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HERRICKS PLAYERS PRESENT ‘FUNNY THING’

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E.W. students aim to ‘free’ beloved teacher Haig’s suspension causes uproar in school district B y N o ah Manskar

Photo: Nolan Redmond via Facebook

Suspended Wheatley School social studies teacher Matthew Haig is known and loved among students for his dynamic and sometimes unconventional teaching style.

One of the East Williston school district’s most beloved teachers is not going out without a fight from his current and former students.

The suspension of Wheatley School social studies teacher Matthew Haig two weeks ago — and the lack of public information about it — has caused a recent outcry among students, parents and graduates.

Wheatley junior Jonathan Taub and others in a public Facebook group with more than 1,700 members say Haig has always gone to great lengths to help his students as an educator and mentor, and some think he is being targeted as the school

moves in what they see as a negative direction.

“People care about this man, and with good reason,” said Wes Berkowitz, a former Wheatley guidance counselor who has known Haig since 1985. “He’s been a phenomenal teacher, and again, being hit with this and not knowing the cause is extremely frustrating.”

Haig did not answer three phone calls from a Blank Slate Media reporter, and Berkowitz said his attorney has advised him not to speak with media about his case. District officials have not told anyone the reason for his suspension, including Haig himself, Berkowitz said.

Officials said privacy laws prohibit them from publicly discussing Haig’s case or any other

individual personnel issue.

Because of its declination to release information about Haig’s case, many community members and Wheatley alumni have questioned the district’s transparency on social media and at Monday’s school board candidates forum.

Superintendent Elaine Kanas said the district otherwise shares everything it can, but in this case is bound by law and respect for Haig’s privacy rights.

“That’s the way you build trust with a community, is being able to share all the information you can with them,” Kanas said. “And I think this board shares, and as a district we really share, and issues Continued on Page 46

Masked robber hits NHP sandwich shop B y N o ah Manskar string of knifepoint robberies 10, entered the Subway shop at an undisclosed amount of mon- bery is described similarly to

across Nassau County, police The second robbery in a said.

The assailant, described as week at a New Hyde Park sandwich shop was unrelated to the a white man standing 5-foot-

1201 Jericho Turnpike at 9:10 p.m. on Friday, and approached the cashier covering his left hand as though he had a gun, police said.

The robber never showed a gun, but demanded money from the cash register, police said.

After the cashier gave him

ey, the man ran northbound on North 12th Street, police said.

There was no one else in the store at the time, police said, and no one was hurt.

The man was described as of average build wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and a white surgical mask across his face.

The suspect in Friday’s rob-

the man who robbed a Williston Park Dunkin’ Donuts at knifepoint twice within a week in April.

Employees at the Dunkin’ Donuts store said last month they think the same person robbed their store on April 8 and April 13.

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Herricks candidates Legal language talk budget, new ideas delays water pact Apicos advocates planning, Chin touts experience at forum E.W. will send agreement to county B y N o ah Manskar While they agreed the district is in a good financial position now, the two Herricks school board candidates diverged slightly on its outlook at Tuesday’s candidates’ forum.

Challenger Andrew Apicos of Williston Park said the district could benefit from long-term planning for how to deal with tighter budgets under the state’s tax levy cap “You’re doing the best you can with the situation and the cards that you’ve been dealt,” said Apicos, a biology teacher at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington.

He also questioned the use of reserves in the budget, he said.

Incumbent Trustee Juleigh Chin of Manhasset Hills, seeking a second three-year term, said she was unsure what reserve spending Apicos was citing.

Chin said this year’s $110 million budget with a 0.16-percent tax levy increase indicates a brighter outlook as the district has learned to navigate the cap.

It restores cuts she described as painful and adds new programs, she said.

“It’s not that it doesn’t hurt now, but we kind of learned how to live with it and we kind of learned to adjust and roll with those punches, but we don’t have these big reserves that some of our neighboring districts might have,” said Chin, a volunteer coordinator for Northwell Health.

This recently adopted budget puts the district in a “state of equilibrium” after major cuts in the tax cap’s first year, Apicos said, but the board should evaluate how to cut spending in the future without compromising programs.

Chin said Herricks already engages in budget planning and has maintained one of the lowest perpupil spending levels among high-

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they settled differences that had emerged since a similar meeting in December.

Tanner said the delay is “not at the fault of any particular party” and attributed it to the schedule of the village boards’ meetings and the involvement of so many people.

Under normal circumstances, the county health department would have required East Williston to provide its own emergency chlorination, but the department told the village in 2011 an agreement with Williston Park would suffice, trustees have said.

Under the plan, East Williston will likely not have to build its own emergency chlorination system, as its Village Board worried in February.

Williston Park would chlorinate East Williston’s water in an emergency to the maximum extent it can.

East Williston’s Village Board still plans to put out a $7.5 million bond referendum to let residents decide whether to build two wells and a supply tank at Devlin Field, Tanner said.

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East Williston’s Village Board still has yet to approve a draft water-service agreement with the Village of Williston Park, officials said this week.

