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G.N. South teachers get top rankings

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No. 1 in state, No. 2 in nation says education ratings provider B y J ustine S choenba r t One North Shore high school’s teachers were named in the top five in both New York and the nation in new rankings from the education ratings provider Niche.com, the former CollegeProwler service.

Great Neck South’s educators topped the state rankings and were No. 2 nationally, while several other schools made the state’s top 100.

Roslyn High School and Herricks High School’s teachers made the top 10, coming in sixth and ninth in New York, respectively, while The Wheatley School (No. 13), Floral Park Memorial High School (No. 18), Garden City High School (No. 29), North Shore Senior High School (No. 30), Paul D. Schreiber High School (No. 57), Sewanhaka High School (No. 71), and New

Hyde Park Memorial High School (No. 82) were also represented.

“The Niche list is a true testament to our teachers’ dedication, and I am pleased to extend sincere congratulations to all of them,” Herricks School Superintendent Fino Celano said in a statement. “As indicated by the excellent survey feedback that the ranking system took into account, Herricks High School provides a thriving learning environment where students and staff alike are committed to teaching and learning.”

In an explanation of the rankings, based on 5,886 public high schools, Niche.com officials wrote that high-ranking teachers generally have “students [that] are very happy with the instruction they receive, and educational outcomes reflect the quality of instruction, the school is invested in its teachers and provides a Continued on Page 42

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L. Success board chair, trustees pan club operator C athe r ine T eevan

asked village trustees to do something about the food and service at Village Club’s Grill Village of Lake Success Room at Lake Success Bernstein, who said she Board of Appeals Chairperson Carol Bernstein had an appeal was serving as spokesman for of her own Monday when she unhappy friends and neighbors

seeking to improve the Village Club’s food and services, sharply criticized CulinArt, the vendor hired by the village to operate the Grill Room.

Some members call the Continued on Page 42

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Firefighter celebrates Plaza trustees 50 years on job eye parking plan Family has long history with Manhasset-Lakeville FD

Get specific on hours, rates

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

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Photographs.

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Preston Hicks Sr. and his wife Diane have begun compiling them into scrapbooks, documenting the family’s long ties to the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department.

“I’ve got so much of this stuff that I don’t know what to do with it,” said Hicks Sr., a longtime Great Neck resident and 50-year volunteer firefighter who now lives in Westbury. “It’s all over the house.”

The history is extensive, so extensive it spans 30 members of the Hicks family that have put on the Manhasset-Lakeville uniform in the last 100 years.

There was Preston’s father, William Hicks, and his uncles, Walter and Robert Hicks and exChief John Paradise, who chased call after call, fire alarm after fire alarm.

Then there were his brothers, ex-Chief Neil Hicks, ex-Captain Pat Hicks and James Hicks, and his cousins, ex-chief Ken Paradise and ex-Captain Wayne Paradise.

Preston joined the volunteer department on April 9, 1965, at 18 years old, two years before he’d be drafted into the Army and sent to Augsburg, Germany with the 533rd Transportation Company.

“It was always in our blood,” he said. “We were brought up at the firehouse.”

The firehouse was Company 3 in Great Neck, where Preston served as president from 198082 and can still be found four days a week, readying trucks and equipment for the day ahead and organizes records for the department’s historical society.

“It keeps me busy,” said Preston, who retired in 2013 after 37

Great Neck Plaza trustees discussed various proposals on Wednesday to amend the village’s parking regulations, including an increase in lot rates from 25 cents per hour to 25 cents per half hour and a twohour reduction in the time one can park in garages.

Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said the village board has had various meetings with its consultants as well as public meetings to take in comments from merchants and residents in the Plaza, but Wednesday night was the first time the board sat with the proposed legislation in front of them.

“We’re doing all of this with the intent of trying to create more turnover in our lots and on the streets, because one of the major findings of a study we had done was that many areas of the village are not serving as many patrons as these spots could if the proper turnover was happening,” Celender said.

Trustees said decreasing the time on meters, despite main-

Manhasset-Lakeville ex-Fire Chief Preston Hicks Sr. (left) and his brother, Neil Hicks, the first set of brothers in department history to achieve 50 years of service. years in construction. “It’s all I’ve ever really known.”

Preston was honored twice this year for longtime service to the department, first with the American Legion Post 304’s “Firefighter of the Year” award and again last month by state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola).

It marked the first time in department history that two brothers amassed 50 years with Manhasset-Lakeville. Neil’s 50th anniversary was in 2012.

“I love all the friendships I have made throughout my 50 years and seeing the faces of people I have met throughout my time,” Preston said at the time. “Everywhere I go, I see familiar faces because of the department.”

The ladies in Preston’s life

taining its offer of five free minutes at the end of a metered period, would increase turnover for spaces, though Celender said she was concerned it could also create scenarios where motorists would have to keep feeding quarters.

“When I write about friendly parking in the Plaza, I encourage people to put in that extra quarter because you may not get out in time,” she said. “You don’t want to get caught with not enough money in the meter. But that’s going to happen irrespective of this rate change.”

Other changes would include changing the existing four-hour parking maximum to a two-hour parking maximum in the municipal garages at Plaza Centre on Gussack Plaza and Maple Drive, with the exception of 20 spots in the Plaza Centre garage, which will continue to remain as fourhour spots.

Parking in these garages, which is currently free after 3 p.m., would change to be free after 6 p.m., matching current policies with street parking meters in the Plaza.

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were involved, too.

His sister, Teresa Hicks, and sister-in-law Barbara, wife to Hicks’ brother William, also helped form the department’s paramedics unit, which later became its ambulatory unit.

For six years after they were married in 1970, Preston’s wife Diane was a member of Company 3’s auxiliary, the paramedics’ precursor.

“There was one night when I was two-and-a-half months pregnant, and it was so cold the water would shoot out their hoses and get frozen. Here we are in the middle of the night, handing out hot chocolate or coffee, whatever the guys needed,” Diane said. “You just did things like that.”

Continued on Page 42 Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender

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Call for Alzhheimer’s research bond Rep. Steve Israel backs state legislators plan for referendum on $1 billion proposal

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

State lawmakers said Tuesday they have the support in the Assembly and Senate to reintroduce legislation for a $1 billion referendum for neuroscience research that if passed would be placed on the 2016 election ballot.

During a news conference at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset featuring the bill’s sponsors, state Assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) and state Sen. David Carlucci (D-Clarkstown), officials said the referendum would make New York a national leader toward the creation of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

“They call New York ‘the Empire State’ because we’re known for doing things that people said could never be done,” Carlucci said. “...If we can build the Erie Canal, we can find a cure for Alzheimer’s.”

Approximately 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control, a figure that is expected

State Assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) addresses a news conference at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research on Tuesday flanked by U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), left, and state Sen. David Carlucci (D-Clarkstown), right, who is sponsoring a bill with Lavine to set a $1 billion referendum toward neuroscience research. to spike to 16 million by 2050. It is the sixth leading cause of death in America.

Lavine, who first introduced the bill in 2014, said the referendum would present a “rare and unique opportunity for New York to take the lead on this issue.”

“Not only do we have millions of people suffering from this today in our nation, but we have

so many millions more in families and caregivers making sure each day and each night that their loved ones are as comfortable as possible,” Lavine said. “Surely, we can do better.”

The legislation calls for $100 million to be utilized each year over a 10-year period toward Alzheimer’s research, at a $7 per year cost to taxpayers.

Though the federal government spends about $226 billion each year on the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, annual costs are expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2050.

About $600 million is allocated for Alzheimer’s research each year by the federal government.

“If California can be the stemcell research capital of America,

and Texas can be the cancer research capital of America, and Kentucky can be the spinal cord research capital of America, then New York can be the neuroscience research capital of America,” said U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (DHuntington), who announced his support for the referendum, citing other states who have set referendums or used a portion of funds incurred from traffic violations toward research.

Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, president of the Feinstein Institute, said the North Shore-LIJ Health System has approximately 800 researchers working in more than 50 labs toward medical advancements.

“When it’s done right, it benefits everybody and it changes the world,” he said.

Local caregiver organizations, including the Port Washingtonbased Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation, also expressed support of the proposal Tuesday.

“We don’t want to just be there every step of the way,” said Tori Cohen, the foundation’s president.

“We want to be at the finish line with you when you find a cure.”

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Drainage concerns delay Forest Row plan B y J ustine S choenba r t Village of Great Neck Board of Zoning Appeals Chairman Dennis Grossman said Thursday that an application for the conversion of two Forest Row properties into nine single-family lots would not move forward until the applicant has completed the proper drainage system tests around the property.

“Without the proper drainage information, this is not going any further,” Grossman said.

His comments came during a continued hearing for Forest Glen LLC, which is seeking two building variances for 4345 Forest Row and 47 Forest Row, during which residents opposed how the firm has handled application changes requested by the board.

Among the primary source of complaints was a series of tests to the drainage systems of the two sites, which are located at different points of elevation.

Residents alleged Forest Glen LLC had only tested the southern portion of the site, and not also the northern part, prior to Thursday’s meeting.

“My home, as well as a couple other homes of people who are here tonight, is on the lower end of that street. We’re at the water table that is affected by this,” said Forest Row resident Eyal Akler, who lives north of the proposed devel-

Village of Great Neck Board of Zoning Appeals Chairman Dennis Grossman opment. “What’s going on on the Kings Point south side of this is not necessarily what’s going to affect us.”

Grossman replied that he has asked the village engineer to supervise and witness these tests to ensure that all areas affected in the village will be covered.

Paul Bloom, the attorney for the ap-

plicant, said his client is in the process of obtaining additional drainage borings and percolations for the site to confirm that the drainage system designed will be capable of conforming with the village’s requirements.

“The goal of this was not only to do this project but to alleviate the issues in the area if they are pouring off of this

property,” Grossman said to Bloom.

“Maybe you’ll do some extra things to make sure this alleviates any issues on surrounding properties that may be going around from this property.”

Though Akler also opposed a request for parking on both sides of the street — which Bloom noted is not uncommon for village roadways — Bloom said the board would not consider the proposal until drainage issues are alleviated.

“If you can’t satisfy drainage, parking is not a relevant issue,” he said.

Resident Jean Pierce of Arrandale Avenue expressed frustration about the lack of notice provided to residents of the area regarding the zoning hearing.

She said Bloom previously said that renters in the area did not need to receive notification of the meeting because they are not homeowners.

“I think Mr. Bloom’s client should have the common decency to let those residents know,” she said. “They shouldn’t have to hear about it at Parkwood Pool.”

Village Attorney Ken Gray said that the applicant is only required to notify homeowners, but the applicant is allowed to send out additional notices to be considerate to the other residents.

“This is our neighborhood, and these people live and work in our community and should be respected too,” Pierce said.

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NY senators split on Iran nuclear plan Schumer joins Rep. Israel in announcing opposition, Gillibrand backs agreement

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO New York lawmakers Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Albany), Charles Schumer (D-Brooklyn) and Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) have offered contrasting opinions of a tentative seven-nation agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities in exchange for relaxing oil and financial sanctions against Tehran.

Gillibrand on Thursday offered support for the deal in a piece for Medium.com, while Schumer used the same website to voice opposition a day later, joining Israel, who in a statement said he is concerned the deal would only prolong Iran’s rise as a nuclear power, that it would exploit ambiguities in the agreement and promote terrorism.

“This is one of the most important foreign policy decisions I’ve had to make in Congress and after weighing all the details of this deal, I believe it is not as bad as some have said, but given my remaining concerns I simply cannot support it,” Israel concluded.

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sidered imperfections in the inspection process, and raised concerns that, with its frozen assets freed up, Iran would have a more favorable position from which to expand its nuclear program.

“To me, the very real risk that Iran will not moderate and will, instead, use the agreement to pursue its nefarious goals is too great,” wrote Schumer, the only Senate Democrat who has so far opposed the deal.

“Therefore, I will vote to dis-

approve the agreement, not because I believe war is a viable or desirable option, nor to challenge the path of diplomacy,” he added.

“It is because I believe Iran will not change, and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions while ultimately retaining its nuclear and non-nuclear power.”

In her piece, Gillibrand declared the deal was “imperfect” but argued its inclusion of international inspectors to monitor

Iran’s retention of nuclear supplies would prove useful despite her skepticism that Tehran and its allies “won’t try to deceive us and our partners.”

“If we reject this deal, we do not have a viable alternative for preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Without a deal, and without inspectors on the ground, we will be left in the dark as Iran resumes its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, with only months to go before it could en-

rich enough fissile material for a bomb,” she wrote. “Without a deal, our options will be limited to insufficient unilateral sanctions, an invasion with yet another massive and costly land war in the Middle East, or a bombing campaign that offers nothing more than short-term gain under the best-case scenario.”

Their comments came shortly after President Barack Obama defended the agreement in a speech at American University, criticizing its opposition as “knee-jerk partisanship that has become all too familiar, rhetoric that renders every decision made to be a disaster, a surrender,” according to the New York Times.

“Let’s not mince words: The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy and some sort of war — maybe not tomorrow, maybe not three months from now, but soon,” Obama said, according to the Times. “How can we in good conscience justify war before we’ve tested a diplomatic agreement that achieves our objectives?”

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New Yorkers Choose Panel picked to review

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BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano has appointed a three-man advisory board to analyze its contracting process, the second review of its practices following the announcement of charges against state Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) for accepting bribes in exchange for influencing contracts.

The board includes Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz; Robert Catell, the former chief executive officer of Keyspan; and Frank Zarb, former chairman of NASDAQ and the Nassau Interim Finance Authority.

“I commend them for their civic involvement and look forward to their review,” Mangano said in a statement.

According to a news release from Mangano’s office announcing the appointment, the board will “focus on the fairness, integrity and enforcement of the policy’s implementation” and also break down the processes of neighboring municipalities.

Skelos and his son Adam were arrested in May following an investigation by

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office that alleged the former state Senate majority leader used his political stature to acquire no-show jobs with salaries and benefits for his son.

The investigation alleged that Skelos helped steer a $12 million county stormwater treatment contract, though no wrongdoing was found on part of Nassau County.

In early July, acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas issued a 36-page review of the county’s contracting process, calling it “a recipe for corruption.”

Her office found the county does not require prospective vendors to submit various pieces of information, such as subsidiary companies, criminal convictions, tax law compliance, political contributions or whether a vendor may not have county contracts in other municipalities.

It also found Nassau has no process to verify self-disclosed information from vendors and has no central database for contracts or vendors.

“When it comes to government contracts, the honor system just doesn’t cut it,” Singas said at the time.

DA hopefuls trade barbs over money

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O The campaigns of Nassau County district attorney hopefuls Madeline Singas (D-Manhasset) and Kate Murray (R-Levittown) in the last week traded accusations of financial wrongdoing.

On Aug. 3, Murray, the Hemsptead town supervisor, accused Singas, the acting district attorney, of receiving an illegal campaign contribution in December 2014 from the Manhasset-based De Rosa Foun-

dation for Colon Cancer Research.

Murray, a former assistant state attorney general, said in a statement she was “disturbed by the acting district attorney’s disregard for the law” and called on the state attorney general’s office to investigate the contribution if the funds were not returned.

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Village of Great Neck Estates trustees on Monday approved a request from the Gotham Wildlife Project to install a camera in Great Neck Estate’s Pond Park.

The wildlife project said the purpose of the camera would be to provide feedback on the migrating patterns of coyote and/or fox in the area after a sighting.

Village officials said they didn’t see any problem with the request.

“I don’t see any objection to helping them with their efforts as long as they grant a waiver of liability and have insurance,” Village of Great Neck Estates Mayor David A. Fox said.

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D. Warner, the Great Neck pools and parks are “proceeding swimmingly.”

The beautiful weather this year, he said, has resulted in high attendance this year.

An effort to survey the Village roads has been delayed by construction work conducted by National Grid, officials said.

However, National Grid expects to be done within the month, allowing the village to complete its survey work by midOctober, before the weather gets bad, they said.

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N. Shore introduces epilepsy treatment

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O

Nnamdi Chukwuma had experienced seizures throughout his life, first when he was six months old and then more intensively as he got older, treating the episodes with a carousel of medications that worked all too infrequently.

But doctors at North Shore University Hospital’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center suggested Chukwuma, 17, of Bay Shore, might be a perfect candidate for a new vagus nerve treatment to implant a device that would predict forthcoming seizures by tracking his heart rate, called the AspireSR.

Chukwuma was the first patient on Long Island to receive the implant, health system officials said.

“For those patients who do not respond well to anti-seizure medications, vagus nerve stimulation therapy is another alternative to treat debilitating seizures,” said Dr. Ashesh Mehta, the director of epilepsy surgery at North Shore-LIJ Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center.

The operation is a one-hour procedure during which two cuts are made at the left side of the neck and chest area, beneath the collarbone, where the device is then placed beneath the skin connecting a small wire to the left vagus nerve.

Two weeks after the operation, the patient returns to have the generator’s stimulation turned on and adjusted based on the patient’s comfort level to counteract oncoming seizures.

“Delivering [vagus nerve stimulation] therapy through the AspireSR generator is beneficial in that it is the first and only therapy that provides responsive stimulation to the brain once the generator detects the sudden spike in heart rate that often predicts oncoming seizures,” Mehta said.

“In Nnmadi’s case, he was a perfect candidate to receive the AspireSR implant because seizures are coming from

multiple areas of his brain and we have determined using EEG tests that his heart rate reliably speeds up at the beginning of his seizures,” he added. “Another advantage is the minimal invasiveness of this procedure, which may be performed as an outpatient.”

Chukwuma was not made available for comment.

Patients typically experience improvement in their seizures three to six months following the surgery, health system officials said.

After 10 years, the device is replaced to maintain seizure control, which also takes place as an outpatient procedure.

North Hempstead bans dogs in hot cars

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The Town of North Hempstead has made it illegal to leave animals unattended in heated or unventilated vehicles.

Town Council members unanimously approved the law Monday, which sets a $250 fine and/or imprisonment for up to 15 days for violators.

“We’re all hearing about dogs that are left in cars and the temperatures in these cars are up to very high temperatures,”

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said.

Introduced during the council’s July 14 meeting, the law is part of a townwide educational initiative to increase awareness over so-called “hot cars,” in which pets and small children face heat stroke and even death if left unattended for too long.

The campaign has included public service announcements on North Hempstead TV, the distribution of fliers and various social media postings detailing the risks of leaving pets in “hot

cars.”

According to the legislation, the law would not apply to animals in custody of an active peace officer or animal control officer.

In other developments: • An application to allow self-service at the BP station at 944 Willis Ave. in Albertson was approved, as well as the replacement of three underground storage gasoline tanks.

Michael Sahn, the attorney for applicant Sands Point Acres Inc., said the town had approved

self-service at the 9,100 squarefoot site in 1995, but the owner did not pursue the proper permits and paperwork.

The application required a special-use permit for the replacement of the tanks, which under code must be conducted

by November, Sahn said.

Sands Point Acres has also applied for a waiver to allow for two tanks, one holding 15,000 gallons of fuel and the other holding 16,000 gallons, to replace the three tanks presently at the site, two of which hold

10,000 gallons and the other holding 8,000 gallons.

Sahn said the new tanks would hold both diesel and regular fuel and would warrant fewer fuel deliveries and be less of an environmental risk.

• The council approved an amendment to town code to grant the town the authority to prosecute violations in District Court and negotiate plea bargains as they arise.

Botwin said the amendment codifies a longstanding practice conducted by town prosecutors.

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Plaza, BID to host salute to merchants

The Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Great Neck Plaza Business Improvement District will host the annual Salute to New Merchants event on Tuesday, Aug. 18 (rain date Aug. 25) to welcome all new merchants and shop owners to the Plaza.

Stores opening under new management will also be honored. The event will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Jonathan Ielpi Firefighters Memorial Park, followed by a performance from singer

Ricky Pen as part of the Great Neck Plaza Summer Concert Series.

“The Salute to New Merchants event is always a great opportunity to bring the community together and showcase the diverse variety of restaurants and shops that we have in our village,” said Jean Celender, mayor of Great Neck Plaza. “It is to honor to welcome these new merchants to the community.”

As part of this celebration, the Great Neck Plaza BID will distribute a free cou-

pon book at the Salute to New Merchants ceremony. The coupon books will be filled with special promotion offers from merchants - old and new - in Great Neck Plaza. The book will also be available online for anyone unable to attend the event.

A partial listing of new merchants who are going to be honored include Caffe Bene, Daviki Jewelry, La Rotonda, Muse Paintbar, Rimon, Serene Nails, Village Asian Fusion and many more.

The Great Neck Plaza Business Im-

provement District’s mission is to foster and promote a positive and vital business community through various initiatives including consumer awareness programs, media/advertising campaigns and sponsorship of many events.

Log onto www.shopgreatneck.com and www.facebook.com/greatneckplaza, follow on Twitter and Instagram at @ shopgreatneck, or call 516.829.1301 to learn more about the Great Neck Plaza BID.

