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G.N. Village trustee confirmed for county planning commission By A dA m L i d G e t t Village of Great Neck Trustee Jeff Bass’ appointment to the county planning commission survived a partisan battle in the Nassau County Legislature on Monday over the ouster of his predecessor and a second nominee. Voting along party lines, the Republican-controlled Legislature confirmed Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano’s appointment of Bass to the planning commission and Paul Meli to a vacant 4th District Court judgeships in two separate 10-7 votes. “I’m looking forward to working with my colleagues - a few of whom I already my jurisdiction, including North Hempstead and Great Neck,” Bass said. Bass said he expects to take the seat this Thursday. Bass, who is CEO of Executive Strategies Group LLC, a strategic advisor to business owners and executive management, replaces

Democrat Marty Glennon, a labor attorney who had been the planning commission’s vice chairman. Democratic county legislators accused Mangano of ousting Glennon because of his criticism of a 2014 plan presented by Mangano - later dropped - to pay $800,000 for an acre of land in Old Bethpage owned by deputy Parks Commissioner Frank Camerlengo. Newsday reported that Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) said his “no” vote against Bass was not based on Bass’ qualifications but the decision to replace Glennon. Abrahams is reported to have pointed to Glennon questioning a county plan to put up electronic billboards along the Long Island Expressway to raise revenue and the proposed land sale as reasons behind his ouster. Mangano’s office has said the decision to appoint Bass was based on Glennon moving to Oyster Bay, Continued on Page 66

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Business good, De-Al not going anywhere soon By A dA m L i d G e t t Dean Melchiorre says DeAl Salon has been operating in Great Neck Plaza since 1979 and despite a high vacancy rate in the business district and

talk about replacing the storefront he currently occupies at 91 Middle Neck Road with a mixed-used office building he’s not going anywhere soon. “I have 700 clients from Great Neck and 4,000 that

come from outside Great Neck” Melchiorre said. “The village itself doesn’t want me to go anywhere.” Melchiorre said he has built a customer base of nearly Continued on Page 57

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Plaza selects firm G.N. man pleads for engineering work guilty in scheme Village seeks to update Maple Drive lot To be sentenced for kickbacks By A da m L i d g e t t A Great Neck man pleaded guilty last week to engaging in an illegal kickback scheme in Florida. Paul Raifaizen, a former owner of Data Industries Inc. – a computer consulting firm in Manhattan – pleaded guilty Feb. 18 to filing a false tax return connected to the scheme he participated in with a Miami-Dad County employee, Jesus Pons, according to court documents. Between 1998 and about 2012, Data Industries was employed by Miami-Dad County for technology services, but was replaced in early 2011 by Paradyne Consulting Services Inc. – a company formed by Raifaizen in 2010, according to court documents. Pons, who was in charge of allocating resources to informa-

tion technology projects for the county, approved payments by the county to Data Industries and Paradyne for work they did. Raifaizen made a series of illegal payments to Pons in exchange for Pons’ approval of payments from Miami-Dade County to Data Industrues and Paradyne. Raifaizen and Pons shared the proceeds from the kickback scheme, court records show. Court records say that Raifaizen only stated on his tax return that his income for 2011 was about $189,000. Court records say he knew he had much more taxable income than was stated. Raifaizen could face up to three years in jail and a fine of $250,000. He will be sentenced at 3 p.m. May 1 in Miami. Pons was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty in late 2014, according to court documents.

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Park District Job Fair Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said last week the village has selected Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants to do work on the Maple Drive lot. By A da m L i d g e t t Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees on Monday selected Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants to do the engineering work for the Maple Drive Sustainable Parking Lot project. Village Mayor Jean Celender said Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants offered to do the work for a little less than $100,000 - the amount the village had allocated for the engineering work on the project. “We will get 50 percent re-

imbursed but we have to bear 50 percent of the [engineering] cost. It’s part of what we authorized in the 2015 budget,” Celender said at the board’s regularly scheduled meeting. As part of the village’s $6.5 million budget the trustees passed in January, the Maple Drive lot will be updated with the help of a Green Innovation Grant Program from the state Environmental Facilities Corporation. Village clerk and treasurer Patricia O’Byrne said the Environmental Facilities Corporation approved the selection of

Tectonic to do the engineering work. For the work being done to the Maple Drive lot, the village expects to get about 80 percent of their total money back for the work from the green grant. Celender said she hopes the actual work on the lot will begin when it gets warm. Reach reporter Adam Lidgett by e-mail at alidgett@ theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x203 and on Twitter @ AdamLidgett. Also follow us on Twitter @theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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Great Neck woman heals with laughs 94 year-old Elsie Blum conducts sessions of laughter yoga to improve peoples’ moods By A da m L i d g e t t

Great Neck resident Elsie Blum just wants to make people laugh - even at age 94. Every week, Blum conducts sessions of what is known as Laughter Yoga, a series of exercises intended to get its practitioners to laugh to better their mood and health. The exercises are mostly “silly” actions and phrases, according to Blum. “When you laugh, you feel good,” Blum said. “The brain responds to laughter.” Laughter yoga is more casual than traditional yoga, and focuses on breathing control and eye contact. “It’s just laughing deeply and looking into their eyes,” Blum said. “When people don’t look others in the eye they typically have trouble with themselves or other people.” Blum said this type of yoga was started by an Indian physician named Madan Kataria, after he found his patients were more healthy the more they laughed. She said she has been

doing Laughter Yoga for about 15 years. “It takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown,” she said. “If you smile more you’re relaxed all over.” Blum said she came across laughter yoga a number of years ago after her husband died. She said she heard something about it on television and thought “what is there to lose?” “It helped me in my every day life,” she said. “You can get up in the morning and say ‘this is my day and I can make it what I want,’ or you can say ‘it’s cold again.’” Blum said she went to Vishwa Prakash, a laughter yoga instructor in Manhattan, to learn how to teach it to others. She holds laughter yoga sessions every Saturday at 2 p.m. at Reddy Care at 475 Northern Blvd. When asked about still working at 94, she simply asked “Do I look 94.” Before finding laughter yoga, Blum said, she was a dog trainer who owned Pet Pals in Great Neck. Blum, who has a background

Elsie Blum, 94 does open sessions of laughter yoga every weekend in social work and psychology, said training dogs also started out as a hobby. “I ended up as a dog trainer because dogs follow Pavlov and Skinner just the same as people,”she said. Blum said she got a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State

University and her master’s degree in social work from Adelphi University as well as an honorary degree in psychology from Pepperdine University. She worked for Temple Israel of Hollywood for two years doing social work for families and with people and families at the

University of Judaism’s Wagner Program for Personal and Family Enrichment for two years. Blum said the most important aspect to both of her whether it be psychology or yoga - is knowing yourself. “If a dog bites a person, I can’t say ‘why did you bite them?’” she said. “But I can ask the person ‘what were you doing just before the dog bit you?’ What you do has a great influence on what other people do.” Blum said whatever Pavlov and Skinner taught about people works on animals as well. She said she has even trained chickens to dance when she picked up a pencil, and potbellied pigs to play the piano. “Someone had pig as a pet and she had a children’s piano,” Blum said. “You can teach pig how to play piano - you just put food on the keys and he’ll bang on it.” The laughter yoga classes are free of charge, but she said her need to do the classes is selfishly altruistic. “Nobody does anything for Continued on Page 66

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Town presents five-year capital plan BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

The Town of North Hempstead is considering approximately $28 million in new capital bonding in the next five years toward projects throughout the region, according to preliminary figures unveiled Wednesday. Nearly $16 million of the new bonds would be put toward the town’s general fund, which as part of its five-year plan would average $2.6 million in bonds each year and $66.3 million in total expenditures. Approximately $12.3 million would be put toward a fund for unincorporated areas at a $2.5 million per-year average in bonds over five years and $18.5 million in expenditures altogether. Town officials said state and federal grants would cover $48 million of its total expenses. Officials said they are expecting an additional $600,000 per year state grant for road work. “The implementation and development of key initiatives in our capital plan is needed to maintain the quality of life our residents expect and deserve,”

The Town of North Hempstead’s park facilities building in Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth wrote in her opening statement, published in the preliminary plan. “Through enhancements of our parks system, preservation of town history, improvements to the town’s infrastructure so that it can be more resilient during future weather events and ensuring public safety, we will be able to serve better the needs of North Hempstead’s residents,” she wrote. At press time, the town council had not yet calculated the average tax increase on households

within North Hempstead. The capital plan is due to be voted on during the council’s March 10 meeting. Projects included in the bond in the next year would improve the town’s park system, storm preparedness, infrastructure, historical preservation and public safety, officials said. To strengthen the town’s fortification from future storms, the town plans to construct two debris management sites at Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park and North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington,

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A Whitney Pond Park pool restoration is set to take place over the next two years and cost $1.5 million in total, according to the preliminary plan, with roughly $400,000 in work set to take place in 2015. A $400,000 replacement of lighting at athletic facilities at Tully Park is also set to take place in 2015, according to the plan. Officials said the town will also focus on upgrading its parks to align with the Americans With Disabilities Act. The town has 16 active parks, five athletic fields and 28 “passive” parks, which do not require registration fees. The town is also considering a $1,529,151 restoration of the Schumacher House at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park, for which approximately $450,000 in grants have been received, officials said. A $1.4 million initiative to purchase highway equipment and vehicles is also included in the bond, including a $650,000 expenditure in 2015. The town would then bond for $300,000 in each of the next two years and $150,000 in 2018.

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Singas seeks review Town OKs $16.9M of sex offender laws bond for sewer district BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O

Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas is urging state lawmakers to conduct a comprehensive review of local laws restricting where registered sex offenders may live to strengthen similar legislation at the state level. Singas send a letter addressed to state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Feb. 20 requesting the review, just days after the state’s Court of Appeals struck down more than 100 local laws in ruling in favor of Woodmere resident Michael Diack, a convicted Level 1 sex offender who challenged Nassau’s laws after being arrested in 2011 for living 500 feet away from Lawrence-Woodmere Academy. Because state law only places residency restrictions on Level 3 sex offenders, at 1,000 feet away from a school campus, Appeals Judge Eugene Pigott Jr. wrote that Nassau County did not have the authority to institute the 2006 law under which Diack was arrested, and that local municipalities may not exceed state laws regarding sex offenders. In her letter, Singas said the local laws were stricter than the state laws,

reflecting a consensus that the state law was not too enough. “As a career prosecutor with a background in Special Victims cases, and as a mother myself, I believe that this moment is an opportunity to conduct a thorough and comprehensive review of all local laws that have been enacted on this issue, with the goal of enacting the strongest possible state law - whether it creates one uniform practice statewide or gives individual counties the ability to set their own rules based on their own unique geographies and circumstances - to protect potential victims from registered sex offenders in a manner that is effective, practical and constitutional,” she wrote. Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano told Newsday in light of the ruling that he would also advocate for tougher state laws. Singas, a former chief of the DA’s office’s Special Victims Bureau, in her letter also offered to meet with state legislators on the issue and implored lawmakers to “consider the many different ways that this issue can be addressed, and engage the many stakeholders of this issue, including law enforcement, advocacy groups and other criminal justice and public safety experts.”

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O The North Hempstead town council approved up to $16.9 million in bonding for the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District on Tuesday for various facilities improvements. Officials said the average household within the district – which has an assessed value of $750,000 – would see an increase of $1.76 per year on its tax bill for the duration of the bond. The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District serves the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Plaza, Kensington, Thomaston and Saddle Rock as well as parts of Manhasset. The bond consists of projects to replace three sludge digestion machines, the installation of a new belt press, the installation of a second grease receiving station and the stocking of sewer pipe relining materials, said Mike Ingham, the district’s general counsel and partner at the Farmingdale firm Carman Callahan & Ingham, LLP. The district’s three digestion machines and belt press system – which assist in the sludge decomposition process – are all more than 25 years old and are beyond their useful lives, Ingham said. Their replacement, he said, would

provide two primary benefits: Decrease sludge in need of transport out of Great Neck by nearly 35,000 tons annually and improve operational flexibility within the district. These expenditures, estimated to cost more than $12 million, make up roughly 85 percent of the work proposed under the bond, Ingham said. “These items are critical for the proper function of the treatment system,” he said, adding the projects were cut from a previous $60 million bond issuance in 2009. He said the grease receiving station, projected to cost $1,060,000, could save the district $240,000 in annual expenses. The purchase of sewer lining supplies and its installation by district employees would result in up to $377,000 in savings each year, Ingham said, as public bids for lining projects typically cost $55 per foot, as opposed to $14 per foot if the work is done internally. Officials said they have also taken steps to reduce the overall bond cost. District Superintendent Christopher Murphy said a $270,000 grant has been secured to contribute to the cost of the grease receiving station, and that several other grant applications are pending. Continued on Page 63

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Silver indicted on 3 corruption charges BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three charges stemming from his arrest on corruption-related charges last month, according to published reports. Silver, the Assembly speaker for more than 20 years until he resigned earlier this month in wake of his arrest, is facing charges of honest services mail fraud, honest services wire fraud and extortion under the color of his official duties, according to a copy of the indictment released by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Each charge faces a maximum sentence of 20 years. Silver was initially arrested on a fivecount indictment whereupon he was accused of receiving nearly $4 million in bribes and kickpack payments through a scheme involving his law firm Weitz & Luxenberg. He is alleged to have used his position as speaker to issue state grants to a physician who referred personal injury patients to the firm, which retained Silver as counsel. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara later told reporters the corruption charges against Silver “go to the very core of a failed Albany.” The prosecutor has also been critical of

the state’s budgetary negotiation process, which typically includes the governor, Assembly speaker and state Senate majority leader. Silver’s lawyers, Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, told reporters last week that Silver would “fight for his total vindication.” In court Tuesday, his counsel alleged it is impossible for Silver to be tried fairly due to the high-profile nature the case has taken since his arrest, with Bharara to blame. Molo has filed a motion to dismiss the indictment due to improper extrajudicial statements made by Bharara, according to the New York Daily News. “The U.S. attorney excoriated the defendant and basically deprived him of the presumption of innocence,” Molo said, according to the Daily News. Following Silver’s arrest, Bharara spoke about the case to an audience at New York Law School and made an appearance on MSNBC. Silver told reporters last month he is confident he will be exonerated. 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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Park commissioners talk field permits By A da m L i d g e t t The Great Neck Park District commissioners are looking at how they handle permits for use of their ball fields from groups that have non-park district residents. Park District Superintendent Peter Renick said at the commissioners’ work session that the park district does charge groups that have non-members to use the fields, but that there are other issues. The

commissioners said they may consider raising the out of district fees. “Some groups don’t have as many residents, and that helps sometimes to cause congestion,” Renick said. “Then you have some groups use Memorial field for soccer that are not residents, but they add to the wear and tear on the field.” Manny Falzon, recreation aide for the park district, said the district got about $7,000 last year from non-residents paying to use the fields.

Park district Chairman Bob Lincoln said he would consider grandfathering any groups who have used park facilities in the past if any new policy were to be approved. He said he thinks the demand for the fields is increasing. “Our maintenance costs go up and don’t know how to accommodate these outside groups,” Lincoln said. “Even if we’re getting paid for the wear and tear there is still wear and tear damaging the fields.”

He said the issue is not only about generating more revenue, but about maximizing the park facilities for residents. Reach reporter Adam Lidgett by e-mail at alidgett@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x203 and on Twitter @ AdamLidgett. Also follow us on Twitter @ theislandnow and Facebook at facebook. com/theislandnow.

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A train accident Memories remain of the here isn’t ‘likely’ place I once called home There is no denying that the Metro North crash that took the lives of six people at a railroad crossing in Valhalla on Feb. 3 was a tragedy. Since that crash the Federal Railroad Administration has been investigating not only the cause of this accident, but the safety of railroad crossings across America, including Nassau County. Nassay County has 72 active grade crossings listed in the Federal Rail Administration’s databases. We reported last week that the New Hyde Park crossings at New Hyde Park Road, Covert Avenue and 12th Street and the Willis Avenue crossing in Mineola all “rank in the top 11 most likely to have an accident.” But “likely” in this case is a relative term. The most recent accident in at the Lincoln Avenue crossing was in 1986 when a pedestrian was killed by a train, according to the Railroad Administration database. In fact, over the last three decades the number of crashes at all railroad crossings in America has been steadily decreasing. In 2013 there were 2,087 crashes at railroad crossings with 251 fatalities compared to 9,461 crashes in 1981 with 728 fatalities, according to the Federal Railroad Administration’s Office of Safety Analysis. There were only four accidents at the five New Hyde Park and Mineola crossings combined. And all of those involved pedestrians who walked around the crossing gates. Police later ruled the fourth a suicide. Although the investigation is not complete, the accident in Valhalla appears to have been caused by human error and not a faulty system. The driver reportedly got out of her SUV while it was still on the tracks to see if it was damaged when it was struck by the crossing arm. Her SUV was struck as soon as she got back in. Not surprisingly Sen. Charles Schumer of New York quickly announced plans to introduce a bill that would allocate an additional $50 million a year to a federal program for gates, lights and other safety improvements to rail crossings. In addition he wants to spend more than $100 million on a federal program that helps pay to relocate crossings. “Many of New York’s metropolitan-area rail crossings are truly accidents waiting to happen. It’s critical that the federal government do more to make engineering safety upgrades, particularly at accident-prone crossings,” Schumer said. “Accidents waiting to happen” is clearly hyperbole. Where are the numbers to justify this kind of spending? Of course it is entirely possible that the senator doesn’t see $100 million and $50 million a year as a large amount of money. Schumer’s mantra, after all, is spend first, ask questions later. Imagine the real cost of relocating the 72 Long Island Rail Road crossings in Nassau County and imagine the disruption that would cause. Village of East Williston Trustee Bonnie Parente doesn’t see the need to spend millions relocating the railroad crossings. She told our reporter that during her tenure the board has not discussed proposals to eliminate the village’s sole grade crossing. “It feels safe to me,” she said. “I have not had any issues with it. We are not aware of any issues.” We support the Federal Railroad Administration’s taking a look at the railroad crossings throughout the nation to see where better warning lights and other measures could reduce the “likelihood” of future accidents. This won’t create a massive financial burden for municipalities. It may be “more likely” but it is not “likely” that there will be an accident at a railroad crossing in Nassau County. And that’s important to keep in mind when politicians start talking about spending hundreds of millions of your tax dollars.