The agreement was set to go back to East Williston trustees Wednesday after Williston Park’s Village Board agreed to “minor, insignificant changes” to legal language on Monday, Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar said.

Within a week of East Williston trustees reviewing it, Mayor David Tanner said, he will personally deliver the draft pact Williston Park’s board approved Photo by Noah Manskar more than a month ago to the County Health DepartPort Washington biology teacher Andrew Apicos is challeng- Nassau ment. The health department ing incumbent Herricks school board Trustee Juleigh Chin. must review the agreement’s emergency chlorination plan, district for 20 years and wanted to a sticking point in negotiations performing districts.

The candidates also had new give voters a choice in the school earlier this year. ideas they would seek to imple- board race.

“These things never seem to While he thinks Chin has done happen as quickly as everybody ment in their terms on the board.

As a 25-year teacher, Apicos a fine job as a trustee, he said he would like them to, but that’s said he thinks the district could would bring a set of skills and ex- just the nature of these things,” benefit from involving teachers periences as a teacher that is miss- Tanner said. more when making decisions and ing from many school boards, he The two boards agreed to developing new programs. They said. the final terms of the agreement “People make policy, but if two months ago at a March 3 could generate ideas that would end up saving the district money, they haven’t been in the trenches, public negotiation, at which sometimes they’re not going to he said.

“If you don’t bring the teach- think about all the possibilities, ers to the table and ask them what and sometimes the unintended kind of ideas they have for pushing consequences, of certain policies,” forward, you may not be getting he said in an interview.

Apicos said one of his children the best,” he said.

Chin said she would like to has gone through Herricks schools see more team-building activities and another is graduating from the for students and staff, as well as district this year.

Chin said her passion for the programs addressing social issues such as bullying and eating disor- district and the knowledge she has gained in her first term make her ders.

For example, new teachers the best choice in the race.

“Expertise can only come with benefitted from team-building exercises they did before the current experience, and when we’re talking about the school board, you school year began, she said.

Photo by Noah Manskar “I think that they felt part of a need someone with experience,” team when they did that, they felt she said.

East Williston and Williston Park trustees have met twice in Residents will vote for the part of the district, and I’d like to public to negotiate the water deal.

They are seen here on school board seat and the district’s see more of that,” Chin said.

Dec. 17.

Apicos said he has lived in the 2016-2017 budget on May 17.

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Lampasona makes case in Mineola Lone school board candidate talks Common Core, technology with parents at forum B y N eglah S har m a

Uncontested Mineola school board candidate Cheryl Lampasona promised to work for the district’s students and parents at Monday night’s “Meet the Candidate” event at Mineola High School.

“I will work endlessly for the 2,905 students within our district, I will be guidance for every parent within our district, and I will sit on the board for every taxpayer in our community,” she said.

Lampasona, co-president of the Hampton Street School PTA, has taught in New York City schools for 10 years and teaches third grade in Woodside, Queens, but said her first year on the school board will have a learning curve.

She is running unopposed for a three-year term to replace Mineola school board Vice President Patricia Navarra, who decided not to run for re-election after one

term.

During a brief and informal question-and-answer session, voters asked Lampasona a series of questions about educational policy issues, such as opting out of state tests, teacher hiring processes and the controversial Common Core curriculum.

Lampasona said she likes the Common Core curriculum as an educator and a parent.

She said she will know more about the question of whether parents should opt their children out of state tests next year, when her oldest child enters the third grade and takes state tests for the first time.

District Superintendent Michael Nagler has said about 25 percent of Mineola students eligible to take the English exam opted out this year, up from 18.3 percent last year; and about 24 percent of eligible students opted out of the math exam.

In an earlier interview

Cheryl Lampasona with the Williston Times, Lampasona said she would not have opted her older child out of tests this year, but she thinks it is good that parents have a choice in the matter.

Lampasona said there is a stark contrast in the

resources available to New York City schools and those available in Mineola schools.

“I count my blessings that we can live where we live and not where I teach,” she said. “I am an excellent teacher, don’t mistake that.”

Responding to a ques-

tion about how “the local community has not been energized” by Mineola schools’ international recognition for the use of educational technology, Lampasona said she thinks “we’re doing wonderful things and we do incorporate the community.”

She added that she is excited to visit other schools and “see what we can do all together.”

Lampasona holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting and state certifications in general education, special education, and English as a new language.

“I have the business and educational background, I’ve never meshed the two together,” she said.

“I’m really excited to learn everything I need to know.

By my third year I am excited to see what I have accomplished within (the) district.”

Mineola’s six PTAs also voted Monday in favor of the 2016-2017 district bud-

get the school board adopted April 21.

The district’s $91.2 million budget reflects a 1.73-percent increase over the current year and a decrease in the tax levy of 0.012 percent, or about $10,000, required by the state’s tax cap law.

Every household will receive a check for $136 from the state as a result of the lowered tax levy, Nagler said.

The budget funds several capital projects with a boost in state aid and $900,000 appropriated fund balance, officials said Monday night.