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No Delight in Time for gov to uphold market rejection promise for wind energy We are hopeful that Shop Delight will refile its application for a supermarket on Middle Neck Road — and receives a better reception from area residents when it does.

The owners of Shop Delight had proposed the construction of a supermarket at the site of a former Rite Aid store in the Village of Great Neck Estates, which now sits empty.

Village of Great Neck Estates trustees were well within their rights when they rejected the application in July after the owners failed to file an amended application addressing concerns about parking and traffic — although we have some concerns.

Alan Stein, an attorney representing Shop Delight, had earlier said he had hoped to meet with village trustees to resolve those concerns. We hope that Stein was not discouraged from doing so.

The trustees’ decision was cheered by opponents of the project, who had expressed concerns from everything from increased traffic to trucks making deliveries to odors from cooking.

“Aside from the amount of traffic that would affect Middle Neck Road, there would have been a massive number of additional cars that would have come there to shop,” said Bruce Funk, president of a co-op located next door At a time when empty storefronts detract from both the visual and commercial appeal of villages across Great Neck, opposing stores that actually attract customers makes no sense.

The fact is the area could use a conveniently located supermarket – especially one that has the ability to draw a large number of shoppers.

Shop Delight already operates a popular location at Welwyn Road in Great Neck Plaza a little more than a half a mile away.

Not only would attracting large numbers of shoppers to Great Neck Estates be a good thing for the owners of the supermarket, it would also spur an in increase sales at surrounding stores — which could certainly use the help.

And it is not as if there was never any commercial businesses in the area.

The businesses district along Middle Neck Road in Great Neck Estates existed long before many of the residents moved there. They were well aware of the trade offs of living in or adjacent to a business district. It seems a little late for them to complain now.

The loss of a new supermarket or any other store that attracts customers does not just affect shopping in the Village of Great Neck Estates.

Stores line Middle Neck Road in both the village of Great Neck and Great Neck Plaza. And what happens in Great Neck Estates affects.

More shoppers driving down Middle Neck Road to a market means more opportunities for other merchants on the road to attract business.

Great Neck — like other villages across the North Shore — benefit from a village feel and sense of community in which local businesses have long played a major role.

Village trustees and residents can and should address potential problems that can arise with a new business.

But they should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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READERS WRITE

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t’s safe to say that Long Islanders experienced firsthand the traumatic effects of a natural disaster when Superstorm Sandy hit hard in 2012.

Climate change is real and we are living with it. Last year, the Long Island Power Authority dropped the ball on moving ahead with New York’s first offshore wind project.

LIPA provided no transparency in their decision - not even

a single argument for why they chose to neglect offshore wind as a viable energy source for New York.

This is why I’ve joined dozens of Long Islanders in phoning Gov. Cuomo and LIPA to ask them to move forward with last year’s Request for Proposal.

Investing in offshore wind will not only help New York further its state-wide carbon reduction goals, but it will create hundreds of Long Island-based jobs

and position Long Island to serve as a major regional hub for a crucial 21st century energy industry.

Long Island could become a leader in the offshore wind industry, poised to put a serious dent in our climate pollution.

There is no more time to waste. Gov. Cuomo and LIPA, uphold your promise to develop offshore wind for Long Island.

Elizabeth Sabbatini Old Brookville

Great Neck faces shortage of quality supermarkets

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rospective newcomers to Great Neck will most likely share the same considerations my husband and I had 40 years ago when we became homeowners in the community.

Our priorities included the quality of the school system, the proximity of transportation, recreational and cultural opportunities and the availability of supermarkets within a short distance from our home.

Living in Great Neck has lived up to our expectations until recently.

It seems that we have a paucity of supermarkets with Waldbaums and Associated the only two choices available.

Bankruptcy issues make it likely that Waldbaums will not be in town much longer and we are in need of at least two replacement supermarkets, one at each end of town.

Our seniors as well as fami-

lies with young children should not have to venture to neighboring communities to food shop.

Stop and Shop and ShopRite are two supermarkets that provide both choice and fair pricing.

We do not need trendy food shopping with exorbitant prices.

To keep Great Neck as desirables as it once was, this problem needs to be quickly addressed.

Judy Eisman Great Neck

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Paper misrepresents letter, protest leaders

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n last week’s issue of the Great Neck News, you published my Letter to the Editor that was written to clarify the participation of various Great Neck residents who organized the successful “Stop Iran Rally,” held on July 22 in Times Square, which protested America’s “deal” with Iran.

After enumerating the names of the rally’s principal organizers, I peripherally credited two ZOA summer interns for their participation.

Yet, incredulously, you titled my letter: “ZOA Played Big Role in Iran Deal Protest.”

My letter neither implicitly nor explicitly contained anything remotely close to the message of the title that you assigned to my letter. Even a third grader in the New York City public school sys-

tem would recognize that such a title had absolutely no connection to the words expressed in my letter.

Only when I read your editorial on the adjacent page, expressing your disappointment with the local elected Democratic leadership’s letter imploring senators Schumer and Gillibrand to vote against the deal, did I realize your purposeful attempt to try to discredit the rally and its organizers.

In the middle of your editorial, you include a paragraph that contained three consecutive falsehoods: “500 Great Neck residents led a protest against the nuclear agreement in Times Square organized by members of the ultraconservative Zionist Organization of America, which has conducted several rallies with Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huck-

abee. He of the comment that the Iran deal will march the Israelis ‘to the door of the oven’.”

As your own reporter, Adam Lidgett, wrote in the July 31 edition, quoting Jeff Wiesenfeld, one of the rally organizers, “More then 500 Great Neck residents were among the estimated 13,000 people who attended (not “led”) the “Stop Iran Rally.”

You need to tighten up your language and include statements that are factual.

Secondly, the protest rally was organized by over 100 participating groups, both Jewish and Christian, bi-partisan in nature, and included conservative and liberal speakers, including a Muslim, who was formerly anti-Israel.

To verify this statement, one can simply Google the “Stop Iran Rally” poster which lists the names

of the more than 20 speakers and names and logos of the more than 100 sponsoring organizations.

For you to write that the protest was organized by the “ultra conservative ZOA” (which we were very proud to have as a sponsor), is a deliberate mischaracterization of the organizers and the protest rally itself.

Your own reporter, Adam Lidgett, wrote an extensive article about the rally and mentioned several participating groups, but never even mentioned the ZOA once.

My letter to the editor barely mentioned the ZOA, yet you chose to wantonly exaggerate the ZOA’s role by erroneously entitling my letter and highlighting them.

Finally, I can assure you that the ZOA has never conducted any rally (much less”several rallies”)

with Republican Presidential candidate, Gov. Mike Huckabee, although I am sure that they would be mutually honored to do so.

I am a close personal friend of Gov. Huckabee and have brought him to Israel on four separate occasions, together with my fellow activist, Dr. Joe Frager.

Moreover, his remarks about the Iranian deal marching the Israelis to the “door of the oven,” are right on target.

If the Great Neck News wants their editorials to be believable and respected, they must cease to contain outright falsehoods.

It is one thing to be creative.

It is quite another to simply create “facts” that are not true. Just ask Brian Williams.

Dr. Paul Brody Great Neck Estates

Town officials have right to oppose Iran deal

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was shocked at your Aug. 7 editorial accusing North Hempstead Democrat officials of “playing politics with national security.”

You have previously defended even extremist letters to the editor as part of your mission to provide a public ideas forum.

Are ideas from office holders an exception?

Instead of muzzling them shouldn’t you welcome them as

presumably more informed than the average correspondent?

If the officeholders were “playing politics” they would support their president. Their independence on this matter of conscience should be more accurately classified as a profile in courage because it risks damaging or aborting their political careers, and forfeiting campaign funds from the likes of MoveOn. You and President Obama

warned that many leading critics of the agreement supported the invasion of Iraq.

But prominent advocates of the agreement also supported the invasion of Iraq, including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Harry Reid.

The president went two steps farther by comparing his political opponents to the Iranian crowds led by Khamenei who shout “Death to America.”

But those are Obama allies who are gleeful at the opportunities afforded by the agreement that Khamenei orchestrated.

Even at this late date parts of the agreement remain secret.

Based even on what has been made public, however, the terms justify the comment by liberal Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz who supported Obama for election both times but now says that he would not even hire

the president to negotiate a onemonth lease.

We are rightly proud of the patriotic North Hempstead Democrats, as we are of Sen. Charles Schumer, for speaking out against a dangerously flawed agreement.

Such principled opposition, if it takes hold, is the only way to prevent war.

Len Mansky Roslyn

There is no better deal with Iran on nukes

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n Thursday, Aug. 6, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset commemorated the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Great Neck SANE/ Peace Action, Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives and the Social Action Committee of the congregation sponsored an evening of remembrance, resistance and engagement.

Ironically, it coincided with

the discussion raging around the support by the U.S. Congress of the Iran nuclear deal. President Obama spoke to the nation urging acceptance of this historic accord.

If it is rejected, it is clear that if we choose to go it alone, the nations who joined us in negotiating the terms will end their participation.

It is not perfect, but if it is supported by our five partners in the deal and approved by 90 other nations, realistically there is no “better deal”.

In brief, it guarantees a 96 percent reduction of enriched uranium. Iran will have to cut the number of centrifuges by twothirds, designing and testing or warheads is banned. It provides a strong inspection regime to prevent Iran from cheating.

Sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy will be lifted over time as Iran complies with the agreement.

No matter how much we may distrust Iran, to quote President

Reagan when we forged another deal that was unpopular, “trust but verify” and sophisticated technology makes it possible to inspect and verify.

Does anyone doubt that an attack on Israel by Iran would not result in a disastrous retaliation?

No matter how often we hear Iran’s oft-repeated threat to destroy Israel, if they have not done it up to now, such an attempt would be catastrophic for Iran.

We must transmit to those

who are so fearful of the loss of an election that we will understand the lack of courage they display.

By now, they must accept that we are sick and tired of war. How much support would we give to such an alternative?

We have had enough of going it alone and must make this very plain to those who suggest it.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Fresh produce is available to G.N. shoppers

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am afraid Professor Glader has published conclusions before completing his research.

The Haymarket of Great Neck Road, and the North Shore Market of Horace Harding Boulevard, Great Neck offer, fresh products that imitate Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.

I suggest he visit them.

He quickly segues to Michael Pollens dogma. There is no broad scientific reporting that gene modified and or inorganic and/or “corporate raised” foods are any less safe, any less nutritious or any less appetizing than organic, free-range foods. It is interesting that Whole

Foods is in the process of rating foods it sells as “Good,” “Better” or “Best” and makes the point that some products may rate higher than their organic counterparts.

Professor Glader should be aware that there is no way Long Island farmers can produce enough local foods to satisfy resi-

dent needs.

He should also recognize that organic and/or free range foods are substantially more expensive than their counterparts.

Long Island residents can reduce the cost of varied, interesting, wholesome diets by paying attention to season/supply patterns-

cherries in July versus cherries in January.

For the purposes of full disclosure, I own 100 shares of Monsanto common stock which obviously colors my response.

Gerald Peretsman Great Neck

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A loo k on the li g hter si d e

With coupons, better safe than savings I hate coupons, and I think they hate me, too.

At every stage in their life cycle, they manage to wreak havoc with my life. It starts the moment they come into my home.

They slosh about on the dining room table, making it impossible to find any real mail — like bills — or anything good to read, like a Blank Slate newspaper.

I do my best to ignore them. But when I finally give in, that’s when the second level of harassment begins.

They nag: “How do you know your brand of dishwasher soap is the best if you’ve never even tried ours?

Would it kill you?”

Next to them another one is yelling, “It’s a steal! So maybe you don’t need 15 shades of glitter eye shadow today — but someday, when I’m gone, you will, and for the rest of your life you’ll be kicking yourself!”

Worst of all is the guilt: “Some savvy shopper you are, refusing to

save your family actual money for fear of the unknown — or is it just pure laziness?”

They’re so annoying, I usually leave them all home, but the damage is done.

Somehow, all I can see in the store are products whose coupons are on my kitchen counter. “Coulda saved a bundle!” they jeer at me, when I’m back home unloading the groceries I bought without them.

So the next time I give in, and tuck a few of the more persistent ones into my purse.

They have only begun to fight.

It was going to be a “Coupons Only” shopping spree. I had grabbed up as many of them as I could, stapled them to the shopping list, and headed for the store.

I got all the way to the checkout before I realized — I didn’t know where they were.

I became one of those people you dread being behind, tearing through my pockets, dumping my purse out on the conveyor belt, the

Judy epstein

A Look on the Lighter Side laser beam trying to read my keys, my phone, my laxatives.... I was utterly unable to produce a single coupon ... until, outside in the parking lot, I looked down and found they had all rematerialized…in my hand!

That humbled me.

There is one I remembered, once. I proudly plunked it down at the front of all my groceries, where the cashier couldn’t fail to see it —

only to watch in disbelief as the conveyor belt started up and swallowed my coupon whole. “You can give me credit for that, can’t you?” Of course not.

In fact, the only coupon I ever used successfully was the one my 2-year-old plucked from one of those motorized dispensers that spit them out as you walk by. He was still waving it as we went through the check-out line, so the cashier took it from him and what do you know? It was for something in the cart!

But there was one final lesson yet to learn.

One evening, many years ago, I found myself on the loose in a fast-food parking lot, with half an hour to kill and the knowledge that, somewhere in my possession, I had a coupon for one free meal.

I strode smugly to the door — the right coupon at the right location, for once! I had only forgotten one little thing: the curb I was tripping over.

I went down like a ninepin,

right between two police officers who were too impressed by my form, I assume, to catch me. “Do you want us to call an ambulance?” one of them asked, noticing as he helped me up that I was quite pregnant. “No, no,” I said, dusting myself off, “I’m sure I’m fine.” But they insisted, so I went to the hospital anyway.

Four hours, a dozen forms, and who-knows-how-many dollars later came the medical verdict: “The baby is just fine, and all you have are bruises.”

As I signed a few more forms for my release, the nurse had one last question: “What were you doing, anyway, when you fell?”

“It was all because of a coupon,” I started to explain. “Actually, it’s still in my wallet. You know what? You take it. It might as well do somebody some good.”

“Gee, thanks,” she said as she took it. “But it’s expired!”

I might have known.

from the d es k of senator j ac k martins

Iran nuclear deal must be a duck

Like most kids growing up, my friends and I would occasionally get into some trouble. And like most kids we blamed everyone and everything but ourselves, halfbelieving our half-baked excuses.

But I remember an old neighborhood priest who’d see right through it, saying, “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it must be a duck.”

Believe it or not, that simple lesson about taking things for face value is easily forgotten by many.

Case in point would be the Obama administration’s pending nuclear deal with Iran.

Remember that the goal of the negotiation was to continue the United States and world community’s efforts to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, period. The end result, however, virtually guarantees a nuclear-armed Iran by ignoring its illicit nuclear program and rewarding the Iranian government for thumbing its nose at the rest of the world.

I strongly urge you to become familiar with the situation as this may be one of the most critical decisions our nation has made in the last 50 years and the consequences will impact every one of us, our children, and grandchildren.

For starters the U.S. Department of State still recognizes Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. This is not disputed.

Lifting sanctions will literally allow hundreds of billions of dollars in now frozen assets to flow freely into Iran and its government coffers.

To assume that this money will not make its way into the hands of the terrorist organizations that Iran supports throughout the world is wishful thinking at best.

The world has collectively given precious damning evidence. lives and treasure in the war on terrorism.

Their Brigadier General Hossein Salami This undoes that and worse still, ensures that brazenly exclaimed, “They will not even be the war and unrest will continue. permitted to inspect the most normal military Secretary of State John Kerry acknowl- site in their dreams.” This is certainly not the edges the existence of two “side deals” whose “anytime, anywhere” inspections the White details are known only to House promised.

Iran and the International Proponents of the Atomic Energy Agency and agreement argue that liftwhich will remain hidden ing sanctions will eventufrom the U.S. government. ally lead to the moderation They involve the inof the current regime and spection of Iran’s Parchin possibly the rise of more military complex and islevel-headed, pro-Western sues regarding possible young leaders. History military aspects of Iran’s tells us different. nuclear effort. To be clear, In fact, up until our intelligence commu1997 Iran engaged freenity has long suspected ly in trade with Europe jack m. martins Parchin of manufacturing and reaped billions of State Senator nuclear ballistic missiles. dollars in oil profits.

In essence, this adThe regime got ministration is approving a deal with an inter- richer and only stepped up their support national sponsor of terrorism without details of radical terrorist groups like Hezbolon its nuclear military effort. But that’s what lah, Hamas, and others. Let’s be honest this is all about! The world community wants - hostility toward the West has only grown to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons. since then.

Secret “side deals” have no place in a legitiLast but not least is the most disconmate agreement. certing. The most rigorous parts of the The United Nations’ American and Cana- uranium enrichment restrictions for Iran dian inspectors will not be allowed to inspect would expire in 10 years.

Iran’s nuclear facilities.

That means in as little as 12 years Iran will allow only those that have diplo- Iran could develop a nuclear weapon that matic relations with the Islamic Republic and could be used against the rest of the world even in that scenario has stipulated that the and, most particularly, Israel, the state IAEA “will not have access to sensitive and they’ve continuously promised to destroy. military documents.”

We could hope against hope that Iran can also delay the process for thousand-year-old enmity will somehow up to 24 days, long enough to hide make a dramatic turnaround in ten years

but that would be nothing short of naïve and irresponsible.

Lifting sanctions and placing Iran on a path to develop nuclear weapons would further destabilize the Middle East with the surrounding countries, Arab and Jewish, threatened by the realignment.

In short, this deal threatens the United States’ longest and most loyal ally in the region, actually the only democracy there: Israel.

And it threatens all our other allies in the region as well.

The only thing worse than no deal is a bad deal.

At this point, members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have called on President Obama to impose longer and better constraints on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. And in poll after poll, the American people are dead set against this current deal. There is absolutely nothing there that makes a compelling argument to the American people. And those who argue that “any deal is better than no deal” are dreaming.

International sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table and they should remain in place until they negotiate in good faith. This much is for certain: you don’t give a bully a wider berth. You band together with friends to confront them.

I’ll say it plainly: Iran cannot be trusted.

They have a long history of defying nuclear agreements and blocking IAEA access to their nuclear sites. Why should we trust them now? What’s changed besides President Obama’s mind? No, I’ll stick to the wisdom of childhood lessons. If it walks, quacks, and looks like a duck my friends, it’s a duck.

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Kremer ’ s corner

Trump here to stay, at least until March The long-awaited summer is quickly passing us by and there is not much we can do about it.

We have had a lot of sun and a lot of heat which is a blessing after such a cold,cruel winter. The only distraction that I can think of is the Republican Party’s ritual of picking a nominee for president, which is getting annoying considering that the election isn’t until November,2016.

Even the most die-hard Republican would tell you that many months ago they expected to have an easy process to get their candidate.

Jeb Bush looked like he was on the way to the first prize but my how things change.

Even having over $100 million in the bank should be enough for a first round winner and then along came Donald Trump.

It is no surprise that Trump has inserted himself into the Republican nomination battle.

Even though he is considered a Democrat by many and has contributed to Hillary Clinton,he has decided that he is best qualified to be the Republican nominee and is out to prove it.

Every day some political guru tells me that Trump’s efforts will be stopped and by

The course has been built and Trump has the latter part of this year he will be gone, had another victory. but I don’t think so.

I don’t mean to suggest that Donald Trump knows how to build apartments and golf courses, but most people are not Trump is going to be the Republican’s choice to be president. But aware of the fact that he often has to overanyone who thinks he is gocome strong local opposiing to go gently forth into the tion. night is deluding themselves.

A few years back Trump Trump is here to stay and announced that he was gohe is going to be an annoying to build a tall high-rise ance for quite some time into building near the United Naearly next year. tions.

There is always the The neighbors, who chance that he will implode included the late Walter after he insults six different Cronkite swore a blood oath ethnic groups,but that isn’t that the project would never happening so soon. happen. They raised money jerry Kremer Trump has to date, and declared war on the Kremer’s Corner sucked all of the air out of Donald.

Eventually Mr. Trump got his building the other 16 Republican candidate’s efforts and it stands on First Avenue overshadowing to get known and loved.

His every word gets the attention of the United Nations.

Another example of Trump’s persistence CNN, Fox and even MSNBC. Short of killing themselves, the other was his plan to build a new golf course in would be nominees are struggling to get Scotland.

Once he announced his concept the en- some recognition.

What is worse is the fact that he has tire Scottish establishment swore that Trump would never be allowed to put a shovel in the forced many of them to take positions on issues that they were avoiding. ground. So much for the Scots battle.

In plain and simple words, Trump is no dope to enter into this type of battle. He understands people want. He knows that the country is hostile to all politicians and he is riding that bucking bronco as far as he can get.

