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Judge okays Waldbaum’s purchase bid

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Best Market to begin operating as soon as possible: Shopping center owner

By J oe N i k i c A White Plains bankruptcy court judge approved Best Yet Market Inc.’s $4.43 million bid to purchase five Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. supermarkets on Friday, including the Waldbaum’s at 40 Great Neck Road in Great Neck for $1.5 million.

Best Yet Market, a Bethpagebased family-owned company that operates supermarkets under the name “Best Market,” was also approved to buy a Waldbaum’s in Selden and Pathmarks in Shirley, Islip, and West Babylon.

“Best Market currently operates 20 stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut including 16 communities on Long Island, and we are enthusiastic about the opportunity to serve Great Neck as well,” Best Yet Market President and CEO Rebecca Philbert said in a statement. “We look forward to bringing our fresh, healthy, ‘better for you’ brand to new customers

and are confident that they will be excited by the transformation our stores represent.”

After two rounds of auctions in October, Great Neck’s Waldbaum’s received no bids, leaving residents, employees, and public officials unsure of the future of the supermarket.

Neal Kaplan, the managing partner of Kabro Associates, a real estate development and management firm that owns the shopping center where Waldbaum’s is located in Great Neck, said the court said the current store is to close by the end of the month, but he expects it to close sooner than that.

Kaplan added that rumors of a year-long renovation period were untrue and that Best Yet Market was “going to open as soon as possible and renovate as they progress to service the community.”

Alejandra Soto, a spokesperson for Best Yet Market, said there was no timetable for when the Continued on Page 54

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GCIFF Executive Director Regina Gil hosts a discussion of “Modern Ruin,” about the effort to protect and preserve the New York State Pavilion from the 1964-5 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow Park with Joseph Tirella, author of “Tomorrow-Land: the 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America.” see stories on Pages 22, 23.

Ex park district employee to challenge former boss

By J oe N i k i c The former director of the district’s Parkwood Sports Complex has filed to challenge one of his former bosses, Great Neck Park District Commissioner Robert Lincoln, for a seat on

the board of commissioners.

Perera, who served as Parkwood’s complex director from 2008 until March of this year, said his experience with the district qualifies him to serve as a commissioner.

“I see it from the point of

view of having worked there and seeing the ins and outs of the daily ongoing of the park district,” he said. “I have an understanding better than anyone coming in. I see the different commissioners coming and Continued on Page 51

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Building owner reflects on attacks Ex Paris resident calls events ‘tragic’

By J oe N i k i c

Kings Point (ZIP code 11024), home of this massive $100 million estate, ranked 91 on Forbes’ list of the nation’s most expensive ZIP codes.

Three G.N. ZIPs make Forbes ‘expensive’ list

Altos: Great Neck among country’s expensive areas

By J oe N i k i c Great Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, and Old Westbury were among 26 Long Island locations to make the list of “500 Most Expensive ZIP Codes” released Tuesday by Forbes.

Real estate research firm Altos Research compiled the median home price data of 29,500 ZIP codes across the country, which Forbes said it used to make the list.

Old Westbury ranked highest among the ZIP codes on the North Shore, coming in at 44 nationally.

Altos found the median home price in Old Westbury to be $3,105,880.

“In Old Westbury, a lot of

the reasons why people move there are because there are large estates and everybody wants property,” said Michael Berman, president for Automatic Real Estate Associates. “That’s the main thing you’re getting for you’re money. You’re getting a lot more land and property and a lot larger homes. Some of the homes are 10,000-15,000 square feet.”

Berman added that many homes have a minimum of two acres of land.

He also said close proximity to a major highway such as the Long Island Expressway attracts people to Old Westbury.

Old Westbury appeared on the 2014 list at number 49.

Great Neck appeared three times on the list, with 11024, the ZIP code for the Village of Kings

Point and a small portion of the Village of Great Neck, ranking highest at number 60.

The median home price in Kings Point is $2,742,051, Forbes said Altos found.

In September, an eight-acre compound in Kings Point with an unobstructed view of the Manhattan skyline was listed

by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage for sale at $100 million.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage salesperson Diane Polland said a lot goes into the prices of homes in that area.

“There’s the proximity to New York, the extraordinary quality of life, excellent schools, private police, it’s beautiful, and a lot of water views,” she said.

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CORRECTION: In last week’s article “From addiction is a business is born,” Francine Aulicino was identified as “a recovering drug addict.” Aulicino should have been identified as someone who struggled with prescription painkillers after suffering an injury. Kerri Kahn, whose name was incorrectly spelled in the story, was identified as being sober for “only a few months” in October 2013.

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Following last Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and left hundreds more injured, Patrick Silberstein said he immediately tried to get in touch with his family and friends in his native France to confirm they were alive.

“When I found out I began contacting everyone to make sure they were safe,” said Silberstein, a resident of Great Neck. “I found out that everyone was.”

Silberstein, who owns the Thomaston Building at 8 Bond St., moved to Great Neck 40 years ago from Cannes, a small town in the south of France that is home to the internationally recognized Cannes Film Festival.

He was born in Lyon in 1945, but later moved to Paris at the age of five, where he lived until he moved to Cannes in the mid’70s.

Although he moved to Great Neck in 1975 with his wife, Lynda, a number of Silberstein’s family members including two of his brothers, cousins, and “many” of his friends remained in France.

He said they were “emotionally effected” and concerned

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with what could happen in the future following the attacks.

While his family and friends remained safe, he said he learned through Facebook that the son and nephew of the owner of a restaurant in a small suburb outside of Paris at which he was a regular from his childhood to his young adult life had been killed in the attacks.

“It touches you personally. A tragedy becomes a tragedy when you know someone,” Silberstein said. “I grew up with the uncle and the father so I grew up with them.”

The attackers, who were armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six separate locations in France’s capital, Paris prosecutor François Molins said on Saturday.

Militant group ISIS, the selfproclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, later claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Given France’s high population of people from countries like Algeria and Morocco, where Islam is the official religion, Silberstein said, the blame for the attacks is wrongfully placed on all Muslim people.

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Mangia Bene takes second bite of G.N.

Restaurant opens new location on Middle Neck Road aiming to serve ‘loyal’ customers

By J oe N i k i c While struggling businesses and empty storefronts continue to impact the Village of Great Neck, Mangia Bene La Bottega has remained a staple of the neighborhood since January 2003.

“It’s been tough and it’s been very, very rough to survive. But with our loyal customers and with our smiles and people tell us that they love seeing our smiling faces and they love our consistency with our food,” said Jack Idnani, a partner in Mangia Bene. “I think those few things were our recipe to survive.”

That, Idnani said, is why he and his partners decided to stay in the Village of Great Neck and move to 624 Middle Neck Road when their lease at 526 Middle Neck Road was coming to an end.

“We loved this neighborhood. We feel like part of the family over here and we wanted to be here. We have very, very committed customers who have been coming here for such a long time,” he said. “They would have been very upset if we had left. Almost everybody was telling us ‘please don’t leave us.’ They are very happy, and we are very happy to be a part of Great Neck.”

Idnani said business has been good since the Oct. 25 ribbon cutting for the new location, but on-street parking, which was not an issue at their previous

location, now causes a problem for customers.

“They feel like over there they had the freedom of parking, but over here parking is a little issue,” he said. “That is the only drawback coming over here which we are facing.”

But, Idnani said, Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral told him he would try to help the neighborhood’s parking situation on Middle Neck Road.

Bral held his second “meeting with the mayor” event at Mangia Bene La Bottega, which Idnani said brought the restaurant a good turnout of customers.

“We didn’t know the new mayor at all, but we invited him and did the ribbon cutting and he asked us if they could use our space for a Wednesday meeting,” he said. “We were very excited to provide that for him and in fact, we were asking him to do a few more here.”

Idnani added that the restaurant had a good relationship with former Village of Great Neck Mayor Ralph Kreitzman, who would sometimes eat there “two to three times per week.”

Even after Bral defeated him to become mayor, Idnani said, Kreitzman continued to come to the restaurant and even attended the ribbon cutting to support the business.

“He was a very loyal customer and he still is,” he said.

Mangia Bene La Bottega owners Adam Echawadi (left) and Jack Idnani (right) with Mayor Pedram Bral (center) With the large Jewish population in the neighborhood, Adam Echawadi, a partner in Mangia Bene, said the restaurant makes sure to make customers trust that they will keep kosher food items separate from non-kosher items.

“We understand the clients are mostly

kosher so we respect that and we keep everything separated for them. We have knowledge of that so we like to cover that too,” he said. “It is a good thing for them.

They enjoy it, they like it, and they feel comfortable coming here.”

Idnani said he came to Great Neck in 2003 after working as the regional vice president of Sbarro’s northeast division, when he was approached by Tony Scotto, the owner of Scotto’s — the previous tenant at 526 Middle Neck Road.

Scotto, he said, asked him if he would be interested in opening a restaurant in the location that Scotto’s was vacating after 40 years.

Idnani was joined by his younger brother, Dino, and Echawadi as partners of Mangia Bene La Bottega, which is part of the La Bottega franchise.

“I spoke with my brother, Dino, and he knew Adam so he spoke with him, and that’s how the family got together for this project,” Idnani said.

At first, Idnani said, it was difficult to establish Mangia Bene La Bottega’s name because Scotto’s had served the neighborhood for 40 years.

“When we opened someone came into the store and asked, ‘is this the new Scotto’s?’” Echawadi said.

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Commercial bank to open in G.N.

By J oe N i k i c Metropolitan Commercial Bank, a full-service commercial bank headquartered in New York City, is scheduled to open it’s first Long Island location next month at 111 Great Neck Road in Great Neck.

“We are targeting to open the beginning of December. We are finalizing the final stages of construction,” Metropolitan Commercial Senior Vice President and Head of Retail Banking Laura Capra said. “The original target was to open Fall 2015. But we will be opened before the end of the year.”

With three Manhattan locations and one Brooklyn location, Capra said opening a bank in Great Neck would help Metropolitan Commercial keep close ties with their clientele.

“We have a lot of clients of the bank that actually live in the Great Neck area, so we felt it was an opportunity for us to extend our relationship with these clients to set up a center in Great Neck,” she said. “A lot of them work in Manhattan and live in the area and it’s a good opportunity for us to build these relationships. It

Metropolitan Commercial Bank’s new Great Neck location at 111 Great Neck Road makes perfect sense for us.”

Established in 1999, Metropolitan Commercial has $910 million in total assets and more than 1 million ATM’s available to clients at no cost, according to it’s website.

On top of their banking services, Capra said the bank wanted to utilize their large space for other local businesses in the community.

“We’ve always been a community focused organization and

coming out to Great Neck we look to continue with that focus,” Capra said. “Our space is over 5000 square feet, which is pretty large for a banking center. Our plans are to open up the center to local organizations for meeting

working events in the front of our lobby.”

In celebration of it’s opening, Metropolitan Commercial announced last Friday they will hold a toy drive at the new Great Neck location where they will accept unopened children’s toys and gifts that they will be donating to the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.

Capra said the bank would have employees at the bank from Nov. 30 to Dec. 23 to collect the donated items.

She added that Metropolitan Commercial would match up to $10,000 in cash donations to purchase additional gifts.

While the bank is interested in expanding on Long Island, Capra said the focus right now is with the Great Neck location.

“We are always open to additional opportunities for expansion,” she said. “But our focus right now is to open in Great Neck.”

Metropolitan Commercial Bank seeks to create a more efficient model for commercial banking by combining new technologies with traditional banking business practices, according to it’s website.

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By N o A H MANSkAR

The Nassau County Legislature passed its first-ever override of an executive veto Friday, striking a 1.2-percent property tax increase from the county budget and pushing the county one step closer to a showdown with its state oversight board.

The 14-4 bipartisan vote nixed Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s veto of a Republican budget amendment removing the tax hike that would have raised $12 million in revenue, representing 0.004 percent of the total $2.95 billion budget.

Deputy Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow) said she thinks the budget is “reasonable and achievable” without the tax hike, adding: “I have every confidence that the county executive will manage to the budget that he is given.”

Both parties filed identical resolutions on Monday for the override, which required a supermajority of 13 votes to pass. Four Democrats and 10 Republicans

voted to approve it.

Two Democrats and two Republicans voted no. Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) was not present.

The removal of the tax increase was the only piece of the Republican majority-amended budget Mangano vetoed Monday.

He left intact another amendment striking two administrative fee increases projected to raise $16 million in revenue.

In an email, spokesman Brian Nevin said Mangano will implement the budget the Legislature approved and will make “every effort to preserve quality of life services.”

The override came hours after Nassau Interim Finance Authority reiterated its threat to take control of the county budget, which the Republican-controlled Legislature first approved Oct. 26.

NIFA outlined last month a plan to make major spending cuts to non-essential services, impose a countywide hiring freeze and increase limits and oversight on private contracts if the Legislature did not find revenue to cover a

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Jon Kaiman projected $80 million deficit.

In a letter to the Legislature Friday afternoon, NIFA Board Chair Jon Kaiman said the oversight agency would “immediately” take action to start implementing that plan if lawmakers cut any more new revenue — such as the tax hike — from the budget.

NIFA will decide whether to accept, reject or ask for further revisions to the budget Nov. 19.

“It’s clear that the board members are concerned about

today’s events and the failure of the county to take its responsibility seriously in relation to the county’s fiscal situation,” Kaiman said in an interview.

Kaiman previously said neither Mangano’s budget nor the amendments addressed $191 million in what he characterized as risky revenue assumptions.

Republican leaders spoke critically of NIFA’s plan, particularly its promise to reject borrowing to cover $32 million in termination pay, an expense they say is out of the county’s control.

Gonsalves said the oversight agency has “manufactured a budget crisis,” noting that state officials approved termination pay borrowing in 2009 and that NIFA has not said specifically what discretionary programs it will cut.

“It seems they’re are a body of individuals who are seeking to exercise their muscles, which is inappropriate in the utmost extent,” Deputy Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said, calling NIFA’s actions “arbitrary.”

Kaiman said the Legislators

“should be ashamed of themselves” because accounting best practices don’t allow for termination pay borrowing.

“The question is not whether we’re acting arbitrarily,” he said.

“It’s whether they’re acting responsibly and doing their job, and apparently they are not.”

Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) said the most dire issue affecting the county’s finances was the contract system, which two independent reports have said is prone to corruption.

He said NIFA should impose contract reforms before cutting discretionary spending that goes to, among other things, services for youth, senior citizens and others in need.

“We’re willing to say that services will be impacted, and from that standpoint we should be looking to cut everywhere,” Abrahams said. “(T)hose that are the most vulnerable, for those that can’t speak for themselves ... should never ever be on the chopping block first.”

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N. Shore, Bristal partner for new facility

BY N O A H M A N S K A R

The company behind the nine Long Island Bristal Assisted Living facilities, including one in North Hills, is going ahead with plans for a first-of-its-kind project in Lake Success.

In a partnership with the North ShoreLIJ Health System, the Engel Burman Group’s 10th Bristal home will be dedicated to caring for seniors with dementia and other memory-loss diseases in a setting that allows doctors from Feinstein Institute for Medical Research to work toward cures for those diseases.

“It’ll be the first time that a facility like

this has had scientists, day in and day out, living with the people to work with exercise, nutrition, mental acuity,” Engel Burman Group President Jan Burman said.

Engel Burman plans to build a $33.5 million, 90,000 square-foot facility on a 2.59-acre lot on the North Service Road near the Long Island Expressway in Lake Success, about a quarter-mile from the Feinstein Institute’s home at North Shore University Hospital on Community Drive in Manhasset. The facility will have 88 units available for seniors with dementia and other memory-loss diseases, Burman said.

There, the Institute’s researchers will work with patients to conduct a couple of

studies: one involving strength training exercises, and another involving dance therapy techniques, North Shore-LIJ spokesman Terry Lynam said.

These exercises could be beneficial in slowing down the effects of dementia and other memory diseases, and the researchers will “measure their impact on the functional abilities of the participants,” Lynam said. The Feinstein Institute will also launch a similar pilot program in another Bristal facility early next year.

“Putting together a research program to follow those patients helps out researchers get a better handle on what is and what is not effective,” he said.

The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency approved a tax break package last week for the project, which is expected to have a $29 million economic benefit to the county and create $4 million in additional taxes.

The package includes a 15-year agreement for payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs, totaling $6,737,765. The plan freezes property tax rates for the first five years and then increases them by 1.66 percent each year for the following 10 years.

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Water control district offers turkey grease collection

By J oe N i k i c Those wishing to get rid of their leftover oil and grease from Thanksgiving can do so by giving it to the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District.

The district announced last Friday that it will be collecting leftover Thanksgiving cooking oil was part of the district’s Food to Fuel program.

“Flushing cooking oil or pouring liquid fat and grease down the drain negatively impacts both homeowners’ and district sewer pipes,” Commissioner Steve Reiter said. “These fatty compounds not only stick to the interiors of the sewer pipes in your homes and businesses, but also the pipes under the street.”

The cooking oil, once collected by the district, will be

converted into biofuel that can be used in district diesel vehicles and generators, the district said.

Residents and businesses can bring leftover oil to the district facility at 236 East Shore Road in Great Neck or schedule a free at-home cooking oil and grease pick-up by calling the district.

Scheduled pick-ups will take place the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Excess oils can be found in meat fat, cooking oils and marinades, the district said.

The district said when people pour these items down a sink drain or flush them down the toilet, they stick to the inside of sewer pipes, reducing the space in the pipe and causing blockage, which the district said it wants to stop.

“Knowing how to properly dispose of used cooking oil plays a significant role in protecting our environment,” said Commissioner Deena Lesser. “The district’s Food to Fuel program helps enable the most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way of grease disposal.”

When cooking is complete, and after the oil cools, the district said all excess grease and oil should be placed in a sealable container.

At pick-up, district staff will pour the oil from the deep fryer and other containers into their collection vessel.

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Missing cardiologist found alive in Pa. B y H arr i s o n M ar d e r

Missing Roslyn cardiologist Randy Kiewe was found alive in Bristol, Pa., on Nov. 7, the Nassau County Police Department Public Information Office announced Monday.

Detective Vincent Garcia said police are unable to release any further information.

An employee at CompleteCare Cardiology PLCC, the practice that Kiewe founded and for which he serves as medical direc-

tor, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was glad Dr. Kiewe was found “alive and safe.”

“It has been a difficult time with Dr. Kiewe and we’ve been trying to help out our patients as best as we can during this difficult time,” he said.

The employee said early last week, after news broke that Kiewe was found, Kiewe’s patients were “very concerned” and took it upon themselves to get any information they could from police and relay the information to the practice.

No official statement has been released by CompleteCare Cardiology, the employee said.

Efforts to reach Bristol Township Police were unavailing.

Nassau County Police issued a Silver Alert on Nov. 7 saying Kiewe was found, but the alert contained no details regarding Kiewe’s condition.

Kiewe, 47, was last seen parking his BMW near the Roslyn train station around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, police said.

The Silver Alert issued the day that Kiewe disappeared said

that Kiewe was in need of medical attention and medication for the treatment of depression.

It also said Kiewe had attempted suicide in the past.

Kiewe is considered a regional expert in angina, arrhythmias, hypertension, cholesterol and lipid diseases, heart attacks and heart failure, specializing in the manifestation of heart disease in women, according to his biography on the CompleteCare website.

With a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and his

medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Kiewe is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and nuclear cardiology.

A former cardiology fellow with North Shore University Hospital, Kiewe is a consultant to Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and frequently lectures on the topic.

Kiewe was named best cardiologist in The Long Island Press’ “Best of Long Island” contest this year.

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Residents have already Film fest offers given big no to casino values now under attack I OUR VIEWS

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he Gold Coast International Film Festival has served as arguably the most important event on the North Shore for the past five years, providing a week-long celebration of films from across the world and the people who made them. And a showcase for what the North Shore has to offer.

But the importance of the film festival — and its power — was never more evident than in the wake of horrific string of terrorists attacks across Paris that killed 129 people during the film festival.

The assaults by what French President Francois Hollande called the “barbarians” of the Islamic State stood in stark contrast to the humanity expressed in the 43 films previewed at the festival.

Ironically, the festival kicked off with a gala that honored actor Navid Negahban, who gained wide notoriety playing a terrorist leader in the Emmy award-winning Show Series “Homeland” but immediately demonstrated to gala-goers he was nothing like the character he played. There is a reason, we guess, they call it acting.

Negahban was joined at the gala by Patrician Riggen, one of the few female directors working in Hollywood — and a Latin-American female director at that — talking about her soon-to-be-released movie “33,” the story of 33 Chilean miners who spent 69 days trapped underground before being rescued by people from across the world.

And Vince Giordano, a Grammy winning musician and famed jazz artist who has recorded for many movies and television.

The talent and creativity of the three honorees was followed by the film festival, which not only previewed upcoming films — comedies and dramas, feature films and documentaries, American made and foreign. But in many instances the artists who helped make the film were present to discuss it afterward with the audience.

All of which served as an affirmation of life and all that it offers in places that celebrate freedom, diversity and universal truths In the midst of this, came the attacks in Paris.