Every curricular, extracurricular and co-curricular program will be maintained next year, including professional staff development and a technology plan, Nagler said.

Nagler said Thursday’s school budget hearing will discuss specific additions and reductions in the adopted budget.

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Teacher’s case takes over BOE talk East Williston school board candidates asked many questions they could not answer

B y N o ah Manskar East Williston school board candidates said they could not answer questions about the issue that dominated Monday’s “Meet the Candidates” event — the suspension of Wheatley School teacher Matthew Haig.

Eleven of the 17 questions asked of incumbent Trustee David Keefe and unopposed newcomer Alan Littman were directly or indirectly related to Haig’s suspension, which has caused an outcry among current Wheatley students and graduates in the past two weeks.

“I know it’s difficult to accept when you feel very strongly about something, but I urge you understand that the questions that come in on that I will not ask, because they can’t answer them,” said Harris Deleinkoff, the moderator of the event sponsored by the East Williston PTO Coordinating Council and the League of Women Voters.

The candidates mostly agreed on issues such as budget priorities and the state Common Core stan-

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East Williston school board Trustee David Keefe addressed questions from supporters of suspended teacher Matthew Haig at Monday’s candidates’ forum. dards, with Keefe speaking from his six years’ experience on the school board and Littman saying he will have much to learn.

But their inability to discuss Haig’s case frustrated the 15 people there to support him and led to tense exchanges between Deleinkoff and 2011 Wheatley graduate Jesse Manor, who charged the candidates were “afraid to

answer those questions.”

Haig, a beloved teacher at Wheatley for more than 30 years, was suspended with pay April 20 without any public explanation.

Discussing the suspension publicly would violate Haig’s privacy rights, Keefe said Monday.

Haig’s supporters tried to get around Deleinkoff’s caveat by submitting general questions

about transparency, teaching “controversial” subjects, administrators’ influence over teaching and other subjects.

For example, Wheatley alumnus Nelson Martins asked if Keefe and Littman read their emails after a question about emails relating to Haig’s suspension was rejected.

Littman and Keefe agreed on those, too — they said they think teachers should have “academic freedom” and spoke to the school board’s openness.

Keefe called the school board “very, very transparent,” and Littman said it was the board’s accessibility that attracted him to it.

“It seemed to me like a transparent group of people who are working very hard and had no axe to grind, and the only thing that they want to do is provide great education for the children (and) a great working environment for the teachers,” said Littman, an Albertson insurance salesman and 1981 Wheatley graduate.

Other questions related to the school board’s May 23 busi-

ness meeting, where the board may publicly vote whether to bring disciplinary charges against Haig. Keefe said that vote would be public as a matter of law, and he and Littman said they would allow extended public comments and questions at that meeting.

Littman encouraged people dissatisfied with the district’s disciplinary process to stay engaged with the district.

“If you don’t like the system, come to more meetings, get involved and help effect change,” he said.

On other issues, Litman said he thinks the Common Core standards are valuable but that tests aligned with them are not necessarily the best means of accountability.

While he said the district is obligated to enforce the standards as law, Keefe, a former teacher, said their link to teacher evaluations is their most controversial aspect.

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

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Town eyes additional ethics reforms Committee will evaluate ethics code; attorney recommends hiring contract overseer

B y N o ah Manskar The Town of North Hempstead will implement a package of reforms to prevent nepotism and increase accountability following the arrests of a town contractor and employee in the past two months, Supervisor Judi Bosworth said Thursday.

The changes Town Attorney Elizabeth Botwin proposed in a Wednesday memorandum to Bosworth include the establishment of a working group to update the town’s ethics code, the hiring of a senior procurement advisor to oversee contracts and a prohibition on family members supervising each other.

They represent additional steps to protect the town from corruption and conflicts of interest after former town Democratic party Chairman Gerard Terry was found to have $1.4 million in tax debts and ex-employee Helen McCann was arrested for allegedly stealing $98,000 from the Solid Waste Management Authority.

“It’s not business as usual here in the town,” Bosworth said.

“We are tightening procurement

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said the town will implement a package of ethics reforms after Gerard Terry’s arrest last month on tax fraud charges. procedures and shining a light on anyone who does business with the town. In addition, we will be engaging an advisor to oversee procurement and open the town to new vendors, thereby making bidding more competitive. This is all good news for our taxpayers.”

Botwin issued her memorandum about two months after Bosworth instructed her to conduct

a comprehensive review of town policies and procedures after a Newsday report revealed Terry, once special counsel to the town and attorney for its Board of Zoning Appeals under a $74,000 contract, had the massive tax debt. He was arrested April 10 on a felony tax fraud charge.

In addition to now requiring contractors and political party

leaders to file disclosure financial disclosure forms, Botwin said, the town needs to address questions about the content of its ethics code and procedures for ethics violations.

For example, while financial disclosures are public records available through a Freedom of Information Law request, confidentiality is required for all town Ethics Board reviews of filings — such as the current review of Gerard Terry’s wife Concetta Terry, a deputy town clerk who did not list her husband’s tax debts on disclosure forms dating back to 2006.