America is fed up with the political establishment and that covers almost all of the declared candidates.

The national Republican Party has so far proven that it is incapable of governing,even though they control two houses of the Congress.

The House of Representatives is in a total state of gridlock thanks to a small group of Tea Party zealots.

The Senate can’t get its act together and Mitch McConnell is in a constant state of depression.

Is Donald Trump going to be the Republican candidate for the White House?

I truly doubt it. If he is, the Democrats may as well start measuring the drapes at the White House so Hillary Clinton can save some time.

But Mr. Trump is here to stay at least until March of next year and I confess that as a Democrat I am enjoying this whole spectacle.

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None of the above for president

man uncomfortable with (the) truth spied a small discarded piece of it lying (no pun intended) on the ground.

An attempt was made to rub it out with the sole of his shoe and nothing happened.

Then he tried really hard with his heel. It was still the same.

He then was sure he could dissolve it with some chemicals.

Again it remained the same. Ah! He thought. Vaporize it with an acetylene torch.

When it cooled it was as bright as ever.

One cannot destroy truth!

A billion lies and trillions of dollars cannot harm a small bit of truth. Or algebraically: X-Y=X. Recently in the news was the incident in Suffolk County on the North Fork where a limo was making a U turn from east to westbound. A westbound vehicle slammed into the limo killing three of the passengers.

It was said that there was no light or traffic signs and that U turns were allowed.

The driver of the vehicle that hit the limo was assumed to be at fault.

Three separate comments were made that this driver had a beer, his blood alcohol was legal and that he was a drunk driver.

This incident was nagging me.

This westbound vehicle and in most U turn situations, the oncoming traffic has the unconditional right of way.

It seems that the limo driver must not have seen the oncoming vehicle and that it all began and climaxed in three seconds or less. The limo had moved about 15 feet into the traffic lane

Considering that the speed limit could be as much as 55 mph, the driver that hit the limo would have had little time to react.

My rule for U turns is not to inconvenience oncoming traffic even if I have to wait for the right opportunity so as not to make any mistakes.

We see all of the upheavals and insanity in the world these days.

Enough sound evidence can be procured to substantiate that it is written in the stars.

Whatever.

It appears that the Iran nuclear deal will come to the desk of President Obama and he will give it a big fat veto.

They will scream that he does not have that power.

Not only do we have much insanity in the US these days but much of it borders on idiocy.

All of the members of congress were elected at the most by only a segment of a state and in many cases gerrymandering and voter suppression played a part.

Our president was twice elected by a majority of our entire country. This is how Obama has the power of the veto.

In effect, the majority of the people veto it.

One can say that today Donald Trump is the barometer of the degree of insanity and idiocy in the republican party.

Needless to say, being that we are a democracy, nothing pertaining to a republic has any business here.

As of yet, I see no potential presidential candidate I am comfortable with. Considering the situation in the world, there is no

room for error.

Bill Clinton had the unfortunate encounter with Monica (Latin: monere-to warn) and gained a moniker to last the rest of his life.

Hillary has a dark cloud hanging over her about emails.

There may be nothing to it but the republicans by appearing not wanting to get it resolved are keeping it there purposely.

The confusion and accusations about Benghazi keeps in the dark about whether or not Hillary is in anyway responsible for what happened there.

Also, I can not be sure that there is not a dark side to the money the Clintons have collected.

None of the ‘red’ candidates are suitable

and trustworthy: Not better red and possibly dead.

Bernie Sanders is correct in what he is saying but it is obvious to any clear mind.

The remaining questions are who really is he and what has he done. He doesn’t say anything about himself.

As it stands, we need NOTA (none of the above) on the ballot and that is no joke.

The resident President has to remain in office until a good and acceptable replacement is available.

The present laws need some amendments.

Charles Samek Mineola

The worst parking yet seen in G.N. I have lived in Great Neck for more than 40 years.

I truly believed that, by this point, in my life’s narrative here, I had observed every kind of confrontational, aggressive, illegal, ego-centric parking there could possibly be; however, on the morning of Aug. 3, I witnessed the most disgusting, arrogant, insolent parking of a vehicle

here, in town, that I have ever seen!

A “gentleman” parked his vehicle in the triangle adjacent to the “mailbox/tree” island on Welwyn Road.

He then walked into Alpian Cleaners to pick up his dry cleaning.

I was in Alpian’s, at the time, observing all of this.

How does a responsible

driver even do this?

Oh, excuse me. Is this a case of “Do you know who I am?”

Actually I don’t care who you are…gentleman indeed.

In conclusion, I mean no disrespect to Alpian’s. They are a fine establishment.

Nadine Feingold Great Neck

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Go slow on Trump represents We tree law VGN the People in campaign

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ayor Bral, I urge you and the trustees not to overreact to the alleged danger posed by trees in Great Neck.

How many people have actually been hurt through the years by a falling tree?

Our trees are one of our most precious resources, even more so since the storms of the last five years have destroyed so many of them.

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If a tree is declared safe by onald Trump is ahead in an arborist, it should be left the latest polls and held alone, or trimmed as needed. his own in debate and is A healthy tree provides on a roll. shade for houses in the neighDonald Trump was attack at borhood (not just the owner’s debate and came back with the house), and provides many truth. Wow what a concept. benefits to the environment.

What he is saying about foreign policy, government spending, Amy Glass health care, illegal immigration and Great Neck how our government has become dysfunctional is in my view a call to arms.

All these issues seems to echo

with what many Americans are feeling right now.

He is getting,” We the People in an uproar.

“And we are yelling in unison,” We’re mad as hell and we are not going to take this anymore”!

Donald Trump has latched on to this feeling of dissatisfaction and distrust of government and could go all the way to the GOP nomination.

I have disagreed with Mr. Trump on a few issues but I believe

he wants to make America great again. We had a president who once wanted and did make America great and he was Ronald Reagan.

Now could Donald Trump be another Reagan, well only time will tell ?

Donald Trump I wish you the best and please get America to wake up and be all we can be. You see I believe in, “We the people! “ Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

Ex G.N. student’s work inspirational

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he story about Andrew Wolff’s efforts to help impoverished children and families in Cambodia was inspirational.

In a world, where the news is dominated by crisis, war, crime, violence, and celebrities behaving badly, it was refreshing to read about a young man who was dedicating his life to helping people in need.

We all know the expression “One person can change the world” and here we have a living example of how much one person can do.

Andrew’s non-profit organization, Children’s Future International, is changing the lives of hundreds of children and their families and possibly changing the future of war-ravaged Cambodia.

Consider the transformation that CFI has fostered in children who lacked food, clothing, education, and medical care.

These children now have a future filled with potential instead of a future stunted by poverty and despair.

To learn more about Children’s Future International, readers should go to their website, www.childrensfuture.org.

On the website, there is a wonderful video that lets you meet some of the children and see their stories.

I hope Great Neck residents will take this opportunity to support Andrew Wolff by sending a contribution in whatever amount they can afford to: Childrens Future International, 1031 33rd. St., Suite 172, Denver Colorado 80205.

Our sages tell us that “to save one life is as if one saved an entire world.”

With the support of his home town, there’s no limit on how much good Andrew and his organization can do.

“Those who share with those who have less are truly blessed.”

Dave Golbert Great Neck

Sentencing debate shows political divide

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n the masthead of its newspaper, the Fortune Society which works with ex-cons, has a quotation: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoevski.

I think the Russian novelist was onto something.

Fast forward to the New York Times of July 17, 2015. On page 1, there’s an article about President Obama visiting a federal prison in Oklahoma.

Lacking expertise on prisons, I turned to Google.

There, I learned that President Reagan’s “war on drugs” substantially increased the number of men and women incarcerated.

The need for more prison space led to privatization and a new industry — “for profit prisons” — sprung up.

There has been much research on whether government operated prisons are superior or inferior to their private, corporate counterparts. While this question

interested me, I was more fascinated by the president’s comments.

After meeting with six prisoners, he said: “There but for the grace of God…” He amplified “….these are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made….” And later, he elaborated: “The difference is they didn’t have the kinds of support structures, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes.”

This, of course, led his critics to accuse him of “bleeding heart liberalism”.

What struck me about the president’s remarks was how they epitomize the differences between liberals and conservatives.

Liberals will argue that the kids who steal hubcaps from a car are more likely to serve time than the billionaire polluters (substitute Koch brothers) with their army of legal experts.

The conservative mindset is completely different. It focuses on free will… our ability to choose

right from wrong.

Put differently, liberal ideology stresses the importance of the environment in explaining motivation and behavior.

The conservative argument is less nuanced….less concerned with such niceties. For them, we are in control of our destinies and must be held accountable for our actions.

The conservatives have the advantage of the Horatio Alger myth working for them.

Aren’t we all brought up believing that if we get an education and work hard, surely success will follow?

The opposite to this way of thinking is epitomized by the line about President Bush.

He was born on third base and woke up thinking he had hit a triple.

The liberal points to myriad factors such as race, gender, I.Q., and inherited wealth which must be part of the equation. Inherited wealth was referenced by Ann Richards at the 1988 Democratic Convention when she said: “Poor

George was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”

President Obama, a prototypical liberal, addressed this issue of interdependence several months ago and got into trouble for it. He pointed out that “if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.”

Sadly, Obama’s remarks were misconstrued.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, expressing the same sentiment more carefully stated: “Sure, some people who built great businesses worked hard….but those businesses needed soil to grow and that meant they need{ed} roads and bridges to get their goods to market, dependable and affordable power grids, access to clean water and safe sewers….the kind of basic infrastructure that we build together.”

Conservatives do not wish to accept the interdependence of all members of society.

They prefer the idea of the “self-made man” popularized by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged.

One other argument made by

conservatives bears scrutiny.

They believe in a level playing field — one where all are treated equally under the law.

Anatole France addressed this when he wrote: “The law, in all its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

Put differently, there is no level playing field; for the poor and minorities it is always an uphill struggle.

To conclude, the difference between liberals and conservatives is facetiously described by comedian Mort Sahl. “Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.”

We are fortunate to have a president who understands the precarious trajectory of life’s arc.

He knows that chance and good fortune are often what separate the inmate in the jailhouse and the occupant of the White House.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

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A Tea Party plan for health care

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Would you mind if we were not in New York to celebrate your birthday this year?”

Every husband, who is married more than an hour, learns to translate this wifely question into: “where are we going and when are we leaving.

That year, we celebrated my 66th birthday in Washington D.C. It was September, 2009, and my wife had signed us up to join a group of 1,200 doctors, all going to congress to study “Obamacare,” a new, proposed bill in which President Obama was going to “transform” the worlds greatest health-care system, in order to 1- lower health-care costs 2- reduce insurance premiums and 3- provide government funded, universal healthcare coverage.

Doctors against Obamacare?

The media was not going to allow so many doctors to tarnish their favorite socialist agenda, initiated by their adored left-wing President. We were totally ignored by the press.

Obama’s control of the media had begun. Freedom of the press suffered irreversible harm that week.

Nobody even knew there were so many doctors who actually opposed Obamacare.

The first hurdle Obama faced, was to persuade congressmen to support his plan.

He did this through a brilliant series of dis-

tortions and outright lies and ended with congressmen voting for a bill they had never even read.

The first problem was the cost. The Affordable Care Act, was no where near affordable and everyone in Obama’s inner circle knew it. There was a real hesitancy for the administration to propose a bill which would cost more than one trillion dollars for a 10year period.

Obama promised us that he would spend no more than $848 billion dollars.

The passage of Obamacare depended on the math, yet Obama and his team knew from the beginning that this was impossible.

So in an arrogant display of Madoff-like maneuvers, he fraudulently doctored the books.

1 - In 2009 Obama told us that $848 billion dollars for a 10-year period, would cover the 31 million uninsured people.

That’s $27,000 dollars for each newly insured person.

Okay all you Obamacare supporters, please take a deep breath , sit down and relax because, as we said six years ago, you have been lied to !!!

2 - The Congressional Budget Office recently informed us that Obamacare actually cost us $2.004 trillion dollars to insure 25 million uninsured people at a cost of $80,000 dollars for each newly insured person for that same 10-year period.

How did the president cook the books?

Simple: He would immediately start Obamacare’s 10-year period even though the first three years did not include many of the massively expensive Obamacare costs.

Everyone in the administration knew that a full ten-year period of benefits would have exceeded his one trillion dollars goal.

Claiming 10 years of coverage, when it was really seven, may have fooled the American people, but certainly not The Tea Party.

2 - He excluded all the payments to doctors and funded the doctor’s payments separately!

Each year, congress funds “doc-fix” to pay them. The additional cost would have been an additional $200 billion dollars!

3 - Since Obamacare expands state-funded Medicaid, making millions more eligible, four years from now, when it kicks in and the federal government stops paying 90 percent of the cost, the states will be responsible for billions more.

The Tea Party’s plan:, 1- Out of the 25 million uninsured, 10 million are people who earn over $75,000 but choose not to purchase insurance. They should pay their own.

2- many uninsured are Medicaid eligible.

3- If their only goal was to cover the 15 million truly deserving uninsured, why not give them vouchers to get their own insur-

ance.

The math: 15 million would get a $5,000 voucher to get government paid private insurance at any insurance company. As long as they: 1- remained eligible 2- were periodically drug tested and 3 - the insured family unit stayed together.

The cost? A fraction of Obamacare’s cost!!

Then why did Obama do this? Simple!

His real goal was to have the government take over our health-care!!

This is a dream of every socialist going back to the 1920s. Read about it in Obama’s own autobiography.

At the latest count, five years later, 1- Less than 10 million additional uninsured people are now insured.

2- Insurance premiums have risen!

3- Health-care costs have skyrocketed!

We have spent over $2 trillion. And, The federal government now controls every facet of our healthcare.

“The most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”

Ronald Reagan Dr. Stephen Morris North Hills

Train service to LaGuardia a dubious goal

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eriodically politicians revisit an old idea, direct public transportation access to LaGuardia Airport.

This has been discussed off and for decades.

Now it is New Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s turn. He made his promises once again at a recent joint press conference with Vice President Joe Biden.

Remember Biden’s infamous quote that the current LaGuadia Airport was of a third world nation standard.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is overly optimistic concerning building a train to the plane for LaGuardia Airport.

Success for this project is dependent upon the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Metropolitan Transportation Authority working well together. Fourteen years after 9/11, the Cortland Street World Trade Center No. 1 IRT subway station is still three more years away from being back in service sometime in 2018.

The PANYNJ & MTA fought for years over budget, funding sources, scope and schedule. The MTA finally earlier this year awarded a contract for construction to proceed.

To build a train to the plane from Mets - Willets No. 7 subway and Long Island Rail Road station

to LaGuardia Airport within five years for $450 million is a planners dream.

In reality could end up being a nightmare for both taxpayers and riders. You can count on cost overruns in the hundreds of millions and multiyear delays in construction before reaching beneficial use.

One old recycled concept is to extend the N & Q subway lines from their current Queens terminus at Astoria/Ditmars Boulevard to LaGuardia Airport.

This died due to local community opposition. Everyone has long forgotten that the successful Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Air Train, which currently runs between the Long Island Rail Road Jamaica Station and Kennedy Airport was supposed to continue proceeding north along the Van Wyck Expressway to connect with LaGaurdia Airport.

The PANYNJ did not have suffecient funding to complete the original full scope of the project.

This extension to LaGuardia Airport (depending upon the final selected route) could also have connected with the Long Island Rail Road and No. 7 subway line at the MetsWillets Point Station. It could have been built within blocks of downtown Flushing.

Construction primarily within

existing highway right of way would have eased any local community opposition from those who owned homes and or businesses adjacent to the route.

Too bad the PANYNJ choose instead to spend billions in non transportation investments during this same time period instead of completing the Air Train to LaGuardia Airport.

Many of the estimated costs for these types of proposed projects are based upon planning feasibility studies and/or environmental documents with little design and engineering efforts necessary to validate any actual construction costs. They will be refined as projects progress beyond the planning and environmental phases into real and final design efforts.

Value engineering which is a process used to reduce costs will be used during the final design phase.

Unfortunately, history has shown that estimated costs for construction usually trend upwards as projects mature toward 100 percent final design.

Progression of final design refines the detailed scope of work necessary to support construction.

The anticipated final potential cost for many of these projects will never be known until completion. Costs will be further refined by award of

construction contracts followed by any unforeseen site conditions and change orders to the base contracts during the course of construction.

History has told us that construction of most major new transportation system expansion projects take decades until completion of feasibility studies, environmental reviews, planning, design, engineering, real estate acquisition, permits, procurements, construction, budgeting, identifying and securing funding to pay for all of the above.

Construction of other options via the Sunnyside Storage Yards to LaGuardia Airport could easily cost a $1 billion or more.

Good luck trying to proceed with this concept. You would have to coordinate with the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project.

In addition, the yard is used for mid day storage by other transit operators. Previous pilot ferry connections from the LaGuardia Airport to various Manhattan locations failed.

This was due to the costs which failed to attract sufficient ridership to support the service.

Great Neck, New Hyde Park, Herricks, Williston Park, Albertson, Mineola, Searingtown, Garden City, Manhasset, Plandome and Roslyn neighbors along with residents from other communities in Nassau and Suffolk counties along with neigh-

boring Queens County use public transportation when traveling from home or business to LaGuardia Airport.

They save between $50 and $100 each way in car service or even more using long term airport parking. Those in the know ride the Long Island Rail Road to Woodside and transfer to the New York City Transit Q70 bus. Why not patronize both the LIRR and Q70 Limited (which is equipped with luggage racks) from Jackson Heights which provides limited-stop bus service between Woodside, Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport (Terminals B, C and D).

Service operates non-stop between Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport. Connections can be made with the E,F,M,R and 7 trains at Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue/74 St-Broadway and with the Long Island Rail Road and 7 train at Woodside-61 St. Travel time between Woodside and LaGuardia Airport is approximately 10-15 minutes and between Jackson Heights and LaGuardia Airport is approximately 8-10 minutes.

Free transfers between any bus or subway are available if you pay your fare with MetroCard.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Peace cannot come from war: Goodman

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O The world changed forever when atomic bombs were dropped 70 years ago, activist and journalist Amy Goodman told an audience Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at

Shelter Rock, to a place where “the potential for nuclear devastation is forever hanging over us.”

But with the blasts that hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — marking the only time in history that nuclear weapons were used against civil-

Principal picked for Port middle school

BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O Port Washington school trustees on Thursday appointed Pia Linda Sanchez, the assistant principal at Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School in Port Washington, to be the new principal at South Salem Elementary School.

Sanchez replaces Christopher Shields, who in July became principal at Weber following an 11-year stint at South Salem.

“During her time in Port Washington, Pia Sanchez has proven she is both an effective leader and communicator,” said Port Washington school Superintendent Kathleen Mooney in a statement. “I am confident that her experience working at Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School will

provide a solid foundation for a seamless transition to South Salem Elementary School.”

Sanchez was not immediately available for comment.

She has spent the last 12 years with the Port Washington School District, having served as a school counselor at Weber for eight years prior to becoming its assistant principal in 2011.

Sanchez holds a bachelor of arts in sociology from Adelphi University, a master of science in school counseling from Long Island University and a certificate of advanced study in education from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

She is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership at Hofstra University.

ian populations — came a “nuclear aboli- mately 200,000 people killed or injured tion movement” that has worked toward in the bombings, were also distributed to guests in attendance. disarmament ever since.

Great Neck resident Shirley Romaine, “It doesn’t come from war,” said Goodman, co-host of the progressive a board member of Peace Action’s Great news program “Democracy Now!” “It Neck chapter and the founder of the Long comes from diplomacy.”

Goodman was the congregation’s keynote speaker during its annual observance of the atomic bombings, which included musical performances and a call for federal lawmakers to support the nuclear deal with Iran.

Goodman recounted the work of Japanese authors whose work chronicled the aftermath of the bombings and detailed recent trips to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, during which Amy Goodman, co-host of the progressive news program “Democracy Now!,” speaks she met survivors of the attacks.

“We’re here not only to re- Thursday during the Unitarian-Universalist member history but to look back Congregation at Shelter Rock’s observance at history and figure out where of the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima we have to grow,” she said. atomic bombing.

Thursday’s observance was sponsored by the local pacifist groups Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, Great Neck SANE/Peace Action, the Long said the themes of the observance were Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives “remembrance and resilience and enand the Shelter Rock congregation’s so- gagement” in discontinuing nuclear armament. cial justice committee.

“For 70 years, nuclear weapons have The congregation’s women’s acapella group, Willow, performed during the held the world in a death grip of fear and terror,” Romaine said in a statement prior event.

Origami cranes, often a symbol of to the event. “It is time for nuclear ban good luck but used to honor the approxi- treaty.”

