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Chin challenge in Herricks ed board election Williston Park resident Andrew Apicos seeks to unseat incumbent

By N o a h M a n s k a r Williston Park resident Andrew Apicos is challenging Herricks school board Trustee Juleigh Chin for her seat, giving the one-term incumbent her first contested election.

But Chin, of Manhasset Hills, said she will run her campaign for a second three-year term as she would if she were unopposed.

“I will continue to speak to as many people and organizations as possible, but I’m not really doing anything different than what I would normally do anyway,” she said. “I really think that who I am as a person and who I’ve been ... already supports my being on the board.”

The Herricks school district did not release Apicos’ contact information, and he did not respond to a request for comment made through the district.

But publicly available information shows he lives in Williston Park and teaches biology at Paul D. Sch-

reiber High School in Port Washington.

Chin was elected to the Herricks school board in 2013, running unopposed to replace outgoing Trustee Sanjay Jain.

She said she wants to continue the cohesion the current school board has achieved, and is proud of how the board has overseen changes in the district’s administration, including the hiring of Superintendent Fino Celano, new assistant superintendents and administrators within Herricks’ schools.

“I think that we are recreating a culture of learning that is just far exceeds what we could have hoped for in the past,” Chin said.

She said she is also proud of the facilities improvements the district has undertaken and how it has dealt with changing state standards.

Herricks schools are in a good place, she said, but she wants to continue working with the board to take them to “the next level.”

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Night on the Town

PHOTO BY noah manskar

Mineola’s sixth annual Night on the Town raised $136,700 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma society’s Long Island chapter. The event featured live entertainment and food from more than 20 restaurants. See story on page 3.

Navarra to step down, PTA co-prez to run unopposed

By N o a h Manskar

Vice President Patricia Navarra’s soon-to-be-empty seat.

Hampton Street School The Mineola school board PTA Co-President Cheryl Lamwill likely see a shift in mem- panosa, 34, is the sole canbership this June, with a new- didate to replace Navarra, a comer running unopposed for Hofstra University professor

who is stepping down after one three-year term to pursue a position with a national collective bargaining group for college professors.

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Kaiman trails in race Starbucks seeks for campaign funds station location Suffolk legislator leads 4 Dems seeking Israel seat Applies for permit from Mineola

By N o a h M a n s k a r

By N o a h Manskar The Democratic candidates for the North Shore’s Third Congressional District are on a roughly level playing field when it comes to first-quarter fundraising, except for one: former Town of North Hempstead Jon Kaiman.

The former Nassau Interim Finance Authority chairman raised $242,379 between January and March 31, the least of the four Democrats who filed reports with the Federal Election Commission last Friday.

Kaiman, considered one of the more prominent candidates to replace U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), came more than $200,000 short of North

Mineola commuters could soon have a new spot for their morning coffee.

Starbucks has applied for a special-use permit to open a graband-go coffee shop at 210 Station Plaza North, the current home of the Mineola Card & Convenience Store, according to documents filed with the Village of Mineola building department.

If approved, the store would join a cohort of downtown Mineola restaurants the village’s residential development projects have attracted to the area since September.

“Right off the bat, you’re going to have an outfit with five to six thousand stores coming in there, and the whole place is going to be redefined, brightened up, and I think it’s going to become a pillar or a landmark,” said Rabhin Bakhchi, the owner of the property.

Source: Federal Election Commission filings The Starbucks cafe would replace the convenience store in the 890-square-foot building adjacent Hempstead Councilwoman Anna he said.

In a sit-down interview with to Mineola’s Long Island Rail Road Kaplan’s $445,160, the secondBlank Slate Media last month, station, village documents say. The smallest haul.

Filings show his campaign Kaiman said he was spending application says it would not have closed the three-month fund- most of his time raising money any public seating.

Bakhchi, of Roslyn Heights, raising period with $189,305 on and gathering petition signahas been working with Starbucks hand after spending $53,073, the tures.

He got endorsements in Febleast of the four Democrats.

Levittown attorney Jonathan ruary from Kaplan’s fellow Town Clarke filed a petition with the Board members Peter Zuckerman state Board of Elections to run in and Lee Seeman, as well as town the June 28 Democratic primary, Receiver of Taxes Charles Berbut did not make a quarterly fil- man.

About 85 percent of Kaing with the FEC. In a statement, campaign plan’s donors live in the Long manager Jeff Guillot said the Island-New York City region, 4,153 signatures on Kaiman’s her campaign said in an April candidacy petition filed, more 6 statement, and about 90 perthan any other Democrat, indi- cent of the 290 individuals who cate “support across the district.” gave have yet to reach the FEC’s The campaign “will have the $2,700 limit. resources to compete vigorously,” Continued on Page 56

Correction: The April 15 article “Herricks to use extra aid on school projects” gave incorrect figures for the Herricks school district’s 2016-2017 budget. The school board adopted a $110.3 million budget with a 0.16-percent tax levy increase.

to open the Station Plaza store for about a year and a half, he said.

A broker approached Bakhchi about the idea and connected him with the Seattle-based company, he said.

Others had approached him about opening a franchise there, but he said he liked Starbucks’ operation the best.

“They run a clean shop and they got probably the best rating,” he said.

Bakhchi said Mineola Card & Convenience Store knows Starbucks plans to occupy the store, but he does not know whether the business plans to relocate. Its staff will not be involved with the Starbucks operation, he said.

Starbucks needs approval for a special-use permit from the Village Board to operate the store and is set to present its plans at a public hearing on Wednesday.

The store would open by September if it moves ahead on schedule, Bakhchi said.

A Starbucks spokeswoman said the company could not share data on stores in specific cities, but the company had 469 locations in New York state as of September 2015.

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Starbucks hopes to take over this store at 210 Station Plaza North in Mineola.

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Night on Town sets fundraising record $137K raised as restaurateur Lubrano takes big step toward $1M goal to honor his father

By N o a h M a n s k a r Tony Lubrano said he thought he’d spend his whole life trying to raise $1 million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

When he made the pledge in the summer of 2010, four years after his father died of leukemia, people from the society “looked at me like I was crazy,” he said.

But six years later, with Mineola’s sixth annual Night on the Town bringing in a record $136,700 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Lubrano said he’s gotten more than $600,000 toward that goal.

“I really thought this would be something I’d be talking about 20 years from now,” said Lubrano, who owns Piccolo Bussola and is president of the Mineola Chamber of Commerce. “So I’m humbled.”

About 500 people came to Jericho Terrace on Thursday to support the cause, Lubrano said.

The event featured a raffle, silent auction, live music and a large spread of food. Twenty-four restaurants from Manhattan to Montauk brought samplings of their menus, Lubrano said.

As one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Long Island chapter, Night on

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Tony Lubrano (left) said he started Night on the Town in 2011 after pledging to raise $1 million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in 2010. the Town’s proceeds support research for blood cancer cures, patient services and advocacy, society Executive Director Sarah Lipsky said.

About 40 volunteers helped staff the event, Lipsky said, and the $165 ticket goes straight to those initiatives because everything is donated, Lubrano said. Several corporate sponsors also gave money,

he said, including New York Community Bank and Lalezarian Properties.

“This event is put together because of many people who volunteer their time and effort to put on an event and raise important funds,” Lipsky said.

Lubrano said he, his friend Harry Zapiti and a few others started Night on the Town in 2011 as a way to raise money for

blood cancer research following the death of his father, Pasquale, from leukemia in 2006.

Lubrano started fundraising for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society because drug trials and research helped his father live with the disease for 15 years despite being told he would only live a year and a half past his diagnosis in 1996.

“It was only possible because somebody came long before us and raised a whole lot of money for that research that paid for those 15 years,” he said.

That research has driven the childhood leukemia survival rate up from 3 percent 50 years ago to 92 percent today, Lipsky said. But someone is still diagnosed with a blood cancer every three minutes and dies from one every 10 minutes, she said.

The Night on the Town was fairly successful at first, Lubrano said — they raised $40,000 and split the proceeds between the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

But he, Zapiti and the others could only do so much on their own, so they partnered with the society’s Long Island chapter two years ago to leverage their staff and fundraising experience, Lubrano said.

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Math opt-outs up in N. Shore schools

Herricks numbers nearly flat; East Williston sees 4-percent rise in second round of state tests

By J oe N i k i c Most North Shore schools saw an increase in student optouts from this week’s math Common Core test, similar to the number of opt outs from the English Language Arts exam two weeks ago.

The Great Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, Herricks, Port Washington, Sewanhaka, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park and East Williston school districts saw about 27.2 percent of students eligible to take the test opt-out of last Wednesday’s math exam, according to figures obtained by Blank Slate Media.

Newsday reported that about 53 percent of students across Long Island opted out from taking the ELA exam.

Common Core’s biggest flash points for criticism are its standardized tests, which opponents say are unnecessarily tough for students, and the direct link between test scores and teacher evaluations.

The standards, first introduced in 2012, are intended to

teach conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills at each grade level to prepare students for more complex future coursework.

Some educators and administrators say the ideas behind the curriculum are strong, but its rollout has caused problems for New York’s teachers and students.

About 22 percent of students in the Great Neck school district opted out of the math exam, an increase of 8 percent from last year’s total.

Great Neck North Middle School, however, saw a significantly higher percentage of students opting out at 45 percent.

Sixteen percent of students at Great Neck South High School opted out, while totals at the Lakeville, E.M. Baker, Saddle Rock and John F. Kennedy elementary schools saw 5 percent, 10 percent, 11 percent and 14 percent of students opting out, respectively.

“Although the number of parents who chose to have their children opt-out of the state as-

sessments increased compared to last year, Great Neck continues to have one of the lowest opt out totals on Long Island,” Superintendent of Schools Teresa Prendergast said.

About 43 percent, or 959 of 2,246 eligible students, in the Sewanhaka school district opted out from the test, an increase of about 10 percent from last year.

Floral Park Memorial High School saw 52 percent of students not take the test, while 69 percent of students at H. Frank Carey High School opted out.

New Hyde Park Memorial High School saw 43 percent of students opt-out of the test, while 33 percent of students at Sewanhaka High School opted out.

Elmont Memorial High School saw only 14 percent of students opt-out.

About 36 percent of students in the Roslyn school district, or 436 of the 1,202 who were eligible to take the test, opted out of the math exam.

Last year, about 32.5 percent of students opted out.

In the Manhasset school dis-

trict, 158 of 1,320 eligible students, or about 11 percent, opted out from the test, an increase of 5 percent from last year’s percentage of students opting out.

The Port Washington school district saw about 30 percent, or 741 of 2,457 eligible students, opt out from the Math exam.

That percentage represents a 4 percent increase from last year’s opt out total, when 616 of 2,359 eligible students opted out.

In the East Williston school district, 198 of 706 eligible students, or 28 percent, opted out of the math exam.

That number represents a 4 percent increase from last year’s total, when about 24 percent of students opted out.

While opt out totals generally increased across Long Island as a whole, the Herricks and New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school districts saw virtually no increase in opt out totals.

The Herricks school district saw 279 of 1,551 eligible students, or about 18 percent, opt out from the math exam.

Last year, 18 percent of students also opted out of the test.

In the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school district, 29 percent of eligible students opted out of the test, only a .2 percent increase from last year’s total.

With discontent about the test expressed by parents of students and educators, Jonathan Burman, a spokesman for the state Education Department, told Newsday the department was actively seeking input how to improve the Common Core ELA and math exams.

“We continue our efforts to inform the public about the improvements we’ve made to the tests and the important role they can play in improving instruction,” Burman said. “And we are committed to making the tests even better as we move forward.”

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Local voters pick winners in primary Trump, Clinton win North Shore districts by wide margins, cementing frontrunner status

By N o a h M a n s k a r

Nassau County voters helped Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump solidify their leads in the presidential race on Tuesday in New York’s primary elections.

Voters leaving the polls at Trinity Lutheran Church in North New Hyde Park predicted the frontrunners would take both parties’ races after casting votes for their challengers.

“If I was a betting man, I would bet Hillary was going to win,” said Dan Murray, a registered Democrat who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Democratic leader Clinton beat Sanders by more than 30 points in Nassau’s portion of the Third Congressional District on the North Shore, taking 65.33 percent of the vote to his 34.67 percent.

The former New York senator and secretary of state won by 22 points in southwestern Nassau’s Fourth Congressional District covering New Hyde Park, Garden City Park, Floral Park, Mineola and the southern parts of Williston Park and East Williston, taking 62.24 percent of the vote to Sanders’ 37.76 percent.

Fazl Haq of New Hyde Park voted for Clinton because of her ability to win elections and her national and international experience.

larger margin in his party’s primary, taking 66.78 percent of the North Shore’s votes.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in second with 24.62 percent in Nassau’s part of the Third District, which includes Roslyn, Manhasset, Great Neck, Port Washington, Albertson and the northern sections of the Willistons. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz trailed in third with 8.6 percent.

Trump similarly won the Fourth District with 66.45 percent of the votes to Kasich’s 22.98 percent and Cruz’s 10.57 percent.

Dan Murray’s wife Liz Murray said Cruz won her over in the past week with his “calm, educated standpoint.”

She said she is not against Trump and expected him to win Tuesday, but she wishes he would be “more diplomatic” in the way in which he speaks.

“If people actually paid attention and listened over the past week, then Ted Cruz did a good job representing (himself),” she Photo by Noah Manskar said.

Steve Simon of New Hyde Park said Pat Esposito (left) worked the polls for New York’s April 19 presidential he’s supported Cruz as a “constitutional primary in Williston Park’s Village Hall. conservative” since he was Texas’ solicitor general before his election to the Senate.

“She knows much more than Bernie, I would win the primary.

Simon thinks Kasich should be out of “Even though he’s not (going to) win, I think,” he said.

His wife, Syeda Haq, said she sup- think I try at least — try at least for a good the race for the GOP nomination, he said, but he he expected Trump to win New ported Sanders because he believes in his person,” she said.

Republican frontrunner Trump won York’s race Tuesday. conviction and proposals to improve the Continued on Page 63 country, even though she was not sure he both congressional districts by an even

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Mineola man killed in Old Westbury crash B y Aded a m o l a Agb o o l a was driving a 2004 Nissan Maxima at 7:16 A 24-year old man was killed Saturday when he lost control of the car he was driving eastbound on the South Service Road of Route 495 approaching Post Road and struck a tree, Nassau County police said.

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p.m. when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a curb on Store Hill Road, police said.

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E.W. school board shift coming as Slone leaves

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One East Williston school board trustee is staying put, another is stepping down and an Albertson insurance salesman is aiming to replace her.

Two-term incumbent Trustee David Keefe is running unopposed for a third three-year term, but Barbara Slone, who ran with Keefe in 2010, has decided not to pursue re-election.

Wheatley School alumnus and 41year district resident Alan Littman is making an unopposed bid for her seat.

Slone, a nurse practitioner at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, said her job has become to demanding to allow her to stay on the school board.

“I didn’t used to work 12-hour shifts six years ago, but I do now,” said Keefe, of Roslyn Heights.

Keefe said he thinks he brings a “unique perspective” to the board as its only senior citizen living on a fixed income. He retired from teaching in the Hempstead school district 12 years ago, he said.

Littman has been considering a school board run for about a year and a half, he said. He has served on the boards of charitable foundations for 32 years and started some of his own, he said, but has never done anything that has directly affected the community in which he lives.

Because the district is running smoothly under a “cohesive” school board, Littman said he would take direction from current trustees at the start of his term.

“I’m not coming in here with these grand plans where I think we need to have sweeping changes,” he said. “I think the most important thing for me to do is to come in and really learn my role and then sort of develop some strategies based on what the existing board sees the direction should be.”

Slone and Keefe said they are proud of achieving that cohesion in the past six years.

Before they came onto the school board, it was common for meetings to last until midnight and unanimous votes were rare, Slone said. The board now votes

together most often, she said, and has greatly strengthened residents’ trust in it.

“This is a board that has gotten the job done to the satisfaction of the community and to the benefit of our students,” Slone said.

In Slone’s and Keefe’s terms, the board has renegotiated contracts with every employee bargaining unit and improved services for students while keeping tax increases to a minimum, Slone said.

Keefe said the board has been able to “keep the forefront of the district in academia” under the difficult fiscal circumstances the state’s cap on tax levy increases has created.

In his third term, he said, he wants to see trustees continue to work cohesively and come to even better understand its role as a collective body within the district rather than a group of individuals.

“You need to understand what the board’s role is and what the administration’s role is,” Keefe said. “Once you’ve done that you then need to be able to answer where you come as an individual board member, where your thoughts and ideas and stands fit in with the other four members on the board.”

Keefe said he thinks Littman would do well on the board and that current members would “nurture” him as a new trustee.

Keefe is a 56-year Mineola resident and for 12 years has served on the board of directors for the New York State Teacher Retirement System, one of two pension funds to which school districts contribute.

Littman is a vice president with NFP, a national insurance consulting firm. He has helped raise money and supported East Williston school sports programs through the Wildcat Foundation, he said.

East Williston district residents will vote for the two school board seats and the district’s 2016-2017 budget on May 17.

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Dunkin’ Donuts again robbed at knifepoint

By N o a h M a n s k a r A masked man stole more than $200 from a Williston Park Dunkin’ Donuts store in two knifepoint robberies within a week, store employees said.

Nassau County police said they are working to determine whether the same culprit perpetrated both crimes, but the clerk who was in the store for both of them said it was the same man.

The robber, described as a white man, first entered the store at 276 Hillside Ave. at 10:30 p.m. on April 8, police said.

The clerk, Masum Miaha of Queens, said the man looked like a normal customer when he came in that night as Miaha was mopping the floor.

Police said he was wearing light-colored gloves and a light-colored surgical mask on his face.

The robber came up to the register and ordered a jelly donut, Miaha said. As he turned around to get the donut, the man put a bag on the counter with a knife sticking out though the bottom, Miaha said.

The robber ordered Miaha to open the register and took $165, store manager Ramesh Rasaratnam said. He then left and ran west on Hillside Avenue.

The man came again at 8:32 p.m.

Wednesday, wearing a white-hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans, police said.

Miaha said the same thing happened — the robber held a knife up to him and ordered him to open the register.

The robber took $61 and fled westbound on Hillside Avenue, said Rasaratnam, also of Queens.

Police said the robber is heavy-set and between 5-foot-10 and 6 feet tall.

No customers were in the store for either robbery, police said, and Miaha was not hurt.

Miaha said he was not scared during either robbery.

The police were helpful when they responded after both crimes, Rasaratnam said.

Police said the Williston Park crimes are unrelated to a string of 10 knifepoint commercial robberies, including one at a North New Hyde Park Dunkin’ Donuts.

Police raised the reward on Thursday for information leading to the arrest of the suspect in those robberies from $5,000 to $10,000.

“If they (residents) pull up to any establishment or if they’re going to enter any establishment at night or during the day, take a moment, look around,” said Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun, commanding officer of the police department’s Public Information Office.

Police have dedicated a “significant amount of resources” to catching the person, described as a black man, who robbed the 2062 Lakeville Road store March 1 and has since hit nine other businesses, including Dunkin’ Donuts, 7-Eleven, Subway and Carvel, LeBrun said.

The man, between ages 25 and 30, wears a mask and usually looks to make sure no customers are in the store before entering, LeBrun said.

After entering, he takes out a large knife, demands money and runs from the scene on foot, police said.

He likely targets these businesses because they are illuminated at night and he can easily see in and out, LeBrun said.

Police said the crimes occur between 9 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. No one has been hurt, LeBrun said.

The robber is six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds, police said. He usually wears a dark-colored hooded jacket, sunglasses, gloves, baggy blue jeans and a dark-colored scarf or bandana over the lower part of his face.

Anyone with information about any of the crimes can call 1-800-244-8477 to leave an anonymous tip.

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By N o a h M a n s k a r The Wheatley School has changed since Arthur Engoron graduated in 1967, he said.

Nearly all Wheatley students were white then, he said, compared to 84 percent in the 2013-2014 school year, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

There’s also now more pressure on students to be involved in extracurricular activities, get good grades and go to good colleges, said 1969 graduate Lynn Greenbaum, whose two children went to East Williston schools.

But she and Engoron said Wheatley’s commitment to “progressive” education has not changed in the 60 years since its founding — a commitment alumni will celebrate at its 60th anniversary weekend this October.

“There was a lot of room to learn and grow, and it was very important to me that my children have a good education as a parent,” said Greenbaum, an East Williston resident. “That’s what you want most, and I just wanted them to have the opportunities that I had.”

The Wheatley School Alumni Association is expecting around 1,000 people to gather at the Old Westbury high school from Oct. 14 to 16, about the same number that came to commemorate Wheatley’s 50th anniversary 10 years ago, Engoron said.

Engoron and Greenbaum are planning the 60th anniversary celebration with fellow alumni Jeanne Messing Sommer, class of 1961, and Marianne Lamitola Downey, class of 1963.

Wheatley’s progressivism manifests differently today than it did when Engoron was a student, he said.

For example, students today aren’t receiving bomb threats for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance in school, he said; but they are active in clubs such as the GayStraight Alliance.

One thing that hasn’t changed is the quality of the teaching and students’ personal connections to their teachers, Greenbaum said.

“If there’s anything that my kids came away with (it) was there were some teachers that really inspired them, that really encouraged them to grow and to take risks,

and that’s great stuff,” she said. “That’s great life stuff, because the courses we took didn’t necessarily teach us about life. They taught us about how to get good grades, but there was a piece of Wheatley that did teach us about life.”

Over the 60th anniversary weekend, alumni will reunite with their individual classes and gather at meals with graduates from throughout Wheatley’s history.

Current Wheatley students will be invited to the main anniversary ceremony and a series of career panels featuring alumni in fields from law to farming and baking, Engoron said. Current students have also gotten involved with planning the celebration through social media, he said.

Interacting with the high-schoolers allows alumni to stay connected to their roots at Wheatley, Engoron said: “They can learn from us and we can learn from them.”

Greenbaum said she hopes the career panels will show students that they don’t have to go into “traditional” fields such as medicine or law if they want something different.

“You can really have a different kind of a career and still feel very fulfilled,” said Greenbaum, an independent advertising contractor.

Engoron said he is expecting people from as far as California and Arizona for the weekend. It’s not unusual for alumni to travel far, he said — an Australian exchange student once came back to the school for a class reunion.

The reunions are a way for graduates to connect with their younger selves and people they knew and didn’t know in high school while maintaining their adult wisdom, Greenbaum said.

“I think the things that we thought of in high school, the judgments that we made — people change, and people who were scared of people were able to come up to them and change it, hear it, make it better, not have the same trepidations or feelings, because everybody’s adults now,” she said.

Wheatley alumni can register online for the 60th anniversary celebration at wheatleyalumni.org/paypal_options for $70 by July 30, $75 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 30, and $85 after that. Former and current administrators, faculty and staff can attend for free.

The Wheatley School will mark its 60th anniversary this year.

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Let’s keep N.Y. in the political mix

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or the past two weeks, the North Shore and the rest of New York have been gripped by the presence of presidential candidates from both parties as well as their surrogates making their cases in the flesh and addressing issues of importance to New Yorkers in advance of the primary.

This includes an appearance by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Port Washington, Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Great Neck, businessman Donald Trump in Bethpage and Heidi Cruz, wife of Sen. Ted Cruz, in Mineola.

Outside of large money donors, this is usually not the case either in primaries or the general election in New York.

The last time New York played an important role in a presidential primary campaign was 1992 when Bill Clinton defeated Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Sen. Paul Tsongas.

If you don’t think this is important, try explaining why a subsidy exists for ethanol other than Iowa holding the first caucuses each presidential election cycle.

With New York in play this year, candidates actually have to address New Yorkers’ concerns — from the economy to New York values to Hurricane Sandy relief.