Upon Botwin’s recommendation, an “ethics reform working group” will examine the town’s ethics code, adopted in 1990 pursuant to state law, and propose changes to the Town Board for discussion at a public hearing, Bosworth said in a statement.

The committee will include Democratic Councilman Peter Zuckerman, Republican Councilwoman Dina De Georgio and former state Commission on Public Integrity member John Brickman, as well as current town Ethics Board members Richard Kesten-

baum and Charles Vogeley.

The group will weigh changes to rules regarding gifts to town employees and political contributions from contractors, the town said in a statement, and the town will require contractors to disclose “substantial tax debt.”

The Town Board approved a package of revisions to its ethics code in March, requiring contractors and more officials to file financial disclosures and adding family members who work for the town to the list of information that must be disclosed.

Town officials said in February they would start enforcing a 25-year-old requirement in the ethics code that town political committee leaders make the filings.

Terry never made any disclosure filings as a contractor of as chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee.

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Schumer to feds: let town use its money B y J o e N ikic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-Brooklyn) on Tuesday called for federal and state agencies to “unlock” $2 million in unused transportation funds for the Town of North Hempstead to make necessary improvements to the town.

Speaking in front of the Port Washington Long Island Railroad station, Schumer said the Federal Highway Administration and state Department of Transportation have the authority to restore the funds, which were initially awarded in 2005.

“For over a decade, $2 million in funds for the Town of North Hempstead have been under lock and key, guarded by federal bureaucracy,” Schumer said. “But now we have the means to unlock this money and FHWA and NYSDOT should allow the Town of North Hempstead to use these funds on local, critically-needed projects that are ready-to-go....

These are the Town of North Hempstead’s dollars and they must remain the Town of North Hempstead’s to use on their projects.”

In 2005, the town was awarded $2 million in funding for a repaving project on Grand Boulevard in Westbury, but the project was completed using other funds, so the money was left untouched.

Schumer helped pass a new provision in the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act that allows the FHWA and NYSDOT to authorize the repurposing of unused funds for a new project.

Until that provision was passed, federal rules prevented municipalities from reusing

any federal funding, even if the original project was no longer needed.

Schumer said that if a newly needed project was within 50 miles of the originally funded project, then the funds could be used.

He also said there were four specific transportation projects the town was considering using the funds on, including drainage and infrastructure improvements on Main Street near the Port Washington LIRR station, a two-mile expansion and development project of the Hempstead Harbor Shoreline Trail, a reconstruction project for the culvert that connects Leeds Pond in Plandome Manor and the Manhasset Bay and a planning, design and engineering project for the Garden City Park Industrial Zone.

Since the money was never spent, Schumer said, $500,000 could be allocated for the Port Washington revitalization project, $700,000 for the Hempstead Harbor Shoreline Trail project, $500,000 for the culvert reconstruction project and $300,000 for Garden City Park Industrial Zone project.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, who joined Schumer at the press conference, said if the funds were “unlocked,” then the town can address necessary projects without having to borrow money.

“The repurposing of federal transportation dollars for North Hempstead is essential to assist us in completing projects that benefit our residents and improve our infrastructure,” Bosworth said. “The funding would also reduce the need for borrowing for the projects, and that’s great news for the town and its taxpayers.”

Sen. Charles Schumer (right) appeared with North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth on Tuesday.

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7-Eleven plans draw concerns in Albertson B y N o ah Manskar

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Albertson residents and civic activists are fighting a proposed 7-Eleven convenience store that they say would disturb the otherwise quiet hamlet.

Opening the 24-hour store at 875 Willis Ave. would draw loiterers and increase noise, light pollution and traffic in the nearby residential neighborhood, Albertson Square Civic Association President Ed Scott said.

“We feel that 7-Eleven being the big corporate monster that it is, they’re gonna try to force their way in, no regard to the residents,” Scott said.

The store would open in the 2,282-square-foot building at the corner of Willis Avenue and Bagley Avenue formerly occupied by Mitch & Toni’s restaurant, which closed in August 2014.

The company has applied to the Town of North Hempstead’s Board of Zoning Appeals for variances to landscape buffer and signage rules and a conditional-use permit to sell food, town spokeswoman Carole Trottere said.

Gregory Alvarez, the attorney representing 7-Eleven’s application, deferred questions to a company spokesperson.

No 7-Eleven representative responded a request for comment made through Alvarez and another sent to the company media relations office.

The town referred the application to the Nassau County Planning Commission in March, Scott said, but the county sent it back to the town after learning of the opposition.

Trottere said those referrals are standard procedure and the application is now pending.

Albertson residents Joanne Lee DeBuona and Bruce Kaplan sent a letter to the county Planning Commission outlining their concerns about the store, say-

ing there are no other 24-hour businesses in Albertson.

The store would send “hundreds of cars” through the neighboring residential streets, unlike the former restaurant, which was open for only a few hours each day, they wrote.