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Meryl Streep as rocker “Ricki” with Rick Springfield as greg, in “Ricki and the Flash,” a movie which will be remembered as much for the performances with her real-life daughter, Mamie gummer, as well as the live musical performances (Photo/Tristar Pictures). gold Coast International Film Festival and Arts Center staffers at the reception at LOLA which followed the pre-release screening of “Ricki and the Flash”: Alexandra gil, Erika Howard, Caroline Sorokoff, Ronnie berger, Regina gil, and katie Mancher © 2015 karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Festival previews ‘Ricki and the Flash’

By K A r E N rU B I N Great Neck, Long Island’s own Bow Tie Squire Cinema was treated to an exclusive pre-release screening of “Ricki and the Flash,” a major TRISTAR Pictures/SONY movie with a star-studded cast including Meryl Streep, her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield, Kevin Kline and Audra McDonald, as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival.

The sell-out audience thoroughly enjoyed the film by Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (she won her award for “Juno,”), as well as the reception which followed next door at Lola restaurant, owned by award-winning Chef Michael Ginor.

In “Ricki and the Flash” Meryl Streep, the 3-time Academy-award winning actress famous for her transformations into distinctive characters, transforms into a hard-rocking singer/guitarist In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances.

Streep plays Ricki Rendazzo, who made the fateful choice of abandoning her husband and three children to follow her dream of rock-and-roll stardom. A crisis with Ricki’s daughter, Julia, brings her back home to Indianapolis to reconnect with her adult children.

The film is a study of families, of personal choices, and ultimately, acceptance.

The performances by Rick Springfield, as Flash’s lead guitar (he is amazing) in love with Ricki, Kevin Kline as Ricki’s ex-husband, Audra McDonald as Kline’s new wife, and Mamie Gummer, her real-life daughter who confronts her mother, are outstanding.

The movie is propelled by the live musical performances — Streep had to learn guitar for the part, and uses her exquisite voice to superb effect, while Springfield’s playing — and the entire band, is fantastic.

This is the first time Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer (“Newsroom”) have acted together, offering up some of the most dramatic scenes in the movie In interviews, both said they were instructed by director Jonathan Demme not to talk to each other about the parts, but Mamie said they ignored him.

Jonathan Demme, who is a Long Islander (born in Baldwin) is a director and producer, best known for “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), “Philadelphia” (1993) and “The Manchurian Candidate” (2004).

Regina Gil, founder and executive director of the Gold Coast Arts Center and the film festival, related that Meryl invented the hairstyle and make-up for the character. Meryl Streep is renowned for her singing - most recently in “Into the Woods,” but for this role, she had to learn how to play guitar, and practiced eight hours a day for nine months before starting rehearsals for the 10 songs she performs in the movie.

Asked how the Gold Coast International Film Festival managed the coup of a pre-release screening, Gold Coast Arts Center Associate Director Erika Howard said, “We wanted Jonathan Demme to come to last year’s festival, but he couldn’t accept because he was in production with this film. We developed a relationship with Sony Pictures through the months, telling them about our festival, the community, and how the film would be a great fit. It took six months of discussions before they agreed.”

The film had its New York City premier just two days earlier, before the release on Friday, August 7.

“We’re very happy to be one of the first venues selected for a pre-release screening.”

Actually, pre-screenings of major films - as well as appearances with significant people associated with the film - is not new for the Gold Coast film festival. The festival had a July 29 pre-screening of “Best of Enemies,” a docu-

mentary about the on-air rivalry between conservative William Buckley Jr. and liberal Gore Vidal, with guest appearances (via Skype) and dialogue with the audience by Caryn Capotosto, co-producer, and film editor Eileen Meyer.

The film festival also introduces cinema buffs to films they would likely never encounter on their own, such as the recently screened, “Mr. Kaplan,” set in the Jewish community of Uruguay, a remarkably sensitive film which defies cliches, that tells an interesting story while exploring universal themes. The sxcreening featured a conversation with Frederico Zanatta, Business and Cultural Manager at Consulate General of Uruguay.

The GCIFF produces a year-round film series featuring an exciting slate of quality films and award-winning talent. This fall, the GCIFF will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary Festival November 9-15, and recently won first place in “The Best of the North Shore” competition as the “Best Attraction” within the region.

New Children’s Theater Classes The GCIFF is just one of the many events and programs organized by the Gold Coast Arts Center, serving the North Hempstead/Nassau/ Queens region. The arts center is now taking registrations for new “Introduction to Acting: Become a Musical Theatre Star” (Ages 7+), “Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre” (Ages 9-14), and “Broadway Bound Junior Children’s Theatre” (Ages 6-8) classes.

In “Introduction to Acting” (September 18-December 18), ages 7 and up will use various methods and techniques to help them tell a cohesive story as they sing Musical Theatre songs. Becoming acquainted with terms like “beats”, “tactics”, and “obstacles”, the children will demonstrate their skills in a showcase featuring ensemble numbers, solos, and duets. In “Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre” (September 22-December 22), ages 9-14 will get the “grand Broadway experience” while being

taught advanced acting, singing, and dancing in a production of “King Midas and the Golden Touch” where King Midas is punished for his greed when being granted a wish for the Golden Touch. And in “Broadway Bound Junior Children’s Theatre” (September 16-December 23), an introduction into the Broadway experience will also teach acting, singing, and dancing to ages 6-8 in a fun-filled production of “Stone Soup”.

The Gold Coast Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts through education, exhibition, performance and outreach. Founded more than 20 years ago, the center has brought the arts and arts in education experiences to tens of thousands of people throughout the region through its School for the Arts, which offers year-round classes in all visual and performing arts to students of all ages and abilities, free public art gallery, concert and lecture series, outreach programs, which each year bring artist residencies, after-school programs, school assemblies, teacher training workshops and parent-child workshops to students, senior citizens, teachers and others in underserved communities throughout our region, year-round film screening and discussion series as well as the Gold Coast International Film Festival.

The Center also hosts “Your Big Break,” and Acoustic Cafe, giving showcase opportunities to young Long Island talent, The Arts Center is an affiliate of the John F Kennedy Center for the for the Performing Arts: Partners in Education Program and National Gallery of Art, both located in Washington DC. Currently on view through September 8 in the center’s art gallery, is the center’s first-ever “Faculty and Staff Art Exhibition.”

Gold Coast Arts Center is located at 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11021 (516) 829-2570, http://www.goldcoastarts. org, Twitter @goldcoastarts.

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The top seven events for the coming week North Shore Pops Concert Band Saturday, Aug. 15, 6 p.m.

Planting Fields 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 http://www.plantingfields.org The North Shore Pops Concert Band plays traditional jazz music by such notables as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Duke Ellington, sousa marches and American patriotic selections, show tunes and more current classics from the likes of Stevie Wonder and Carol King. Bring a chair, blanket, and an outdoor picnic to enjoy beautiful music and the beauty at Planting Fields.

Todd Rundgren Tuesday, Aug. 18, 8 p.m.

The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300, ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Once considered a pop wunderkind, Todd Rundgren is now a rock-n-roll veteran now with 25 solo albums under his belt and is responsible for such classics as “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw the Light” and “Bang the Drum All Day.” He recently released Global, his latest studio offering, which fuses rock, soul and EDM.

Neil Sedaka Saturday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.

NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury.

(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Award-winning singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, and author Neil Sedaka, the man behind such hits as “Laughter In The Rain,” “Bad Blood,” “The Immigrant,” “Calendar Girl,” and “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” will be appearing at the former Westbury Music Fair Saturday. His latest release “The Real Neil” features “Beginning To Breathe Again” and was recorded in 2012.

Nassau Has Talent Monday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m.

The Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre Eisenhower Park, East Meadow (516) 572-0200 www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

The 2nd Annual “Nassau Has Talent” Showcase will take place at Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park Monday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 p.m., The competition will be for solo and duet acts in vocal, dance, and music. If doubtful weather conditions arise, call (516) 572-0355 after 6:30 p.m. for updated performance information.

International Youth Fellowship World Camp Monday, Aug. 17, 6:50 p.m.: Opening Ceremony Tuesday, Aug. 18, 6:50 p.m. An Evening of IYF Performing Arts Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m. International Youth Fellowship: Easter Cantata Thursday, Aug. 20, 3 & 7:30 p.m. International Youth Fellowship: Christmas Cantata Tilles Center For The Performing Arts 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 http://tillescenter.org International Youth Fellowship is hosting its fifth World Camp on Long Island, which will kick off with an Opening Ceremony featuring cultural dance performances from around the world, welcoming addresses from distinguished national and international figures, and a special music concert by the award-winning Gracias Choir.

Three nights of musical performances will follow.

Chris D’Elia Tuesday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Governors’ Comedy Club 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 http://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm Quickly becoming one of the most sought-after young comedians and actors in the comedy world, New Jersey native and comedian Chris D’Elia can be seen starring the NBC’s comedy series “Undateable,” as well as in his Netflix special “Incorrigible.” Variety named D’Elia one of its “Top 10 Comics to Watch,” Chicago & Earth, Wind and Fire Sunday, Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m.

Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh (516) 221-1000 www.jonesbeach.com/‎ Two of the most successful and critically-acclaimed bands to emerge from the 1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago, who have more than 200 million albums and 20 GRAMMY nominations between them, have joined together for a 25-date tour that rolls into Jones Beach this weekend.

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T H E C U L I N A R Y A R C H I T E C T

Grilling foods you never thought of Summertime and grilling just go together.

However, if you are like me, you have probably grilled one too many hot dogs, hamburgers, ribs, or ear of corn by now. This is the time of summer when I love to experiment with grilling foods that are not known for the barbeque.

My friends and family are always amazed at how creative one can be with a simple barbeque.

Grilling Avocados and Romaine lettuce brings out a buttery subtleness that you never knew these foods have.

You can grill these foods on an electric barbeque, charcoal barbeque or even on a George Foreman grill.

Try one or all of the following recipes and you will be amazed at how delicious grilling can make your every day foods taste.

Menu Serves 4 Grilled Avocado Grilled Hearts of Romaine Grilled Meatballs Baguette of French Bread* Grilled Peaches *Recipe Not Given

or to taste 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint Salt and freshly ground pepper 24 homemade or store bought meatballs from the freezer section, defrosted

Grilled Avocado 4 firm avocados Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tblsp. grapeseed oil 1 tblsp. balsamic vinegar 1/2 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. black pepper 1. Preheat the grill.

2. Quarter the avocados and remove the pit. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, and brush with grapeseed oil. Grill the avocado slices over indirect heat, leaving undisturbed for the first 2 to 4 minutes or so to let the seasonings integrate into the surface and to allow the caramelization process to begin. Then, flip the avocados, remove from grill and let rest.

Grilled Hearts of Romaine 2 hearts romaine lettuce 2 tblsp. olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper Vinaigrette Dressing optional 1. Preheat a grill or a grill pan.

2. Cut each heart of romaine in half lengthwise, leaving the end

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect

intact so each half holds together.

Cut the tops of the lettuce, if necessary. Brush with olive oil and grill over medium heat until the lettuce chars and wilts slightly, about 6 minutes, turning a few times.

Season with salt and pepper, to taste and serve.

3. Pass Vinaigrette Dressing, if desired.

Grilled Meatballs Yogurt Sauce: 4 cups plain yogurt 3 cloves garlic, finely minced 3 tblsp. olive oil 1 tblsp. lemon juice,

1. In a bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the yogurt sauce. Refrigerate until serving.

2. Skewer meatballs on metal skewers 3. Brush the meatballs with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.

Place the skewers on an oiled grill rack or broiler pan and grill or broil, turning to brown on all sides, until cooked through, about 8 minutes.

4. Remove the skewers from the grill or broiler and slip the meatballs off the skewers. Serve with yogurt sauce, on the side.

Grilled Peaches 4 ripe medium peaches 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1/4 tsp. almond extract 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1 to 2 pints frozen vanilla yogurt or vanilla ice cream 1. Cut the peaches in half and

remove the pit. Slice each half in half and toss them in a bowl with the vanilla extract, almond extract and brown sugar.

2. Set aside for 15 minutes while you preheat a grill to medium-high heat.

3. Grill skin side down until skin is slightly charred, about 3 minutes. Turn and grill on the other 2 sides until you get nice grill marks, about 1 minute on each side.

4. Divide the peaches among 4 bowls and serve with the frozen yogurt or ice cream.

Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 32-year old Greenvale-based company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties.

For more photos and presentation ideas, follow Culinary Architect Catering on Facebook.

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet. org Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2 p.m.

AftrerNoon Tea: Some Like it Hot Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2 p.m.

Warren Schein performs The American Songbook Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2 p.m.

The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, 8 p.m.

Colin Quinn Live!

Thursday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Renaissance: Songs for All Our Times Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, 8 p.m.

Jonatha Brooke & Patty Larkin Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

Forbidden Broadway Saturday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

David Bromberg Big Band Saturday, Nov. 7 Spotlight Gala ’15 featuring Patina Miller Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

Madeleine Peyroux Trio: Keep Me in Your Heart

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Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis: Friends Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.

The Weight: Songs of The Band Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

The Pine Hill Project – Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.

Darlene Love Sunday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m.

The Klezmatics Present Happy Joyous Hanukah, Lyrics by Woody Guthrie Friday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m.

Dar Williams Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

Upright Citizens Brigade Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.

On Your Radar with WFUV’s John Platt Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.

The Second City – Hooking Up With the Second City Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.

An Evening with Peter Yarrow with Special Guest John Gorka Sunday, Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

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Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

Leo Kottke Sunday, March 20, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites Sunday, April 3, 7 p.m.

Tom Rush & John Sebastian Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m.

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Tommy Tune: Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Dennis Elsas: Rock’n’Roll Never Forgets Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

Pushcart Players in Peter & the Wolf Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8 p.m.

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs The Space at Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury. com Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.

Buddy Guy Saturday, Sept. 5, 9 p.m.

Benyamin Saturday, Sept. 19, 9 p.m.

Shahkar Saturday, Sept. 26, 9 p.m.

Joan Armatrading featuring Marti Jones & Don Dixon Wednesday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m.

Warren Haynes & the Ashes & Dust Band Saturday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m.

Artie Lange Friday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.

Garbage NYCB THeatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury.

(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury. com Friday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

George Benson Saturday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.

Neil Sedaka Sunday, Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m.

The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes Friday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m.

Engelbert Humperdink Sunday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m.

Smokey Robinson Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

Jackie Mason Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m.

Paul Anka

Sunday, Nov. 1, 3 p.m.

Last Comic Standing Friday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

The Tenors Saturday, Dec. 13, 2 & 5 p.m.

Peppa Pig Live THE HARRY CHAPIN LAKESIDE THEATRE Eisenhower Park Stewart Avenue and Merrick Avenue, East Meadow (516) 572-0348 • http://www. nassaucountyny.gov/ Friday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m.

Oldies Show with Jimmy Gallagher & The Passions Monday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m.

Nassau Has Talent Friday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m.

ABBA Mania & Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees Tribute Band Saturday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m.

CBS-FM Presents Saturday in the Park Starring Joan Jett Friday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m.

Desert Highway – Eagles Tribute Band Sunday, Aug. 30, 1 p.m.

Vega Bond Puppets Saturday, Sept. 12, 7 p.m.

NASH FM’s Last Summer Blast Starring Kristian Bush & Gloriana Saturday, Sept. 19, 5 p.m.

Doo-Wop Concert Benefitting

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Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games PLANTING FIELDS Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 • http:// www.plantingfields.org Saturday, Aug. 15, 6 p.m.

Concert in the Park – North Shore Pops Concert Band Saturday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m.

Concert in the Park – River of Dreams, A Billy Joel Tribute Band Sunday, Aug. 23, 2 p.m.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 25 Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 • http://aupac. adelphi.edu/ Saturday, Sept. 12, 2 p.m.

Baths of Caracalla The Three Tenors Concert Friday, Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Ana Gasteyer Sunday, Sept. 27, 2 p.m.

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden’s L’Elisir d’Amore The madison theatre at molloy college 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

(5176) 323-4444 • http://madisontheatreny.org.

Fridays July 10 – August 14 Movies on the Lawn Series August 14 – Frozen The lawn opens at 7:30 p.m. for blankets and picnicking, and the films begin at sunset, typically between 8 and 9 p.m.

TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http:// tillescenter.org Monday, Aug. 17, 6:50 p.m.

International Youth Fellowship: Opening Ceremony Tuesday, Aug. 18, 6:50 p.m.

An Evening of IYF Performing Arts Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m.

International Youth Fellowship: Easter Cantata Thursday, Aug. 20, 3 & 7:30 p.m.

International Youth Fellowship: Christmas Cantata The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 • www.paramountny.com Friday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Mike Marino “The Presidential Tour” Saturday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.

Breaking Benjamin Sunday, Aug. 16, 8 p.m.

Machine Gun Kelly Tuesday, Aug. 18, 8 p.m.

Todd Rundgren Thursday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m.

Creedance Clearwater Revisited Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.

Butch Trucks & The Freight Train Band Featuring Berry Oakley Jr. Saturday, Aug. 22, 8 p.m.

Aaron Lewis Monday, Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Under the Sun 2015 with Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra, Uncle Kracker & Eve 6 Saturday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m.

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The J.Geils Band with Ian Hunter & The Rant Band Tuesday, Sept. 1, 8 p.m.

Catch A Fire Tour 2015 Thursday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.

The Jacksons Friday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m.

Counting Crows Saturday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m.

R5 “Sometime Last Night” Tour Friday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m.

Joe DeGuardia’s STAR Boxing Presents “Rockin’ Fights 20” Featuring – Joe Smith Sunday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.

Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters Thursday, Sept. 17, 7:45 p.m.

GWAR: “30 Years of Total World Domination” Friday, Sept. 18, 9 p.m.

Young Thug Sunday, Sept. 27, 7:45 p.m.

Alan Parsons Live Project & “The Orchestra” Saturday, Oct. 3, 9 p.m.

Yacht Rock Revue Wednesday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m.

Creative Collab Tour featuring Matthew Espinosa Thursday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m.

Vertical Horizon Friday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m.

Back to the Eighties Show with Jessie’s Girl Thursday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m.

Collective Soul Friday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m.

REO Speedwagon Sunday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m.

Loreena McKennitt Tuesday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m.

Tove Lo Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m.

Iration Friday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents: Rodney Carrington Saturday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

The Darkness Friday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.

Judas Priest with special guest Mastodon Wednesday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.

Jon Anderson & Jean Luc Ponty Friday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Carlos Mencia Monday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.

Parkway Drive Tuesday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.

The Robert Cray Band Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Frank Caliendo Tuesday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m.

Machine Head Wednesday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m.

The Wilderness Politics Tour Friday, Nov. 27, 8 p.m.

Get The Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin

Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m.

Dark Star Orchestra Friday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.

Dustin Lynch Saturday, Dec. 12, 8 p.m.

Squeeze Acoustic Saturday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.

Donny Osmond GOVERNORS’ COMEDY CLUB 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm Friday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Tim Krompier Tuesday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Chris D’Elia Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.

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Rich Vos Friday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m.

Gary Valentine Saturday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m.

John Valby BROKERAGE COMEDY CLUB 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore (516) 785-8655 • http://tickets.brokeragecomedy.com Friday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

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Wali Collins Thursday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m.

Michele Durante & Friends Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.

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Jessica Kirson Thursday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m.

Keith Anthony Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Chris Monty Sundday, Aug. 30, 7 p.m.

Jessica Kirson NIKON AT JONES BEACH THEATER 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh (516) 221-1000 • www. jonesbeach.com/‎ Saturday, Aug. 15, 7:30 p.m.

Van Halen & Kenny Wayne Shepherd Sunday, Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago - The Band & Earth, Wind and Fire Tuesday, Aug. 18, 7 p.m.

Jimmy Buffett & Huey Lewis and The News Friday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m.

Kevin Hart Saturday, Aug. 29, 4 p.m.

Laid Back Festival: The Gregg Allman Band & The Doobie Brothers Sunday, Aug. 30, 7 p.m.

Chris Brown, Kid Ink & Omarion Tuesday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m.

5 Seconds of Summer Wednesday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m.

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Health,Wellness & Beauty a blank slate media / litmor publications special section • august 14, 2015

How to build and maintain strong bones

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steoporosis, a disease that causes bones to become weakened and brittle over time, affects millions of people across the globe.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation says an osteoporosis-related fracture occurs roughly once every 3 seconds, accounting for more than 8.9 million fractures a year.

Younger individuals typically heal from fractures more quickly than older adults, who often discover that fractures greatly impede their mobility and quality of life.

Bone health is important at any age, but it is particularly crucial as a person gets older. Without a strong framework of bones, the body collapses on itself and rates of fracture increase. Fortunately, there are several ways to keep and maintain strong bones.

Bones are largely made up of a protein called collagen, which is bound together by calcium and other trace minerals. Vitamin D and calcium work in concert, with vitamin D helping the body to absorb calcium so it can find its way into bones.

Experts advise getting the right ratio of calcium, protein and vitamin D to safeguard against osteoporosis. The Institute of Medicine suggests that adults get between 600 and 800 international units (IUs) of vitamin D every day, and between 1,000 and 1,300 milligrams of calcium daily.