We hope our leaders appreciate the values embodied by the festival while taking the necessary steps to respond to the evil presented in Paris.

Already, some have called for the United States to refuse Syrians fleeing the horrors of their native country from gaining refuge here.

Some candidates have proposed singling out those who can enter this country based on religion. And at least one has proposed closing mosques and thereby denying Muslims their places of worship.

This talk is nothing but a recruitment tool for ISIS. We hope calmer and, in some cases, less politically motivated people prevail In the meantime, we thank the organizers and many supporters of the Gold Coast Film Festival — led

by Gold Coast Arts Center founder and executive director Reginal Gil and festival director Caroline Sorokoff ­— for presenting a world-class event here on the North Shore.

It couldn’t have come at a worse time. Or a better time.

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am assuming that the subject of a casino parlor will again be in the news.

As has consistently been said, Nassau County might expect to derive $20 million.

A casino does not produce a product or service.

If everything is added up: the 20 million, the cost of the location, the installation and operating expenses and whatever the profit the operator would realize, it would total many tens of millions of dollars.

As in all of these kinds of institutions including scratch off cards and lotteries, the player’s losses far exceed that of the occasional winners.

This is money out of the pockets of the people (many who are needy) with nothing to show for it. It is so low life.

The people have spoken with an emphatic no!

And the question of why the secrecy about the location of a re-try.

Some more words on my traffic subject of last week: If one tunes in to WINS 1010 News Radio and hears the Traffic and Transit Report, one seldom fails to hear about a motor vehicle collision or sometimes a train derailment.

And such as the well publicized Walmart semi driver who had been on the road who knows how many hours.

A few days ago there was a collision at Willis Avenue and 2nd Street in Mineola.

The jaws of life were needed to free an occupant.

Nothing was said about how it happened or what negligence was involved.

This is one intersection where nothing should ever happen. The next day the jaws were needed nearby.

It will happen again on Roslyn Road and don’t blame it on a 40 MPH speed limit where applicable.

Quite a while back I mentioned a situation where the L. I. E. is at a low point where it passes under Walt Whitman Road.

From that point eastbound it is an upgrade all the way to Dix Hills.

After 2 p.m. or so, in order to meet the volume of traffic it has to continue to move at the speed limit. I mentioned that there should be signs: Upgrade-Maintain Speed. This was never realized.

The result is a very long traffic jam.

It is like the situation with the light on Herricks Road I mentioned last week.

We have people on the public payroll who in effect say to the public: “You don’t tell us, we tell you.”

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Nations of world must unite to support France

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aris, France, is reeling from the carnage perpetrated by ISIS terrorists who killed innocent people.

Now 128 killed in six attacks and many more seriously injured. These nefarious and egregious acts by terrorists sent by ISIS must be brought to justice.

President Obama has said in connection with these most heinous acts against innocent people was that,” This is not just an attack on Paris or the people of France, it was an attack on humanity.”

He is absolutely right, which I applaud.

The nations of the world must join together in solidarity with France to eradicate these evil doers.

ISIS is the personification of those beliefs that is diametrically oppose to all we hold most dear and that is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In closing let me offer my heartfelt prayers to the families, friends and co-workers who lost those that they held most dear and are faced with much grief.

Let me also say this: “Vive La France.”

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

After attack, a census-taking of the heart

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n Friday morning, I was arguing with my computer, trying to get it to change its tab settings; wrestling with email; griping about a UPS shipment gone astray; and wondering how I could ever “disappear” enough clutter to make my house presentable for Thanksgiving.

By Friday night, all I cared about was knowing that people I loved were safe.

As I try to write this week’s Look On The Lighter Side, we are all trying to wrap our heads around what, exactly, happened in the horrendous terror attacks in Paris.

If past history is any guide, it will be even harder to figure out how to get on with the rest of our lives.

Of course, I flashed right back to 9/11.

Much was different, but one thing was the same: the immediate and urgent need for a quick inventory — “R U OK?” to everyone close.

If you’re fortunate enough to come out of that, unscathed, then “Is there anyone we know who might be in this horrible

thing?”

The texts fly back and forth.

“Is anyone we know in Paris?” my children asked me.

I asked my mother the same thing, by phone. It’s all that matters — a census-taking of the heart.

When the towers came down, I was blessed that my husband was off that morning, and my children were right where I could hug them. Because that’s what I needed to do: hug them, while I waited for my heartbeat to slow back down to something approaching normal. Now, I have done my job, and the children have left the nest. Are they safe?

Never mind are they happy — are they safe? That becomes all that matters, because I can’t be happy unless they are safe. It turns a parent into something resembling a lunatic, or so I am

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A Look on the Lighter Side told — but at least we can talk about that, over the turkey — as long as they’re safe.

I did not lose any immediate family or friends in 9/11; we were lucky. But just living here, to some extent it happened to us all. And more than anything else — more than rage, more

than fear — I remember just feeling so sad. So much misery! Why would anyone go out of their way to leave so many motherless, fatherless children?

Why take so many people from family and friends? Why turn your God-given talents to making so many other children of God so sad?

There is nothing I can write as eloquent as the Facebook posting of a 22-year-old young woman, Isobel Bowdery, who seems to have survived the carnage in the Bataclan concert hall by lying down, as if dead, among those who already were: “But most of this is to the 80 people who were murdered inside that venue, who weren’t as lucky, who didn’t get to wake up today and to all the pain that their friends and families are going through. I am so sorry. There’s nothing that will

As I try to write this week’s Look On The Lighter Side,

we are all trying to wrap our heads around what, exactly, happened in the horrendous terror attacks in Paris.

fix the pain. I feel privileged to be there for their last breaths.

And truly believing that I would join them, I promise that their last thoughts were not on the animals who caused all this. It was thinking of the people they loved.

“As I lay down in the blood of strangers and waiting for my bullet to end my mere 22 years, I envisioned every face that I have ever loved and whispered ‘I love you.’ Over and over again. Reflecting on the highlights of my life. Wishing that those I love knew just how much, wishing that they knew that no matter what happened to me, to keep believing in the good in people. To not let those men win. Last night, the lives of many were forever changed and it is up to us to be better people. To live lives that the innocent victims of this tragedy dreamt about but sadly will now never be able to fulfill. RIP angels. You will never be forgotten.”

May there be love, and may it conquer. This is my Thanksgiving, New Year’s, and Forever wish. Amen.

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GOP could lose war by winning battle

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he average voter doesn’t know very much about the process of electing a president.

They have heard about the primary elections and understand that the last man or woman standing gets the nomination and the chance to run for president in 2016.

But the difference between the primaries and the general election is the difference between night and day.

The Republican primary candidates spend their time romancing the most conservative voters hoping that by throwing out as much red meat as possible,they will get their approval.

When those primaries are over, Republican leaders hope that they have chosen a candidate who will do well in the general election.

But that’s the problem .

Up to this point in time, in order to woo the most right-wing party members, the Republican candidates have taken position after position that will alienate the mainstream voter who tends to be

more moderate. Including the people insulted at the most recent debate, here is a recap of the groups that have been told to take a hike.

The pledge to deport 11 million so-called illegal immigrants, has the support of almost all of the Republican contenders.

Add to that the promise that any of the “dreamers,” children born here of illegal immigrants, should also be kicked out, doesn’t leave many racial groups to vote Republican.

Considering that Hispanics are about 34 per cent of the vote, you can check that group off as a GOP voting prospect.

Even Sen. Marco Rubio, who was the original sponsor of the pathway to citizenship bill, has jumped off the pro-immigrant bandwagon.

Sen. Ted Cruz, the son of Cuban immigrants, stood speechless at the recent debate when the other candidates were sparring over mass deportations.

He was joined by Rubio who seemed to be in some far off place while the back and forth took place

of Texas flat out said she wouldn’t Democratic and Republican privote for Donald Trump if he were mary voters. the nominee.

By the time the primary season She no doubt is joined by is over, Democratic candidates find many other women who feel that a way to move enough to the left the Republicans seem to subscribe to keep their voters happy. If the to the idea that a woman’s place is true conservative wing of the Rein the home. publican Party is unhappy, there is Donald Trump’s pledge to” always a chance that they will sit bring America back to what it used on their hands and do nothing for to be” caused a comedian on Sat- the party’s chosen candidate. urday Night Live to say that as a For the Democrats, the primablack person he isn’t quite ready to ry contests often are just a chance go back to the old days. to have a good argument and then JERRY KREMER If you are working in some forget it.

Kremer’s Corner dinghy factory being paid $8 dolFor the Republicans, the survilars an hour, it wasn’t very excit- vor of the primary process may be between Jeb Bush and Donald ing to hear all of the Republican totally unelectable.

Trump. candidates pledge to oppose any If you don’t believe me, I will Women voters haven’t heard increase in the minimum wage. give you Mitt Romney’s telephone anything promising from the ReThere is a difference between number. publican candidates in recent months.

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Time to move on from Common Core

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hose of you reading this column who have significant others already know that you learn an awful lot of life’s lessons the hard way when you settle down with someone.

My lovely bride of 20 years would likely tell you that I’ve learned very little but I will say there is one idea that I know applies to everyone in everyday life: when you’re wrong, admit it and move on.

Bad situations never improve if you’re stubbornly clinging to your point of view (I can’t wait until she reads this!).

Case in point would be New York State’s disastrous experiment with Common Core.

You’ll recall that in my June column earlier this year, I challenged the state’s new Education Commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, to initiate an adult version of the “do-over.” I wrote: Common Core, the dramatic move toward more standardized testing, and poorly planned teacher evaluations have been nothing short of a train wreck.

For six whole years we in Albany have tried repeatedly to correct, and negotiate, and cajole, and rework infinite details and for all our head banging all we have are anxious kids, angry parents, and uninspired teachers. I think it’s more than safe to say that we aren’t going to fix this train while it’s in motion.

What should be done is a moratorium period — a pause if you will — that allows us to regroup, keep what’s good, throw out what’s bad and start over from the beginning.

This new approach has authentic support among Republicans and Democrats alike in both the Senate and the Assembly but I will bluntly tell you that such action won’t be possible without a state Education Commissioner who can show true leadership, the kind that admits mistakes and stands up against the status quo.

Quite bluntly, after meeting with hundreds of parents, teachers and students, writing about it dozens of times, and clashing so publicly with the former education commissioner, Dr. John King Jr., it was obvious to me that Common

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Core just wasn’t working.

As your state senator I initially tried to find ways that it could be salvaged. After all, the experts kept telling us that this enormously expensive experiment would somehow work out in the end.

But I immediately collided with and eventually called for the resignation of a tone-deaf Dr. King.

Then I held town hall meetings for local parents that only fell on deaf ears in Albany.

I had to make sense of the inBloom data fiasco that compro-

mised the privacy of our children (fortunately the State eventually came to its senses and halted its relationship with inBloom).

I even took issue with the cookie cutter curriculum. It seemed nothing about this plan worked but in the end, I’ve simply had too many long nights at the kitchen table with at least one of my frustrated children, too many mornings at school drop-off listening to angry neighbors, and too many meetings with down-trodden teachers and superintendents. We all want higher standards and certainly the original aim was worthy but you know what roads are paved with good intentions.

So I couldn’t help but ask, “What in the world are we doing?”

Dare I say I now see a bit of light at the end of this tunnel?

This past week, the Governor’s “Common Core Task Force” finally held public hearings asking New Yorkers how to improve it.

The answer they’re hearing across the board? Dump it.

By and large witnesses are testifying that it’s a complete failure on

so many levels that they won’t be satisfied with incremental change, they simply want it to end.

For many, that’s a bitter pill to swallow and it’s certainly a herculean task to turn a ship this big around.

But more than that, I think pride has played a far greater role in this unwillingness to change than it should have.

Amazing as it sounds, some people just don’t want to give up on what was supposed to be a “big idea” that was going to change the face of education.

But as Winston Churchill, the clear-sighted Prime Minister of Britain once noted, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Here’s hoping that courage soon finds its voice in Albany, that we admit it was a mistake so we can move on.

Read more about the fight against common core here: www. nysenate.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/jack-m-martins/desk-senator-jack-m-martins-127

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It’s late in 4th quarter for football

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“Tipping Point” is approaching for the demise of tackle football.

The game will end first for pre-collegiate players. Indeed, some academically acclaimed, Phi Beta Kappa colleges have already ended the sport, including Swarthmore and Hofstra (where I taught for 55 years).

I grew up in a football-crazed community that cherished championship seasons.

Not surprising that I have emotional ambivalences about joining the rising chorus to abolish tackle football.

My vivid sports’ memories include the extensive training discipline of football, the geometrics of designing and running plays, as well as the camaraderie among teammates, coaches, school friends and our community.

In 1947, I played my first game at Nyack Boys School.

Those young men (already neck-tie clad) existed in a socially privileged world compared to our ethnic community (none of our parents were college graduates; few had made it into high school).

Commentators often refer to the agony and ecstasy of football. I have experienced both.

For me, the scales now tip em-

phatically toward abolition of the game.

My Sparkill Sparks won that ‘47 game 12-0. Although I scored both touchdowns, I was disappointed because I yearned to be the quarterback, not the wide receiver who caught his passes.

All of us growing up in the 1940s cheered for West Point, “The Black Knights of the Hudson.”

The stars on “Army’s” team were Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, but when I heard that the coach Earl “Red” Blaik said, “The quarterbacks of today are the generals of tomorrow,” I knew my position goal.

When I played on the Tappan Zee High School championship team in 1949, I was one of two freshmen to earn a varsity letter.

Although I was the third-string quarterback, I can still vividly remember the first pass I threw; it went for a touchdown.

In full disclosure, I confess I was so nervous that I thought I would fumble or throw an interception.

Luckily for me, I only had to toss the ball less than 10 yards, after which Joe “Mercury” Mercurio sped another 60 yards for a touchdown.

As teenagers, presidential candidate Ben Carson and I shared visions of West Point.

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When I won a New York State 440-yard championship while running on the West Point track in spring 1951, enthusiasm was fueled among teachers and community leaders that I might receive an Academy appointment.

However, a September day in fall 1951 ended my West Point dreams. As TZ starting quarterback, I was so seriously injured that I received Last Rites of the Catholic Church at Nyack Hospital.

The headline for the Journal News was: “Loss of D’Innocenzo Tough Blow for Dutchmen.”

More important than athletic kudos thrown my way were concerns about whether parents would demand that their sons quit the game because of its dangers.

Dear reader, I will spare you the grisly details. But if you follow NFL football and heard about renowned quarterback Andrew Luck, “sidelined with a lacerated kidney,” my injury was worse.

Emergency exploratory surgery seeking the source of internal bleeding left me with a scar that circles from my navel to the middle of my back.

With my innards exposed, the remarkable Dr. Ciancimino removed my kidney (which had been split in half from impact).

That was the end of all my contact sports in high school (including basketball, so defined in those days), and the end of West Point aspirations.

Although it took me months to recover from losing a kidney, from traumatic surgery, and from a long hospital stay, the injury did not end my love of football.

My disenchantments with the violence of tackle football proceeded slowly, but inexorably.

As momentum accelerated by critics, I continued to move toward their “end zone.”

While I can still appreciate the appeals of football, they are no longer sufficient for me to support its continuation.

I do understand that football

spurs athletic skills, that it fosters team spirit (for players and fans, including the ritual pageantry of uniforms, bands and cheerleaders), that it can be savored as spectators (especially for those who have played the game).

Current realities deter efforts to end college and professional football; they are deeply driven by money and television.

However, it would be a descent into unreality to ignore the mounting evidence of injuries (worse than coal mining): concussions, long-term disabilities, and more than 100 deaths since 2005 (11 high school players died in the past 4 months). How many of you would join the impressive lists of parents (including star athletes) who will not allow their children to play tackle football?

The brutal consequences of tackle football almost caused President Theodore Roosevelt to abolish the “sport.”

As we approach the 2016 election year, this is the time for more colleges and for all schools to end tackle football.

The important joys of the sport can be sustained by moving to flag football. [To be continued, with assists from Dr. Ben Carson]

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State needs transparency, openness

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he Center for Public Integrity, a respected nonpartisan news organization and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, gave New York a D-rating in its 2015 State Integrity Investigation.

The integrity investigation highlights several flaws: FOIL requests are poorly conducted; corporate donation laws aren’t respected; campaign funds are often used for personal expenses; few sanctions are placed on offenders of campaign finance laws; asset disclosures are rarely audited; conflicts of interest are rampant; and, information isn’t readily available online.

Unfortunately, this is just a small sampling of the discussed shortcomings in New York’s political process.

It’s no secret; trust in New York State elected officials has dramatically dropped in recent years.

Currently, news media highlights the corruption cases of former state Senate leader Dean Skelos and former state Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, but these aren’t an anomaly.

According to the Syracuse Post Standard, 41 state officials have been accused of misdeeds in the past 12 years.

To be fair there are some terrific men and women in the state Senate and Assembly. They work hard and represent their constituents well. It would be wonderful if they banded together, stood up to corruption and insisted on integrity.

Turnout in the 2014 election cycle was 28.8 percent in New York State, the fourth lowest in the United States even though there were three statewide elections.

With incumbent elected officials sending out taxpayer funded mail pieces disingenu-

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All Things Political ously telling voters how they haven’t raised taxes or how they fought for millions of dollars in school funding even though it’s substantially less than previous years, the low voter participation isn’t surprising.

Sending out taxpayer funded mailers with messages that serve the politician and not the

electorate add to the diminishing integrity of the political process.

In my opinion, the only thing that will motivate New Yorkers to show up at the polls is transparency.

Transparency will help voters believe that elected officials are true public servants. Many of our elected officials seem to have forgotten what transparency is, and, more specifically, what it looks like.

To me, transparency means both full disclosure of and easy access to information.

This would enable residents to learn or investigate anything they need, and would improve faith in government. Transparency means an accessible database of who makes political donations to whom and access to public information that will help them get the services they need.

People need to understand how their money is being spent

with easy access to transparent budgets and state awarded contracts. They want an end to cronyism and wasted taxpayer dollars.

Transparency also means meaningful job creation through tax incentives, not to those who are politically connected.

I was born in New York; I went to public school, college and graduate school in New York; I got married in New York; I work in New York.

In short, I’ve lived my whole life in New York.

I want the same for my children. Unless we change the political process on the state level, by engaging residents and challenging politicians to show true leadership it will be difficult to encourage other residents to embrace New York as I have.

Success is earned.

As of now, so is New York’s D- rating for state integrity.

Attacks in Paris are attacks on all of us

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he situation is more significant than the American government would have themselves believe.

They would like to believe that this is not a problem with such gravitational force.

This is more than an attack on Paris. This is an attack on the

world. This is a message to say that they will come, they will attack, they will have no mercy.

Like a rabid animal, they have no logic and will hurt without reason. The only thing that makes their message most frightening is that they have no direction and will attack anything at

random.

The greatest form of terrorism is a group of individuals that possess nothing.

Nothing but a hatred of life in general. A haven for the mentally unstable. A group where acceptance is given to those who will die not for a cause, but be-

cause they already wanted to begin with.

Fear is the natural response, but now is not the time to be thinking of what could happen, but what we should do to make ourselves stronger.

Not as a single nation, but as a united world.

A united world would be most terrifying to them.

We all have the same enemy as of right now, and we must not let them drive us apart through intimidation.

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Democratic women also oppose abortion

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hile previous letters written by Dr. Hal Sobel were read with interest, his recent essay is so full of nonsense that he must be challenged. (News Times, November 13, 2015).

Does he really believe the Republican party is an all male political party?

Has he asked Republican women if they are engaged in “a war on women”?

His first paragraph fails to identify who uses the phrase “War On Women” to describe “Republican policies and proposals.”

Then he proceeds to insinuate Republicans were responsible for the 1998 bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. and the 2009 murder of a Dr. Tiller in Kansas.

While the question of the odds of pregnancy during rape

induced trauma remains unclear, Sobel pontificates “Lies die hard.”

And then he belittles Foster Friess for his humorous comment about a recommended birth control practice of yesteryear: “In my days Bayer aspirin was used for contraception... the gals put it between their knees.”

Could it be that Dr. Sobel didn’t understand the Friess

Parking increase an ‘insult’

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he holiday shopping season is upon us.

Our local merchants look forward to brisk business during this season in order to stay in the black.

The “Jean Machine,” in its

infinite wisdom, has added insult to injury to the merchants of Great Neck Plaza by doubling the price of parking in this village.

Potential shoppers now have the honor of paying twice as

much for the privilege of looking at the now and future empty storefronts.

It’s time for the “Jean Machine Regime” to go!

Leo Pfeifer Village of Great Neck Plaza

comment?

Or did he find it unbelievable that a woman could or should have control of her own private parts.

Dr. Sobel drops names (Christopher Morley, Arnold Toynbee) to imply that respected thinkers were on his side.

And he assumes that all Democrats support the right to butcher human flesh that can’t defend itself.

Hopefully, Democratic women will enlighten Hal Sobel about the evils that arise when human life is not adequately protected.

Democrats are at their best when they fight to put money in the pockets of workers.