The increased traffic and potential loitering create quality-of-life concerns for residents of the adjacent neighborhood, they wrote.

“We have very high taxes here in Nassau County. The needs of the county residents must take precedent over the wants of a faceless corporation,” DeBuona and Kaplan wrote.

Scott said the store would be better suited for a commercial area near the Long Island Expressway in Roslyn Heights, where a 24-hour CVS store already operates.

Residents would like to see another restaurant replace Mitch & Toni’s on Willis Avenue, he said.

“I’m definitely about business, but the reality is that we know what transpires once a 7-Eleven opens up,” Scott said.

Other 7-Eleven convenience stores have met opposition in Great Neck and Mineola in recent years before being approved.

Village of Great Neck trustees voted 4-1 in 2013 to let a 24-hour store open on Middle Neck Road despite the county Planning Commission recommending it be rejected.

Mineola’s Village Board approved a store at 400 E. Jericho Turnpike in October, reversing its original decision under an order from the state Appellate Division court after a three-year legal battle.

The approval came with came a set of restrictions on traffic flow, lighting, deliveries and maintenance that the court said the village could impose.

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Villages’ vice laws misguided

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he New Hyde Park Village Board is the latest local government to consider restrictions on hookah bars and vape shops.

Already, the villages of Mineola, Great Neck, Great Neck Plaza and Great Neck Estates have approved legislation barring them from opening or restricting where they can be located.

In New Hyde Park’s case the law would define a “hookah bar” and “vape shop” as an adult use in the village code.

This would banish them to industrial zones and bar them from being within 2,000 feet of each other or within 800 feet of a school, church, park, playground, playing field or public library. And require a special-use permit to operate.

In doing so, the hookah bars and vape shops would join strip clubs, tattoo parlors, piercing salons and massage parlors.

Not included in the list are convenience stores, gas stations and drug stores that sell cigarettes as well as bars and restaurant that sell alcohol.

The question is why?

Are hookah bar and vape shop customers that much less savory than those who frequent bars and other establishments? If so, where’s the proof.

It certainly can’t be the products they offer.

Hookahs — water pipes that are used to smoke specially made tobacco — do carry serious health risks.

But the risk is no different than cigarettes to which 40 million Americans are addicted with an increasingly large percentage of

users poor and uneducated.

Smoking is also the largest cause of preventable death in the United States with more than 480,000 people a year dying of smoking-related illnesses.

But like alcohol — another major source of preventable deaths — it is legal.

Vape shops, which are often lumped in with hookahs bars, use a different technology that delivers the nicotine found in cigarettes without the harmful tar and chemicals that cause cancer.

The Royal College of Physicians recently concluded that the e-cigarettes used by vape shops offer the best hope in a generation for people addicted to cigarettes.

This is not a universally shared conclusion.

The federal Centers for Disease Control maintain that e-cigarettes could be a gateway to that serious health hazard known as traditional cigarettes or that their vapor could turn out to have longterm health risks.

But even if that is true, why subject hookah bars and vape shops to regulation and not places that sell cigarettes and alcohol — something we strongly oppose.

As it is often said, this is a free country and that means people have the right to make bad choices with what they eat, what they smoke and what they drink.

A prohibition against fast-food stores and processed foods would probably have a greater benefit to the health of residents than restrictions on hookah bars and vape shops.

But what residents consume — and where they consume it — ought to be left up to residents.

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Ritz-Carlton condos reflect dangerous L.I. overbuilding

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have been offended by the Ritz-Carlton project since it broke ground.

While I am sure that it provides a wonderful way for those who can afford it to downsize or move to a better school district, it also represents the very worst of what’s been done to Long Island.

As mentioned in your nauseatingly congratulatory article, it has used up the last of the undeveloped land in the area. That is not a good thing.

We are not talking about the extinction of a species.

We are talking about the decimation of the

trees, the added pollution and the additional traffic to an already overloaded population.

To justify this eyesore by saying that it serves a need for the wealthiest among us to have a place to live with amenities is insulting to the population, wealthy or not, that values a little forest to soften the edges of what has become an overpopulated, over trafficked area.

I am sad and disappointed by the overbuilding that has turned what was once a lovely place to live into another example of glaring excess.

Terry Levitt Great Neck

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A loo k on the li g hter si d e

A Dream-Team for Mother’s Day

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nominate Mother’s Day as “most exasperating holiday” in the entire year. Whether you are trying to plan something for your mother — or your spouse — or just for yourself, it is uphill sledding.

Flowers? Candy? Dinner out? Every angle has already been thought of… and commercialized… and the pressure is on.

Which might be why I was having so much trouble planning something for this year’s celebration.

But before I could get very far, I was distracted by the aroma of coffee wafting toward me — something that hasn’t happened since … well, since I became a mother. Mmmm! Coffee!

But I was reluctant to reach out for a sip; years of experience have taught me to wait, first, for little bodies to land in bed beside me and finish joggling my arm.