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omments to a wonderfully written letter by Larry Penner, “My hometown’s ever-changing face” in the Roslyn Times on Feb. 20, 2015. Reading Mr. Penner’s letter comes for me at a bitter-sweet time. Having moved to Great Neck in 1956 at the age of 4, and living not far from what Mr. Penner refers to as the “Lakeville area,” I vividly remember everything he cited in his letter. My wife, also a Great Neck native and I lived in Great Neck for several years after marrying in 1974 and then moved to Roslyn, the same year the company I worked for moved from the Empire State Building to its new home in Great Neck. The result is I feel, in many ways, like I never left this town that was my “hometown” as well. I say bitter-sweet because the company I’ve been with since college graduation, is moving next week from Great Neck to the part of Lake Success that does not have one of the famous Great Neck zip codes (11020-11024), and although the building we are moving into is next to Great Neck South High School where I graduated in 1969, we will no longer be in “town” and that too is bittersweet. I won’t miss the traffic or the double parkers but Kensington Deli and Poultry Mart hold special places in my heart. Most of the old stores where the owners knew your name and asked how your family was are gone, but “town” still looks like it did then. The only difference is parking used to be diagonal on Middle Neck Road with just one lane of

traffic going in each direction. In high school I worked at Waldbaum’s which in those days was on Middle Neck Road a few blocks south of Old Mill Road. Then during my college years I worked at Williams, men’s and boy’s wear store next to Gertz in the Plaza (now called the Gardens) shopping center. Mr. Penner and I, although I don’t know his age or remember his name, attended the same school just outside the grounds of the Terrace Circle Apartments. The actual name of that school was the Cutter Mill School and I only attended it for kindergarten after which I was transferred to Lakeville School. The same barber around the corner almost at the “city line” cut my hair and Dr. Leo Alexief was our family doctor and mine until his retirement. I too remember those 3 x 5 cards! My bicycle came from the same bicycle store on Northern Boulevard and Miss Tisdale spent many afternoons reading to the children who would assemble in the small branch of the Great Neck Library next to Sears. I don’t remember the Cooper Penny being in the location Mr. Penner mentioned. My recollection was the Amy Joy Pancake House being there with their cart of syrups in all different flavors. The live chicken store is one I talk about to this day. We moved to Great Neck on a Friday and my mother took me at 4-1/2 years old, to buy a chicken to make our typical Friday night dinner in our new home. The man took the chicken out of the cage and slaughtered it right before our eyes! Kosher shmosher, neither my mother or I ate chicken

that night and my father couldn’t understand. We never went back to that place but almost 60 years later I can vividly recall the sight, smell and horror. That luncheonette next to Sears was my hangout through my years of growing up and I remember that for $1.25 you could get a burger, fries and a coke and still leave a quarter tip. The grocery store, where there is now an H-Mart was Grand Union and my mother and I used to ride our bicycles there to do our shopping after moving to Great Neck with just one car which my father drove to work. The bowling alley on Northern Boulevard was called the Acme Lanes and the one in the heart of Great Neck where the CVS now stands was called the Walnut Lanes. As I sit in what will be called my “old office,” and look out the window at Cutter Mill Park, and up Tobin Avenue, the street I grew up on, I have mixed emotions. I’m leaving Great Neck and the memories of my childhood and adult years here but I’m not going so far that I can’t take a drive down Bayview Avenue on a sunny day during my lunch break from my new office. I can still drive to the Merchant Marine Academy or Stepping Stone Park, or wind around East Shore Road which is where my mother lived after selling our family home. Great Neck remains although the inhabitants have changed. Good memories. Eddie Rabinowitz Roslyn

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County squanders revenue opportunities

recent Newsday article highlighted Nassau County’s red-light camera revenue increased 60 percent in 2013 to almost $37 million. While this number is substantial, and the revenue much needed, Nassau officials are leaving big money on the table by the way it conducts business with its vendors. The $80 red light ticket fees are broken into two parts; a $50 fine and a $30 administrative fee. American Traffic Solutions is the vendor who installed the 68 red-light cameras and receives 38 percent of the ticket revenue on the $50 fine, totaling $19 per ticket. During 2013 there were almost 500,000 tickets issued, resulting in about $8.9 million in compensation for ATS. A study by the U.S. Department of Transportation found the costs of installing red light cameras ranging from $67,000 in Jack-

son, Mich. to $80,000 in San Francisco, Calif. Based on these numbers, the most it could have cost to install the 68 cameras in Nassau is $5.44 million. Once the system is in place operating costs become minimal because the ticketing process is automated. Estimating $1 million a year to process the tickets in 2013, ATS would have covered all its costs to install the red-light camera and still made $3.5 million profit. If ticket revenue stays the same ATS is projected to generate an annuity of almost $8 million per year until the contract is canceled. Installing and operating red light cameras is apparently an extraordinarily profitable business. Very few businesses have this kind of return on capital. I recently had an in depth conversation with a retired executive from the gaming industry who ran lotteries for different municipalities and foreign countries. He told

me when dealing with governments the preferred model is a percentage of revenue, because profits are exponentially higher than working off fixed fees. With the percentage revenue model the sky is the limit. What Nassau County should have done is pay a fixed rental fee, per red light camera per month, just like many towns and cities do for speed cameras nationwide. The going monthly rate from ATS in other parts of the country is $4,750. This would provide ATS with a more reasonable profit of under $4 million a year, and would add about $5 million a year to Nassau’s coffers. Why do Nassau County officials continually use a percentage-based model to compensate vendors instead of a flat monthly fee? There is a possible new opportunity for Nassau to generate revenue by installing bill-

boards along the Long Island Expressway. The discussions have started and Nassau County officials have no intention of putting this project out to bid as Allvision, a Manhattan-based marketing firm, already has the rights to run the billboards. This project is being touted as an additional $6 million a year for the county. Wouldn’t residents be better served if securing the rights to run the proposed billboards was an open and competitive process? Nassau’s governmental operations had a deficit over $70 million during 2014 because of declining sales tax revenue. Nassau desperately needs its leadership to maximize every possible opportunity to generate income. Too many opportunities are being squandered. Adam Haber Roslyn

Boehner right to invite Netanyahu to Congress

Article ll, Section 2, states that the president “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties.” Commerce and treaties are key facets of foreign policy rightfully within Congress’ purcon. However, Matthew Zeidman’s assertion view. The real problem, that Zeidman and Ruthat the appearance would undermine the alliance between the United States and Israel is bin conspicuously overlook, is that President Obama’s foreign policy towards the Middle absurd on several counts. Karen Rubin, in the Williston Times, East is increasingly opposed even by his own similarly asserts that Americans should trust party. This month the Senate Banking ComObama as he would never do anything harmful – that House Speaker Boehner and Repub- mittee passed a bill, by a lopsided margin, licans are “snubbing” the president “with ter- that would place new sanctions on Iran if no agreement limits its nuclear program by June. rible consequences.” While we have one president, as Zeid- Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations man says, he is president, not king. Congress is a coequal branch of govern- Committee, co-sponsored the bill with the ment. Article l, Section 8 of the Constitution, support of at least 13 other Democratic senaprovides that “The Congress shall have Power tors. Menendez’s allies are “deeply skeptical,” to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations. that Obama will obtain adequate concessions he controversy concerning House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been heating up. To be sure, there are arguments pro and

from Iran. A Gallup poll shows that 77 percent of those polled see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat.” The Obama leadership and its groupies are evidently not among them. Iran continues to prohibit the International Atomic Energy Agency from visiting sites connected to possible military dimensions, including Parchin, a military complex “dedicated to research, development, and production of ammunition, rockets, and high explosives.” Airborne-obtained images from Parchin suggests Iran has been camouflaging the site to disguise weaponization activities. Iran has frequently concealed its nuclear activities, refused inspections and violated its commitments. In 2002, the IAEA revealed that Iran was in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty . For 18 years Iran had “secretly developed technologies to produce highly enriched ura-

nium.” In 2003 Iran signed the Tehran Declaration with Britain, Germany, and France and agreed to suspend enrichment during negotiations, and comply with the IAEA. Two years later, however, the IAEA referred Iran to the U.N. Security Council for non-compliance of the NPT due continued enrichment and failure to cooperate with the IAEA. Iranian President Rouhani boasted in 2013 that “he and the regime utterly flouted a 2003 agreement with the IAEA in which it promised to suspend all uranium enrichment and certain other nuclear activities.” Obama evidently wants a paper agreement with Iran regardless of consequences. Democrats with this view could be called “Chamberlain Democrats” who, wearing rosecolored glasses, see only “peace in our time.” Len Mansky Roslyn

Obamacare replacement? Try single-payer

n Feb. 3, Representative John Conyers Jr. reintroduced the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act” H.R. 676, with 44 other House members. It would replace all the private health insurers with a streamlined public agency that would pay all medical claims. Medicare does that for seniors now and who would want to abolish that system? Upgrading Medicare is a logical and workable solution to the problems we are having with the overly complicated ACA. Proponents hail this upgraded bill. We do not need another national agony caused by Republican inactivity and partisanship. Single-payer systems around the globe have proven their worth. I’ve lost track of how many times Congress has passed a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. I think the tally is at 58 tries, a fact that does not add to their reputation as a legislative body that achieves anything of consequence.

The fact that it has taken them this long to offer any improvements speaks for itself. At long last, in a feeble attempt to repair our flawed health-care system, the Republicans issued a press release on Feb. 5 to provide a roadmap for repeal and replace the ACA. They introduced a plan, The Patient Care Act, with common sense measures (their words), not formal legislation, just a proposal. It is merely a reworking of ideas they have supported in the past. Passage of anything like this would remove mandates for insurance coverage, sell insurance across state borders, shift responsibility for payment to patients, expand high deductible health plans and the use of health-savings accounts, provide Medicaid block grants to poor states that could not afford to pay for care, and some other irresponsible measures. Quite simply it would mean fewer people would have coverage, and the rest would have poor plans. The effect on a health-care system would

be that we are back to square one. Reverting to Republican ideas on health-care reform would accomplish nothing, introducing a deficient and unworkable program. We now have to get serious about correcting the faults in the ACA in order to achieve universal coverage at an affordable cost. The public has demonstrated its interest in universal coverage, and continue to enroll. Many are enjoying some of its most important provisions, e.g. eligibility despite preexisting conditions, plans that must include all necessary services. Experience with the ACA for five years has proved that it must be improved. The unreasonable complexity and the huge waste, calculated at $400 billion a year, can be alleviated. There is absolutely no positive side to spending all that waste on bureaucracy, paperwork and marketing. That amount could provide first dollar coverage for everyone (42 million still do not yet have coverage). And do not be fooled by

the industry claim that jobs would be lost. The jobs created to provide care and care-related services for all those newly covered would necessarily increase. Congress should not waste more time creating a task force to consider the Republican proposal, creating a task force to write a response that does not merit repetition. It has an obligation to get its act together, and by moving to pass Representative Conyers’ bill, solve a problem that threatens to adversely impact our entire economy and the well-being of its people. A January 2015 Gallup poll reveals that 45 percent of Independents, 79 percent of Democrats and even 23 percent of Republicans support universal Medicare, which means that a large majority of Americans support single payer, Medicare for all. Will the Congress listen to the people who have sent them to Washington to solve problems? Esther Confino New Hyde Park

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Watch out for life-performance awards! Every year, the Motion Picture Academy rewards excellence in many kinds of performance. But there are some other achievements, and performances, that still demand recognition. For this, we have convened the Academy of Life’s Performances and Achievements. There is one difference: winners here must remain anonymous — to protect the guilty. Our first category is Best Actor or Actress in a Recurring Role. First prize goes to the child who kept showing up at their school nurse’s office, “just about to throw up,” finally requiring a call to mom at her office an hour’s commute away. When eventually picked up, the child said, “I’m so glad you’re here, mom, I’m starving!” Tied for second place in this category are two boys who served their mother sliced bread, every April Fool’s Day, that was supposedly blue with mold - not with the food coloring which she never seemed to notice all over their hands and the kitchen counter every year. Best Acting in a Support-

ing Role goes to their father, who somehow managed to keep a straight face through it all. Best Suppression of a Story goes to my brother, who told our mother that he had been instructed not to return to his clarinet lessons, because of a “failure to progress.” In fact, he had been kicked out for distracting the rest of the class and making duck calls with the mouthpiece instead of practicing. Greatest Achievement in The Field of Special Effects goes to the teenager who remarked one day, “You know those cans of Body Spray? If you spray one and light a cigarette lighter just right, it makes a pretty good flame-thrower.” However, when asked, “How do you know that?” his reply fell short of award-winning quality: “Um, a friend told me.” Most Questionable Timing goes to the teen who decided to attend a rock concert on Governor’s Island on the eve of Hurricane Sandy. The fact that he and his friend made it home safely did nothing for their parents’ blood

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A Look on the Lighter Side pressure or gray hair. The award for Most Original Costume Design goes to the shaggy mystery costume one child wore, one year, with construction paper “feathers” completely covering the rain coat they were taped to. Not a single person guessed that he was the extinct bird-dinosaur link called Archaeopteryx. Several less imaginative people guessed “leaf pile” instead. Recognition for Special Achievement in Stunt Work goes to the two friends whose Hallow-

een idea was to take a real, actual door around with them, complete with door jamb, and prop it directly in front of other people’s doors to perplex them when they opened theirs to give candy. Luckily for all concerned, execution of this concept proved too difficult for the Props department. Best Dead-Pan at Someone Else’s Performance goes to the mother of the child who decided, on the spur of the moment, to play a trumpet piece he had never practiced before, for his synagogue’s talent show. Somehow it seemed important not to let on that she knew just how excruciating it was for everyone else to listen to. She hopes enough time has now passed for that not to be important any more. Best Performance in Any Category goes to the child who limped, quite convincingly, for several days, finally prompting her mother to take her to the hospital for some X-Rays. It was only when they were out of the car and walking down a hospital hallway that it became

apparent that this child had limped into the car favoring one foot, but gotten out of the car favoring the other. Several cases defied adjudication (or even categorization). For example, whose fault is it that the leg came off the coffee table when it was clutched by one brother, being dragged “to certain doom” by another? Whose fault is it that the apple thrown by one boy shattered the storm door which was closed, in self-defense, by another? Whose fault is it that a bedroom light fixture gets broken in a pillow fight - the wielder of said pillow? Or the boy who started the fight? And whose bright idea was it to let such hoodlums have a sleepover, anyway? These are stumpers which the accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers have never had to solve, be it for the Motion Picture Academy or anybody else; and yet they linger in the annals of history. We now return you to your regularly scheduled lives, with the warning that greatness could be lurking around every corner… like it or not!

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State can bend the curve on autism No doubt you’ve heard about the recent measles outbreak that has infected more than 100 people in 14 states in just five weeks. While that doesn’t sound like many, it’s disturbing when you consider that all of last year saw just 644 cases, which was already a six fold increase over years past. It’s likely the disease will now spread although I remain confident that our health-care professionals will get it under control. Additionally worrisome is that my colleagues and I in the state Legislature find ourselves in a surprising position: to be partners in the vaccination effort or to oppose it. You see, the outbreak has put the vaccination debate front and center throughout the country, even here in New York. While many (not all) states have seized the occasion to try and strengthen vaccination requirements, some members of the New York Legislature have proposed allowing parents to opt their children out of vaccinations based on “personal objections.” I liken this timing to throwing our oars overboard as soon as our raft hits the rapids. Nonethe-

less, these respected colleagues feel strongly about their proposal so it merits discussion. New York State currently requires children in kindergarten on up to be vaccinated against nine communicable diseases via five sets of injections spread out over a number of years. While we allow for some religious exemptions and of course medical waivers for those whose immunity may be compromised, we have never allowed philosophical exemptions. There just isn’t enough good scientific research to prove inoculations are more dangerous than they are beneficial. As lawmakers we strive for balance: achieve the most common good while protecting individual rights. But in this scenario, declining to vaccinate a child puts far too many others in danger, especially those who are already at risk, like seniors and babies. These are not “harmless diseases.” Even measles killed 145,000 people around the world last year alone. It is in that light that I will vote against any proposal to change

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our current standards should it come to the Senate floor. But I am a dad first and foremost so I am sympathetic to parents’ concerns, particularly those fueled by nagging fears of a link between autism and vaccinations. While I believe there’s overwhelming scientific evidence that disproves the theory, I also acknowledge that this debate is the true heart of the matter. As of yet, no one can give us a reasonable explanation for the soaring rates of autism among our country’s children. The reality is we have a real health crisis on

our hands – a growing number of autistic children who will forever need specialized care, long after their parents are gone – with no answers. In 2011, New York passed a law enabling these individuals to receive insurance coverage for screening, diagnosis and treatment. The law, which I cosponsored, saves families tens of thousands of dollars a year in out of pocket costs for autism treatment and therapies which many insurance companies refused to cover. It’s a very positive step, but it’s just that; a step. I just can’t help but wonder: if we can eradicate devastating diseases like measles, polio and smallpox (the most destructive disease in human history), can we not band together to cure autism? Why not make autism our fight and bring the world’s leading minds here to lead the way in treatment and research? On Long Island alone we have some of the most cutting-edge scientific and medical facilities in the world: Cold Spring Harbor, Brookhaven National, Stony Brook University, and the Feinstein Institute, not to mention one of the

most educated labor forces in the world with resources and infrastructure at the ready. And New York has a $5 billion dollar surplus. I’ll ask you what I asked Gov. Cuomo: shall we consider using part of that surplus toward autism research? Even a fraction could reverse the tide. At a time when everyone talks of investment and job creation, the opportunity to invest in research in a truly meaningful way, leverage the resources of our Long Island economy, and utilize the workforce we have to bend the curve on this insidious disease is too important to pass up. We should make this a priority. I offer a quote by author Elbert Green Hubbard: A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. Neighbors, the challenge is great but if not here, where? If not us, who?

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Jewish-Muslim talk turns into Israel-bashing

art 1 of this article (last week) explained that Muslim-Jewish dialogue can be very positive. Unfortunately, at an event advertised as a “Muslim-Jewish dialogue” at Temple Sinai in Roslyn on Jan. 29, the featured Muslim speaker, Dr. Faroque Ahmad Khan, engaged in one-sided Israel-bashing and condemnation of American officials and media. Part 1 discussed some of Dr. Khan’s false statements at this event. His additional statements are discussed here. Unfortunately, no one was given the opportunity to counter these statements at the event. In addition to his previously described charges at the Temple Sinai event, Dr. Khan complained that the American press had “Islamophobia” and was unfair to Muslims. Dr. Khan’s sole example of such “unfairness” was absurd: Dr. Khan asserted that the American media failed to cover the fact that when one Muslim man from Mali killed four Jews in the Paris kosher grocery, another Malian Muslim saved 6 Jews by hiding them in the refrigerator. Dr. Khan asserted that “only the foreign press” covered the second Muslim man’s heroism, and that the American press refused to cover this. Audience members shook their heads when Dr. Khan uttered this obvious mistruth about American media coverage. An audience member called out that Fox News covered the story. Dr. Khan ignored her. In fact, virtually all the American press (including Fox News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo. com, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Huffington Post, American Thinker, etc. as well as Jewish press outlets) covered and praised the heroic actions of the second Muslim man, Lassana Bathily. Dr. Khan also blamed America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 for the rise of ISIS a decade later. He omitted the facts that ISIS arose because President Obama failed to reach a status of forces agreement to keep a stabilizing residual force in Iraq, ignored the threat (calling ISIS the “junior varsity”), failed to support opposition groups when ISIS could have been defeated relatively quickly, limited U.S. support to the efforts to defeat ISIS, and alienated Sunnis by giving Iran free reign in Iraq and Syria and by negotiating towards a terrible deal that would allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state. Nor did Dr. Khan mention that ISIS arose to establish an extremist Islamic Sunni Caliphate, defeat Shia adversaries, defeat stable Sunni nations, and outdo the brutality of the Al Queda group that ISIS broke off from. Dr. Khan also blasted Homeland Security Sub-Committee Chairman Congressman Peter King for expressing concerns about anti-American radicalization at mosques. Congressman King’s excellent response to similar attacks is at http:// www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/

king-what-s-radicalizing-muslim-americans-1.2550488 (Congressman King noted that “the great majority of Muslims in our country are hardworking, dedicated Americans” but that, at the same time, local Muslim leaders were closing their eyes to the recruitment of home grown terrorists, that some imams were instructing members not to cooperate with law enforcement; and that a Queens imam even jeopardized law enforcement efforts by tipping off Najibullah Zazi – who had planned to attack the NYC subway with liquid explosives. Congressman King also expressed disappointment that after so many Long Islanders were killed in 9-11, and after Congressman King rushed in to support the local Muslim community, “prominent Long Island Muslim leaders were insisting there was no evidence that al-Qaida was responsible for the [9-11] attacks - even saying it could have been the CIA, the FBI or the Zionists!” And that “to this day, no Muslim leader has denounced those vile remarks.”) Dr. Khan also said that it is improper to publish religious cartoons, especially of Mohammed. However, Dr. Khan failed to condemn Palestinian Arab textbooks, leaders, mosques and media for their cartoons depicting Jews as hooked-nose Nazis and descendants of pigs and monkeys, and for promoting anti-Jewish blood libels. Instead of having a live audience question and answer period at the Temple Sinai event, audience members had to fill out question cards. Temple Sinai’s Rabbi Michael White then asked: “Over a half dozen cards from the audience seem to be asking pretty much the same thing. Can you address the perception that American Muslims are not doing enough to condemn Muslim terrorism?” This would have been the perfect opportunity for Dr. Khan to unequivocally condemn terrorism against Americans and Jews – including Jews in Israel. Instead, Dr. Khan said “we’ve already condemned terrorism,” and then quickly started justifying it. Dr. Khan said: “you have to look at the root causes of terrorism – Israeli occupation and settlements.” In other words, according to Dr. Khan, Israel’s very existence – and the fact that Jews simply live in historic Jewish areas coveted by Palestinian Arabs (areas that Israel won in a defensive war) causes terrorism. This is nonsense. The root cause of terrorism against innocent Israelis is Hamas’s and Fatah’s stated goal of destroying Israel and murdering every Jew. Israel evacuated every single inch of Gaza in 2005; there is no “occupation” in Gaza of any sort. Yet, Hamas’s and Islamic Jihad’s terror rocket attacks and other terror attacks on Israel increased dramatically after every Israeli Jew left Gaza. Time and again, appeasement has led to more terror by the groups bent on Is-

rael’s destruction. After the 1993 Oslo accords which created the Palestinian Authority, Fatah terror attacks on Israel increased fourfold. After Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian Authority a state in 2000, the Palestinian Arab leadership responded by launching the Second Intifada, murdering and wounding thousands of innocent Israelis in suicide bombings of pizza parlors and buses throughout the next five years, until Israel finally started building the security fence in 2005 to stem these attacks. Moreover, Israel cannot be said to “occupy” its own land. The settlements are also on historic Jewish land. Jews lived there until Jordan illegally occupied eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1948. Jordan expelled all the Jews and destroyed numerous Jewish synagogues. Jerusalem has been a majority Jewish city since the early 1800s, is mentioned 613 times in the Torah, and is never mentioned in the Koran. Dr. Khan also claimed that Israeli “violence” caused violence against Israel – and refused to acknowledge that Israel was acting in self-defense or why Israel had to act. For instance, Dr. Khan stated: “Violence begets violence. When you attack an Iranian general, two Israeli soldiers get killed.” (Dr. Khan was apparently referring to the Hezbollah attack that killed two Israeli soldiers that very same day.) Dr. Khan conveniently left out the fact that the Iranian general was on the edge of the Syrian border close to Israel, with a team of Iranian Revolutionary guards and Hezbollah terrorists, preparing major deadly attacks on Israel from Syria. Israel’s defensive actions actually stop more violence. Stopping deadly Iranian/ Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Syria is just one example. If Israel had not discovered and wiped out the terror tunnels last summer, Hamas would have murdered and kidnapped thousands of innocent Israelis in its elaborately planned terror tunnel attacks scheduled to occur on this past Rosh Hashanah. Israel’s necessary Gaza operation also destroyed several thousand of Hamas’s rockets, thereby preventing numerous rocket attacks. Dr. Khan also had the gall to claim that Israel acted “disproportionately” in Gaza. What is the “proportionate” response to Hamas launching 15,000 rockets at innocent Israeli civilians prior to last summer, which hit Israeli school buses, children and hospitals? Should Israel have launched 15,000 rockets at Gazan civilians? In fact, Israel did everything humanly possible to avoid civilian casualties when Israel destroyed Hamas’s terror tunnels and rockets. Moreover, responses to terror do not need to be “proportionate”; they need to stop the terror attacks. Similarly, Dr. Khan said that because

