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June 19, 2015 BLANK SLATE MEDIA • PHOTO CREDIT: JEFF HOLTZMAN
Artist Frances Ianarella with
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her winning painging “Pussy
Willows in a Ginger Jar.”
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at The Art Guild is located League, of in- terclub Platform Tennis Neville ar- Nassau County’s Elderfields PreNeville an artist, watercolor which she is also a part, Washington Blvd., was awarded to took while Third Place to be the serve, 200 Port and former board member, Artist Frances Ianarella for her oil paint- structor the Terri Shkuda Award ranged for The Art Guild For more information Washing- Annette Priomos was given proceeds from this Manhasset. (516) 304.5797 or visit home first prize and Port call Pursuits, recipient of the received a ing, ”Recycled.“ for Broadening Creative awards and fund- please Gallery ton’s Eileen Shea Neville Kreutz is an award-winning which is presented at the Guild‘s year’s annual She also teaches www.TheArtGuild.org. of The and Sundays of the classic special recognition as part Exhibit to the raiser luncheon. Up) hours are Saturdays Show- painter and author Solving for Annual Membershipepitomizes the Watercolor (Intermediate and Art Guild’s 2015 Members from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment. who best featur- artist’s guide, “Problem The Art Guild on Wednesday case Exhibition. The exhibit, After graduating from person of the organization’s at mediums, Oil Painters.” mornings. his training as a four principles ing a variety of styles and and NYU, he pursued statement: Encouragement, showcases 54 member artists Art Students League mission and ExhibiSunday, painter at the schol- Education, Exploration will be on view through of New York, winning a merit Ma- tion. with Frank June 28. the arship. He studied Neville is an eager and enthusiand most Artist Gregg Kreutz was son, Robert Beverly Hale ambassador for The Art Guild juror-of-awards for this exhibition. David Leffel. Kreutz astic volunteers her time difficult to significantly, and painting at who generously out our mission to Commenting that it was an out- teaches drawing carrying League as well as while choose a winner from such encourage people to that he is the Art Students the country educate and standing group, he said a strong workshops throughout broaden their creative pursuits. inspired by paintings with world. or a lot and around the This spring, she volunteered to sense of light and shadow liaison for the Honorable Mentions went in a pastel to be The Art Guild’s Hungry proof paint on the canvas executed Diane Kaufmann for her for the John Pu- Plant-A-Row free-spirited way. to painting, “Idyllic Crete,” “A Still gram, organizing flower pot-paintFirst Place was awarded painting, while designing and “Pussy linat for his oil the Terri Shkuda Award ,” and Pam ing sessions Ianarella for her oil painting Hurricane the with Life Eileen Shea Neville received HERBST many of them herself. Second PHOTO CREDIT: SUSAN painting, “Late Af- painting Willows in a Ginger Jar.” InVigno- Tarica for her oil Through the Long Island Place was awarded to Margo ternoon.” la for her oil painting, “Patagonia,”
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iDA says job growth data was wrong
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Economic development agency to submit revised numbers: chief By B I ll saN aNToNIo The head of Nassau County’s Industrial Development Agency on Tuesday said he plans to resubmit job growth data from 2013 to the state comptroller’s office, citing inaccuracies in figures published in a statewide audit last month. “When I do have it, I will submit it to the state comptroller,” said Joseph Kearney, the Nassau IDA’s executive director. “I don’t have any more to say about this. There’s nothing more to be said about this.” According to the state comptroller’s May 18 report, the Nassau IDA in 2013 netted fewer jobs (1,835) than agencies in neighboring Suffolk (14,080) and Westchester (7,982) counties, despite granting more ($43,325,571) in net tax exemptions — tax exemptions minus payments in lieu of taxes — on its 278 projects. In an interview with Newsday
last week, Kearney argued the Nassau IDA’s statistics that year were an “anomaly” due to a filing error in which he said 6,000 jobs the agency was credited with creating or retaining were removed from a ledger. He told Blank Slate Media Tuesday that some of the data, which the state’s 109 industrial development agencies self-report to Albany, may have also been mishandled by the state comptroller’s office in compiling the report. “What happens when [the data] gets up there, I don’t know,” Kearney said. “If there were inaccuracies to the data, they will be corrected.” When asked whether he thought data the IDA submitted to Albany for the state comptroller’s office’s 2013 report was inaccurate, Kearney replied: “I wouldn’t be resubmitting things if I didn’t think there were inaccuracies, would I?” Continued on Page 49
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Supporters of transgender rights rallied outside the Nassau County legislative building in Mineola Sunday to call for changes to the county’s human rights laws. See story on page 3.
Herricks looks east to pick high school principal By Ja m Es G a l l o W ay
School, the district’s Board of Education announced Wednesday. Thompson, who received Farmingdale assistant principal Samuel Thompson will a doctorate in education from succeed Jane Modoono as the St. John’s University in 2014, next principal of Herricks High has served since 2007 as an
assistant principal for Farmingdale High School, a position at which he was responsible for developing the school’s master schedule and collaborating on teacher evaluations. Thompson Continued on Page 49
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