They are at their worst when they take money from workers to pay for human carnage.

James P. Gough New Hyde Park

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READERS WRITE

Plaza gets it on wrong on parking

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fter more than five years of my presenting data to the Village of Great Neck Plaza, the village finally decided to address the problems of parking abuse, especially in the Gussack Plaza outdoor lot.

That lot is behind my store, Camp & Campus.

I have been in my present location since March of 2005 after being on Bond Street for 50 years.

I personally observed on a daily basis the abuse that took place.

Employees and some merchants would park in the lot for the four-hour limit from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then move their cars to a metered spot in the garage across the street for two hours.

That brought them to 3 p.m. or later where the garage was free from 3 p.m. on.

These people could have purchased a permit to park in the garage all day. However, the $90 dollars for three months was more expensive (although very reasonable) than the $1 in the lot and the fifty cents in the garage.

Sometimes, they simply fed the meter and stayed there for 8 hours, especially if they saw that the tires were not chalked that day.

With the change in the parking charge from 25 cents per hour to 25 cents for 30 minutes, this is no longer the case.

Also, and most importantly the problem is solved by the fact that the garage is no longer free from 3 p.m. but was changed to 5 p.m.

This would require the abusers to address their cars between 3 and 4 p.m. if they work to 6 p.m. which is when most of the stores close, except for the restaurants in town.

Between the additional cost and the need to attend to their

cars an additional time, this would be enough incentive for them to get a permit and end the abuse in the lot.

Every parking spot that is used by an employee is one less spot that is available to many customers.

Each spot occupied by a consumer turns over at least three to six times a day. The lot is the busiest between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. during the lunch hour period.

Customers circle continuously hoping to park in a vacating spot. The abusers are taking up parking spaces during this period of time.

However, the Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees is creating as many problems as they are solving in regards to the parking problems in the Village of Great Neck Plaza, the main shopping area for the entire Great Neck peninsula.

I personally did surveys of the parking abuse in the lot.

These surveys were presented to Mayor Jean Celender and other village employees. I went around the lot three times during the day: 10-11 a.m., 1-2 p.m. and 3-4; very often for seven consecutive days; I wrote down the spot number and the license plate of every car.

I was able to identify the cars that were there multiple times a week and for more hours than they should have been because they were feeding the meter.

The village hired a parking consultant to evaluate the parking problems at a cost of $3,500 to the taxpayers. The only need for having this consultant was so that the village could point to the fact that the changes were recommended by a consultant, thereby reducing the validity of objections.

The consultant spent three hours between about 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on two consecutive Thurs-

days to form all its conclusions.

He did not see parking patterns earlier in the morning and after 3 p.m.

He was not here on the weekends. Saturday is not a problem at all; but Sunday is actually the worst day of the week for abuse and is not dealt with nor solved by the changes to take into effect this week.

The consultant identified the same problems that I had identified and reported to the village for years; but his conclusions and suggestions did not consider all of their ramifications.

Common sense alone dictated what had to be done.

The actions previously mentioned should solve the problems caused by these inconsiderate individuals.

But the village has gone beyond that and thereby making it more difficult for some shoppers to patronize the Great Neck stores and restaurants.

The consultant said that the average shopper spends about an hour and a half in the village.

That means that some could spend only 20 minutes, but others could spend 2 ½ or 3 ½ hours.

If a customer comes into town and wants to have lunch and then go shopping and visit multiple stores, that can take more than two hours.

The number of times over the last 50 years that a customer has said to me “I am in a hurry. My meter is about to expire” is easily in the thousands.

Sixty-six of 95 parking spaces are being converted to a two-hour parking limit.

This is unnecessary because the person who only needs an hour is not staying longer any way.

What happens when the shopper who needs the extra time

Lincoln earns re-election as parks district commish

B

ob Lincoln is running for park commissioner. He deserves our vote for reelection as a hands-on commissioner who provides vision, managerial oversight, energy and dedication in making our parks the best that they can be for all ages. Bob addresses the maintenance of our parks and buildings while keeping within budget.

The ducks are back in cleaned up Allenwood Park pond.

Summer concerts had the best cumulative talent in years and huge attendance confirmed this. Playscape got a total makeover and is now a much needed facility for parties or classes.

Just happens to be a revenue producer too.

Defribulators were added to

parks to aid any stricken park users on the ballfields, tennis courts, ice rink, etc. Working with a citizen advisory group, Bob spearheaded a code of conduct for all future campaigners and voting day procedures.

Please come out and vote for Bob on Tuesday, Dec. 8.

Steven M. Walk Great Neck

arrives at the lot and all of the 29 four-hour spaces are occupied?

She parks in a two-hour space.

In two hours, she might just leave town. She might feed the meter, thereby risking a summons.

Or she might move the car to another two-hour space. She might move to a four-hour space, thereby giving her a potential sixhour stay.

If she could do this, then the abusers could do this also. What is the solution? And what risk of a summons is she taking? Let us just chase away the customers. This was not the intent of the changes.

Supposedly, the changes were meant to make it easier for shoppers to park. This is not the case.

The lot is being cleared by simply the change of the garage meters from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the reduction of the number of those meters from 24 to 12.

I have visions of many more customer complaints and in many cases of customers not coming back after they receive a summons for staying in my store or some other store or restaurant beyond their allotted time.

We have all been looking forward to the opening of the “Muse Paint Bar” in what was the former location of Bruce’s.

It has opened and is already very successful and has brought some new faces to the street and my store.

Yesterday, four women carrying their canvases came into Camp & Campus, looked around and indicated that they would be back.

While writing this, I walked over to the Muse Paint Bar and asked how long one of his events/ parties lasts. The answer was 2 ½ hours just for the paint time.

The two-hour meter does not work for this new Great Neck business.

How about seeing the effects of the change in the garage hours and the change in the fees before changing the parking lot meter limits.

That should be enough to get the offending people to buy parking permits.

I mentioned the weekends.

The garages are free on the weekends.

The Gussack lot is very often almost empty of cars with permits on Saturday.

Why? The abusers park in the garage. Why pay when it is free across the street.

But Sunday is a different story. The lot is also free.

Therefore, many people who normally park in the garage with their permits all of a sudden become lazy and park in the lot.

On most Sundays, I have seen up to 14 cars with permits in the lot all day. Those, in addition to people who have abused the lot during the week can bring the total number of cars that do not belong in the lot to 20 cars: 20 of 95. Ridiculous.

Remember that in 2015 in Great Neck, Sunday is what Saturday used to be for the previous 50 years.

Also, on Sundays I have seen as many as 12 cars with permits on Middle Neck Road from Cuttermill Road to Cedar Drive.

Plus, the cars of the people who take the LIRR to the city are on the streets and in the lots, thereby taking up parking spaces in the business district all day.

Another problem is the Maple Drive Garage. It has had fourhour meters on the first floor.

These are being changed to twohour meters with the need to pay until 5 p.m. instead of the original 3 p.m.

There are several negative impacts of this change. The parking lot on Maple Drive behind the Squire Theater and the Gold Coast Arts Center and across from the Maple Drive Garage is going to be closed shortly for months for a total renovation.

A two-hour limit clearly is not enough time to attend a movie matinée. People attend the movies from all over. We would like them to become patrons of the stores and restaurants also.

Also, we should be promoting the employment of our high school students. I have had students who start work between 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and work until 6 p.m.

I have always recommended that they park in the Maple Drive Garage at a meter. If they came in before 3 p.m. or after 3 p.m. they were okay.

When they arrived after 3 p.m., then they parked anywhere in the garage.

Now that is impossible.

Either a four-hour meter or the 3 p.m. limit or both would be workable.

After years of my complaining to the village and documenting the problems of parking abuse by employees in the Gussack Lot, I would have preferred that they had done nothing then the changes that they are putting into effect.

Mark Wolf Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 61

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Inisfada project faces more hurdles

B Y N O A H M A N S K A R targeted at buyers who want “a A plan for a luxury housing subdivision on the former site of the St. Ignatius Retreat House in North Hills is one step closer to becoming a reality, but it still has quite a way to go.

The Manhasset Bay Group has submitted another revised plan and a draft environmental impact statement for the 30acre, 46-home gated community on Searingtown Road to the village planning board at a public hearing Dec. 9.

While the most recent changes directly respond to board’s suggestions, Planning Board Chairman David Kass said there are still several details that could change before the project is officially approved, such as size of the lots the houses will sit on and how the developers will protect a group of endangered trees on the property.

“If you’ve read the (draft environmental impact statement), you don’t have to have a rocket scientist to see there’s a lot of questions,” Kass said.

The Manhasset Bay Group, a company incorporated in Delaware, bought the property for $36.5 million in July 2013 and has been working to develop the subdivison, known as “Manhasset Crest,” since March 2014.

The proposal has gone through several changes in that time, but the concept has remained the same: high-end homes in a gated community

lifestyle that combines modernity, practicality with ultimate luxury,” the developer’s website says.

The original plan was for 51 houses, more than the two per acre allowed under the village’s residential zoning code.

Manhasset Bay Group pared the number down to 46.

In May, Village of North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss said the developer had also added more green space to the site plan.

It also now includes a second emergency access road in addition to the entrance on Searingtown Road, which the village had suggested.

The most recent changes, as outlined in the revised plans submitted in September, were made in response to feedback from the village planning board, said Anthony Guardino, the attorney representing the developer.

The revisions are not highly substantive, but both Guardino and Kass said the project will likely change more as it goes through a series of public hearings.

And because the project requires five zoning variances, it will have to go before the village zoning board before the planning board can approve it.

“While we’re hopeful that the preliminary approval will be forthcoming, we don’t anticipate that will come on Dec. 9,” Guardino said.

Mangia Bene takes second bite

Continued from Page 3 munity, the trio decided to keep Scotto’s dishes on their menu in addition to their own recipes and dishes.

“A lot of people who moved on to different cities come for vacation and make sure they come eat here,” Idnani said. “So we still have old Scotto’s dishes that we still make. We even have it in the menu as Scotto’s specials.”

Mangia Bene La Bottega makes all of their food fresh at the restaurant, including homemade sauces and salads.

“We make everything from scratch. People love our sauce and people love our food,” Idnani said. “It brings them back over and over. We are very blessed.”

Their menu offers an almost unlimited selection of pizzas, salads, paninis, entrees, and pastas.

“We have the best eggplant parmigiana around,” Echawadi said.

Mangia Bene La Bottega is open 365 days of the year, which Idnani said probably makes them the only business in the neighborhood that remains open on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

“We sacrifice our lives to make sure customers are getting their food over here,” he said.

Idnani and Echawadi said their commitment to serve customers stems from the loyalty customers have shown them over the years and they hope to be able to continue serving customers for a long time.

“I had people come buy a Grandma’s Pizza and bring it back to North Carolina with them,” Echawadi said. “It’s nice to see that kind of thing.”

The Manhasset Bay Group tore down the Inisfada Retreat House (pictured) in December 2013 to make way for a 30-acre, 46home luxury subdivision.

Efforts to reach the Manhasset Bay Group were unavailing.

According to its website, the Manhasset Bay Group is led by four business magnates with backgrounds in luxury real estate and investment finance.

Hong Kong native Thomas Lau, the developer’s principal shareholder and chairman, is CEO of Lifestyle International Holdings Limited, a company that runs high-end department stores in China’s major cities.

The company is worth $3.5 billion, Manhasset Bay Group’s website says, and Forbes lists Lau’s net worth as $1.01 billion.

CEO Irene Ho has managed luxury real estate developments

in Hong Kong since the early 2000s, Manhasset Bay Group’s website says. Before that, she was an executive director in Goldman Sachs’ Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Division in Asia.

Vice chairs Rumiko Hasegawa and David Voon also worked for Goldman Sachs in Asia.

Hasegawa led the firm’s non-financial institutional sales division from 2000 until she left in 2012. Voon was a partner managing director and head of the Asia Private Wealth Management division until his departure in 2011.

Kass said the group’s cooperation with the village has been “as good or better than” any project with which he has been involved.

“They have led us to believe that they will do everything to not irritate everybody in the environment, in the village, in whatever they can do to be good neighbors,” he said. “It’ll be a beautiful project for the Village of North Hills.”

The plans are in line with North Hills’ 23 other subdivisions, Kass said. But the property has a unique history as the former home of the Inisfada Retreat House.

The house, whose name means “Long Island” in Gaelic, was built between 1916 and 1920 for Nicholas Brady, son of industrialist Anthony Brady, and

his wife Genevieve on a property that then spanned 300 acres.

After Nicholas died in 1930 and Genevieve in 1937, the land was left to Manhattan’s St. Ignatius parish, part of the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church. The Jesuits maintained the house from that time, but sold much of the property over the years as it became more expensive to keep.

When the order sold the remaining 31.5 acres to Manhasset Bay Group in July 2013, developer decided to tear down the historic house because it was in such bad repair. It was demolished in December of that year.

The destruction of the house was what created the greatest controversy in the village, Kass said, not the plans for a subdivision. Residents’ concerns about traffic, construction noise and flooding in the area are typical for these projects, he said.

“Basically they want it to be over with,” he said. “They’re not looking for piles of dirt and trucks running in and out.”

Natiss said approval is ultimately likely because the property is in a residential zone and the developers are “doing all their homework” to make the proposal fit village specifications.

“They’ve gone through all the hurdles that are necessary in order to get this accomplished, so I would think it’s going to happen,” he said.

the common area generator to a location further away from the originally planned location.

“This was done to avoid interfering with existing fencing, tree roots, and other site features potentially creating conflicts with underground conduit and cabling,” the document said.

The third change order was for a $26,458.66 charge the district needed to pay as a result of the relocation of the common area generator because several ancillary circuits were impacted, the document said.

The fourth and fifth change orders were for credits of $6,464.40 and $2,490.73, respectively, that the district had with Facility Solutions which are subtracted from the new charges.

Originally, the contract between the district and Facility Solutions was for $1,017,000, but with the changes, the amended

contract is now $1,091,249.81 — an increase of $74,249.81.

Also at the meeting, Great Neck Public Schools Superintendent Teresa Prendergast announced that Great Neck South High School would house a panel discussion on Nov. 23 featuring herself, member of the state Board of Regents tenth judicial district Roger Tilles, state Sen. Jack Martins, state Sen. and chairman of the Senate Education Committee Carl Marcellino, president of the Great Neck Teachers Association Sheila Henchy, and co-presidents of the United Parent-Teacher Council, Joanne Chan and Sarah Moss.

The discussion, she said, would focus on public education in the state and where it is headed in the future.

It will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is sponsored by the United Parent-Teacher Council and the Great Neck Teachers Associa-

Ed board approves changes for generator replacement

By J oe N i k i c The Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved five change orders for the replacement of generators at the district’s South Complex.

At their meeting on Monday, the board said electrical service provider Facility Solutions Group, Inc., who the district has a contract with to replace the generators, discovered additional work was needed.

The first change order was for $26,609.49, which the district would pay, for additional conduit and cable lengths required for connection to the emergency generator and fire alarm remote annunciator panel, a document explaining the change orders said.

The second change order, the document said, was a $30,136.79 charge to relocate

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Gold Coast festival awards filmmakers B y Kar e n R ub i n

After screening 60 films at the 5th Annual Gold Coast International Film Festival, the winners were announced at the closing awards ceremony, held at LOLA. The Deluxe film Award for Best Documentary also was a

tie: “Mind Game,” about WNBA superstar Chamique Holdsclaw, a Queens native, who became the best and most famous women’s basketball player on the planet, the “female Michael Jordan,” until her career was derailed by depression and nearsuicide, a film made by two-time Oscar nominee Rick Goldsmith.

this was The New York premiere of the documentary.

The other winner was “We are Twisted F*cking Sister!”, a documentary about the flamboyant band, making its Long Island premiere - appropriate since the band had such strong connections to Long Island and the Long Island “club scene” of

the 1970s.

The winner of “Best Narrative Panavision Award” went to “Mustang,” directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a poignant, eloquent drama, about five sisters in a Turkish village band together to fight back against the limits imposed on them. D irect from the Cannes Film

Festival the film is France’s official submission to the Academy Awards.

The short film “Subway Love,” tied with “Tender Stories #1” for the juried award of best in show. the best student film was “The Present.” The audience award for best short film went to “Grounded.”

GCIFF Executive Director Regina Gil with Chen Shelach, the filmmaker and his wife Anat Shelach, the subject of an extraordinary documentary, “Partner with the Enemy,” about Anat, an Israeli, and her business The movie poster for Two Who Defied the Nazis: The Jourpartner, Rola Srouji, a Palestinian, and how they are doing the impossible of maintaining their partnership ney of Waitsill and Martha Sharp.” and their friendship against the political landscape

Poet-filmmaker Max Stossel presents his short film, “Sub- Director Patricia Riggen, discusses making her way Love” at the Gold Coast International Film Festival, new film “The 33” at a preview event for the Gold Long Island, with festival short films curator Alexandra Gil. Coast International Film Festival. the film was tied for the winner of the juried award for best in show with “Tender Stories #1.”

Members of the band “Twisted Sister,” with Caroline Sorokoff, GCIFF Executive Director.

Morgan Spurlock discusses filmmaking and his new film “Crafted” with Bill McCuddy during a Gold Coast International Film Festival event at LIU-Post, Long Island.

Rick Goldsmith and WNBA superstar Chamique Holdsclaw, the subject of “Mind Game,” which won the Best Documentary award.

GCIFF Executive Director Regina Gil with Chen Shelach, the filmmaker and his wife Anat Shelach, the subject of the documentary, “Partner with the Enemy.”

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bLAnk SLATE MEdIA November 20, 2015

Curtain comes down on gold Coast

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By J oe N i k i c

he curtains closed on the 5th annual Gold Coast International Film Festival on Sunday evening following a week of movie screenings, after parties and special guest Q&A’s.

Festival Director Caroline Sorokoff said the Gold Coast Arts Center and others associated with the festival were pleased with this year’s festival.

“We were just really happy with the level and number of filmmakers that came out, which included multiple academy award nominees,” she said. “We had great films that appealed to a wide range of people. It was a huge success and continues to get bigger every year.”

The film festival began on Nov. 9 with a Q&A with Morgan Spurlock, the

producer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Super Size Me,” and screened 43 movies at nine different venues during the six-day period until Nov. 15.

A “Closing Night Awards Party” for filmmakers, sponsors, special guests, and all-access passholders to celebrate the festival’s conclusion and present filmmakers with various awards ended the festival.

The arts center gave out “Best Narrative” and “Best Documentary” awards, voted for by audiences at the movie screenings, as well as “Best Short” awards for short films voted for by a jury and by the audience.

“Mustang,” a Turkish film about the experiences of five sisters living in a Turkish village, won the “Best Narrative” award.

“Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw,” a documentary about the former WNBA player’s struggles with depression, and “We Are Twisted Sister,” a documentary showcasing the band’s years prior to international fame, both won the “Best Documentary” award after tying in votes.

“Subway Love,” a poetry film told through a love story on the New York City subway, and “Tender Stories No. 1,” a film about fashion, tied to win the jury award for “Best Short.”

“The Present,” an animated film about a boy who prefers to play inside, won the jury award for “Best Student Short.”

“Grounded,” a French film about a woman attempting to fly to her mother’s burial, won the audience award for “Best Short.”

Sorokoff said the filmmakers who attended got more than expected from the film festival.

“The filmmakers who came were very, very happy and impressed that our festival that is so young is so organized and well received,” she said.

Sorokoff added that when the festival organizers looked at the audience ballots, people “almost universally loved all of the movies.”

She also said her favorite part of the festival was the launching of the “Young Filmmakers Program,” a program for kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade to submit short films to the arts center.

Now that the film festival is over, the Gold Coast Arts Center is putting together it’s year-round screening series that begins in December, Sorokoff said.

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Wednesday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m.

For the past 29 years, Funk Filharmonik’s big, fat, fiery horn sound and chunky tight rhythmic vibe has become a magnet for musicians and music lovers of all stripes, attracting three generations of fans, from jazz lovers to rockin’ bikers, from students to teachers, from youngsters and hipsters to oldsters. Collectively and individually, members of F.F. have recorded and continue to perform with some of the biggest names in popular music.

Where: The Madison Theatre At Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info: (516) 323-4444 • http://madisontheatreny.org.

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The Producers Sunday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.

Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with Mel Brooks’ classic cult comedy film. Now as a big Broadway musical, The Producers once again sets the standard for modern, outrageous, in-your-face humor. The national tour visits the Tilles Center Sunday. Single ticket prices are $83, $68, $53, $33. Prices include a $3 facility fee.

Where: Tilles Center For The Performing Arts LIU Post, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville Info: (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org

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Frank Caliendo Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series presents comedian, actor, and impressionist Frank Caliendo. Well known for his impressions of famous actors Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro; politicians George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama; and talk show hosts Dr. Phil, Jay Leno and David Letterman, Caliendo’s high energy act is a blend of observations, impressions, characters and anecdotal stories that start at a frenetic pace and never let up.