Israel was “strong,” Israel needs to be the “first” one to stop the fighting. In other words, a supposedly strong nation is not entitled to protect its people from constant attacks by terrorists. “Stopping first” only works when one’s enemy is willing to stop attacking. Moreover, Israel has “stopped first” (or rather, never started), to no avail. Dr. Khan failed to mention Israel’s incredible restraint in the face of years of constant Hamas rocket attacks on innocent Israeli civilians. Dr. Khan likewise omitted the fact that Hamas broke ten cease-fires this past summer – while Israel observed the cease-fires. Dr. Khan also failed to mention the strength of Israel’s enemies – Iran’s almost ready-to-go nuclear weapons, Hezbollah’s 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel, and the fact that after over 50 days of fighting last summer, Israel was only able to destroy part of Hamas’s rocket arsenal. Strength is also the only feasible deterrent in Israel’s neighborhood. An Israeli warning to Hezbollah, backed up by strength, after Hezbollah’s recent attack on Northern Israel (which killed 2 Israeli soldiers) kept Hezbollah from escalating further. In response to Rabbi White’s composite question, Dr. Khan also praised the “ideological work of al Azhar.” Al Azhar University (in Egypt) is the center of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. The Muslim Brotherhood has been responsible for scores of deadly attacks on Egyptian Christians, created Hamas to destroy Israel, and helped spawn numerous other radical Islamist terrorist groups. According to terrorism expert Steve Emerson, U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood members also formed the Islamic Society of North America (“ISNA”). (Dr. Khan served on ISNA’s governing council.) Dr. Khan concluded by urging Jewish congregants to pressure Israel to make what would be suicidal concessions. After the program ended, two groups approached me. First, several Jewish synagogue members told me that they were upset that I was not permitted to speak out further. (I had quickly called out a response to one of Dr. Khan’s falsehoods.) Several women said that they don’t know much about the real Middle East situation, and that they and their synagogue need to hear from people who are as knowledgeable as I am. It was a nice compliment, but I was very saddened to hear that these synagogue-goers have not been receiving vital, accurate information to counteract Dr. Khan’s propaganda. Then, several Muslim gentlemen approached me for a respectful debate about Gaza. A Muslim gentleman attributed the problems to high unemployment in Gaza. I responded that unemployment is Hamas’s fault. Continued on Page 17

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READERS WRITE

Circus show must not go on for sake of animals

s a lifelong resident of Nassau County, I am very disappointed that the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus continues to be allowed to perform in our county with their abused animals. Feld Entertainment, the producer, agreed to pay the largest fine imposed on an exhibitor in the history of the Animal Welfare Act to settle numerous violations found by U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors in 2011, with a most

recent offense at the close of 2014 documented in a USDA inspection report whereby three ailing elephants were denied daily veterinary treatment because Ringling’s elephant caretaker claimed he could not access them when confined to boxcars. This resulted in their not receiving medication for their conditions for days on end. I will be one of many protesting the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus on opening night outside of the Nassau

Coliseum Wednesday March 4. It is my hope that Nassau County will soon join the likes of the Town of Southampton and ban circuses that use any method that causes an animal pain, discomfort or suffering as a means to perform and promote humane entertainment for its residents and their children instead. JoAnn Winkhart Westbury

Christians must seed ISIS’ end

am appalled and outraged over the killings of 21 Coptic Christians by the Islamic State better known as ISIS. Pope Francis called the victims “martyrs,” saying their blood is a testimony that cries out to be heard.” I wholeheartedly concur with Pope Francis. These brave men were beheaded for their faith. They died because they were Christians and accepted Jesus as their Lord and savior. As a Catholic and as Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus council #5911 in Douglaston, my

prayers go out these Coptic Christians and their families for this tremendous loss. I therefore call for all Christians around world to urge their leaders to act to crush this movement of pure evil. Their sole intent is to murder and maim all those who don’t believe as they do. These evil-doers must be stopped before more innocent men, women and children are killed because of their faith in their higher power. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

Netanyahu controversy contrived, undeserved

he upcoming visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu, one of the most anticipated visits of a foreign dignitary in years, is saturated in undeserved, and contrived controversy. Editorial pundits around the country posit the question to the embattled prime minister, “To come or not to come. That is the question.” Well, this writer thinks that the prime minister of Israel is a big boy. He’s no fool and knows what’s best for Israel. Netanyahu has spoken at length to Democrat and Republican leaders of both the Senate and House of Representatives and well understands where the diplomatic mines are located. He clearly comprehends what’s involved politically within the United States. Said another way, he gets it. Nevertheless, leaders make mistakes. It happens. No one is perfect. Is it a mistake to come? Is it better if he comes? Either way it’s his decision. And the fact remains the prime minister of Israel was invited to speak by the elected leader of the House Of Representatives of the people of the United States Of America. According to The New York Times, Prime Minister Netanyahu did not accept the invitation until after President Obama was informed of the invitation. The invitation was given to the guest. It’s then up to the guest to accept or reject the invitation. To those who think Netanyahu should not come because of all the reasons widely written about and debated on news programs, I

say, it’s totally up to Netanyahu to determine what’s best for Israel. That is his obligation as the elected head of his country. If the leader of Israel believes his country is in mortal danger, the prime minister of Israel has an obligation to his people to do anything and everything possible to save his country. The overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel for good reasons. That is why he was invited to speak to our Congress. Netanyahu is savvy enough to know precisely what potential dangers exist by addressing Congress without President Obama’s approval. To me, it’s obvious. He feels Israel faces such a high level of danger, he’s willing to risk whatever negatives come up in the future. That’s Netanyahu’s decision. Not mine. Not anyone else. To quote Prime Minister Netanyahu from the New York Times, “I am going to the United States not because I seek a confrontation with the president, but because I must fulfill my obligation to speak up on a matter that affects the very survival of my country.” Historically, American supporters of Israel have stayed out of internal Israeli affairs when it came to national defense issues. It’s their business. As a sovereign democracy, it’s up to the Israelis to decide what’s best militarily and having Iran as a threshold nuclear power is a military affair. This writer has faith that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make the best decision for Israel. However, there is another issue of equal importance to Americans.

Netanyahu is fighting for Israel but what’s good for America? After all, we are Americans. I am of the opinion President Obama is leading America in the wrong direction regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Not only do I think our President’s policy is dangerous to both America and the world, what’s worse is that he is planning to bypass Congressional approval of any agreement with Iran. According to our constitution all treaties must be approved by both congressional chambers. Our president considers any agreement with Iran as just that…an agreement, not a treaty. Therefore, he feels he has the legal right to avoid congressional approval. Even the liberal newspaper The Washington Post is deeply concerned about this political possibility and called for “more debate” by both legislative chambers of our government. The Post, in a recent editorial wrote: “The Obama administration is signaling that it will seek to implement any deal it strikes with Iran - including the suspension of sanctions that were originally imposed by Congress - without a vote by either chamber.” I strongly opposes the Obama Administration’s current negotiating direction. President Obama has changed his position from a policy that Iran will have no nuclear bomb capability to a position of having this capability within an “acceptable” time frame. This writer believes that’s bad for America, bad for Israel, bad for the Middle East, bad for Europe and bad for the free world. Former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, along with other

former secretaries of state and officials of allied governments recently testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Kissinger said, as reported in The Washington Post, “a multilateral effort headed by the European Union and backed by six U.N. Security Council resolution… began with the premise “to deny Iran the capability to develop a military option… to a new policy where these negotiations have now become an essentially bilateral negotiation between the United States and Iran over the scope of that (nuclear) capability, not its existence.” And lastly, what I find most troubling is the answer to the question: Why aren’t our senators speaking out more forcefully regarding the dangers of a nuclear Iran? Most Americans are deeply concerned. According to a new Gallup poll reported in the press, “77 percent of Americans view the development of nuclear weapons by Iran as a critical threat to the United States”. Both senators, to their credit, came out with statements regarding Iran, Israel and the Menendez Bill. But to paraphrase an old song, sung to me by my late father, I want to hear from our New York aenators, not for just an hour, not for just a day, but always and continuously. Why aren’t they speaking out to the media informing the public of the danger of Iran’s nuclear program? It has been reported in the press that the Obama Administration’s current negotiating policy permits Iran to have unlimited nuclear capabilities after 10 years, without restrictions.

Do they really think it’s good for America that Iran, a country that sponsors terrorism, have a full-fledged nuclear program? Will senators Schumer and Gillibrand agree to override a presidential veto of the Menendez Bill to re-impose sanctions? Will Senators Schumer and Gillibrand agree to remove the loophole in the Menendez Bill permitting the President to delay implementation of sanctions should he feel negotiations are going well? So far I have not heard them say clearly they will even vote to override. It’s time for our senators to state clearly, without gobblygook, what they believe and why. Israel’s existence is threatened. America’s security is in danger when Iran becomes a nuclear threshold country. It’s time for action, not just words. The United States is losing power in an important area of the world. Iran, a nation supporting terrorism, is getting stronger and stronger as the months go by. Our senators Schumer and Gellibrand must speak up! Tell us where you stand - clearly - to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weaponry? To Sen. Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand I ask: “Are you going to permit President Obama to bypass Congress if he agrees to a deal? “ To senators Schumer and Senator Gillibrand I ask: Are you going to permit our president to sign an agreement with Iran without Congressional approval? We need to know…and now. Martin H. Sokol Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 53

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A Common Cause of Pelvic Pain: What You Need to Know

If you feel an urgent or frequent need to urinate, along with pain or discomfort coming from the bladder, you may have interstitial cystitis, also known as bladder pain syndrome or IC/BPS. Robert Moldwin, MD, FACS, and Sonia Bahlani, MD, urologists at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, part of North Shore-LIJ Health System, discuss what you need to know about this condition. How common is IC/BPS? We used to believe that IC/BPS was relatively rare. However, new studies suggest that the condition may affect 3 million to 8 million women, and 2 million men, in the United States. Are there different types of IC/BPS? Yes. About 5 to 10 percent of IC/BPS patients have inflammation (called “Hunner’s lesions”) that can be seen on the bladder surface. In most patients, the bladder wall looks perfectly normal. Further testing will make sure you don’t have signs of infection or any other obvious bladder disease. How can IC/BPS affect me? In mild cases, you may only have to deal with the discomfort and urinary frequency. However, moderate to severe symptoms can include the constant need to have bathroom access, limited ability to travel and lack of sleep due to the pain and constant need to urinate. Pain with sexual activity is common and often adds another dimension of misery.

Who gets IC/BPS? Anyone in any age group can get IC/BPS, but it’s usually found in people in their late 20s through their 70s. Heredity may also play a role: if your parent or sibling has IC/BPS, you are about 17 times more likely to also get the condition. What causes this condition? The etiology of IC/BPS is unclear but appears to be multifactorial. The various causes of IC/BPS may include changes in the surface lining of the bladder, nerve abnormalities of the bladder wall and autoimmune problems. The symptoms may also be related to diseases affecting other parts of the body, because 40 percent of patients have other disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches and even depression.

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Review state teacher evaluations: Cuomo BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing for a review of recent state teacher evaluations in light of a Newsday report Sunday that found the results of the portions of evaluations controlled by Long Island school districts favored teachers in receiving “effective” or “highly effective” ratings. In a letter Sunday to acting State Education Commissioner Elizabeth R. Berlin, Jim Maltras, Cuomo’s director of operations, called for an investigation into state evaluations “to determine whether the skewed ratings warrant departmental action or highlight areas where changes to state law are needed.” Each public school district’s teacher evaluation system is approved by the state education commissioner. Approximately 60 of the 100 points that make up a teacher’s annual evaluation are calculated based on reviews from a teacher’s district, while the other 40 are determined by student test performance. Teachers must receive at least 75 points to receive an “effective” rating. More than 97 percent of teachers throughout the state were rated “effective” or “highly effective” on evaluations from 2013-14, according to Newsday’s report on Sunday. Of Long Island’s 124 school districts, 70 use scoring guidelines put forth by the state’s largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, while another 14 Long Island districts use similar scoring systems, Newsday found.

To receive a “highly effective” rating under the union guidelines, teachers would have to receive 59-60 points on their local components, which incorporates classroom observations, while those who receive “effective” scores receive 57-58 points, according to the report. An “effective” rating, Newsday found, are achievable if a teacher receives the minimum scores required from the component that measures student exam performance. Cuomo has called for the part of a teacher’s evaluation taken from test scores to increase to 50 percent to eliminate potential bias in the evaluation system. “How can 98 percent of the teachers be effective if only 38 percent of the students are ready for college?” Cuomo said during the unveiling of his budgetary goals in late January. New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee blasted the governor in a statement Monday, saying Cuomo’s “cluelessness about teacher evaluations and his disdain for the teaching profession have never been more apparent. The only thing skewed here is the governor’s logic.” “The governor is so enthralled with his billionaire hedge fund pals, he continues to ignore a growing body of research and what the rest of the nation - including Texas - now knows: student test scores are not reliable, accurate or stable measures of either student achievement or teacher effectiveness,” she added. “Standardized tests should be used to diagnose student and learning and inform instruction.”

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Nassau County Museum of Art opens up its vault for ﬁrst time In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Nassau County Museum of Art is presenting Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting, its first comprehensive exhibition of works from the permanent collection. This presentation, which opens March 21, highlights patrons’ numerous gifts to the Museum over the last quarter century that have never, or rarely, been exhibited. Each gallery space within this multifaceted presentation will focus on different themes such as past and present portraiture, great traditions in paintings, postwar prints and vintage posters of many eras. Exploring a diverse range of artists that are strongly represented in the Museum’s collections, this exhibit includes works by naturalist John James Audubon, photographer Larry Fink, as well as Pop Art icons Marisol Escobar, Robert Indiana and Larry Rivers, among others. Out of the Vault is in place of the previously announced Saltzman Family Collection exhibition which will be presented later this year. Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor, just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road.

The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Docent-led tours of the exhibition are offered at 2 p.m. each day; tours of the mansion are offered each Saturday at 1 p.m.; meet in the lobby, no reservations needed. Tours are free with museum admission. Family tour and art activities are offered Sundays from 1 p.m.; free with museum admission. Call (516) 484-9338, ext. 12 to inquire about group tours. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students with ID and children aged 4 to 12. Members and children under 4 are admitted free. The Museum Store is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call (516) 484-9337 for current exhibitions, events, days/times and directions or log onto nassaumuseum.org. Nassau County Museum of Art is chartered and accredited by New York State as a not-for-profit private educational institution and is governed by a privately elected Board of Trustees. The Museum and its programs are made possible through the support of Nassau County under County Executive Edward P. Mangano and the Nassau County Legislature; the Board of Trustees and Museum Members; Sponsors of Exhibitions and Events, Government and Foundation Grants, Corporate and Private Donors as well as earned income.

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The top seven events for the coming week Center with her Wallflower tour Sunday. Krall’s third album, “All for you: A dedication to the Nat King Cole trio” spent 70 consecutive weeks on the Billboard jazz charts, earned her a Grammy nod and cemented her spot on the popular music landscape. She has since been awarded the Order of British Columbia, an honorary Ph.d and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Heather McDonald Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, 7 & 9:30 p.m. heather mcdonald Governors’ Comedy Club 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 http://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm Heather mcdonald has performed alongside for Chelsea Handler in sold out performances around the country. A member of the Groundlings theater where she performed in the Sunday Company for two years, mcdonald is best known for her roundtable appearances on e!’s top rated show Chelsea Lately. Her debut book, “you’ll Never Blue Ball in this town Again,” spent seven weeks on the New york times best-seller list Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. robert klein Landmark On Main Street 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Legendary comedian Robert Klein will make his debut at the Landmark Saturday night. the Bronx-born funny man, who got his start at Second City in 1965, has had an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film. Some of his films include “the Owl and the Pussycat,” “Hooper,” “Primary Colors,” “Radioland murders,” “ira and Abby,” “One Fine day,” “two Weeks Notice,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days,” and “the Safety of Objects.” Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. keb’ mo’ Band The Space At Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com three-time Grammy winner Keb’ mo’ storms the stage at the Space at Westbury for a single set Saturday night. Over the past two decades Keb has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through his live and studio performances. His songs have been recorded by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, the dixie Chicks, Joe Cocker and Robert Palmer and collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, jazz diva Cassandra Wilson, Buddy Guy, Amy Grant, Solomon Burke and Little milton. Sunday, March 1, 7 p.m. diana krall Tilles Center For The Performing Arts | LIU Post 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org the five-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and singer diana Krall returns to tilles

Sunday, March 1, 8 p.m. the musical Box perform Genesis: NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury. (516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com the musical Box is the only group authorized by Peter Gabriel to perform Genesis live in concert. taking their name from the 1971 Genesis’ song, the musical Box will recreate, note for note, the 1973 concert “Selling england By the Pound.” the band mostly covers the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis, incorporating visual effects and costumes that were featured in the original Genesis’ shows of the 70s. the set list is comprised six eighths of the album and a selection of live favorites. Tuesday, March 3, 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, 8 p.m. dropkick murphys The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com dropkick murphys, a Celtic-American punk rock band from Quincy, mA has released numerous singles and eP’s, a live album, a dVd and six full-length albums since forming in 1996, including their signature song, “i’m Shipping Up to Boston.” the band, consisting of Al Barr, tim Brennan, Ken Casey, Jeff daRosa, matt Kelly, James Lynch, Scruffy Wallace, will do two shows in Huntington as they gear up for two shows on St. Patrick’s day in dublin.

U. S. Marine Corps All-Star Jazz Band Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. u. s. marine corps all-star jazz Band Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 • http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ the U. S. marine Corps All Star Jazz Band will perform a variety of swinging staples from the modern jazz ensemble literature in the style of Sinatra and michael Bublé, including stellar arrangements by the likes of tom Kubis, don Sebesky, Bob mintzer, tommy Newsom, Stan Kenton and some gems by the inimitable Hank Levy. Also on the program: select original compositions from within the band including a touching tribute to World War ii veterans.

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Super chicken wings Supposedly, in the early 1970’s, Teresa Bellissimo, owner of The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, invented the Buffalo Wing to satiate her son, Dominic, and his friends’ late night snacking appetite. I have had the pleasure of eating “wings” at The Anchor Bar. They are a very casual deep-fried affair, smothered in hot sauce and served right out of a stainless steel bowl. With people being so health conscience, I thought I could make these tasty chicken wingette and drumette sections, just as delicious. The following recipes are easy to prepare, baked and finger-licking good. The procedure is the same, but the marinade for each recipe is different. Make one or all three recipes. If you are looking for an easy to prepare, crowd pleasing nibble, these wings are for you. Menu Serves 10 plus Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings Ginger Scallion Wings

Roasted Olive Oil and Lemon Wings Bleu Cheese Dressing* Mac and Cheese* Poached Carrot and Celery Sticks* *Recipe Not Given Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings Marinade: 6 oz light beer 3 tblsp hot sauce, i.e. Pete’s 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper 20 chicken wingettes and/or drumettes 1. Marinate wings by mixing all of the ingredients together. Place wings and marinade in a “ziploc bag” and marinate overnight. 2. Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil (this makes for a fast and easy clean-up). Place a rack on baking sheet. 3. Place wings on rack and bake. Baste every 15 minutes. Turn wings over after 1/2 hour and baste again. Cook until crispy, approximately 15 minutes more.

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4. Serve with Bleu Cheese Dip. Marie’s Light is easy and almost like “homemade”, carrot and celery sticks. Ginger Scallion Wings Marinade: 2 tblsp crushed garlic 2 tsp red pepper flakes 2 tblsp freshly grated ginger 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tblsp low sodium soy sauce 20 chicken wings, wingettes or drumettes

1. To make the marinade: Using a food processor, puree all ingredients. (If you don’t have a food processor us a blender) Place marinade in a “zip loc” bag and marinate in the refrigerator overnight. 2. Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil (this makes for a fast and easy clean-up). Place a rack on baking sheet. 3. Place wings on rack and bake. Baste every 15 minutes. Turn wings over after 1/2 hour and baste again. Cook until crispy, approximately 15 minutes more.

all of the ingredients together. Place wings and marinade in a “ziploc bag” and marinate overnight. 2. Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil (this makes for a fast and easy clean-up). Place a rack on baking sheet. 3. Place wings on rack and bake. Baste every 15 minutes. Turn wings over after 1/2 hour and baste again. Cook until crispy, approximately 15 minutes more.