General elections have been even worse for New York..

The last Republican to win New York was Ronald Reagan in 1984 — 32 years ago — and with Democrats holding a large advantage in registered voters New Yorker are often taken for granted by both parties in presi-

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dential elections.

The problem for New York and other states with large populations in which one party dominates is that the winner of presidential elections is not chosen by the candidate who gets the most votes but the candidate who gets the most votes in the Electoral College.

The Electoral College awards the votes on a winner-take-all basis for each state — no matter what the margin of victory.

This, along with the Supreme Court, is what allowed George W. Bush to defeat Al Gore in 2000 with fewer popular votes.

The Electoral College also results in presidential candidates spending less time, and addressing fewer concerns of New Yorkers, than residents of so-called swing states where contests are more competitive.

It also means that a vote cast in New York will be less meaningful than a vote cast in Florida.

This is not the same as Donald Trump’s complaint about the Republican convention in Colorado after losing to Ted Cruz there or the GOP’s nominating process in general.

Yes a convention is a strange way to choose delegates and yes there are many odd and perhaps undemocratic rules in the process for both Democrats and Republicans.

But, as they say, them’s the rules.

Political parties are like country clubs with rules all their own and Trump signed up for the GOP’s rules when he decided to run as a Republican.

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To complain about those rules now after losing several contests is kind of like a gambler at one of Trump’s casinos complaining that he or she didn’t know the rules of the game after losing their money.

It is especially odd given Trump’s complaint that our leaders are stupid and he is smart.

If he and his team are so smart, why didn’t Trump and his team figure out the rules of the

game and play accordingly? Cruz certainly did.

But that’s for Trump and the Republican party to figure out.

The general election is another matter.

The rules are not those of a political party, but of the U.S. government and, as a democracy, ought to adhere to the concept of one person, one vote where everyone’s vote counts the same.

The Electoral College is

an outdated system of electing presidents that undermines this concept.

Eliminating the Electoral College would thrust big states with the most voters such as New York, California and Texas back into the forefront of presidential races.

It would also ensure that every citizen’s vote counted — and New Yorkers got to see candidates at least every four years.

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GOP, Dem legislators have helped L.I.

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s far back as the mid 1980s I learned a very important lesson in Albany.

I saw firsthand,as a member of the state Assembly, that when legislators from the Nassau and Suffolk counties get together and work as a team, the suburbs benefits dramatically.

As we approach another legislative election in November a great deal is riding on the results of the many contests involving incumbents from both parties.

Because school taxes are so high in this region, aid to public schools is a very big deal. Thanks to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, the island got a record number of dollars, including a $155 million payment for the Gap Elimination Adjustment. The GEA is money that was taken away from the public schools some years ago and never repaid. Flanagan made it a major condition of the budget negotiations.

Overall, the island got $2.97 billion in school aid, which is $50 million more than last year.

Considering the fact that aid from Albany is 25 per cent of local school budgets, this year’s allocation for schools is a very big deal.

Some naysayers out there are still screaming it is not enough, but it is the same group of dedicated advocates that have been doing that for the past 50 years.

Long Island has fallen behind in other areas and this year it will finally catch up with a major infusion of research and infrastructure funds.

Thanks to the efforts of the Long Island Association, under the leadership of Kevin Law, the counties will get $331 for investments in the region’s future.

These funds are not devoted to one or two projects. They will be given to 12 significant efforts to get Long Island moving ahead in engineering, therapeutic research and housing opportunities.

Among the many significant grants are such things as $25 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for therapeutic research;$40 million for street and

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highway repairs; $50 million for the Feinstein Institute’s medical research and $85 million for planning for the so-called Nassau Hub. Hofstra gets $25 million to expand its engineering programs and $75 million goes to Stony Brook University.

State Assemblymember Michelle Schimel deserves major credit for helping convince the

governor and the Democratic Assembly leadership to allocate $300 million for major environmental projects. She has been a proponent of wastewater infrastructure and water quality improvements for years and this allocation, much of which will go to Long Island, is the first time so much money has been dedicated to this region.

There is no question that Long Island has done exceptionally well over the past four plus years, when it comes to getting the money it needs. However, the big question on the horizon is what happens after this November’s election?

Give credit where credit is due, the Republican Senate delegation from the Island has been a great force behind the moneys that have flowed to the local schools and various projects.

They have been strongly probusiness and flexed their muscle at annual budget negotiations.

The special election on the South Shore will be over when this column is published, but

there is no doubt it could be a game changer.

If the Democrat ,Todd Kaminsky is the victor it could tip the balance against the Republican control of the Senate.

If Chris Mc Grath, the Republican prevails the Republicans still have their work cut out for them in November.

This promises to be a very tight election and if Hillary Clinton is the candidate it could tip the balance in favor of the Senate Democrats.

There is not much history about how well Nassau and Suffolk did during the short time the Democrats ran the state Senate.

Unfortunately, corruption charges against three characters caused the majority to collapse and eventually lose power. I may be an enrolled Democrat but I have to advocate what is good for Long Island.

So for now says a big thanks to our elected state officials from both parties for a job well done.

Next year may not be so grand.

Professor ’ s Pers p ective

It’s time to update digital privacy laws

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hirty years ago, there was no World Wide Web, almost no one had a cell phone and finding information required tedious manual searches at a library using the Dewey Decimal System.

It was also the last time Congress substantively updated our digital privacy laws.

Since 1986, technology has advanced at a breakneck speed, making privacy laws governing it grossly outdated and out of touch with how people use, store and share information nowadays.

“U.S. privacy laws are so far behind the rest of the world that it … falls short of the requirements of international human rights norms,” says Jeremy Malcolm, an analyst at Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group.

As a result, our digital footprint is being tracked by the government, businesses and even schools in ways that were once unthinkable.

Ongoing high profile cases, such as the feds’ battles with Apple and Microsoft to access customers’ data, are comparatively innocuous intrusions — at least for those, authorities got search warrants and the public

found out.

Although law enforcement officials typically need a warrant to search people’s home computer, read their mail, eavesdrop on their phone conversations or even to see which library books they borrowed, they often don’t need one when creeping into Americans’ virtual lives.

Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, warrants are needed only to access online communications — emails, text messages and chats — less than six months old. If it’s older than six months, no warrant is necessary. Draft emails, Web browsing history and files stored in the cloud are available without a warrant regardless of how old they are.

The government isn’t the only one abusing America’s outdated laws.

Cell phone carriers, internet service providers, websites and apps can mine all kinds of personal information about their users and sell it to the highest bidder. That’s why users often see ads that mirror the content of their messages.

Many schools and employers now “Google stalk” applicants without their knowledge.

A person could be rejected

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Professor’s Perspective for a job or college because of a scandalous photo a friend posted of him on Facebook years ago — and never know why.

Hiding online is increasingly difficult.

To circumvent social media privacy settings, some employers have gone so far as requiring applicants to reveal passwords.

While 23 states have banned this practice, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, it’s still legal in New York.

Even Americans who choose to avoid the internet altogether are not immune from privacy concerns.

For example, ZabaSearch is

one of many sites that provide details on almost any person, including age, address, assets, relatives’ names and more.

This information was publicly available pre-internet, but technology has made it much easier to quickly dig up information about anyone.

That’s made stalking, identity theft and blackmail easier than ever, too.

An online industry has developed around the controversial practice of posting mug shots of local residents who were arrested, including mere jaywalkers and children.

While the sites are based entirely on information already publicly available from police, they do not detail who was ultimately convicted of a crime or had charges dropped.

Some opportunistic websites charge $400 to remove arrest information, even if a person is innocent.

Unlike people, the internet never forgets. Thirty years ago, if people did something embarrassing, others eventually forgot about it or at worst, they could change their name and move away. Now, that information lives online forever – unless you live in Europe, where “right to be

forgotten” laws allow individuals to request that search engines remove listings for their name.

These problems can be fixed.

But don’t count on Congress.

Lawmakers blocked a 2012 proposal to prevent employers nationwide from demanding social media passwords.

And they haven’t made much progress on legislation first proposed five years ago that would update ECPA. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to address these issues and make broad declarations on how ECPA should be interpreted in the Internet Age. Given that justices admit to being behind the times and not using email, perhaps we shouldn’t hold our breath.

Some state legislatures have begun taking matters into their own hands, implementing a series of digital privacy laws. But state laws aren’t enough because they’re limited in scope and the internet is borderless.

Until federal lawmakers reform or our highest court clarifies the law, Americans will have to choose between new technology and privacy.

Mark Grabowski is a professor at Adelphi University, where he teaches internet law.

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A look on the li g hter si d e

Shopping lists of the ancient world It’s not every day that shopping lists are reported in the New York Times, but it’s not every day that shopping lists make history, either.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University recently subjected 18 fragments of ancient pottery to some new, computer-aided analysis.

The pottery pieces dated from 600 B.C. and were covered in ink inscriptions, in ancient Hebrew. Researchers found several different handwritings, for what they concluded were messages back and forth to the supplies quartermaster of a fort in ancient Judah.

The messages said things like: “To Eliashib (the Quartermaster): And now, give the Kittiyim three baths of wine, and write the name of the day.”

Why write the name of the day? Was that some kind of ancient sell-by date? Or was it to check up on poor old Eliashib, to make sure he’d really done it?

“And a full homer of wine, bring tomorrow; don’t be late.

And if there is vinegar, give it to them.”

I know nothing about ancient Hebrew, and next to nothing about pottery. (I know that it breaks far too easily when all you’ve done is put it down on someone’s granite counter-top.)

But I do know a thing or two about shopping lists.

The first thing I know is that, no matter where you put them, no matter how carefully you have stowed them, in a pocket or a purse or a lead-lined container, your list will disappear by the time you walk into the store.

You are forced to improvise, free-styling around the store, trying frantically to recall what the heck was so urgent that it brought you there in the first place.

And maybe that’s why you find so many other people wandering, too — glued to their phones, and muttering: “All I could find is the garlic-

Judy epstein

A Look on the Lighter Side flavored — will that do?”

“So what are we having for dinner?”

“Just how fresh does cheese have to be?”

“What do you mean, ‘Try the pretzel aisle’? I’m in the pretzel aisle, staring at the pretzels, and I tell you it isn’t here!”

They had problems in ancient Judah, too. Why else would someone named Nahum have been ordered to: “Go to

the house of Eliashib, son of Eshiyahu, (to collect a jar of oil and send it somewhere) quickly, and seal it with your seal”? Just how quickly can oil go bad?

Sometimes, I pull out a shopping wagon and find somebody else’s scrunched-up list in the bottom of it. I often think, why not use it? How different could shopping lists be, anyway?

Look at Nahum, Eliashib and me; we all use olive oil, wine, and vinegar. But this list also features scallops, ham, and swiss cheese. Sorry, Nahum, no ham for you!

Another thing I know about shopping lists is that they magically reappear once you get home. “Pancake mix! That’s what I needed!” And you still need it.

Because that’s the final thing about shopping lists: there is always some residue, something listed that you always forget.

That is, until it gets stuck in your head, and it’s all you remember for the next 20 trips. Then, like

a modern, supermarket version of the sorcerer’s apprentice, you keep bringing home applesauce, or chicken soup, or paper towels, every shopping trip, until there’s no place left in the house to put them.

“And Hananyahu has commanded you to Beersheba with two donkey’s load and you shall wrap up the dough with them.”

It all makes me wonder if I can look forward to the day when maybe my scraps and shopping lists will be found in a cave and pored over by archaeologists.

“This looks like the handwriting of six different people, but they’re all from someone named ‘Judy.’ Can it really just be thirty years of one woman’s shopping? Why on earth did she save them?”

“And why did she never remember the pancake mix?”

I wonder, what might the headline for the exhibit say?

“Ancient shopping lists key to understanding writer’s delusions of grandeur.”

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What does Democracy look like?

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week ago, one of the most diverse groups of people ever assembled at Hofstra University provided a striking example of democratic interaction.

We hear lots of talk about democracy, but we do not witness enough examples of how good it can be.

Sadly, some of the biggest talkers about protecting and advancing democracy fall far short of implementing its principles.

The 150 people who gathered at the Axinn Library were students, elders, folks of many religions, races, and ethnicities.

People from Long Island communities joined students who came to Hofstra from our extensive nation. The empathy in their discourse and the humanity of their values inspired all of us.

They gathered for what was advertised as “A Deliberative Dialogue” concerning “Racism, Islamophobia and the 2016 Election.”

The primary thrust of the two hour program was to examine the quintessential values shared by Americans, as well as to consider how to safeguard them and to make this a better society for everyone.

Participants fulfilled Jacob

Bronowski’s dictum: “Knowledge is our destiny.”

People focused strongly on reliable data, on what mattered dearly to them, and on how to foster vigilance to protect those values.

Because the goal of the evening was to encourage thoughtful and informed interaction, the program was structured so the 150 folks would be more than an “audience.”

Four distinguished clerics provided a code of ethics and values from each of their faiths. They were asked to limit their opening views to 5 minutes, and they did so with lucidity, eloquence and passion (informed by empathy).

The initial speakers were: Rev. Natalie Fenimore (Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock); Rabbi Michael White (Temple Sinai of Roslyn) Seemi Ahmed (Muslim Chaplin, Hofstra University) Rev. Mark Lukens ((Pastor, Bethany Congregational Church) Next there were questions to the panel and interactive discussions. Following these first two segments were “Roundtable Forums.”

The room had been set up with round tables so that the dialogues could be conducted with eight or

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10 people at each location.

This gave the small groups a chance to consider with each other four questions that were posed.

1. How has racism and Islamophobia affected you or people you know?

2. How can individuals and communities respond more effectively to racism and Islamophobia?

3. How do you expect elected officials to deal with racism and Islamophobia?

4. What are your reactions to candidates’ statements on these issues?

We concluded the formal part of the evening by inviting reports from as many tables as time permitted.

A good sign for the evening was the large number of people who stayed to continue their discussions.

The table associations marked the beginnings of friendships for people across the age, religious, race, and ethnic spectra — a striking example of what can be initiated when folks are committed to careful listening and striving for a common good.

The program was enhanced by the participation of Hofstra Peace Fellows, a selected group of outstanding students who spend an entire semester exploring contemporary and historical peace initiatives.

The Peace Fellows program is jointly sponsored by the Hofstra Center for Civic Engagement and The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.

These students examine obstacles and seek ways that they and others can fulfill aspirations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (he spoke at Hofstra graduation in 1965 and had continuing Long Island ties working with his Roslyn friend, Harry Wachtel).

As Dr. King noted, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The Peace Fellows together with the diverse forum

gathering concluded that the best response to irresponsible views was by presenting better views.

Racism and Islamophobia persist on Long Island and elsewhere because of lack of knowledge and lack of association with people from different backgrounds. The clergy speakers and then the table groups affirmed more need to foster shared activities to build relationship bonds.

In the spirit of Dr. King a major challenge is to help people tap their better selves by overcoming ignorance and fear. Dr. King said that the “triple evils” of racism, poverty and war fuel conflict.

The groups at Hofstra concluded that many supporters of Donald Trump reflected economic anxiety and that they lacked realistic knowledge of Long Island Muslims and African-Americans.

A special challenge that Cornel West noted in his book “Race Matters” is that white suburbanites seldom interact with people who are different from them.

Colleges that link community and campus can help provide constructive associations.

Last week’s gathering at Hofstra helps to advance us toward fulfilling E.M. Forster’s injunction “to connect, only connect.”

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Happy 182nd birthday L.I. Rail Road

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et us all wish a Happy 182nd Anniversary to the Long Island Rail Road.

On April 24, 1834, the Long Island Rail Road was officially chartered by the State of New York. In 1900, the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a controlling interest as part of its plan for direct access to Manhattan which began on September 8, 1910. The Pennsylvania Railroad subsidized the LIRR into the late 1940s.

This provided the financial basis for support of expansion and upgrades to service and infrastructure.

At the end of World War II, there began a decline of our LIRR with a corresponding loss of farebox revenues.

The Pennsylvania Railroad began to reduce financial support as well. This played a part in the LIRR going into receivership in 1949.

In recognition of the role the

LIRR played in the economy of both Long Island and New York City, New York State began providing financial assistance to the LIRR in the 1950s and 1960s.

The “Line of the Dashing Dan” was officially chartered on April 24, 1965 by the State of New York. Prior to 1965, the LIRR derived almost 100% of its funding for both capital and operating expenses from fares.

Chartered by the State Legislature in 1965 as the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, it was created to purchase and operate the bankrupt LIRR. In 1966, New York State bought the railroad’s controlling stock from the Pennsylvania Rail Road and put it under the newly formed Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority.

The MCTA changed its name to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 when it took over operations of the New

York City Transit Authority.

With MTA subsidies, the LIRR modernized further and grew into the busiest commuter railroad in the United States.

Over the past 50 years, several billion dollars in combined county, city, state and federal taxpayer-generated dollars have subsidized both the capital and operating costs for the LIRR. Riders must remember that fare hikes are periodically required if the MTA is to provide the services millions of New Yorkers use daily.

They are inevitable due to inflation, along with increasing costs of labor, power, fuel, supplies, materials, routine safety, state of good repair, replacement of worn out rolling stock, upgrades to stations, yards and shops along with system expansion projects necessary to run any transit system.

Half-hour weekly and weekend service on the Port Washing-

ton Long Island Rail Road branch proves why it pays for my wife and I along with many of our neighbors to live in Great Neck.

It is easier seven days a week to attend Met games, other Citi Field events, U.S. Open, Arthur Ash stadium, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens Zoo, Madison Square Garden activities and Broadway shows on a regular basis.

Those of us in the know already moved to communities adjacent to Long Island Rail Road Port Washington branch stations years or even decades ago.

The Great Neck, Manhasset, Plandome and Port Washington school districts along with those in neighboring Little Neck, Douglaston, Bayside and Auburndale in Queens are some of the best in the Metropolitan New York area.

We have great air quality along with a low crime rate, abundant parks, libraries, shopping, entertainment, movie the-

aters, hospitals and medical facilities.

Riders on the Port Washington branch have far more abundant seating and a quick 30 minute or less trip into Penn Station without having to change at Jamaica than LIRR commuters on other branches.

Port Washington branch riders miss most service disruptions.

In the end, quality and frequency of service is dependent upon secure revenue streams.

We all have to contribute — be it at the fare box or tax revenues generated by different levels of government redistributed back to the MTA. TANSTAFFL or “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” or in this case a free ride.

Larry Penner Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked in the transportation field for 31 years.

A better solution to combatting mosquitoes

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ith approaching warmer weather Nassau County will be sure to announce measures to be taken to reduce the mosquito breeding problems we face every year.

The usual solution of draining of birdbaths, emptying of water collectors such as used tires etc. will be broadcast and should be heeded, but a major contributor to this problem is Nassau County itself!

The county maintains the storm water runoff basins, which when originally created over 50 years ago, were used for short term storage of excess water until the basins “recharged” the water into the ground.

The basins were dry most of the time.

That is until the bottoms became impermeable due to the decay of organic materials and silt from the runoff.

There is 0 percent in most of these basins and remediating the situation by dredging or drilling is prohibitively expensive and temporary.

The basin behind Tully Park in New Hyde Park is currently a “lake.”

It is a veritable breeding ground for large numbers of mosquitos including the disease bearing Culex species.

Each year the New Hyde Park local near this lake is subjected to aerial spraying of insecticides.

The CDC has found that spraying is wholly ineffective and may actually increase insecticide resistance in the insects.

There is also the health issue to be considered with indiscriminate aerial spraying.

Larvaciding is effective but costly and there are environmental issues to be considered too.

There is a better way.

Fathead minnows especially their fry have been found to be effective in controlling mosquito larva populations.

These hardy minnows can survive high levels of pollution and are actually used as a barometer of levels of toxicity in waterways.

They can also survive in waters with low oxygen and higher temperatures as they are currently used in southern climates.

Furthermore, they are quite inexpensive and usually will spawn three times or more per season. The syate DEC should be able to approve the stocking of basins as

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there are no downstream waterways from basins.

Nassau County should definitely consider the advantages of a natural predator in combating mosquito populations Mark Klein New Hyde Park

Keller thanks supporters

would like to thank the people of Port Washington for electing me to the Board of Trustees of the Port Washington Public Library.

Our Library is a priceless gem that serves the educational and cultural needs of our entire community.

As a native of our wonderful town, the Library has always been an important part of my life and my family’s life.

It will be an honor to work with the library’s administration, its many volunteers, and the other members of the Board of Trustees to make the library an even better place.

Thank you for your support.

Bill Keller Port Washington

Parking enforcement officer is not doing his job

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he Nassau County Police Department has a parking enforcement officer assigned to the former 6th Precinct whose job it is to write parking tickets.

A few weeks ago I saw the officer at the Manhasset Train Station and brought to his attention numerous vehicles in the community that park all day long in timed parking areas along Plandome Road, and other adjoining side streets, even along Northern Boulevard by the car dealerships.

The corner of Park Avenue and Plandome Road by the dry cleaners, Manhasset Drug and the hairdresser.

Those cars are there as early as 7 a.m. and don’t leave

until 8 p.m., never once move I asked him why these cars that park all day just about everyday in violation of posted signs do not get ticketed.

His response shocked me. He said “I don’t want to do it.”

The same was mentioned about cars parked blocking crosswalks, fire hydrants and being in no stopping zones.

So if it is his job to enforce parking regulations and he doesn’t want to do it, why did he take the job?

The Police Department should be ashamed of themselves for hiring this individual.

Manhasset is plagued with severe parking problems.

No wonder why there is this group of individuals going around taking photos of illegally parked cars and forwarding the information to the heads of departments in the Town of North Hempstead and Nassau County.

I’m originally from Garden City and all rules and regulations concerning parking were strictly enforced.

If a vehicle parked in a 1-hour zone and didn’t move after the hour was up, it was given a parking ticket.

We need this strict enforcement in Manhasset.

Cynthia Davantis Manhasset

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Eliminate grade crossings in Mineola

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hree weeks or so ago I wrote about not needing a third rail between Floral Park and Hicksville.

I mentioned three crossings in New Hyde Park with the roadways needing to go under the tracks, here stating it in simple fashion. More detail to come later.

I did not get to the situation in Mineola which I will do now.

The only way for Mineola is to eliminate the Willis Avenue and Main Street crossings.

There is not room for anything else.

It is about three quarters of a mile from Mineola Boulevard to Herricks road on first street. The same distance from Roslyn Road to Glen Cove Road on Westbury Avenue.

It is only one block from Willis Avenue to Roslyn Road with the underpass and a short block from Main Street to Mineola Boulevard with the overpass.

Access to the local areas south of the tracks is easy from Front Street and Old

Country Road.

Where the spur Oyster Bay Line crosses Willis Avenue and Second Street, it has to remain as is.

Those trains don’t run that often anyway and there is no way to improve the situation.

I will take up the two Westbury crossings later.

To give an idea of part of the reality, I sat in front of my window reading my newspapers and I could see the trains going over the Roslyn Road underpass and noted the time of each train’s passing.

Beginning 7:00 a.m. weekday ‘til 9 a.m.

The westbound trains were: 705, 707, 716, 718, 722, 724, 728, 730, 737, 741, 746, 748, 751, 753, 801, 804, 811, 812, 817, 820, 828, 833, 849 and 921. Eastbound were: 825, 837, 848, 852, 909, 913 and 916.

For the evening rush hour eastbound: 448, 449, 501, 506, 515, 521, 523, 526, 537, 543, 546, 550, 553, 555, 558, 600,

604, 611, 614, 616, 621, 624, 629, 633, 636, 641, 651, 700, 709, 716, 737, 739, 757, 800, 806, 821, 835 and 853. Westbound trains: 435, 440, 444, 459, 504, 527, 531, 543, 554, 643, 648, 700, 711, 715, 723, 726, 735, 740, 751, 759, 809, 835 and 853.