Dairy products, such as low- and nonfat milk, yogurt and cheese, are high in calcium. Dark green vegetables and almonds contain calcium in smaller amounts. Obtaining calcium and vitamin D through natural sources is always preferable, but doctors may suggest supplementation if foods are not providing what a person needs to meet the minimum recommended levels.

Exercise is another important component of building strong bones. The National Osteoporosis Foundation says 30 minutes of exercise each day can help. Higher-intensity exercises should be mixed with lower-intensity workouts for the best results. Weight-bearing exercises, such as hiking, dancing and stair-climbing, can build between 1 and 3 percent of bone. An exercise regimen also should include lifting weights or using resistance bands.

Activities that promote good posture and flexibility can help improve balance and alignment of the body. Perform stretches smoothly and slowly after exercising to maintain your range of motion.

Quitting smoking also can promote strong bones.

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Chair pose: This is a bended position pose in which the knees are bent over the ankles. Arms are up, and the torso forms a right angle over the thighs. Beginners can experiment with moving the feet closer together for a more advanced pose. Do not extend the knees over the toes and rest on the heels.

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Quit smoking. According to the National Eye Institute, smoking doubles a person’s risk for age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. AMD is a leading cause of vision loss in men and women over the age of 50. It causes damage to the macula, which is the part of the eye needed for sharp, central vision. If the macula is damaged, vision may be blurry, distorted or dark.

Protect eyes from ultraviolet light.

The American Optometric Association notes that UV-A and UV-B radiation can have adverse effects on a person’s vision. A short-term effect of excessive exposure to UV radiation is photokeratitis, a painful condition that can lead to red eyes, extreme sensitivity to light and excessive tearing. Long-term effects of such exposure include a higher risk of developing cataracts and damage to the retina, which is the part of the eye used for seeing. When spending time outdoors, always wear sunglasses that provide protection against UV-A and UV-B rays.

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HBP also can cause the optic nerve to swell, compromising a person’s vision as a result. Eye damage that results from HBP is cumulative, which means the longer it goes untreated, the more likely the damage to the eye will be permanent. Men and women can maintain a healthy blood pressure by eating right, exercising regularly and sustaining a healthy weight.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 26 5 Seconds of Summer Friday, Sept. 4, 5:15 p.m.

The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival: Aziz Ansari & Amy Schumer Wednesday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.

Motorhead Nassau county museum of art 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 • http://nassaumuseum.org MAIN GALLERIES July 25 to November 8 The Moderns: Chagall, Degas, Léger, Miró, Picasso, and more….

In a sweeping showcase of modern art, Nassau County Museum of Art presents two exhibitions, Selections from the Saltzman Family Collection and Long Island Collects Modern Art. CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS GALLERY July 25-November 8 Frank Olt: New Works Frank Olt’s colorful and dynamic installation of smallscale work will occupy the Museum’s Contemporary Gallery in a solo exhibition.

A product of New York’s minimalist tradition, Olt was an artist in residence at NYC’s famed P.S. 1 gallery. His abstractions, a unique hybrid of ceramics and painting, have been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions. A Long Islander, Olt maintains studios in Oyster Bay and Manhattan.

SECOND FLOOR GALLERIES July 25 to November 8 Posters of the Russian Revolution: 1917-1921 In the stormy period that began with the 1917 October Revolution, poster art became a principal means of communicating the ideals of Communism to the largely illiterate peasantry of Russia. Graphic, inexpensively produced posters carried the Revolution’s message and served to capture the minds and souls of the masses. These vibrant posters, depicting the new collective means of production in mines, fields and factories, were designed and executed by some of the foremost Russian artists of the time. Offered in conjunction with The Saltzman Family Collection, this exhibition is comprised of a collection of Russian revolutionary posters that was gifted to Nassau County Museum of Art by the Arnold A. Saltzman Family Foundation.

Ongoing Sculpture Park Approximately 40 works,

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

Walking Trails The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods, perfect for family hikes or independent exploration.

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

Come view our expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum.

EVENTS FILM July 25-November 8 Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m., 12, 1, 3 p.m.

Sunday, 11 a.m., 12 p.m.

Edgar Degas of Dandies, Ballerinas, and Woman Ironing This documentary follows the trail of the painter Edgar Degas through nocturnal Paris at the turn of the century, in the Paris Opera and the concert cafes. Edgar Degas, the son of an Italian banker, had stopped studying law to become a painter. Degas was a brilliant portraitist, but even more than this he loved to paint the dynamics of movement in horse races, to sketch the milliners on the boulevards, to depict with his paintbrush or pastel crayons the young women who worked as laundresses and water-carriers.

Similar to but unique within the Impressionist art movement he helped to start, his art captured the fleeting moments of movement and light in the flow of modern life.

FOR THE FAMILY September 6, 13, 20 Family Sundays at the Museum Converse, collaborate and create together during Family Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Family Sundays begin with exhibition-based gallery conversations. Families then go on to explore new art materials, vocabulary and ideas with our museum educator.

Family Sundays provide children and the adults in their lives with the opportunity to reconnect while talking about and making art

together. New projects are featured every week! Reservations not needed. Free with Museum admission. Not offered on September 27; see special family program for that day.

Session II: August 10-August 21 SUMMER ART & SCIENCE DAY CAMP Indoor and outdoor adventures that offer playful and creative opportunities for children through a mix of art making, science activities, group projects and more.

Activities include hands-on art making (printmaking, sculpture, painting and more), sketching, gallery games, story time, outdoor scavenger hunts, hiking and journaling. Customized classes for children 5 to 8 are held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and for ages 9 to 13 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more or to register, log onto nassaumuseum. org, Summer Art Lab tab upper left-hand of page.

OUTDOOR LEARNING Wednesdays, September 9, October 7, 9 a.m.

Bird Watching for Beginners Rebecca Oyer, education manager at Oyster Bay’s Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center, leads an observation of birds on the museum’s beautiful property. Learn how to use field marks, habitat, behavior and song to identify birds. Please bring binoculars if you have them. Fee is $10 per class (payable in cash on the day of the class). Please write to the museum at events@ nassaumuseum.org to reserve a place in the class of your choice. Limit is 15 per class. Meet at the Art School parking lot (first building on the left as you enter the grounds).

EXHIBITION TALK Sunday, Sept. 20, 3-4 p.m.

Artist in the Galleries Long Island artist Frank Olt, whose colorful and dynamic work is presently on view in the Contemporary Gallery, greets museum visitors and answers questions about his work and career. Reservations not needed. Free with museum admission.

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Juried art set show to open “Driven To Abstraction,” a new juried art show presented by the Huntington Arts Council, Main Street Gallery, goes on display from the Opening Reception on August 14 through August 29.

The Opening Reception is from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery, 213 Main Street, Huntington.All are welcome to attend.

“To my surprise, I was faced with an abundant and diverse amount of art, includ-

ing many notable works,: said juror Deborah Katz, a Long Island native who is also an award-winning artist, curator and writer. “In jurying ‘Driven To Abstraction’ my intentions were to be as objective as possible and choose a variety and range of work demonstrating variations in abstraction. I also attempted to keep in mind a visually successful and cohesive exhibit. Aesthetically, I mainly considered the clarity of the piece, visual language and

implementation of materials.

Congratulations to all of the participating artists; Anu Annam, Ginger Balizer-Hendler, Linda A. Beutelschies, Mary Brodersen, Andrew Buck, Edward Cascone, Louise Cassano, Laura Cerrano, Joe Constantino, Beth Costello, Tom de Gruyl, JoAnne Dumas, Emily EIsen, Jess Faro,Terry Finch, John Flagg, Barbara B. Flamm, Stuart Friedman, Joanna Gazzola, Andrea M. Gordon, William Grabowski, Cassan-

Left: First Place winner, “RED” by Constance Sloggatt Wolf; Below: Second Place winner, “Hockey Player” by John Flagg; Right: Third Place winner: “Ruined 3,” Front by Ellen Hallie Schiff

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at designing their own roller coaster – from design to range of art included THE testing and then re-testing.

MODERNS: Chagall, Degas, All kinds of physical forces Léger, Miró, Picasso, and are at play when you get more…. Selections from the onto a roller coaster or just Saltzman Family Collection go for a ride in a car. This and Long Island Collects hands-on exhibit offers Modern Art. Afterward, join visitors the opportunity to the 2 p.m. public exhibition explore science as they detour. Free with museum sign amusement park rides, admission. Reservations not needed; first come, first race tracks and superhighways. Find out how slopes, seated. loops, hills, curves, gravity EXHIBITION LECTURE or speed make a difference Saturday, Sept. 26, 3 p.m. on how things move as Andrew Geller: Deconyou navigate balls through structed a variety of track designs.

Jake Gorst, grandson of Make discoveries about architect Andrew Geller force and energy, about and the author of a newlyfriction and stability, all the published book, Andrew while having lots of fun.

Geller: Deconstructed (GlitThis hands-on exhibit helps terati Incorporated, ©2015), presents a talk on Geller, an children develop their skills of observation, investigation, architectural icon who designed many of Long Island’s questioning and experimentation as they discover what modernist beach houses. affects how things move.

Gorst, an Emmy Awardwinning filmmaker, will sign This exhibit was developed

by Ontario Science Centre. copies of his book. AdmisLocal exhibit support is sion is $5 for members, provided by Astoria Bank. $15 for nonmembers and includes museum admission. All ages. Free with museum admission.

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June has arrived and the org/events.

Long Island Children’s FOR THE FAMILY Museum visitors can Sunday, Sept. 27, 1-4 p.m. explore moon and sun fun.

A Day of Construction: The LICM Theater offers Imagine, Design, Build weekday and weekend Families will work together to design and build inventive performances of “Goodnight Moon” as it wraps up its run 3D constructions including this week. The Museum is super tall towers using unexpected materials, blueprint also preparing for the arrival of summer by creating designs for a new museum, suncatchers to welcome the and a large scale cardboard arrival of the new season. city with members of the NYC art collective Free Style Through September 6 KaleidoZone Gallery Arts Association. Museum admission plus $8 per family Aleksandr Razin: Letters to Artists I Admire materials fee. This event is In this exhibit, Aleksandr in place of Family Sundays.

Razin pays gratitude to the artists that have inspired Long island him. Paintings and eight-foot children’s museum long, mixed-media envelopes 11 Davis Ave, Garden City highlight artwork by each of (516) 224-5800 his inspirations. The stamps http://www.licm.org/ on the envelopes feature a Museum Hours: Daily from self-portrait in the style of the 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (unless othartist to whom the letter is aderwise indicated). Museum admission: $12 for adults and dressed. All ages. Free with museum admission. children over 1 year old, $11 Through September 6 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under Community Gallery - “Critter” 1 year old. Additional fees Lynbrook artist Aleksandr for theater and special programs may apply. For ad- Razin, Ethan Abelev (9) and ditional information, contact Michael Gordon (14) created a site-specific “critter” from (516) 224-5800. discarded material and found Saturday, May 16 – Sunday, objects. Drawings by Ethan Sept. 6 and Michael that have inspired New Traveling Exhibit: similar installations will also Motion Mania! For Thrill be on display. All ages. Free Seekers of All Ages Join in a summer of fun and with museum admission. head-spinning thrills at Long Mondays, July 6 through Aug. 24, 1 to 3 p.m.

Island Children’s Museum.

Maker Mondays Visitors will try their hand

Are you curious? Do you like to tinker? Calling all DIY kids!

Join LICM each Monday as we explore the creativity and innovation used in the art of “making.” Learn practical skills and spark your interest as we investigate different maker “mediums” from fabric to electricity to clay.

Join in the grassroots maker movement and discover the inventor in you! This program is supported by the PSEG Foundation. Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Monday through Friday, July 6 - Aug. 28, 1-4 p.m.

Birds of a Feather Do you like bird watching and family fun? Join us for a unique workshop as you design your own family birdhouse using wood pieces, bright paint and other exciting materials. Display your birdhouse at home to feed and watch Long Island’s native feathered friends.

Ages: 3 and up. $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members Monday through Friday, July 6 - Aug. 21, 2 to 4 p.m.

Out and About Join us as you get out and about in “Our Backyard.”

Each week our Green Teens will lead visitors through a variety of science- and nature-related activities that lead to eco action and exploring the great outdoors. This program is made possible by a generous grant from National Grid. All ages. Free with museum admission.

Tuesdays, July 7 through Aug. 25, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Building with Nature After a cold winter staying indoors, discover the fun of building with natural materials as you play and learn outside.

Learn easy activities to explore science, art and math in the great outdoors. Get creative and spark your imagination as you construct collaborative sculptures from an exciting variety of natural materials.

(Weather permitting.) Ages: 3 and up. Free with admission.

Saturday, Aug. 22, Sunday, Aug. 23, 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m.

Plaza Theatrical presents “Mary Poppins” Enjoy the enchanting tale of the nanny, Mary Poppins, who takes the children in her care on an exciting and magical journey teaching everyone important life’s lessons. Tickets available through Plaza Theatrical at http://plazatheatrical. com or by calling (516) 5996870. Ages: 5 and up.

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Town announces line up for kids music fest The Town of North Hempstead has announced the lineup for this year’s children’s music festival, KidStock. The festival will be held on Sunday, Aug. 16 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at North Hempstead Beach Park.

The 5th Annual KidStock is a FREE outdoor family music festival which stars nationally acclaimed musical entertainment including Grammy-nominated artists.

“It’s always a pleasure to attend KidStock and see hundreds of young families enjoying a beautiful day at North Hempstead Beach Park,” Bosworth said. “This year’s event promises to entertain with some popular bands from the past coupled with plenty of new performers and activities.”

All the festival acts will inspire and encourage children to celebrate and

learn through the power of music and creativity. The lineup consists of many of KidStock’s traditional favorites including the Bari Koral Family Rock Band, and the Grammy nominated Brady Rhymer, who have both played at the White House, as well as the Bach to Rock Kid Band, This year will also feature the Dirty Sock Funtime band, which has been fea-

tured on Nick Jr.’s “Big Music Show.” There will be additional activities, such as arts and crafts, carnival games, kids yoga and face painting.

Please bring picnic blankets and/or beach chairs.

The event is free, but a $10 parking fee applies. North Hempstead Beach Park is located at 175 West Shore Road in Port Washington.

For more information please call 311 or (516) 869-6311.

IBach to Rock takes part in interactive activities with children at last year’s KidStock

New Yorker cartoonist to speak at Westbury New Yorker cartoonist and author Roz Chast has been added to the line-up of he NYCB Theatre at Westbury Conversations series.

The moderated discussion with audience Q&A will take place on Thursday, Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. with a book signing to follow.

Chast has had more than 1,000 of her cartoon’s published in The New Yorker as well as published in The Village Voice, Scientific American and The Harvard Business Review. Her most recent published work is “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant,” published this year

by Bloomsbury.

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She recently collaborated with Steve Martin on the children’s book “The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!” published by Random House. Her children’s book, “Too Busy Marco,” was published by Simon & Schuster and released in the Fall of 2010. The sequel, “Marco Goes to School” was released in 2012. Her book for adults, “What I Hate: From A – Z” was published by Bloomsbury in October 2011. She has illustrated a book with songwriter Stephen Merritt called “101 Two-Letter Words “published in fall 2014.

Her newest book for adults is “Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?,” a book that chronicles her relationship with her aging parents as they shift from independence to dependence.

Using handwritten text, drawings, photographs, and her keen eye for the foibles that make us human, Chast addresses the realities of what it is to get old in America today – and what it is to have aging parents today –

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Chast’s newest book for children is titled “Around the Clock.”.

Tickets are $19.50 and $39.50. A limited number of tickets at $99 are available for a VIP Reception.

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Family fun at Art Guild open house Families are invited to CreARTive at The Art Guild, on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 1 to 4 p.m.. The open house, with free art-related activities such as tie dying, simple printmaking and more, is a way for parents to meet instructors and familiarize themselves with The Art Guild. The projects will be geared for ages 5 through 12.

“We had a thriving children’s art school before a fire forced us to close in September 2011,” said Susan Herbst, associate executive director. “We’d like to reintroduce ourselves to the community and let parents know that we offer fun, reasonably priced art classes for students of all ages – from kindergarten through high school, as well as college and beyond.”

The fall schedule of classes for children and adults will be announced in late August.

“An Internal Affair” an exhibit featuring the work of the Guild’s instructors, studio artists and board members is on

view through August 30. The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment.

A call for artists has gone out for the next gallery exhibit, “Ordinary Made Extraordinary: The Art of Still Life.” Deadline for submissions is August 12. The show will be on view from September 4 – 27, with an Artist’s Reception Friday, Sept. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Art Guild offers classes, workshops and exhibits year-round for artists of all ages. Have an idea for a class?

Interested in volunteering or sponsoring a program? Please check The Art Guild website and Facebook page throughout the year for information about programs and events.

The Art Guild is located at Nassau County’s historic Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset..

For more information please call (516) 304-5797 or visit our website: www.TheArtGuild.org. The Art Guild is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization.

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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Princess Frog – Fairy Tale Workshop Lena Pennino, who created the popular production “Happy as Clams: The Musical,” is sharing a new musical in development with her LICM fans. Based on an Italian folktale, it tells the story of a frog who is inadvertently chosen to be a prince’s bride when she is hit with a rock. Begrudgingly, the prince and the frog compete against other royalty to claim the crown, and in the process find that they are starting to like each other. The show is written as a theatrical companion to LICM’s fall exhibit, “Once Upon a Time …Exploring the World of Fairy Tales.” Become part of this exciting new project from the very start. Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members), $10 theater only.

Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1 p.m.

It’s Aerial Car! Cable cars use a combination of cables, wheels, gears, and motors to drive the cable car along. In the inventive spirit of our summer exhibit Motion Mania, come use your imagination to assemble your own cute string cable car carrying tiny passengers. Ages: 5 and up. $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Thursday, Aug. 20, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

National Circus Project National Circus project, Long Island’s own center for professional circus performers and educators, will be back again this summer to share all the fun of the circus arts. Join Rob Lok for his special brand of kinetic clowning fun; a perfect complement to LICM’s Motion Mania Day. Enjoy juggling, stilts, unicycles and clowning to entertain everyone in the family. Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members), $10 theater only Thursday, Aug. 20, 1 to 4 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENT: Motion Mania Day Spin it, twirl it, and move it at Motion Mania Day at LICM. Play with forces of motion as you explore different crafts and activities all inspired around the science of motion. Keep your summer energy alive with fun experiments as you take off into exciting discoveries.

During the non-stop afternoon of fun, visitors will experiment with distance and energy as they design and test wacky flyers, build twirling spinners to learn about gravity, make paper airplanes and discover rotational energy as they the create spinning tops. Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Early Childhood Programs stART (story + Art): Tuesday

and Thursday from 11:30 a.m.

– 12 p.m.

Music and Movement: Wednesday from 11:30 a.m.

- 12 p.m.

Kids in the Kitchen: Friday from 11:30 - 12 p.m.

Messy Afternoons: SaturdaySunday, from 3:30 - 5 p.m. – free with museum admission Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040 • http://www. hmtcli.org Through Sept. 30 Scenes of Horror: A PhotoHistory of the Armenian Genocide Live Music at BRASSERIE 214 214 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 354-7797 • http://www. brasserie214.com Friday, Aug. 14, 9 p.m.

Black Tie Brass Friday, Aug. 21, 9 p.m.

East Coast Saturday, Aug. 22, 9 p.m.

Brian Ripps and Band LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE 34-56 107th St. Corona (718) 478-8274 www.louisarmstronghouse. org Saturday, Aug. 15, 2 p.m.

Cynthia Sayer & Her Sparks Fly Quartet

Community Calendar PROJECT INDEPENDENCE SUPPORT & SOCIAL GROUP The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence would like to remind residents that they offer free support and social groups. Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

NATIONAL COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN/LAKEVILLE SECTION The National Council Jewish Women/Lakeville Section will have its next meeting Monday, Aug. 24 at 12 p.m. Shellter Rock Library, 165 Searington Rd. The group will be screeing the film “Body & Soul-History of Jews in Israel.” Call (718) 434-6222 for more information.

chase. For More Information Contact: Kip Webster (973) 934-1775 or Kwebster@jbs.org or Chris Wales (917) 693-0819 / Wales462@Verizon.net. Enjoy seeing a short and informative video presentation while meeting great people that have in depth knowledge to pursue and explore solutions for America’s future. Come by to hear about the key issues of the day in a relaxing manner and what you can do to make a difference. We hope to see you there.

CAST CALL Auditions for all voices, especially bass and tenor for Northport Chorale on Sept. 9, and 16 at 7 p.m. at Northport High School Choir Room, Laurel Hill Road, Northport. Membership OPEN HOUSE INVITATION fee $100 year, $75 for one seTHE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY Tuesday, August 18, from 6:30 mester. For more info call Debi - 8:30 p.m. at Park City Diner, at (631) 223-3789 or Pearl at 101 Herrick’s Road, Garden City (631) 239-6736. or visit www. northportchorale.org Park. Admission: Menu Pur-

FOR TRIVIA LOVERS At 7 p.m. Two Wednesday nights each month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 6258804 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.