Roasted Olive Oil & Lemon Wings Marinade: 1/4 cup best quality olive oil Zest of one lemon 2 tblsp fresh lemon juice 4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed in a garlic press 20 chicken wingettes and/ or drumettes 1. Marinate wings by mixing

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Temptations, 4 Tops under one roof music with a series of smash hits, and soldout performances throughout the world. The group, Known for their distinct harmonies, long list of hit songs, choreography, and flashy wardrobe, it has been said the Temptations are as influential to R&B and soul as

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The Beatles are to pop and rock. The first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award, the Temptations were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. The history of the Temptations is the history of contemporary American pop. An essential component of the original Motown machine, the Temps began their musical life in Detroit in the early 60s, but it wasn’t until 1964 that the Smokey Robinson writtenand-produced “The Way You Do The Things You Do” turned the guys into stars. An avalanche of hits, including “It’s Growing,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” “I Can’t Get Next To You,” “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” (with Diana Ross & the Supremes), soon followed. Many of the group’s songs attained immortality, like “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me),” and “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone,” all three of which are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Four of their songs reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 14 songs have reached the top of the R&B singles chart. Rolling Stone ranked the Temptations at No,. 68 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Four Tops also helped define the

Motown Sound of the 1960s with numberone hits such as “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out I’ll Be There.” As Smokey Robinson has so aptly described, “[they] are a one-in-a-million singing group.” Other big hits include “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got),” “It’s The Same Old Song,” “Standing In The Shadows Of Love,” and “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over).” The Four Tops are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, R&B Music Hall of Fame, and Vocal Group Hall of Fame. The quartet was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 and “Reach Out I’ll Be There” was selected for inclusion in the Grammy Hall Of Fame. The Four Tops are among Billboard Magazine’s Top 100 Artists of All Time and Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Celebrating more than 50 years, The Four Tops continue to tour and perform to sold-out houses around the world, playing in arenas and theaters, colleges and casinos, at festivals and art centers, and occasionally with symphony orchestras. Tickets are $49.50 to $69.50 plus applicable service charges and are on sale online at www.ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at (800) 745-3000 or at the Westbury box office. For further information, please visit www.thetheatreatwestbury.com.

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he seasons can be harsh on homes, and perhaps no season is more taxing on a home’s exterior than winter. Harsh winter weather can take a toll on roofs, gutters, landscaping, and just about any other part of the home that must face the cold head-on. The following are a few areas of your home that might need some help rebounding from winter now that spring has finally arrived. Gutters: Gutters are vulnerable to winter weather, as strong winds may blow debris into the gutters or even blow the gutters off of the house. Gutters should be cleaned prior to and immediately after winter to ensure they’re working properly and not backing up to the point that water can build up and damage the roof. Reattach any loose gutters and clear them of any debris left behind by winter winds. Roof: The roof is another area of your home’s exterior that may have been beaten down over the winter. Examine the roof for cracked, missing or deformed shingles that can allow water to enter a home and damage its interior. Some roof damage is visible from the ground, but homeowners who just endured especially harsh winters may want to climb up on their roofs or hire a professional to get a closer look. Another way to determine if the roof was damaged is to go into your attic and check for water damage near roof trusses. Water damage indicates something went awry over the winter.

Walkways and driveways: Heavy snowfall or significant accumulation of ice over the winter can result in cracked or damaged walkways, driveways and porches. Some of this damage may have resulted from aggressive shoveling or breaking up of ice. Look for any cracks in areas that needed shoveling over the winter, as such cracks can be safety hazards and may even prove to be entry points into your home for water or critters. Landscaping: Landscaping also tends to take a hit in areas that experience harsh winters. Winter storms may damage trees, which can put a home right in the line of falling limbs or worse. Walk around your property to inspect for tree damage, removing any fallen limbs or cutting down any limbs that appear dead or that might eventually prove a safety hazard. In addition, check the grass for any dead spots that might have fallen victim to winter freeze, and address those spots when the time comes to revitalize your lawn. Appliances: When surveying your property after a long winter, inspect appliances like a central air conditioning unit or even dryer vents to make sure they made it through the winter unscathed. Such appliances may have proven an attractive nesting spot for animals over the winter, but damage can be significant if vermin or other animals seek shelter from winter weather inside appliances.

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armer temperatures and longer hours of sunlight can recharge energy levels. Upon the arrival of spring, homeowners dust off their to-do lists and charge ahead with renewed vigor. But before homeowners can get started on renovation projects, many must tame the existing mess that may have built up over the winter. Spring is a great time to dive into spring cleaning projects and ready a home for a season of renovation and remodeling. Getting started on spring cleaning can be a tad overwhelming. In 2012, OnePoll asked 1,000 adults living in the United Kingdom how they felt about spring cleaning, and 41 percent of those surveyed found spring cleaning a daunting process while 68 percent had negative feelings about spring cleaning. But in spite of that initial lack of enthusiasm, respondents said they felt happy and more organized once they finished their spring cleaning. Establishing a plan and setting reachable goals can make spring cleaning a lot less daunting. Set aside several days for spring cleaning. A long weekend is a great time to do some spring cleaning, as having consecutive days to clean will reduce the chances you grow distracted. Make a list and purchase all of the supplies you will need. Again, this will help you stay on course, rather than going out to the store to pick up cleaners or organizational systems.

Try to set reasonable goals. Even if you hope to clean the entire house, stick to the one or two rooms that are most desperate for your attention. Divide each task into a series of steps so when you complete each step you will feel proud that you’re making progress. Create your musical playlist. A playlist full of your favorite songs can provide some inspiration and energy to push you through the spring cleaning when your enthusiasm starts to wane. The music also may take your mind off of the work ahead and help to pass the time. Start from the top and work downward. Follow a logical cleaning order. Begin by dusting away cobwebs and lighting fixtures. Clean light switches and walls. Empty closets and then restock them in a more organized fashion. Leave the furniture and flooring for last, as dirt and dust may accumulate on furniture and flooring as you clean other areas of the home. Be prepared to bid adieu to some of your stuff. Have a few trash bags at the ready. Reorganize items you won’t be keeping into separate piles, with one pile for items you plan to donate and another for those items you will discard. Donate what you can and promptly put the remainder of the items at the curb for pickup. Stay fed and hydrated. Cleaning can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Take breaks to fuel up on food and always have a refreshing beverage close by.

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TIPS FOR HOMEOWNERS ON THEIR FIRST RENOVATION PROJECTS

ome renovations are typically exciting, as homeowners get to see the visions of their dream homes come to light right before their very eyes. Turning an outdated bathroom into a modern oasis or an empty basement into the ultimate man cave strengthens the sense of attachment homeowners have with their homes. But few home renovation projects go from start to finish without experiencing a few bumps in the road along the way. Such bumps can be difficult to handle for homeowners working on their first renovation projects,

but there are many ways for novices to navigate the sometimes murky waters of home improvement projects and come out relatively unscathed on the other end, where a newly renovated home awaits. Plan well and know what to expect. When working with contractors, get all agreements in writing and spell out exactly what you desire in a home renovation. Photo references can help guide contractors and architects. Ask for the full picture of what can be expected with the work, from demolition to the punch list. Knowing what lies ahead can keep you grounded throughout the project.

Discuss work each day and set payment schedules. Make payments contingent on work completed. This can help keep contractors on schedule. Paying for all work upfront leaves homeowners at a disadvantage, as it does not provide incentive for workers to be timely and efficient. Check in with workers to get daily progress reports. Have reasonable expectations. A renovation project may exceed its budget and take longer than initially expected. Understanding that these potential setbacks might be part of the process will make it easier to handle them when the foreman speaks to you about any issues that arise.

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Accept the mess. Construction work is messy. There’s no way to maintain a pristine house when contractors are entering and exiting all day. Dust is bound to be generated, and tools can fill up rooms. A home in disarray can be stressful, but continue to visualize the end result and the mess won’t bother you so much. Establish a contingency plan. Bathrooms and kitchen renovations are typically the most disruptive home improvement projects. Going without a kitchen can make it difficult to enjoy meals at home, while a bathroom remodel may require you to navigate water shutoffs. If your project is scheduled to take several months, establish a contingency plan to deal with

the consequences of your renovation project. Speak with family members about using some of their home amenities, and prepare and freeze meals in advance so you can reheat them later on when you don’t have access to your stove. Plan your escape. Sometimes the constant work and mess of construction is too much to bear. Afford yourself time away by visiting relatives or staying at a hotel. Even a single night away can provide the relief you need. A home that is undergoing a remodel can be a less than comfortable environment. But homeowners who have never before lived through a renovation project can take several steps to make the process go as smoothly as possible.

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Do you have a room that gets especially cold in the winter or several rooms that never seem to get as warm as others in your house? Have your heating bills increased? Well, figuring out the reason may be easier than you think, and the good news––the solution doesn’t have to be an expensive one. Winter is the only time to make a proper assessment and below are some easy steps to follow to do just that. You can do it yourself but may prefer to call a professional to assess your needs and give you an estimate to make the improvements. Keep in mind, a truly reputable company will send a trained inspector or estimator to your home and won’t charge you a penny for that service. Once they provide a recommendation of how to fix the problems, you should always get a few estimates to make sure you’re not being overcharged for the work needed. Pick an especially cold and windy day and follow these steps to assess your home heating problems:

• Windows and Doors: Stand in the room, walk slowly toward the window or door and feel the temperature change as you get closer. Put your hands close to the glass areas and around the perimeter. It will always be slightly colder in this area but if it is easy to feel a difference, you may need to have some caulking or capping done on the exterior, add a storm door to an exterior door or maybe change the windows or doors completely. At the very least, closing blinds or hanging heavier weight curtains or drapes can help on the coldest days. Remember it doesn’t have to be a draft to make your room colder. Just a very cold surface will cause the temperature to drop. • Walls: Cold easily permeates through poorly insulated walls and blows through electrical outlets. It can drop room temperatures by as much as 10 degrees. Feel the interior wall to see how cold it gets. Simply having exterior seams caulked can stop drafts from getting inside the wall and house or you can have siding with special insulation installed that will efficiently conserve your heat. New siding on one side or an area of your house can cost as little as

$1000 and will correct your heat loss problem as well as improve the look of your home and raise its market value. • Ceilings: Crawlspaces, attics and unused second floor rooms that are poorly heated can cause serious draft and cold issues to the ‘lived in’ rooms below them. Heat rises very quickly and will leave the room straight through the ceiling. This problem can easily be corrected without breaking the bank. New specialy formulated insulation can be blown into attic and crawlspaces that will reverse your heat-loss for as little as $500. An added plus is that most of the energy saving products we sell qualify for a 30% tax credit which lowers your final cost even further. • Floors: Rooms above non-heated garages or crawlspaces can get especially cold and can be mostly felt on feet andlegs. Even if the basement below is heated, the area around the foundation could be admitting cold air into the space between the upper and lower areas. This problem can also be fixed with caulking on the outside, siding and insulation outside, insulating between the floor beams from the basement or even by installing wall to wall carpeting with padding. Take on your heat-loss issues now while it’s cold outside! Making an assessment after the weather warms up will only leave you guessing at the actual problem and waiting for next winter to see if you were right. At Unified Windows, Doors, Siding and Roofing we send trained estimators to evaluate the problems at no cost and with no obligations. Any recommendations and prices for the work are put in writing in a detailed estimate and all of our work is guaranteed lifetime. Our three showrooms are open 7 days a week so call (888) 631-2131 anytime for a free in home estimate or visit our website at www.uwds.com Written by: Steven J DiMare Chief Executive Officer Unified Window Systems, Inc.

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EXPLAINING CARPET FIBERS AND TYPES unique. The following rundown of the various carpet fibers and types of carpet should help homeowners make more informed decisions.

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hen buying carpet for the first time, homeowners can be overwhelmed with unfamiliar terminology. Navigating such terminology, not to mention the vast array of options inside typical carpeting stores, can be difficult and make carpet buyers nervous about making the right decision. Homeowners looking for carpeting for their homes are bound to hear about particular fibers and types of carpets. But such talk is lost when buyers don’t understand carpet fibers and what makes each type of carpet

When a carpet salesman or store employee references “carpet fiber,” he or she is referring to the type of material used to make a particular carpet. No two fibers are the same, as each feels different to the touch and reacts to routine wear and tear differently. Here are the five most popular carpet fibers: Nylon: Nylon is the most durable carpet fiber, and that has contributed to its popularity. Nylon is available in a wide range of styles and is a flexible material. Many nylon carpets come with a stain-resistant treatment to protect the material from common stains and spills. Polyester: Highly resistant to stains and fading, polyester is soft, and today’s polyester carpets are more resilient and durable than those of yesteryear.

Triexta: Triexta is a type of polyester fiber that is especially soft. A relatively recent addition to the market, triexta carpet fibers are especially susceptible to stains and spills. Olefin: Olefin carpet fibers are among the least expensive, thanks in part to its lack of durability compared to other fibers. Olefin carpet fibers repel UV rays and therefore don’t fade when exposed to sunlight. Wool: Wool tends to be the most expensive carpet fiber, but that cost is offset by its considerable durability and soft feel. Wool carpets can last several decades, but they also are high maintenance and not especially resistant to stains.

Carpet types The type, or style, of carpet refers to how the carpet is designed. The type of carpet homeowners choose may depend on where in their homes the carpet will be installed. Frieze: Frieze carpet, sometimes referred to as twist carpet, is made of

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What is mold?

Mold is a blanket term used to describe fungi that can be found both indoors and outdoors. Many species of mold exist, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that some estimates suggest there may be more than three hundred thousand different species of mold. Common indoor molds include cladosporium, penicillium, alternaria, and aspergillus.

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Homeowners may notice that mold tends to grow in specific areas of their homes but not in others, and that’s because molds grow best in certain conditions. Warm, damp and humid conditions, such as those found in poorly ventilated bathrooms and basements, make ideal breeding grounds for mold.

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Molds are a natural and resilient part of the environment, but mold growth indoors should be addressed and avoided. Mold spores are tiny and invisible to the naked eye, and when these spores attach to wet surfaces, they begin to grow. Once these spores begin to grow, they can then affect people in various ways. Roughly a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine found sufficient evidence to support a link between exposure to indoor mold and respiratory

Poorly ventilated bathrooms are susceptible to mold growth. tract issues, such as coughing and wheezing in people who were otherwise healthy. The same report found that mold may trigger asthma symptoms among people with asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a disease in which the lungs are inflamed when a person breathes in certain dusts he or she is allergic to, in people susceptible to that condition. Some people who do not have a preexisting condition can still be sensitive to molds. When exposed to mold, such people may experience symptoms like nasal stuffiness, eye irritation, wheezing, or skin irritation.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 28 THE DOLPHIN BOOK SHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop.com Friday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Cafe Music at Dolphin - Mikey and the Other Guys, Christopher Reilly Saturday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. Author Book Signing: The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh Nassau county museum of art 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 • http://nassaumuseum.org MAIN GALLERIES Through March 8, 2015 China Then and Now China Then and Now brings together exemplary Chinese works of art from the classical, early modern and contemporary periods. The exhibition explores three millennia of one of the world’s most important artistic traditions from the perspective of American collectors on Long Island, such as Childs and Frances Frick and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. The exhibition opens on Nov. 22, and remains on view through March 8. 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. March 21 to July 12 Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Nassau County Museum of Art presents its first comprehensive exhibition of permanent collection works in Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting. This presentation highlights patrons’ numerous gifts to the Museum over the last quarter century that have never, or rarely, been exhibited. ONGOING Sculpture Park More than 40 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property. Walking Trails The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods, perfect for family hikes or independent exploration. Gardens From restored formal gardens of historic importance to quiet little nooks for dreaming away an afternoon, the museum’s 145 acre property features many lush examples of horti-

cultural arts. Come view our expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum. EVENTS Through March 8(with exceptions for specific programs) FILM: The Other Eye The Other Eye is the first film about artist Liu Dan, China’s major modern-day exponent of ink painting. A selection of the artist’s work is on view in the museum’s current major exhibition devoted to the arts of China, from earliest times to the present. In The Other Eye we see a remarkable glimpse into Liu Dan’s creative process as he creates a large-scale landscape. Filmmaker Fan Xiaochun, has customized a 15-minute excerpt for the Museum from her longer documentary film about Liu Dan’s work. Free with Museum admission. Reservations not needed; first come, first seated. Sundays, March 1, 8, 22, 29, Family Tour at 1 p.m. Family Sundays at the Museum Converse, collaborate and create together during our Family Sundays from 1 to 4 pm. 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! Saturday, March 7, 3 p.m. Chinese Art and Long Island Collectors: A Curator’s Perspective Amy G. Poster, co-curator of China Then and Now, is Curator Emerita, Asian Art of the Brooklyn Museum. She presents highlights of the exhibition, focusing on extraordinary works collected by some of Long Island’s great aesthetes from yesteryear and today. A recognized expert of Asian art and culture, Poster is an independent curator and consultant who has published numerous scholarly catalogues and articles, including recent studies of early American collectors of Chinese art. Admission is $15 (members, $5) and includes museum admission. Register at nassaumuseum.org/ events. Thursday, March 26, 6-9 p.m. The Art of Golf Nassau County Museum of Art presents a fun evening of networking, golf and games to benefit education programs at the Museum. To be held at the PGS Tour Superstore in Westbury, NY. For details and to arrange tickets, call (516) 484-9338, ext. 16.

Holy Spirit’s 5th Annual Oldies Concert Holy Spirit Church is having its 5th Annual Oldies Concert on SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 ALIVE ‘N KICKIN’, staring Pepe Cardona and his quartet will be the main entertainment for the evening! Pepe has been performing for 45 years! His hit single “Tighter and Tighter” in 1970 made him famous! I went to see him perform and everyone in the audience was dancing! Pepe is an amazing performer! Don't miss out on this great evening of fun! The show will begin with new dance performances by the Louis Bene Dance Company! Air personality, Don K. Reed will MC the concert! Doors open at 6pm. Dinner is included. The cost of the ticket is $35.00. If the ticket is purchased at the door the cost will be $40.00 per ticket.

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Hicks to host 25th annual flower show This year Hicks Nurseries’ Flower & Garden Show celebrates “Gardens for All Ages”. Visitors to the 25th annual Flower Show will discover gardens that represent the many stages of a Long Island gardeners’ life. The show, which runs March 6-22, 2015, is free and indoors. “This year we have designed gardens that are easily adaptable to any lifestyle,” said Nelson Demarest, Visual Merchandising Manager of Hicks Nurseries. “We are exhibiting garden ideas that can be adjusted to fit your schedule and budget. Don’t miss our Services Booth which showcases how Hicks Nurseries’ can make your dream garden a reality.” Garden displays will include: • The “Children’s Dream Garden” features a life-sized whimsical treehouse generously planted with a colorful selection of flowers and vegetables.

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Lily Tomlin to play Community Calendar Westbury March 22 Famous funny woman Lily Tomlin is bringing her one woman tour de force to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Sunday, March 22 at 3 p.m. Tomlin creates a menagerie of comedy hits featuring classic characters like Edith Ann, Ernestine, Tess/Trudy and a host of others. One of America’s foremost comediennes, Tomlin continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media,

starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation and video. Tomlin has received six Emmys; a Tony for her one woman Broadway show, “Appearing Nitely”; a second Tony as Best Actress, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner’s “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.” She also won a Cable Ace Award for executive producing the film adaptation of “The Search”; a Grammy for her comedy album, “This is a Recording” as well as nominations for her subsequent albums “Modern Scream,” “And That’s the Truth,” and “On Stage”; and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special, “Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël,” and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, “The Celluloid Closet.” Tickets are $69.50 and $49.50 and are on sale now at www.ticketmaster. com, charge by phone at (800) 745-3000 or at the Westbury box office. Event, date and time are subject to change. For more information, visit www.thetheatreatwestbury.com.

Whaling museum to host World Water day Celebrate the Arts of the Sea with The Whaling Museum and Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor. In honor of World Water Day, the Museum is hosting a Thar She Blows! Family Fun Day on Sunday, March 22 from 12 to 3 p.m. All ages. $8/Child. $6/Adult. $4/face painting. Visitors can carve scrimshaw art to take home, touch artifacts from the collection up close, enjoy endless creativity at our craft stations, face painting PLUS listen to live sea shanties (work songs sung during the age of sail) and historical tunes performed by the band, Sampawams Creek inside of an 1800’s whaleboat. World Water Day is held every year as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating

for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. Under the theme ‘Water and Sustainable Development’, the year 2015 provides an important opportunity to consolidate and build upon the previous years to highlight water’s role in the sustainable development agenda. “This event is all about celebrating the arts that emerged from whaling crews,” said Nomi Dayan, executive director. “Not only was whaling the 5th largest industry in the United States at its peak, but it also produced a true American folk art known as scrimshaw.” For more information, visit www.cshwhalingmuseum.org or call (631) 3673418 x12.

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Project indePendence care GiVer suPPort GrouP Learn new ways of coping with demands of care giving and gain a better understanding of your relationship with your loved one (over age 60). meetings take place on the first and third thursday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Located at 80 manorhaven Blvd., Port Washington. Registration required. Please call 311 or (516) 869-6311 to register for the presentation or for more information.