Where: The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info: (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com

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1. Two days before serving, brine your turkey breast by dissolving 1/4 cup of salt in a bowl of warm water large enough to cover the the breast. Let the breast brine in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

2. In a small bowl, combine the garlic, herb, salt, pepper and butter to make a paste. Loosen the skin from the meat gently with your fingers and smear half of the paste directly on the meat. Spread the remaining paste evenly on the skin. Place turkey in refrigerator and cover loosely with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 24 hours.

3. Two and one-half hours before serving, preheat oven to 325 degrees. Remove breast, pour the wine into the bottom of the roasting pan. Place all of the remaining ingredients in a roasting pan.

Place turkey breast on top and place in oven and roast for 2 3/4 hours or until internal temperature is 160 degrees.

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Cover with aluminum foil and let rest 25 minutes. Carve and serve.

(Save carcass and all vegetables and liquid for next weeks’ recipe Turkey Bouillon.

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org Sept. 27 through Nov. 23.

Abstract Architecture Exhibit LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

The Pine Hill Project – Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell Sunday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.

An Evening with Judy Collins Friday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.

George Winston: A Solo Piano Concert 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, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

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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.

Dan Zanes Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

Leo Kottke Friday, March 11, 8 p.m.

Paula Poundstone Sunday, March 13, 8 p.m.

Pink Martini Sunday, March 20, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Karen Mason 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.

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Children’s museum to produce new play The Long Island Children’s Museum has commissioned a new musical, “Princess Frog – A Musical Fairy Tale,” to complement the exhibit “Once Upon a Time….Exploring the World of Fairy Tales,” currently in residence at LICM. Award-winning songwriter Lena Pennino-Smith has been tapped to create a contemporary retelling of the classic Italian fairy tale The Princess Frog. The new musical will run for 14 performances in the LICM Theater during November and December. The commission is made possible with the support of the New York Council for the Humanities.

“The performing arts have been an integral activity at the Long Island Children’s Museum since it opened in 1993,” said LICM President Suzanne LeBlanc. “Commissioning a new production is the next step in the Theater’s evolution and reinforces the dynamic synergism between the Museum’s exhibits and its stage.”

Fairy tales are adapted over time as they are re-told and shaped for audience relevance.

The “frog bride” story is a popular literary trope found in numerous European cultures; including one in the Brothers Grimm collection.

Twenty-first century families will easily relate to Pennino-Smith’s modern fairy tale that features three squabbling brothers, who

happen to be princes, one frustrated (Queen) mother, three magic rocks and an enchanted frog. Live action, music and puppetry are used to tell this new version, which blends traditional literary elements with features of the local wetlands environment.

Dramaturg Don Rebar will work with Pennino-Smith to provide cultural and historic context for the re-interpretation, while also developing materials for family audiences, including an activity guide, character profiles and reading lists. These materials will be available in hard copy, as well as through the Museum’s website (licm.org).

The creative partnership between the Children’s Museum and Lena Pennino-Smith has evolved over several years. As founder, songwriter and lead singer in the Happy Clam Band, she first appeared in the LICM Theater for the Museum’s popular “Saltwater Stories” program.

LICM Theater Manager Jim Packard next approached her to develop original songs for Spring Break concerts complementing the residency of a traveling exhibit, “Secrets of Circles.” The songs were shaped into an original musical revue called “Full Circle.”

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Easy ways to start living healthier every day

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ontrary to popular belief, adopting a healthy lifestyle is not a difficult undertaking. In certain instances, convenience may need to be sacrificed in favor of nutrition, but many people find that living healthy is not nearly as difficult as they assumed it would be when they initially decided to make a change.

When men and women decide they want to start living healthier, many mistakenly assume they must abandon their existing habits entirely and start from scratch.

But the following are some easy ways to start living healthier every day.

Eat more fruits and vegetables. One of the best and easiest ways to live healthier is to begin eating more fruits and vegetables. Instead of unhealthy snacks like potato chips and cookies, snack on a piece of fruit, and never sit down to a meal unless you include some vegetables to go along with the main course. Studies have shown that men and women whose diets are high in fruits

and vegetables are less likely to develop certain types of cancers, including cancers of the digestive tract. In addition, the United States Department of Agriculture notes that people whose diets are rich in fruits and vegetables have a lower risk for heart disease, including heart attack and stroke.

Slow down your eating routine. Some people may already be eating the right foods, but they may just be eating too much of them. It takes time for your body to let you know it’s had too much to eat, so eating too fast can increase your risk of overeating. While eating, try to limit distractions that can take your attention away from how much you’re eating. If you’re always watching television or checking emails on your phone while eating, try a few days of distraction-free, careful eating, and you may find yourself eating less and feeling more energized after a meal.

Skip the second glass of wine. The

much publicized medical benefits of wine are somewhat misleading. According to the Mayo Clinic, when consumed in moderation, red wine can help prevent heart disease. That’s because alcohol and antioxidants found in red wine have been shown to increase levels of highdensity lipoprotein, often referred to as “good” cholesterol, and protect against artery damage. But wine also contains sugars that can fatten the liver, and a fatty liver can contribute to a host of serious health problems. If you already drink wine, limit yourself to one glass per day. If you are not a wine drinker, then it’s important to note that many doctors believe the potential benefits of drinking wine do not outweigh the potentially negative consequences associated with alcohol consumption, which include neurological problems and an increased risk for heart disease.

Get more sleep. Inadequate sleep affects the body in a variety of ways.

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For example, the Harvard Medical School notes that studies have linked insufficient sleep to type 2 diabetes, as the body’s ability to process glucose can be compromised by poor sleeping habits. Other medical conditions that have been linked to insufficient sleep include obesity, heart disease and mood disorders. While you might be proud of your ability to function on minimal sleep, the long-term effects of insufficient sleep can be dire, so be sure to get at least seven hours of sleep each night.

Choosing to live healthier does not mean you need to completely overhaul your existing lifestyle. In fact, you can make several easy everyday changes to dramatically improve your overall health.

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Things to consider when hosting for the holidays This gives you ample time to address any issues and also allows you to comparison shop and find great deals on any items you need to replace. Hosts who are parents to young children may want to discuss sleeping arrangements before guests arrive if kids will be asked to sleep in different beds.

Kids might embrace the change, while others might be less enthusiastic. If younger cousins will be staying over, let kids choose their new roommates, which might make them more excited about sharing rooms with their guests.

Explaining the situation in advance gives youngsters time to ready themselves for their temporary move.

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oliday hosts have a lot on their plates. The work of holiday hosting does not begin when the first guest arrives. It starts weeks before, when homeowners begin preparing their homes for overnight guests.

Because the holiday season can be so busy, it’s easy for hosts to overlook certain things as the day their first guests are set to arrive draws nearer.

But the following are a few things hosts

should consider in the weeks before their guests show up.

Accommodations It’s hard to overlook accommodations when hosting for the holidays, but it’s best to inspect linens and other items that might go largely unused throughout much of the year. Check foldout couches or air mattresses a few weeks before your guests are slated to arrive.

Ask guests before they arrive if they have any particular food allergies or items they need to avoid because of any medications they might be taking.

This is especially important for youngsters, who may forget to avoid homemade cookies with nuts despite having nut allergies. By asking in advance if your guests have any food allergies or foods and ingredients they must avoid, you will know to avoid serving particular dishes so no one accidentally eats foods that might make them sick and you can prepare alternative dishes for people who must avoid certain foods.

Activities

If guests will be staying for several nights, explore a few local activities so everyone can get out of the house for a night or two. Time spent with family is one of the best parts of the holiday season, but spending all of that time inside in cramped quarters can grow uncomfortable over time. Plan a family night or two out that everyone can enjoy.

Pets When hosting for the holidays, let your guests know if you have any pets.

Some people have dog and cat allergies, and those allergies may make it difficult for them to enjoy their stay.

Others’ allergies might be so severe that they have to find alternative lodging. Let guests know about your pets when you invite them to stay at your house so no one is surprised at the last minute. In addition, let guests know if they can bring their own pets along to your house.

Hosting for the holidays is a great way to welcome loved ones into your home.

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“Shop for a Cause” Campaign to Save Hempstead House

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“Shop for a Cause” to Save Hempstead House Event Schedule Held at Hempstead House on the Sands Point Preserve

Friday, November 20

Sunday, November 22

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“Shop for a Cause” to Save Hempstead House

“Shop for a Cause” to Save Hempstead House

Glenn Bradford’s 14th Annual “Shop for a Cause” Holiday Shopping Season beginning on Novemebr 19 – 22 at Hempstead House, on the Sands Point Preserve will continue from November 24 – Christmas at Glenn Bradford Fine Jewelry. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Sands Point Preserve for the “Campaign to Save Hempstead House.”

Glenn Bradford’s 14th Annual “Shop for a Cause” Holiday Shopping Season beginning on Novemebr 19 – 22 at Hempstead House, on the Sands Point Preserve will continue from November 24 – Christmas at Glenn Bradford Fine Jewelry. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Sands Point Preserve for the “Campaign to Save Hempstead House.”

Meet Award-winning Jewelry Designer Glenn Bradford, experts in noteworthy estate jewelry and investment grade diamonds and gemstones, as well as several of the featured fine artists.

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Guided tours of the mansion. Afternoon tea & biscuits will be served in the Palm Court.

Guided tours of the mansion. Afternoon tea & biscuits will be served in the Palm Court.

Saturday, November 21 11:00 am – 6:00 pm “Shop for a Cause” to Save Hempstead House Glenn Bradford’s 14th Annual “Shop for a Cause” Holiday Shopping Season beginning on Novemebr 19 – 22 at Hempstead House, on the Sands Point Preserve will continue from November 24 – Christmas at Glenn Bradford Fine Jewelry. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Sands Point Preserve for the “Campaign to Save Hempstead House.”

Meet Award-winning Jewelry Designer Glenn Bradford, experts in noteworthy estate jewelry and investment grade diamonds and gemstones, as well as several of the featured fine artists.

12:00 pm & 3:00 pm Guided tours of the mansion. Afternoon tea & biscuits will be served in the Palm Court.

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Meet Christopher Pusey, owner of the Dorian Grey Gallery in the East Village. The gallery specializes in authentic New York graffiti and street art from the early 1980’s.

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Christmas tree varieties and care

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n evergreen tree decked out in lights and ornaments is one of the universal symbols of the holiday season. The Christmas tree tradition is believed to have originated in Germany in the 15th or 16th centuries, when trees were decorated with edibles, such as nuts and fruits.

They were later decorated with candles and eventually lights.

Through the centuries, people have trekked to forests, Christmas tree farms and commercial lots to pick the perfect trees for their holiday displays. The National Christmas Tree Association says more than 33 million real trees are purchased each year, making the tree business a billion-dollar industry.

While there are scores of evergreen varieties, certain tree types are more popular than others and thus more available for purchase. The following are some of the more popular trees come Christmastime.

Eastern Redcedar: Branches of the tree are compact and form a pyramid-shaped crown.

The trees should be a dark, shiny green color.

The eastern redcedar is not a true cedar tree, but a member of the juniper family. This tree can make a great cut tree with a homespun look and a pungent fragrance.

Leyland Cypress: This cypress is one of the more popular Christmas trees in the southeastern United States. The tree will be very dark green to almost gray in color.

It has little aroma. Some people choose the Leyland because it does not produce sap, which is great for those with sap allergies.

Colorado Blue Spruce: An attractive blue-green foliage and a good symmetrical form is what attracts many people to the blue spruce. The Colorado Blue Spruce has an excellent natural shape and requires little pruning to look like the

perfect Christmas tree.

It’s not very fragrant, but the tree needles may give off an unpleasant odor when crushed.

fragrance of the white pine may make it preferable to those who like their homes to smell of evergreen.

Scotch Pine: A classic conical shape and very good needle retention help make the Scotch pine a popular tree to cut for the holidays.

Scotch pines also are quite prevalent thanks to the tree’s adaptability to a wide range of climates.

Douglas Fir: The Douglas fir is one of the foremost Christmas tree species in the United States. It has soft needles that are dark green in color.

Those needles radiate in all directions from the branches to give the tree a full look. The needles, when crushed, have a sweet fragrance. Douglas firs tend to live long when cut.

Eastern White Pine: A delicate green color and long needles are found on this tree. Another popular pine, the rich

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Easy ways to improve memory E

veryone forgets things from time to time. Periodically forgetting where you left your keys is likely not indicative of a bad memory. But some people find themselves forgetting things more frequently, a troubling development for those who can’t explain their sudden loss of memory.

Memory loss is often considered to go hand-in-hand with aging. As a person ages, conventional wisdom suggests memory will begin to fade. But sometimes memory loss has nothing to do with aging, and a lot to do with a brain that isn’t sharp because of an unhealthy lifestyle.

The following are a few ways men and women can improve their memory.

Get some sleep. Men and women who aren’t getting enough sleep can almost certainly blame that lack of shut-eye for at least some of their memory loss. When you don’t get enough sleep, your brain’s ability to think critically, solve problems and even be creative is compromised considerably. In addition, research has shown that memory-enhancing activities occur during the deepest stages of sleep, further highlighting the importance of getting a full night of interruptionfree rest.

Prioritizing a good night’s sleep is one way to improve memory.

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Hit the gym. Exercise is another activity that can improve memory.

Daily physical exercise increases the amount of oxygen that gets to your brain while reducing the risk for certain disorders, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, both of which can lead to memory loss.

Manage stress effectively. Stress has a host of negative side effects, not the least of which is its impact on your memory. Chronic stress that goes untreated can destroy brain cells and damage the region of the brain that deals with the formation of new memories as well as the retrieval of older memories.

Numerous studies have shown that men and women cite their career as their primary source of stress.

Since quitting your job is likely not an option, find ways to manage your stress more effectively. This may mean finding a way to make the most of your time, be it working more efficiently, emphasizing planning ahead or even vowing to stop procrastinating. Other ways to manage stress include making time to relax and recognizing that you have limits while seeking the help of others.

Make some dietary changes.

Diet can also have an impact on memory. What you eat is fuel for

both your body and your brain, and a poor diet can have a negative impact on your memory. Be sure to include omega-3 fatty acids, sources of which include salmon, tuna and other cold water fatty fish, in your diet. Research has shown that omega-3 fatty acids, which can also be found in walnuts, can boost brain power and possibly reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

Foods with antioxidants, including fruits and vegetables, can also protect your brain cells from damage, which can have a positive impact on your memory. Leafy green vegetables like spinach, romaine lettuce and arugula as well as fruits like apricots, mangoes and cantaloupe are good sources of antioxidants.

A diet high in saturated fat, which is found in red meat, whole milk, butter and cheese, has been found to have a negative impact on memory.

Research has shown that such a diet increases a person’s risk of developing dementia while impairing an individual’s ability to concentrate and remember things.

Loss of memory is often a momentary lapse, but those who find themselves becoming more and more forgetful can take steps to improve their memory and their quality of life.

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Art Guild announces contest winners The Art Guild at Elderfields is pleased to announce the winners of the Annual Nassau County Student Exhibition and Competition. Submissions from high school students came from both public and private schools throughout Nassau County. From those entries, more than 50 works of art were selected for the exhibit. Bennett Horowitz, a retired instructor from the High School of Art and Design, NYC served as juror of awards.

First place was awarded to home schooled senior, Katie Cheng, for her highly detailed oil painting, “His Words Live On.” A self-portrait, “The Artist’s Shoes,” by senior Carla Perez, from Valley Stream North, was awarded second place. Junior Kimberly Rambarran of Valley Stream Central received third place for her white charcoal on black paper drawing “Small Glass.” Honorable mentions were awarded to Our Lady Of Mercy Academy senior Samantha Paralikas for her colored pencil drawing, “Simple Pleasures,” Valley Stream Central junior Cathleen Liang for her pencil drawing “Self Portrait,” and Oceanside senior Timothy Rinck for his colored pencil drawing “Office Stress.”

Bennett Horowitz, juror of awards, complimented the students on the level of concentration required to create work at this high level – particularly with the demands of ever-present technology, and told them how difficult it was to judge the show. Mr. Horowitz, in addition to his teaching career, is an accomplished artist and graphic designer who has exhibited in many museums and galleries.

Students exhibiting in the Nassau County High School Student Show are Francesca Adams, East Meadow HS, senior; Shirley Blanco, Uniondale HS, senior; Jillian Borghardt, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, senior; Katie Cheng, Home School, senior; Emily Cimaszewski, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, junior; Abigail Cirelli, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, senior; Katie Conte, The Wheatley School, junior; Michael Contrastano, The Wheatley School, junior; Nicolette Duggan, Valley Stream North HS, junior; Katie Eng, Valley Stream North HS, senior; Brooke Fer-

ber, Great Neck South HS, senior; Rikki Hernandez, W.T. Clarke HS (East Meadow), senior; Yujung Kim, Waldorf School of Garden City, junior; Cathleen Liang, Valley Stream Central HS, junior; Olivia LoSardo, Holy Trinity HS, senior; Alexandra Mashcow, Valley Stream North HS, junior; Anna Mikhaylov, Oceanside HS, sophomore; Elisabeth Moffitt, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, senior; Francesca Moy, Schreiber HS (Port Washington), senior; Erin O’Kelly, The Wheatley School, senior; Samantha Paralikas, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, senior; Sophia Paskov, Great Neck South HS, freshman; Carla Perez, Valley Stream North HS, senior; Tiffany Praimnath, Valley Stream North HS, senior; Kimberly Rambarran, Valley Stream Central HS, junior; Claudia Reese, Oceanside HS, junior; Timothy Rinck, Oceanside HS, senior; Jamie Selletti, Valley Stream North HS, junior; Naomi Schlesinger, The Wheatley School, junior; Devika Shastri, Valley Stream North HS, sophomore; Veronica Sponaugle; Our Lady of Mercy Academy, senior; Prithviraj Talukdar, Schreiber HS (Port Washington), 2016; Samantha Wong, Schreiber HS (Port Washington), 2016; Alexandra Valmé, Valley Stream North HS, sophomore; Jessica Zand, Manhasset, 2018.

This student show will continue through Nov. 28. The gallery is free and open to the public Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. It is located at 200 Port Washington Boulevard, Manhasset.

The winter schedule of classes for children and adults will start in January, and will include Art Explorations & Creative Art Studio for children, and classes in watercolor, drawing, and life drawing and more for adults. Registration for “Fast, Loose & Bold” a painting workshop, with Patti Mollica offered on February 13 and 14, 2016, is now open.

The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc., is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing encouragement, education and a forum for the appreciation of the visual arts. For more information, please visit our website at TheArtGuild.org or call 516-304-5797.

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LIU Post students to perform Max Vitagliano, Kevin Ammann, Kirsten Corwin, Shannon Davenport and past and present LIU Post University music students will perform a variety of arias, operatic duets, scenes from a variety of composers and Broadway tunes on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. at Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran, 1901 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset.

Admission is free; however a suggested $10-$20 donation to support both the Church of Our Saviour and LIU Post’s music department would be appreciated.

Proceeds would not only help with supporting the education of up-and-coming music teachers/ musicians but allow students such as the ones performing to continue performing at venues such as this and tour locales such as Costa Rica and, as of recent, Switzerland.

Refreshments will be served following the event. All are welcome. Ample parking and handicapped accessible.

For more information call the church office at 516-627-2430 or visit www.manhassetlutheran.org.

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LIU exhibit of art therapy students

By B e n d i k S o e r e ns e n This week, an unusual exhibition has opened on the LIU Post campus. The students in the school’s art therapy program are exhibiting their work in the Sculpture Gallery on the east end of the campus.

“Their background is about 50/50 in fine arts and in something else,” said art therapy professor Ann Charlotte Tavolacci. “All of them have some experience with [art], but to some, this is their first exhibition, and to others, this is just another one,” she said. It opens up to some new, outside the box approaches that isn’t necessarily the

usual.

The students’ assignments were given by Professor Tavolacci, but were open to interpretation. “So far, we have about 100 works,” Tavolacci said. There are about 20 students in the exhibition, but it is to be narrowed down. “Each student will have one or two in the show, so the walls will be pretty crowded,” she said.

The theme for the show is “It’s Personal.” The students have used words that their art represents for the show, and in posters promoting it. Tavolacci mentioned that with the different backgrounds, the words they’ve used have been equally different. Words such as

“anxiety, instinct, isolation, music, hope, colorful,” are featured, so expect a variety of artwork as well.

“It’s about the process, not the product,” Tavolacci said, emphasizing that the art therapy program isn’t a pure arts program. It’s a practice what you preach-scenario for the art therapists, as they try to experience first hand what they’re going to learn later on in their studies.

The Art Therapy undergraduate and graduate programs in LIU Post’s Art Department explore the interaction of the visual arts with psychological theories and practice.

The Bachelor of Science degree in Art Therapy provides training for undergraduate students who wish

to use their creative skills in a variety of health care environments.

The program emphasizes preparation for graduate training in clinical art therapy. The “It’s Personal” exhibit opens on Monday, November 17 and runs through November 21, with an artist reception on November 19 at 5 p.m. The exhibition is open to all. For more information, call LIU Post’s Art Department at 516-299-2465.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the awardwinning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

Art League picks contest winners The Art League of Long Island is pleased to announce the winners of the first part of their 60h Annual Members’ Exhibition showing through November 29. Exhibition juror Edward McEvoy, Art League Director Emeritus, selected 12 works of art out of 130 pieces on display in the League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery. Part Two will be on display December 13 through January 10.