Putting east and westbound together, it was busy but moving smoothly. The LIRR really rolls!

During the morning (2 1/2 hours), 24 went west and 7 went east.

It seems that many trains were stored over night at the east end of the lines.

During the evening (four hours) 38 went east and 23 went west. During the day trains must have been stored at or near Penn Station.

For the morning rush I watched about 2 1/2 hours and the evening rush 4 hours.

All of the trains listed above pass through the Westbury crossings.

Add on a few more to and from Oyster Bay and that is what passes through the Mineola and New Hyde Park grade cross-

ings.

This demonstrates what motorists face especially in New Hyde Park.

The excuse for the third rail is to commute more passengers.

The Oyster Bay line uses double decker cars. Of those going east of Mineola, only about 10 percent were double decker.

A double decker train could carry twice as many passengers. That would seem to solve any problem.

Consider also that sometimes the crossing gates go down and it is sometimes a minute at least before the train appears and it still has to get through.

Sometimes the gates start to rise and then go back down as another train is coming.

With the volume as noted above, I can really feel for the motorists especially in NHP. These things should have been remedied years ago.

Charles Samek Mineola

Feds need to provide money to fight Zika virus

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t is predicted that the Zika virus could travel to New York by those coming back from those countries affected and that is by sexually transmission.

This virus for now affects pregnant women and whose babies will suffer major deformities. The virus is spread by mosquitoes and has even been suggested that these mosquito could travel further north and af-

fect many states.

There will be more spraying of our neighborhoods, and that has been done with the West Nile virus.

Now the CDC reported that there are ways to protect ourselves this Summer and they are as follows: 1. Wear long sleeve shirts and pants.

2. Use good insect repellant.

3. Make sure that children are also protected as well.

4. Use a condom when having sex .

5. Remove all standing water at our homes where mosquitoes may be.

It is reported that the symptoms consist of mild fever, skin rash, muscle and joint pain. This ailment can last from two to seven days. Also for now there is

no vaccine to combat this disease but reportedly they are working on one.

I feel Congress needs to allocate funds to fight and protect us from this disease.

Babies, mothers and men are in danger from this disease and there is more we don’t know about this disease and could lead to neurological problems for many and not just babies.

As such I ask all to write to our elected officials and that includes our President Obama.

In closing, for more information go to the CDC web site at www.cdc.gov/zika/prevention/ index.html.

Be informed for that is the best prevention from infectious diseases.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

Don’t expect Trump to clean up his act later

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onald Trump, in a televised interview, was asked if he would be toning down his attacks, replied that when he is elected president he would be very presidential.

He still, however, has to take down three people before he will change. He continues to use the vilest of tones, hateful vulgar language, promises that he can never keep, insults.

Who would be trusting enough to accept such pronouncements?

He sometimes seems to reduce his inflammable rhetoric, but he quickly returns to this usual repulsive man-

ner and language.

We simply cannot, even when beset with the real problems and stresses all around us, believe that such consistent evidence of incapacity to control his behavior will miraculously change.

How naive can we be to believe that all his promises have any real substance?

Yes, we want to believe promises, but hucksters have always fooled believers, to their disillusionment.

We really must listen carefully to what he says, and to the almost daily revelations of his many business failures and the trail of ventures that ended in costing his inves-

tors heavy financial losses, after he had managed to milk them for his benefit.

The latest discovery is that his supposed heavy contributions to good causes were actually overvalued by him or manipulated by employing financial tricks.

He even diverted money he raised to his foundation.

Using your foundation makes it possible to get credit for contributions that the original donors could have used.

Attention must be paid.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Our only hope for GOP is for Kasich to prevail

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onald Trump is an arrogant, bombastic and demagogic illegitimate man (b------) who would make numerous people gag if they had to address him as Mr. President.

His basic values are his ego and money. His nomination would be disastrous for the GOP. His election would be a monumental calamity for the USA and the world.

Ted Cruz is a calculating ultra-orthodox conservative who would say anything to get elected. His speeches

John Kasich remains the GOP’s most capable qualiare sanctimonious sermons. I would love to know how his “constitutional conservative principals” justify carpet fied common sense candidate.

I’m not just thinking about a victory in November. combing of cities like Raqua and Mosul.

I’m thinking about the well-being of our country and Does this intelligent politician not realize that putting at risk tens of thousands of ISIS captives in order to kill its essential relationship to all the other nations of the world.

5,000-10,000 Jihadists would be a massive atrocity?

We could never explain it to the world, especially Alan Wecksell, MD friendly Muslim countries. Would “God bless” such an Great Neck action?

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Elected officials are failing Great Neck

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am writing again concerning what is going on in the once wonderful town and is now a town that nobody wants to live in including myself.

You still post Bosworth’s picture in practically every page in the Great Neck News.

How come she is not in Hollywood yet

in front of the cameras?

Nothing has been done to rectify anything I write about (and you published).

The politicians are also still hanging around having their pictures taken and doing nothing to help this town.

The mailbox across from CVS Pharmacy Gussack Plaza is not working again.

You have to walk down the pathway on the other end to find and pay the other meter. We live here. We are not interested in all the restaurants that open and close after three months.

Your (our) politicians should be taking care of the important things.

Every block has at least three stores

closed or are going to be closed.

This is important to us. Stop already with the pictures; write about what is going to make Great Neck a desirable place to live in again.

Myrna Kobren Great Neck

Grizzly bears still in need Yes to letters, no to weekly soapbox of government protection

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s an animal lover, I am truly disheartened to learn that The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is proposing to strip away Endangered Species Act protections for the iconic grizzly bears that live in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, essentially leaving their future in the hands of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming wildlife managers and opening up a trophy hunting season on them.

With the senseless trophy killing of the beloved ‘’Cecil the

Lion’’ in Africa fresh in my mind, it is deeply troubling to me that our own country would open season on a species whose population needed ESA protections.

Contrary to what the USFWS claims, grizzly bears are far from recovered and human-caused mortality is the single-largest contributor to bear deaths.

When asked, 60 percent of prominent grizzly bear scientists “believe delisting would be an incorrect decision…”

U.S. Grizzly bears still need

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nly the caption of the letter, (not the letter itself) from Eric Spinner in your April 15 edition “Turn the page if you don’t like what you’re reading” in response to the letter of the previous week from Alan Gray is right on the mark.

As soon as I see the weekly multi page or multi column entries from your dedicated group of pro bono columnists I don’t even start reading their columns JoAnn Winkhart but search the page for letters New Hyde Park from others who would like to

ESA protection to ensure they survive and thrive in the future.

I believe the majority of the American public wants grizzly bears protected for future generations, not killed by a few trophy hunters so they can mount and stuff them.

If you agree, tell the USFWS to keep the Yellowstone grizzly bear on the endangered species list.

express their views in a limited number of words, so I don’t turn the page until I’m ready to do so.

Letters to the editor should not be a weekly soapbox for any individual especially since you give them unlimited space.

Maybe you should hire some of these letter writers to join Karen Rubin on your staff as paid columnists.

In that event, I might even start reading their input and not turn the page!

Victor Beecher Great Neck

Veterans Affairs failing to serve veterans

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s if the Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t shafting the veteran’s enough. How do these people sleep at night?

On April 15 the Stars and Stripes newspaper featured a headline that read, “IG report: VA has been wrongly shredding documents needed for veteran’s claims” revealing the VA has been systemically shredding documents related to veterans’ claims, some potentially affecting their benefits.

According to the article the IG conducted surprise audits at 10 regional offices on July 20, 2015, after an investigation into inappropriate shredding in Los Angeles found that staff there was destroying veterans’ mail related to claims according to an OIG report released Thursday.

In unannounced visits to six regional offices investigators sifted through 438,000 documents awaiting destruction as of 11 a.m.

SINCE 1995

Of 155 claims-related documents, 69 were found to have been incorrectly placed in shred bins.

Investigators determined that two of the 69 documents affected benefits directly, nine had the potential to affect benefits and the rest would not affect benefits but were required to be in the claims folders before destruction and were not there.

The report said the findings were enough to conclude that not only were the problems systemic, the impact could be serious.

The response from the Veteran’s Benefits Administration: It denied that the findings indicated a systemic issue.

Which leads me back to my original question which was and still is, how do these people sleep at night?

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NCC fails to select new president, again

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Senior Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges Johanna Duncan-Poitier told Newsday that SUNY was working with NCC officials to find additional candidates that were not considered before.

“The priority is that we get the right candidate,” Duncan-Poitier said. “We want strong leadership and we are working on that immediately.”

On March 3, Nassau Community College board President Jorge Gardyn announced that the college’s trustees had submitted their presidential selection to the SUNY board following an almost four-year search for a permanent president.

That choice, Gardyn said, was to remain anonymous until the college received Zimpher’s approval.

SUNY spokeswoman Holly Liapis said the SUNY board was prepared to announce its decision at the March 23 board meeting, but the

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presidential choice, who was later found out to be NCC executive vice president Kenneth Saunders, withdrew his name from consideration.

On Jan. 19, the school announced on its website the four finalists for the post — Gena Glickman, president of Manchester Community College in Connecticut; Tyjuan A. Lee, vice president of student services at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland; Stephen Schoonmaker, former president of College of the Ouachitas in Arkansas; and Kenneth Saunders, who now serves as executive vice president at Nassau Community College.

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which accredits the college, released an oral report last month stating the college was not in compliance with seven of the accrediting agency’s 14 quality standards, including in leadership, planning and financial resources.

Duncan-Poitier said the report played a factor in SUNY wanting to look at additional candidates for the open president position.

“We are looking at very specific leadership skills in light of the Middle States report — it is that serious,” she said.

Nassau Community College has been seeking a permanent president since Donald Astrab left the position in July 2012.

Former Great Neck Superintendent of Schools Thomas Dolan has served as interim president since September.

Saunders, who was an administrator at Nassau Community College for more than 13 years, was acting president prior to Dolan’s appointment, until SUNY officials recommended a 60-day limit in June to his tenure as acting president.

Dolan said addressing the “Middle States debacle” and ensuring accreditation was the college’s main goal.

“I don’t know whose fault it is and I don’t care,” he said. “All I know is we must be accredited.”

The Middle States Commission is expected to give the college a final written report Tuesday, Dolan said.

“We must follow the pathway to accreditation,” he said.

Bag full of marijuana shuts down roadway

By J oe N i k i c Nassau County police closed a portion of the Long Island Expressway’s North Service Road for two hours Tuesday while investigating a suspicious backpack left on the side of the road, which was found to have one pound of marijuana inside.

Police said a witness observed the unattended backpack and notified them around 4 p.m.

A portion of the service road west of Exit 37 on the LIE was closed, police said, while the Arson Bomb Squad investigated the backpack.

Police said once it was discovered the

backpack was safe, they opened the bag and found one pound of marijuana and one ounce of hashish inside.

During the investigation, police said, the Arson Bomb Squad found that the backpack belonged to Roslyn Heights resident Jason Liarkos.

Liarkos, 19, was placed under arrest at his home at 6:35 p.m. without incident, police said.

He is charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminal possession of marijuana.

Liarkos will be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.

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Rules for vape, hookah establishments tabled

By N o a h M a n s k a r Hookah bars and vape shops in New Hyde Park still have some time before they take their place next to head shops in the village code.

While it awaits input from Nassau County, the Village Board on Tuesday tabled a law that would define those businesses as adult uses and restrict them to industrial zones.

The aim of the change is not to outlaw them, but to make sure they comply with the code, Mayor Robert Lofaro said.

But Anthony Gabriel of New Hyde Park, manager of Cherry Valley Vape in West Hempstead, said vape shops help people quit smoking and do not warrant the same regulation as other adult uses.

“I can see why people would be a bit turned off by them, but I feel like it would be a bit harsh to include it with peep shows and adult bookstores,” Gabriel said Tuesday.

The proposed change to the code would add definitions of “hookah bar” and “vape shop” to an existing list of 11 adult uses in section 195-13 of New Hyde Park’s village code.

Any business that sells electronic cigarettes or where tobacco is smoked through hookah pipes could operate in industrial zones with a special-use permit from the

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Board of Zoning Appeals, but cannot be within 2,000 feet of each other or within 800 feet of a school, church, park, playground, playing field or public library.

The code already implies hookah bars and vape shops would be adult uses because minors aren’t legally allowed in them, Lofaro said last month, but the village wants to give “no room for interpretation.”

Gabriel, 27, smoked tobacco for 12 years until vaping helped him quit two years ago, he said. He said it does not make sense to restrict vape shops to industrial zones when convenience stores and gas stations selling normal cigarettes can operate in regular commercial zones.

People often incorrectly associate vaping with tobacco, marijuana and other drugs, Gabriel said.

“They just want to constantly make that connection that it’s something bad,” he said.

Many other Long Island municipalities, including three in Great Neck, have banned hookah bars in recent years.

The villages of Great Neck and Great Neck Estates both passed bans on the establishments in 2014. The Village of Great Neck Plaza passed a moratorium on hookah bars that year, making an exception for the nowContinued on Page 55

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Herricks ed board OKs new biz official B y Suz a nne M o b y ed The Herricks Board of Education approved the appointment of Lisa Ann Rutkoske on Tuesday to replace Helen Costigan as the district’s assistant superintendent for business when she retires in June.

“I am delighted to have Lisa come on board as a part of the Herricks administration team,” Herricks school Superintendent Fino Celano said. “The entire search committee was extremely impressed with her knowledge, experience and engaging personality. I am sure she will be an asset to the school district.”

Costigan announced plans in December to retire in June after 12 years in the district. She was hired in 2004.

Rutkoske is a certified public accountant and the current assistant superintendent for business in Valley Stream Union Free School District 30.

During the meeting, the school board approved the $20,789,248 tentative 2016-2017 administration budget for the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which provides shared services for all 56 Nassau County school districts.

The board also unanimously ap-

proved a policy allowing Internet use in the Herricks schools as long as students have permission from at least one of their parents or guardians to access the Internet at school.

The revised district policy says a student’s activities while using the Internet must be in support of education and research, and be consistent with the district’s educational objectives.

The school board also approved the budget and fee structure for the district’s 2016 Summer Primary Recreation Program.

The fee for the summer recreation program for kindergarten through fifth grade will be $995 per student for a full day and $595 for the morning only.

The fee for grades six through nine will be $1,250 per student for a full day.

Upon Celano’s recommendation, the board also approved an agreement with Textbook Central for the procurement and distribution of textbooks for Herricks students attending non-public schools during the 2016-2017 school year.

No objection was made when the board discussed a five-year lease renewal for the Herricks Community Center from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2021.

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Long Island University, Americana Manhasset and Poll Restaurants will host Celebrate Long Island: An Evening at Merriweather on May 7.

“The goal for us was to be able to bring together a group of different community organizations and cultural entities and give them and their constituents, but really the people on the Gold Coast and the North Shore, an opportunity to experience culture in a different way,” said Michael Glickman, Vice President of Partnerships at Long Island University.

Glickman said the party’s theme was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular book “The Great Gatsby.”

The night will include live music, dancing, food, drinks and a fireworks show by Bellport-based Fireworks by Grucci.

“We want to change the conversation,” he said. “We want people to see this is a great place to live, this is a great place to work, this is a great place to have a good time and this is a great place where you can experience a triedand-true Long Island experience.”

The event, which begins at 7 p.m., will take place under a 30,000-square-foot tent on the LIU-Post campus in Brookville, which is the former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton.

“Who doesn’t want to throw the biggest party of the season in the community? This is the party that everybody wants to have in their backyard but it just so happens that we’ve got a good backyard to throw this in,” Glickman said.

Proceeds from the event will go towards five Long Island organizations: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Nassau County Museum of Art, Gold Coast International Film Festival, Old West-

bury Gardens and Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, “One of the things Long Island is missing is this notion of organizations coming together,” Glickman said. “We’ve given people a very accessible way to come have a good time, experience one another, learn something new about

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their own communities and being able to partner that concept with business is a good thing.”

Inside the tent, party-goers will have access to a number of set-ups for local organizations including the “Gatsby Gardens,” which is inspired by Old Westbury Gardens, and a silent movie section put on by the Gold Coast International Film Festival.

Glickman said there will also be casino games for ticket holders to win fake money which can be cashed in for various prizes and offerings.

Ryan Reilly, a partner with Celebrate Long Island, said the tent will be “very interactive.”

“I think that people will be pleasantly surprised as they walk throughout with the things they are seeing,” Reilly said.

There will be musical performances by trumpeter Chris Norton and grammy-nominated jazz musician Jane Monheit.

Tickets for the party are available online at www.celebratelon-

gisland.com, or those interested can also call 516-299-2264 to buy tickets.

There will be no tickets sold the day of the event.

Tickets cost $195 for an individual ticket, $350 for a couple’s ticket, $375 for a VIP ticket, which includes exclusive access to the VIP Lounge, early entry to the tent, complimentary valet parking, and a swag bag featuring special offers and gifts, $600 VIP couple’s ticket and a $5,000 corporate package.

Glickman said the party will go on “rain or shine” because the tent will offer party-goers protection from any rain.

“There is a movement afoot on Long Island,” Glickman said.

“This notion of Celebrate Long Island kind of pulls all of these different aspects together and it’s bringing community and corporate individuals to really gather around an opportunity to celebrate something that is special and unique.”

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With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa has found success in film, television and radio as well as on the live stage. His second hour stand-up special, “Tom Papa: Freaked Out,” was directed by Rob Zombie and named one of the 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2013 by Laughspin.com. He can be seen alongside Clive Owen in Steven Soderbergh’s, “The Knick” on Showtime and hosts the hit SiriusXM show, “Come to Papa.”

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It has been 25 years since the Gipsy Kings’ self-titled debut album — a record that became certified gold and platinum around the globe, introducing millions of listeners to a unique, irresistible blend of traditional flamenco styles with Western pop and Latin rhythms. Since then, the band has toured virtually non-stop, to the farthest-flung corners of the planet, and sold almost 20 million albums, all the while retaining the same line-up of virtuoso musicians.

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Directed by Dave Groom, Shadow Box is about three terminal cancer patients dwelling in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. They are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated

by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.

Where: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City Info: (516) 877-4000 • http://aupac.adelphi.edu/

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Mike Epps Friday, April 22, 8 p.m.

Since his big-screen breakthrough in 2000’s Next Friday, stand-up comedian and actor Mike Epps has been seen in major releases, including “Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins,” “All About the Benjamins.”

“Hancock” and “Next Day Air.” Epps’ HBO comedy special, “Inappropriate Behavior,” was one of the network’s top-rated, hour-long specials of 2005. This year Epps can be seen in “Meet the Blacks,” and as Richard Pryor in “Nina,” a film about Nina Simone.

Where: NYCB Theatre At Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info: (516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Gnarly Karma - Nectar - The Gray Thursday, Apr. 28, 8 p.m.

The Space at Westbury will host three Long Island-based bands Thursday: Necter, the acoustic-pop duo based of Samantha Raia and Brianna Martinsen; Gnarly Karma, a lyrical-jam/rock band in the vein of Dave Matthews Band, Sublime and Mumford & Sons; and The Gray, a four-piece band promoting their debut EP “Ladies! Ladies! Ladies!” blending genres of rock, pop and funk.

Where: The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury Info: (516) 283.5566 • www.thespaceatwestbury.com

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Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.

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In “Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science” the follow-up to the smash “Edible Inevitable” tour, fans can expect more comedy, talk show antics, multimedia presentations and music (yes, he sings), but Brown is adding a slew of fresh ingredients including new puppets, songs and bigger and potentially more dangerous experiments in two hours of pure entertainment.

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

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Over the course of 25 years and 10 albums, the SubDudes have become one of America’s national music treasures. The New Orleans-formed group is a living encapsulation of American music, stirring together meaty grooves and jazzy dynamics, soulful R&B swagger, easy vocal harmonies, cheeky rock ‘n’ roll attitude and folky social consciousness - and some of the sharpest musicianship and ensemble playing from any five musicians.

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Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and April 24, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The 2016 Arbor Day Family Festival features live musical shows by the crowd’s favorites Peat Moss and the Fertilizers, performances by PLAY DATE, kid’s tree climb by Wonderland Tree Care, petting zoo, face painting, National Circus Project performances and workshops, TR Sanctuary, caricaturists, plant clinics, tree plantings with Smokey the Bear, FREE self-guided visits of Coe Hall. The festival is a collaborative effort between Planting Fields Foundation and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Price: $20 per car load; once inside the park all activities are free. Rain or Shine.

Where: Planting Fields Arboretum, 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay Info: 516-922-9200 • www.plantingfields.org

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Saturday, April 23; Tuesday, April 26 – Friday, April 29 There’s so much to do and learn! Walk through spring woods and talk about plants, trees and animals, identify favorite birds and learn how to use binoculars, witness the power of moving water, or explore the shoreline for varied plants. In addition, your child can make a nature craft, a recycled bird house craft, a caterpillar craft, or a sand casting craft. Check the website for daily activites, times and pricing.

Where: Garvies Point Museum, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove Info: 516-571-8010 • www.garviespointmuseum.com

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Thursday’s project will be inspired by Scharf’s sculptures as well as works in our out outdoor sculpture collection – be prepared to create art outside, rain or shine! Museum admission plus $10 per family materials fee, reservations not needed. Cost: Museum admission plus $10/family materials fee Where: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor Info: 516-484-9337 • www.nassaumuseum.com

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Monday, April 25 - Friday, April 29, 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism (NSSA) invites you to join for a night of family fun at Adventureland. Adventureland will be closed to the public for this event. That means individuals with autism, their families, and friends will have unlimited access to the entire park with very little waiting time. Best of all, the park will be filled with people who love, care for, and embrace the children. Rain date is Wednesday, April 27.

Advanced bracelet $18 per person; $20 at the door.

Where: Adventureland, 2245 Broad Hollow Road, Farmingdale Info: 631-694-6868 • www.adventureland.us, www.nssa.net

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To celebrate the history of the Space Shuttle and National Astronomy & Space Week, come join us and learn about how the Space Shuttle contributed to space exploration! After exploring the museum’s Space Gallery with authentic pieces from the Space Shuttle, young visitors are invited over to the Family Activity Area to create their very own make-and-take Space Shuttle Craft! Take a walk through the Solar System to see some of the missions NASA has sent off Earth and leave a message for future explorers. Finally, young visitors can learn the new dance phenomenon sweeping the Nation, our Space Shuttle Shuffle! There are also interactive educator led programs in the Jet Blue Sky Theatre Planetarium (separate admission). Visit the website for further details, hours and pricing information.

Where: Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City Info: 516-572-4111 ¶ www.cradleofaviation.org

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The home opener will be the Long Island Ducks versus the defending Freedom Division champion Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. Visit website to purchase your tickets.

Where: Bethpage Ballpark (Home of the Long Island Ducks), 3 Court House Drive, Central Islip Info: 631-940-3825 • www.liducks.com

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Culinary Architect’s famous gefilte fish These tasty fish morsels can Gefilte fish is an Ashekanzi Jewish staple at Passover Sedars all be enjoyed on Friday nights or any night. They also make for a lovely over the world.

It is made from a mixture of light lunch. fishes, carp, whitefish and/or pike and poached in a homemade fish Menu stock from the bones of such.

Makes approximately Gefilte fish is the equivalent to 12-14 servings quenelles in French cuisine.

Homemade Gefilte Fish Gefilte fish may be bought in Radicchio Cups* the supermarket, prepackaged in Fresh Horseradish jars or cans, but if you have the *Recipe Not Given time and the gumption, making your own Gefilte fish from scratch Culinary Architect Catering’s is quite rewarding. The taste is subFamous Gefilte Fish lime!