Free LeGaL consuLtation cLinic For senior citiZens the Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) provides free monthly legal consultation clinics for Nassau County residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an attorney who volunteers to provide a half-hour private consultation on any topic of concern. the next Senior Citizen Free Legal Consultation Clinic will be held Wednesday, march 18, from 9:30 – 11 a.m. at NCBA, 15th and West Streets, mineola. this popular free program regularly fills up quickly. Registration is required by calling (516) 7474070. re-enterinG the workForce the town of North Hempstead is presenting an employment workshop for resident job seekers age 60+ at the Clinton G. martin Park. topics will include resume preparation, job search techniques and interviewing skills. Services are free of charge. the date is Wednesday, march 11. the facilitator is Sari Flesch, employment specialist. For further information please call (516) 869-6311, Project independence. strenGth traininG Winthrop-University Hospital’s Breast Health Center will offer a new Strength training program facilitated by a Certified Cancer exercise Specialist from the non-profit organization, “Strength for Life.” the free program is open to women who have a history of treatment for breast cancer or who are in current treatment. Sessions will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the dr. martin Spatz Conference Center Room A, located in the lower level of the main hospital at 259 First Street in mineola. Classes are held once a week on mondays from Jan. 12, through march 2. equipment will be provided. “Strength for Life’s” Certified Cancer exercise Specialist’s mission is to empower,

inspire and strengthen by using exercise as a method of healing. Sessions are taught by Jacqui errico, a Certified Cancer exercise Specialist. to register for the program, please call ms. errico at (631) 675-6513. For information about the Breast Health Center at Winthrop, please call (516) 663-2556.

Breast cancer suPPort GrouP Winthrop-University Hospital’s Breast Health Center is offering a support group for patients with metastatic breast cancer from 10:30 am to 12 p.m. on march 12 and 26. Sessions will be held at 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 438 in mineola. meetings will include a variety of topics including, but not limited to: dealing with the side effects of treatment; managing fluctuating emotions; finding balance; intimacy and relationship issues; the significant of integrating wellness activities into your lifestyle. individuals joining the group are invited to talk, share and learn in a safe, warm and confidential environment. the support group is free, but registration is required. For information and to register, please call michelle deCastro, LmSW at (516) 663-2556. For triVia LoVers At 7 p.m. two Wednesday nights each month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 625-8804 for information. sinGLes association oF LonG isLand For information on events, please call (516) 825-0633 or (516) 333-2851 or e-mail singlesassociationofli@yahoo.com. your widowed sociaL GrouP the group meets on the third Wednesday of the each month (except July and August) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church on Franklin Ave. and Fifth Street, Garden City. there is a $5 fee for members and a $8 fee for non-members. For additional information, please call (516) 481-9280. weLL sPouses oF the chronicaLLy iLL and disaBLed meets the second Wednesday of each month at St. Charles Rehab Center, located at 201 i.U. Willets Road (corner of Searingtown Road) in Albertson at 7 p.m. Free admission. Call Rose at (516) 829-8740 or e-mail at rosebirdlady@aol.com for more information.

Arts council request: Pictures of me The Huntington Arts Council is seeking submissions for its upcoming selfportrait show “I See Me.” The exhibit will be jurored by Lynn Rozzi, director of Nassau Community College’s Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery. Rozzi teaches and lectures on contemporary art and the transformative power of art. She is also an artist who exhibits her work.

The show is open to all artists. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, collage and photography. All submissions must be received at Huntington Arts Council, 213 Main St., Huntington, by March 13. For more information go to www. huntingtonarts.org.

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Art auction to benefit Adelphi cancer program At Adelphi University in Garden City on March 19, 178 original works of art will be auctioned to benefit the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Program. These pieces are “Creative Cups”—ordinary bras that have been turned into folk art. The inspirations for the Creative Cups are many. Artist Richard Vaux of Lloyd Neck evoked autumn with his design “Wishful Landscape II.” Girl Scouts from Troop 3648 in Farmingdale made “Girl Scout Cookies” to honor the memory of Girl Scout Founder Juliet Gordon Lowe, who died from breast cancer. Breast cancer survivor Joan Leondis of Garden City used many jewels for

her “Life is Precious.” The amazing “Braalicious” by Dave Jones of East Meadow is made of welded spoons and chains. These and 174 other Creative Cups will be auctioned on Thursday, March 19, at 6 p.m. at Adelphi University’s University Center in Garden City. NBC’s Pat Battle, a breast cancer survivor herself, again will host the event. To date, chief sponsors are Leviton Foundation and Long Island Plastic Surgical Group. Tickets are $50 ($65 for day of event walk-ins) and can be purchased on-line: www.adelphi.edu/creative-cups. Call the hotline at 800-877-8077 for information.

G.N. theater a venue for Disabilities film fest The official line-up of The 7th Annual ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival was announced today, marking the largest edition of the festival to date in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Presented by JCC Manhattan, the 2015 festival will launch in New York City at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and will take place in over 35 venues across New York from March 12-18, featuring U.S. and New York premieres of acclaimed movies from international film festivals. Films will screen at JCC Manhattan and in a variety of other prestigious locations, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museum of the Moving Image and New York Public Library branches. The Gold Coast Arts Center has been a presenter venue of the festival since 2011, bringing award-winning international films and conversations to Long Island. The festival will kick off at the Bow Tie Squire Cinemas in Great Neck with a

screening of “Marie’s Story.” Based on real-life events that took place in the late nineteenth century, “Marie’s Story” follows the story of a deaf and blind fourteen-year-old girl who can’t communicate with the outside world. Despite the advice of a doctor who believes she is “dumb,” Marie’s father, a humble artisan, cannot bring himself to commit her to an asylum. Out of despair, he takes her to the Larnay Institute near Poitiers where nuns take care of young deaf women. Her Mother Superior’s skepticism notwithstanding, Sister Marguerite, a young nun, takes Marie under her wing and does everything she can to bring her to open up to her surroundings. Initiated by JCC Manhattan in 2007, ReelAbilities is the largest festival in the country dedicated to presenting awardwinning films made by and about people with different disabilities – physical, developmental and psychological. Through film, ReelAbilities brings the community together to celebrate diversity and inclu-

sion, by engaging film lovers and audiences from all walks of life. The festival is part of a movement to bring awareness and appreciation to the experiences and stories of people living and thriving with disabilities – building on the cultural shift that puts complex images of people with disabilities into the foreground of film. In addition to a wide variety of awardwinning films from across the globe, post-screening discussions, author talks, performances, exhibitions and other special events are major components of the ReelAbilities experience. Tickets for the 7th Annual ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival go on sale February 12 online at ny.reelabilities. org or by phone (646) 505-5708. Presented by JCC Manhattan, ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities.

The festival presents award-winning films in NY and 14 additional cities throughout the country. Discussions and other engaging programs bring the community together to explore, discuss and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience. Leading the way in accessible film and culture, ReelAbilities is presented in all accessible venues, providing captions, audio description, ASL interpretation, CART (live captioning), and information in Braille. Past festival guests include Sigourney Weaver, Mat Fraser, Geri Jewell, Danny Woodburn, John Hockenberry, Ben Lewin, and many others who have moderated and participated in post-screening conversations. These conversations are a core component of the festival, furthering audience understanding and consciousness about ideas raised in the films while providing a platform for in-depth discussions and audience interaction with filmmakers, actors, and issues portrayed in the films.

Art league talk to honor women’s history month In honor of Women’s History Month in March, the Art League of Long Island presents a very unique lecture combining American History, Book Illustration and Researching Family History. The lecture takes place in the Art League of Long Island’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery on Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a company of more than 500 employees (mostly hardworking young Jewish and Italian immigrant women) located in the heart of Washington Square Park. In typical sweatshop-like conditions, this company produced crisp “Gibson Girl” style blouses that were all the rage at the time. The building, restored back to its original glory is now part of the New York University campus, and has a plaque commemorating its history that every American child learns about in school. On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the 8th floor at the end of the workday. Chaos ensued. In order to prevent theft, factory owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, locked many of the doors to control access and

exit points in the building, making it next to impossible for workers try to exit. The inward swinging doors slammed shut with the crowd converging at the exits on their floors and of those who did manage to make it to the street level found the only other exit locked. There were no sprinklers installed, inadequate fire escapes, and only about two dozen buckets of water to put out the blaze. Elevators ran as long as they could as workers pressed into the cars and some tumbled down the elevator shaft. Fire trucks were ill equipped with ladders high enough to reach the upper floors. People on the street witnessed helplessly as workers jumped out windows to escape the flames. All of this happened in only 18 minutes. In the end, 146 people died. Shortly after, there was a trial, but the two owners, known as the “Shirtwaist Kings” were acquitted of wrongdoing, much to the cry of injustice from the public. However, the lives of these workers were not in vain because it created the foundation for change in America. The horror of that day gave rise to stron-

ger organized labor unions and public support that served as the catalyst for a newly formed State Department of Labor to enact sweeping reforms regulating fire safety standards, factory inspections, sanitation, and labor rules for women and children. About the Speakers: Debbie Wells, chair of the Board of Directors of the Art League of Long Island, begins the lecture with the story of how she discovered that her family are descendants of Annie Nicholas, an 18 year old buttonmaker and Jewish immigrant from Russia. Listen as she tells how she obtained a beautiful photograph of Annie and uncovered family facts and legends. In 2011, hear how she stumbled across more information that connected her to scholars at Cornell University, history experts, HBO producers, journalists and other family descendants - 100 years after the fire. In her presentation, she will show how her family participated in the 100th year starstudded celebration honoring the victims at the original building site. Today, her grandmother-in-law, Anne

Nicholas Lerman is 101 years old and the oldest living descendant of any of the TSF victims. Inspired by the events of the fire, professional artist and children’s book author/ illustrator, Jennifer Merz created a 32-page non-fiction picture book called “Sew Strong: The Legacy of the Triangle Factory Fire.” She combines cut and torn paper, photos, lace, fabrics and trims to create collage illustrations to portray Triangle’s story. She describes the challenges of researching, writing and illustrating “Sew Strong” as being like a treasure hunt for the right blend of factual content and imaginative visual images. In her lecture, Merz will explain the process of book publishing and how she put together her sketches, fully-executed collages and text from a dummy book to book publication proposal. To learn about her process and see her artwork will be a true treat for the audience. The Art League is located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills. For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit www. artleagueli.org.

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Great Neck Library Board of Trustees Budget Workshop The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees will hold a Budget Workshop for the Library’s 2016 Budget on Tuesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. at the Parkville Branch Library, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park. The meeting is open to the public and attendance is encouraged. Take Two Film Series at Station Branch All film matinees are now held at the Station Branch while the Main Library prepares for renovations. The next film matinee in the winter Take Two film

series will be shown on Thursday, March 5 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch, The Gardens at Great Neck, 26 Great Neck Road, 2nd level (near Waldbaum’s). Everything old is new again. These films with similar themes made years apart – endure, captivate and delight over and over again. Refer to the Library Newsletter, film brochure or website for information on the films scheduled. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Arrive early as seating is limited. Priority seating is given to Great Neck School District residents. Please

Building Advisory Committee Meeting The Great Neck Library Building Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. at the Station Branch Library, 26 Great Neck Road, Gardens at Great Neck (2nd level).

and Lakeville Branches of the Library to take or to photocopy. This year the IRS is only providing libraries with Form 1040, 1040A and 1040 EZ. All other federal forms will be printed from the IRS website, www.irs.gov. The Reference staff will print needed forms at a charge of 10 cents per page. Call the Library at (516) 466-8055, ext. 218 for further information.

Tax Forms at the Library Selected Federal and State tax forms and publications are available at the Station, Parkville

AARP Tax Help at the Parkville Branch AARP Tax Preparers will be at the Parkville Branch each Wednesday through April 8 to assist in prepar-

bring your Library card, driver’s license or other ID showing your Great Neck School District address.

ing and filing simple State and Federal tax returns online only. You must have an appointment and bring all relevant tax papers. Registration for Tax Assistance appointments continues. Call the Parkville Branch at (516) 466-8055, ext. 273 for more details or to make an appointment. Great Neck Library Closing/Cancellation Information Online Library patrons connected to the Internet are asked to check the website: www.cancellations. com for Library weather related closings/program

Great Neck Park District

encouraged to attend. Job Fair at Great Neck House Special Meeting at Great Attend the Park District Neck House Job Fair, Tuesday March Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 3 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. the Board of at Great Neck House, 14 Commissioners of the Arrandale Avenue. You Great Neck Park District will find many seasonal/ will be holding a special part-time jobs available at work session meeting Parkwood Pool, Indoor/ at Great Neck House, 14 Outdoor Tennis, Camps/ Arrandale Avenue. In the Pre-school, Recreation, recently approved bond is- Marina/Sailing Director, sue a Little League/multiSummer Performing Arts, purpose turf field was pro- Parks, Security, Office/ posed. The Board would Clerical; also College like to get feedback about Internships available. Pickthis issue. All residents are up an application, schedule

programs

an interview or have one on-the-spot. Everyone over the age of 16, with a wide range of schedules, is welcome to apply. The Great Neck Park District is an equal opportunity employer. College internships are also available. For more information call (516) 487-7665. Nature Program: Birding Around Great Neck Saturday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m., we’ll meet in front of the main Great Neck Library on Bayview Avenue and carpool to various birding spots to

search for winter fowl and other birds. Binoculars are recommended. Call (516) 482-0355 to register by 2/14. No children under 16 years of age are permitted to attend. Great Neck House Winter Class Registration Come into Great Neck House or call for a detailed list of adult and children’s classes available at Great Neck House. Classes begin on Monday, Feb. 23. Registration is on a firstcome, first-served basis during regular registration

department hours at Great Neck House. Nonresident registration fees apply. Please call (516) 482-0355 for further information. Weekend Movie at Great Neck House The documentary, Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013) will be shown at Great Neck House Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 21 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The film is directed by Morgan Neville and stars Darlene Love, Merry Clayton and Lisa Fischer.

cancellations. In order to access this service, Library District residents can log on to cancellations.com, type in their zip code or Great Neck Library and obtain information on program cancellations or Library closings. In addition, at no charge, residents can request automatic e-mails from cancellations.com when the Library has posted any information. This is a great way for Library District residents who are connected online to be advised of weather related changes in Library hours or programs.

It is rated PG-13 and runs 91 minutes. Admission requires a park card. Sunday @ 3 Series Roger Davidson will perform at Great Neck House on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. Roger’s acclaimed catalog ranges from chamber, symphonic and choral pieces to jazz, tango, Klezmer, children’s music, a wide span of Latin and Brazilian projects and most recently, a solo piano project. Admission requires a park card.

Great Neck Community Calendar FREE ESL/CITIZENSHIP CLASSES Free access to legal counsel at St. Aloysius R. C. Church, 592 Middle Neck Rd. Great Neck. Classes run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, please call (516) 867-3580. FUTURE IDOL SONGWRITING CLASS The Innovative Class, “Future Idol,” at the Gold Coast Arts Center, is an opportunity for creative student singer/songwriters/musicians (ages 8-18) to find their voice. With this unique multi-media experience, students are taught to compose create an original song. Working with a production team, instructor Robert Hoffmann, arranges and constructs a song

version of the student’s vision. The final product is recorded via professional Cubase software creating an expert product ready for airplay! The final step in this process is creating and directing the students in an MTV style video which is presented on YouTube as well as the Gold coast Arts Center website at www. goldcoastarts.org. For more information, please call (516) 829-2570 or visit us at 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck. REAP REAP, retired, energetic, active people, meets Tuesday, March 3, at the Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck. At 9 a.m. we have a monthly board meeting. Members may attend. Our

Business Meeting begins at 10:30 a.m. My Opinion will be presented by Mischa Schwartz. Then, Rose Simon will discuss “Wretched Richard III.” We break for lunch about 11:45 a.m. Feel free to bring your lunch and join us! Current Events discussion will take place at 12:30 p.m. led by Peter Lubell. Refreshments, coffee and tea will be served. The Science Club will meet at 1 p.m. WOMANSPACE A discussion group devoted to issues concerning women. Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Great Neck Senior Center, at 80 Grace Ave, Great Neck. New members welcome. For more info

call Joan Keppler at (516) 487-5844. LIONS CLUB HEARING AID PROGRAM The Great Neck Lions Club is pleased to announce their participation in “Lions Lend An Ear,” a program of the Nassau County district of Lions Clubs International. The program provides hearing aids and related products and services at no cost to hearing impaired individuals who qualify based on financial need and communication need. Great Neck Lions Club is asking the local places that accept donated eyeglasses to accept used hearing aids as well. Note: The hearing aids should be placed in the eyeglass collection boxes located in all the Great Neck Libraries as well as

offices of the Village of Russell Gardens, Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Village Hall on Baker Hill Road. FREE EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strengthening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors. Monday through Saturday. Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck. Call for more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, (516) 745-8050. LIONS CLUB OF GREAT NECK Lions Club of Great Neck meets the first Monday of each month at Pearl East Restaurant, 1190 Northern

Blvd., Manhasset at 12 p.m. If you would like to attenda meeting and learn more about our club, please contact fernweiss@aol.com or call (516) 829-5192. ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS The Rotary Club of Great Neck currently meets every Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank, 2 Great Neck Road. Community residents and business members are welcome to visit Club meetings and discover how meaningful and satisfying it is to give back service to the community while networking through Rotary. For further information please see: www.clubrunner.ca/greatneck/ or call (516) 487-9392.

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Trade deal could cause trouble

You might wonder why our local activists - more typically animated about banning fracking, reforming elections, and overturning RLUIPA, the law that allows any religious institution to supersede local zoning, are so exorcised about the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership and the Obama’s Administration push for Fast Track authority - I mean, that sounds so far, far away. We’re not even on the Pacific Coast. But there is a litany of concerns being raised, that boils down to states and localities handing over the power of corporations to overturn public health, public safety, consumer financial and environmental protections - all the things that local activists are really concerned about - or risk being hauled into some international tribunal for diabolically expensive litigation by deep-pocketed, soulless companies. “Trade deals like the TPP (or “NAFTA on steroids”) are known to hurt workers and our environment. Jobs would be sent overseas, more unsafe food would be imported and fracking would be promoted. And most troubling of all? Corporations could sue local governments for putting regulations in place that hurt their profits - and not even within our own court system. Secretive international trade tribunals could dictate whether or not we can ban fracking or label GMOs in our own communities,” said Sarah Alexander, deputy organizing director of Food & Water Watch: The trade rules of the proposed TransPacific Partnership between the United States and 11 Asian nations would cover nearly

40 percent of the world economy (a second in the United States and the shutting down of treaty is being negotiated with the European tens of thousands of factories. These corpoUnion) - but don’t ask what the terms are. Ac- rately backed trade agreements have significess to the text of the proposed deal is highly cantly contributed to the race to the bottom, restricted. the collapse of the American middle class and “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disas- increased wealth and income inequality. The trous trade agreement designed to protect TPP is more of the same, but even worse... the interests of the largest multi-national “Let’s be clear: the TPP is much more corporations at the expense of than a ‘free trade’ agreement. workers, consumers, the enviIt is part of a global race to the ronment and the foundations bottom to boost the profits of of American democracy. It will large corporations and Wall also negatively impact some Street by outsourcing jobs; of the poorest people in the undercutting worker rights; world,” asserted Sen. Bernie dismantling labor, environSanders. mental, health, food safety “The TPP is a treaty that and financial laws; and allowhas been written behind ing corporations to challenge closed doors by the corporate our laws in international tribuKAREN RUBIN world. Incredibly, while Wall nals rather than our own court Pulse of the Peninsula Street, the pharmaceutical insystem. If TPP was such a good dustry and major media comdeal for America, the adminispanies have full knowledge as to what is in tration should have the courage to show the this treaty, the American people and members American people exactly what is in this deal, of Congress do not. They have been locked instead of keeping the content of the TPP a out of the process. secret.” (Sanders offers specifics on “10 Ways “Further, all Americans, regardless of po- the Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Hurt litical ideology, should be opposed to the ‘fast working Families” at his website.) track’ process which would deny Congress the Not surprisingly, the White House - and right to amend the treaty and represent their the U.S. Trade Representative - cast TPP in constituents’ interests. an entirely different light, basically insisting “The TPP follows in the footsteps of other that this administration is well aware of the unfettered free trade agreements like NAFTA, problems NAFTA caused and wouldn’t make CAFTA and the Permanent Normalized Trade the same mistakes, that TPP, rather than unAgreement with China. These treaties have dermine our labor, environment, and conforced American workers to compete against sumer protections, would somehow embed desperate and low-wage labor around the our “values” and our “standards” to the signaworld. The result has been massive job losses tory countries, and that the explosion in US

exports by virtue of overturning the regulatory and tariff impediments will produce halcyon days of jobs creation, wage increases, economic prosperity and national security for Americans. And don’t worry that some international tribunal can preempt national, state and local law - that’s just an arbitration process. This week, the White House stepped up its campaign for TPP - the President even made it the subject of his weekly address titled “We Should Make Sure the Future Is Written by Us” - presumably because if we don’t “write” the terms for the trade agreement, China will dictate terms. “95 percent of the world’s potential customers live outside our borders,” the President said. “Many of them live in the AsiaPacific – the world’s fastest-growing region. And as we speak, China is trying to write the rules for trade in the 21st century. “That would put our workers and our businesses at a massive disadvantage. We can’t let that happen. We should write those rules. “That’s why Congress should act on something called ‘trade promotion authority.’ This is bipartisan legislation that would protect American workers, and promote American businesses, with strong new trade deals from Asia to Europe that aren’t just free, but are fair. It would level the playing field for American workers. It would hold all countries to the same high labor and environmental standards to which we hold ourselves.” How, exactly, is not specified. Obama sweeps all of the aforementioned Continued on Page 56

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Person of interest sought Landmark picks in Thomaston robbery new director BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Nassau County police are investigating multiple “persons of interest” who have been linked to several armed robberies at gas stations and convenience stores throughout the county in recent weeks, including ones in New Hyde Park and Thomaston, according to a report in Newsday. In a Feb. 19 interview with the newspaper, Chief of Department Steven Skrynecki said the identity of the lone suspect – a 20-to-25 year-old man, about 5-foot-11, wearing all black, gloves and a face mask – was developed through tips from the public and research from department intelligence analysts. Skrynecki did not say how many people have been investigated, nor how many suspects police are seeking, but said some have been eliminated as suspects. In wake of the spree, in which 10 gas stations and

convenience stores throughout Nassau have been robbed, Skrynecki said police have increased patrols and reviewed video surveillance. “I can’t overemphasize the fact that there’s about 2,000 cops on this job and 2,000 people better be aware of what’s going on with this pattern and be ‘Johnny on the spot with this,’” Skyrnecki told a group of commanders at police headquarters in Mineola last Thursday, according to Newsday. “Nothing is more important right now than getting that individual or individuals.” Efforts to reach Skrynecki were unavailing. Nassau County police have said robberies of BP gas stations in New Hyde Park and Thomaston in late January are likely linked to the fatal shooting of a BP clerk in Jericho days later. The three incidents are thought to be connected to seven other robberies, the latest of which took place at a Sunoco station in East Meadow.