Awards of Excellence •Diana DeSantis, “Tom”, Pastel •Candice Dorsey, “Untitled”, Ceramic – Ferric Chloride Saggar •Julia Lang-Shapiro, “Self Portrait – 6 Months Pregnant”, Solarplate Etching •James Lumpp, “Mary”, Oil Painting Honorable Mention Awards •Beth Atkinson, “Todos Santos”, Etching

•Phyllis Bocchicchio, “Blue Flowers”, Watercolor •Mark Conn, “Eye of the Tiger”, Photograph & Pastel •Pat DiCalogero, “Yum!”, Glass Mosaic •Richard Doyle, “Stony Brook Reflections”, Oil Painting •Robin Israelski, “Purple Haze”, Nu-Gold (Jewelry) •Iris Kelmenson, “Peter”, Charcoal & White Chalk

•Eileen Shaloum, “Eudoxia”, Acrylic/ Mixed Media The Art League of Long Island is located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills. The gallery is open to the public, free of charge, Monday through Thursday 9am - 9pm, Fridays 9am – 4pm, and on weekends 11am 4pm. For more information about the Art League and an update on holiday closings visit www.artleagueli.org or call (631) 462-5400.

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Hofstra dance program to perform in concert Hofstra University’s Dance Program will present its annual Fall Dance Concert at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse, Nov. 19-22.

Hofstra faculty choreographers include Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Rachel List, Amy Marshall, Livia Vanaver, and Karla Wolfangle. This semester’s guest choreographer is Bill Young, co-founder of Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., a company noted for its impact across cultural boundaries.

The company’s work has spoken to audiences the world over – from Estonia, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary to Portugal, Taiwan, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Young is a recipient of Guggenheim and NYFA fellowships.

In 1988 he established Bill Young & Dancers, for which he created more than 70 works. He has also

taught at universities and festivals throughout the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Fall Concert dances include: “This is not ____,” a new work

by Young, created with (and especially for) 12 Hofstra junior dance majors.

The balance of the junior class will perform “Un Acadien Errant (The Wandering Acadian),” choreographed by new faculty member Livia Vanaver. This piece is inspired by the tragedy of the Acadian expulsion which occurred in Canada in 1775. Many traveled down the Mississippi and found a new life in Louisiana where they were called Cajun. Their music and steps became more upbeat and evolved into a distinct style reflecting hope and commitment to life and community.

“From the East” is a move-

ment study for 11 dancers choreographed by Rachel List, director of Hofstra’s dance program. The six movement sections are inspired by the eastern European flavor of the music of Eric Satie (Six Gnossiennes) and Bela Bartok (Romanian Folk Dances).

Choreographer Karla Wolfangle has created two short dances for Hofstra’s fall faculty concert.

The first is titled “Long Walk Home” and the second is “Noises in the Wall.” She is intrigued by the talented musical group Rachel’s and has used their music for both pieces. One features high energy and is movement oriented and the other is quiet and surreal.

Amy Marshall’s latest work is entitled “Shakambhari.” This work is inspired by a story of the Hindu goddess who once had to defend herself and the people over

a drought caused by the Demon, Durgamasur. A fight between the Demons and the Goddesses ended when Shakambhari struck down Durgamasur with five arrows, lifting the curse of the drought. Marshall has created movement and characters to help translate the story for the stage.

“Blood Memories” is choreographed by Dyane Harvey-Salaam and is dedicated to those who came before, whose DNA links us forever. Black, white, enslaved, indentured, and “owner,” all have suffered the effects of man’s inhumanity to man. We bear witness to Harriet Tubman, one of our greatest conductors on the Underground Railroad, as she transports travelers including babies and elders, never losing one.

The Hofstra University Department of Drama and Dance provides

its students with the opportunity to develop and hone their skills as performers, and deepen their appreciation for the arts. The Dance Program offers two undergraduate degrees: a BA in Dance, and a BS in Education, Dance Education.

Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday; and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $12; $10 for senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated, non-Hofstra students with I.D. Members of the Hofstra community may receive up to two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard.

For tickets call 16-463-6644 Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m. or purchase online at Hofstratickets.com. If available, tickets will also be sold at the door by cash or check only, starting 90 minutes prior to show time.

Children’s museum to produce new play Continued from Page 28 tion, which promotes the protection of Long Island sea life in the Great South Bay, has become a strong addition to the Museum’s theater school visits for elementary schools.

Performance dates for “Princess Frog – A Musical Fairy Tale” have been selected to coincide with holiday schedules to allow multiple generations to enjoy the theater experience together. Performances will be offered lead-

ing into the Thanksgiving holiday week, Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22 and during the December school break, Sunday, Dec. 27 through Thursday, Dec. 31. Performances on all dates will take place at 11:30 a.m. and

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The exhibition “Once Upon a Time: Exploring the World of Fairy Tales” was developed by The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum in partnership with the St. Louis Public Library.

The exhibit immerses children and families in seven fairy tales from around the globe.

Through large-scale books and interactive activities, visitors are introduced to new stories and reacquainted with familiar ones.

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Great Neck Library International Games Day at Your Library On Saturday, Nov. 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Station, Lakeville and Parkville Branches will be participating in International Games Day. International Games Day @ Your Library gives us a chance to celebrate games, libraries and communities around the world.

The great thing about gaming is the wide variety of choices available including video games, card games, and board games. Drop in anytime between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Station, Lakeville and Parkville Branches for some fun that can be shared with family and friends. There will be a Gamestop Gift Card Raffle too. This day is for kids of all ages (including adults!) No registration required.

English Language Conversation The Library invites all new speakers of English to join our English Language Conversation Group. English Language Conversation meetings will be held at the

in Jericho. He has also been a member of “The Three Jewish Tenors” along with Cantors Alberto Mizrachi and David Propis. He has sung with the Houston Grand Opera Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch conducting, as well as many other prominent orchestras throughout the United States. Cantor Katz has also sung the National Anthem for the New York Mets at Citi Field and the New York Islanders at the Nassau Coliseum. For further information, please call the Library at 516-4668055, ext. 277.

Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Shopping Center on Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., and continuing every other Tuesday. These are small, informal groups of people that get together to have conversations in English.

Various conversation topics may be chosen. For further information, please call the Reference Dept. at 516-4668055, ext. 218.

Broadway, Popular and Yiddish Favorites with Cantor David Aaron Katz and Pianist Edward Stolarz at Atria Cutter Mill All are invited to enjoy an afternoon of memories through the greatest hits from the Broadway stage, popular songs as well as Yiddish favorites on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. at the Atria Cutter Mill, 96 Cutter Mill Road, Great Neck 11021.

Let yourself be swept away by the beautiful music of West Side Story. South Pacific, Lady of Spain and My Yiddishe Mama! Cantor David Aaron Katz and Pianist

Cantor David Aaron Katz, accompanied by pianist Edward Stolarz will perform Broadway, Popular and Edward Stolarz will take you down memory lane for an afternoon you will not want

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Cantor Katz is currently the cantor of Temple Or Elohim

Candidates Needed to Serve as Board Appointees on the Nominating Committee At its Annual Reorganization meeting, the Board of Trustees will appoint two (2) Association members to serve on the Nominating Committee of the Great Neck Library. Interested Association members should send a letter and resume so stating by Jan. 15, 2016 to: Attention: Library Director’s Office, Great Neck Library,

159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, NY 11023.

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.

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Library Closings All Great Neck Library locations will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 26 for Thanksgiving Day.

Great Neck Community Calendar LOVE WITH A PLAN The Single Connection of Temple Israel of Great Neck, ages 40 +, Sunday, Nov. 22, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Presents ”Love With a Plan” An interactive workshop for singles. Are you a man or woman who desires greater dating success in your life? Coach Heidi Krantz, professional dating and life coach, teaches her signature system that takes you step by step through her tried and true blueprint for love. Admission: $12/person. Make checks payable to Temple Israel of Great Neck and mail to: Attention: Singles Connection, 108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023. Refreshments & Snacks. Dietary laws will be observed. You can also pay at the door. RSVP by Friday, Nov. 13 to Cindy Pross: 516524-7398; Estelle Nadler: 516-487-1756 or email to: singlesconnectiontempleisrael@google.com.

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Stepping Stones Lighthouse which is in need of repair at a fog signal square dance with famous caller, Howard Richman on Sunday Nov. 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Clinton G. Martin Park Community Center, 1601 Marcus Ave, New Hyde Park. Beginners to advanced welcomed.

Light refreshments served.

Sponsored by Stepping Stones Lighthouse Restoration Project and Operation Dry Water which supports safe boating on Long Island.

Tickets in advance are $20. pp or $30.pp at the door. For more info and to RSVP go to www.greatneckhistorical.org or call Anthony Marulli 646 773 2751 BLOOD DONATION EVENT The American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to help ensure a sufficient blood supply throughout the holiday season. There will be a donation event on Saturday, Nov. 28 at Harley DavidsonMiracle Mile, 215 Northern Blvd. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Donors with all blood types

are needed, and especially those with types O negative, B negative, A negative and AB. All those who come to donate Nov. 25-29 will get a Red Cross mixing spoon and celebrity chef recipe set, while supplies last. To make an appointment to donate blood, people can download the Red Cross Blood Donor App from app stores, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767).

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) 7458050.

NATIONAL COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN/ LAKEVILLE SECTION The National Council

Jewish Women/Lakeville Section will hold their next meeting on Monday, Nov. 23 at 12 p.m. at Clinton Martin Park, Marcus Avenue, east of New Hyde Park Road. Guest: Brennan Center Representative. Topic: Voter repression,election results and what the future holds.

Call 718-343-6222 for more information.

TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, and active professionals meets Tuesday, Nov. 24 at Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck. At 9 a.m. various members will bring up topics of interest to all. The Business Meeting starts 10:30 a.m. “My Opinion” will be presented

by Valerie Feinmabn. Our speaker is Aron Reisfeld, who will discuss “ The Rise and Fall of Hitler.” (You will recall the book, ”Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”). This is followed by lunch, so bring some lunch and join us!

Current Events roundtable begins at 12:30 p.m. with

a topic discussion led this week by Gerry Peretsman.

Refreshments, coffee and tea will be served. The Book Club will meet to discuss “The Nightingale.” It meets the fourth Tuesday of the month.

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.

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.

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.

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Great Neck Park District Great Neck Park District Election for Commissioner Great Neck Park District residents can vote for Park Commissioner on Tuesday, Dec. 8, from 3 to 9 p.m.

Applications for absentee ballots are currently available at the Park District Office, 5 Beach Road and Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue. If you are unable to pick up an application, call 516-482-0181 to have one sent by mail. The last date to file the application for an absentee ballot to be mailed is December 1.

Sunday @ 3 Series Mike D’Amore, will be performing Sunday, Nov. 22, 3 p.m. at Great Neck House.

Showcasing the best music of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, this singer/songwriter has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with groups such as The Stylistics, Lou Christie, The Duprees, The Tokens, The Flamingos, Kenny Vance and The Planotones and many others that he has admired over the years.

On Nov. 29 at 3 p.m., Bobby Valli, the brother of Frank Valli, will be performing. He will sing all of Frankie’s top hits plus other favorites by Jersey legends. A park card is required for admission to Great Neck House.

Weekend Movie The documentary, Deli Man (2014), directed by Erik Anjou, offers a look at the history of delicatessens in the United States. Jewish culture reflects the heart of a vital ethnic history. As that culture continues to shift and adapt alongside mainstream America, delicatessen food - as its name suggests - remains a beloved communal delicacy. Stars such as J. Mackye Gruber, Ziggy Gruber and Larry King are in this film. It can be seen this weekend at Great Neck House on Friday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 21 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. It is rated PG-13 and runs 92 minutes.

Admission requires a park card.

Nature Program: Sagamore Special Sunday, Nov. 29 at 10 a.m., join us for this private tour of the nature trails at Sagamore Hill. Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, from 1885 until

The documentary, Deli Man will be shown this weekend at Great Neck House. his death in 1919. During Roosevelt’s time in office, his “Summer White House” was the focus of international attention. Explore the natural surroundings and become inspired by the legacy of one of America’s most popular presidents. Register by Nov. 22 and be sure to ask for directions when registering.

Thanksgiving Day Public Sessions at the Rink The following public sessions will be offered on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26 at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink during the following hours: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Skate rentals are available. Great Neck Park District fees apply.

The public session schedule is subject to change. Call 516-487-2975 or check website at www.greatneckparks. org for more information.

Defensive Driving Classes at Great Neck House Great Neck House continues to offer Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Classes. The classes run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The next class is Saturday, Dec. 5. To sign up for a class or for more information, call Great Neck House at 516482-0355.

Mike D’Amore will perform favorites of the 50’s through the 70’s at Great Neck House this Sunday at 3.

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Judaism prez to come to Beth-El Temple Beth-El of Great Neck will welcome Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 10 a.m.

Rabbi Jacobs’ views on issues affecting Reform Judaism, Israel, and the future of Judaism in the United States are often sought and are well-respected.

His appearance at Beth-El presents the Great Neck community with a rare opportunity to interact with one of today’s major Jewish leaders.

Rabbi Jacobs was installed as president of the URJ on June 9, 2012. He is the fourth president of the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America.

A longtime and devoted creative change agent, Rabbi Jacobs spent 20 years as a dynamic, visionary spiritual leader at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York.

During his tenure, he reshaped communal worship, transformed the congregation into a community of lifelong learners and strengthened the synagogue’s commitment to vibrancy and inclusion.

Under Rabbi Jacobs’ leadership, WRT completed a new “green” sanctuary, one of only a handful of Jewish houses of worship in the nation to carry this designation.

Prior to his tenure at WRT, Rabbi Jacobs served the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, where he founded and co-directed the first synagogue-based homeless shelter in New York City.

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in New York, where he received numerous excellence awards.

Deeply committed to the State of Israel, Rabbi Jacobs has studied for two decades at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is now a senior rabbinic fellow.

Rabbi Jacobs is a product of the Reform Movement, and has held numerous leadership posts within the URJ, the CCAR, ARZA and WUPJ. He also has served on the boards of Jewish organizations in the community-at-large, including American Jewish World Service, UJA-Federation of New York, and, since its inception in 1996, Synagogue 2000 and its successor, Synagogue 3000.

Dedicated to global social justice issues, Rabbi Jacobs was part of a delegation that assessed disaster response following Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010.

He also observed the plight of Darfur refugees as part of an international humanitarian mission to the Chad-Darfur border area in 2005.

In 2009, he participated in an annual conference of Muslim and Christian leaders, held in Qatar, designed to build understanding between the Western and the Muslim worlds.

This lecture is organized by the Brotherhood of Temple BethEl which will also offer a full bagel and lox breakfast at 9 a.m.

Breakfast is $12. The lecture is free to temple members and non-temple members.

Contact Martin Einhorn at einhornmartin@gmail.com with questions or for further information.

COPAY CEO among those honored at Town ceremony Maria Elisa Cuadra-Fernandez, executive director and CEO of COPAY Inc. was among a group of Latino leaders recently honored at Hispanic Heritage Celebration of the Town of North Hempstead.

The ceremony was held at Town Hall on Plandome Road in Manhasset.

The Biographies of the honorees were read and were presented with citations.

The town’s elected officials including Councilwoman Lee Seeman and Town Supervisor

Judi Bosworth were joined by area leaders, family members, and friends.

Norma Giler, former president of COPAY and current member of COPAY’s Executive Board represented the agency and Maggie Martinez Malito, executive director of the Nassau County Youth Board was present.

The Youth Board helps to fund COPAY’s children’s services.

Cuadra-Fernandez, a Chilean, was honored for her years of professional services to the

children and families of the Town of North Hempstead.

In attendance were her three children. Alicia Ana, Amanda Isabel, and Marisa Angelica, and her son-in-law, Gavin.

COPAY provides professional and culturally aware substance abuse treatment and care for co-occurring mental health and relationship issues.

COPAY promotes leadership, education, and community participation in all children and families, according to it’s website.

Resident offers motherly advice

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Elaine Schmelkin, the mother of six boys and grandmother to “many, many” grandchildren, is looking to offer advice to young mothers.

Schmelkin and three friends created PUNCH, Parents with Unmarried Children, in 1988 to bring young Jewish singles together through parties and events.

Now, she is looking to give

her years of experience in motherhood and matchmaking to new mothers in the community.

“I am not a psychologist, not a psychiatrist, not a psychoanalyst, however I am an old-fashioned, wise grandmother adapting oldfashioned ideas in an ever-changing world,” Schmelkin said.

You can learn to blend some old ways with new ways to make your and your children’s lives

more meaningful, satisfying and productive.

She focuses on the challenges you as mothers have, and the issues your children are facing.

Join her in her home for a morning from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and share a cup of hot coffee and a homemade cookie or two.

Limited seating is available.

Contact 516-466-2229 for more information.

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Community ed winter registration begins As the end of the Community Education fall session approaches, registration for the winter 2016 session is now open.

Several classes will be offered, including: Vinyasa Yoga, Cardio Fit, Tai Chi, Body Workout, Modern Dance, Pilates, Weights & Yoga, Zumba, Body Workout, Latin-Style Gentle Aerobics, Line Dancing and Ballroom Dancing.

Music classes will include Singing for Fun, An Appreciation of Opera, Piano, Cabaret or

the Cumberland Singers.

Fine arts and crafts courses will include: Painting for Beginners, Collage, Chinese Bamboo Painting, Figure Drawing, Watercolor on Non-Traditional Surfaces, Jewelry in Fused Glass, Paint Your House, Channeling Van Gogh, Printmaking, Pottery, Stone Sculpture and Jewelry Making, Students can also learn to play mah-jongg or bridge, or join our Canasta Club.

Study a new language, such

as Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and ESOL. Take part in Some History You Ought to Know, or Top Baseball Arguments. Analyze Supreme Court Decisions, study Ancient Greek Philosophers, or do a little “armchair travel” in Italy — City by City.

Those interested in writing can participate in Write Your Heart Out or Poetry Writing.

Those interested in literature can read and discuss Greek and Roman Literature, or join in our

Winter Book Series, “Arguably the Best Books of the 20th Century.”

Community Education also offers numerous courses including EBay and Social Networking, Gmail and Google, Build Your Own Website, iPad Appiness and Word Skills.

Other courses include CPR, Defensive Driving, Maximizing Your Social Security, Dating Essentials and Keeping Income Flowing in Retirement.

For K-12 students, Commu-

nity Education offers Chinese for Kids, Parent/Child Pottery, PSAT/SAT/ACT test preparation and Driver Education for resident high school students.

Call 516-441-4949, or email us at gncontinuinged@greatneck.k12.ny.us for more information. The entire course catalog is available online at www. greatneck.k12.ny.us. Click on the Cumberland icon from the scroll near the top of the page, for listings and online registration.

North Middle takes the stage North Middle School will present an evening of one-act plays on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the school auditorium at 77 Polo Road. Plays to be performed include: “The Part” and “Dreamy,” both by Kristen Dabrowski; “SPAT—State Parental Assessment Tests,” by Harry Michael Bagdasian; “Meet Susie,” by Jerrold Rabushka; “Pool of Tears,” by Rachel Rubin Ladutke; and “School Zone,” by Gregg Osterhout. For more information, please contact Marissa Dove, one-acts director and English teacher, at 516-441-4544, or at mdove@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

G.N. learning center to offer English classes For adults who want to learn English or improve their English-language skills, or want to earn a high school equivalency diploma, the Great Neck Public Schools Adult Learning Center at Clover Drive offers a variety of classes in days and evenings designed to meet their needs.

A range of English-language classes are offered, from beginning literacy to advanced ESOL

(English to Speakers of Other Languages).

In preparation for the Test Assessing Secondary Completion examination, formerly known as the GED exam, classes are available to improve math, reading, science, social studies and writing skills.

Once enrolled, students may also take elective classes such as Conversational English, Cross-

roads Café and Citizenship, to name a few, at no additional charge Registration for classes must be done in person at the Adult Learning Center, 105 Clover Drive. Please allow two hours to complete the registration process.

Register on Wednesday, Dec. 2, or Thursday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to noon, or from 6 to 9

p.m.; or on Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to noon. Preference will be given to Great Neck residents and previous Adult Learning Center students.

The annual, non-refundable processing fee for Adult Learning Center classes is $35 for those who live or work in Great Neck (proof of residency or employment is required), and $75 for non-residents.

Payment, at time of registration, can be made in cash, or by credit card, check or money order, payable to Great Neck Public Schools.

For more information, either refer to the Communication Education catalog, call the Adult Learning Center at 516-4414950 or visit the Adult Learning Center Web site at alc.greatneck. k12.ny.us.

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County gets grant for social services The Nassau County Department of Social Services was awarded an additional $136,500 from New York State Office of Children and Family Services to continue its Safe Harbour program designed to provide programs and services for commercially exploited youth, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Social Services Commissioner Dr. John Imhof today announced this week.