To Make The Fish: Once you eat homemade, you Approximately 3 lbs. will never eat premade again! whitefish* We, at Culinary Architect CaterApproximately 3 lbs. pike* ing, make hundreds of pieces of Ge2 medium onions, grated fine filte Fish for the holidays for our full 3 carrots, grated service and take-out clients.

3 eggs, whisked until foamy Be sure that if you undertake Approximately 1/4 cup Gefilte fish and horseradish makice water ing, your kitchen is well ventilated, 2 tblsps. matzoh meal as fish smells linger and horseradish Approximately 1 3/4 tsp. is extremely potent.

Kosher salt If you would like the taste of Approximately 1 tblsp. sugar homemade, but cannot invest the *Ground by your fish monger time, Gefilte fish and horseradish maybe ordered by the piece ($5.25) To Make The Stock: and by the half pint ($8.95).

Heads, skin, and bones Remember, it does not have to from the whitefish and pike be Passover to enjoy Gefilte fish.

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Bring to a boil over high heat and simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, checking every now and then.

Remove any foam that rises to the top. Let stock cool.

2. Wet a cheesecloth with cold water, wring dry, and drape over a large bowl; strain stock. Wring cloth well to obtain all flavor and liquid from fish. This stock will be cloudy.

Rinse pan and pour in strained stock.

3. Place the fish in a large, preferably metal bowl and add car-

rots and onions. Mix with a chopper (or I use my hands), then pour in eggs in a slow stream and mix with chopper until they are very well combined. Do the same with the ice water and matzoh meal, adding them 1 tablespoonful at a time. Be patient and continue combining for about 15 minutes to make the ground fish soft to the touch. Season with remaining ingredients and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

4. Have a bowl of cold water Continued on Page 31

The Culinary Architect 2 onions, sliced 1 carrot, quartered 7 cups cold water 1 tblsp. Kosher salt 2 1/2 tsp. sugar 10 peppercorns

To Make The Sauce: 4 carrots, peeled and sliced on the diagonal 1 leek, cleaned thoroughly and julienned 1. To make the stock: Place all of the fish trimmings, onions, carrot, water and seasoning in a large pan.

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Culinary Architect’s famous gefilte fish Continued from Page 30 nearby. Wet hands well and shape fish, 2 heaping tablespoonfuls at a time, into very smooth ovals. Drop them carefully into gently boiling fish stock and proceed until all are made. Be sure to wet your hands well each time.

5. Shake pan and cook fish gently, covered, turning them from time to time for 1 1/2 hours. Let cool and correct seasoning of sauce.

Transfer fish to a tightly covered container and refrigerate.

6. Stock will make a soft jelly, add sliced carrots and leeks to stock/jelly and cook until soft, approximately 20 minutes. Chill jelly mixture until serving.

7. To serve, place a radicchio cup on each plate. Place gefilte fish in center. Top with a large spoonful of jellied fish stock, carrots and leeks. Serve with fresh grated horseradish.

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Dietary changes Pain is often linked to inflammation in the body. When eating, choose foods that won’t worsen existing inflammation. Eating less sugar, dairy, and gluten products, which can contribute to inflammation, can help a person feel better. Increase consumption of foods that reduce inflammation, such as raw vegetables.

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Take the sun A Boston University study that examined 221 men and women with knee osteoarthritis found that those who spent 15 to 20 minutes in the sun increased their body’s production of vitamin D and experienced less pain as a result. When the sun is scarce, it’s adviseable to get between 400 and 800 IUs of vitamin D daily through supplements and foods.

Brisk walking Fast walking is a low-impact cardiovascular exercise that utilizes most of the body. Walking encourages blood circulation, removes toxins, burns calories, and stabilizes blood fats and sugars.

Plus endorphins released from exercise can help a person feel good. A great thing about walking is just about anyone can do it.

Mind-body exercises Exercises that combine focus with stretching can alleviate physical pain and improve mental clarity. Look for yoga, pilates and meditation classes and give them a try.

Chronic pain may be relieved with the use of natural remedies, which help pain sufferers reduce their reliance on overthe-counter or prescription medications.

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The benefits of reading

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any people are avid readers, feeling that a good book remains the most entertaining form of escapism. But reading provides more than just an opportunity to leave the daily grind behind.

While many people may read to immerse themselves in something other than a movie or a television show, they may not know about all the additional benefits they are enjoying when cuddling up with a good book.

Reading can improve brain function.

A recent study from researchers at Emory University discovered that reading a novel can improve brain function in various ways. During the study, researchers found that reading fiction improves connectivity in the brain. In addition, reading fiction improved readers’ ability to put themselves in other peoples’ shoes, which might help them relate better to people in both the present and future.

Reading can benefit long-term brain health. While readers engrossed

in a great book might only be worried about what’s coming on the next page, the benefits to reading are much more long-term than the next chapter.

Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that reading is one of a handful of mentally stimulating activities that can benefit brain health in old age. In their Rush Memory and Aging Project, researchers examined nearly 300 elderly men and women, giving them tests of memory and thinking throughout the final years of their lives. When participants, who were surveyed as to how often they engaged in mentally stimulating activities such as reading, passed away, their brains were examined for signs of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Researchers discovered that the participants who engaged in mentally challenging activities most often had slower rates of memory decline. In addition, even those who had symptoms of brain damage that are commonly associated with Alzheimer’s and dementia seemed to benefit from the stimulation that mentally challenging activities produced.

Reading can help reduce stress.

Another big benefit of reading is its relationship to stress. According to a 2009 study from researchers at the University of Sussex in England, reading can reduce stress by up to 68 percent. In addition, reading might help relieve that stress even faster than other forms of stress relief because it allows for a more immediate escape from the stress of daily life.

Reading can help you get a more restful night’s sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, engaging

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Reading is not only a favorite activity for many people, but it’s also something that can benefit the body in myriad ways.

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Save money and still get in shape

Committing to multiple personal training sessions as opposed to paying on a session-by-session basis is one potential way to save money when trying to get in shape.

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he costs of getting fit can sometimes seem formidable. Men and women on tight budgets may feel that gym memberships, home exercise equipment or costly personal training sessions are simply beyond their means.

Such concerns can have long-term negative impacts on individuals’ health, which only highlights the need to find ways to save when attempting to get in shape.

While there is no shortage of ways to spend money when trying to get back in shape, there are even more ways to save when adopting a healthier lifestyle.

Buy in bulk. Many professional fitness services, whether it’s gym memberships or personal training sessions, offer greater discounts to individuals willing to make bigger commitments. Men and women who commit to a 12-month gym membership instead of going month-tomonth can typically save a substantial amount of money each month by making such long-term commitments. For example, a gym may charge $89 for a month-to-month membership, but only $69 per month for people who commit for a full year. That’s a savings of nearly 23 percent. Personal trainers also typically offer considerable discounts to clients who commit to a greater number of sessions than those who simply purchase one session at a time.

Join a gym at the right moment.

Many gyms capitalize on people’s New Year’s resolutions to get fit by offering steep discounts to men and women who sign up at the end of December or in January. Others may discount memberships in late winter when people want to

get in shape before the return of beach season. Signing up during the height of discount season or when gyms are offering special discounts, such as anniversary or holiday deals, can save you a lot of money over the course of the year.

Work out at home. If a gym membership is simply beyond your means, create your own workout area at home.

Visit a nearby sporting goods store and purchase some weights and go for jogs around the neighborhood to meet your daily cardiovascular exercise goals. If space is limited at home, embrace yoga.

Yoga provides both strength and balance training, and all you need is room for a yoga mat.

Investigate your health insurance.

Many health insurance providers offer gym membership rebates to their customers. If you have never had a gym membership in the past, you may not even know if your provider offers this benefit. Gym membership rebates typically require that policy holders visit their gyms ‘X’ number of times in a sixor 12-month span (i.e., 50 times in six months or 100 times in 12 months) in order to earn rebates. A $400 annual rebate on a gym membership that costs $69 per month cuts the yearly cost of that gym membership by nearly 50 percent. If your existing insurance plan does not offer such rebates, speak with your employer about including it when the time comes to renew the insurance offerings in the future.

Getting fit does not have to break the bank. Health-conscious men and women can find numerous ways to save on their journeys to living more active lifestyles.

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Be smart about antibiotic use

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hen used correctly, antibiotics and similar drugs known as antimicrobial agents can alleviate infections caused by various bacteria and some types of fungi and parasites.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that these drugs have been used successfully for the last 70 years to treat patients with infectious diseases.

But antibiotics cannot treat

illnesses stemming from viruses, which include most colds and the flu.

As effective as antibiotics can be, antibiotic resistance is a growing problem. The CDC reports that at least two million people become infected with bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, and roughly 23,000 people die each year as a result of these types of infections. An April 2014 report from the World

Health Organization stated, “This serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country. It is now a major threat to public health.”

occurs, a stronger drug may be needed to treat an infection that was once taken care of by a milder medication.

The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics says antibiotic resistance occurs when an antibiotic has lost its ability to effectively control or kill bacterial growth. The three main ways resistance develops include natural resistance to certain types of antibiotics, genetic mutation or through the acquisition of resistance from another bacterium. This resistance can occur spontaneously or through misuse of antibiotics or antimicrobials.

Prescription medications are not always the culprits, either.

Antibiotic use in livestock and food production also may contribute to resistance.

Become educated. The health resource Medscape, powered by WebMD, says in a recent survey of 796 clinicians, 42 percent of doctors have admitted to prescribing antibiotics 10 to 24 percent of the time even when they are not sure they are necessary.

Patient request is a large factor in such offerings. About 25 percent of patients ask their doctor or nurse for antibiotics. Patients who educate themselves about the proper application of antibiotics may be less likely to request them, and that can help prevent the development of a resistance.

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Concert pianist to Bx. opera company to play Temple Emanuel perform ‘Cinderella’ The fourth season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 p.m., with a concert by pianist Richard Glazier entitled, Richard Glazier salutes The American Popular Song.

Glazier, an award-winning pianist and master storyteller, takes audiences on a musical tour of the 20th century in this fascinating program dedicated to the American Popular Song.

Using his piano as a time machine, he starts when Ragtime was King and continues through the decades that followed, with stops in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood.

Glazier’s exciting piano performance includes inside stories and rare film and audio clips. Whether he’s playing the music of Joplin, Gershwin, Rodgers, Kern or a host of other Golden Era composers, Glazier

brings new life to old favorites.

He has performed in every state of the union, at the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institute and Carnegie Hall. Glazier’s concerts have inspired two national television specials: “From Gershwin to Garland — A Musical Journey With Richard Glazier,” which was broadcast on PBS stations throughout the country in 2010, and “From Ragtime to Reel Time — Richard Glazier in Concert,” which aired on PBS stations in March 2012.

Following the concert, there will be refreshments.

Tickets are $15 or 2@$25. For further information about subscription discounts and to purchase tickets, call (516) 4825701.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.

SCW Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present “Richard Glazier salutes The American Popular Song” on Sunday, May 1.

Clark Garden to hold spring plant sale North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board have partnered with the Clark Garden Auxiliary for the 47th Annual Spring Plant Sale at Clark Botanic Garden on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The annual sale will feature annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, hanging baskets and vegetables for purchase. The plant sale raises money for the Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden Inc. “This time of year Clark Botanic Garden is at the height of its beauty with tulips, daffodils and other spring blossoms,” Bosworth said. “We invite you to pack a picnic for Mom, visit the garden Mother’s Day Weekend for the plant sale and enjoy spending time in an oasis of peace and nature.”

Collections at the garden include na-

tive spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs, butterfly plants, medicinal plants, and over a dozen collections of particular plant families.

The Plant Sale will also feature: Art Show; Attic Treasures; Garden Gift Shop; Tea Room (sandwiches and home-made cakes); Raffles and Bioferm, “Black Gold” for your garden Founded in 1969, Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre living museum and educational facility dedicated to understanding and appreciating the world’s plant life through horticulture, education and research. It is located at 193 I. U. Willets Road in Albertson.

Admission to the plant sale is free and cash or check only is accepted when purchasing plants. For more information, please call 311 or (516) 869-6311.

An opera-in-concert of “Cinderella” (“La Cenerentola”) by Gioachino Rossini will be presented by The Bronx Opera Company on Wednesday, May 4, at 8 p.m. at Hofstra University’s Helene Fortunoff Theater.

Favorite excerpts from Rossini’s beloved masterpiece will be performed by the Opera’s outstanding professional singers with piano accompaniment and narration by Maestro Michael Spierman.

While “La Cenerentola” is based on the Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale, “Cinderella,” or the “Little Glass Slipper,” there are some plot differences. In this version the wicked stepmother has been replaced by a wicked stepfather, Don Magnifico; the fairy godmother has become Alidoro, a philosopher and tutor to the prince; and most importantly, it is with a bracelet, not a glass slipper, that the prince discovers his true love.

Director Rod Gomez says, “Those familiar with the Disney version of the story might be surprised at some of Rossini’s changes…and I don’t think there will be any mice! Rossini does maintain the moral focus of the story, however, with the

triumph of modesty and generosity over vanity and greed.”

The Bronx Opera Company has had an 18-year affiliation with Hofstra University. This concert performance of Cinderella (La Cenerentola) — designed to be a more intimate experience— will be performed in English.

Tickets are $15, $12 for senior citizens (over 65) and matriculated nonHofstra students with ID. Members of the Hofstra community may receive up to two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard.

Children and teens under the age of 16 receive one free ticket when accompanied by an adult paying full price.

For tickets call the Hofstra Box Office at 516-463-6644 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 60 minutes prior to show time.

This production is presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center as part of the Joseph G. Astman International Concert Series.

JCC to host author Pam Jenoff May 5 Sid Jacobson JCC will host author Pam Jenoff on May 5 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss her book “The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach” as part of the JCC’s Author Breakfast and Book Signing series.

The book tells the story of Adelia Monteforte who flees Italy for America in the summer of 1941 where she meets and falls for Charlie Connally.

Their hope for a future together is stopped by the war and a tragedy that hits close to home.

Adelia flees to Washington and then war-torn London for a job and finds the chance to redeem lost time, family and love.

Her past haunts her and in a final, fateful

choice she discovers that the way home may be the path she never suspected.

Jenoff is an international bestselling author of several novels. She previously served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army at the Pentagon and State Department officer.

Tickets are $40 for Sid Jacobson JCC members and $50 for non-members and can be purchased at www.sjjcc.org.

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org Wednesday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” at Furman Film Series Sunday, May 15, 4 to 7 p.m.

Opening Reception: Off the Wall May 15 to September 6 Art Exhibit: Off the Wall LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

The Subdudes Friday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Afro Cuban All Stars Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

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

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs Thursday, June 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Tommy Emmanuel STEPHEN C. WIDOM CULTURAL ARTS AT EMANUEL 150 Hicks Lane, Great Neck (516) 482-5701 • www.scwculturalarts.org/ emanuel-series/ Sunday, May 1, 3 p.m.

Richard Glazier Sunday, May 15, 3 p.m.

Paul Begala & Steve Schmidt Sunday, June 5, 3 p.m.

Harvey Granat presents “By George!” with special guest Todd Gershwin NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury.

(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, April 22, 8 p.m.

Mike Epps Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.

Martin Short Saturday, April 30, 3 p.m.

Kool & The Gang Sunday, May 1, 7 p.m.

Under The Streetlamp Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.

Chris Isaak Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

Generation Axe! - A Night Of Guitars Saturday, May 7, 7 p.m.

The Whispers, The Manhattans, Regina Belle Friday, May 13, 7 p.m.

ABBA Friday, May 14, 7 p.m.

I Love the 90s Show Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m.

Frankie Ballard Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m.

The Zombies, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals Tuesday, May 31, 8 p.m.

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience Saturday, June 4, 8 p.m.

Saturday Night Summer Fever Concert Thursday, June 9, 8 p.m.

Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. Friday, June 10, 8 p.m.

Johnny Mathis Thursday, June 16, 8 p.m.

Don Rickles & Regis Philbin: Conversa-

tion & Clips Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

Happy Together feat. Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron Sunday, June 19, 8 p.m.

Boyz II Men Saturday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m.

Air Supply Friday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m.

Charlie Daniels Band Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m.

Joe Bonamassa The Space at Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Thursday, Apr. 28, 8 p.m.

Gnarly Karma - Nectar - The Gray Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

David Bromberg Quintet Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.

The Fab Faux Thursday, May 12, 8 p.m.

Iris DeMent & Loudon Wainwright III Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.

Dark Star Orchestra Thursday, June 2, 8 p.m.

The Studio Rocks Friday, June 10, 8 p.m.

Mary Chapin Carpenter Wednesday, June 15, 8 p.m.

Guster Thursday, June 30, 8 p.m.

Los Lonely Boys Friday, July 1, 8 p.m.

The Lords of 52nd Street Friday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m.

Hot Tuna (Electric) w/Leftover Salmon Friday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.

The Wailers ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ Tuesday, April 26 - Sunday, May 1, various times The Shadow Box Friday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Adelphi Jazz Ensemble: Meditations of Miles Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m.

Adelphi Chorale: Raise Your Voice! Sing Out Loud TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org Sunday, April 24, 8 p.m.

Bach to Bernstein Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.

Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m.

Mozart Orchestra of New York Sunday, May 1, 11 a.m. 1 & 4 p.m.

Monday, May 2, 10 a.m. 12 p.m.

Presentation House Theatre presents Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are Saturday, May 7, 7 p.m.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Saturday, May 14, 8:30 p.m.

Itzhak Perlman Sunday, May 15, 2 & 7 p.m.

42nd Street The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, April 22, 8 p.m.

Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot Saturday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.

Joe DeGuardia’s STAR Boxing Presents “Rockin’ Fights 23” - featuring Joe Smith Sunday, April 24, 8 p.m.

Brit Floyd Tuesday, April 26, 8 p.m.

The Gipsy Kings Friday, April 29, 8 p.m.

Robby Krieger with special guest Mountain’s Leslie West Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.

Bush Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

Thompson Square Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.

The Weight Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Wednesday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.

Bullet for My Valentine with Asking Alexandria & Cane Hill Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.

I Love the 90’s Show with The Fresh Kids of Bel-Air with Special Guest – Dee Wiz Tuesday, May 17, 7 p.m.

Lamb of God, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity

Wednesday, May 18, 8 p.m.

Hollywood Undead Friday, May 20, 8 p.m.

Jim Jefferies˜ Saturday, May 21, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 22, 8 p.m.

Andrew Dice Clay Saturday, May 28, 8 p.m.

Jo Koy Friday, June 3, 8 p.m.

I Love the 90’s Show with The Fresh Kids of Bel-Air with Special Guest – Dee Wiz Friday, June 10, 8 p.m.

Friday Night Fever Friday, June 13, 7:30 p.m.

Voyage w/ Fleetwood Macked Sunday, June 26, 8 p.m.

Creedence Clearwater Revisited Friday, July 1, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 2, 8 p.m.

Get The Led Out – The American Led Zeppelin Tuesday, July 12, 8 p.m.

Michael McDonald Friday, July 21, 8 p.m.

Gin Blossoms Friday, July 22, 8 p.m.

The 2016 Summerland Tour: Sugar Ray, Everclear, Sponge & Lit! Friday, July 29, 8 p.m.

Grateful Overkill: Half Step, The Rumble Tuesday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.

Michael Bolton Saturday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m.

Little Feat Friday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Boyce Avenue

Community Calendar Project Independence Support & Social Group The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence is reminding residents that they offer free support and social groups. Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser The Nassau County Chapter of the National Association of Professional Women* (NAPW) will host its biggest fundraiser of the year for the Ronald McDonald House of New Hyde Park which will be held at: The American Legion Hall: Post 144, 730 Willis Avenue, Williston Park. Saturday, June 11 from 6 to 10 p.m. This fun-filled night will include a buffet dinner, open bar, door prizes, and basket raffles. Raffle tickets will be sold at the event. The cost of a ticket is $48.00 and can be purchased via this link: http://napwronaldmcdonaldhouse.eventbrite.com. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.

Northport Chorale The Northport Chorale presents John Rutter’s Gloria and other Rutter favorites on Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m. Northport High School, 154 Laurel Hill Rd, Northport. $15 Adults, $12 Seniors, $10 Students. Tickets available at the door. Call 631-223-3789 for more info or visit www.northportchorale. com

Area Cyclists Unite There are several area cyclists & cycling groups that ride before or after work on Weekdays. Let’s Ride Together !! A bigger group is more fun and a better work out. I invite you to join the areas longest running Weekday cycling group. When: Weekdays before work or after work Where: parking lot across from Great Neck Diner, Corner of Bond Street and Grace Avenue.

Description of ride : About 15 miles in about one hour, 20 minutes (Non stop) We start and finish at the same location. Routes and speeds vary depending on the group.

Ride is canceled if the roads are wet or temperature is below 40 degrees. Free parking in the lot till 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m.

Helmets and road bikes mandatory. Beginners welcome. Ride at your own risk. April to November. Come & meet others who are interested in your sport, you may even pick up a pointer or two from one of the veteran cyclists. Call David (Speedy) Emanuel. Most Days, Mobile 516-840-9370 Most Eves, Home: 516-487-8065 before 9:45 p.m.. for schedule and to confirm your participation.

For Trivia Lovers At 7 p.m. Two Wednesday nights each month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 625-8804 for information.

HONESTY IS GIVING YOUR WORD… INTEGRITY IS KEEPING IT! ROBERTA WEINBERG

KNOWN GLOBALLY. LOVED LOCALLY.

Licensed Associate Real Estate Salesperson

C: 516.384.2262 | rweinberg@elliman.com Manhasset Office | 154 Plandome Road 110 WALT WHITMAN ROAD, HUNTINGTON STATION, NY, 11746. 631.549.7401 | © 2016 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE.

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Roslyn Bow Tie to host Bike-to-Work Fashion L.I. documentary maker Parade at Hofstra May 7 Long Island documentary filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum will be coming to Roslyn’s Bow Tie Cinemas Mother’s Day weekend to show and discuss her new movie “Look At Us Now, Mother!”

Kirschenbaum, whose only previous full-length directing credit was 2004’s “A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary,” chose a subject much more intimate subject matter for her sophomore effort.

“I never expected to make such a deeply personal film,” Kirschenbaum said. “I had spent most of my career behind the camera telling other people’s stories, but it soon became apparent that the highly charged relationship I had

with my mother and its transformation from hate to love was a story I had to tell.”

Comprised primarily of decades-worth of intimate family home movies and videos that were never meant for public viewing — from 8mm film coverage of Kirschenbaum’s outwardly “Leave it to Beaver-esque” childhood in an upwardly-mobile Long Island suburb, to personal family celebrations, fights, and even tragedies right up to the present — the film is a story of one determined woman’s quest to reconcile with and understand her past, which means forgiving her proud, narcissistic and formidable elderly mother, Mildred.

With equal parts humor and pathos, Kirschenbaum invites the audience to take this epic journey along with her — an odyssey of discovery with no bump in the road edited out.

When Mildred grudgingly agrees to participate in the process, the two of them uncover shocking family secrets and longburied suffering that throw their family history into sharp relief, and begin to shift the dynamics of their complex relationship.

“Look At Us Now Mother!” may be about one mother-daughter relationship, but its insights and lessons are universal.

Kirschenbaum brings her unique brand of fearless honesty and laughaloud humor to a film that took decades to shoot, about a relationship that took a lifetime to mend.

The event will take place May 6.

Kirschenbaum also worked as producer on a number of reality-based television shows, including “Ancient Mysteries,” “Mysteries of the Bible” and “Biography.”