The clerk, Hany Awad, 56, of Levittown, was discovered lying on the floor behind the counter of the BP gas station at 39 Jericho Turnpike on Jan. 28 with an apparent gunshot wound to the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Nassau County ambulatory medical technicians around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night. During the New Hyde Park and Thomaston robberies, instances, the suspect allegedly entered the station armed with a black handgun and demanded cash from the attendant. During the initial New Hyde Park robbery, police said the suspect fired a round into the counter before fleeing on foot northbound along Abraham Lane. When he robbed the Thomaston station, police said the suspect fired a round into the wall. An undetermined amount of cash was stolen from both gas stations, police said.

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Laura Mogul, a former president of the Port Washington Board of Education, has been named the new executive director of the Landmark on Main Street performing arts center. Mogul succeeds former Executive Director Sharon Maier-Kennelly, who stepped down from the position after more than 10 years on Dec. 19. “It’s a great pleasure to be working in a position that allows me to combine my deep commitment to our community with my love of performing arts and creative expression,” Mogul said. “Landmark is already an important institution in Port Washington, and the Jeanne Rimsky Theater is known and respected well beyond our borders. I’m looking forward to building on our strengths to extend the reach and depth of our offerings to the people we serve - and to those we’ve yet to serve.” Mogul started as executive director on Feb. 17. She is responsible for the center’s day-to-day operations, including overseeing the Rimsky Theater and Doctors’ Gym and maintaining relationships with the Port

Washington Childrens’ Center, Parent Resource Center and Teen Center, who also use the Landmark building. Landmark officials said Mogul was an attractive choice for the role because of her professional experience in marketing, event management and client services. She has worked with companies like Revlon, the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and ABC Television. Mogul is also a founding member and current advisory board member of the Port Washington Education Foundation, a non-profit organization that funds education initiatives for Port Washington School District students. She served on the Port Washington school board in the late 1990s and early 2000s, stepping down in 2004. “2015 is the 20th anniversary of Landmark on Main Street. In ‘Act One’ we established Landmark as a true beacon in our community,” Landmark co-President Adam Grundfast said. “We’re excited to welcome someone with Laura’s talents and dedication as we begin ‘Act Two’ and build on our success to extend our efforts to all the people of Port Washington and the neighboring areas.”

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South students take top art honors Four South High School seniors took top honors at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design Competition titled, “Long Island’s Finest.” They are Sarah Haggerty, Samantha Klainberg, Jimin Lee, and Kimberly Yee. Yee received first place, Lee took second place, Klainberg took third place and Haggerty received an Honorable Mention. Their art teachers are Karen Cuchel, art department head, and Lisa Stancati. Students were challenged to create twodimensional art that offered their interpretation of “The Inside.” They were free to express their ideas of what “The Inside” meant to them. They could use any medium, as long as they adhered to the size restriction of a piece that was not larger than 11 inches by 17 inches. Submissions were judged by a jury of faculty, staff and professional practitioners.

NYIT art winners, with their artwork, from left: Kimberly Yee, Jimin Lee, and Samantha Klainberg. Their art teachers: Lisa Stancati and Karen Cuchel. Missing from photo: Sarah Haggerty.

School district schedules budget vote On Tuesday, May 19, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., qualified residents of the Great Neck Public School District may vote on the Proposed 2015–2016 School Budget. Voting will take place at the E.M. Baker School, 69 Baker Hill Rd., in the multi-purpose room (for voters who reside north of the LIRR), and at the William A. Shine-South High School, 341 Lakeville Rd., in the west gym (for voters residing south of the LIRR). Additional budget information follows. Copies of the 2015–16 Preliminary Budget for the Great Neck Public Schools will be available as of Friday, Feb. 27, at the Office of the District Clerk, Phipps Administration Building,

345 Lakeville Road, school days, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. It will also be on the district Web site (www.greatneck.k12.ny.us) and available at Budget Meetings (listed below). Reference copies may be perused in each public school and in the Great Neck Library, all open branches. Budget Meetings are scheduled during March, April and May. Weekday meetings follow student recognitions, which begin at 7:30 p.m. Meeting dates, times, and school locations follow: Monday, March 16, 7:30 p.m., North High, 35 Polo Road (informal budget hearing). Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m., South High, 341 Lakeville

Road (budget discussion with administrative staff). Monday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., South High, 341 Lakeville Rd. (informal budget hearing). Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., North Middle, 77 Polo Road (official budget hearing and adoption of Proposed 2015–16 Budget). Monday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., South Middle, 349 Lakeville Road (budget discussion only). Residents are encouraged to attend the Budget Meetings and to respond to the Preliminary Budget. Firm decisions on the Budget will not be made until the Board listens to the community’s concerns. Residents who have voted

in any school or general election since 2011 are automatically registered to vote in the school election on May 19. Residents who have not voted since 2011, or are not registered, may register at the Office of the District Clerk, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, on school days, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Residents must be 18 years of age or older, a citizen of the United States, and have lived in the district for at least 30 days. Registration deadline is Thursday, May 14. Qualified, registered voters can obtain applications for absentee ballots from the district Web site (www.greatneck.k12. ny.us—click on Budget, then

choose Absentee Ballot) or from the Office of the District Clerk, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, school days, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Residents who are qualified voters and whose registration records have been marked “permanently disabled” by the Board of Elections will automatically receive absentee ballots. Completed absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5 p.m., on Tuesday, May 19. For additional information about the 2015–16 school budget, voter registration, and/ or absentee ballots, please call the assistant superintendent for business, at (516) 441-4020, on school days.

GNPS TV featuring local filmmaking Current program viewing over Great Neck Public Schools Television (GNPS/ TV) includes: District Spotlight, The Pioneers, and South High Winter Concert II. Program details and view times follow. District Spotlight Spotlight programs feature school news, sports, and events from our district in a lively, magazine-format. This edition of Spotlight includes stories on South Middle School’s “Dancing Classrooms” (a ballroom dancing curriculum that integrates physical education, music, and character education), highlights from North Middle’s One Acts showcase,

highlights from North High Junior Players’ production of Rent and from North High’s Winter Concert, US Armed Forces Veterans visiting with South Middle students and more. Spotlight show times are: 10 a.m., and 2, 6, and 10 p.m. The Pioneers During the school year, South Middle’s TV/film department along with students and staff produce and star in an original film that is shown on the school’s closed-circuit TV news program in all homeroom classes (HTV). This year’s film is The Pioneers, made in collabora-

tion with the school’s mathematics department. It is a comedy about four math teachers and their students who share a love of filmmaking, much to the chagrin of the math department head. He would rather they promote the upcoming Pi Day. Watch a short piece on the making of The Pioneers following the film. The Pioneers show times are: 11 a.m., and 3 and 7 p.m. South High Winter Concert II Watch the South High Winter Concert II, featuring Chamber Choir, Mixed Choir, Symphonic Band, and Symphony Orchestra. The Concert was under the direction

of Michael Schwartz, performing arts department head/instrumental teacher, and Dr. Pamela Levy, vocal music teacher. South High Winter Concert II view times are: 12, 4, and 8 p.m. GNPS/TV Programming GNPS/TV programming reflects the offerings of the Great Neck Public Schools and the achievements of its students and staff. For information about GNPS/TV and its programs, please contact Robert Zahn, district educational cable TV producer/ director, by phone at (516) 441-4676, or by e-mail at rzahn@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

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Former assistant county DA dies BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Gino Papa, a longtime East Hills village prosecutor and justice whose legal career also included stints as an assistant Nassau County district attorney and chief deputy North Hempstead town attorney, died Monday. He was 84. “It’s bittersweet. He went in his sleep at St. Francis [Hospital], a place he loved. They treated us amazingly,” said his son, CJ Papa, of Manhasset, an anchor with Fios1 News Long Island and SportsNet New York. “It’s sad he’s gone, but there were people around him who loved him,” CJ said. “He went on his terms.” Papa, an East Hills resident since 1962, had recently announced he would not seek a third four-year term as village justice in the upcoming March 18 election. Prior to his election as village justice, Papa was East Hill’s acting village justice and a village prosecutor for 22 years. Mitchell Studley, the village’s acting justice and a partner at the Jamaica, Queens firm DeBrosse & Studley, LLP, will run to succeed Papa on the Unity Party line. “Gino was a true mentor,” said Studley, who said he knew Papa for more than 25 years. “I learned to appreciate the kind

manner in which he dispensed justice. There was never a sense of arrogance or disrespect ever exhibited by him toward any individual who came before him in the East Hills court.” Papa immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1934 and attended Roslyn public schools, Hofstra University and the St. John’s University School of Law. He also served in the United States Army during the Korean War. From 1964-71, he was an assistant Nassau County district attorney, and later served 2 1/2 years as the chief deputy attorney within the Town of North Hempstead. Papa was admitted to practice law in all federal courts, the Eastern and Southern districts of New York, and within the Court of Appeals. In his legal career, Papa was president of the Nassau County Magistrate Association from 1994-95 and was a recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. He has also received the Hon. Frank J. Santagata Memorial Award for Outstanding Devotion to the Law. “He’s from the old school, where morals matter and your reputation matters,” said East Hills Trustee Brian Meyerson, who prior to his appointment to the village board last year was a village prosecutor. “When I first

Gino Papa (right), of East Hills, singing karaoke with son CJ, of Manhasset, at a family event. came on as a prosecutor, he welcomed me with open arms. He showed me the ropes, was never standoffish or anything. He was a mentor for the legal profession and for myself.” CJ said his father “was always committed to making me who I am,” and attended nearly every soccer, basketball and baseball game he played in growing up, even as he played soccer and golf as a student at New York University. He said his father’s fairness as a judge has been a quality he has tried to exude in his journalism career.

“I try and treat the stories I do very fairly. Each person’s going to have a side, I can’t take a side, and I think I got that from him,” CJ said. “He was always very composed and I think that helps me when I do television. The red light goes on and I’m relaxed, an even keel.” The East Hills village board on Feb. 11 presented Papa with its Award of Distinction, its highest community service honor. A plaque presented to Papa during the ceremony describes the justice as “an outstanding and exceptional member in the legal profession,” and is also in-

scribed: “Gino Papa possesses the finest personal attributes of compassion, candor, fairness and integrity.” “At the ceremony, he made a wonderful comment that he knew the village would be in good hands in passing the baton to me, I was so taken and moved. Here we were honoring him, and he thought enough to make this wonderful comment about me. It just showed how good-hearted and the kind of individual he was,” Studley said. “As a fellow judge in the Village of East Hills and as a neighbor and a friend, I’ll miss him dearly.” Added Village of East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz, himself a former Assistant U.S. Attorney: “I’m happy he was able to be there for that. I know he was happy to be there.” Papa was predeceased by his wife Helen. The couple had four children: Daughters Gina, Linda and Monica and son CJ. The Papas had five grandchildren. Wake services for Papa will take place from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Friday at Roslyn Heights Funeral Home at 75 Mineola Avenue in Roslyn Heights. A viewing was also held Wednesday. A funeral service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Woodbury, located at 690 Woodbury Road.

Car wash raises Rabbi, Palestinian to funds for NS-LIJ talk peace in Israel B Y J A ME S G A L L O W AY A New Hyde Park car wash raised more than $3,000 for the Cohen Children’s Medical Center at North Shore-LIJ in New Hyde Park this year as part of its annual fundraiser. This is the second-straight year Five Corners Hand Wash has hosted the fundraiser, called “bubbly smiles,” which raised $3,557 last year, said owner David Rubinstein. To raise money, the business raffles off services, such as unlimited car washes for a year, to anybody who donates more than $5. “It’s like a $5 lotto ticket,” Rubinstein said. “Not bad.” This year, about 1,650 dif-

ferent people have donated, he said. The fundraiser ends March 1. Rubinstein said he chose Cohen Children’s Medical center because he wanted to contribute to something local – his family has owned the car wash in New Hyde Park for 32 years. “We were attempting to come up with a new marketing program,” Rubinstein said. “What we settled on was a fundraiser. In turn, it’s really good because it benefits the hospital as well.” All of the proceeds go to the Child Life program at the children’s center, which offers services such as art and music therapy, according to the hospital’s website.

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO An Israeli rabbi and an activist for a state of Palestine will participate in a discussion next month at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock about the possibility of a peaceful resolution to a violent, decades-long conflict between the two sides that reached a fever pitch last summer. Rabbi Shaul Judelman and Ali Abu Awwad are scheduled to appear at the congregation on March 13 at 7:30 p.m. for “Can Israelis & Palestinians coexist Peacefully? A Dialogue on the Israel-Palestine Conflict.” The event is open to all, but the congregation has suggested

attendees make a $5 donation. Judelman, a Seattle native, moved to Israel in 2000 after completing his undergraduate work at Pitzer College and was later ordained a rabbi from Yeshiva Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion in 2007. He has been the director of the Eco-Activist Beit Midrash since 2005, a youth program in Israel that teaches Judaism through religious texts, community service, and tiyulim, a study of the Hebrew language. Awaad is the founder of Al Tariq, which advocates for non-violent protest on part of Palestinians in seeking an independent state. Awaad was arrested for his resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank during

the First Palestinian Intifada in the 1980s and jailed for four years on a 10-year sentence for throwing stones, participating in demonstrations and belonging to the Fatah political party. He became a pacifist after he was shot in the leg during the Second Intifada and receiving medical attention in Saudi Arabia, where he learned his brother was killed by an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint to the entrance of their village. Awaad was among those featured in the 2006 documentary “Encounter Point,” which chronicles the Bereaved Families Forum, a collection of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones during the conflict.

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school news

Academy students celebrate Purim

A milestone at the North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School, will be reached when 20 students, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, will read Megillat Esther (Book of Esther) for their schoolmates and faculty on Purim day, which falls this year on a Thursday, March 5. Dr. Paul Brody, a dermatologist by profession, has instructed close to 225 students for the past 14 years at the Academy, enabling them to read the Megillah at various synagogues, hospitals, nursing homes and private homes for those unable to attend synagogues. Rabbi Adam Acobas facilitates the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hectic schedules to enable adequate review time with Dr. Brody. The students have achieved a unique accomplishment, joining a small, qualified group who possess the knowledge to publicly chant the Megillah. Photo courtesy of NSHA Photo File

community news

Ice rink offers multiple camps during winter

Hockey campers came to the rink every morning from 9 to 10 a.m. Photo cOUTESY OF Michele Siegel

The weather may have been frigid in Great Neck over the February holiday school break, but the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink was on fire with skaters registered for Skate Camp, Hockey Clinics and lots of public sessions. Beginning Monday, Feb. 16 and running through Friday, Feb. 20, children up to age 17 had the option of registering for Skate or Tennis Camp. Skaters were able to enjoy on and off ice instruction, crafts, games and lots of fun! The tennis camp, at the Parkwood Indoor Tennis Center, offered a morning or afternoon session and included instruction, games and match play. Over the April 2015 holiday week, the Park district will once again be offering these camps. If you are interested you can call (516) 487-2976, ext. 114 for Skate Camp or (516) 829-9050 for Tennis Camp.

David and Dana showing their arts & crafts projects.

Young tennis player, Kala Jagoda, is instructed by George Petrov

The skate campers are pictured here with instructors (from back left) Marie Napolitano, Sergei Soukhanov, Vanessa Avelar and Milada Milada Kubikova-Stastny.

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History proves Tea Party activists right

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No one in my administration knew anything about the break-in at the Watergate” President Richard Milhous Nixon “I never had sex with that woman”.President William “Bill” Clinton. “There are weapons of mass destruction”. President George W. Bush “I never heard Rev. Wright. President Barack Hussain Obama Historians will endlessly debate these statements. How many times must we hear our elected officials make “mis-statements”, “bend the truth”, and justify it by saying “it was taken out of context.” The bottom line is that this type of behavior goes on because: 1 - their supporters excuse it, 2 - their critics are pressured to be politically correct and more recently, avoid being called racist, and 3 - fearless investigative reporters, like Woodward and Bernstein, are long since gone. Infamous MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, the architect of both RomneyCare and Obamacare, was absolutely correct. If we as a people are too dumb to figure out the truth, we deserve what we get. 1 - When both President Obama and Nancy Pelosi looked us straight in the eye, and said they never even heard of Professor Gruber, where was the press? Were they lying ? You bet ya! A few days later, we saw an old tape of Nancy praising Gruber. And then we read in the WSJ

that Jonathan Gruber had at least a dozen appointments at the White House, some with senior White House officials including President Obama. Gruber created the “lies” that influenced numerous congressmen into voting for Obamacare. “Obamacare is not a tax.” Remember that one? Tell that to the Supreme Court! The Washington Free Beacon even uncovered a 2006 video of Obama telling a Brookings Institute panel how wonderful Jonathan Gruber was. Lying again, Mr. President? Don’t worry!! When it comes to passing “The Affordable Care Act”, or anything else they want, lying is overlooked. 2 - When it comes to our children, lying takes on an even more onerous meaning. When Mayor De Blasio appointed Carmen Farina the new New York City School Chancellor, this lifelong teachers’s union supporter, proudly announced that “her new accountability measures will ensure that our schools will be held to higher standards and deliver higher student outcomes.” She will immediately improve those failing schools. It’s our kid’s future, she said. Every school day counts!! The word “immediately” was really important to this political appointee. Ok, here we go again. Let the lying begin. 1 - Her office just informed us that her required plans to improve New York City’s 250 worst schools will be delayed again until next year”. What happened to “immediately”? Of course, the mayor’s own

son doesn’t attend any of these failing schools. He is a student at Brooklyn Tech, one of NYC’s three elite high schools! 2 - Included were the 92 failing schools which the “concerned” new mayor DeBlasio had labeled “urgent priority”. 3 - Amazingly, the school chancellor still reappointed dozens of school principals who were all identified as unqualified by her own teacher’s evaluation system. Lies!! lies, and more lies . Can you handle some more whoppers? 3 - After years of “negotiations” with Iran, President Obama told us that the last two deadlines were Iran’s last chance to agree to a verifiable, nuclear disarmament agreement. Or else !!! Or else what ?? What happened? What does “or else” mean to John Kerry and our other “top-notch” negotiators? Another six-month extension ! That’s what “or else” means! Israel is now even in more danger of a nuclear attack and Obama’s Jewish supporters still refuse to criticize him. 4 - Remember those infamous IRS emails from Lois Lerner? The ones that were “deleted.” The ones that sort of “disappeared” from the most technologically advanced country in the world? Even I have my computer backed-up!! These are the emails that showed the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups ? What a coincidence? Only they were deleted.

After months of denial, somehow, someway, they reappeared. Must have been a miracle. 5 - “ I never invite any foreign leader who is running for election.” I would not interfere in their internal politics”. President Barack Obama of course , was referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Three days later, he sent and paid for a team of his campaign workers, lead by Jeremy Bird, his 2012 campaign field director, to assist Netanyahu’s chief opponent in his upcoming election. Come on, all my Jewish brethren, Wake Up !! With a friend like this, who needs enemies? 6 - Mayor Rudi Guiliani was condemned by the White House and every Democrat, after he said that “Obama doesn’t love our country”. For the past 7 years, Tea

Party activists such as myself, were called traitors, right wing extremists, racists, nut-cases, Nazis, anti-Semites, obstructionists, and hating immigrants and poor people by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the New York Times, MSNBC, the Democratic National Commitee, Gov. Howard Dean , Rachel Maddow, Chris Mathews, plus many others. Even Congressman Peter King (R) joined in on the attack. Remember what they said about President Bush, Gov. Sarah Pailin and now Sen. Ted Cruz? I guess that doesn’t count ? Does it ? Wake up America ! Oh, forget about it! Go back to sleep!! Dr. Stephen Morris. DDS North Hills

Obama AWOL from Paris march

n the 2/13/15 edition of the Great Neck News, Mr. Charles Samek give all of his reasons why President stayed away from Paris. How about the reasons he should have gone. The terrorists slaughtered people in a Jewish market signifying their desire to start another Holocaust!