“Nassau County is dedicated Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and former United States Olympic Coach and Koreanto addressing the service needs of American Businessman Grand Master Yeon Hwan Park this week announced that the 2015 New children at-risk of, or victims of, York Open Taekwondo Championships and Korean Cultural Festival - held on Saturday, Oct. 17 at sex trafficking and commercial Nassau County’s Mitchel Athletic Complex – raised $4,000 for The Girl Scouts of Nassau County. sexual exploitation,” Mangano Proceeds from prior tournaments have benefited The Safe Center LI, North Shore Child and Family stated. “This grant will have a Guidance Center and the Hurricane Recovery Fund. From left: Marc Zirogiannis, president of Red major role in eradicating trafFlag Advisors and Taekwondo Instructor; David Zabransky, master instructor; Joan Bompane, MVP ficking and exploitation of youth regional director for the Girl Scouts of Nassau County; Master Edward Park; Grandmaster Y. H. Park; while assisting victims with the Donna Ceravolo, executive director and CEO of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County; Mangano; Jason Safe Harbour Project.”

Aptekar, founder of Y.H. Park Taekwondo, Y.H. Park, Sr. Nassau County’s Safe Har-

Taekwondo raises $4K for Girl Scouts

bour Project is a countywide, coordinated, multi-system, longterm strategy to enhance the identification, protection and service delivery for children who are victims of human trafficking and to provide services to best meet their individual needs.

The Advisory Group to the Safe Harbour Project includes representatives of the Nassau County Police Department, Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, Nassau County Department of Probation, The Safe Center LI and several community-based agencies.

If you know a child who may be in danger, call The Safe Center LI 24 hours a day at 516542-0404. In situations involving imminent danger, dial 911. For more information, contact Safe.

Harbour@hhsnassaucountyny.us.

North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center Annual Gala North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s Annual Gala, Dancing With Our Stars, raised $420,000 to support the Guidance Center’s work to restore and strengthen the emotional health and well-being of children and families on Long Island, the Center announced this week.

“I’m so proud to play a role in supporting the amazing work of the Guidance Center,” said Sunny Hostin, CNN’s legal analyst and the honoree at the event, which was held at the Garden City Hotel and attended by 311 people.

“Because of their dedicated staff and innovative programs, children and families in crisis are getting the help they need, regardless of their ability to pay. It’s no exaggeration to say the Guidance Center is saving lives.”

This year’s dancers wowed the crowd with their deft footwork, clearly the result of many

hours of training. Our Dancing Stars were six of Long Island’s finest business leaders and Guidance Center supporters: Frank Castagna, Castagna Realty; Charles Chan, Harvest International; Wayne Grossé, Bethpage Federal Credit Union; Jo-Ellen Hazan, Past President, the Guidance Center; Tracey Kupferberg, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty; and Sandra Schoenbart, Sandra K., Inc. Sales/Marketing.

The Guidance Center’s newest board member, Charles Chan, delighted the audience with his lively performance to the classic “Singin’ In the Rain.

“I want to thank all the participating dancers for the grueling hard work and enduring sacrifice of their leisure time to put together a show we all would be proud of for a great cause—an experience and unforgettable

Regina Barros-Rivera, co-chairs Michael and Andrea Leeds, honoree Sunny Hostin, Len Berman, Bernadette Castro, co-chairs Chris and Jack Bransfield, and Andrew Malekoff

moments that will last a lifetime!” he said.

The Guidance Center would also like to thank our Emcee, Sports Announcer/Author Len Berman, and Live Auctioneer Bernadette Castro. The evening’s co-chairs were Chris and Jack Bransfield and Andrea and Michael Leeds.

“Our annual benefit for children’s mental health was a terrific night,” said Andrew Malekoff, Guidance Center executive director/CEO. “The evening was filled with good spirits, great fun and strong support for our mission to serve those in need of care for mental health and substance Frank Castagna and board member Jo-Ellen Hazen abuse challenges.”

All our Dancing Stars: (second from left): Frank Castagna, Jo-Ellen Hazen, Charles Chan, Tracey Kupferberg and her dance partner, Sandra Schoenbart, Wayne Grossé and his dancing partner.

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Ex district employee to challenge ex boss Continued from Page 1 going, as well as the superintendents and the different staff. I get along with everyone and the residents have gotten to know me.”

Lincoln, who is seeking his sixth term, said he intends to run on his record.

“I believe that my experience has demonstrated a good track record. I am open and responsive to all residents of the park district.,” Lincoln said. “I still work as hard as I did the first day I took office.”

A lifelong Great Neck resident, Lincoln worked for the Nassau County Vocational Education and Extension Board as it’s executive director and superintendent for 35 years before retiring in 2013.

He was elected for his first term to the park district’s Board of Commissioners in December 2000. Lincoln said he was proud of the work he and four other park district commissioners have done during his 15 years in office, especially in opening a more transparent government.

“We really introduced a lot of transparency above and beyond what you expect from government. Everybody’s important and we respect that. You can’t walk

into the New York State Legislature and say ‘excuse me, I have a suggestion to make,’” he said. “I am very proud of that.”

The park district election will be held on Dec. 8.

Perera, who began working for the park district in 1992 as the director of Parkwood Tennis, said should he be elected he would look to put a limit on the number of terms a commissioner can serve.

“It could be a positive or it could be a negative. You can become stagnant and no fresh ideas come in,” he said. “If the park district changes, there are always people who have fresher ideas that are something to bring to the table. It should be a two to three term max.”

He added that there was no animosity between himself and Lincoln, who he worked under for 23 years before leaving the park district to work for the United States Tennis Association.

Lincoln said during his time as a commissioner he has helped rebuild and restore the district’s infrastructure including the Parkwood Pool, the Parkwood Ice Rink, and the Great Neck House.

He said he and the district’s other two commissioners, Daniel

Nachmanoff and Frank Cilluffo, have been looking for opportunities to raise revenue without needing to raise taxes, which they were successful in doing this year.

“We’re holding the line on taxes. We are constantly looking for ways to generate non-tax revenue so that we can have programs but make taxes as affordable as possible,” Lincoln said.

He also said he thought it was the “wrong time” to change commissioners because the district is in the middle of important projects.

Perera said he had a good understanding of the budget because he worked on the budgets for Parkwood’s pool, ice skating rink, and tennis courts.

“If you can save money, then save money without cutting the services of what we do. Residents are used to high quality services and I know there’s a lot of spending for no reason,” he said. “It could be better managed. There are ways we can certainly do in saving money and not sacrificing anything.”

Lincoln, who has served as a member of the Great Neck Vigilant Fire Company for 51 years, said although he retired from his job two years ago, he did not

believe it was time to leave his elected position.

“The time to move on for an elected official is when they lose their respect for the public and my respect is greater than it’s ever been,” he said.

Candidates interested in running for election were required to file their name with the secretary of the Board of Commissioners and submit a petition signed by 25 registered voters with the district by Oct. 24.

The district is split into four election districts.

Park election district one includes the Village of Kings Point, Saddle Rock Estates, and areas of the Village of Great Neck which are east of Middle Neck Road and north of Hicks Lane, as well as west of Middle Neck Road.

The polling site for district one is located at the Great Neck House at 14 Arrandale Ave. Park election district two includes areas east of Middle Neck Road in the Village of Great Neck and the unincorporated areas of the Town of North Hempstead that are south of the Village of Great Neck and north of the Village of Kensington.

The polling site for district two is located at the E.M. Baker

School at 69 Baker Hill Road.

Park election district three includes the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Village of Thomaston, and Village of Kensington.

The polling site for district three is located at the Great Neck Social Center at 80 Grace Avenue.

Park election district four includes the Village of Russell Gardens, the unincorporated areas of the Town of North Hempstead including the Great Neck Terrace Apartments, Lakeville, Upland, Lake Success Hills, and Lake Success Manor sections of Great Neck, and the other unincorporated areas bounded by Great Neck Road on the north and west, Northern Boulevard on the south, and Middle Neck Road to the east.

The polling site for district four is the Manhasset-Lakevlle Fire District’s Company #4 Firehouse on the corner of Jayson Avenue and Northern Boulevard in Great Neck.

Polls will be open from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Those who are registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections at an address within the Great Neck Park District at least 23 days prior to the Dec. 8 election date can vote.

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Holocaust center to host lecture on ‘Story of Yiddish’ The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County presents a lecture, “The Story of Yiddish: The Language of Belonging,” by Linda F. Burghardt, scholar-in-residence at HMTC, on Friday, Dec. 4, at 11 a.m. The lecture will take place at HMTC, Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove. There is no fee to attend the lecture.

In this presentation Burghardt will tell the story of Yiddish, from its origins in the Middle Ages to its steep decline after the Holocaust. She will also talk about the enormous literary, musical and scholarly contributions made in Yiddish throughout history and its interconnectedness with the traditions of Yiddishkeit, and examine rumors of its surprising resurgence in modern culture around the world. Is Yiddish still the best language in which to complain, to insult someone or to connect with

the past?

Burghardt is a journalist and author from Great Neck. She worked as a freelance reporter for the New York Times for 20 years and is the author of three non-fiction books, two on Jewish topics.

Her articles and essays have appeared in newspapers throughout the U.S. and she has lectured to both national and international audiences. She holds a Ph.D. from LIU-Post and is the daughter of Holocaust Survivors from Vienna.

For more information please contact HMTC at 516-571-8040 or visit HMTC’s website, www. hmtcli.org, or find them on social media at facebook.com/HMTCNY and twitter.com/HolocaustTolCtr. For more than 20 years, HMTC has been fulfilling its mission to teach the history of the Holocaust and its lessons through education and community outreach.

Marines deliver turkeys U.S. Marines who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and Veterans, who are now students at Dowling College, joined together to unload 2,400 Thanksgiving Turkeys that Stop & Shop donated to Island Harvest Food Bank and Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Pictured left to right: Robin Amato, chief development officer of Long Island Cares Inc. of The Harry Chapin Food Bank, Arlene Putterman, manager of public relations at Stop & Shop’s New York Metro Division, Randi Shubin Dressner, president and CEO of Island Harvest, and Marine Captain Brad Bolton.

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Learning new lessons never gets old I have been away for the last seven days in San Diego at the N.A.R. Conference and boy, was it an amazing cornucopia of displays and exhibitions of the most up to date technology and information for realtors on the globe.

Most important was the gargantuan amount of new and thought-provoking ideas that were provided, through a multitude of breakout sessions for those “newbies” (less than a year in the business) and advanced brokers, associate brokers and salespersons who attended.

There were 20,000-plus attendees and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing and networking with my domestic connections from around the U.S. as well as my associates from China, India, Africa, France, Italy, Spain, South America, Puerto Rico, as well as pretty much all the Islands in the Southern Hemisphere and every other place you can think of, some investing $4,000-6,000 to be part of this very important yearly event.

This is truly part of the life-

blood of being a professional real estate broker as well as a global relocation expert, especially when people want to move somewhere local or exotic.

It is a very valuable asset to have those very solid long lasting relationships and connections, which in turn assists clients and customers, who are selling or purchasing, with their specific “Needs and Wants.”

When they are ready to make that move for a vacation/ second home purchase or just as a potential retirement retreat or getaway! I believe most who attended, gained valuable amounts of knowledge, expert opinions from the speakers. Also important, as well was the ability to view new hardware and software programs (Contact Response Management Software) to allow ones businesses to run smoothly, efficiently and more profitably.

Every year I attend, I learn something new and usually purchase either a program or an additional training package for our

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associate brokers and salespersons consultants; because in my mind, one never stops improving and expanding one’s knowledge in either their profession or after retirement.

One never should stop learning, otherwise, I believe, the potential for Dementia and Alzheimer’s can occur; however, I do also realize that some have the traits through heredity situations and hopefully the cure is right around the corner. (information derived from

Googling “What proteins are attributable to Alzheimer’s Disease).

This form of the disease is known as early onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. Most of autosomal dominant familial AD can be attributed to mutations in one of three genes: those encoding amyloid precursor protein and presenilins 1 and 2.

Sorry for that last divergence, but I thought it was necessary!

The brain is one of the most, what I would call, important muscles in one’s body; and one that needs to be constantly massaged and exercised!, by reading, crossword puzzles or whatever will consistently stimulate all parts of your brain!

As they say, “If you don’t use it, you just may lose it!” This is one of the reasons I will never really retire, for when you love what you do, it is not work, just the pure joy of helping people find what they can afford for the next 5-50 years.

Also, staying within their budgets and as needed, the best schools for their current or soon to be newborns.

The yearly conventions have made a clear and defining impression on me as well as many who attend that it is not about selling people anything in today’s market; but, it is about developing those fuzzy and warm connections, leading to heart to heart rapport and lifetime relationships.

It is about showing, advising and consulting clients and customers through your concerted efforts, disciplined actions and the sacrifice of yours and your clients and customers valuable time I believe that every business needs to strive for this accomplishment for the U.S. to move into the future.

This is the “New Ballgame” to practice and play to win over for new as well as to keep old business.

However, those that have not in the past, tried this “old fashion” way of doing business may not know how to do or learn how to do this to excel and succeed now and in the foreseeable future, may be doomed to mediocrity or potential failure!

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It would be a travesty if the Republicans cash in the fear they are sowing over the Paris terror attack for a ticket to the white House, in the way the Bush/ Cheney Administration milked Americans’ fear after 9/11, a terror attack that incompetence made so much worse.

And yet, despite their incompetence, they rode to reelection in 2004.

Brian Lehrer on NPR remarked that Jeb Bush seems to be using the Paris attacks “to claw his way back into relevance.”

On the Monday after the terror attack, AOL broadcast the headline that 72 percent of Americans are fearful.

Well what would you expect with nonstop reports about terrorism? It’s exactly what ISIL wanted -—just as Osama bin Lad3n was thrilled beyond imagination at the reaction after 9/11.

In essence, thanks to Bush/ Cheney reaction, 19 terrorists brought down a nation, because they let it happen.

Already, several Republican candidates have basically called for closing borders — Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush say they would only admit Christians — effectively putting a religious test in violation of the Constitution.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has said Congress would withhold any funding to relocate Syrian refugees. And 27 (all but one) Republican governors are refusing to allow any resettlement in their states, again, against the Constitution — basically a redux of what they said about the children fleeing Central American violence.

It is absurd to hear the Alabama Governor justifying this stance by saying that his first priority is to keep his citizens safe, when Alabama promotes wanton gun violence, a state which ranks 4th in the nation for the highest number of incidents of and where one Alabaman is killed every 11 hours.

A doctor in a hospital in Paris talked about receiving 27 of the gunshot victims that night when the ER normally gets one.

One a day? he was asked. “No, one a year. We’re not like America.”

Republicans are seizing on the fact that a passport attributed to a Syrian who came through Greece with the tens of thousands of refugees in October was left at one of the terror sites.

But isn’t it interesting that this is the only terrorist found with an ID? How much logic does it take

to realize that it likely was purposefully left — and very probably not the passport of the attacker at all — but was left because ISIS wants Europe and the US to cut off any safe haven for the millions that are fleeing their own terror.

They want a population to terrorize. They want Muslims to be marginalized in their communities, to be able to tap the disaffected to their “cause.”

Donald Trump says he would shut down mosques.

And, oh yes, points out that France has some of the strongest gun control laws.

You might wonder if a President Trump, faced with terror attacks in Paris, would launch attacks against Muslims here.

As for the “tough guy” pose as being all it takes to stop all the bad things in the world, Putin certainly strikes the strongman pose, and yet ISIS took down a Russian airliner.

His solution? Bomb them to oblivion.

Obama answered “the broader issue of my critics... when you listen to what they actually have to say, what they’re proposing, most of the time, when pressed, they describe things that we’re already doing.

Maybe they’re not aware that we’re already doing them. Some of them seem to think that if I were just more bellicose in expressing what we’re doing, that that would make a difference -- because that seems to be the only thing that they’re doing, is talking as if they’re tough. But I haven’t seen particular strategies that they would suggest that would make a real difference.

“But what we do not do, what I do not do is to take actions either because it is going to work politically or it is going to somehow, in the abstract, make America look tough, or make me look tough. And maybe part of the reason is because every few months I go to Walter Reed, and I see a 25-year-old kid who’s paralyzed or has lost his limbs, and some of those are people I’ve ordered into battle. And so I can’t afford to play some of the political games that others may.”

Does anyone else see the tragic irony that the terrorism is against tolerance, the terrorists can’t stand a society that is open, diverse in ethnicity, religion and thought, but Republicans want to dispatch intolerance with intolerance?

“We also have to remember that many of these refugees are the victims of terrorism themselves — that’s what they’re fleeing,” President Obama said

at a press conference after the G20 in Turkey. “Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values. Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both....

“When I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims; when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which a person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution — that’s shameful.

That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion...

“And if we want to be successful at defeating ISIS, that’s a good place to start — by not

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Pulse of the Peninsula promoting that kind of ideology, that kind of attitude. In the same way that the Muslim community has an obligation not to in any way excuse anti-Western or antiChristian sentiment, we have the same obligation as Christians. And we are. It is good to remember that the United States does not have a religious test, and we are a nation of many peoples of different faiths, which means that we show compassion to everybody. Those are the universal values we stand for. And that’s what my administration intends to stand for.”

Every society is vulnerable to a terrorist determined to kill himself - but societal institutions should not be.

On the other hand, there is nothing stopping homegrown terrorism, and not just the jihadi kind. White racists have been responsible for more acts of terror here in the homeland than selfproclaimed jihadis. Look at the attacks on Planned Parenthood centers and black churches just

in the last few months.

While the Republicans don’t actually offer any constructive proposals, they are really, really obsessively upset over semantics that President Obama does not brand the entirety of Muslims as terrorists- that’s about 1 billion people around the world, including whole nations that we need as our allies in defeating ISIL such as Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon. Obama, instead, uses terms like “violent extremists” as the enemy.

But these violent extremists no more embody Islam than Nazis embodied Christianity.

These are sociopathic thugs — gangsters — who use terror and violence in order to secure power and control. It is a 21st century Facsist regime more similar to 20th century Nazi Germany.

The new recruits might be swayed by propagandist ideology and even the idealism in toppling Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad — but they are being used and when some who came to fight for what they thought was a just cause want to leave, they are summarily killed.

Hindsight is 20/20.

It’s so easy to say Obama should have been more aggressive in Syria early on (give weapons to so-called moderates who turned out to be ISIS?) but at that point, the opposition was saying Assad was only weeks away from being deposed.

Then, when Assad crossed the “red line” using chemical weapons against his own people, Congress failed to give Obama authorization for military strikes inside Syria (Russia stepped up and got Assad to agree to get rid of chemical weapons, without Obama needing to fire a shot).

Even now, Republicans are great at hurling accusations of ‘fecklessness” and “weakness” but the real coward is a Congress that refuses to debate a new Authorization of Use of Military Force agreement. And I’m sure even the Bush/Cheney neocons never imagined that after almost a decade and billions of dollars and 4000 American lives, that the Iraqi soldiers would not just cut and run, but would hand over their weapons and territory to ISIS. For his part, Obama faced a choice. Without a crystal ball, he sided with the less deadly option. ISIS changed, and even now has changed its strategy from just torturing and tormenting and terrorizing people within the Middle East, to exporting terrorism internationally - downing the Russian airliner at Sharm el Sheik, the bombings in

Izmir, in Beirut and now Paris, all in short order - and Obama is adapting to the changes - essentially intensifying all the levers that can be brought to bear, including bombing, strengthening border controls, sharing more intelligence, and stepping up efforts to prevent the flow of foreign fighters in and out of Syria and Iraq. “And we’ll continue to stand with leaders in Muslim communities, including faith leaders, who are the best voices to discredit ISIS’s warped ideology,” Obama said.

Obama, in a press conference in Turkey after the G20 summit, sounded just the right tone, and also took on the critics who charge that his “strategy” lacked focus, that he underestimated the Islamic State.

“The strategy that we’re pursuing, which focuses on going after targets, limiting wherever possible the capabilities of ISIL on the ground -- systematically going after their leadership, their infrastructure, strengthening Shia — or strengthening Syrian and Iraqi forces and Kurdish forces that are prepared to fight them, cutting off their borders and squeezing the space in which they can operate until ultimately we’re able to defeat them — that’s the strategy we’re going to have to pursue.

“And we will continue to generate more partners for that strategy. And there are going to be some things that we try that don’t work; there will be some strategies we try that do work.

And when we find strategies that work, we will double down on those....

“This is not, as I said, a traditional military opponent. We can retake territory. And as long as we leave our troops there, we can hold it, but that does not solve the underlying problem of eliminating the dynamics that are producing these kinds of violent extremist groups.

“And so we are going to continue to pursue the strategy that has the best chance of working, even though it does not offer the satisfaction, I guess, of a neat headline or an immediate resolution. And part of the reason is because there are costs to the other side. I just want to remind people, this is not an abstraction. When we send troops in, those troops get injured, they get killed; they’re away from their families; our country spends hundreds of billions of dollars.