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Art League to show works of instructors The Art League of Long Island will showcase artwork created by their highly talented visual arts instructors from Aug. 29 through Sept. 20 at the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills.

An open house and public artists’ reception will takes place Saturday, Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the general public.

The open house offers visitors a close-up view of what goes on in the Art League’s specialized art studios where live demonstrations by Art League instructors cater to students of all ages.

On the lineup for art demonstrations are Jahn Guarino (watercolor), Peter Messina (jewelry making using Repoussé method), Irene Vitale (charcoal drawing), Suzanne Young (pastel), Anu Annam (watercolor), Bart DeCeglie (oil painting), Donna Harlow Moraff (pastel), and Joel Spector (pastel).

Meet the instructors and learn about their classes at the artists’ recep-

Cynthia Sayer to perform at the Louis Armstrong House Museum There will be hot jazz and red beans and rice at the Louis Armstrong House Museum as Cynthia Sayer & Her Sparks Fly Quartet wperform the final concert of the museum’s Hot Jazz / Cool Garden Summer Concert Series.

Advance tickets include red beans and rice and sweet tea plus a complimentary historic house tour pass. Tickets are on sale now at LouisArmstrongHouse.org.

Downbeat is 2 p.m. Led by acclaimed jazz banjoist/vocalist Cynthia Sayer, the jazz quartet Cynthia Sayer & Her Sparks Fly Quartet plays and repertoire that embraces musical influences of the 1920s, ‘30s, and beyond. Comprised of top New York City musicians, Cynthia Sayer & Her Sparks Fly Quartet perform at festivals and in concert internationally. The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Queens. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.

Quickdraw to perform at North Hempstead Beach Park stage Country group Quickdraw took the North Hempstead Beach Park stage on Sunday, Aug. 9 as part of North Hempstead’s ongoing summer concert series. Quickstep performs a variety of music, but is most notable for its mixture of old and new country stylings. They have toured with the Charlie Daniels Band and Blake Shelton, and their music is featured on 18 different Country Music Television shows. The concert was free and open to the public. For more information about North Hempstead’s concert series or North Hempstead’s other great activities, please call 311 or visit www.northhempsteadny.gov.

Above: “Big Sky” by Suzan Haeni Right: “Through the Beige and Bam!”

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tion in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery.

In addition to the exhibit in the main gallery, works created by teens in the Summer Portfolio Development program will be on view in the League’s Strolling Gallery. Also at the reception will be light snacks and refreshments.

The Art League offers more than 250 visual arts classes in a large variety of mediums to adults, teens, and kids ages five and up. Classes, workshops, and open studios are offered to beginner, intermediate, and advanced students year-round, in the mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends.

Also available are workshops for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and atrisk teens.

The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery is open free of charge Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit www.artleagueli.org.

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Great Neck Library Library Book Drop Coming to Great Neck House To better accommodate Great Neck Library patrons in the northern peninsula, the Library will be installing an oversized book and audiovisual (a/v) return box in the parking lot of the Great Neck House. Great Neck House is located at 14 Arrandale Avenue, just west of Middle Neck Road.

Great Neck House was the home of the Great Neck Library from 1907 to 1971.

Then the Main Building on Bayview Avenue opened in 1971.

The Library is grateful to our community partners at the Park District, Superintendent Peter Renick, and all of the Commissioners and Staff for being of great assistance by providing a home for this important community service. The book drop will be located in the southern end of the parking lot, a location that will allow for easy, drive-by returns. The drop is expected to be in place

by this month. Watch for updates on the Great Neck Library website, www. greatnecklibrary.org.

Great Neck Library October 26, 2015 Election Slate of Candidates Petitions for Independent Candidate Nominations The Nominating Committee has endorsed those candidates as follows to fill one seat on the Library Board of Trustees and two seats on the Nominating Committee that will expire in January, 2016.

Board of Trustees: Fouryear term January 2016 2020 for the seat currently held by Francine Ferrante Krupski, Nominating Committee Endorsed Candidate: Francine Ferrante Krupski.

Nominating Committee: Three-year term January 2016 - 2019 for the seat currently held by Stacee Bernstein, Nominating Committee Endorsed Candidate: Donald Panetta.

Three-year term January

2016 - 2019 for the seat currently held by Andrew Dorf, Nominating Committee Endorsed Candidate: Ian Lustbader.

In accordance with the Bylaws of the Great Neck Library, the deadline for filing of petitions for independent nominations for these same positions is August 15, 2015. Petition forms are available in the Director’s Office during regular business hours.

Biographical information for all candidates will appear in the OctoberDecember issue of the Library Newsletter and online at www.greatnecklibrary.org.

Film at Station Branch All film matinees are now held at the Station Branch while the Main Library building is being renovated. The next film will be shown on Thursday, August 20 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch, The Gardens at Great Neck, 26 Great Neck Road, 2nd level

(above Waldbaum’s).

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

Special Board of Trustees Meeting The Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park 11040. All are welcome. Please check with the Library for possible meeting schedule changes.

Finance Committee Meeting The Board of Trustees will hold a Finance Committee Meeting on Wednesday,

August 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd Level). All are welcome.

Please check with the Library for possible meeting schedule changes.

Building Advisory Committee Meeting The Great Neck Library’s Building Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, August 20 at 7 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park 11040. All are welcome. Please check with the Library for possible meeting schedule changes.

Main Library Building Active Construction Site Important Reminder: The Great Neck Library property at 159 Bayview Avenue is CLOSED to the public and is an active construction site. Residents are warned not to attempt to enter the property until the Main Library construction

is completed. Thank you to all of our patrons for your patience during this time.

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 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.

Great Neck Park District New Skate Park at Rec Center A new Skate Park opens at the Parkwood Recreation Center starting Friday, Aug. 21 and running through Sunday, Aug. 30.

It will be open weekends from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and weekdays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Skate Park is available to all skateboarders/in-line skaters, with a park card and a Skate Park Pass, which is mandatory for everyone who participates. The free pass can be obtained at Great Neck House (parent signature required for those under 18 years of age). Full equipment is required, including a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads and knee pads. Call (516) 482-0355 for more information.

Weekend Concerts at Steppingstone Park Sixties Rock Experience will be performing Saturday, Aug. 15 at Steppingstone Park. Sunday, Aug. 16, North Shore Music Festival presents Puccini in two shortened versions of Giacomo Puccini operas. Both concerts

Join us for the Fishing Derby at Steppingstone Park Marina. begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free to Park District residents with valid park card. Call (516) 482-0355 for more information.

Skin-Telligence at the Parkwood Family Aquatic Center Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, together with the Colette Coyne Melanoma Awareness Campaign, will present valuable prevention tips to protect yourself

and your family from the sun at the Parkwood Family Aquatic Center on Tuesday, Aug. 18 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Learn some beneficial ways to protect your skin, so you can enjoy the outdoors year round.

Music Festival Get in the groove with the Park District’s first Music Festival in the Village Green, Wednesday,

Check out the Music Festival in the Village Green on August 26.

August 26. Beginning at 6 p.m., enjoy the performances of 3-4 local bands as they play a variety of music. There are still open slots for bands to participate. If interested, call Manny or Pat at (516) 482-0355.

Sunday and Monday Fabulous Family Events Sunday, Aug. 16 at 9 a.m., catch a fish, or two, at the Fishing Derby! Fish off the

dock at the Steppingstone Marina. Rain date is August 23. Monday, August 17, join us at Kings Point Park for the Campfire & Marshmallow Roast at 7 p.m. Rain date is August 24.

City Island Cruise On Monday, Aug. 24, take a cruise from Steppingstone Marina to City Island. Travel to Lobster House for dinner or just

explore City Island. Choose either the 4 to 7 p.m. or 6 to 9 p.m. cruises. The fee of $25 does not include dinner. It is recommended that you make your restaurant reservations in advance. Cruise may be cancelled without prior notice. Non-resident rates apply. Register in advance at Great Neck House or call (516) 482-0355 for more information.

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GOP’s war on women isn’t semantics

Misspoke.

Jeb Bush’s declaration “500 million is too much to spend on women’s health issues” is chalked up to a “misstatement.”

All the shock and outrage over misogynist statements is on Donald Trump’s disgusting attack on Megyn Kelly — not the disgusting attack on women’s rights that was on display throughout both GOP debates.

And Jeb Bush’s only real concern about what Trump said about Kelly is, “Give me a break. Do we want to win? Do we want to insult 53 percent of all voters? “ On the other hand, he boasted of defunding Planned Parenthood in Florida way before it was fashionable.

As for Donald Trump’s pattern of misogynistic put-downs of women, he chalks it up to his “refreshing” “telling it like it is” “I’m not a politician” style, and condemns “political correctness” as weakness.

Telling it like it is? What does that actually mean?

A disdain for “political correctness?”

What does that mean?

He is a bully who can get away with it, as he reminds us over and over, because he is a billionaire. If ever there was a poster-child for the corruption of democracy because of money, it’s Donald Trump.

Arthur C. Brooks, who is president of the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, in “The Conservative Heart,” thinks the only problem with Conservatives is that they don’t express their “heart” adequately.

Brooks believes that the only reason Conservatives have failed to retake the White House is because of an “image problem”. People just don’t know the real “Conservative.”

Not that their policies are so heinous that they destroy lives and put barriers to people’s success, while at the same time have resulted in the greatest income gap

Her life is not at all worthwhile or in history, and upended the mythology of the “American Dream” that one can rise as valuable. She’s not entitled to the 4th far as their ability and perseverance takes Amendment protection against unreasonable search — as the mandated ultrathem.

No, it’s not their policies, Brooks be- sound probe which has no medical benlieves, but their word choice which of- efit, certainly is.

She isn’t entitled to the same equal fends — like when they say “legitimate protection under the law that would alrape.”

They are far more successful when low a man to have private counsel with they use Orwellian speak to rebrand poli- his doctor, nor the benefit of a doctor’s free speech, nor the same cies: the estate tax as access to “life, liberty and “the death tax,” singlethe pursuit of happiness.” payer health care as “the “A lot of people are government option”; talking about defundinstead of saying “social ing Planned Parenthood, safety net” they say “enas if that’s a huge game titlements” and instead changer,” said Mike Huckof “poor people” they say abee. “I think it’s time to “The Takers,” whereas do something even more the wealthiest 1% who bold. I think the next presbenefit from government ident ought to invoke the entitlements are “Job Fifth, and 14th AmendCreators.”

KAREN RUBIN ments to the Constitution Now they are doing Pulse of the Peninsula now that we clearly know the same with their camthat that baby inside the paign to deny women’s reproductive freedom (see “Republicans mother’s womb is a person at the moment Alter Script on Abortion, Seeking to Shift of conception....And, this notion that we Debate New York Times (July 26, 2015). just continue to ignore the personhood So GOP candidates are urged to find of the individual is a violation of that una different way to deny women rights to born child’s Fifth and 14th Amendment make their own reproductive decisions, rights for due process and equal protectheir own health care decisions, their own tion under the law.”

Marco Rubio, who would deny aborchoices for their family and their future, to have pay parity and equal access up a tion even in the case of rape and incest, career ladder (because that’s what child says, “People should hope that my faith care issues are really about), and yes, to influences my political position and in use boter ID laws to place an extra barrier this case I’m proud to say that my faith to women trying to cast a vote (protecting influences me,” he told CNN’s “New Day” America from voter fraud and stolen elec- on Friday. “It teaches me that God knew us when he formed us in the womb. ... tions, don’t you know).

They re- brand it “Religious Free- And even some human life that some scidom.” (I would suggest that is like re- entist wants to have a debate about but I believe that science is clear. That when branding “Democracy” as “Theocracy.”)

They find holier than thou ways of there is conception that that is a human saying that a zygote is more entitled to life in the early stages of its total developConstitutional protection than an adult ment that is worthy of the protection of our laws.” woman.

What Rubio fails to recognize is that while he might have his own religious beliefs, in America, that does not mean that he gets to impose his religious beliefs on others.

Meanwhile, Scott Walker — not to be outdone — took pains to stress that he does not support an exemption allowing abortion to save the life of the woman.

This week, the Republicans massed yet another assault on Women’s Rights, with yet another effort to completely defund Planned Parenthood and each and every one of the GOP presidential wannabes seemed in competition for who could and would wield the harshest blow to Planned Parenthood — Walker and Jeb Bush boasted about cutting funding before it was fashionable (“I defunded Planned Parenthood years ago, long before the videos,” said Walker).

They seized upon fraudulently gathered and strategically edited videotapes, purportedly showing Planned Parenthood staff “selling” fetal tissue, as if for their own enrichment. In point of fact, there is nothing illegal about supplying medical research facilities with fetal tissue.

“Women and families who make the decision to donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research should be honored, not attacked and demeaned,” Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood, countered. “Our medical practices and guidelines in this area are clear, and we do this important work just like other high-quality health care providers — with full, appropriate consent from patients, under the highest ethical and legal standards, and with no financial benefit for the patient or Planned Parenthood.”

Republicans are now demanding an investigation into Planned Parenthood, but where is the investigation into the crimes of perpetrating fraud and hacking into Planned Parenthood’s computers?

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

TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, and active professionals meets Tuesday, Aug. 18 at Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck. At 9 a.m. various members will sound off on Significant Issues. Our Business Meeting starts at about 10:30 a.m.. “My Opinion” will be presented by Pearl Rosenberg. Our speaker for the day is Richard Knox. His topic is, “The Rodgers and Hart

Songbook.” We have lunch together so please join us and bring your lunch. Current Events roundtable discussion will be led by Les Penner.

Refreshments, coffee and tea will be served.

BLOOD DONATION The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give blood in August and help meet the constant need for blood products by patients.

With more summer days ahead, every blood donation is important in helping ensure blood is available for patients in need, and volunteer donors are the only source of blood for those who need it. Donors of all blood types – especially those with types AB, O negative, A negative and B negative

– are needed to help ensure blood products are available to hospital patients this summer.

Harley Davidson-Miracle Mile, 215 Northern Blvd., will host a blood collection event on Saturday, Aug. 15 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767).

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 attend a 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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‘Dog Sees God’ dress rehearsal at arts center (C)2015 MARTHA GORFEIN PHOTOCONCEPTS / www.mgphotoconcepts.com

Current and former students at Great Neck North and South High School performed the comedy ‘Dog Sees God’ at the Gold Coast Arts Center on Aug. 10 and 11. The play was directed

by Daniel Bar-Lavi who graduated Great Neck North in 2014.

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North Hempstead announces 9/11 plans

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The Town of North Hempstead will mark the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a memorial service on Friday, September 11 at 8:30 a.m. at the Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset, across from town hall.

The ceremony is open to the public.

“This service gives us the opportunity to remember and honor each and every one of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, including the 56 individuals who called North Hempstead home,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bos-

worth said in a statement.

“By joining together as a community, we are able to continue to heal with those who lost loved ones on that perilous day,” she added.

In previous years, the ceremony included a prayer service and the lighting of candles in tribute of the lives lost during the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania.

Said North Hemsptead Town Clerk Wayne Wink: “The ceremony serves to provide all who endured the tragedy of September 11 time to reflect upon its impact and remember those we lost that day.”

Boy Scouts hold lit candles in observance of the September 11 attacks during a ceremony at the Mary Jane Davies Green on Sept. 11, 2013.

Parker Jewish picked to test care program B y C h r istian A r aos The Parker Jewish Institute has been selected to participate in the Medical Care Choices Model, which will allow patients to choose to receive supportive hospice care while continuing to receive curative treatment.

Patients at the Center’s Comprehensive Community Hospice that are Medicare beneficiaries who are also qualified for the Medicare Hospice Benefit can choose to receive palliative treatment normally provided by hospices while continuing to receive treatment on their illnesses.

Patients at the hospice that are dual eligible beneficiaries who are eligible for the Medicare Hospice Benefit can also qualify for the model.

To qualify for the model a patient has to be suffering from a terminal illness, meet hospice eligibility requirements and must not have elected the Medicare

or Medicaid Hospice Benefit participating in the model will within 30 days of participating in receive a fee of $200 to $400 a month per beneficiary from the the model.

The model has recently government.

Patients at Parker who are been expanded to enable up to 150,000 eligible beneficiaries eligible for the model will be able to have increased flexibility in to receive services starting on choosing their care options.

Jan. 1 of next year.

Comprehensive Community Hospice and all other hospices

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Playwrights Projects receives grants

North Shore Community Arts Council of Great Neck and the Alliance for Community Media-Northeast Region have both awarded PATV’s Playwrights Project $500 grants, PATV announced this week. The NSCAC, with Shirley Romaine and Harriet Becker as co-presidents, along with their board of directors, have been loyal supporters through the years since the playwrights conception in 1995. The ACM-NE has just joined playwrights’ list of supporters as of 2015 and PATV is looking forward to continuing the relationship with both organizations.

You can support this award winning project by going to the PATV website: www. patv.org and use the donate button. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. PATV is a not for profit 501(c) (3) corporation serving the Great Neck/North Shore community for more than 30 years.

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Ricky Pen to perform Plaza concert

Ricky Pen will be performing a diverse range of music this Tuesday at Firefigthers Park, starting at 8 p.m.

The Village of Great Neck Plaza announced last week that the popular Ricky Pen will be performing this upcoming Tuesday, Au. 18, at 8 p.m., at Firefighters Park.

A fan-favorite, Pen’s, “Mediterranean Summer Night,” is expected to wow those in attendance with a diverse set list that will be sure to have attendees dancing all along the greens of Firefighters Park.

A Ricky Pen fan herself, Mayor Jean Celender stated, “Ricky Pen’s infectious personality beams through the microphone, making it irresistible for concertgoers not to have a good time or dance with fellow attendees.”

Capable of singing in 16 different languages, Pen sings as many different genres of music as languages she sings in; Broadway tunes, Pop, Rock, Israeli/Hassidic, Cantorial, International, and many more genres from around the world.

Containing a voice rich in color and a vocal range of three and a half octaves, Pen also plays a handful of instruments; piano, guitar, banjo, bouzouki, harmonica, and drums, just to name a few. In 1994, Pen has had the honor of performing at the White House, receiving a certificate of

appreciation from then President Clinton.

In the case of inclement weather, the concert performance will be moved to the Great Neck Social Center (80 Grace Avenue). Check with village staff at Village Hall on the day of the concert, or call our voicemail after 5 P.M. at (516) 482 - 4500.

We will have a recorded message if the day’s scheduled concert has been moved from Firefighters’ Park to the Social Center.

Ther village will also post an announcement on its website, www.greatneckplaza. net, if the concert is moved indoors.

The village is assisted by the Great Neck Park District and the Great Neck Social Center. Sponsors of this year’s concert series are state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, Aura Salon & Style Lounge, Daruma of Tokyo, Douglas Elliman, Emanuel Entertainment Services/David Emanuel, Grace Plaza Rehab and Health Care Center, Great Neck Diner, Great Neck Park District, Great Neck Social Center, Jewels by Viggi, Jildor Shoes, Nemat Development, and Richland Management.

Thank you for helping us provide another wonderful summer of music in Firefighters’ Park.

Woodstock comes to Steppingstone on Aug. 15

North Shore Music Festival presents Puccini At Steppingstone Park this Saturday, Aug. 15, the “summer of love” takes on a whole new meaning when Sixties Rock Experience brings you back to the sights and sounds of the Woodstock era. This is the most authentic ‘60s musical production tribute, accurately recreating the music of that time, with exceptional similarities to icons such as Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison, Joe Cocker, Grace Slick, Ian Anderson and so many more.

In addition to being absolutely captivated by the frontline tribute artists, you will be awestruck at the versatility of the band. And, when the vocalists are not front and center for their own headline moments, they also double as background singers for their fellow performers. It will be far-out, man!

Sunday, Aug. 16, North Shore Music

Sixties Rock Experience Festival presents Puccini in two shortened versions of Giacomo Puccini operas, “Gianni Schicchi” and “Il Tabarro.”

These operas are from Puccini’s Il Trittico, a collection of three one-act operas.

In the comedic “Schicchi” rich old Buoso Donati dies, upsetting his family terribly when they discover he left his wealth to the church. Then, in walks Gianni Schicchi to their apparent rescue. “Il Tabarro” is another ‘squarcio di vita’ slice of life, in the verismo style, complete with an unhappy marriage, a cheating wife and a suspecting and rather violent husband. Both operas are conducted by Anthony LaGruth, directed by Benjamin Spierman and performed by Adam Cromer, Eric McKeever and Julie Radosz.

Performances begin at 8 p.m. All performances are for Great Neck Park District

residents only. Admission is free to park district residents with a valid park card.