Also, Mr. Samek states that Obama “has to take a middle ground approach.” He’s been doing that since he was a senator when he voted present to most laws that were proposed by the Senate. It’s call ducking the issues. Morton Perlman Great Neck

Jewish-Muslim talk turns into Israel-bashing Continued from Page 53 In 2005, when Jews were expelled from every inch of Gaza, an American Jew bought and gave to Gaza’s Arabs the profitable flower and vegetable greenhouse export industry that Gaza’s Jewish residents had built. This industry could have provided good jobs to thousands of Gazan Arabs. However, instead of continuing or growing this industry, Hamas destroyed the greenhouses. Gaza has a wonderful location. Gaza could be a Paris on the Mediterranean, if its leaders focused on building productive industries that provide gainful employment, instead of focusing on building bombs and rockets and terror

tunnels to murder Jews. I was pleased that these Muslims wanted to debate. We need more of this. Unfortunately, almost no one else was left in the room to hear this discussion - the sort of dialogue that should have taken place in front of the whole audience, throughout the evening. Just before leaving, I approached and was able to speak to Dr. Khan for a minute. I mentioned that his Islamic Medical Association of North America website speaks of the need to help Syrians wounded in the Syrian civil war. I suggested that IMANA should praise Israel’s excellent work helping wounded Syrians. Israel set up field hospitals

near the Syrian border to treat wounded Syrians (many of whom are children). The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) also transports serious cases to and from Israeli hospitals. The Israeli hospitals spent $10 million treating Syrians as of quite a while ago; the figures are far higher now. Even Al Jazeera wrote an article about this. Interestingly, Dr. Khan had never heard of this. He asked me to send him some information, and agreed to take this up with others at IMANA. I then suggested to Dr. Khan that, in light of physicians’ special duty to prevent physical harm, that the IMANA website should also say that Hamas should remove its Gaza

headquarters from Shifa hospital, and that Hamas should stop placing rockets in civilian homes, schools, ambulances and mosques. This would avoid civilian casualties. Dr. Khan abruptly walked away as soon as I said this. The day after the Temple Sinai event, another attendee e-mailed me that he was furious about Dr. Khan’s anti-Israel, antiAmerican propaganda and the absence of any real dialogue. When a synagogue gives a platform to someone who abuses that forum to spout anti-Israel propaganda, in all fairness the synagogue should also put someone else on the dais to correct the false and hypocritical anti-

Israel statements. I hope that Temple Sinai will provide a fair opportunity for me and/or others to speak there to correct the misinformation provided by Dr. Khan, and/or that the synagogue will arrange for a true two-way Muslim-Jewish dialogue or debate on these issues. I left a message at Temple Sinai that I would be interested in participating in such events, but have not heard back yet. I also hope that there will be live Q&A at future events. Liz Berney, Esq. Great Neck ZOA Long Island-Queens Executive Director

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Punish Dems who aovid Netanyahu

resident Obama, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Democratic House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi have had plenty of opportunity to extend an invitation for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. We are living day to day in a time of internal crises between the growing terrorist threats of ISIS, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and Iran on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Republican House Speaker John Behner has extended an invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress. Pelosi’s first public reaction was to say she wasn’t sure if she or other Democratic members of Congress would attend. Within days, Pelosi back pedals and says she will attend but with a caveat. Many other Democratic Congress members may not be able to attend because “Its not a high-priority item for them with all the other important work going on.”

Vice President Joseph Biden says he has a previously scheduled engagement out of town and will not be able to attend. Actions speak louder than words. Israel is our most reliable ally in the Middle East and world today. Now is the time for all elected officials, Democrat or Republican, to stand up and show their support. There is no excuse for not being able to find a hour or two to attend. Let’s see if senators Chuck Schumer,

Kirsten Gillibrand and all members of the New York Congressional delegation vote with their feet and attend. Friends of Israel should remember who showed and who didn’t show up when they stand for reelection in 2016. Any elected official who fails to show is tref to the Jewish community and Israel. They are not worthy of your vote. Larry Penner Great Neck

Racism against Obama thinly veiled

nly a short time ago one was not welcome to use the term racism. With all that has since happened such as police brutality, the subject is back in the news. There is much of the above in Congress these days that is openly against our president and only thinly veiled. Even rude Rudy Giuliana recently stated that President Obama does not love his country. Much of it has to do with his not being swayed by a foreign state and adhering to what he believes is right and best. Being that our president’s remaining time in office is growing shorter by the day and with

so many issues unresolved on the table, there is an uncertainty about the future. Will our next president be wise or one with maniacal ideas? There are many things about how our country functions in this 21st century that need to be overhauled. Not to go into all of them at this time but when (for one) presidential election time comes and if there is not a candidate on the ballot that the voters feel confident about, it could be as an example to vote as follows: 1. Candidate A. 2. Candidate B. 3. Candidate C. 4. None of the above. Should Number 4 receive a majority of the votes, the present

president would remain in office until an election occured that one of the candidates receives the majority. This would give the voting public a remedy to a dilemma. One issue on the table is relations with Cuba. I was still young when Fidel Castro overthrew what I recently heard said was a United States backed dictator. With this in mind it is easy to understand that Cuba will be very cautious about what will be developed. An example is how the stock market shot up when it was said that business relations would be developed. Businesses have no morals,

ethics or principles, etc. One can imagine Cuba’s reaction to being invaded by a horde of businesses and of eventually finding itself as it was before the revolution. Another is Iran. A trusted relationship would be best with Iran knowing that the United States would be on its side and also be able to count on having United States protection. The silent majority of voters in our country know who is against Iran and tends to go berserk under certain circumstances. These silent voters know that what recently happened was slaughter. It was done in the name of destroying tunnels. It would

have been so simple to just have destroyed the exits of whatever tunnels with no invasion or shelling. Another is Putin. I could fill up quite a space with unprintable adjectival descriptions but I can say beast. Putin now has a lot of blood on his hands as do others. The Putin situation is touchy and may not be allowed to escalate. The foregoing are some examples of why the presidential system needs to be overhauled so that we may always be able to elect someone who will make wise decisions. Charles Samek Mineola

Letter-writer seeks to polarize, not unite

eople who engage in dialogue are interested in exploring possibilities of common ground with others of differing perspectives. Polemicists, on the other hand, aim to shut down communication and have no interest in discovering common ground. Liz Berney, purporting to review a dialogue at Roslyn’s Temple Sinai of Jewish and Muslim clergy (“Temple dialogue turns into Israelbashing,” Feb. 20, 2015), is a polemicist, and one tactic of polemicists is to seize on a statement and

then attempt to refute it without addressing its substance. An example: Ms. Berney objects that Dr. Faroque Ahmad Khan, of the Islamic Center of Long Island, “used the term ‘Greater Israel.’” Rather than addressing the term, which has a very specific meaning within the context of Israel’s politics and Zionist history, Ms. Berney attempts to change the subject by stating that “Israel is approximately the size of New Jersey (the 5th smallest state in the U.S.)” In doing so, Ms. Berney hopes to

draw attention away from the history and policy implications of the idea of “Greater Israel.” As executive director of the Zionist Organization of America’s Long Island-Queens region, Ms. Berney surely knows that, in Israeli and Zionist political parlance, “Greater Israel” refers to the territory comprising the State of Israel, as defined by the 1948 armistice lines following Israel’s War of Independence, plus the area west of the Jordan River known as the West Bank, which has been under Israeli military administration since 1967.

that it is likely that John Boehner is acting in a patriotic, not political way. Perhaps we should all avoid the rtietoric and listen to what Mr. Netanyahu has to say.

Organization of America, is either ignorant of ideas in the Zionist movement’s history, or she is being disingenuous when she responds to Dr. Khan’s use of the term “Greater Israel” by offering a comparison of Israel’s square-mileage with that of New Jersey’s. Unless, of course, Ms. Berney and the Zionist Organization of America favor annexation of the West Bank and/or the Sinai peninsula, Jordan, Syria and part of Iraq in order to make “Greater Israel” a reality. In that case, Ms. Berney is wise to talk about New Jersey in order to obfuscate the import of Dr. Khan’s reference to “Greater Israel,” since it is doubtful that many Long Islanders, outside of Ms. Berney’s small circle, believe that the consequences of pursuing “Greater Israel” would be a good policy for Israel, the inhabitants of the West Bank (and possibly Jordan, Syria and Iraq), or for Israel’s major Western ally, the United States.

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Ms. Berney also undoubtedly knows that extension of Israeli sovereignty over “Greater Israel” has long been a plank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. Finally, Ms. Berney is certainly aware that many fervently religiously-observant Israeli Jews have a far more expansive, biblicallyderived definition (Genesis 15:1821) of what constitutes “Greater Israel,” as captured in the slogan “From the Nile [River in Egypt] to the Euphrates [River in Iraq].” In either instance, Ms. Berney, as a representative of the Zionist

Drop rhetoric, listen to Netanyahu

have some questions regarding the recent letter by Mr. Matthew Zeidman. First, l must acknowledge that perhaps Mr. Zeidman is correct in that Netanyahu’s trip will strain relations between Israel and the U.S. However, I am reminded of the

situation that existed before World War II when Neville Chamberlain believed that he could negotiate with Hitler and Hitler would then be satisfied with his advances up to that point. This administration believes in a very similar way that they can negotiate with Iran. It sounds rather

tempting to take that easy way out, but perhaps Mr. Netanyahu wants to point out the folly in that way of thinking. I find that most Democrat politicians of today think first in terms of politics. No doubt that is why Mr. Zeidman cannot conceive of the fact

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Schumer bucks Obama on drug policing money BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O Sen. Charles Schumer is urging the Senate to reject a budget proposal that would cut funding to a law enforcement program that assists in policing regions with a high frequency of drug-trafficking, telling reporters Sunday that more funding is necessary to combat the nation’s growing heroin epidemic. Schumer, a Democrat, said he cannot support President Barack Obama’s $193 million appropriation for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program - also known as HIDTA which marks a $52 million decrease from last year. “President Obama’s budget outlines a lot of critical priorities for this nation, but I simply do not agree with his plan to cut critical drug trafficking funding, as heroin use continues to rise and kill our youth,” he told reporters. Schumer instead said he is pushing for a $100 million increase to the program in the next fiscal year in light of recent media reports suggesting that the use of heroin laced with the Schedule-II opioid Fentanyl, which is known to produce a stronger

high and exacerbate the dangers associated with heroin, has been on the rise. He cited figures from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that said fatal opioid overdoses increased from 8.2 per 100,000 in 2010 to 11.6 per 100,000 in 2013, with the percentage of fatal heroin overdoses more than doubling in that span. “We all saw the horrors caused by the crack epidemic when left unchecked by the feds and other law enforcement, and that’s why I will move to increase HIDTA funding by $100 million in the Senate, not make cuts to this vital program,” Schumer said. New York and New Jersey in 1990 were among the first states to implement a HIDTA program, through which local law enforcement receives federal funding to curb drug trafficking. Today, 17 counties including Nassau and Suffolk - are part of the region’s program. There were 87 fatal heroin and opioid overdoses in Nassau County in 2014, according to county statistics, a decrease from the 159 opioid and heroin-related deaths in 2013.

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Trade deal could cause trouble in U.S.

Continued from Page 47 concerns aside, saying, “I’m the first to admit that past trade deals haven’t always lived up to the hype. And that’s why we’ve successfully gone after countries that break the rules at our workers’ expense. “But that doesn’t mean we should close ourselves off from new opportunities, and sit on the sidelines while other countries write our future for us. We should seize those opportunities. We should make sure the future is written by us. And if we do, we won’t just keep creating good new jobs for decades to come – we’ll make sure that this century is another all-American century.” When I ask for specifics - how exactly, would the US impose our standards and values on the rest of the world without American wages and protections being driven down? - the White House handed me a fact sheet and the USTR pointed me to a February 2014 speech by Ambassador Michael Froman, the Trade Representative: “Our trade policy has evolved substantially from what it was twenty years ago, but many of the criticisms have not. Some of the criticisms I hear of our agenda describe the state of the trade policy in1994, not 2014,” Froman said. “They are criticisms of a trade policy this President has explicitly rejected. “The reality is this: Trade, done right, is part of the solution, not part of the problem. “Through negotiations we are able to create new opportunities. Through enforcement actions we are able to stand up for our rights and fight for our people.” And here’s the essence of how all the good will unfold: “Once these agreements are in place, firms in the U.S. will enjoy unfettered access to markets representing twothirds of the global economy. “That has the potential to make the U.S. the production platform of choice, the place where firms want to make things, not just for this market, but to send all over the world. “In this sense, our trade policy is a major lever for encouraging investment here at home –in manufacturing, agriculture and services – creating more high-paying jobs and combating wage stagnation and income inequality.” Why am I not comforted? As for secrecy and the charge that business interests have a seat at the table, but Congressmen, labor and environmentalists do not, the White House says, “The Obama Administration has taken unprecedented steps to increase transparency and diversify the voices involved in America’s trade policy. Those steps have resulted in more public dialogue and outreach on trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) than on any other free trade

agreements in history”. “That is patently false,” said Patrick Woodall, research director and senior policy advocate for Food & Water Watch, Washington. “The USTR operates a series of trade advisory committees, largely made up of largest transnational corporations- also a labor committee, environmental - but most of the dozens of committees are big business. They have access to the text, to the negotiators, but the rest of America, including Congress, is out of the process.” And this is unusual for Congress not to be able to see the negotiating documents. “ The hurdles that have been set up have made it harder for even our elected officials to witness what is going on, is unusual.” In fact, over 600 corporations have already weighed in on the details of the proposed agreements, while the public has been left out of the conversation, What about the claim that American interests would be protected because of enforcement? “There is no example of the U.S. ever using trade deals to improve the environmental or worker protection standards in other countries,” said Woodall. “The reality is all the trade deals to date, and we expect the TPP, put greater protections for the business sector than for labor or environmental concerns - if you run afoul of business rules on intellectual property or investment, there would be automatic penalties, but if you ran afoul of the ‘window dressing’ - the environmental or worker protections - you wouldn’t be able to apply penalties.” You can look at the frustration the US has had with countries like China that artificially devalue their currency in order to make their exports cheaper, or countries that illegally subsidize their flag carriers so that U.S. airlines can’t compete. And while Froman claims that TPP will open the way for cheaper generic drugs, opponents say TPP would do the opposite: force the higher prices that Americans pay for drugs, based on intellectual property claims, on countries where they are now substantially less money than the US (why seniors were buying their drugs in Canada). As for how the U.S. would enforce labor law (does the agreement quantify a “living wage” or safety standards?) or environmental law, I am referred to Froman’s speech, in which he says opening the markets to US trade will give the US “influence.” “We see TPP as the mechanism most likely to incentivize these countries to make progress in reforming their labor system and upholding worker rights,” Froman stated. But let’s consider the premise of TPP, and what it’s designed to do: level the playing field that will

open the floodgates to US exports. In the first place, those “unfair obstacles” and tariffs they place in front of US companies? Well, the proper response is to return the favor and impose the same regulations and tariffs on those countries and impose tariffs to compensate for the wage differentials, for the lack of worker and environmental protections - that would level the playing field for American producers. Instead, US tax law gives incentives for US companies to offshore jobs and profits - the TPP does nothing to address that. And if 95% of the world’s population is located abroad, so are 95 percent of workers, and 40 percent of the world earns less than $2 a day. I would suggest that American “influence” comes from the US still being (at least for now) the world’s largest economy. It would seem to me that by virtue of our market size, we would be able to enforce our values that way - as the brandname US manufacturers, under pressure from horrified American consumers, did to force Bangladesh to act after a factory collapse killed 1100 people. In fact, the ability to sell abroad is why companies can be so callous about the lack of a living wage here, that otherwise would boost consumer spending - they don’t care if the US economy is robust or not, if Americans can afford their products because, as they said, in Asia, alone, the number of middle class consumers will increase from 550 million to 2.7 billion people by 2030. (How ironic that the US middle class is shrinking). Companies don’t have to produce goods in the U.S. to sell to Asian middle class consumers. As for enforcement, Froman alludes to a case brought against Guatemala, noting this was the first time in history! But isn’t that the point? For more than 200 years, no administration pursued recourse against infractions. What about the day to day misery, danger to workers, and the loss of American jobs to lower-cost regions before “infractions” can be addressed? And what about future Presidents? Would future administrations bother to pursue, or would they simply take campaign contributions, as Congressman Tom DeLay did from the Tan family in the Mariana Islands, so that they could continue to keep workers in near-slave conditions and even force women to have abortions. More likely, the way the TPP is constructed, it will result in enforcement by corporations against citizenry. Lisa Olendorf, from Moveon. org, is also mystified. “I can’t understand why Obama is pushing this so hard. His advisors must have painted a beautiful, rosy picture of America’s economic future. ‘We the

people’ have so much to lose with this agreement, especially with the Investor State tribunals. So much is jeopardized with this agreement-environmental protections, labor protections, any laws we have passed that a foreign corporation deems to have interfered with their right to make a profit, including ‘future potential profit’--and that’s just the little we know about it. “Domestic corporations have and will set up dummy subsidiaries in other countries so they can sue in the U.S. (and vice-versa). It has already happened under NAFTA and WTO. We’ll be paying the corporations for lawsuits with our hardearned dollars while the corporate CEO’s laugh at us from their Caribbean hideaways! Our democracy will be a sham, since any laws we make will be subject to challenge by corporations in foreign tribunals--with no appeal! Working people in other countries will fare much worse, as the U.S. transnational corporations will be fighting for more access to foreign markets for their cheap labor. Global corporations will continue to trample on the people’s rights (as they have under NAFTA, WTO, and smaller agreements) to clean air and water, GMO-free food, a living wage, internet access, affordable medicine, and so much more.” In fact, John Oliver, the political satirist (“Last Week Tonight” on HBO) made this plain in his take-down of Big Tobacco and specifically, Philip Morris International, which has been on a rampage suing whole countries - Australia, Uruguay, Togo - in order to stop the implementation of public health warnings designed to cut down on smoking. Togo, Oliver noted, is one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, with a total GDP of $4 billion, and was threatened by PMI, with $80 billion, with crippling legal actions. Consider for a moment the fact that these are among the poorest people on the planet who are being subjected to an expensive addiction, let alone one that causes all sorts of health problems and premature death, all with attendant costs. Under fear of costly litigation, Togo withdrew the public health regulations. As Oliver showed, Philip Morris of Australia, drawing on a 1973 trade agreement between Australia and Hong Kong, upped and moved its Australia company to Hong Kong, in order to sue. Philip Morris defended its litigiousness saying, “And, like any other company with a responsibility to its business partners, shareholders and employees, we ask only that laws protecting investments, including trademarks, be equally applied to us.” In another example, after Quebec put a moratorium on fracking. The fracking company, Lone Pine sued Quebec for $250 million to

compensate for their lost profits, claiming the moratorium violates its “right to frack” under Canada’s trade agreement. “The worst part is, under trade deals like this, it’s nearly impossible for Quebec to defend its laws. We’d be facing similar assaults on our ability to protect communities from threats like fracking if these new trade deals go through,” said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch. “The TPP and TTIP are a huge threat to American jobs, local fracking bans, food safety rules, GMO labeling laws and renewable energy.” One can easily imagine companies that would otherwise be subject to US law setting up Pacific ownership so they could defy laws (and taxes), and bully localities into submission. I could understand a President Romney pushing for TPP - the guy who shuttered local factories and outsourced thousands of jobs and boasted that of course he avoided paying taxes, because Americans wouldn’t respect a President who didn’t. In fact, McConnell, representing the corporatists in the party, cited the trade agreement as one of two areas (the other is lowering corporate taxes) he felt the Republicans could work with the President. But I still don’t understand why Obama, who, as Senator and as a candidate railed against NAFTA and in every other way has championed worker rights, a living wage, addressing climate change (the fact he doesn’t get any of this is not the point), would engineer this if it would do what we all fear. “I can’t explain the motivation of the White House or the president,” reflected Woodall, of Food & Water Watch. “It certainly runs directly contrary to the things he said during campaign and as senator about the downside of free trade, the problems with fast track, the problems with NAFTA. And rather than promoting a more open, democratic, transparent process, he is upping the ante and pushing one of the biggest deals under the most secret conditions ever. “The reality is, it isn’t a question of Romney or Obama or Bush or Clinton - the people inside the White House drink the free trade Kool Aid and push the same deals that are bad for people, workers, environment, consumer protection, and it’s happening that American people are standing up to this and demanding more transparent trade negotiating regime, i stead of just benefiting big business.” There are many places to get involved - Public Citizen, Moveon. org, Food & Water Watch. One of the sites is stopthetpp.org, organized by the CWA (Communications Workers of America) union. But you can start by contacting your representatives in Congress.