What’s more Dutch than bike riding, and this year Hofstra University’s Dutch Family Festival, to be held on Saturday, May 7, is hosting Car-less Long Island’s first Bike-to-Work Fashion Parade.

The Parade (9-10:30 a.m.) follows a 6.5 mile loop (2.3 miles for those with less stamina) starting at Hofstra, looping through Eisenhower Park and ending at the Dutch Family Festival, which opens at 11 a.m. and runs through 4 p.m.

Admission to enter the Dutch Family Festival and parking are free.

Participation in the Bike-to-Work Fashion Parade is also free, but participants are encouraged to register beforehand. The registration form and more information about the parade can be found at www.Car-lessLI.org/ parade.

The first 200 registrants who show up for the parade will receive free Tshirts. Participants are also encouraged to dress-up and decorate their bikes.

There will be prizes given for the best outfits (both flamboyant and professional) and most impressive bikes.

As with last year’s Dutch Family Festival, carnival rides and games for small children are part of the fun, and the focus of the entertainment lineup is Hofstra’s student talent, with a full itinerary of music and theater taking place on two stages.

As always, Hofstra’s tulips will be in bloom (weather permitting) and there will be vendors offering Mother’s

Day “shopportunities.” The East End Trio will also be back to perform music from the 1960s-2000s.

Among the highlights of the day are: · Children’s carnival games and rides (nominal fees) · Hofstra Arboretum Plant Sale · Hofstra Spectrum Theater performs Alice in Wonderland · Hofstra Drama Program presents Suessical · Performances by Hofstra’s Music Ensembles, including the Jazz Ensemble · Ceramics demonstration and display by the Fine Arts Department faculty and students · Performances by the Hofstra Cheer Team, Dance Team and Pep Band The Hofstra Dutch Family Festival, now in its 33rd year, is co-sponsored by the D’Addario Music Appreciation Initiative.

The Festival will go on, rain or shine, outdoors on Hofstra’s South Campus.

Call Hofstra’s Festival Hotline at (516) 463-6582 or visit www.hofstra.edu/Festivals for more information and the most up-to-date listings of entertainment. For vendor information call Jessie Garcia at (516) 463-6580.

Guests may also become a fan of Hofstra University Festivals on Facebook.

Register in advance for the Bike-toWork Parade at www.Car-lessLI.org/parade . There is no fee to enter.

More information is available and a festival itinerary will be posted at www. hofstra.edu/festivals.

Huntington Village Save the Horseshoe Art Walk on May 14 Crab spring events The Huntington Arts Council, in conjunction with The Huntington Art Center, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington Historical Society, b.j. spoke gallery, fotofoto gallery and Chelsea Studio and Gallery will take part in the 2016 Huntington Village Art Walk. This free event takes place Saturday, May 14, from 4 to 8 p.m.

This self guided walk will provide a fun way to build more awareness of, and help expand, Huntington’s art scene.

Currently the walk includes these seven locations; Huntington Arts Council, The Huntington Art Center, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington Historical Society, b.j. spoke gallery, fotofoto gallery and Chelsea Studio and Gallery.

Each venue will be providing refreshments, opportunities to purchase raffle tickets and in some cases will have artist(s) on site to discuss their source of

passion and inspiration.

Wendy Curtis of the Huntington Arts Center, who worked on putting the idea in motion, acknowledges that the concept may have been “tossed around” for years, but really resonated with her when a customer called looking for art to display in her new home. Not necessarily knowing where to go and being resistant to going into the city, Wendy told her there were great choices right here in Huntington Village. “ So the spark was lit, and off I went to collaborate with our galleries and museums to create more awareness of Huntington’s art scene. Plenty of people know to come to the village for the restaurants, and we would like to help foster the arts and grow the art scene! In the future, we may grow the number of participating locations while still keeping it an intimate experience.” Wendy said.

In an effort to protect a species that has survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, Dr. John T. Tanacredi, director of Molloy College’s Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring, and professor of BCES is leading the 14th year of inventory at 111 sites on Long Island, ranging from Montauk to Brooklyn.

The horseshoe crab inventory counts will take place on May 21, June 5, 20, and July 4. Prior to the taking inventory, a short training session will be given to volunteers. One training session will be on April 22, at the Earth Day Colloquium at Molloy College at 12:30 p.m., in Kellenberg Hall, Room K106.

For more information on volunteering, and other training dates, please contact Mr. Sixto Portilla at sportilla@ molloy.edu or 516.323.3590.

As noted in Dr. Tanacredi’s book,

“Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs,” horseshoe crabs around the world face a set of common and growing threats, including overfishing, habitat loss and alteration, and pollution.

Horseshoe crabs provide a chemical, LAL, which is used in hospitals to detect bacterial contamination.

Also, the eggs of horseshoe crabs feed tens of millions of migrating shore birds each year, including ones that may be on the verge of endangerment.

“Over the last 16 years there has been considerable controversy over the extent to which horseshoe crab harvesting has impacted the species’ existence,” Tanacredi said. “Long Island historically has had a robust population of horseshoe crabs, but today it is a mere skeletal population, a trend that is world-wide.”

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Save the Date

North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s

SPRING2016 LUNCHEON at May 18

Glen Head Country Club

Boutiques and Mahjong, Canasta or Bridge Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sandra R. Wolkoff

Nationally renowned child development expert, author, lecturer and psychotherapist

For information or to register, call (516) 626-1971 ext. 337 or visit: www.northshorechildguidance.org/events

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Williston Library Williston Park Park Library From the Director: Please be aware that the library will be closed Tuesday, May 31-Friday, June 3 for the installation of new shelving. Materials can still be returned in the book/media bins outside the library. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We are suspending the acceptance of donations until further notice. We simply do not have the storage space.

If you would like to receive e-mail notifications on upcoming programs, please send an e-mail to willistonpr@yahoo.com with your contact information. You can be notified for adult pro-

grams, children’s programs or general information, or you can add your name to all three!

Please note that beginning February 1, we will be making reminder calls to those patrons with museum pass reservations on the morning of their scheduled pick up date. Patrons will have until the end of that day to pick up the pass. If it is not picked up, the reserve will be cancelled and the pass will made available to other patrons.

Here are some new arrivals to the library: She’s Not There — Joy Fielding Prime Time — Hank Phil-

lippi Ryan Annabel Lee — Mike Nappa Somewhere Out There — Amy Hatvany Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City — Matthew Desmond Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt & the Land of America — Douglas Brinkley The First Congress — Fergus Bordewich Predator — Wilbur Smith Darkness — Karen Robards

ADULt Reiki Circle Tuesdays, April 26; May 10 and 24 at 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Library. There is a $10

fee due at registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Falls Prevention Lecture Thursday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Doctors from Northwell Health will be presenting this lecture.

Adult Coloring Tuesday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library. We will provide the pages and colored pencils. Free. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

St. Francis Hospital Community Outreach Bus Thursday, May 5 at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the Library. All adults 18 years and older are welcome to receive a free health screening. Includes a brief cardiac history, blood pressure and

blood test for cholesterol and diabetes. Free. No registration or appointment is necessary.

Book Discussion Wednesday, May 25, at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. The selection is I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk.

CHILDREN Story Hour for Tots Thursdays, April 21 and 28; May 5, 12, 19 and 26, at 11 a.m. in the Library for children 1-3 yrs old.

After School Story Hour Thursdays, April 21 and 28; May 5, 12, 19 and 26,

at 4 p.m. in the Library for children K-2.

Spring Story Time Wednesdays, April 20 and 27; May 4, 11, 18 and 25, at 1:30 p.m. in the Library for children 3 ½-5.

LEGO time Wednesdays, April 20 and 27; May 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Library for children of all ages.

Pajama Story Time Wednesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Library for children of all ages.

Tiny Tykes Wednesday, April 20 in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Choose from 2 sessions: 10:15-11:15 OR 11:3012:30. There is a $45 fee due at time of registration.

East Library East Williston Williston Library AUTHOR EVENT: Friday, May 20 at 7:30 p.m.: Hal Bock – “The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty Before The Curse.” East Williston author Hal Bock will be here to discuss his new book “The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty Before The Curse”. This book tells the story of the legendary Chicago team and the characters central to its success.

EVENING BOOK GROUP: “The Martian” by Andy Weir. The group will meet on Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. Please register at the library.

The discussion is limited to 15

readers.

AFTERNOON BOOK GROUP: “The Accidental Empress” by Allison Pataki. The group will meet Tuesday May 10 at 1:30 p.m.

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

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life. Are you looking for a new job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you. Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org TUMBLEBOOK LIBRARY: TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated picture books which teach young children the joys

of reading in a format they’ll love.

Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours are Monday & Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Photo identification is required.

Documents to be notarized must be signed at the time of notarization, not before. You must bring your own witness if needed. Please telephone the Library to confirm a notary is available.

COLLECTION ON DISPLAY: The East Williston Public Library

Friends will be displaying a variety of Girl Scout memorabilia including achievement patches and awards, photos, and craft projects, in the Library display cabinet in the Village Hall. The participating Girl Scout troops are 1446 - Kindergarten, 1298 - 3rd Grade, 1825 - 4th Grade, and 1849 - 7th Grade. For information about the Troops, leave your name, and phone number or e-mail, at the Library circulation desk.

Register for all programs by calling 741-1213 or email us at ewpl@ ewlibrary.org

Mineola Library Mineola Public Public Library ADULT progrAms SCORE Workshops* Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on April 20, 27, May 4, 11. The following Long Island SCORE Workshops will be presented at the library by volunteers from SCORE, a resource partner of the US Small Business Administration

(SBA): Four Workshops: 1.

Starting and Growing Your Own Business — April 20; 2. Writing a Business Plan — April 27; 3. Marketing Your Own Business — May 4; 4.

Social Media Marketing For Business — May 11.

which helps homeowners make their homes energy efficient and more comfortable, while generating good paying jobs and community revitalization. Join Ryan Madden for cost savings ideas to use in your home.

Power Up Communities: Home Energy Efficiency* Friday, May 6 at 2 p.m.

Power Up Communities is a new green energy campaign

St. Francis Outreach Bus Wednesday, May 11 at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Staff from St. Francis Hospital will be doing simple Cardiac and Diabetic

Testing. First come, first served.

Paint Party Fundraiser* Sponsored by Friends of the Mineola Memorial Library Wednesday, May 18 at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Join the Friends of the Library for a fun night of painting, with no experience necessary! This handson artistic event will include step by step instruction by Celicia Cargill of Authentic

HeARTwork on how to create your own version of a sample painting. All materials will be provided and you will take home your finished masterpiece! Refreshments will be served. Tickets for this event, available at the Reference Desk, cost $35.00 per person with proceeds going to the Friends of the Mineola Memorial Library. Registration is at the Reference Desk.

Attendance is limited, so be

sure to reserve your space now!

Feature Film Series Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; Fridays at 11 a.m.. Please join us on April 14 and 15 for Steve Jobs.

Book Club Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m..

Join us for a discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Shelter Rock Library Computer Class Setting Up Your New Windows 10 Computer Wednesday, April 27 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Learn how to set up your new computer to enhance your work environment. You

will create tiles, icons and folders, get apps from the app store, set up and install new programs and much more. Prerequisites: Computer Kindergarten or equivalent. Be comfort-

able with your Windows 10 computer. Space is limited.

Registration for Shelter Rock patrons begins April 6 at the Reference Desk.

Blood Pressure Screening

In the Conference Room.

Tuesday, April 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A nurse f rom St. Francis Hospital will be conducting free blood pressure screenings on the fourth Tuesday of

each month. No registration required. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Senior Rap Group ... for the 55+ set who have

a lifetime of experiences to share! Anyone interested in joining the group is welcome.

Topics vary and the conversation is lively and provocative.

Monday, May 2 at 11 a.m.

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North Hills development raises concerns B y N egl a h Sharma The Village of North Hills planning board on Wednesday heard concerns from residents about trees on and near the Gabrielli Hills subdivision as the owner seeks financial relief from the village.

The applicant, Frank Gabrielli, is seeking a reduction of or release from three bonds imposed by the village including a $600,000 bond for site improvement, a $100,000 bond for lighting and landscaping and a $100,000 catch-all bond.

Kathleen Deegan Dickson, the applicant’s representative, said Gabrielli is not seeking reduction or release of a $100,000 tree preservation bond and is proposing replacing two white spruces where old pine trees used to stand.

“Among the other conditions that are covered by this bond, there’s a requirement that trees off the property within a 100 feet of the boundary be preserved.”

Village Attorney A. Thomas Levin said.

Dickson said the site improvement bond should be revisited or released after Nassau County approves plans for a curb-cut clearance connecting Gabrielli Court to Old Shelter Rock Road, which she said was scheduled to be inspected last Friday.

Gabrielli’s attorney said the bond should be reduced be-

cause the landscaping has been completed with the exception of three trees. “(Building Superintendent Donald) Alberto’s memo states that he recommends a reduction of the $600,000 site improvement bond to $100,000,” Dickson said.

In asking for a reduction, Dickson said the current survey study missed important structures such as two monuments, multiple trees on the property, and a lightpost.

Tina Bonatti, who lives at 6 Gabrielli Court and is Frank Gabrielli’s daughter, said dogwood and viburnum trees were planted at 2 Gabrielli Court, and two more spruce trees are going to be replaced.

“We’re proposing to replace the two pine trees that came down with white spruces, which are a better quality tree and will be placed in the same location,” Dickson said.

Shelter Rock Road resident Keith Morgan expressed concerns about the development encroaching on his property and quality of life.

Morgan, said the Gabrielli development has dumped trash on his property, conducted unapproved site development plans and listed numerous treerelated violations of village code throughout 2015.

Morgan said some trees were scheduled to be saved under a tree preservation plan, but were actually removed.

Photo by Neglah Sharma

The Village of North Hills planning board heard residents concerned about trees near the Gabrielli Court subdivision last Wednesday.

He showed the board five photographs, at least three of which depicted limbs and branches trimmed.

“There were trees that were pruned which were within three feet of (my) property line,” Morgan said.

Bonatti said the pictures Morgan presented were misleading, and that no trees were destroyed.

She said Morgan and Gabrielli “do not get along,” and that Morgan is looking to recover almost $25,000 in damages.

“He wants 25 new ‘specimen trees,’ instead of the black cherry elms, which grew wild,” she said.

Bonatti said Morgan lives one house before Gabrielli

Court, and is upset that he will lose his privacy, because there are now three houses where there was one.

Francis B. Semi, president of North Hills Colony Condominium, expressed his concern of a possible catch-all bond reduction, which covers trees off the Gabrielli property line.

Semi said he sent claims against the catch-all bonds containing “arborous evaluations” to Gabrielli on Sept. 15 and Jan. 16.

“We had to take down one tree and billing was involved,” Semi said.

He added that according to Walsh’s statement, many tree roots were removed to level the Gabrielli property, causing dam-

age to trees on adjacent properties.

The board asked Semi to submit any ideas or suggestions that he had to rectify this.

The board reserved decision on all the bonds and closed the hearing on the application an environmental study was conducted by Michael Dejulio, Chairman David Kass said.

The board will have an update next month on the proposed reductions after conducting a new survey.

Building Department Superintendent Donald Alberto and Cameron Engineering will review the new survey materials prior to next month’s meeting before rendering a decision, officials said.

Hellen Keller walk/run draws 500 participants

By S a r a h M in k ewi c z More than 500 people of all ages and abilities joined together at the Sands Point Preserve for Helen’s Run/Walk 2016 on April 17 hosted by the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults.

“I’m amazed at how many wonderful individuals turned out not just to celebrate a beautiful spring day but also support the work HKNC does for deaf-blind individuals,” Development Officer Marina Carroll said.

The Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults is a national organization based in Sands Point that enables individuals who are blind, visually impaired, deaf-blind or have combined hearing and vision loss to live, work and thrive in the communities of their choice, according to the Hellen Keller National Center website.

“HKNC students come from all across the country and we strive to offer them a healthy lifestyle while they are attending our independent living and vocational training program,” Carroll said.

The annual 5K/3.1 mile event benefits Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults in Sands Point, which is located at 141 Middle Neck Road.

The course offered participants panoramic views of Sands Point as they ran or walked to support people who live with a combined vision and hearing loss.

“There are over 2.4 million people who have a combined visions and hearing loss,” Carroll said.

Participants had the option of forming their own team or participating as an individual.

Development Associate for HKNC Lori Bookstaver formed the team Miles for Megan to honor the memory of her daughter Megan Bookstaver, who was shot to

death at the age of 23.

“It’s great to be out with so many people for a good cause and to be with family and friends, celebrating my daughter’s life,” Bookstaver said. “Megan you’re always in our hearts. We all love you and miss you. Love you to the moon and back.”

This is Miles for Megans second year participating in the Helen Keller walk/run and Bookstaver said they’ve raised close to $4,000.

Other top teams included Holly’s Homies and Jon Gabry, which both raised more than $2,000.

Director of communications and events Deborah Rodriguez said the event raised more than $50,000, which was this year’s goal.

All proceeds from Helen’s Run/Walk 2016 will go directly to HKNC’s recreation project that includes renovating and upgrading the gymnasium on HKNC’s campus in Sands Point.

Photo by Neglah Sharma

The Village of North Hills planning board heard residents concerned about trees near the Gabrielli Court subdivision last Wednesday.

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Kasich visits G.N. temple before primary

By J oe N i k i c Ohio Gov. John Kasich addressed hundreds of congregants at the Great Neck Synagogue Saturday, where he delivered a speech on his life experiences, his faith as a Christian and his support for Israel.

Kasich, who is seeking a bid for the Republican presidential selection against businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said after his speech he wanted to focus more on life and faith rather than politics.

“Not out of disrespect to the people who I was going to speak to but I had a lot of things that I wanted to say. I didn’t want to make a political talk,” he said. “I just wasn’t interested. If you’re in a synagogue, you talk about faith.”

At the time of his appearance, l, Kasich trailed frontrunner Trump by 36 percent and Cruz by 2 percent going into Tuesday’s New York primary, according to a CBS News poll.

Photo by Karen Rubin

Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke at the Great Neck Synagogue on April 16.

Kasich, who attends an Anglican church, said it was religion that helped him forgive the drunk driver who killed his parents in a car crash in 1987.

“I know that if that man who drove that car could turn back the hands of time, he would,” he said.

In one of his only mentions of the presidential race during the speech, Kasich said he was

“thankful” for all the different cultures of people he has met while campaigning and how they helped him show compassion to people from different walks of life.

He also pledged his support for Israel in its dealings with Palestinians, which he called a “terrible situation” for Israelis.

“The Israelites had entered the promised land and they al-

ways will be in the promised land forever, until the end of history they will be there,” Kasich said.

“I’m not neutral when it comes to Israel.”

The latest round of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in Israel began in 2013, but were suspended in April 2014 after the two sides failed to reach an agreement.

Kasich said he favors creation of an independent Palestinian state to coexist with the State of Israel, but said he would leave it up to Israeli officials to determine what was best for them.

“As I’ve said, we would all love to see some sort of a two-state solution but that’s up to the parties,” he said. “I’m not going to tell the Israelis how to run their security, how to run all their foreign policy.

If I have something to tell them, I’ll tell them without any cameras around.”

Kasich also said he was concerned with the rise of antiSemitism in the world and said it “would not be tolerated on college

campuses.”

Speaking to reporters outside the Modern Orthodox synagogue at 26 Old Mill Road after his speech, he responded to critics who might question his commitment to his run for presidency by not speaking about the campaign during his speech.

“I believe that life is more important than a political campaign because we’re here and then we’re gone,” he said. “That’s why it’s so important to live a life beyond ourselves.”

“Probably some wish I talked more about policy or whatever but that’s all I had today,” Kasich added.

State Sen. Jack Martins (ROld Westbury) was in attendance at the synagogue for Kasich’s speech.

Going into Tuesday’s primary, Kasich needs 1,093 delegates to win the nomination, but there are only 838 still available.

Trump needs 493 delegates to secure the nomination, while Cruz needs 678 delegates.

NYIT expansion plan gets Old Westbury OK B y Aded a m o l a Agb o o l a The Village of Old Westbury Board of Trustees on Monday approved the site plan application from New York Institute of Technology for a special-use permit to build dormitories, an academic building and dining facilities.

“You’ve been a great applicant and you have a great consultants but we just wanted to cross out ‘t’s and our ‘i’s before we moved forward with anything,” Mayor Fred Carillo said.

The trustees also granted NYIT site-plan approval for mitigation work to alleviate the existing flooding problems in the south

parking lot of the school’s campus.

The project calls for four residence halls with a total capacity of 699 beds, a campus commons building, an executive office building and an academic building all totaling 297,888 square feet .

Architect Patrick Curley, representing NYIT, reviewed the lo-

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Maragos honored Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos was recently honored for public service by the Long Island Conservatory of Music of Albertson at its annual gala. Pictured left to right are George Stefano of Farmingdale, Angela Maragos and Comptroller George Maragos, Long Island Conservatory President and Founder Minsun Kim and Patrick Cadet of the Long Island Conservatory.

cation, configuration and architectural make up of the proposed project.

“We chose the location of this project to unify the heart of the campus,” Curley said.

Curley said half of NYIT’s 1,050 acres of land is located in the Village of Brookville while the other half is in the Village of Old Westbury.

The seven proposed buildings are all on the village of Old Westbury side of the school’s property, Curley said.

He said the campus commons will be outfitted with a dining hall for residential and commuter students, conference rooms, offices for the school’s administrators and spaces for students to relax.

The proposed four-story residential halls are 40 feet higher than existing adjacent buildings, Curley said.

“Once the structures are built, the buildings will be well buffered by trees,” he said.

Since 2005, NYIT students, have been sharing residential halls with students at the SUNY Old Westbury campus, NYIT Vice President for Information Technology and Infrastructure Niyazi Bodur said.

Bodur said although the Old Westbury residences on Spruce Road are within driving distance of the NYIT campus the school intended the partnership to be a temporary solution.

“NYIT has been contemplating the student residences for quite some time,” Bodur said.

“Having student residences on campus will enable us to create a much more coherent and vibrant campus life. That is the primary reason to build student residences. We have been open with SUNY Old Westbury about this from the start.”

He said the school was not able to begin work on the building plans until 2011 when the design and approval process began almost in parallel with State Environmental Quality Review process in February 2015.

Bodur said the estimated cost of the project is still unknown because the approval process is not complete and the school has yet to put the construction work out to bid.

“As the approval process is not complete yet, we cannot predict when it will be completed.

We will be using various funding vehicles,” Bodur said.

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Herricks freshmen celebrate poetry writing Herricks High School freshmen gathered on the evening of April 7 for the 17th annual ninth-grade Poetry Writing Celebration.

The event featured the display and distribution of class poetry anthologies, as well as poetry readings and refreshments.

Students took the spotlight in the auditorium and shared original poetry they wrote in their ninth-grade English classes.

Parents, staff members and other guests were in attendance to support and applaud their

work.

Prior to the reading portion, a dessert reception was held in the cafeteria where the anthologies were available.

“Poetry Night offers the opportunity for our ninth-grade students to share their creativity with each other while helping to build community,” English Language Arts Director Michael Imondi said. “Besides having some fantastic poets, this ninthgrade group was particularly supportive of their peers’ readings, cheering loudly for each individual poet.”

Herricks takes part in Model Congress Herricks High School was well-represented at the New Rochelle Model Congress event, taking the Best Delegation award with 20 participants.

Additionally, eight students received individual honors.

Model Congress provides an opportunity for students to simulate the actions of the United States Congress. Groups from high schools throughout the region gather to debate over mock legislation. Held at New Rochelle High School from April 1-2, the recent Model Congress meet was a success for Herricks.