Park cards will be checked when parking and at the gate. Each park card holder is allowed to bring two guests into the park, who must be signed-in. There are limited park chairs available and it is recommended that show attendees bring along a blanket or their own chair to sit on. Avoid the traffic and arrive early (before 6 p.m.) with a picnic for dinner. In case of rain, check cancellations.com or www.greatneckparks.org for location of performance. Either Great Neck North High School or the Parkwood Sports Complex will be the rain location, which will be determined based on type of performance and where it can best be performed.

Free bus service continues to be available to Steppingstone and return buses

start 10 minutes after the show ends. Just make certain that you have your current Park District park card with you, as cards are always checked at the gate when you enter the park. You will not be able to enter without your park card. The bus schedule can be obtained at Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue or the gate at Steppingstone Park. It is also, available on the park district website at www.greatneckparks. org . The bus is subject to cancellation or change according to public usage. Street parking in the Village of Kings Point is permitted as posted. Parking rules will be strictly enforced by the Kings Point Police.

For the safety and comfort of everyone, it is requested that show attendees follow the direction of the park employees. For additional information visit the park district website or call (516) 482-0355.

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Zoning permits, c.o.’s and your home Okay, so you are now contemplating selling your home and are figuring out the plan of action.

What do we keep and take with us and what do we sell, in a tag sale and the rest we throw away?

Who do we hire for a move? Is our real estate attorney still practicing?

Do we try to sell on our own or hire an agent, who is our friend (who may or may not be the best choice, but then again it is our friend!) or do we interview a professional real estate broker, who will be knowledgeable, trustworthy and credible to find us the most qualified purchaser and have them pay us the most money in the shortest amount of time?

Many important and crucial questions will begin to surface and may keep you up at nights pondering during the day, with all the decisions that one must make to have as smooth a transition as possible to begin one’s new lifestyle. However, I have experienced one important item, that more than most forget to consider in the home that they are going to put out on the market.

Are all your improvements legal, with permits filed and Certifi-

cate of Occupancy accounted for, based on ones local zoning rules and regulations?

Is that bathroom, enclosed porch or deck, fence or even expanded extension you added 10, 20 or even 30-40 years ago have the necessary permits and C.O.’s, that the contractor (who no longer is in business or alive, LOL), was suppose to file and implement on your behalf.

Where are they?

Does the local village or town have a record of them (they should if it was done legally and properly!)

Yes, you have saved additional real estate taxes, have not been caught, etc.; but the potential of major headaches arises when those structures that were added are found out when a title search/ survey are done and your deal falls apart of the buyer becomes apprehensive about purchasing and wants a reduction in the price and/ or two-three or even five-10 times the value of the improvement is held in escrow, until the necessary C.O.’s are applied for.

What if your “cash” buyer looks the other way, but something goes wrong in the home, a fire, someone trips, a leak occurs, someone gets seriously hurt, all because of those

philip a. raices Real Estate Watch

improvements that somehow can be related to your negligence and poor workmanship, contributing to the deficiency in the improvements, leading to an accident.

What do you think will happen, A lawsuit (we are the most litigious society on earth!) will potentially or surely occur, even if several years later, depending on the statute of limitiations.

Even before the closing when a seller fills out or does not fill out a property disclosure form (which is part of the law) at the time of listing their home with a Broker, (they pay $500 at closing if they do not fill out the 48 question form), they

are still potentially open to a lawsuit, regardless, years later, again dependant on the statute of limitations.

So, you think you saved a lot of money, only to have the improvements come back and bite you in your rear and pocketbook! The money you thought you were saving all those years is now going right back into your attorney’s, expediter or architects pocket, for a making those improvements legal, creating and filing all the required paperwork and lastly, a possible new survey for the purchasers bank!

The question is, will you get them, are the improvements done correctly and by the local and town code, based on today’s environment and not based on what they were when you had the improvement completed five-40 years ago?

I have seen these situations occur time in and time out; the bank and the buyer’s attorney, does not want to be responsible nor provide a mortgage to the prospective purchaser, for anything that does not have a necessary permit and a C.O. attached to it.

It is called penny wise, pound foolish! It is the old, “Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later syndrome.

Do it right in the beginning, so

in the end you have a saleable home without the stress and headaches of all those improvements that you thought you might get done.

Saving those dreadful real estate taxes, without the necessary paperwork, but only to realize in the end that you paid, sometimes more than the taxes you thought you would save to someone else to legalize everything.

More important, you might just lose that excellent qualified purchaser, who either insists on a reduction or just plane walks away from the sale!

Now, you or your broker have to start all over again looking for that capable and qualified buyer and sometimes have to explain, why you lost your initial deal in the first place; that could have an impact on your price, depending on the market conditions and location of your home.

Unfortunately, we all have to pay real estate taxes, some much more and some less; but to avoid the legalities of permits and Co’s will most likely cost you more in the long run than if you just “Do The Right Thing” in the first go around.

My 6 P’s, Proper, Pre-Planning, Prevents Piss, Poor Performance!

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G.N. South teachers ranked as tops

Continued from Page 1 good environment for teaching and learning, and teachers are invested in the school and the students and work to ensure the best outcomes for students.”

Rankings were calculated based on a variety of statistics gathered by the U.S. Department of Education, including survey responses from about 920,000 teachers and 240,000 students,

student grades, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, the percentage of teachers in their first and second year and a school’s student-to-teacher ratio.

Half the schools to crack the

state’s top 100 are located on Long Island.

The ranking comes a few months after Niche.com released its list of the top high schools in the country, in which Great

Neck South finished No. 34 and Manhasset High School was No. 76.

Manhasset did not place in the top 100 in Niche.com’s teacher rankings.

L. Success officials pan club’s operator Continued from Page 1 Grill Room’s food “inedible,” Bernstein said.

Food failures include “spare ribs like hockey pucks” drowning in “barbecue sauce that’s too sweet,” she said.

Bernstein also said the Grill Room’s service was generally unprofessional and inattentive, and management did not appear to take residents’ complaints seriously.

Lake Success Mayor Ronald S. Cooper said trustees were aware of residents complaints about the Grill Room and said “we’re trying to resolve these issues.”

“It’s never going to be perfect,” Cooper pointed out.

But, he added, “I was there last night. It was very good.”

Efforts to reach CulinArt were unavailing.

Trustees said the Grill Room is not profitable; the vendor balances the losses of serving members with its profits in its lucrative catering business.

Bernstein said the CulinArt’s catering work was preventing residents from enjoying the Village Club “It’s become a catering hall,” she said, which blocks residents from enjoying the members-only Village Club.

CulinArt, she said, caters to outsiders who hire it for private affairs and treats members like second class citizens.

“They shoved the food in front of us,” Bernstein said of a recent visit. “It’s not the standards we expect.”

Bernstein also complained that non-club members were showing up to eat at the club and that the club was closing

too early.

Deputy Mayor Stephen Lam, who said he has lodged his own complaints with the vendor, agreed that patrons should not be served “spare ribs they can’t cut” and that someone should pay attention to things like “a label on salad dressing”.

Lam said the restaurant is supposed to be open 7:30 until “dusk,” but he and friends showed up for a recent dinner and were told the restaurant would be closed “by 7:30.” He said members who appeared at 7:30 p.m. on recent evening found the doors “locked shut.”

Trustee Alan Mindel agreed.

“They should never turn residents away,” Mindel said.

“Catering fees have grown from $1 million to as much as $4 million. That alone is a good rea-

son for residents to feel entitled to service improvements.”

Trustee Gene Kaplan added that he was unhappy that the ‘bar menu” ends at 5:00 p.m., which he said is too early for golfers just finishing up their afternoon games.

Mindel, who helps operates the Inn at Great Neck and the Adria Hotel in Bayside, said the Grill Room, like the Card Room, would be restricted when new contract terms kick in “six months” from now, so that “residents can bring bagels and Nova and cream cheese” for private gatherings, without CulinArt. “That will be okay,” he said.

The contract with CulinArt, which lists the United Nations Delegates Club and Bridgehampton Tennis & Surf Club as customers on its website, was

renewed in 2013 amid complaints about food quality and service.

Mindel said some residents are turned off by newer club members who seem unfamiliar with traditional golf etiquette — changing their golf shoes on the course, to save on locker fees, for instance.

Someone should tell these people to “change your shoes somewhere else,” said Trustee David Milner, who is the Village’s Parks Commissioner.

“We want a fancy country club.

Maybe it’s time to raise the dues of the residents o pay for the fancy club,” he said.

No one is so sure where that money would come from.

The board approved a golf fee hike to $30. “Walkers” who don’t use golf carts currently pay $18.

Great Neck Plaza trustees eye parking plan Continued from Page 2 courage shorter times in some of the lots that they observed, we should get a more efficient use of our parking facilities,” Celender said. “It’s going to help the downtown and our merchants have additional shoppers here.”

The amendments also remove Presidents Day as a holiday.

Celender also mentioned that discussion about changes to Sunday parking had previously occurred, but the board has decided to leave the free parking on Sunday until the Plaza absorbs the current changes.

Village Attorney Richard Ga-

briele said the board is able to reassess the amendments a year after they are approved.

The board tabled the issue for its September 16 meeting.

In other developments: • Michael Deluccia was sworn in as a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals and Art Zander as a member of the Historic Preservation Commission, for five year and three year terms, respectively.

• Danny Arbusman, the owner of Middle Neck Road jewelry store Jewels by Viggi, appeared before the board in a continued hearing from June where he came applied for a conditional-use permit in June to convert the second floor of

his building into two apartments and add a third floor, which would house two more apartments.

Gabriele told Arbusman that he needs to return to the board with a binding easement agreement from the owner of a passageway between his property and neighboring property that allows his tenants the right to use the passageway for whatever purposes needed in connection with his building.

Arbusman said he had already spoken to the owner of the passageway, who he said seemed to be on board with allowing his residents to use the passageway.

Gabriele also said Arbusman

needs to ensure that he finds out who owns the pole in front of his building to move forward with the removal of power lines, which Arbusman said at the July 22 meeting PSEG could “definitely do.”

Trustees also expressed concerns with the rerouting of power lines to ensure that the fire department can safely access the facility in the event of an emergency.

Gabriele said the board will not approve the permit unless the wires in front of his building come down, and also requested that Arbusman’s architect provide the village with a letter about the materials being used in the construction.

• Paul Bloom, an attorney for 14 Park Place LLC, also came before the board seeking a permit of compliance and site plan review for a proposed residential multiple dwelling at 15 Bond Street.

He said at a June 16 meeting that his client is looking to demolish the existing structures and build a 61-unit apartment complex.

A required traffic study will be conducted in the next few weeks, Bloom said.

The zoning board hearing for 14 Park Place LLC has been adjourned until Sept. 9.

• The board will hold its next meeting on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.

Firefighter celebrates 50 years on job Continued from Page 2 Preston and Diane moved to Westbury about a year ago to be closer to their son, Preston Hicks Jr., a former Manhasset-Lakeville firefighter who is now a lieutenant

with the Westbury Fire Department; daughter, Deborah Bohr, whose husband Tim also volunteers with Westbury; and son Jason Hicks, who was also a Manhasset-Lakeville firefighter.

“I always wanted to join up, ever since I was a little kid,” Preston Jr. said.

In the Hicks household, jumping out of bed at the sound of an alarm often indicated more than just the start

of another day.

“We’ve been married 44 years and I’ve learned to block out that radio, but he’s always made sure to wake me to let me know if it’d be a long call,” Diane said.

Said Preston Sr. of his wife: “She is and always has been an inspiration. She knew it was good for the community.

It takes a special person to put up with all of us running around.”

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GOP’s war on women isn’t semantics Continued from Page 37 Republicans floated (yet another) bill to defund Planned Parenthood, which was blocked

by Democrats and now, The Notorious Ted Cruz, responsible for the government shutdown in October 2013 over defunding Obamacare, is vowing once again to shut down government unless Planned Parenthood is defunded.

I say: Do it. I want President Obama to veto any legislation — including spending legislation — if it attacks women’s rights, even if it means shutting down the federal government.

Because the issue of Planned Parenthood funding is only the tiny slice of what Republicans want to do to chip away at women’s rights — economic and political - and roll back the clock to the 19th century.

“Do you have any idea what year it is?” Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked on the Senate floor.

“Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s health care centers. You know, on second thought, maybe I shouldn’t be that surprised. The Republicans have had a plan for years to strip away women’s rights to make choices over our own bodies. Just look at the recent facts.”

• In 2013, Republicans threatened to shut down the government unless they could change the law to let employers deny women access to birth control.

• In 2015, Republicans held hostage an easy-to-pass bipartisan bill to stop human trafficking, demanding an unprecedented expansion of antiabortion restrictions to cover new funds for providing assistance to trafficking victims.

• Republicans have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act dozens of times, including the portions that require insurers to cover contraception — and stop them from charging women more.

• In state legislatures, Republicans have passed nearly 300 new restrictions on abortion access in the past five years — more than 50 this year alone.

“So let’s be really clear about something: The Republicans’ scheme to defund Planned Parenthood isn’t some sort of surprised response to highly edited videos.... It’s another piece of

a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated right-wing attack on women’s rights. And I’m sick and tired of it.”

But as Warren noted, “Young people go to Planned Parenthood for birth control. Women who can’t get appointments anywhere else go to Planned Parenthood for affordable Pap tests and cancer screenings.

Couples go to Planned Parenthood for STD treatments or pregnancy tests.

And yes, 3 percent of patients visit Planned Parenthood for a safe and legal abortion with a doctor who will show compassion and care for a woman who is making one of the most difficult decisions of her life.”

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (DIL) added, “One in five American women have relied on Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings, access to birth control, fertility testing and more. I’m one of them — I turned to Planned Parenthood for my health care needs as a college student, “It’s disgraceful that Republicans are subjecting this health care to political games. Already, Republican senators have tried to derail a bill that would provide fertility treatments for Veterans over Planned Parenthood funding.

“As a wounded Veteran who would not have given birth to my baby daughter without in vitro fertilization, I’m furious that Republicans are letting an ideological agenda stand in the way of caring for our Vets.”

This isn’t about “life” even if that is the orchestrated language anti-choice activists use. Because the reality is that “Abortion has happened since time began,” said Fran Hagerty, who leads the Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas.

“It’s not going to end. What’s going to end is for women to get care that is safe, that doesn’t put their lives at risk. That’s what’s ending. We all know that. Maybe the legislators know it, too, and they don’t care.” (See: “Battle of the Abortion Decisions” (New York Times, June 11, 2015) In fact, abortion rates went down during the Clinton Administration years, and up during the Bush Administration, when abstinence replaced sex education.

If Republicans actually cared about “life” or even “children,” they would not be cutting food stamps, health programs, school aid for children, or taking away food stamps from a family if a child fails a test, and expanding access to military-grade guns.

Thanks to Republican ob-

structionism the rate of childhood poverty has increased to 32 percent - nearly one in three children in the United States live in poverty and the U.S. has the second highest rate of relative child poverty among economically developed nations.

Indeed, with August being Child Support Awareness Month, the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an analysis of 2015s Best & Worst States for Underprivileged Children.

No surprise that the worstranking states are the bastions of Tea Party (and anti-choice) politics: Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, Georgia, Arizona, Mississippi. (http://wallethub. com/edu/best-worst-states-underprivileged-children/5403/) And if Republicans really cared about “family values” or had a conservative “heart”, they would support raising the minimum wage, pay parity, child care assistance, college affordability, and would embrace the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, so that pregnant women and their unborn child could get the health care they need, rather than condemn parents who need assistance as avaricious “takers.” (The most offensive question of the two GOP debates: “Americans are too reliant on assistance, too willing to take assistance. How do you change the culture?”)

Instead, House Republicans are pushing to kill America’s main family planning program, Title X, the only federal program devoted to providing low-income women with family planning services, birth control, well-woman visits, and STD and cancer screenings, which provides vital medical care to nearly 4.6 million women and still saved $2 billion last year (a quarter of the funding goes to Planned Parenthood clinics).

The Fiscal Year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services Funding Bill not only guts Title X, it also eliminates 80 percent of funds for comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention, but doubles funding for abstinence-only sex education, which has been proven to be ineffective.

“It’s the height of hypocrisy that a Republican party committed to blocking women’s access to abortion would slash a program that prevented 1.2 million unplanned pregnancies in 2010.

It shows that Republicans are so committed to grandstanding against Planned Parenthood that they’re willing to throw women and their families under the bus,” writes Heidi Hess,

Campaign Manager for CREDO Action from Working Assets.

“The upshot would be more pregnancies, more abortions, more AIDS, more sexually transmitted infections and more women dying of cervical and breast cancer. Ending the program would impoverish young mothers and impede the formation of stable two-parent families that conservatives rightly argue help overcome poverty,” Nicholas Kristof writes in “Our SexCrazed Congress” (New York Times, Aug. 1).

“It’s baffling that House Republicans are trying to eliminate a 45-year-old bipartisan initiative that is one of the country’s anti-poverty successes — and also perhaps America’s most successful anti-abortion initiative.”

Every $1 spent to prevent an unintended pregnancy saves the government $7 in public services.

When Jeb Bush said in an off-hand way that there are plenty of other clinics and agencies to take up if Planned Parenthood were shut down, who did he have in mind? Where are those clinics?

These pompous, jackass men (and one woman) simply don’t know (and don’t care) what they are talking about. Donald Trump saying his view on abortion “evolved” from being pro-choice because he knows someone who was considering an abortion and now has a wonderful child, is absurd and insulting to the wrenching choice that women and families make.

But as Barbara Logan of Pittsburgh wrote in a letter to the editor in response to Looking Away From Abortion” (July 26, about how disgusting the image of harvesting fetal tissue was), “[Columnist] Ross Douthat has never experienced pregnancy, let alone a pregnancy caused by rape, possibly by a trusted boyfriend or even one’s own father.

He has never been an exhausted woman unable to face an additional pregnancy and wanting to be able to nurture her existing family. Perhaps, also, he has never confronted the tragedy of learning that his much-wanted baby has grave medical issues. Mr. Douthat is not a high school student who made one terrible decision and now finds herself pregnant, lacking both the income and experience to be a competent child carer. In my opinion, only those capable of experiencing it should pronounce judgment on abortion and those who make it available.”

What it is about is control —

and I don’t mean birth control.

In fact, the issue of Women’s Rights today is sadly, as Elizabeth Warren noted, is not much different from 1848, and the first Women’s Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York.

Let’s be reminded that not that long ago, a woman was legally obligated to satisfy her husband’s sexual overtures, resulting in a constant state of pregnancy and birth, even when it killed her or impoverished the family.

The church was a huge player in maintaining the status quo of woman’s inferior role, having a stake in women being factories to produce more church-goers, the poorer the better to be dependent upon Christian charity, and obedient, accepting their lot in life as “God’s will.”

Capitalists made common cause with the Religious Right -— against any government social network which they vilified as “Communist” — and also, to insure a ready supply of cheap labor.

The fact that respect for “life” had nothing to do with it can be seen in labor practices (think of the Triangle Shirt Factory fire) that callously murdered countless workers, even to this present day, which is implicit in the disdain and dismissal of all pesky government regulations on business.

Forcing women to give birth — and going so far as criminalizing behaviors like smoking or drinking during pregnancy, even prosecuting a woman who has a miscarriage — is part and parcel of a larger crusade to strip women of rights and their Personhood. (See: “Arrested for Having a Miscarriage? 7 Appalling Instances Where Pregnant Women Were Criminalized,” http:// www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/ arrested-having-miscarriage-7appalling-instances-where-pregnant-women-were) A woman, in the eyes of Virginia state Sen. Steve Martin, is merely a “host” to nurture the fetus. “Once a child does exist in your womb, I’m not going to assume a right to kill it just because the child’s host (some refer to them as mothers) doesn’t want it,” he posted on Facebook.

Forcing a woman to bear children — taking away the ability of a woman to make her own reproductive choices - is a form of enslavement.

Pro-life? What sort of life?

“Conservative heart?” That’s as mythical as “The American Dream” or “American Exceptionalism” or “Democracy.”

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NY senators split on Iran Continued from Page 6 In the last week, several local lawmakers have also voiced their opinions on the agreement.

U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (DGarden City) opposed the deal in an editorial in the 5 Towns Jewish Times newspaper, writing that she is “unwilling to help economically empower an Iranian regime that could use the cash influx to make more muscular its support of terror and more aggressive its antagonism of Israel and our other allies in the region.”

“President Obama entered into negotiations with Iran be-

cause he is a president interested in peace, in Israel’s security, and in avoiding the human and financial sacrifices of another American war in the Middle East,” Rice wrote. “I share these goals, and I genuinely believe the President sees this deal as the best chance of achieving them. But I do not.”

North Hempstead area officials — including Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Town Councilman Peter Zukerman, Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman, Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, and Town Clerk Wayne Wink and Nassau County legislators Ellen Birnbaum, Judy Ja-

cobs, and Delia DeRiggi-Whitton — signed a letter last month urging federal officials to oppose the Iran nuclear development program.