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Great Neck salon not going anywhere Continued from Page 1 5,000 people from Great Neck and beyond by combining excellent customer service and fashion-forward hairstyles. “The customer is everything – we have to meet or exceed the customers’ expectations all the time,” Melchiorre said. “That’s how I approach business, that’s how I trained everybody.” His customers’ appreciation for what De-Al Salon provides was demonstrated, he said, by the response to an article that appeared in the Great Neck News in July reporting that Great Neck Plaza trustees expressed support for a proposal to replace the onestory property occupied by De-Al Salon with a four-story mixed use office building, “It caused a whirlwind of non-stop conversations,” Melchiorre said. He said he received hundreds of calls from customers, concerned he was going to be closing soon. Melchiorre said the concerns were misplaced because it would be years before the proposal would be approved by the Town of North Hempstead and village trustees wanted the landlord of the property to provide the salon with another space because DeAl Salon was seen as important to the business district. Melchiorre said his career began at a salon on Queens Boulevard in 1967, drawn by the creativity afforded the craft as well as business opportunities, he said. He said he soon developed a large clientele in Nassau County and then decided to start his own business to change the perception of the work he was doing. “Back then where was a lot of snob appeal used in the work,” Melchiorre said. “We educated the client. They have money, they can go anywhere – the most important thing is ser-

vice and customer satisfaction.” Customer satisfaction is delicate, Melchiorre said. If you meet or exceed a client’s expectation, they will tell an average of three people. If they have a bad experience, the client will tell an average of 12 people, Melchiorre said. “It took Harvard [University] to figure it out and I already knew it,” he said. “I would need four new clients to make up for just one lost – we place value on everyone who walks through that door.” Melchiorre said he maintains his customer base and keeps his business going by always being fashion-forward. He said it is the other side of his business next to customer service. “You can’t just be nice to everybody and not turn out a good product,” Melchiorre said. “It’s just a sense that you have to remain fashion forward.” Melchiorre said he has gone to fashion shows in Europe and in Manhattan to see what clothing designers are doing. He said the hair will typically follow what style of the clothes are. If you can recognize the clothing style, you can see where the hair will go, he said. Years ago, Melchiorre said, shaggy hair was very popular, leading into the wedge hairstyle. He said this is very different from today, where long hair is much more acceptable, and short bobs and short haircuts in general have become popular again. Melchiorre said this has been historically the case. “When Japanese designers became very big, they were very architectural in a way,” Melchiorre said of the 1980s trend. “The shoulders were squared, the pants were tight around the ankles. Everything went into a bob or it was asymmetrical – very straight and clean.” He said his high standards have helped him attract a tal-

De-Al Salon will continue to operate, serving nearly 5,000 clients from Great Neck and beyond. ented staff. Frank D’Amico, who has been with De-Al for 35 years, said he loves what he does and has a great rapport with his clients. D’Amico said when he is working at the salon, his schedule is always booked solid. “With all the competition that has come in the area, we love it,” D’Amico said. “The competition makes us stand out.” D’Amico said the three things he believes in that keep him going are creativity, consistency and professionalism. “That’s what works for me and what works for De-Al being here for so long,” he said. Scott Taylor, who has been a stylist at De-Al for 24 years, said many of his clients from salons he has worked at in the past have followed him to De-Al. Taylor said some of his clients come from as far as Manhattan, Westchester County and even Connecticut. “The relationships have built over the years,” Taylor said. “It’s the level of professionalism we

have.” Taylor said the relationship with his clients is a two-way street - if they’re looking to make a change, he will advise them according to their facial shape and hair type. Taylor said the level of training and education he and his colleagues have separate them from stylists at other salons. He said some stylists tend to think they are above being taught anything. Years ago, Taylor said, some of the stylists at De-Al left to start their own salons, before their education was complete. “One by one the clients that followed them came back to us,” he said. “Those of us who have been here forever, we take our education very seriously. The day you stop learning is the day you stop growing.” Taylor said De-Al is like his home. “I know the caliber of operators I work with, I know the caliber of the salon,” Taylor said. “I never wanted to my own sa-

lon, I just wanted to work for a very successful salon. I’m an artist, not a businessman -- Dean is great businessman.” Melchiorre said he also has his own hair product line – manufactured in Canada -- and a salon in Wichita, Kan. All the products are shipped out of Wichita because of the area’s proximity to all the major American cities. Looking to the future, Melchiorre said he will continue to operate his salon and is also working hard to market his products in China. But even though he has thousands of clients, he doesn’t want to move to Manhattan. Melchiorre said much of the work the salon does includes corrective coloring – fixing bad dye jobs all day. “I don’t like Manhattan,” he said. “People think if you’re in Manhattan you’re something but that doesn’t hold any water any more.”

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“Our goal is to get the cost of this as low as possible,” he said. “We do not want to be in a position to come back here three-quarters of the way through.” In other developments: • The council tabled a vote on whether to approve a specialuse permit for the installation of underground storage tanks and an overhead canopy at a gas station located at 80 Horace Harding Blvd. in Great Neck. Town Councilwoman Lee Seeman (D-Great Neck) said the applicant could not attend Tuesday’s meeting due to an illness in the family and requested the ongoing public hearing be postponed. Seeman said she planned to hold a public meeting within the Great Neck community within the next month, as residents have opposed the project. The application centers around the gas station meeting state requirements to sell diesel fuel, which it did in the early 2000s and removed from its premises to partially convert the station into an automobile repair shop. The council agreed to reschedule the hearing for March 31. • The council also approved a special-use permit for the removal of an automobile repair bay from a shop at the Mobil station at 120 Northern Blvd. in Greenvale and installation of a 750-square-foot convenience store on site. Larry O’Brien, the applicant’s engineer from the Lynbrook firm High Point Engineering, submitted a site plan and corresponding photographs of the property. He said the construction would not bother residents in the area because the station is surrounded by commercial properties on all sides. The convenience store, he said, would sell coffee, tea and prepackaged foods, among other products. 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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Help Wanted AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN here Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician training. Financial aid for qualified studentsHousing available. Job placement assistance, Call AIM 866-296-7093 MARKETING DEMONSTRATOR PART TIME Talk with homeowners at various venues about their kitchen remodeling needs. No experience necessary. Will train on products and services. Competitive hourly + unlimited bonuses. Reliable transportation needed. Email resumes@kitchenmagic. com or call 631-240-4151 MOBILE ADVERTISING OFFICERS Needed. Drive with an ad and earn $300 weekly. We place ad on your vehicle for free and you earn $300 weekly when you drive your vehicle to your normal routine places. Contact: conceptcarwrap@gmail.com or text “Name and Email address” to 267888-5244 to apply 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 OFFICE ASSISTANT: Part time 20-30 hours per week, computer skills needed. Office experience a must. Williston Park. Call 917-821-5435

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HHA CERTIFIED Seeking live in position Mon-Fri to care for elderly. Honest, reliable. 27 yrs experience. References available. Contact: 347-777-3635

HOUSECLEANING Young Ukranian woman seeking cleaning/ housekeeping jobs. Years of experience. References available. Call 516-567-5003

HOME HEALTH AIDE Certified, hardworking reliable mature woman with 15 years experience seeking full time live out position as companion. References available upon request. Please call 347-613-7623

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ELDER CARE GIVER seeking live in or live out job. Flexible hours. Excellent references. 10 yrs experience. Call Maria: 516-732-2189 ELDER CARE: CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AIDE Nice, loving, caring and sharing home health aide looking for work to take care of the elderly. Live in. Experience and references. Please call Orlene 201-932-4152 ERRAND GIRL SERVICE offering pick-up, drop off service for groceries, laundry, dry cleaning, pharmacy, etc. Tidy service, etc. Light cleaning, in-home meal planning and preparation. 516-902-5624 F/T COMPANION AVAILABLELooking 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

Agency seeks experienced workers who love working with the elderly. Part time and Full time hours available. Must have clean driver's license.

SITTER NEEDED Wednesdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. as well as additional part time hours. Must have own transportation and clean driving record. Please email me your experience with references if interested at gcbabysitter@gmail.com TELEMARKETING / SALES POSITION P/T for Setauket based community newspaper group. Enthusiasm and telephone work required. Experience helpful. No nights or weekends. Please email resume: class@tbrnewspapers.com

18 YRS. OF SERVICE in your area Please let us continue to serve you Companions, Home Health Aides/ Elder Care Nights, Days Child Care and Housekeeping Live In or Live Out Laborers, Housekeepers No Fee to Employers Evons Employment & Services 516-505-5510

ELDER CARE / HOME CARE Mature woman w/ experience and excellent references seeking position to take care of the elderly or ailing. Light cleaning, cooking also. Flexible days. Has own car. Local excellent references available. Please call Luisa 516-485-9215 or 516-451-1781. Leave message.

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PT AFTER SCHOOL NANNY needed. Looking for responsible, energetic and caring sitter to care for my two children in GC from 2:30-6:30 M-F. Must have excellent references and driving record. Please email nyc212mom@yahoo.com

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HOME HEALTH AIDE/ NEWBORN CARE Kind, compassionate HHA seeking FT/PT position on weekdays, weekends or overnight. 25+ years experience. References available. Call Liz 516-590-5338 HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANER with many years experience and good references available 7 days with flexible hours. 516-632-0169, 516-499-1384 HOUSE CLEANER AVAILABLE Good references. MondaySaturday. Experienced. Own car. Will provide own supplies. Free estimates. 516-485-3543, cell 516-661-5282 HOUSE CLEANING AVAILABLE Many years experience and good recommendations. Own car. Responsible and trustworthy. If interested, please call Marili anytime or leave message: 516-782-4162

NURSING ASSISTANT Seeking position full time, live out as a companion, care taker for the elderly or infants. 10 years experience. Driver w/ car. Call 347-357-8216 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

Business Opportunities WELDING CAREERS : Hands on training for career opportunities in aviation, automotive, manufacturing and more. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. CALL AIM 888-205-1735

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The ideal candidate is professional with an upbeat attitude, loves working in the Dental field and has an “I CAN” attitude. We are looking for a dedicated long term employee who will bring a strong positive personality to our practice to maintain existing patients and to help increase our new patient base too. • Do you have an upbeat telephone voice? • Do you meet challenges with enthusiasm and passion? YOU MUST HAVE AT LEAST TWO YEARS OF DENTAL FRONT OFFICE AND FINANCIAL/INSURANCE EXPERIENCE. You should be self motivated, patient oriented, computer and dental software literate and have strong communication skills. This position involves working on Saturdays from September through June and comes with a good starting salary and benefits. This job encompasses the following responsibilities: Filing and following up on Dental insurance claims, accepting payments, scheduling appointments and more.

To apply for this position you must e-mail your resume along with a cover letter to passesdental.marji@gmail.com Please include the following: 1. Explain why this position appeals to you. 2. Explain what you feel your special qualifications are. Be specific about your talents, experience or skills and what makes you uniquely qualified for this position. In other words, why should you be selected for an interview over all the other qualified candidates? 3. Include your salary requirements. 4. Include all your contact information and when is the best time to reach you should you be selected for an interview. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

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Novenas/Prayers PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published. Grateful thanks. (L.B.) PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit thou who made me see everything and showed me the way to reach my ideals. Thou who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me, and thou who art in all instances of my life with me. I thank thee for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great material desire may be, I want to be with thee and my loved ones in Your perpetual glory. Thank You for your love towards me and my loved ones. Pray this prayer for 3 consecutive days. After 3rd day your wish will be granted no matter how difficult it may be. Promise to publish this dialogue as soon as your favor has been granted. (L.B.)

marketplace FURNITURE FOR SALE GARDEN CITY Dark double dresser and matching night table ($400), Beige chenille sofa ($400) matching LazyBoy recliner ($200), 2 striped club chairs ($250), Pro-Form treadmill, pilates reformer. Excellent condition. Negotiable. 516-742-0725 MOVING SALE GARDEN CITY March 7 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 161 Rockaway Ave Brand new couches, entertainment center, kitchen sets, desk, end tables, coffee table, hall tree, large screen TVs, writing desk, collectibles and much more!

Auctions CHEMUNG COUNTY REAL PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES100+ properties March 25 @ 11a.m. Holiday Inn, Elmira, NY 800-243-0061 HAR, Inc. & AAR, Inc. Free brochure: www.NYSAUCTIONS.com

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 LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 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 AUCTIONS, TAG SALES & CONSIGNMENTS 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 YOU’RE INVITED! Tuesday, March 3 9:30am 203 Wellington Rd Garden City, NY 11530 Many collectibles, Many collectibles, books, tools, furniture, jewelry, artwork, exercise equipment, upright Baldwin piano, large flat screen TV, glassware, housewares, the entire house!......Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

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

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Apartment For Rent FLORAL PARK VILLAGE First floor, 5 rooms. Includes kitchen (dishwasher), FD, office, 2 bedrooms, use of basement w/ washer /dryer hookup. Use of yard & 2 parking spaces. SD#22. $1,950 month + utilities. Call Rose, Ford Realty 516-655-7501 MANHASSET: STUDIO apartment, 2nd floor, separate kitchen and bath, deck, off street parking. 2 blocks to LIRR, no smoking/pets. $1,395 plus utilities. 516-627-9254

Homes for Rent FRANKLIN SQUARE Bordering Garden City. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, patio, washer/dryer, CAC, walk to LIRR, no smoking. $2,650 + utilities. 1 month security. Call 516-382-7905

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Homes for Sale GARDEN CITY TUDOR Mid block. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. CAC, fireplace. Walk to park and railroad. $959,000. NO BROKERS PLEASE. Call 516-382-1850

Out Of Town Real Estate SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA Beautiful 55+ manufactured home community. 4.4 miles to the beach, 2 miles to the riverfront district. Homes starting at $39,000. 772-581-0080, www.beach-cove.com.

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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

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▼ LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF NOMINATIONS FOR VILLAGE ELECTION VILLAGE OF THOMASTON NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the general election of the Village of Thomaston will be held on Wednesday March 18, 2015, at the Thomaston Village Hall, 100 East Shore Road, Thomaston, New York. Polls will open at noon, and remain open continuously thereafter until 9 PM, at which time they will close. The offices and terms to be filled at such election are as follows: One (1) Mayor, for a term of two (2) years Two (2) Trustees, for terms of two (2) years each The following are the names and addresses of the persons who have been duly nominated in accordance with the provisions of the Election Law: For Mayor: Steven Weinberg, 13 Windsor Road, Thomaston NY For Trustee (2 years): G a r y Noren, 13 Grace Court North, Thomaston NY Jill S. Monoson, 11 Grace Court North, Thomaston NY BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Barbara J. Daniels, Village Administrator GNN 141123 1x 2/27/2 015 #141123

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: 714 Seneca Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed by the Department of State of New York on: 09/24/2014. Office loc: County of Nassau. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a

copy of process to: c/o BRG Management LLC, 150 Great Neck Road, Suite 402, Great Neck, NY 11201 GNN 140998 6x 1/23, 30, 2/06, 13, 20, 27, 2015 #140998 Notice of Formation of 260 Court LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Great Neck Road, Ste. 408, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity. GNN 141063 6x 2/06, 13, 20, 27, 3/06, 13 #141063

Notice of Formation of LINEA USA CONTRACT EUROPEAN KITCHEN & CABINETRY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/2015.Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 5 Clent Rd #3-0, Great Neck NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful purpose. GNN 141075 6x 2/13, 20, 27, 3/06, 13, 20, 2015 #141075 Notice of Formation of KBZ Developers LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/11/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 103 Cedar Drive, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity. GNN 141124 6x 2/27, 3/06, 13, 20, 27, 4/03, 2015 #141124

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County OKs Bass for planning commission along partisan lines Continued from Page 1 which put the commission in violation of a county charter rule that requires one of its commissioners to be from the Town of North Hempstead. Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages (D-Elmont) attempted to ask Bass about the billboards, but Bass was cut off by Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow), according to the Newsday. Gonsalves said the issue of the billboards was not pertinent since it had not come before the Legislature. “Thank you for running the government in secrecy,” Solages reportedly responded. Bass was a Democrat when he was first elected as a Village of Great Neck trustee in 2009, after having served on the Village of Great Neck Planning Board for two years, and on the Zoning Board of Appeals for five years. He switched parties in 2010 when he unsuccessfully ran for the town receiver of taxes as a Republican. Bass also unsuccessfully ran for a town council seat in 2011 against current Councilwoman

Jeff Bass Anna Kaplan. During the campaign, Bass said that Kaplan falsely stated she had been endorsed by incumbent Town Councilwoman Maria-Christina Poons and Village of Great Neck Mayor Ralph Kreitzman. Bass, who said he plans to continue to serve as a Village of Great Neck trustee, began his career as a transportation planner in New Jersey during the early 1970s. He returned to New York and became

the first district manager appointed by Community Board 11 in Queens where he supervised the delivery of municipal services to the area. He then worked in the Ed Koch administration as the director of the Bureau of Management Analysis in the Department of Sanitation. He is the chairman emeritis of the Long Island Capital Alliance, a member of the Manhasset Bay Protection Committee and on the Board of Governors for the American Jewish Committee. During the Legislature’s meeting, Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) said lawmakers had concerns about Meli’s judicial temperament. Newsday reported that Meli responded by saying he didn’t need any more “lectures” from her. Deputy Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) reportedly added that DeRiggi-Whitton was using innuendo in her comments. Meli works in the county attorney’s office and has ran unsuccessfully for Glen Cove mayor twice.

G.N. resident tries to heal others through laughter yoga program Continued from Page 3 free,” she said. “I do it because I love to laugh.” Blum said that during a good session 20 people will be in attendance, but that on bad weather days membership can be as small as four. The sessions are promoted on meetup.com and by word of mouth. Blum said she gives out brochures to those attending her yoga classes that gauge their happiness on a scale between one and seven both before and after sessions. She said the students don’t have to put their names on them, but she can usually tell by the handwriting

who they belong to. She said most of the brochures always have higher numbers after sessions. Blum said she will do anything to make people laugh. “If they’re sitting there, and you do something to get them to smile, you can get them to move,” she said. Besides her weekly free sessions, Blum also works with dementia patients at the Highfield Gardens of Great Neck. Blum said she tries make physical contact and eye contact with the patients. She said this, along with trying

to get them to laugh, helps them feel better. Blum also said she works with North Shore-LIJ nurses as well. She said if she can get the nurses in a good mood, they will be more likely to bring a smile to the face of one of their patients. “If they’re feeling good, they’ll come to their patients with a smile on their face,” she said. Blum said because of laughter yoga, she finds it very easy to walk around and smile all day. “When somebody is made it takes up a lot of energy,” she said. “If you keep that up, it is not healthy.”

Sports

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G N S K AT E R S FINISH FIRST AT C L A S S I C The Great Neck Park District Synchronized Skating Team, The Icettes, came in first place at the 21st Annual Connecticut Synchronized Skating Classic. The event was held at the Northford Ice Pavilion in Northford, Connecticut on Sunday, Feb. 15. All three Great Neck Park District synchronized skate teams competed. The Icicles came in third place in their division and the Ice Pops came in second place. Pictured from left: Skating 21st Annual Ct. Synchro Skating Classic Icettes: (From left) Sabrina Namigohar, Emma Scher, Anushka Gupta, Sienna Abecassis, Meghan Barr, Jordana Tan, Audrey Barr and Deanna Watins.

Smith sets new three-point mark for Mariners The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy men’s basketball team defeated the Gophers from Goucher College, 73-66, Saturday at O’Hara Hall in the 2014-15 season finale. The Mariners finish with a 9-16 record, including a 6-10 mark in Landmark

Conference action, while Goucher falls to 4-21 (3-13 Landmark). Junior David Smith came into Saturday’s game just four three-pointers shy of the single-season Academy record of 83 set by former Mariner Pat Grace back in the 2006-07 season. Smith went on to

nail six threes against the Gophers to set a new mark of 85 made in a season. Smith broke the record at 8:53 of the second half. The mark also ranks third in Landmark Conference history, just one behind second place and 14 behind first-ranked Brian Scholly of Juniata, who

Seniors Sara Ellenberger and Demi VanDerWal were honored before the team’s final season game Saturday.

drained 99 three-pointers back in 201213. Smith ended up matching the gamehigh of 20 points for his team-leading ninth 20-point performance of the season. Sophomore Matt Miller registered 18 points and junior Preston Padgett scored 16 points and led all players with eight rebounds. Sophomore Hunter Jones dished out a career-high eight assists. Juniors Andrew Williams and Scott Dennin contributed eight and six points, respectively, while freshman Robbie Kennedy added five. Prior to Saturday’s season-finale against visiting Goucher, the USMMA women’s basketball team paid tribute to its two graduating seniors Sara Ellenberger and Demi VanDerWal with a special Senior Day Ceremony. On the court, the Mariners lost to the Gophers by the final score of 76-72. Merchant Marine ends the 2014-15 campaign with a 6-19 record, including a 2-14 mark in Landmark action, while Goucher improved to 5-19 (1-15 Landmark). VanDerWal led all players in the game with 26 points and also brought down a season-high nine rebounds. She also recorded a team-high four assists and three steals. Sophomore Julie Mall contributed 12 points and freshman Tichina Carmon registered her team-best sixth double-double of the season with 10 points and a gamehigh 11 boards.

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