Philip Chen, Naomi Cheung, Kush Choksey, Mark Gao, Mi-

chelle Hareendran, Gaurav Jain, Pranjal Jain, Clare Kang, Sulaiman Kidwai, Minna Kim, Yashi Ladhani, Peter Lascarides, Joyce Lin, Rachel Mathew, Spencer Ng, Joseph Om, Chris Russo, Jessie Rosenfield, Justin Senzer, Kunal Sheth, Kunal Suri, Whitney Tam, Nicco Valente and Priya Verma all played roles in the Best Delegation designation.

Clare Kang, Sulaiman Kidwai, Justin Senzer and Priya Verma were named Best Speakers; Nicco Valente received a Commendation award; and Kush Choksey, Gaurav Jain and Minna Kim earned honorable mentions.

Herricks student council receives Gold Council of Excellence Award For its exemplary record of leadership, service and activities that serve to improve the school and community, Herricks High School’s student council has been awarded a 2016 National Gold Council of Excellence Award by the National Association of

Student Councils.

“Receiving an NASC National Gold Council of Excellence Award reflects the highest dedication on the part of the school to providing a strong, wellrounded student council program,” said Ann Postlewaite, student programs

director for the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

To meet the requirements for the NASC National Council of Excellence Award, a student council must meet a variety of criteria.

In addition to ba-

sic requirements such as a written constitution, regular meetings, a democratic election process and membership in the NASC, councils must demonstrate things such as leadership training for council members, teacher and staff appreciation ac-

tivities, student recognition programs, school and community service projects, spirit activities, goalsetting, financial planning and active participation in state and national student council associations.

Those councils awarded the gold level have suc-

cessfully demonstrated the highest levels of leadership.

Herricks High School also received this recognition last year. To learn more about the National Council of Excellence Award, visit www.nasc.us/ ncoe.

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St. Aidan hosts annual Mock Trial contests The St. Aidan School mock trial team recently hosted its annual spring competition at the school in Williston Park.

The school hallways became the halls of justice, while classrooms were turned into courtrooms.

St. Aidan mock trial team moderator Steve Loewenthal welcomed over 300 guests and outlined the format of the competition which consisted of18 teams, 99 students and and two rounds of trials plus finals.

Each team took turns presenting the prosecution and the defense in a case about breaking, entering and stealing an upcoming scholarship exam.

Several local lawyers as well as Our Lady of Mercy mock trial team members volunteered their time to judge the trials and offer feedback to the participants.

Additionally, two local judges, Jerald Carter of the criminal division of Nassau County Supreme Court and District Court Judge Scott Fairgrieve, joined the proceedings.

The competition was stiff and at the conclusion of three rounds, St. Aidan’s placed third out of 18 teams, edged out

by Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Peter’s of Bayshore.

Congratulations to Stephen Poarch, Victoria Zakovic (pictured at podium above), Sarah Gugliermo, Christopher Marotta and Brynn Nelson as well as the other St. Aidan’s team participants.

At their next tournament, St. Peter’s of Alcantara’s Mock Trial Competition in Port Washington, the St. Aidan School team excelled, demonstrating their ability to think on their feet.

The team advanced to the final

round before a panel of five judges in St. Peter’s Church and brought home second place.

The team is now preparing for the St. John’s Law School competition in May. LEGISLATOR RICH NICOLELLO 9th Legislative District

Legislator Rich Nicolello and Senator Jack Martins invite parents and grandparents to come to Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park to have their child car seat checked for proper installation

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CHILD CAR SEAT SAFETY CHECK Wednesday, May 4, 2016 9:30 AM to 12:00 Noon Clinton G. Martin Park Marcus Ave., New Hyde Park

Virtual lunch Mineola High School students Sanskriti Bimal and Marina Iodice had the opportunity to join the New York State Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia and students from several other school districts in a special virtual lunch. The purpose was for Elia to lead an informal conversation on technology in the classroom and garner student feedback on the positives and negatives of it, as well as how teachers are using it to support instruction. Mineola’s students were joined by others from the Albany City School District, Poughkeepsie City School District and Wayne-Finger Lakes P-Tech.

Legislator Nicolello and Senator Martins will bring representatives from the Nassau County Traffic and Safety Board to Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park to have your child car seats checked for proper installation and security.

Child car seats are required for children under the age of seven. Please call Legislator Nicolello’s office at 516-571-6209 to make an appointment to have your child’s car seat installation checked.

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BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! PLEASE CALL: 516-571-6209 TO MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT TODAY! Legislator Nicolello: 516-571-6209 • rnicolello@nassaucountyny.gov / Senator Martins: 516-746-5924 • martins@nysenate.gov

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Old Westbury Gardens goes to the dogs for annual festival B y Aded a m o l a Agb o o l a For one day at least, Old Westbury Gardens went to the dogs.

The occasion was the gardens’ annual Dog Walk on Saturday in which leashed dogs and their masters walked the grounds of the former estate of John Shaffer Phipps in Old Westbury.

“The event was very well attended with over 5,000 people combined coming over from different parts of Long Island,” said Vince Kish, director of communications at Old Westbury Gardens.

“Since it was the first weekend we had a nice weather and I think people

came out in full force,” Kish said.

The gardens will host a second dog-related event this year when it hosts a dog rescue show in which people who want to buy or rescue a dog can come in and do that, Kish said.

Old Westbury Gardens opens at 10 a.m., the historic house opens at 11 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m.

Adults pay $12, seniors pay $10 and kids can purchase a ticket for $7.

“Now that the weather is starting to get nicer, it is good for people to come out,” Kish said. “I personally prefer people to come visit around May before it also becomes unbearably hot.”

Old Westbury Gardens played host to its annual Dog Days event this past Saturday, bringing out dozens of breeds, canine lovers and vendors, all in salute of man’s best friend.

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Welcome to the world of the octagon The joy of being a writer is that you’re constantly introduced to strange and exotic worlds and none more exotic then the world of MMA. The Octagon is that 8-sided cage measuring 30 feet in diameter and enclosed by a six foot high metal chain-link fence.

That is the wild world of Rowdy Rhonda Rousey, a woman I would not mess around with.

Last week a friend of mine who is a mixed martial arts student told me she was preparing for a charity event called Grappling for Autism and her offer to meet her MMA instructors and watch her train was too good to resist.

My friend is Irene Tufano a college astronomy professor and also the mother an autistic child.

Truth be told I did work with a former UFC champion years ago in an effort to quell his anxiety before a match so I was familiar with the rigors of this world. The history of mixed martial arts goes back to ancient Greek and Roman times when it was called Pankration which combined grappling and striking. Since then it has grown into the sport of mixed martial arts by combining Eastern jiujitsu, muay Thai, judo, and karate

with boxing and wrestling from the West. Competitions started in France in the 1850’s where various full-contact combat sports were pitted against each other to see which the best was. The sport was pushed further by the Gracie family from Brazil and today you have a global movement.

So I put back my shoulders, jumped into my car and drove to the UFC Gym on 2020 Jericho Tpke. in New Hyde Park. My gracious host for the day was Brandon Adames who is one of the gym’s directors. He walked me through is ultra-high tech gym with all those tread mills, cycling rooms, cafes, kid rooms, boxing bag areas, weight rooms and rope pull machines. I could only imagine how much money this place cost to put together. I was there at 11 AM on a Tuesday and full expected to see an empty gym. Wrong. Apparently there are many people who either want to get fit or want to know how to grapple.

I stepped into the Octagon and witnessed Irene tussle with one of her instructors. And I took the photo you see above so as to distract them which then allowed me to exit the cage without get-

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ting ripped apart. I then got to sit with Brandon, Irene and another wrestler named Abena George and asked them why an event to increase awareness of autism. It turns out that Brandon’s brother is on the autism spectrum as well so they both Irene and Brandon both have concern and compassion for kids with this condition. Autism is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder and there are many famous folks who suffer with it.

Noted celebrities on the spectrum include Dan Aykrod, Daryl Hannah and the wildly funny Andy Kaufman. People often speculated to be on this spectrum include Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Franz

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Kafka, the world’s finest philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, Andy Warhol, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, cartoonist Charles Schultz, Bob Dylan and the creator of Pokémon Satoshi Tajiri. These people have some level of social deficit, communication problem and a tendency to have repetitive behaviors and interests.

So what is a more worthy cause than to grapple for autism? The beauty of these mixed martial arts classes and

why they are so appealing is that they import the Asian values of respect through bowing, hard work, discipline, and dedication.

If you want to learn more about the amazing world of MMA, this very impressive UFC Gym or if you simply want to lend some support to autism research go down to the UFC Gym on Saturday April 30th at 9 AM and join in the fun. And for more information about the event contact autismradio.org.

Meet Mike Maher, Irene Tufano and Brandon Adames who will be grappling for autism on April 30th.

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Recent RE Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $430,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY

Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 7,264 11,604 43.9 2.8 107,622 43,205

County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286

15 Sumter Avenue, East Williston Sold Price: $650,000 Date: 12/22/2015 4 Bedss 2 Full baths Style: Colonial

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100x100 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $13,432

432 1st Street, Mineola Sold Price: $429,000 Date: 12/18/2015 3 Beds 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $8,166

351 Latham Road, Mineola Sold Price: $495,000 Date: 12/29/2015 3 Beds, 2 Full baths Style: Colonial

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 45x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $8,175

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Time to prepare for spring, summer Well, wasn’t last weekend magnificent and gorgeous, almost like a San Diego day! It hit 70 in New York City and very close to it, on Long Island.

Hopefully, this weekend will be a duplication! Now we need to think what we have to do to prepare for the next few months as summer approaches.

First thing you want to do this weekend, is to pull that barbecue out and wash off with liquid soap and water (never with cleaners as you will be cooking and that is the last thing you want as a residue on your food).

If you didn’t clean off your grill last fall, then make sure you brush off your grill with a brass wire brush, which will not damage the grating if you have a stainless steel grill; thoroughly removing all the caked on stuff and then wash off in soapy water.

Lastly, coat with a little bit of cooking oil to keep rust off, if you barbecue infrequently.

If you have a barbecue with briquettes I personally would switch

over to a regular device without charcoal; which is more healthier, and you can use lava rock that will heat up your food just as well and very evenly and be very safe to use with any types of food you will be cooking with this season.

Were you almost out of propane last summer and said, “I will fill it up next year? It is a good idea to have it filled up now instead of waiting.

You can either fill it up at a company in Westbury or Hicksville, which is most cost effective and more convenient, or buy a new tank already filled at one of the large home centers.

Next, pull out all your lawn furniture and clean with non abrasive dish detergent and rinse and let dry in the sun.

By now your lawn should be fairly green, if you or your gardener had applied a light application of fertilizer 20-5-7 ( percent of nitrogen-phosphorus- potash).

If you did scrape or thatch out the dead patches last fall, from the summer, as I had suggested

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back then, and seeded; those areas should have filled in already.

If not, clean out any dead areas and lightly seed with a perennial mix of seeds depending on the amount of sun or shade you have on your lawn (also cut back any trees and shrubs, after flowering finishes, allowing more sunlight onto your lawn, as needed.

There are many hybrid seeds that are more tolerant against seasonal fungus diseases and insects.

Ask your local garden center

for recommendations.

If you didn’t apply pelletized lime last fall to sweeten the soil (PH should be 6.5-7 and you can take soil samples from 4 areas of your lawn and send them away to get an analysis or do it yourself.

Your lawn will better thrive and increase its vigor, drought tolerance and disease resistance, when the PH is in an alkaline and sweeter state.

It does take several months for lime to increase the PH of your soil, but better late than never!

As weeds appear you may spray them on a calm (not windy) and cool day, never during the heat of the day, preferably in the morning hours), so you do not burn your grass!

Did you or your gardener sharpen the lawn mower this year.

I am fairly sure your gardener did, but ask him and you should do it to, if you are cutting your own lawn.

A dull blade pulls the grass and you will see the tips of grass blades turn a bit whitish and this will easily allow a multitude of fungal diseases to enter the plant in the very near future as temperatures rise and humidity sets in. Keep your mower set at three inches and do not try to keep your lawn cut like a golf course (A specific grass called Bent grass is what is on golf courses, not your lawn).

This will only reduce the vigor and stamina of your lawn, by removing too much of the manufacturing part of the plant disabling proper photosynthesis, which will reduce the health of the grass plant and make it more vulnerable to diseases and insects in the summer months.

Also, when no rain occurs in any week, water at least inch of water per week, by putting a square cup in the middle of the area where you are sprinkling and when it fills to one inch, you will have watered the soil to a depth of 3 inches. This will train and force

the roots of your grass to grow deep; so never do surface watering; this will only train the grass roots to go up instead of down deep.

Set your automatic sprinklers for 15-20 minutes per zone.

However, on an extremely hot day and you want to reduce the temperatures on those grass surfaces in only those sunny areas, you can water 5-10 minutes) Also remember to never water at night, like the say, put the baby to bed dry! Set your sprinklers, between 5-10 in the morning for the most efficient use of your water, where the least amount of evaporation will occur and never do your regular watering during the heat of the day!

Remember, when you lawn looks green and lush, it will make a very strong statement to potential purchasers, when the day comes and you are ready to sell! So get to work…..

The following links will help you with the outside and inside with a checklist of things to do this spring and summer, while minimizing costs and adding value to your home: http://www.homezada.com/ value-of-home-maintenanceschedule http://www.kiplinger.com/ slideshow/real-estate/T029-S001spring-home-maintenance-checklist/index.html http://www.bobvila.com/ articles/2355-spring-home-maintenance-checklist/#.VxVirfkrL4Y Next week we’ll talk about trees, flowers and perennials to plant in your garden.

Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com or by Cell, (516) 647-4289 to answer any of your questions. To search for Philip A. Raices is the owner of Turn Key Real Estate in Great Neck. He can be reached by email: property, see what your home is worth or homes that have sold in your area, go to: WWW.LiRealEstate.Com

S.S. now recognizes same-sex couples Last year, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Obergefell v.

Hodges, holding that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in all states. As a result, Social Security recognizes more same-sex couples as married for purposes of determining entitlement to Social Security benefits

or eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. We recently updated instructions for employees to process claims and appeals when a determination of marital status is necessary.

As part of the new instructions, we have: · Removed from our policy

any mention or consideration of the dates when states first recognized same-sex marriages from other states. These dates are no longer relevant. · Added the dates when some foreign jurisdictions allowed same-sex marriage, thereby eliminating the need for a case-specific

legal review in many foreign same sex marriage claims. · Updated and simplified our procedures for processing claims involving a transgendered or intersex person, allowing these individuals to self-identify as members of a same or opposite-sex marriage.

· Streamlined and clarified the policy instructions, addressing questions raised by advocates and employees.

We encourage anyone who believes they may be eligible for benefits to apply now. Learn more at www.socialsecurity.gov/samesexcouples.

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Apicos to take on Chin for Herricks seat Continued from Page 1 “I don’t want to see us be stagnant,” Chin said. “I don’t want us to move back, obviously. I want to see us succeed by doing the best that we can — not by being the

best, necessarily, but by doing the best that we can.”

Chin has lived in Manhasset Hills since 2005 and has two children in Herricks schools.

She works as a volunteer coor-

dinator for Northwell Health and previously managed the gift shop at Long Island Jewish Medical Center for more than four years.

She also ran a tutoring business in Queens from 1996 to 2000

and worked as a teacher’s aid in the Mineola school district for three years.

Before her election to the school board, Chin was the vice president of the Herricks Council

of PTAs and twice president of the Denton Avenue School PTA. Herricks district residents will cast ballots in the school board race and for the 2016-2017 district budget on May 17.

Navarra to step down; PTA co-prez to run Continued from Page 1 my productive and generous board colleagues, (Mineola school Superintendent Michael) Nagler, our teachers and administrators,” Navarra wrote in a statement on Facebook. “Our collaboration has expanded Mineola school district into a world-class educational program with facilities poised for the 21st century, all while watching the tax dollar.”

Navarra is an adjunct associate writing professor at Hofstra University and the recording secretary for the school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the country’s largest faculty collective bargaining unit at a private university, she said.

She said she decided not to pursue re-election to the school board because she was nominated for a seat on the AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress, a national umbrella group that provides bar-

gaining support to local faculty chapters.

Navarra was elected to the Mineola school board in 2013 and has lived in Williston Park since 1998. She served on the district’s consolidation committee and was previously president of the Mineola Middle School PTA and the District Council PTA. Lampasona, a six-year resident of Mineola, teaches third grade in Woodside, Queens, and is the mother of a Hampton Street School kindergartner and secondgrader.

As a member of the school board, she said, she wants to keep the district on the “cutting edge” while continuing the programs administrators have started, such as elementary school Spanish classes and the use of technology in classrooms.

“I think education, it’s a giant wave, like it’s always changing, so we always have to be on the new front of something,” Lampasona

Cheryl Lampasona (right) is running to replace Mineola school board Vice President Patricia Navarra (left), who is not running for re-election. said.

Lampasona said she has never sat on a board before and will “be in learning mode for a while” to understand things such as budgets and relevant law. But it is “exciting to learn something new,” she said.

Lampasona will ascend to the board following the growth of Mineola’s movement of parents opting their children out of the

controversial state tests aligned with Common Core educational standards.

While she said she would not have opted her older child out of tests this year, Lampasona said she thinks it is good that parents have a choice in the matter.

The Common Core standards “had the right idea” by trying to create a baseline educational stan-

dard, she said, but New York’s rollout was “terrible” and she is not certain the state test results will be used to aid students’ progress.

“What the kids are taking now, are they fair? No. They’re very difficult exams,” she said.

“I just hope they’re being put to good measure and good use to further education, not hold something back.”

Lampasona has worked as a full-time and part-time teacher for the past 12 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baruch College and a master’s degree in childhood education from Touro University.

She is in her second year as co-president of the Hampton Street School PTA and is also a den leader in Cub Scout Pack No. 246.

Mineola school district residents will cast ballots for the school board seat and the district’s 2016-2017 budget on May 17.

Night on the Town sets fundraising record Continued from Page 3 With additional help from the philanthropy coalition Warriors for a Cause, Night on the Town’s proceeds have nearly doubled from $72,000 in 2014, he said.

“We were thrilled to see something we started over a glass of

wine has grown into something that now has a life of its own,” Lubrano said.

Night on the Town attracts attendees and businesses from all over Long Island, but a large contingent still come from Mineola, Lubrano said.

“People are charitable in Mineola,” Village of Mineola Trustee Dennis Walsh said. “I go to so many functions, and there’s never an end to what people give.”

The event introduced the Pasquale Lubrano Community Service Award, an honor named for

Lubrano’s father that his mother presents to an outstanding community volunteer.

This year’s winner was Long Island Tri Coach head Jose Lopez, whose organization trains people for charity runs, swims and bike rides, Lubrano said.

Walsh said he has attended the event for at least five years, but this was the first for Sheila Diamond of Bayside, Queens.

“The bands are great, and the food is delicious, and the people are friendly,” she said. “What else can you want?”

Village tables new vape, hookah restrictions “Everybody’s got to make a buck, everybody’s got to put closed Fountain Blue Hookah food on the table, everybody’s at 435 Middle Neck Road. got bills to pay,” Strauss said.

The Village of Mineola “I’m not going to let you kill passed a law in December deanybody, but if you want to do fining hookah bars as a permitit, do it over there. We’re easy. ted use for industrial zones, Work with us.” and the Village Board will hold a public hearing in May to do Reach reporter Noah Manthe same for vape shops. skar by e-mail at nmanskar@ The village started regutheislandnow.com or by phone lating the businesses because they are not “the right mix or at 516.307.1045 x204. Also feel” for its downtown busi- follow us on Twitter @noahness district and the commer- manskar and Facebook at facecial strip on Jericho Turnpike, book.com/theislandnow.

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The Village of New Hyde Park may add hookah bars and vape shops to a list of “adult establishments” subject to distance restrictions.

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Starbucks seeks Mineola train station location Continued from Page 2 “Starbucks is always looking for great locations to better meet the needs of our customers and we are continually evaluating our store portfolio,” a Starbucks spokeswoman

said in an email. “We want to bring the right experience at the right time and are in the very early stages of considering bringing a Starbucks to the Mineola community.”

If approved, Starbucks

would join three restaurants that have come to downtown Mineola since last September: Costa Nova Waffle at 211 Second St., Burrito Boulevard at 98 Mineola Blvd. and a coffee shop owned by P.S.

Burger’s Carmelo Sapuppo at 196 Second St. Like other restaurateurs, Bakhchi said Mineola’s construction of four residential apartment buildings near the station influenced his decision to

partner with Starbucks there.

Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said last week he has heard concerns from commuters about the store exacerbating traffic problems on Station Plaza, par-

ticularly during morning and evening rush hours.

“People waiting for people to get off the train, they park anywhere they want,” Strauss said.

Kaiman trails Dems in Congress fundraising Continued from Page 2 “This filing demonstrates that there is a strong level of support for Anna Kaplan and that her unique story and message of making our region more affordable to live, work and raise a family is already resonating,” Kaplan campaign spokesman Reginald Johnson said in the statement.

Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern of Dix Hills led the Democrats, raising $500,633 and closing with $445,530 in his war chest.

Stern’s filing shows he gave his campaign a $38,000 donation and a $32,000 loan.

Stern had the secondlowest number of contributors and the highest aver-

age donation of $1,620.

“Congress needs to start working for New York’s middle-class families, not for the special interests, and I’m thrilled by the outstanding early support for my candidacy,” Stern said in a statement.

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi of Glen Cove raised $451,306, spent $76,960 and closed with $374,346.

In an April 15 statement, campaign manager Mike Florio said Suozzi was the only Democrat not to lend or give any of his own money to his campaign.

“People are investing in my campaign because I have a proven record of going up against the status

quo to get things done,” Suozzi said in the statement. “They know that’s what Washington, D.C., needs these days.”

Kaplan got about two dozen donations from limited-liability corporations worth a total of $31,500.

Eleven LLCs listing addresses at 45 Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck, the headquarters of A.D. Real Estate Investors, gave the campaign a total of $5,000.

A.D. Real Estate founder Abraham Daniels gave 11 donations worth $5,000 as an individual, listing his address as 85 Pitt St., a lower Manhattan building his company reportedly bought in 2013.

Other donating LLCs

included a real estate subsidiary of New Hyde Parkbased Lalezarian Properties and its principal, Frank Lalezarian. Developer Manny Malekan and an LLC for his Little Neck Commons shopping complex gave two donations of $2,700 each.

In the Republican race for the Third District, state Sen. Jack Martins raised $283,598 in the first quarter, spent $41,375 and closed the period with $242,223 on hand.

Some $15,000 of that came from three national Republican political action committees, the filing shows.

Twenty-eight of Martins’ 182 contributions came from Mineola, where

he served as mayor before being elected to the state Senate in 2010.

The Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Republican committees endorsed Martins for the congressional seat in March, but Glen Cove financial investigator Philip Pidot was actively fundraising — he gathered $106,796, spent $23,099 and closed with $83,696 on hand.

Pidot’s campaign income included a $20,000 loan and $752 in donations from himself. His family members gave $13,700 in five donations.

Fourth Congressional District incumbent U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice outpaced Republican opponent

David Gurfein of Manhasset in the first quarter, raising $243,915 to his $49,396.

Gurfein started exploring a run for Congress in September and has raised more than $303,000 since the start of the election cycle, his filing shows.

About $88,285 of Gurfein’s $118,516 total spending came in the first quarter.

He closed with $185,203 on hand.

Rice has a much larger war chest of $800,759 after spending $117,300 in the first quarter. Some $54,000, or about a fifth, of her recent campaign income came from political action committees, her filing shows.

Shelter Rock Library Continued from Page 46 Come and join the Shelter Rock Public Library Senior Rap Group. This discussion group is led by volunteer facilitator, David Marx.