“We have come to the conclusion that the approval of this deal will not be good for the United States or for Israel and we urge you to vote against it.

We appeal to you to do so in the interests of our own national security, the survival of Israel, the security and stability of the Middle East region, and to ensure a world that is free of the threat of a nuclear-capable Iran,” they wrote.

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not do as a 501-C3 organization, and the campaign denied wrongdoing.

On Aug. 6, De Rosa Foundation President Kathy De Rosa made a $1,000 individual donation to Singas’ campaign, and the foundation’s donation was refunded by the campaign on Aug. 10, according to campaign finance records.

Singas campaign manager Isaac Goldberg said in a statement that Murray “should stop using attacks on cancer charities to try to hide the fact that she’s has never practiced crim-

inal law, never prosecuted a criminal case and has not practiced law in 17 years.”

Days after Murray’s accusation, the Singas campaign accused Murray of avoiding questions related to two recent Newsday stories, one that found Murray received more than $37,000 in contributions from Hempstead town employees who during an August 4 town council meeting received wage raises or were appointed to other positions, and another that said four members of her family employed by the town had earned higher salaries

than others with the same jobs.

Murray campaign spokesman Bill Corbett said the allegation were a “pathetic and personal attack on Kate Murray’s deceased father, a World War II veteran and career FBI agent who was hired long before Kate worked for the town.”

“Attempting to mislead the public about individuals whose salaries and positions are governed by civil service law is an undignified effort by Ms. Singas to distract attention from her failure as acting district attorney,” Corbett said.

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1-866-968-2577 CHILD CARE NEEDED Looking for Garden City student with experience to care for our two children ages 5 and 7. Wednesdays after school and school holidays. Call 516-314-8719 GARDEN CITY FAMILY seeking part time morning childcare in our home for 3 children ages 6, 4 and 2. Wednesday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Responsibilities include helping children get ready for school.

Must have own transportation. Position available August 26 through school year following school calendar. Please call 516-330-5405 HAIRSTYLISTS A new Garden City Salon hiring hairstylists with experience with or without a following. Also hiring shampoo assistantswill train.

Call 516-287-5854 or send resume to Hairontheave@optonline.net IN HOME KITCHEN SALES: Award winning kitchen company. Earn over 100K. 100% commission, pre-qualified appointments, office support, 401K, benefits. Fax 866-387-0840 salesjobs@kitchenmagic.com LEGAL: Process serving company seeking full time detail oriented individual for office assistant in Williston Park. Computer knowledge a must. Will train. Email resume to: LRadler@courtsupportinc.com NEW YEAR-NEW CAREER GROUP SALES REPRESENTATIVE Fortune 500 company, voted top 30 places to start a career in USA by Business Week magazine, looking for individuals to grow with the largest provider of voluntary employee benefits in the country. Must be enthusiastic and have strong work ethic. Sales experience is welcome but not necessary. Extensive management opportunities available. Unlimited earnings potential.

Office located in Garden City. Call Bill Whicher 516-574-1064

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General computer skills a plus. Will train motivated individual. Please call 516-280-7466 and/or fax resume to 516-280-7467 REPORTER: Blank Slate Media, an award winning chain of 5 weekly newspapers and website on the North Shore of Nassau County is seeking a self starter with good writing and reporting skills to cover Great Neck. Newspaper experience and car required. Experience with social media platforms and content managements systems preferred. Excellent opportunity to work with editors with many years of weekly and daily newspaper experience. Health insurance, paid holidays and sick days. Office conveniently located in Williston Park not far from NYC. To apply email your resume, cover letter and clips to sblank@theislandnow.com SEAMSTRESS / DRESSMAKER Wanted for upscale woman’s boutique in Woodbury, N.Y. Must be VERY experienced in fitting and alteration of fine evening wear and sportswear. Call Mr. Goldstein at Tallulah 516-367-8010

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Call 516-448-0502

CARE GIVER/COMPANION seeks position to take care of your elderly loved one. Experience and very good references. Live in or out. Driver. Light housekeeping, shopping, doctor appointments, etc. Please call 347-882-4753

CARPET, HOUSE, OFFICE CLEANING: Available to clean homes, offices or rugs (wall to wall or area rugs). Available Mon-Fri. Own supplies, own transportation. Local references. Spanish/English speaking. Please call Diana 516-859-7084

CARE GIVER: CNA AIDE looking for companion/aide position FT/PT live in. Will do light cleaning, showers, baths. Experienced with excellent references. Nursing home experience.

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CERTIFIED HHA with LIJ/ Regioncare experience seeking position to care for elderly part time nights & some days. References. Call 347-525-699 9 or email: JJKafarski12@gmail.com

ASSISTANT FOR THE ELDERLY Available afternoons to help with daily chores, etc. Licensed driver with car. Call 516-375-4116 AU PAIR HOSTING Hosting an au pair average cost is under $360 per week, up to 45 flexible hours around your schedule. 2nd year and in country au pairs are available NOW. Overseas au pairs 4-6 weeks to arrive. For more info: text /call Carol Anne 516-695-4948 AVAILABLE TO TAKE care of sick and elderly, full time, live in or live out, 3 days (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) Experience and references. Please call 516-943-4207

Ad Size 2.125” BABYSITTING COLLEGE STUDENT Available for babysitting full wide day on Mondays & Fridays. Available flexible hours nights & weekends. 5 yrs experience. Solid referSOFTWARE: GREAT NECK by Associate Software Developer ences. Has car. Call 516-404-1045 sought for firm specializing in sys4” high CAREGIVER: EXPERIENCED, tems support of algorithmic trading to design, dvlp. & implement algorithms using data mining & data analysis techniques: test, troubleshoot & correct design defects to ensure qual standards; dvlp custom trading strategies; consult w/users & mgmt to assess syst reqs. Provide customer support & troubleshooting using UML design practices. Object-Oriented prog in C++/JAVA or VC++, XML, PERL, Solaris, Linux & shell scripting.

Req: BS in Computer Engineering or related field +2 yrs exp. Send resume to Melissa Grancaric, Dept of HR, Flex Trade Systems Inc. 111 Great Neck Rd, Suite 314, Great Neck, NY 11021 WANTED! Female driver who lives in Great Neck to do local errands 2 or 3 afternoons a week. ALSO WANTED, a cleaning lady, 1 day a week. Cleaning lady does not have to live in Great Neck. Driver and cleaning lady must have own car.

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COMPASSIONATE, DEDICATED caregiver looking to provide companion and personal care for your elderly loved one who requires assistance with their daily living needs. I am seeking to assist selfpay clients with activities including but not limited to companionship, personal care, light housekeeping, meal preparations, memory care, medication, errands, glucose monitoring, doctor appointments, rehab & hospital stays. I am passionate about helping people to maintain safe, independent and dignified lifestyles. I am a professionally trained Nursing Assistant/ Personal Care Attendant/Medical Assistant with over 10 years hospital and private duty experience.

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Gold Medal Bakery is seeking an entry-level BAKERY PRODUCTS ROUTE DRIVER to service supermarkets in the Long Island, NY area Depot located in Ronkonkoma, NY

Duties Include: • Merchandising product • Obtaining and enhancing sales of bread and rolls • Managing orders via computer • Delivering product to local stores using our company-issued 26’ box truck Job Work Week: • Start time of 3:00 am or 7:00 pm. Wednesdays & Sundays off (subject to change)

Minimum Qualifications: • Must be able to utilize a computer • must be at least 18 years of age • Must be able to pass a drug test • Must have a valid driver’s license and good driving record • Must be willing to work holidays • Must have experience driving a box truck Compensation: $17.50 per hour plus benefits (Health, Dental, 401K, Paid Vacations, Life Insurance)

To Apply: Complete Our Driver Application at: http://www.goldmedalbakery.com/jobs

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CLEANING AVAILABLE for homes, apartments & offices. Monday-Saturday. Excellent references. Honest, reliable, trustworthy. Years of experience. Also available for Spring & Fall cleaning, cluttered closets, messy garages. Experienced in organizing.

Satisfaction 100% guaranteed! Call Cathy 516-582-9682

EUROPEAN HOME CARE attendant available for live in or live out.

Garden City resident with 20 years experience. Excellent references.

Very reasonable rates. Please call Jeanette 516-741-6347 or cell 516710-7271, leave message.

EXCELLENT REFERENCES. FREE ESTIMATES CALL DELMY 516-417-7088

CLEANING LADY AVAILABLECleans, organizes. English speaking, honest, reliable. excellent references. Own transportation. Call 516-225-8544 CLEANING SERVICES FOR OFFICES OR HOMES. Available 7 days a week. Excellent references.

Own transportation. Gift Certificates available! Call 516-974-8959 CLEANING SERVICES Homes, Apartments, Offices Experienced with excellent references. Located in West Hempstead. Own supplies & transportation. Free estimatesCall Reina 516-643-9341 ELDER CARE: AIDE/COMPANION with 15 years experience available to care for elderly. Days, nights, weekends. Own car. Excellent references. Call 516-353-1626

HOME HEALTH AIDE/ ELDER CARE Home health aide with over 15 years experience !! Excellent references. Cooking, cleaning, showers, all aspects of daily care.

Live in. Available Immediately !!

Call Sharon 347-739-7717 HOUSECLEANING Very honest and kind woman available to clean your home Mon-Fri. Own transportation, own supplies, great rates.

Local references. Pet lover. Spanish/English speaking. Contact Marleni 516-902-7249 HOUSEKEEPER POLISH WOMAN available for housekeeping.

Excellent service with 14 yrs experience and references. Free estimate. Flexible hours just for you!

Call Dorota 516-528-2206 HOUSEKEEPING CLEANS HOMES, APARTMENTS AND OFFICES. 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE.

MATURE CARING WOMAN seeks position in child care, elder care, housekeeping. Available full time, part time, live in, live out. Excellent references. Please call 516-565-4802 MOTHER’S HELPER AVAILABLE Available afternoons. Licensed driver with car. Call 516-375-4116 MY AMAZING, WONDERFUL, RELIABLE NANNY, who has cared for my little ones like family and who has been in GC for 15yrs is available immediately. Also has valid driver’s license. Please call 516-776-1808 NANNY / HOUSEKEEPER Are you looking for a loving, caring, reliable nanny/housekeeper? Then call me! I have been with 2 Garden City families for the past 6 years. I am hoping to build a long term loving relationship with a new family.

English speaking. Excellent references. Call or text: 917-651-3443 NANNY F/T with 15 years experience seeking position to care for your newborn & older children.

References available. Trustworthy, loving, reliable. 15 years with 3 Garden City families. Driver’s license. Call 516-776-1808 NEW YORK PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT: Care giver/companion available. Over 20 years experience available 24/7. Specializing in patients with CHF, Alzheimer’s, Dimentia, surgical procedures, hospice and more. Call Jackie 5146306-0257 or Joel 516-965-1940

business opportunities BILLION DOLLAR MANUFACTURER expanding in the Long Island area seeking person with sales and/or marketing background. Commission based and substantial residuals. No stocking, no inventory, no selling. Call for more information. Leave message for call back: 516-759-5926

career training ATTEND AVIATION COLLEGE Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance training. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM or free information 866-296-7093

Wanted: Crafters & Vendors Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 5253 Annual Holiday Bazaar

Saturday, December 5, 2015 – 10 AM – 4 PM We are seeking vendors and home crafters to participate in our Annual Holiday Bazaar. You can rent a table for a small fee, at the VFW Albertson Post 5253, located at 155 Searingtown Road, Albertson, NY. All Bazaar proceeds/donations directly benefit U.S. military families and our soldiers. VFW Post 5253 Ladies Auxiliary is a non-profit 501(C)(3) membership association, all donations are tax deductible. Contact whodamom@verizon.net or call (516)326.1243 for additional information.

MarKeTPlaCe GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY 130 Meadow St Saturday August 15 9am-1pm RAIN OR SHINE Very good treadmill, furniture, trunk, jewelry, china, antiques, collectibles, clothing and much more!! NO PREVIEWS!! UPRIGHT PIANO FREE!!! Good condition.

Needs tuning. Call: 516-650-5722 WOODWORKING TOOLS FOR SALE: Band saw, scroll saw, bench circular saw, drill press, shaper, router. Individual pieces or $600 for all. 516-621-1419

wanted to buy CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, entire collections, Estates.

Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices pad!

Call Jenni today! 800-413-3479 www.cashforyourteststrips.com 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 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 SUMMER HOURS: OPEN WednesdayFriday 106 Saturday 105 Sunday 12 5 CLOSED MONDAYS & TUESDAYS IN JULY AND AUGUST 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 Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary. Auctions are live every Wednesday from 8am-8pm 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

tag sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-7468900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@atstewartexchange.org www. gardencityhistoricalsociety. org WILLISTON PARK TAG SALE Saturday, August 15 from 9am to 1pm. 176 Canterbury Road. Everything must go!

YOU’RE INVITED! Tuesday August 18 9:30am 72 Wilson St Garden City, NY 11530 Dining room, living room, books, costume jewelry, decorative, garage, china, collectibles and more....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

YOU’RE INVITED! Wednesday, August 19 9:30am 9 Hamilton Pl Garden City, NY 11530 Beautifully decorated home with fine furnishings, home goods and household items, light fixtures, PACKED basement....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

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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

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apartment for rent FLORAL PARK Large 4 rooms, updated EIK, 2 Bedrooms, hardwood floors thoughout, washer/ dryer, storage and parking. $1,950 /month. For more information call Rose (Ford Realty) 516-655-7501

apartment for rent FRANKLIN SQUARE 1st floor, private entrance. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, eat-in-kitchen. Very spacious. Proof of income a must! $1,400 + electric and cable.

Available Sept 1. First month rent, security deposit & brokers fee (same as rent). Call Camille Mendolia 516-640-8531 FRANKLIN SQUARE Top floor, 1 bedroom, move-in condition.

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Cable, wi-fi, utilities, parking. No smoking. No pets. $1500. Please call 516-650-5144 GARDEN CITY SOUTH: Beautiful sunny 2nd floor, 2 bedroom, private entrance, close to LIRR, new carpet/flooring. SD#17. No pets, NO BROKER FEE. $1,750+ utilities. 631-830-7141

room for rent MINEOLA: Large furnished room, private entrance, share bath, own TV, microwave, fridge, A/C, no pets, smoking or drugs. $735/ month. All utilities included plus 1 month security. References required. 516-747-5799

office space GARDEN CITY FRANKLIN AVE: Windowed office in law/ accounting suite, 11 x 13. Conference room, reception & pantry included. Also available, three 6 x 7 work stations. Abundant municipal parking in rear of building. September 2015 occupancy.

516-248-3048 GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate. Near LIRR, stores. Available now. $1,750/mth. Call Owner 516-538-7474 or 538-7476 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 1300 & 2000 sf. available on Hillside Ave. Professional Building. Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission Paid.

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commercial property for rent GREAT NECK: 550 Northern Blvd, across the street from Leonard’s of Great Neck. 2500 sf, newly renovated. Retail or executive office space. New HVAC, burglar & fire alarm. Carrara marble bathroom, kitchen, multiple offices, huge windows, parking lot, signage. All new ready to move in!!! $8,500 FIRST MONTH FREE !!!! 917-553-8650

vacation rental ARUBA: PRESIDENTS WEEK DIVI PHOENIX TIMESHARE Saturday, Feb 13 to Feb 20. 4th Floor Oceanfront. 2 bedrooms, 2 sofa-beds, 3 baths, 2 full kitchens, 2 washers / dryers and other amenities. $4,500. Call 516-236-5593

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Blank Slate Media, a fastgrowing chain of 5 weekly newspapers and website, seeks a person experienced in Adobe In-Design to lay out newspaper pages MondayWednesday. Editorial experience a plus.

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To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to sblank@theisandnow.com Williston Times Great Neck News Manhasset Times Roslyn Times New Hyde Park Herald Courier

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We are seeking a self-starter with good writing and reporting skills. Newspaper experience and car required. Experience with social media platforms and content management systems preferred.

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The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to JLLB ASSOCIATES LLC, c/o Jobco Realty & Construction, Inc., 277 Northern Boulevard, Suite 203, Great Neck, New York 11021. Name​/​address of each member available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal Notice Please Take Notice The Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck will hold a public hearing at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, at the Village Hall of the Village of Great Neck,, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York 11023, with respect to Bill 1 of 2015/2016, a proposed local law to liberalize the criteria under which a tree removal permit may be granted.

This local law, if adopted, shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.

Persons who may suffer from a disability, which would prevent them from participating in said hearing, should notify Joe Gill, Village Clerk-Treasurer, at (516)482-0019, in sufficient time to permit arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing.

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Town officials celebrated with members of the Ahavat Shalom Synagogue for Shabbat Nachamu. Left to right: Masih Kaffash, Manoucher Ashourzadef, Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman, Per 2, Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Sabereh Samet, Dr. Farhad Yeroshalmi, Mr. Khekshon.

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Second-half rally earns Cosmos draw The New York Cosmos rallied from a three-goal deficit Saturday night at Lockhart Stadium to tie the Fort Lauderdale Strikers 3-3.

Second-half substitute Sebastian Guenzatti scored the dramatic equalizer in the second minute of second-half stoppage time.

“We have a very special group, unbelievable individuals and they all work for each other,” said Head Coach Giovanni Savarese. “Unfortunately in the first half we put ourselves in a very difficult situation, but once again the team showed character in able to get back in the game.

We always look for the three points, but today being able to tie was important for us.”

Fort Lauderdale (1-4-2) scored twice from the penalty spot as Gabriel (23’) and Walter Ramirez (48’) struck in each half.

On Ramirez’s second goal, the Strikers had a 3-0 lead in the 59th minute and appeared to be on their way to a first-ever win over the Cosmos in the modern era.

But when midfielder Leo Fernandes latched onto a Hunter Freeman cross and snuck a downward header inside the post in the 62nd minute, the Cosmos (2-3-1) had new life.

“Even though it was 3-0 we knew we still had a chance and when 3-1 came, we knew we had it,” Guenzatti said. “We knew we could tie it and even win it at the end.”

Four minutes later, Adam Moffat, who came on as part of a double substitution

in the 50th minute, won a 50-50 challenge in midfield and unleashed a blast from 26 yards past the outstretched arms of Fort Lauderdale goalkeeper Josh Ford to pull the Cosmos within a goal.

Two of Savarese’s three second-half substitutions found the back of the net.

“I thought the guys did well who came in,” Savarese said. “They are the ones who made the difference. Once they came in we were able to find more solutions, pressure higher, we got some life back. It was very important for us.”

Guenzatti provided the equalizer when he tapped in from eight yards out after Freeman played a Moffat cross back in front of the net.

“When Moffat switched it, Freeman stopped it, picked up his head and he saw me,” Guenzatti said. “When I received the ball I knew there was nobody behind me.

I just turned and blasted it far post.”

Savarese watched the final few minutes from the stands after being sent off for arguing the amount of stoppage time was added. As a result he didn’t get a great view of what appeared to be a Fernandes winner at the death. It was a goal called back for offside.

“When I crossed it, all I saw was Leo’s head and it went in,” Guenzatti said.

“Hopefully we’ll see a replay and see if it was offside or not, but the game is over and there’s nothing we can do now. We’re happy with the point because we were down 3-0 and that’s a big comeback in the second half.”

ISTEP camp returns to North Hempstead The Italian Soccer Training Program, better known as ISTEP, will be returning to North Hempstead this summer with a pre-season warm-up clinic coached by professional AC Milan trainers.

This program is for U12-U18 age groups, and will run from August 24 through 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Manhasset Valley Park on Northern Boulevard.

This year, the ISTEP coaching staff will feature a new star, Massimo Agostini, a UEFA Master Certified trainer and former professional striker with AC Milan, AS Roma, Parma, Ancona, and Cesena.

Agostini has won the Italian Cup, Titano Cup, UEFA Super Cup and more.

Also on the coaching staff this season will be Cristian Arrieta, former member of the Puerto Rico National Team, Afre-

do Vergori, athletic trainer for UC Sampadoria, and Maurizio Bruna, a Serie A Team Scout.

The camp features specific individual player objectives for strikers, defense, and goalkeepers, to improve their effectiveness on the field. The clinic features trainers that played professionally in Italy and are UEFA A and B certified.

This year, the training program will cost $200. Those interested can sign up at www.istepusa.sportssignup.com or by calling (516) 883-0300 or maria@istepusa.com.

For more information about the many opportunities North Hempstead Parks and Recreation has to offer, please contact 311 or visit www.northhempsteadny. gov.

The Cosmos come out of a difficult stretch of three games in seven days with seven points.

Next up they host the San Antonio Scorpions on Saturday Aug. 15 at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium.

“Maybe we are a little too tough on ourselves,” Savarese said. “I think today we could have come out of this game with three points, but after playing three games back to back, it’s not a bad thing to have won two and tied one.”

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