But they are grown now, standing self-consciously beside their Dad, asking politely would I like to come downstairs?

Years of experience have

also taught me that “I’ll be right down” was the correct answer.

Well, years of experience plus my husband’s hand signals in the background, where only I can see them. “Um, I’ll be right down?” Thumbs up for “Good answer!”

Once downstairs, I see that a feast awaits us: scrambled eggs, toast, and orange juice, along with more coffee, and places all set at the dining room table.

“The boys made it all,” their dad says proudly. “Except the coffee.

I made that.”

After brunch, the boys clear and we adjourn to the kitchen, where I watch them argue over whose is the right way to put things in the dishwasher. The physicist wants to “maximize exposure to the water jets” by placing smaller plates in the center, and forks in front of spoons. The economist wants to “optimize the work load” by getting all the largest plates in, leaving smaller ones for later. While they bicker, I pour myself a third cup of coffee. I can’t remember the last

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A Look on the Lighter Side time I’ve had three cups in a row, when they were home!

“Why don’t you take your shower now, Mom?” says one boy. “Before the dishwasher uses up the hot water?” adds the other.

Such thoughtfulness! Unless they’re trying to get me out of the way? When I return, they seem to be just finishing sealing up some envelopes.

I pretend not to notice.

“Now, what should we do with

the day? Ideas, anyone?”

“Where would you like to go, Mom?” “That depends. Who’s driving?” I ask.

Perhaps, like everyone says about wild animals, they can smell the fear on me. “Dad is; he says that way you can relax.”

Dad got that right!

“But where to, Mom?” “Surprise me.”

And surprised I am, when we pull up at the Nassau County Museum of Art, in Roslyn. This is the place I used to take them, every Mother’s Day, only to hear so much whining — “Do we have to?” and “What, again?” — that I’d finally sworn off of it.

As we park and walk toward the building, the older boy exclaims, “I remember this place!”

“So do I!” agrees the younger one, and they wander off, not exactly arm in arm, but together.

Here’s the best part: now that they’re old enough to find their way back without us, my husband and I can just sit on a bench, and wait.

“You know, Mom, I don’t know why I used to mind it so much; this place is kind of nice.”

“I wonder what they have inside the building? Did we ever get there?”

I decide to quit while I’m ahead. “You know what? This has been such a perfect day. Let’s go home and have ice cream.”

And after letting them watch an episode of their beloved (ugh) “Walking Dead,” I open two envelopes that were, indeed, for me.

They have each made me a card. One promises to help me with gardening at least two weekends this summer. The other promises to help with hanging 3 pictures of my choice, and to leave the toilet seat down more often.

Wait, what’s happening? the picture is getting fuzzy…someone is shaking me…

“Judy, Judy, wake up, it’s Mother’s Day. What would you like to do for your special day?”

“Just let me go back to sleep!”

A gal can dream, can’t she?

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Our shared future: Where do You Stand?

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he elections of 2016 could affect all of us for decades to come — even for the rest of our lives. Some of the profound potential consequences will be considered in coming columns.

As “USA Today” emphasizes in full-page ads, all of us have a civic responsibility to “Know What You Do Not Know.”

That is always good advice for citizenship. But the stakes are way higher in 2016. One of our nation’s leading journalists gives this warning: “This is a Joe McCarthy moment. People will be judged by where they stood at this time.

Those who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.”

Those views were not advanced by a liberal or by a farright conservative (where people on both political wings fear a Trump or Cruz presidency for many good reasons).

David Brooks, one of the most thoughtful Conservative writers is escalating his warnings about Trump and about the disastrous directions of his own Republican Party.

It is worth noting that Brooks

(along with his PBS liberal counterpart, Mark Shields) received a “Media Civility Award” for ways they exchange views from different political perspectives.

Many other thoughtful, experienced and civil Republican conservatives join Brooks in their concerns about the nation, the world and their political party because of Trump and other extremists on the far right.

Former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett is dismayed about what is happening to his Party. The only good thing, he says, is that if Trump is the nominee, he will lose so decisively that Republicans will need to remake the Party so that it more resembles Lincoln’s values, not the ill-informed, bigoted extremists.

Congressman Peter King has been a leader on Long Island for nearly half a century; he was considered a “maverick” for challenging office-holders, including his own party.

His voice has been loud and clear about the Republican “crazies” in Congress and candidates who not only embarrass his GOP Party, but are a danger to the nation.

Among the most incisive Republican commentators is Steve

Michael D’Innocenzo Out of Left Field

Schmidt.

He has long since apologized for the enormity of the mistake of selecting Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate in 2008. He says no one, ever again, should consider voting for, or supporting, Ms. Palin.

If you have never read the acclaimed book, “Game Change,” or seen the film of that title, they are worth experiencing to see ways some Republicans escalated the party’s descent to this “Joe McCarthy” moment.

Folks on Long Island will have a chance to hear Schmidt when he speaks at Temple Emanuel in Great Neck on Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. (information: 516-

482-5701).

I will be there. I try to take every opportunity to hear Steve Schmidt’s views.