Play Mah Jongg Tuesdays, April 26 and May 10 at 1 p.m. Join others in playing the game that has fascinated people for so many years with its strategies, sequences and combinations. Bring a team, a friend or come by yourself and enjoy the game. Limited materials will be available, so if you own a set, please feel free to bring it with you.

Registration is not required.

Starting Over Singles for ages 40 plus Saturday, April 30 at 2 p.m. Join this live ly, stimulating, compassionate and supportive discussion for divorced, widowed — or any single adult. Make new friends, learn new skills, find hope and inspiration. It’s never too late to start over!

Creative Needles & The Art Of Coloring Fridays, April 29 & May 6 at 1:30 p.m. Registration is not required. Bring your projects and supplies to knit, crochet, needlepoint, embroider or crossstitch. If you prefer to relax by coloring, spend some time with crayons, colored pencils and coloring pages supplied by the library. Enjoy sharing conversation, crafting and creativity while “the needles fly” and “the pictures come to life”.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Thursdays, April 28 & May 26 at 1:30 PM in the Conference Room. The Alzheimer’s Association Long Island Chapter is offering a monthly support group on the fourth Thursday of the month.

The group is designed to provide emotional, educational and social support for caregiver’s. Participants will be helped to develop methods and skills to solve problems.

Caregivers are encouraged to maintain their own peråsonal, physical and emotional health

as well as optimally caring for the person with dementia.

Attendees may register or for additional information, please call 1–800–272-3900.

through improvisation. Ted Sod has acted in plays produced

by The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, BAM Theatre Company, Second Stage, Playwrights’ Horizons, American Place Theatre, and the Circle, Seattle and Yale Repertory Companies, among others. He toured internationally in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Aftermath and has played many roles on television and film.

Arthur Miller At 100 with Shirley Romaine Thursday, April 28 at 1:30 p.m.

Arthur Miller, “The Moral Voice of the American Theater” enriched the theater stage for more than half a century. His plays tapped into the soul of American society and into the lives of the men and women who sought to make sense of YOUNG ADULT it. This program will include & CHILDREN background on Miller and a performance with selections Author Events from his plays and films.

For Teens (Grades 7 - Adult) with ELYSE SALPETER ACTING & IMPROV CLASS Wednesday, May 4 from 7 to with Ted Sod, Actor 8 p.m. Elyse has written the Tuesday, May 3 at 1:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Brandeis series Flying to the Light and the dark series for older teens National Committee L.I. Chapter and SRPL An informal The World of Karov. Elyse has recently ventured into gathering will precede the suspense and horror genres presentation beginning at 1 penning Creepy Horror Tales p.m. This class is designed to get novice actors trusting each & Vampire Legends among other titles. Elyse will speak other and to free themselves about her writing inspirafrom self-conscious behavior

tions and discipline, how she markets herself using social media and networking, how ebooks have helped her, and the artistry of her cover art. Bring your writing questions for Elyse; we will have her books on display too! Registration begins on April 20.

Decorated Vase & Tissue Paper Flower Craft with Elyse Pollack Tuesday, May 3 from 7 to 8 p.m. Decorate a vase with stickers, rhinestones and markers. Then learn to make tissue paper flowers to fill your vase. Perfect gift for Mother’s Day or to donate to a child at the Ronald McDonald house.

Note: If you donate your craft, you will receive one hour of Community Service Credit.

Registration begins on April 19.

TEEN MOVIE for GRADES 6 - 12: JURASSIC WORLD (124 minutes, Rated PG-13) Wednesday, April 27 from 3 to 5:15 p.m. Join us for trivia and refreshments. Registration begins on April 13 but walk-ins are welcome too.

Two Programs For High School Students with Nick La Poma of Curvebreakers Test Prep Registration for both programs begin on April 2.

TAKE A FREE PRACTICE NEW SAT OR ACT TEST: Saturday, April 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Unsure if the New SAT or the ACT is the right test for you?

Find out by taking a free practice test. Bring calculator and pencils.

TEST REVIEW & EXPLANATION OF THE NEW SAT & ACT: Thursday, April 28 from 7 to 8 p.m. Join Nick when he explains the difference between the two tests. Afterwards, he will hand out the individual scores to students who took the practice test. Parents welcome.

Songs and Rhymes for Baby’s Day Children ages 1 – 3 years with an adult, will enjoy musical wiggles, tickles and fingerplays with Dara and her guitar.

Monday, April 18 at 10:30 a.m.

Registration begins Monday, April 4

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Community Meetings Village of Baxter Estates Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Wednesday, April 27 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 315 Main Street, Port Washington (516) 767-0096 Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Agenda Meeting Monday, April 25 @ 7:30pm Village Hall 2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 746-0782 Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Agenda Meeting Monday, April 25 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 746-0782 East Williston Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 27 @ 7:30 p.m.

2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 741-1213 Village of Flower Hill Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, April 25 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall 1 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset (516) 627-5000

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Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting Thursday, April 28 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office 236 E Shore Rd, Great Neck (516) 482-0238 Village of Munsey Park Building Advisory Committee Meeting Tuesday, April 26 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1777 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset (516) 365-7790 Village of Plandome Manor Design Review Board Meeting Thursday, April 28 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 55 Manhasset Avenue, Manhasset (516) 627-3701 Village of Roslyn Estates Architectural Review Board Meeting Wednesday, April 27 @ 7:45 p.m.

Village Hall 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates (516) 621-3541 Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted. All meetings, dates and times are subject to change.

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Continued from Page 6 The state has closed primaries, meaning voters can only cast ballots for the party with which they are registered. The deadline to change party registration was in October.

Sanders supporter Chris Tritto said he had to cast an affidavit ballot because he is a registered as independent and could not normally vote in the Democratic primary.

“It wasn’t as easy to vote as I thought it would be,” he said.

Tuesday’s election was marked by reported complaints of voters being removed from registration rolls and some poll-

ing places opening late.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office had received more than 700 election complaints by 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, Politico reported.

Sanders’ campaign reportedly called the removal of voters from Democratic rolls a “disgrace.”

Williston Park poll worker Pat Esposito said about 20 voters — most of them identifying as Republicans — wanted to cast primary ballots for a party different from the one on their registrations. They thought they were registered Republicans or Democrats until the county Board of Elections told them otherwise

over the phone, she said.

The primary got the largest turnout Esposito has seen in 20 years, she said.

“Many people don’t come out for the primary, so that’s why they’re getting jammed up,” she said. “They’re not trying to sneak.”

Debbie Healy of New Hyde Park said she is a registered Republican, but she did not like any of the candidates and wrote in Tom Brady.

“Nobody can tell me what they can do to make this country great again, and whatever Donald Trump says, it’s not going to work,” she said. “It’s very frustrating.”

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT GARDEN CITY: Wellness First New York is seeking an administrative assistant to work in our office. The position is part time on Friday mornings from 9am-2pm (hours​/​days can be added). Duties include answering phone calls, scheduling appointments, filing paperwork & accepting payments.

Prior experience is a plus. If interested please fax or email your resume: 516-280-8666​/ contactus@ wellnessfirstny.com

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Doctor’s office, Part Time. Wednesday & Friday from 10am-4pm.

Phones, data entry, filing, scanning.

Experience a plus. Please fax resume to 516-498-9005

CHILDCARE CENTER, new and beautiful is opening at Trinity Episcopal Church Roslyn! We are beginning our interview process for Director, Head Teachers, Assistant Teachers and Assistant Director. Full time and part time positions. Competitive pay scale.

Tremendous opportunity to be part of a new project serving the children and families of our community at the beginning stages! Please send resume ASAP to jobapplicationstrinity@gmail.com All qualified applicants welcome to apply.

Please do not call Parish office.

Interviews begin week of April 18.

North Shore Village is seeking Public Safety Officers Must be available for all shifts including overnight, and weekends.

Must Have NYS Driver's License and NYS Security Guard License Retirees Welcome

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT GARDEN CITY: Established and friendly Garden City Dental office looking for Part Time front desk help. Must have work experience and knowledge of Easy Dental Program. Please call 516-746-4510 BENEFITS CONSULTANT: AFLAC 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 BOOKKEEPER 1 day a week in Oyster Bay area. Must be trustworthy, have excellent references. Call 516-922-5088 between 9:30am & 4:30pm​​Ask for Deborah CUSTODIAL POSITION FULL TIME for church in Garden City.

Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm and every other Sunday.

Custodial experience necessary.

Please send resume to ecavolo@ thegccc.org

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No Phone Calls.

Please do not respond unless you have the Security Guard License.

8hr/16hr certificates ONLY do not qualify The Village Of East Hills is an Equal Opportunity Employer

2016 SUPER SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE PARK AT EAST HILLS!

Park Attendants and Lifeguards 1. Are you looking for an exciting summer job with competitive pay and an upbeat environment?

2. Would you like to spend the summer at the finest park facilities with the largest municipal pool on Long Island?

3. Do you like the outdoors? Then our position is a perfect fit for you!

REQUIREMENTS: • At least 16 years of age • Lifeguards must be Nassau County Certified • Available to work through Labor Day weekend To apply: Contact The Park at East Hills at 516-484-9800, e-mail us at: clastraglio@villageofeasthills.org or simply visit Village Hall on a business day from 9am-4:30pm. We are located at 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills, NY 11576.

Ask for Christina Lastraglio to get an application.

The Village Of East Hills is an Equal Opportunity Employer

CHILDCARE P/T: SUMMER CHILDCARE needed for our two children starting June 27 until end of August. Mondays, Tuesday & Wednesdays. Perfect driving record, own transportation and great references a must. Garden City resident & GC Pool membership preferred. 516-314-8719 DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service oriented professional with good communication skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Earn up to $60,000 in the first year representing 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well as 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slate Media’s partner, Litmor Publications. Minimum 2 years outside sales experience required. Must have own car. Protected sales territory, salary plus commission, health insurance, paid holidays and sick days.

To apply, please email resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve Blank at 516-307-1045 x201 DRIVER P/T: LIMO SERVICE in East Meadow. Must be able to pass drug test, fingerprint​/​background check to obtain Nassau County TLC license. Always neatly dressed & CLEAR English speaking. Call 516-735-1138 DRIVER WANTED: Great Neck family seeking part time driver to be on call to assist family. Duties: daily errands, driving to NYC for events, driving kids, food deliveries, doctor appointments. Seeking experienced, licensed driver​​dedicated, neat, punctual. Great Neck​ /​nearby resident preferred. Good compensation. Fax resume to Vionette: 516-487-7170

Help Wanted HELP WANTED: DRIVERS CDL-A Quality Home1yr Time!

Family EarnExcellent over $1,250+ per week Medical Insurance Plus Monthly Bonuses!

Guaranteed Weekend Excellent Benefits Home Time No-Touch!

Earn $65,000+ Monthly CDL-A 1 yr exp Bonuses.

888-406-9046 Absolutely No-Touch.

888-406-9046 HVAC ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT experienced, part time to work 2 or 3 days a week 7am to 4:30pm based on candidate’s availability. Duties include but are not limited to: maintain service calls and dispatch technicians to job sites, client contact, filing, phones, emails, mail, Quickbooks invoicing and data entry, customer payments. Qualified candidates must be able to multi task in a busy office environment, a self starter, able to work independently, meticulous, organized and punctual.

Proficient in Word, Outlook and Quickbooks. Please email resume to bizqd5wr@verizon.net or fax to 516-437-6156 LEGAL: Process serving company seeking full time detail oriented individual for office assistant in Williston Park. Computer knowledge a must. Will train. Email resume to: LRadler@courtsupportinc.com NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION PART TIME: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for a person experienced in Adobe In-Design to lay out classified and legal pages on Tuesday evening. Office conveniently located in Williston Park.

To apply please email resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve Blank 516307-1045 x201

Situation Wanted 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 917-770-7965

GROUNDSKEEPER​/ ​P ORTER: Full​/​Part time person needed to assist with maintenance for Nassau County Co-Op property. $15​ /​hr negotiable. Send Resume to: Fairfield Properties, Attn: John S. 538 Broadhollow Road, 3rd floor, East Melville, NY 11747. OR fax to 631-499-2042

CLEANING SERVICES available for homes, apartments & offices.

Flexible hours. Available anytime.

Experienced with excellent references. Located in West Hempstead. Own supplies & transportation. Free estimates Call Reina 516-643-9341

HOME HEALTH CARE AIDE NEEDED for woman in Garden City Friday, Saturday & Sunday 7am to 7pm. Fluent in English. Call 631-604-2072 between the hours of 10am​​3pm only.

CLEANING SERVICES AVAILABLE 7 days a week days​/​nights for homes & offices. Experienced, reliable, honest with excellent references. Own transportation. Own supplies or yours! Call 516-8078756 or 516-426-0184

HOST​/ HOSTESS​/ BUSBOY AND SERVER POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Experience preferred.

GRIMALDIS PIZZERIA, 980 Franklin Ave, Garden City 516294-6565​​Ask For Megan

CLEANING SERVICES FOR OFFICES OR HOMES. Available 7 days a week. Excellent references.

Own transportation. Gift Certificates available! Call 516-974-8959

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Situation Wanted

CNA CERTIFIED EXPERIENCED over 10 years in both nursing homes and private cases. Highly recommended with excellent references. Responsible for, but not limited to performing the following: feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, moving patients and changing linens. Please feel free to contact with serious inquiries only: Call 862-241-0883

HOUSECLEANING AVAILABLE: 15 years of experience, good references, English speaking, own car, very reliable and responsible. Please call us: Lucy or Livia 516-444-6351

COMPANION​/ HOME HEALTH AIDE Live out, 12 hours okay; nights or days. 20 years experience in home care & nursing home seeking to take care of sick​/​ elderly. Experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, dementia, stroke. References available, Own car. English speaking. Please call 347-546-4133 ELDER CARE AVAILABLE Woman from Ukraine is seeking position for full time or part time. Experienced & references available.

Please call Olha 516-547-8882 ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly.

Available to live in or out and nights. Over 20 years experience.

References furnished upon request. Call Vicky 516-943-4312

NANCY’S CLEANING SERVICELet me do the work for you! Homes, apartments and offices!Vacuuming, mopping, sweeping, organizing, etc.

Professional appearance Excellent references English speaking Own transportation Free estimates! Call or text Nancy 516-469-5517. Email: nancybenitez023@gmail.com NURSE’S AIDE Certified, 15+ yrs experience, honest & reliable seeking a home care position.

Available full time, part time, overnights & weekends. Licensed driver with own transportation. Contact Barbara 516-468-1340 NURSING ASSISTANT I’m a certified nursing assistant seeking private home care position. Over 15 years experience. Licensed driver.

Available Monday to Friday daytime hours and some weekends.

Contact Cynthia 917-805-7782

Elder Care Companion Mature Woman With Car Available for: • Shopping & Errands • Activities • Cooking Meals • Doctor Appointments • Home Organization

(347) 387-6798

TRUSTWORTHY • RELIABLE • COMPASSIONATE • FLEXIBLE

SUMMER BABYSITTER​/​NANNY: Boston College Nursing Student with own transportation is available in Garden City & Westhampton Beach for full time babysitting July & August.

Contact Regan @ 516-633-4549

career training

EXPERIENCED NURSING AIDE seeking position to take care of elderly. Evenings or weekends. Own car and good references. Please 917-796-5917

AIRLINE CAREERS Start here. Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance.

Call AIM for free information 866296-7093

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

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ENTRY LEVEL Get trained, get certified, get hired! Bulldozers, Backhoes & Excavators. Immediate lifetime job placement. VA benefits. Nation Average $18.00$22.00 1-866-362-6497

HOME HEALTH ATTENDANT​ /​LPN CERTIFIED: Available to work & care for elderly. Live in or out. Offering Skilled Nursing Care full time or part time. Overnight also. Please call Audrey Allen: 516-444-2331

announcements

HOME HEALTH CARE AIDE: Humble Home Health Care Aide available. 10 years experience assisting senior citizens with their daily needs. Able to provide housekeeping tasks, grocery shopping and any daily task needed. I am a licensed driver w/ own car. Call Linda 917-723-5789 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

FORSYTHIA YELLOW FLOWERING Privacy hedge blowout sale!

3-4ft Reg $39​/​ea Now only $6.99​ /​ea. Free delivery while supplies last www.lowcostforsythia.com 844-592-3327 KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers​/ KIT Complete Treatment System.

Available at hardware stores, Home Depot, homedepot.com MOVING SALE GARDEN CITY Must sell everything! All high end furniture from Thomsville to Ethan Allen. Living room sofa, 4 Queen Anne chairs. Dining room table with 6 chairs and china cabinet.

Bedroom king size sleigh bed, 2 elegant end tables, large dresser and dressing cabinet​/​armoire (all in pecan inlay), white dresser and armoire from Pottery Barn.

Large Raymour and Flanigan couch and lots of end tables from Hickory, Thomasville & Ethan Allen. Please call if interested​​only serious buyers! 516-941-5361 By Appointment Only!

Wanted to Buy ABE BUYS ANTIQUES: Silver, paintings, rugs and all contents. All Cash! 917-817-3928 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /​Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid!

Call Juley today! 800-413-3479 www.cashforyourteststrips.com

NEILA ROSENBERG

ELDERCARE COMPANION AVAILABLE:Over 20 yrs experience, Monday to Friday, 3-5 days.

Excellent client care. Housekeeping, meals, laundry, errands. Honest, dedicated, reliable. Above average references! Own car. Call Virginia 516-997-3596

marketplace

HUNTERS Our hunters will pay top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a free base camp leasing info packet & quote 866-309-1507 www.basecampleasing.com MONEY TO LEND Get funding now for your small business. Up to $2 million in as little as 2 days. Minimum 2 years in business. Call BFS Capital 888-732-6298 or apply online: www. bfscapital.com​/​nyp

Events VBS at Faith Korean Presbyterian Church in Port Washington. Theme (Group’s) Following Jesus. The Light of the World. Time: July 5-8, August 22-26, 9-3. Age: PreK-6th grade. Fee: $30 (includes field trip, breakfast, lunch and snack). Free when register before June. Field Trip: Adventureland, Ice Skating.

Text or call Kathy 757-236-5623. kathy8pang@gmail.com

LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware.

Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale *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 INVITED SALES BY TRACY JORDAN 839 Stewart Ave Garden City, NY 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales.com Open 7 Days! Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 10-6 Thurs 10-4 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-5 Consignments by Appointment Estate Sale and Tag Sale services available to liquidate the contents of your home. Call 516-279-6378 for a consultation. LIVE AUCTIONS are held monthly. You can place items on auction by scheduling an appointment to bring your items in to the shoppe for consideration.

Email pictures to be considered for consignment or auction to info@ invitedsales.com Invited Sales also offers TRUCK SERVICES to move your items to or from your home or office to the consignment shoppe to sell on your behalf, and help clean out your home, attic or garage! Check out our website at: www.invitedsales.com for special sales and shopping events, tag sales, auctions and more!!

Tag Sale INVITED SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Tuesday, April 26 10:00 am 169 Kensett Road Manhasset, NY 11030 Beautifully decorated home, Dining Room, Bedroom, costume jewelry, leather furniture, records, basement....Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

WILLISTON PARK: Resurrection Thrift Shop Shared ministry between St. Aidan’s & Resurrection housed at Resurrection, 147 Campbell Ave @ Center Street. OPEN Thursdays 9:30am to 1:00pm and Saturdays 10am to 2pm. 516-746-5527. Jewelry, clothing, household items, etc.

DONATIONS accepted Monday through Thursday 9am to 1pm

pets

Auto Services ELITE AUTO DETAILING: Anthony Masia, Owner​/​Operator Dependable, professional detailer. SUV’s, vans, pick-ups also detailed at a higher price. We specialize in imports​/​Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Jaguar & Maserati. $10 off complete detail. Spring Wash & Wax Special $85​/​cars only. Coupons not to be combined 631-612-7152

Autos Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

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Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away.

Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references.

Limited availability. Book early!

Annmarie 516-775-4256

PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care Boarding Dog Walking Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

Apartment For Rent

automotive

Apartment For Rent

GARDEN CITY: Large 4 rooms. 1 BR, DR, EIK “One Month Free Rent” $2250 “Move right in” 3 rooms, 1 BR, new Kitchen & Bath $2500 up Six rooms​​ 3 BR, new Kitchen, 2 Baths, May 1. $3400 Many other rentals available Garden City Properties 516-746-1563 516-313-8504

FLORAL PARK VILLAGE 1st floor. Completely renovated. SS Kitchen, DR, LR, MBR, 2nd BR​ /​or office, full bath. W/D, use of yard with patio & garage. $2150+ utilities. Call Rose, Ford Realty 516-655-7501

Room For Rent MINEOLA: Large furnished room, private entrance, share bath, own TV, microwave and fridge, A/C, no pets​/​smoking. $735 month all utilities included plus 1 month security. References required. 516-747-5799

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 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 2000 sf. available on second floor & 1300 sf on ground floor. Ground floor office newly renovated. Located in Professional Buildin g on Hillside Ave. Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission paid. Tony 516-248-4080

Vacation Rental EAST QUOGUE Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with CAC, heated IG pool, outdoor shower, private patio, access to bay and ocean beaches. 1 hour from Garden City. See pics on www.vrbo. com​/​614595. Summer or monthly rental. Please call 516-248-0079 or 516-732-9435 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Best selection of affordable rentals.

Full​/​partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800-6382102. Online reservations: www. holidayoc.com

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Lots for Sale MOUNTAIN TOP LIQUIDATION 30 miles views! 5+ acres only $29,900. 2 hrs from the city! Excellent financing. Call Now 888-320-0920

Lots for Sale

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ADIRONDACK LAKEFRONT CABINS! TIMBER TRACTS! Waterfront acreage! Ablsolute Sale 4/23. Selling below market! Two lakes, State land, Streams! 40 mins Albany, 3hr NYC! Terms available! Call 888905-8847 to register. Woodworthlakepreserve.com

NATURAL UNSPOILED COASTAL PROPERTY: There is a place just hours away where you can find abundant natural beauty, clean air and space. Located in Virginia 90 miles south of Ocean City. Lots are 3 to 22 acres and priced $60,000 to $98,000. All are near the shoreline, some with excellent water views.

Amenities include community dock and sandy beach. Low taxes and a mild climate. Call 757-442-2171 or email: oceanlandtrust@yahoo.com website http:​/​​/​waverlylots.com

Out Of Town Real Estate

Services

DELAWARE: New homes: Sussex and Kent counties from $169,000 9 communities close to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Bay (Bower’s Beach) or Nanticoke River (Seaford). 302-653-7700 www.lenapebuilders.net LAUREL SPECTACULAR BEACH FRONT home overlooking Peconic Bay. Situated on 2 acres of parklike grounds. 150’ of private beach, inground pool w/ bonus kiddie pool. 4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Large Living Room, Dining Room & Den all with beautiful Bay views. Eat in Kitchen, jalousied porch, CAC, IGS, 2 car garage. $2,795,000.

516-679-2236 NORTHERN VERMONT: all year round house for sale. Check it out on www.zillow.com. Use area code 05822, 530 Lake Street, Barton, VT. For more information call owner at 310-418-0231

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There is amazing unspoiled land just hours away. Where you’ll be surrounded by natural beauty, clean air and space; not condos, crowds or traffic. Located in Virginia just 3+ hrs from I-95 NJ/ DE line. 23 lots, 3 to 22 acres each, priced $60,000 to $98,000.

All are near the shoreline, some w/ excellent water views. Paved roads, utilities, dock, boat ramp and beach. Low property taxes.