And so given the fact that there are enormous sacrifices involved in any military action, it’s best that we don’t shoot first and aim later. It’s important for us to get Continued on Page 65

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County to begin local business campaign With the holiday shopping season upon us, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and County Clerk Maureen O’Connell joined with Julie Marchesella, President of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce, and small business owners to kick off a “Shop Nassau County” campaign and highlight a countywide Veterans Discount Program.

“I encourage all residents to support their hometown businesses this holiday season, and year-round, as local businesses are the heartbeat of Nassau County’s economy and make our communities stronger and better places to live, work and raise a family,” Mangano said.

The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency, in partnership with the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce, launched a significant new marketing campaign aimed at encouraging residents to shop at local Nassau County merchants. Utilizing television, print, radio and social media the ads featured Nassau business owners.

The campaign is part of the Nassau County IDA’s effort to assist small businesses as they are the lifeblood of our communities.

• Stronger tax base • Nassau business owners invest in our community • Convenience & Green-Friendly (proximity reduces gas consumption) Small businesses play a critical role in our economy as they account for 98 percent of all businesses in New York state and employ more than 40 percent of the State’s private sector workforce. The nation’s 28 million small businesses create nearly two out of three jobs nationwide and have generated over 65 percent of new jobs since 1995.

“With Nassau employers contributing to the ecoNassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano, County nomic base and connectivity of our local communities, Clerk Maureen O’Connell, Julie Marchesella, president we must help raise awareness about the role they play of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce, and and promote a business-friendly Nassau that attracts small business owners at a kick off for the “Shop Nas- suppliers and distributors in similar industries,” Mangano said. sau County” campaign.

The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce is an umbrella organization acting as a spokesperson for “Shop Nassau County” benefits include: • Money spent here stays here (keeping local dol- more than 40 Chambers of Commerce in Nassau County. Long Island is home to more than 90,000 businesses lars in the economy) • Jobs and wages (supporting local businesses pro- grossing more than $100 billion a year. The vast majority of these businesses employ 50 people or less. vides support for the jobs they offer)

Three G.N. ZIPs make Forbes ‘expensive’ list Continued from Page 2 Kings Point rose on this year’s list from last year’s ranking of 91.

The second highest Great Neck ZIP code was 11020, the Village of Lake Success, which appeared at number 268 on the 2015 list.

Altos’ research found the median home price in Lake Success to be $1,385,557.

“Again, there is the proximity to the city, a private police force, and they also have the Lake Success Golf Club that one is eligible to become a member,” Polland said. “It has very nice amenities.”

Last year, Forbes ranked Lake Success at number 288.

The last Great Neck ZIP code on the list was 11023, an area consisting of the Villages of Great Neck and Saddle Rock, which appeared on the list at number 365.

This area was not ranked in the 2014 list.

Polland said demand has increased the prices of homes in the area, thus explaining how the ZIP code jumped on to the list.

Altos found that the median home price for a home in the Villages of Great Neck and Saddle Rock was $1,164,207.

Polland also said the excellent Great Neck Public Schools system plays a big role in what makes all three areas of Great Neck a desirable destination for home buyers.

The third highest ranked ZIP code in the North Shore was 11030, which is Manhasset.

Manhasset dropped on the list from their 2014 ranking of 108 to their 2015 ranking of 141.

The median home price in Manhasset was found by Altos to be $1,866,118.

“If it were just about nice homes, there are plenty of places to find nicer homes for much less money. But the things that make Manhasset special are

the good schools and the good commute,” said Rally Robinson, a real estate salesperson for Accent on Real Estate.

“But then there’s a lot of intangibles. It’s a real community. It’s the kind of place where you walk into the deli and it’s the same faces that are smiling and they really know you.”

Robinson said a drop in ranking did not necessarily mean the value of homes was decreasing.

“There’s always a little big of wiggle room in those statistics,” she said. “Last year the high mark was $6.2 million, which was a house bought by a celebrity, whereas this year’s statistics might have skewed a little because we didn’t have a $6.2 million dollar home sold.”

The 11576 ZIP code, which covers areas of Roslyn including East Hills, Roslyn Harbor, North Hills, and Roslyn Estates, appeared on the list at number 336.

Altos found that the median home price in the area was $1,214,988.

Berman, an East Hills resident, said the area is “on fire” in terms of real estate because of the Park at East Hills opening in 2006.

“The park has become incredibly attractive to a lot of families in moving to East Hills and Roslyn,” he said. “It’s a great place for families, both young families and older families to meet other families when they move out to the suburbs.”

Berman also said while the homes and properties may be smaller in Roslyn compared with Old Westbury, the area was “very beautiful and scenic.”

Roslyn’s 2015 ranking dropped from the 2014 ranking of 322.

The largest increase in ranking saw the 11050 ZIP code, which includes areas in Port Washington, Sands Point, and Manorhaven, jump from number 448 in last year’s list to number 348 in the 2015 list.

The median home price was found to be $1,191,865 by Altos.

Judge approves Waldbaum’s purchase bid Continued from Page 1 new supermarket will begin operating.

“There is no timeline for renovations. Each store is going to be looked at on a case-by-case basis,” she said. “Some may be in fantastic shape but just need some fresh painting, but some of them the floors might be chipped or the roof might be leaking, or things can be out of date. It depends on what they find.”

Soto added that as soon as Best Yet Market gets keys to the store, a team will assess what renovations need to be made and

how long the store conversion process will take.

Great Neck Chamber of Commerce President Hooshang Nematzadeh said finding a replacement supermarket was good news for the people of Great Neck.

“To have another operator so fast taking the place and especially a very good operator to come in is fantastic news for Great Neck,” Nematzadeh said. “Then we are not deprived of a supermarket.”

Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said the village worked hard to find a new

supermarket operator and was “thrilled” when a bid was submitted.

“We’ve been talking to the shopping center owner and meeting with prospective supermarkets. We sent packages out and they were one of the stores. I don’t know if that had any effect but we’re hoping maybe it did.

We encouraged them to take another look and they submitted a bid,” Celender said. “It’s a complicated court proceeding that’s not anything the village is a party to but we have been following it and have been very proactive to try to

encourage supermarkets to want to go in and submit a bid and service the community.”

She added that the village would continue to work with Best Yet Market representatives “to find out their plans for getting into the store to start servicing the community.”

Soto said both parties and the bankruptcy judge agreed on Nov. 3 that Best Yet Market would make a “good faith, best effort of an offer of employment” to at least 25 percent of employees from the current store.

She added that Best Market

would hire employees based on who was the best person for the job and not who had been working at Waldbaum’s the longest.

“Employees might be concerned, but again, the job posts will go up and people will apply and the best person will be hired,” Soto said. “It’s about who the best person for the job is and what the fair pay is.”

Of A&P’s 51 supermarkets on Long Island, 33 have been bought or bid on, five were closed in October, and 13 remain unsold.

Efforts to reach A&P officials were unavailing.

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Town eases licensing for taxi services

BY N O A H MANSKAR The North Hempstead Town Board further lightened its taxi regulations Monday night in an effort to make it even easier for seniors get around through the town’s Project Independence program.

The change to the law allows taxis licensed in any municipality to give seniors subsidized rides without a separate license from the town, which officials hope will lighten the burden on taxi companies that provide Project Independence services.

“It increases the market of how many companies can participate in this program,” said Kimberly Corcoran-Galante, commissioner of the town’s Department of Services for the Aging.

Project Independence, an initiative that aims to help North Hempstead seniors stay in their homes and access services, covers the entire cost of seniors’ rides to the grocery store and half the fare for all other rides. Seniors generally pay a lower Medicaid rate for trips to pick up medicines.

The town had previously changed its taxi law so companies that didn’t have a hub within its borders could still apply

for a town license to provide rides for seniors.

But the license costs thousands of dollars to get, and sometimes drivers have to travel great distances from their hubs to take seniors on discounted rides, Corcoran-Galante said.

“It’s really hard to say, ‘Hey, I’ve got an idea — I want you to drive 45 minutes, pick up a senior, drive them five minutes away at a discount rate and then come back 45 minutes back to your hub,’” she said.

Now, as long as the company has a valid license from a village within North Hempstead, they don’t need the costly

license.

The town got a $1 million grant in September to bolster Project Independence’s taxi program.

The initiative, run through the Department of Services for the aging, also offers caregivers, nutritional and health services and social and recreational programs, among other services.

Reach reporter Noah Manskar by email at nmanskar@theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @noahmanskar and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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MTA shafting riders with 2nd Ave. subway funds

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he Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $29 billion 2015-2019 Capital Program is disappointing for Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway project.

The original $34 billion October 24, 2014 plan programmed $1.535 billion including $575 million in potential federal New Starts funding. The revised plan only budgets $535 million (assuming no federal New Starts funding).

This reduced budget will go for environmental review, preliminary and final design, real estate along with utility relocation.

Request for construction funding is postponed to the next MTA 2020 - 2024 Five Year Capital Program. The federal government has considered Phase 2 work part of an active ongoing project. If the MTA does not proceed with this phase of the Second Avenue subway, Washington may ask for its money back for the unused tunnel section built in the 1970s from 110th Street to 120th Street funded with federal dollars.

The MTA could owe Uncle Sam millions.

In February 2015, the Federal Department of Transportation and the MTA executed an amended Full Funding Grant Agreement for the Second Avenue Subway Phase I project reflecting the changes in cost and schedule to the project.

The amended FFGA includes a cost of $5.57 billion and a revenue service date for no later than February 28, 2018. As in the original FFGA, the $1.3 billion of federal grant funding remains unchanged with the MTA as local sponsor having to cover the $1 billion in cost overruns.

It will take two decades more and $20 billion for completion of the next three segments north to 125th Street and south downtown to the Financial District.

Moving construction for Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 from the 2015 - 2019 to next 2020 - 2024 MTA Five Year Capital Program means giving up $575 million in potential federal transportation New

Starts funding that might not be there tomorrow.

Without providing local matching dollars, MTA forfeits the opportunity to leverage these dollars for additional federal funds.

There are dozens of other potential New Starts projects being championed by many other 99 Senators and 435 Congress members. The requests far exceed any available New Starts funding.

As the list grows year after year, there will be fewer winners and many more losers. .

The original proposed 2010 - 2014 MTA $29 billion Five Year Capital Plan was cut to $24.2 billion before being approved. Funding for environmental review, design and engineering for initial Phase 2 work could have been provided. These activities could have proceeded in parallel with construction of Phase 1. Phase 2 would have been ready for construction funding in 2017.

Existing contractors working on Phase One have staging areas for supplies, support equipment and employees already mobilized.

This would make it easier to initiate Phase Two work perhaps resulting in lower bids. MTA might have saved up to several hundred million in construction costs.

Postponing construction bids for Phase Two work years later to 2020 or later will clearly result in higher bids.

Who knows what inflation rates may be during that time period.

The MTA original and revised Five Year 2015 - 2019 Capital Plan provides $695 million for Metro North Bronx Penn Station Access project.

This includes construction dollars with a promised beneficial use date of 2019.

This new service is dependent upon MTA East Side Access project affording the Long Island Rail Road beneficial use of Grand Central Terminal.

Based upon numerous past project delays, it is likely that the LIRR will not be providing service into Grand Central Terminal until 2023 or 2024.

There is no capacity at Penn Station for Metro North

until the LIRR can reallocate some service to Grand Central Terminal.

There is no room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during either a.m. or p.m. rush hours via the East River tunnels with connections to Long Island.

Three of four tunnels running inbound during a.m. and outbound p.m. rush hours have very tight spacing between trains.

One tunnel is shared by the LIRR, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak for reverse train movements with equally tight spacing during rush hours.

There is no platform capacity at Penn Station to accommodate any additional trains during rush hour.

Penn Station is currently operating at 100 percent capacity during both a.m. and p.m. rush hours. If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service, the result is numerous delays and cancellation of trains.

Why the rush to complete Metro North Penn Station Access by 2019 as promised by Governor Cuomo when he announced support for this project in 2014?

Reallocate the $600 million to the Second Avenue subway project. The $95 million balance could cover environmental, preliminary, final design and engineering work for Metro North Penn Station Access project in the 2015 2019 Capital Plan.

The balance of $600 million for actual construction could be provided in the next 2020 - 2024 Capital Plan.

Completion of this work could realistically coincide with MTA Eastside Access project. Adding these $600 million to support construction of Second Avenue Subway Phase Two might make more sense.

This could give the MTA a fighting chance to compete for $575 in federal New Starts funding.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked in the transportation field for 31 years).

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY SALES​/ PROJECT MANAGEMENT POSITION: Seeking trustworthy individual for home improvement company.

Roofing, siding, windows and gutters. Five years experience in industry preferred.

Must have your own van, truck or car. Must be comfortable speaking to homeowners.

Motivated individual. Must be able to work on your own and handle responsibility. Able to lift 50 lbs. Jobsites in Queens and Western Nassau County.

Commission based. Interest or inquiries please email resume to blakewsr@verizon.net

Help Wanted BABYSITTER P/T WANTED for GC family to care for 3 children, ages 8, 6 & 4. Mondays 6:30am6:30pm. Must feel comfortable driving children to different locations. Additional hours a possibility. Please call Jennifer 917282-4723

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AFLAC BENEFITS CONSULTANT: Fortune 500 Company. With an Aflac career, there are no limits to what you can achieve.

It’s a unique opportunity to take control of your career and set your own unlimited goals. Looking for individuals to grow with the largest provider of voluntary employee benefits in the country. Sales experience welcome but not necessary.

Lifetime vesting renewals.

Office located in Garden City. Please call Director of District Sales, Bill Whicher 516-574-1064

MEDICAL OFFICE CLERK: Part time, light diversified clerical duties with some medical testing.

Will train right person. Email resume AnatBA@aol.com

RETAIL JEWELRY SALES: Albertson​/ ​R oslyn area. Part time weekdays and​/ ​o r weekends.

Experience helpful. References.

Please call Stacey 516-4846444

CAREGIVER​/ COMPANION: 20 years dedicated, reliable, efficient experience to care for elderly with Alzheimer’s​/​Dimentia, assist daily activities in their home. Immediate. Pam 516-902-5185 o r Carlene 516-850-4258

LICENSED AESTHETICIAN WITH FOLLOWING: Good salary + commission. Family friendly atmosphere. In business for 30 years. Call 516746-8403 MAKE HOLIDAY $$ Billion dollar manufacturer expanding in the Long Island area seeking person with sales and​/ ​o r marketing background.

Call 1-516-7595926. Leave message for call back.

OFFICE ASSISTANT P/T Garden City law firm seeks detail oriented individual to assist with general office duties in Accounting Dept.

Microsoft Office knowledge a must. Email resume btomitz@ lbcclaw.com OR call 516-2948844 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

BAKERY PRODUCTS REPRESENTATIVE Work as a Full-Time, Entry Level Employee Servicing supermarkets in the New Hyde Park, NY area GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW GRADS!

A family-owned commercial bakery in business for over 100 years, Gold Medal Bakery produces and transports bakery products to major supermarkets.

Duties Include: Increasing sales by: • Merchandising products • Maintaining inventory and Managing orders via computer • Communicating with store management daily Job Work Week: • 8am-5pm with Wednesdays & Sundays off Minimum Qualifications: • Computer experience required • Good driving record and proper auto insurance needed • No experience necessary - we will train!

• Must be at least 18 years old • Must be able to pass a drug test Compensation: $625 per week plus benefits & mileage reimbursement

Don’t miss out- apply now! No resumes accepted - Unless accompanied by a complete application.

If interested, complete a general application at:: www.goldmedalbakery.com/jobs

Gold Medal Bakery is seeking an entry-level FT BAKERY PRODUCTS ROUTE DRIVER to service supermarkets in the Long Island, NY area Depot located in Ronkonkoma, NY

Duties Include: • Delivering product to local stores using our company-owned 26’ box truck • Merchandising product • May include managing orders via computer Minimum Qualifications: • Must have experience driving a box truck • 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 valid driver’s license and a good driving record • Must be able to work weekends and holidays Compensation: • $17.75 per hour plus benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, Paid Vacations, Holiday Pay • $1.00 shift differential • Overtime after 40 hours

To Apply: Complete Our Driver Application at: http://www.goldmedalbakery.com/jobs

ROMP with MOM Free Trial class on Saturdays. Please call Romper Room Nursery School 516-746-8606 FREE NURSERY SCHOOL Free nursery school for Mom who is interested in driving our mini school bus from 7:45 to 9:00am.

SALES PERSON: full or part time. Unique gift store such as candles, handbags, home decor. Location near Great Neck Station. Please call or text message 516-778-2600 TEACHER ASSISTANTS: Fast hire. Will train. Full (96) and part time (M-F flexible hours). Nassau County Childcare Center expanding. j10291@aol.com

Situation Wanted BABYSITTING COLLEGE STUDENT Available for babysitting full day on Mondays & Fridays.

Available flexible hours nights & weekends. 5 yrs experience. Solid references. Has car. Call 516404-1045 HOME HEALTH AIDE​/ NEWBORN CARE Kind, compassionate HHA seeking FT​/​PT position on weekdays, weekends or overnight. 25+ years experience.

References available. Call Liz 516-590-5338 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AVAILABLE: Available P/T 2-3 days a week. Experienced in Microsoft Word & Excel. Past experience includes Department of Education & Legal Secretary background. Outgoing & strong work ethic. References available.

Available immediately. Call 917770-7965

CERTIFIED HOME ATTENDANT Nurse’s assistant available to care for the elderly. Live in or live out.

Offering compassionate home care full time or part time. Please call 347-543-5960 ELDER CARE: Mature woman w/ experience in hospital & nursing home available to care for elderly or ailing Monday to Thursday. Light cleaning, cooking and laundry. Licensed driver w/ own car. Local excellent references.

Please call Luisa 516-485-9215 or 516-451-1781. Leave message.

ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly. Live in or out. Over 20 years experience. References furnished upon request. Call Victoria 516-943-4312 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 516-7416347 or cell 516-710-7271, leave message.

EXCELLENT HOME HEALTH AIDE Striving to make elderly comfortable in their own surroundings. Seeking FT​/​PT position.

Flexible hours. Have worked with many prominent people. Excellent references. Driver w/ car. Will do errands, doctor appts, housework, light cooking. Call Lorna 347-425-2804 EXPERIENCED NANNY​/​HOUSEKEEPER and care giver to elderly available FT, weekends, overnight. Mother of three. 21 years experience including with two GC families. Call for more information.

Selena 347-624-9453

AIDE / CAREGIVER Caring, efficient, reliable aide​/​caregiver looking to care for your sick or elderly loved one. 13 years experience, live in / live out, nights, weekends.

Excellent references available.

Call Molly 516-476-3765 anytime.

EXPERIENCED POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation.

English speaking. Flexible days​/​ hours. I will do a good job. Please call 516-589-5640

AIDE​/​CARE GIVER: CARING, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE looking to care for your sick or elderly loved one. 14 years experience. Just ended 7 years with previous patient. Live in, live out, ft​/​pt nights, weekends. References available.

Call 516-448-0502

F/T COMPANION AVAILABLE Looking for someone to take care of your elderly parents in the comfort of your own home for peace and tranquility? 18 yrs. experience, references, driver w/ reliable vehicle. Please call 516410-1892

CARE GIVER: NEED A COMPANION or nursing assistant for your loved ones? Fear of your loved ones being alone? Need overnight companion care at home or a health care facility?

Call 516- 410-9943 NY State certified nursing assistant.

GINNY’S HOME CARE licensed Certified Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide providing private specialized home care. www. ginnyshomecare.com 516-3541803

Situation Wanted CAREGIVER / HHA VERY HANDS ON LOVING, CARING, COMPASSIONATE HHA with over 10 years experience seeking FT live in or live out position.

Great references. Licensed driver.

Please call Shawn 516-424-0091

HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANER with many years experience and good references available 7 days with flexible hours.

516-632-0169, 516-499-1384 HOUSE CLEANER AVAILABLE Good references. Monday​​Saturday.

Experienced.

Own car. Will provide own supplies. Free estimates. 516485-3543, cell 516-661-5282

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▼ real estate, service directory Situation Wanted HOUSE CLEANING: Experienced cleaning service available. Pleasant, responsible.

Provides own quality clean products. Own transportation.

Local references. Spanish​/​ English speaking. Free estimates. Approximate cost: Small home $79, Mid size $99, Large $118. Please call Diana 516-859-7084 HOUSE​/ APARTMENT CLEANING available. I have 14 yrs experience, excellent references, own car.

Please call for an interview.

516-528-2206 HOUSECLEANING Very honest and kind woman available to clean your home Mon-Fri. Own transportation, own supplies, great rates. Local references. Pet lover. Spanish​ /​E nglish speaking. Contact Marleni 516-902-7249 NANCY’S CLEANING SERVICE Experienced cleaning service. Homes, apartments and offices! English speaking.