Like David Brooks, he is a voice of sanity and civility during a time when extremists are wrecking his party.

How appropriate that Donald Trump teamed with the notorious and ill-tempered basketball coach, Bobby Knight, when he campaigned in Indiana.

These two bullies were made for each other.

As a “sidebar” to get some reality on Knight, read the book “Beer and Circus” about the corruption of college sports, including a call for Indiana University to fire Knight.

It was not enough that basketball myopics and alumni rallied uncritically to support Knight, but they launched allout “Trump-like” attacks on the book’s author.

There were so many death threats against the Indiana professor who criticized the coach, that the university gave him a paid leave of absence as security protection, and advice to leave the state.

Indiana soon fired Bobby Knight. [Admonitory sidebar:

Knight said Trump could rise to the top ranks of presidents, because like Truman he is willing to use atomic weapons. Be alert for veteran military leaders as critics of Trump’s reckless and dangerous views.]

Our nation will have a chance “to fire” Donald Trump on Nov. 8, unless enough smart Republicans find a way to stop him from becoming their nominee at their Cleveland convention in July.

I have always liked the double meaning of the Chinese symbol for “crisis.” We know that it represents “danger,” but as Gail Sheehy wrote decades ago in “The Predictable Crises of Adult Life,” that symbol can also mean “opportunity.”

If individuals and nations can face — and surmount — major challenges (and some crises literally can be life-threatening), they can grow from those learning experiences and be better positioned to move forward with greater maturity and wisdom.

As always, history will record where people stood during the challenge of a “Joe McCarthy moment.”

Michael D’Innocenzo’s website is: michaeldinnocenzo.com

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Candidates’ paths to White House still foggy

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ust think it’s the month of May. We still have to tolerate six months of presidential campaigning by the handful of candidates still standing.

By June 1, there will be little doubt that Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are their party’s candidates for president.

That’s about all that is certain, the rest is unpredictable.

On paper Mrs. Clinton would be a clear favorite to be elected come November, but that’s on paper.

Realistically, anything can happen between now and Election Day and no doubt will. Mr. Trump has the distinction of having the most negatives of the two competitors.

He has alienated just about every likely voter and is left with a bunch of angry white people and a handful of people who have so much money that they can escape to Europe and far off lands to avoid a Trump in the White House.

Mr. Trump has announced that he will make an effort to win over

the supporters of Bernie Sanders.

There is a better chance that Saudi Arabia will embrace Israel, than Sanders people embracing him.

Which Sanders people could fall in love with Trump? There will never be a Trump coalition that includes Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and college educated people.

No doubt Mr. Trump will pick up a few Clinton detractors, but they were never Clinton people to begin with. The real question between now and November is which of the two standard-bearers has the greatest challenge to be competitive and it is actually both.

Mr. Trump has told the world that he will be more “presidential” in the months to come.

Does that mean he will stop using nasty names to fight Mrs. Clinton or retract what he has said about so many ethnic groups? Is he going to abandon the wall he has promised to build with Mexican money?

Is he going to stop alienating women with insults after insults? Is

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he going to retract all of his statements that were made over six years on the Howard Stern show?

Trump’s biggest problem is that there is no “do over’ in politics.

Once you say it or do it, you own it. Remember former President George H. W. Bush’s “read my lips” pledge?

How about Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis’s photo op in

a tank with a Snoopy looking helmet on his head?

How about President George Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner declaring the war in Iraq over.

By November, I am sure that all the women will forget the Megan Kelly slurs.

Hillary Clinton has a different problem besides Trump. There are millions of people out there who support Bernie Sanders and they are not going away gently into the night after the Democratic convention is over.

They will expect the Democratic candidate to deal with job losses, the suffering middle class and the young people who have felt the Bern with promises of free public college tuition and medical care for everyone.

We all know that most of the Sander’s platform can’t happen because it is totally unrealistic, but there is a lot of unhappiness on Main Street that has to be addressed.

The classic Democratic elec-

tion platform is not going to work this time around.

Enough people out there are looking for change and they want to hear what Mrs. Clinton is going to do to help them. Will they embrace Trump? That isn’t even an option.

They want specific reasons why they should embrace Hillary after Bernie has thrown in the towel.

At the very worst, quite a few of them may stay home. They will be joined by all the traditional Republicans who will also stay home rather than support Trump.

The unhappy Democrats and the frightened Republicans could make the voter turnout even smaller.

The challenge for Mrs. Clinton is that she has got to turn on and energize a whole group of voters.

For Trump, the challenge is how will he be able to recoup the massive group of voters that he has turned off.

That’s what makes the next six months ahead so interesting.

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NHP fire district not doing right by taxpayers

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he New Hyde Park Fire District has voted to create a 9/11 Memorial to be erected in the parking lot of New Hyde Park’s Fire Department Headquarters.

While I have previously commended at open board meetings the sentiment of wanting to memorialize the sacrifice of the three firefighters and seven community residents that gave the ultimate sacrifice on that faithful day, I do not agree with the location of the proposed memorial or the improper manner in which the Fire District approved it.