Call (757) 442-2171 or email: oceanlandtrust@yahoo.com

Services CHILD CARE ELDER CARE HOME HEALTH AIDES AND MORE! We offer the following services: Companions, Home Health Aides​/ ​E lder Care Child Care and Housekeeping Laborers Days / Nights Live In or Live Out NO FEE TO EMPLOYERS ** EVON’S SERVICES ** Call: 516-505-5510

NEW YORK MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS: Joan Atwood, Ph.D. An experienced therapist makes all the difference. Individual, couple, family therapy and anger management.

516-764-2526. jatwood@optonline.net www.NYMFT.com

Computers COMPUTER REPAIR AND INSTRUCTION Technical College Graduate Eliminate viruses, malware, bloatware, adware, spyware Computer Instruction Home & Business Networking Reasonable Rates Call Phil at Aspect Networking 516-830-3366 OR email: support@aspectnetworking.com

Home Improvements AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 23year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 DEVLIN BUILDERS Since 1979.

We do all types of improvements including HANDYMAN REPAIRS. No job too small. Bob Devlin 516-365-6685. Insured License H18C730000 GRACE ROOFING: Est. 1977. slate, tile flat roofs, asphalt and wood shingle roofs, gutters and leaders cleaned and replaced, professional new roof installation.

Free estimates, expert leak repairs. lic​/​ins, local references, residential​/​commerical 516-753-0268

Home Improvements LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service.

Handy Howard 646-996-7628 ONE STOP FOR ALL YOUR HOME improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown molding, closets, doors, sheetrock, painting, dry wall, repairs, spackling & wall paper removal and installation, decks power washed, stained and built. Gem Basement Doctor 516-623-9822. www.gem-home.com

Home Improvements SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain​/​rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience. 631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

Painting & Paperhanging JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing. Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378

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

Advertising Sales Executive Blank Slate Media Blank Slate Media, a fast-growing chain of 6 award-winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service-oriented professional with good communications skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Earn up to $60,000 in the first-year representing the 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well the 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slate’s sales partner, Litmor Publications.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and service-oriented sales professional with good communication skills.

Requirements: Minimum of 2 years outside sales experience.

Newspaper sales experience a plus. Must have your own car.

• Exclusive, protected territory • Opportunity to sell both print and online programs • A collegial, supportive sales team • Award-winning editorial coverage.

• A separate newspaper for each community allowing advertisers to target their markets.

And you to provide the most cost-effective way to advertise.

• Represent media that produce superior response for clients.

Compensation • Salary plus commission • Health insurance • Paid holidays • Sick days & holidays

To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve at 516.307-1045 x201 for more information.

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BAR​/ BAT MITZVAH LESSONS Take the struggle and hassle out of Hebrew and Bar​/​Bat Mitzvah lessons. Michael Marcus Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tutoring and Services. Call 516-5240191 email michael@barbatmitzvahlessons.com

SPRING INTO ACTION LET US CLEAN YOUR HOUSE WINDOWS GARDEN CITY WINDOW CLEANING Home Window Cleaning Service by Owner Free Estimates Inside & Out Fully Insured 25 Years Experience 631-2201851 516-764-5686

Tutoring​/ Support Finish the Year Strong! Regents, SAT, AP, NCC, GC, Roslyn, SHA, Chaminade experience with all curriculums.

Recommendations​/ Results Text​ /​Call Diane Halka 516-469-6864

STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates. Bonded and insured.

516-538-1125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com

ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT​/​ACT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-5998007 or email: dianegot@gmail. com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 MATHEMATICS TUTOR: NYS certified math teacher. Experienced and patient. All elementary and middle school grades. HS Algebra, Geometry and SAT prep.

Text or call Ken 516-526-8315 or email: kmctutor79@gmail.com SPANISH TUTOR: High School​ /​Middle School, College. Spanish Grammar-Literature, SAT II, AP Exam. William Cullen, M.A., M.B.A., S.D.A. Chaminade, Fairfield Alumnus. 516-509-8174 wdctutor06@aol.com STOCK MARKET TUTOR: Retired banker and experienced stock market trader available for tutoring high school students on the stock market. Should have some knowledge of the market.

Adults welcome. Text​/​call Ron Goldberg 516-567-8434

Instruction PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty.

516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons.com

Cleaning CLEANING HOME​​OFFICE: Weekly, monthly since 1979.

Insured​/ bonded. Trusted​/ reliable. Call Olympia Cleaning 516-883-0359

SUPER CLEAN: Hourly rates, residential, grout cleaning, move ins and outs. Adam 516-943-6831

Services A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists.

Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available.

Free estimates. www.ajmoving. com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405 COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman. 516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@gmail.com www.

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

Bonded​/​Insured.

Free estimates. 516-538-1125 OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated sine 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed​ /​insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc. Please call 516466-9220 POWER WASHING SALE! Get ready for Summer. Power washing can make it look new again wherever there is moss, dirt and air pollution. Decks, patios, outdoor furniture, siding, roofs. Lic​/​ins. In business over 30 years. Trained crew. Grace 516-753-0268 graceroofing.com

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Sports SOCCER GOALKEEPER TRAINING Private Soccer Lessons from College Goalkeeper at William Smith College. Flexible Hours for one-on-one or small group sessions. Call Kaileen Murray at 516695-8913 for more information.

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▼ LEGALS Legal Notice AMENDED LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public budget hearing of the qualified voters of the East Williston Union Free School District, Nassau County, Old Westbury, New York, will be held in the Auditorium of The Wheatley School, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York in said District on Monday, May 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m., prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1) To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money which will be required for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

2) To discuss all items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

3) To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to the Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available, upon request, to residents of the school district beginning May 2, 2016 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, except Saturday, Sunday and holidays at the Business Office, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York, and at each of the following school houses: The Wheatley High School, Willets Road Intermediate School, and North Side Elementary School.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the School District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much of the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said Annual Budget Vote and Election by the qualified voters of the East Williston Union Free School District, Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the gymnasium of The Wheatley School located at 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York in said school district at which time the polls will be open to vote by voting machine on the following items: 1) To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education for three (3) year terms commenc-

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ing July 1, 2016 and expiring on June 30, 2019, as follows: a. One (1) member of the Board of Education for a three (3) year term to succeed David Keefe, whose term expires on June 30, 2016; and b. One (1) member of the Board of Education for a three (3) year term to succeed Barbara Slone, whose term expires on June 30, 2016; and 2) To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2016-2017, and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the School District.

3) Shall the Board of Education of the East Williston Union Free School District be authorized, to expend the maximum amount of two million five hundred dollars ($2,500,000) from the 2015 Capital Project Reserve Fund, which was established on June 30, 2015 (“Reserve Fund”) pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law, for the following capital improvement projects: (1) supply and installation of new vinyl replacement windows at The North Side School; (2) replacement of exterior doors and kitchen ventilation system at The Willets Road School; and (3) removal​ /​replacement of asbestos flooring, handicapped toilet reconstruction and replacement of kitchen ventilation system at The Wheatley School, and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend from the Reserve Fund therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto, provided that the Board of Education shall determine the allocation of the costs of each project within said maximum amount.

4) Shall the Board of Education of the East Williston Union Free School District be authorized, pursuant to Education Law ß 3651, to establish a Capital Reserve Fund to be known as the “2016 Capital Project Reserve Fund” effective June 30, 2016 for a probable term of five (5) years for the purpose of capital improvements, including: (1) reconstruction and​/ or improvements to the Wheatley gymnasium, track and fields, including but not limited to the installation of an artificial turf field, handicap accessibility to field areas; and replacement of gymnasium wood floor; (2) reconstruction and​/o ​ r improvements to the Willets Road School fields; and (3) reconstruction and​/​ or improvements to the North Side security system, fields and site, including, but not limited to installation of a security vestibule, site work, and reconditioning of the basketball and baseball areas in an ultimate amount of four million nine hundred dollars ($4,900,000) plus aggregated interest, the source of which shall be transfers by the Board of Education from the general fund and accrued interest.

5) To vote upon such other propositions as may be lawfully presented to the voters.

The condensed form of the 2016-2017 budget proposition and a text of all other propositions to appear on the voting machine(s) and a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the fiscal year 2016-2017 for school district purposes, exclusive of public monies specifying the purpose and the amount for each, will be prepared and copies thereof will be made available to any district resident, upon request at the Business Office, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on business days beginning May 2, 2016, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holi-

days, and at each of the following schoolhouses: The Wheatley High School, Willets Road Intermediate School, and North Side Elementary School PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the voting shall be on voting machines as provided by the Education Law and the polls will remain open on May 17, 2016 from 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, and as much longer as may be necessary to enable the voters then present to cast their ballots. The District Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have the necessary ballot labels printed for said voting machines in the form corresponding as nearly as may be with the requirements of the Education Law and applicable law.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the election shall be held in accordance with the Rules for the Conduct of Meetings and Elections adopted by the Board of Education and applicable law.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the nominations for the office of member of the Board of Education of the East Williston Union Free School District shall be made by petition subscribed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District (representing the greater of 25 qualified voters or 2% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election) and such nominating petitions shall be filed with the Clerk of the East Williston Union Free School District in her office at The Wheatley School, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, provided however that petitions shall not be filed later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on April 18, 2016. Such petition must state the name and residence of each signer, and must state the name and residence of the candidate and shall describe the specific vacancy for which the candidate is nominated, including at least the length of term of office and contain the name of the incumbent. Each vacancy upon the Board of Education shall be considered separate specific vacancies. A separate nominating petition is required to nominate a candidate to each separate office.

A nominating petition may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for the office or declares his or her unwillingness to serve.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with Section 2035 of the Education Law, any propositions or questions to be placed upon the voting machines shall be submitted in writing by petition subscribed by at least 250 qualified voters of the District and filed in the Business Office of the District Clerk between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, not later than the 30th day preceding the meeting or election at which such question or proposition shall be voted upon, except that petitions that relate to those questions or propositions which must be included in the published or posted notice of the annual meeting, must be filed 60 days in advance of the annual meeting. This rule and such 60 day advance filing does not apply to those propositions or questions which the Board of Education has the authority by law to present at any annual or special election of the District.

The Board of Education will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful, any proposition which fails

to include a specific appropriation where the expenditures of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition for the ballot.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. The Board of Registration of this school district shall meet in the lobby of The Wheatley School on Thursday, May 5, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., prevailing time, for the purpose of preparing a register of the qualified voters of this district for said annual Budget Vote and Election, at which time any person shall be entitled to have his​/​her name placed upon such registry provided that at such meeting the Board of Registration, he​/s​ he is known, or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the annual Budget Vote and Election which such register is prepared.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the register shall include (1) all the qualified voters of the District who shall personally present themselves for registration; (2) all previously registered for any annual or special District meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special District meeting or election held or conducted at any time within four (4) calendar years prior to preparation of the said register; and (3) all qualified voters of the school district permanently registered with the Board of Elections of the County of Nassau residing within said school district.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to ß2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, at The Wheatley School to prepare the Register of the School District to be used for all votes and elections to be held subsequent to May 17, 2016 and, persons may have their names placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he​/s​ he is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said Register is prepared, or any special district meeting held after Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

The Register shall be filed in the office of the District Clerk at the District Office located at 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, New York where it shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District

beginning on May 12, 2016, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on each of the five (5) days prior to the day set for the election except Sunday, and between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday, May 14, 2016; and at the polling place on election day.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the District Clerk. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 PM, prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have been issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the office of the District Clerk on and after May 12, 2016 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the Budget Vote and Election and on May 17, 2016, the day set for the election.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the Board of Education shall convene a special meeting thereof within 24 hours after the filing with the District Clerk a written report of the results of the ballot, in the gymnasium of The Wheatley School for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot, and that the Board of Education hereby declares itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvas ballots pursuant to Education Law ß2019-a(2)(b) at said Special Meeting.

Dated: March 31, 2016

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Patricia Collins, District Clerk WT 143345 4x 4/08, 15, 22, 5/06, 2016 #143345

Notice of Formation of DCG Properties, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/2016. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 443 Horton Highway, Williston Park, NY 11596. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 1VITAL HEALTH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/2015. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1Vital Health LLC, 302 De Mott street, Mineola, NY 11501 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Platinum Heir LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/4/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 4 Ozone Place, Massapequa, NY 11758. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Herricks UFSD shall accept proposals from eligible agencies to collaborate with the district to run the universal pre-kindergarten program. The district is conducting a competitive process by publishing this Request for Proposal (RFP).

There is no expressed or implied obligation for the District to reimburse responding firms for any expenses incurred in preparing proposals in response to this Request for Proposal.

To be considered, two (2) copies of a proposal must be received by Mrs. Helen Costigan, Assistant Superintendent for Business, Herricks UFSD, 999B Herricks Road, New Hyde Park, New York 11040 by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18h, 2016. The District reserves the right to reject any or all proposals submitted. Proposals submitted will be evaluated by the district’s Superintendent. There will not be a formal opening of the proposals.

During the evaluation process, the District reserves the right, where it may serve the District’s best interest, to request additional information and clarification from proposers, or to allow corrections of errors or omissions. Any such information given, either orally or in writing, is not given in confidence and may be used, or disclosed to others, for any purpose, at any time without obligation or compensation and without liability of any kind whatsoever.

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Manhasset defeats Sewanhaka, 8-3 B y G r eg o r y G i a c o nelli The Manhasset varsity baseball team dominated Sewanhaka, 8-3, in the opening game of their three-game set Monday afternoon. Manhasset got their bats going early by driving in six runs in the first two innings.

The team followed up with a combination of great pitching from junior Jamie Weiss and team defense to nail down the commanding victory.

With the win, Manhasset improves to 2-4-1 in the season. Head coach Brian Corbo was pleased with the team’s performance, stressing that it was important to set the tone early against a struggling Sewanhaka team after coming off some tough games to bigger competition.

“It was a good win” said Corbo.

“We’ve been on a little down streak. We won our first game then lost three in a row and battled in the last two games. So it was good to get a win.”

Manhasset got the scoring going in the bottom of the first with a double and a single by seniors Matt Catalfo and Joe Santella to take an early 2-0 lead. They batted fourth and fifth respectively in the lineup.

In the top of the second, after Weiss allowed the leadoff batter on base, Sewanhaka would scratch out a run on a ground ball to cut the lead 2-1. Weiss would settle down after giving up the run.

Manhasset added to their lead in the bottom half of the inning as they rallied to put up four runs, giving them a 6-1 lead.

Two innings later, Manhasset continued to put the ball in play with runners in scoring position as they would tack on two more runs and make it an 8-1 game.

Corbo described this approach as “high school baseball.”

“When you put the ball in play, guys are going to make errors and mistakes” said Corbo. “It’s not about hitting a home run or a long line drive. Just put it in play” Sewanhaka would get two runs back in the top of the sixth inning and cut the deficit to 8-3, capping off the scoring.

Although their situational hitting was pretty good against Sewanhaka, Corbo states that the only issue the team needs to work on is locking down with runners on base and driving the ball more instead of popping up.

“When you are facing a pitcher who doesn’t throw too hard, a lot of guys jump at the ball and pop up a lot instead of staying back and driving in” said Corbo.

Catalfo and Santella provided the offense for Manhasset. Catalfo went 1-4 on the day with a double and two runs batted in. Santella went 1-3 with four RBIs. On the mound, Weiss tossed a complete game, striking out five, allowing five hits and only one earned run. He threw a lot of strikes, didn’t allow a walk and kept the opposition off the base paths. In this outing, he stuck to his game plan, which was keeping the ball down, getting ahead of the count and attacking hitters.

“It was nice for me to throw the ball down low as opposed to my last outing against Bellmore where I let the ball up too much” said Weiss. “The coaches did a great job helping me out, especially during practice. I think that was the key to my success today.”

In addition to a great pitching performance, Weiss stated that they played an overall good team game and had plenty of help from the defense.

“My teammates were behind me today” said Weiss. “All they did was pick me up even when I had a rough inning or gave up a hit. They would back me up in the field and those plays really helped me out.”

St. Aidan’s falls in first game The St. Aidan’s Middle School baseball team opened their inaugural spring season against St. Raymond’s of East Rockaway at Newbridge Park in Bellmore on Thursday, April 14.

With temperatures still a little cool, the first baseball game of the St. Aidan’s baseball program was played under clear blue skies, but ended in a close loss, 4-3.

St. Aidans’s pitching was strong as starting pitcher Stephen Poarch threw five innings, striking out nine and allowing only two hits. Joe Dellolio threw two innings in relief, allowing one hit and striking out six.

The offense was led by Joe Dellolio, who hit a home run to deep right-center,

and Aidan Scott, who hit a RBI single in the first. Sean O’Hara also had a hit and was robbed of another base hit by a nice defensive play by St. Ray’s.

Solid defensive plays were made by Aidan Scott at third, Joe Dellolio at shortstop, Kevin Meegan at catcher and Patrick Solosky at first.

The St. Aidan’s Middle School Baseball team is in their inaugural season and plays in the Catholic Middle Schools Athletic Association (CMSAA). The team plays against other Long Island Catholic Middle Schools around Nassau County.

The team is coached by Manager Ken Solosky and St. Aidan Alumni Coaches Liam O’Gara and Kenny Solosky.

Junior Pitcher Jamie Weiss goes seven innings, allowing an earned run, five hits and fanned five battersJ.

Wheatley’s Palazzolo commits to Bentley

This year, when the field hockey proThe Wheatley School senior Samantha Palazzolo recently signed a letter of gram was cancelled due to low numbers, commitment to continue her academic Palazzolo displayed her tremendous athand athletic career at Bentley University, letic ability by joining the Varsity Soccer team. As a novice to the sport of soccer, in the Northeast 10 Conference. she made a positive conPalazzolo is a returntribution as a replaceing four-year starter and ment goalie in a musttwo-year captain for the win game.

Wildcat Softball team.

Palazzolo’s outstandLast season, she earned ing transcript speaks for “Second Team All-State itself. Her efforts in the Softball” recognition. She classroom, a member of is a returning “All-County the National Honor So2015”, “All-County 2014” ciety, and on the athletic and “All-Conference fields, an All-County 2013” member of our level performer, demvarsity softball team. onstrate an exceptional As one of the school’s student-athlete. most complete athletes, With all that PalazPalazzolo has also earned Samantha Palazzolo zolo does in the class“All-Conference” recognition in both Varsity Field Hockey and room and athletic venues she still finds the time to participate in community Varsity Indoor Track.

She continually performs at the high- service and volunteer her talents to help est level on the field and is a role model others. She is also a talented artist, a to all of the school’s athletes. She has member of the Art Club and a featured been a major contributor to field hockey, artist at the LIU Post High School Art Exhibit. winter track and softball.

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Cosmos lose first match of season The New York Cosmos fell 2-1 to Indy Eleven at Michael A. Carroll Stadium Saturday night, as Indy scored twice in the match’s final minutes.

Kranjčar struck first in the 51st minute, opening his Cosmos account after Greg Janicki took down Sebastián Guenzatti in front of the goal following a cross from Adam Moffat. The Croatian international stepped up and put his well-taken penalty into the net, with Indy goalkeeper Jon Busch diving to the opposite post.

Midfielder Michael Lahoud had a

quality chance to double the Cosmos advantage on the hour mark when he settled a bouncing ball and put it on frame from the top of the 18-yard box, but Busch made the stop.

“In the second half we were a different team,” Cosmos Head Coach Giovanni Savarese said after the game. “We came out, controlled the match, created chances and then were able to score the goal.”

The Cosmos’ best opportunity to increase the lead came in the 82nd minute, when Lucky Mkosana slipped through

Indy Eleven’s center backs and fired off the PK the team lost a bit its composure.

Despite the loss, Savarese praised a shot that missed just wide of the right his starting goalkeeper of the evening. post.

But Indy Eleven roared back late, “Kyle had a great performance, a fantastic equalizing from the penalty spot through game. I think he was even better in the forward Eamon Zayed in the 90th min- second half. It was a very positive perforute. Zayed followed with his second of mance from him,” he added. the night, burying a rebound off a save by With the loss, New York’s record is Cosmos goalkeeper Kyle Zobeck deep into now 2-0-1 through three NASL Spring five minutes of second-half stoppage time. Season matches. The Cosmos head to NSC “For me, the PK was a game changer,” Stadium in Blaine, Minn. next for a SaturSavarese said, alluding to an Indy penalty day, April 23 matchup against Minnesota awarded off a corner kick. “I think after United FC. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m.

LIU Post baseball goes .500 against Bridgeport B y M i c h a el Ote r o The LIU Post baseball team opened up a four game set against the University of Bridgeport on Friday, April 15. The Pioneers welcomed the Purple Knights to Brookville, N.Y. with three first inning runs and a total of eight in an 8-2 pounding.

The first run was plated by junior outfielder Kenny Daley.

Freshman outfielder Dave Brehm followed that up with a two-RBI double. After the Purple Knights trimmed the lead to 3-1, the Pioneers got that run back on a RBI base hit by freshman third baseman Jimmy Mendyk.

Mendyk drove in another run in the sixth inning and in the later innings, senior first baseman David Groeneveld and sophomore shortstop Joe Spitaleri each plated runs with singles.

On the bump, junior pitcher Jake DeCarli tossed eight innings and allowed five hits while punching out seven batters.

The Pioneers and Purple Knights met again for a doubleheader in West Haven, Conn. on Saturday, April 16. Seeking redemption from a loss one night earlier, the Purple Knights came out strong and took both games 6-4 and 8-1.

In the home half of the first inning, the Purple Knights delivered two back-breaking runs with two outs off of junior pitcher Dan Jagiello. The Pioneers cut the lead in half with a single by sophomore outfielder Rob Andreoli that scored senior middle infielder Matt Bowers.

Up 2-1, the Purple Knights scored a combined four runs in the fifth and sixth innings to take a 6-1 lead into the seventh inning. After the Pioneer bullpen kept the Purple Knights off the board for the rest of the game, the offense flirted with a comeback. The Pioneers scored two runs in the ninth inning, but fell 6-4 in game one.

At the dish, Andreoli and

drove in a pair.

The Pioneers returned to the comfortable setting of Brookville, N.Y. for the final game of their four game set against the Purple Knights on Sunday, April 17. The high-scoring affair ended up favoring the Pioneers, as they won a slugfest, 13-12.

The Pioneers opened up the scoring in the first inning with two runs, one on a sacrifice fly and another on a wild pitch. After three scoreless innings from both teams, the Purple Knights struck and connected with four Bowers both had two RBI efforts runs over a three inning span. In in the loss. The nightcap, unfor- that spurt, Bridgeport third basetunately for the Pioneers, saw the man Alnaydo Rodriguez drove in Purple Knight bats catch fire. two runs to propel his team to a The hosts mashed 12 hits 4-2 lead. and brought home eight runs In the bottom of the sixth incompared to just one run for the ning, the Pioneers battled back Pioneers on three hits. The Pio- to tie and take the lead with four neer defense committed four er- runs. The go-ahead hit came currors in the game. tesy of Andreoli, who doubled to For the Purple Knights, six make it 6-4 for the Pioneers. The players totaled RBIs, led by- outPioneers extended their lead to1 CHERRY 1-8 Page GENERAL 08-28-15_Layout fielder Tyler Gambardella who 12-4 thanks to key hitting contri-

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butions from Spitaleri, Andreoli and Groeneveld.

Trailing by eight runs in the eighth inning, the Purple Knights put on an offensive onslaught.

After the first two batters were retired, nine batters came to the plate and eight runs came around to score to tie the game at 12.

Tied in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Pioneers avoided extra innings by coming through in the clutch.

Groeneveld delivered the goods with a one-out single that scored Andreoli for the walk-win.

Offensively, four Pioneers had multi-hit games, led by Andreoli, who had three hits. Andreoli and Spitaleri tied for the game high in RBIs, with three each.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here

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