda Cacace Belmont Judith Cacace Davis Valerie Cacace Petrungaro Louis Cacace Donna Sclafani Grabel Stephen Sclafani Vincent Sclafani,Jr. Attorney General State of New York and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said VIRGINIA SECCHIA, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and​/​or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on January 28, 2015, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Virginia Secchia, should not be judicially settled.

(X) Further relief sought (if any): 1. Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2. Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $23,028.58 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $6,342.86 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3. Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner in the amount of $38,375.02 of which $9,375.02 has been paid and $ 29,000.00 is unpaid; 4.Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Rispoli & Co, CPA’s In the amount of $1,837.50 of which $687.50 has been paid and $1,150.00 is unpaid; 5. Releasing and discharging the surety; 6. Directing the net estate be paid to the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of VIRGINIA SECCHIA, decedent; 7. Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, November 20, 2014 Seal HON. EDWARD McCARTY, III SURROGATE S​/ Michael J Murphy

Michael J. Murphy, Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC (516)538-1111 254 Nassau Blvd., Garden City South, New York 11530 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law.

You are not required to appear.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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Notice of formation of MORRELL STREET 2014, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/28/2014. N.Y. Office location Nassau County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him​/​her is 1551 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose of L.L.C.: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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SUPREME COURT ​—​COUNTY OF NASSAU HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against PEDRO DE LA CRUZ, ROSANN DE LA CRUZ, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on September 5, 2014.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. on the 13th day of January, 2015 at 11:30 a.m.

Said premises known as 114-06 238th Street, Elmont, N.Y. 11003.

Tax account number: SBL #: 32-633-41.

Approximate amount of lien $ 381,370.15 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 002654-12. Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee.

McCabe Weisberg & Conway Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street​—​Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 WT 140854 4x 12/12, 19, 26, 2014, 1/02/​ 2015 #140854

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2 remarkable seasons end a shade early B y Mi c hael O tero 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 Mi c hael O tero 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

Keliann Margiotta

Photo / Kimberly Toledo

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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