Licensed driver with car. Free estimates! Call or text Nancy 516-469-5517. Email: miranda-nancy@hotmail.com NEW YORK PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT: Care giver​/ ​c ompanion available. Over 20 years experience available 24/7. Specializing in patients with CHF, Alzheimer’s, Dimentia, surgical procedures, hospice and more. Call Jackie 5146-306-0257 or Joel 516-965-1940 PRIVATE CASE WORKER seeking position to take care of elderly full time Monday through Friday. BABYSITTING also offered. Honest, trustworthy, caring, very attentive, dependable. Highly experienced.

References available. Please call 516-508-8528

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

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Novenas/Prayers Oh, most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven. Blessed Mother of the Son of God; Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me your are my Mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succour me in my necessity. (Mention your request here) There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 times). Holy Mary, I place this prayer in your hands (3 times) Amen. This prayer is never known to fail and is to be said for 3 consecutive days. Publication on granting of the favour must be promised and done. (T.P.)

MARKETPLACE

FURNITURE FOR SALE ETHAN ALLEN FURNITURE FOR SALE: LR chairs. Like new.

Recliner, 2 matching chairs & floral rocker. Also black oriental rug. Call for description & cost.

516-361-0424 or 516-361-1642 FURNITURE FOR SALE GARDEN CITY: Stunning antique sideboard, burl wood with white and gray veined marble top $2,500. Couch and armchair, mint condition $300. Drop leaf cherry end tables $50 set of two.

Color TV cherrywood console $25. Best offers. 516-864-3350 GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY Saturday 11/21 10am to 3pm 83 Pine Street Household items, clothing, gift items, many new items for Christmas. No toys.

Tag Sale GARDEN CITY FLORIDA BOUND Charming furniture throughout, bric a brac, costume jewelry, area rugs, rustic dining room, lovely outdoor furniture, plethora of tennis equipment, tools, bicycles, golf, sewing machine, 3 air conditioners and more. PLEASE JOIN US ! 109 Chestnut St (East off Clinton Rd) Saturday 11/21 9am to 3pm

Wanted to Buy

Tag Sale

Pet Services

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

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 OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK! Tuesday & Thursday 10-4 Wednesday & Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-5 Closed Mondays 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 10am2pm. 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

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

CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /​B ox! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid! Call Juley today! 800413-3479 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

Tag Sale STEWART MANOR SELLOUT 21 Chester Ave Sat 11/21 9am to 3:30 pm Sun 11/22 10am to 4 pm 3 Floors. Costume jewelry, Hummels, LLadros, Minton china, Oak DR set, Nordictrak A2050 Exercise machine, clothing, tools, porcelain & glass figurines, linens, paper products, garage sale items, much much more!

ALL WELCOME! *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@atstewartexchange. org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org WILLISTON PARK: Resurrection Thrift Shop shared ministry between St. Aidan’s and Resurrection housed at Resurrection, 147 Campbell Avenue @ Center Street. OPEN Thursdays 9:30-1:00 and Saturdays 10-2. 516-746-5527.

Jewelry, clothing, household items, etc. DONATIONS accepted Monday through Thursday 9am-1pm. CHRISTMAS SHOP open November 14th through December 19th.

Your Homeownership Partner

PETS

Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717

PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care Dog Walking & Running Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Cleanup GC Resident 516-382-5553

Automotive

Auto For Sale 1997 NISSAN ALTIMA 4 door automatic. Silver. Recently serviced. $1,700. Please call 516-437-5398 LINCOLN TOWN CAR: Silver 2001, 135k miles, new tires, factory service. Excellent condition $3,450 or best offer. 516626-0390 or 646-721-2134

Autos Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

MOTORCYCLES WANTED Before 1985. Running or not.

Japanese, British, European.

Cash paid. Free appraisals! Call 315-569-8094 Email pictures or description to: cyclerestoration@aol.com

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

Apartment For Rent WEST HEMPSTEAD: 2nd floor, private entrance. 1 bedroom​/ ​b ath, living room, EIK. Close to all. No smoking​/​ pets. $900​/ ​includes utilities.

Refs required. 516-313-4422 Please leave message

Apartment For Rent GARDEN CITY Jr. 3, 1 BR: $2,300 Three rooms, 1 Bed, New Kitchen: $2,500 Four rooms, 2 Bed, New Kitchen & Bath: $3,000 3 Bed, 2 Baths, New EIK: $3,500 Garden City Properties 746-1463

Room For Rent GARDEN CITY HOUSE SHARE: Beautifully furnished bedroom.

Use of all common areas of house. Includes heat, w/d, a/c.

Near public transportation. No smoking, pets or overnight guests. $850​/​month. Call 516-747-4293

Real Estate WANTED

Out of Town Real Estate HUNTING #1 in hunting leases. The best land = the most success. www.basecampleasing.com​/ ​h unt 866-309-1507.

Lease your private hunting spot now.

Office Space GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate. Near LIRR, stores. Available now. $1,475​/​mth. Call Owner 516-538-7474 or 538-7476 GARDEN CITY: 1140 FRANKLIN AVE ABUNDANT PARKING 10 x 13 windowed office in professional suite: Atty​/​CPA Conference room, reception, kitchen included. 2 work stations, available December 1. Call Paul 516248-3048 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 1300 & 2000 sf. available on Hillside Ave. Professional Building. Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission Paid.

Tony 516-248-4080

Vacation Rental JAMESPORT BAYFRONT BEACH HOUSE for rent: pristine condition, unsurpassed views, on a private, manicured, one acre lot; only a 70 minute drive from Garden City. See photos on HomeAway site #4058365.

Available weekends, weekly or seasonal. Call 516-320-0566 for rates and availability.

Lots for Sale

The State of New York Mortgage Agency offers: • Competitive, fixed-rate mortgages for first-time homebuyers • Downpayment assistance available up to $15,000 • Special program for veterans, active-duty military, National Guard and reservists • Funds available for renovation

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LEGAL NOTICE GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the fiscal affairs of the Great Neck Union Free School District for the period beginning on July 1, 2014, and ending on June 30, 2015, have been examined by Cullen & Danowski, LLP and that the report of the external auditor has been filed in the office of the Assistant Superintendent for Business where it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons.

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Obama strategy against ISIS is right Continued from Page 53 the strategy right. And the strategy that we are pursuing is the right one.”

In fact, the single-minded focus on the Paris attacks (while ignoring other terror attacks that took place in Beirut, Izmir, Kenya), seemed to swallow up the news of an attack that killed the Jihadi John, who executed James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as France’s attacks on ISIS oil distribution. Meanwhile, even France’s stepped up bombing of ISIS as retribution for the Paris attacks does not equal the 8000 bombing attacks by US planes.

But Obama added that no matter to what extent ISIS is destroyed, that there are still going to be the risks of individuals flowing into civil societies exacting mayhem on soft targets.

“There has been an acute awareness on the part of my administration from the start that it is possible for an organization like ISIL that has such a twisted ideology, and has shown such extraordinary brutality and complete disregard for innocent lives, that they would have the capabilities to potentially strike in the West. And because thousands of fighters have flowed from the West and are European citizens -- a few hundred from the United States, but far more from Europe — that when those foreign fighters returned, it posed a significant danger. And we have consistently worked with our European partners, disrupting plots in some cases. Sadly, this one was not disrupted in time.

“But understand that one of

the challenges we have in this situation is, is that if you have a handful of people who don’t mind dying, they can kill a lot of people.

That’s one of the challenges of terrorism. It’s not their sophistication or the particular weapon that they possess, but it is the ideology that they carry with them and their willingness to die. And in those circumstances, tracking each individual, making sure that we are disrupting and preventing these attacks is a constant effort at vigilance, and requires extraordinary coordination.

“Now, part of the reason that it is important what we do in Iraq and Syria is that the narrative that ISIL developed of creating this caliphate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. So when I said that we are containing their spread in Iraq and Syria, in fact, they control less territory than they did last year. And the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state, and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations. That allows us to reduce the flow of foreign fighters, which then, over time, will lessen the numbers of terrorists who can potentially carry out terrible acts like they did in Paris...

“We play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they’re a state, and we use routine military tactics that are designed to fight a state that is attacking another state. That’s not what’s going on here.

“These are killers with fantasies of glory who are very savvy

when it comes to social media, and are able to infiltrate the minds of not just Iraqis or Syrians, but disaffected individuals around the world. And when they activate those individuals, those individuals can do a lot of damage. And so we have to take the approach of being rigorous on our counterterrorism efforts, and consistently improve and figure out how we can get more information, how we can infiltrate these networks, how we can reduce their operational space, even as we also try to shrink the amount of territory they control to defeat their narrative.

“Ultimately, to reclaim territory from them is going to require, however, an ending of the Syrian civil war, which is why the diplomatic efforts are so important.

And it’s going to require an effective Iraqi effort that bridges Shia and Sunni differences, which is why our diplomatic efforts inside of Iraq are so important, as well.”

But the defeat of ISIS cannot be accomplished by the US alone and as Secretary of State John Kerry noted, a coalition did not even exist a year ago, a political partnership (involving Russia and Iran) did not even exist a month ago, and now Kerry is pointing to the possibility of a cease-fire in Syria in a matter of months, and there seems to be growing acceptance of the reality that Assad has to go, and there has to be a political transition.

Solving the Assad problem would rob ISIS of a key motivator to its recruitment.

“The Vienna talks mark the first time that all the key coun-

tries have come together — as a result, I would add, of American leadership — and reached a common understanding,” President Obama said. “With this weekend’s talks, there’s a path forward — negotiations between the Syrian opposition and the Syrian regime under the auspices of the United Nations; a transition toward a more inclusive, representative government; a new constitution, followed by free elections; and, alongside this political process, a ceasefire in the civil war, even as we continue to fight against ISIL.” Ever the realist, Obama added, “These are obviously ambitious goals. Hopes for diplomacy in Syria have been dashed before.

There are any number of ways that this latest diplomatic push could falter. And there are still disagreements between the parties, including, most critically, over the fate of Bashar Assad, who we do not believe has a role in Syria’s future because of his brutal rule.

His war against the Syrian people is the primary root cause of this crisis.

“What is different this time, and what gives us some degree of hope, is that, for the first time, all the major countries on all sides of the Syrian conflict agree on a process that is needed to end this war. And so while we are very clear-eyed about the very, very difficult road still head, the United States, in partnership with our coalition [Obama has mobilized 65 nations], is going to remain relentless on all fronts — military, humanitarian and diplomatic. We have the right strategy, and we’re going to see it through.”

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Continued from Page 12 emptions for the facility.

The company plans to hire 45 new full-time employees once the project is complete, and the two-year building period will create 150 construction jobs, according to officials.

IDA Executive Director Joseph Kearney said the project is “one of a kind” in the county and will “render an enormous benefit to an affected population that is, frankly, our parents, our brothers and our sisters.”

The project came with the endorsement of former state Sen. Charles Fuschillo, who is now the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s president and CEO. In a letter to Kearney, Fuschillo said there are currently 50,000 people on Long Island living with Alzheimer’s disease, and the new Bristal facility will provide “an important service” to those in Nassau County.

“At a time when all generations need both support and options, The Bristal at Lake Suc-

cess will be an invaluable resource,” Fuschillo said in the letter.

The IDA also gave Engel Burman a 10-year PILOT agreement for its North Hills Bristal facility in December 2002. It applied twice for a 10-year extension of the PILOT in December 2012 and January 2013, but the IDA denied both applications after public opposition from local officials and the Herricks and Great Neck school districts concerned about the loss of property tax revenue.

Building owner reflects on ‘tragic’ attacks Continued from Page 2 “You cannot blame Muslims as a whole because it would be a terrible thing to do,” he said.

Silberstein also said war and forceful retaliation would not fix the problem.

“You can kill as many Jihadis as you want but this is a problem that will take decades before you

can resolve this problem,” he said.

Silberstein added that the Paris attacks were “unfortunately an event that we are going to experience and will experience for a long time to come.”

Little could be done to prevent this type of incident from occurring and people need to come to terms with that truth, he said.

“It is nearly impossible to prevent this type of action. If people were determined to commit this type of crime, there is not much you can do. You have to live your existence with the knowledge that this is in the future,” Silberstein said. “That is my point of view, but I’m sure it is an accurate point of view for people who understand

the prevalence.”

He added that he prefers to look at the situation as a human conflict, not one group of people against another.

“I look at human beings as a whole,” he said. “I look at what a human being can do to another human being and it is an atrocious thing, a very tragic thing.”

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LIU Post men score back-to-back wins B y T h o mas S c a v e tta On Saturday, Nov. 14, the LIU Post men’s basketball team (2-0) tipped off the 2015-2016 campaign with a 71-55 triumph over the University of the Sciences in the Delaware Express Tip-off Tournament at the Jones College Center in Wilmington, De. Junior forward Greg Dotson led the team in scoring and recorded a doubledouble with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Dotson also recorded three blocks and three steals to his stat-line. Senior guard Dillon Burns looked sharp in his 24 minutes off the bench, collecting 12 points, seven assists and three steals. Burns and Dotson also knocked down two treys apiece from downtown.

After surrendering 12 unanswered points heading into halftime, the Pioneers lost all momentum. The Devils extended their lead to 10 in the third quarter, 3828, before the Pioneers finally came alive.

A 36-12 onslaught put LIU Post in front for good as they cruised to their first victory of the season. During the stretch run, Dotson came up clutch, tallying eight points. Senior guard Akosa Maduegbunam also provided a spark off the bench during the run with a key three-pointer.

LIU was sharp from behind the threepoint line throughout the game, shooting over 47 percent. Junior guard Jared Hall, Dotson and Burns each drained

Greg Dotson at the free throw line two three-pointers. The University of the Sciences struggled as they shot just 28 percent from the field and were outscored by the Pioneers in nearly every category. LIU’s bench was outstanding; scoring 32 points with Burns’ 12 leading the pack. Senior forward Michael Phillip also chipped in with seven points, seven boards and a game-high five blocks in just

selves in a tightly contested game as the injury-plagued Lightning fought hard and gave the visitors a run for their money.

Freshman guard Corey Taite canned a trey for the Lightning bringing them within one of the Pioneers. However, Hall threw a wrench in the hopes of a comeback for Goldey Beacom when he converted a four-point play after making a three and sinking the foul shot giving LIU a 73-68 edge late in the contest. On the following possession, Hall, the Tournament’s Most Valuable Player, dropped in two free throws putting the game to bed.

Hall’s performance was highlighted with 26 points, six steals and five rebounds. Dotson earned another doubledouble scoring 16 points and grabbing 10 boards. Traite and junior guard Shakeem Wilson each posted 17 points for the Lightning, but it wasn’t enough as the Pioneers survived a late-game scare.

The Pioneers will host the LIU Post Thanksgiving Classic this weekend when they will open up play against Post University on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 3:15 p.m.

19 minutes of action.

This matchup is one of several being held LIU Post men’s basketball coach over the weekend at the Pratt Recreation Smiles and his LIU squad returned to the Center in Brookville. floor in Wilmington on Sunday, where they edged out Goldey Beacom College This article was originally published 79-72, improving their record to 2-0 on in the Pioneer, the award-winning student the season. newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.

After leading 40-33 heading into the com, and is republished here by Blank Slate locker room, the Pioneers found them- Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

LIU Post men’s soccer team advances with 6-0 blowout B y M i c ha e l Ot e r o

left side of the ledger for LIU. The Pioneers were the aggressors, outshooting their opponent at a clip higher than 4-1. Wilmington totaled just five shots against a stout Pioneer defense. Of those five shots, none of them were on target, giving junior goal keeper Jesper Malmstrom an easy day between the pipes. It was his 13th win of the season and his fifth shutout.

Head LIU Post soccer coach Andreas Lindberg and his team are back in action on Saturday, Nov. 21, when they play top-seeded Southern New Hampshire University. Their opponent, ranked third in the nation, suffered only one loss the entire season and hasn’t allowed a goal in five matches. The Pioneers, who are battle tested, are riding high though. They have notched 15 goals in their last three games.

On Saturday, Nov. 14, the 12th ranked and secondseeded LIU Post men’s soccer team defeated Wilmington University, which was ranked no. 6, by a score of 6-0 to advance to the third round of the NCAA Division II Championship. The Pioneers led by a midway through the first half and a four goal half in the latter stanza.

In the 23rd minute, still with no goals for either team, junior back Joey Forgaard got the action going with a header off a corner kick from senior midfielder Matais Ruiz. That goal came just six minutes before the next tally from LIU. This time, the Pioneers were awarded a penalty kick and graduate midfielder Tom Bowen converted, giving his team a two-goal lead.

In the second half, it was more of the same from the Pioneers, as four more goals were added, compared This article was originally published in the Pioneer, to none for Wilmington. Goals via sophomore back Oliver Hollingseater, sophomore midfielder Harry Pearse, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www. junior forward Johann Kristjansson, and the aforemen- liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate tioned Ruiz made it a safe bet to put this match on the Media with the permission of the Pioneer

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Cosmos capture NASL Championship Senna, Raúl lead club back to crown before more than 10,000 at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium They came in as champions and Marcos Senna and Raúl went out as champions Sunday night, helping lead the New York Cosmos to the NASL Championship title.

The two Spanish legends announced their retirement from the sport earlier this season and were given the sendoff they deserved in front of a NASL modern-day postseason record crowd of 10,166 at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium with a 3-2 win over the Ottawa Fury FC. “I’m very happy. It was my last game in my career,” Raúl said. “I’m very proud for everything I did and thank you to the club, my teammates and the fans for this amazing year. For me now, I start a new life with another project. I’m happy, but I’m also very sad.”

For Senna, it is a second NASL title in three years with the Cosmos since the club’s reboot, while Raúl closed out his lone season in New York with one more championship.

“To win next to Raúl was an ideal situation. I’m thankful for him being here throughout the year as he made the difference many times and scored many goals,” Senna said. “In addition, today he didn’t get the goal, but he got the assist.

He’s a player that is a game-changer.”

While it wasn’t a Hollywood ending with the late winning goal, Raúl did get an assist to cap Cosmos striker Gaston Cellerino’s hat trick in the 85th minute.

“It is like a dream,” Raúl said. “I would like to say thanks to all my team-

mates, the club, the supporters. I’m very happy. I have one part of my heart for the Cosmos.”

Senna and Raúl’s influence was felt beyond Sunday’s final, even beyond the Cosmos magical run through an undefeated spring season and finishing atop the combined standings.

“We’re going to miss them tremendously, most importantly, two great people,” Cosmos captain Carlos Mendes said.

“I think they are top professionals who came in and trained hard every day and their experience has rubbed off on the guys. You can’t really replace Marcos and Raúl and obviously the locker room will be different next year.”

Cellerino got the party started early for the Cosmos, scoring in the eighth minute.

Danny Szetela started the sequence with a strong run down the left sideline and headed a ball into the box that Cellerino took off his chest. He took another touch inside the box before slotting past Ottawa goalkeeper Romauld Peiser from eight yards out.

Cellerino added his second goal in the 72nd minute, two minutes after Ottawa equalized on a goal by Tom Heinemann off a through ball from Andrew Wiedeman.

Walter Restrepo chipped a sublime ball toward the back post where Cellerino tapped in the go-ahead goal.

Cellerino capped a spectacular performance five minutes from full time

Players battle for the ball in the championship match. when he was played behind by Raúl on final whistle, the celebration was on.

And when it was all over, Senna and a quick counterattack and pushed a shot Raúl were lifted in the air by their teampast Peiser from 16 yards out.

“Today he was fantastic,” Cosmos mates and given a champions sendoff. head coach Giovanni Savarese said of “We feel very lucky, our organization, Cellerino. to have these two great players retire with Ottawa, which was reduced to 10 us,” Savarese said. “These two great playmen in the 68th minute when Mason ers I had the pleasure to coach makes a Trafford was given a straight red card for coach’s life easier because of the quality a stomp on Sebastian Guenzatti, pulled a when they play. goal back late when Heinemann slid in “They were very important all year to tap in a rebound in the first minute of to push everybody to higher standards. second-half stoppage time.

The way they finished their careers today There -were some nervy moments couldn’t any other way CHERRY 1-8 Page GENERAL 08-28-15_Layout 1 be 8/25/15 12:04 PMbecause Page 1they’ve late, but when referee Alan Kelly blew the been successful.”

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BIRCHWOOD Great Neck | $255,000 | Junior‑4 with dining room converted to 2nd bedroom, approximately 750+ square feet of living space with flexible layout. Sunny unit facing south has space large enough to fit a dining table. Web# 2797393

PARK GRACE Great Neck | $198,000 | One‑bedroom front facing apartment with large updated kitchen and bath. Hardwood floors, spacious living room/ dining room, furnishings also for sale. Near park, town, restaurants, shops and LIRR. Web# 2802403

TOP FLOOR GARDEN APARTMENT Great Neck | $125,000 | Sunny and bright top floor 1‑bedroom apartment. Lovely views, well‑maintained Co‑op garden apartment community. Next to big public park. Low maintenance. Near bus to LIRR. Web# 2728965

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THE GATES North Hills | $838,000 | Renovated 3‑bedroom, 2.5‑bath townhouse condo in the Village of North Hills. Huge L‑shaped living room/dining room, hardwood floors and doors that lead to a deck overlooking lush landscaping. Web# 2780881