Moreover, the fire department already maintains a memorial for these lost fire fighters in the same parking lot, as well as in the main entrance to the firehouse.

It is my opinion that this type of memorial belongs in the serene setting of a park and not in the back parking lot of a firehouse on one of the busiest main streets in New York.

Placing this monument in a park provides the proper setting for department members, community residents and outside guests to reflect on the loss of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Fire District would have been better served by coordinating with the village, Town of North Hempstead or county to find a

more suitable and appropriate location for such a solemn memorial.

Moreover, this proposed memorial should not proceed without the consultation of the families that will have loved ones enshrined in the memorial.

Their input is key to having the proposed memorial truly celebrate and memorialized the lives of those who were lost on 9/11.

Therefore, I asked the Fire District to work with the village, Town of North Hempstead or the county to find a more suitable location for this solemn memorial.

More concerning, however, is how construction on this memorial was improperly commenced and tax payer moneys expended prior to the Fire District Board providing the appropriate notice to the residents of the Fire District.

During an open board meeting held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, a status report on the work relating to the monument was offered

by Commissioner John Waldron.

According to Commissioner Waldron, the project which will cost tax payers a total cost of $131, 925, was approved by a unanimous motion made by all five members of the Board.

A motion was then made to move forward with the project and to have a permissive referendum

for the 9-11 memorial not to exceed $150,000 was then made at the same meeting.

To clarify, New York State law requires when a resolution is a subject to permissive referendum, a fire district must comply with certain public notice requirements.

Voter approval is not required unless a fire district receives from resident taxpayers a timely petition, meeting statutory requirements, protesting the resolution and requesting that it be submitted to the voters for their approval or disapproval.

If the district does not receive a timely and valid petition, the resolution takes effect without actually being submitted to the voters.

At the open board meeting of Tuesday, April 5, 2016, Commissioner Waldron stated he wanted approval to go ahead and sign the contract with the architect, National Installation & GC Corp.

— all five sitting board members approved, and Commissioner Waldron stated he would meet the architect within the next day or two to sign the contract.

Since that meeting, construction has commenced.

However, no permissive referendum was published in the local papers, as required by law, at that time and construction on the project was commenced.

The required legal notice was only first published in Newsday on Friday, April 22, 2016.

Legal notice was not present in their official local paper, neither before or on, said date. In short, construction on a $150,000 project started without public notice, as required by law.

The process of procuring a public contract is daunting, but must be met with proper legal notices — especially when the Fire District residents and taxpayers are ultimately footing this vast expense.

As reported in this and other newspapers, this Fire District posted the second-largest tax increase of any special district in the Town of North Hempstead.

These recent actions are not the first time the board has made errors in its operations. It is just another example of the problems with the Board of Commissioners and its staff, not only of its incompetence through its failure to properly post a formal financial legal public notice, but also of their continued lack of openness and transparency in their governmental operations and budget process.

Why is there constant constraint in communicating with the community the Fire District serves? Where are the actions ‘in the best interest of the residents

and taxpayers’?

If you recall, this same District board, which all consist of fellow firefighters of the Department, denied the formal petition of 512 signatures of its community citizens requesting easily accessible information relating to Fire District operations and finances, as well as public safety information, on its antiquated www.nhpfd.com website.

There is no excuse in failing to meet the needs of the District residents and taxpayers, and consistently block proposals by residents, even those requesting, for nearly 3 years now, on much-needed open transparency onto the website.

This district needs to agree to make the necessary changes that would facilitate improved public relations with their constituents and provide easier and much more modern access for them to the governmental process. I will continuously remind this board that one of the most important, if not critical, responsibilities an elected District official has is to comply and provide an open and transparent government for the public— most especially regarding matters concerning the budget.

Deirdre Dolan New Hyde Park

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Cuomo’s new corporation not needed

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ov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal creating the New York State Design and Construction Corporation to provide oversight for all Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital projects worth $50 million or more is redundant.

On a yearly basis, the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration provides over $1 billion in capital grants to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The MTA currently manages an active portfolio of federally funded capital improvement projects and programs in open grants worth over $21 billion that utilize over $10 billion in direct U.S. DOT FTA financial assistance.

Both the MTA and USDOT FTA have independent engineering consultant firms to supplement in house staff for oversight.

These companies provide both oversight and technical assistance for capital projects. Engineering firms which monitor the progress of major capital projects prepare monthly progress reports.

They are made available to MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast, MTA HQ staff, MTA Board members (including four directly appointed by Cuomo), MTA Agency Presidents including Capital Construction Michael Horodniceanu, New York City Transit Veronique Hakim, Long Island Rail Road Patrick Nowakowski, Metro North Rail Road Joseph Giulietti,

MTA Bus Darryl Irick, each MTA agency Chief Engineer, USDOT FTA HQ & Regional Office senior management teams and in house project oversight staff.

As part of master grant agreements, the MTA provides updated Quarterly Financial and Milestone Progress Reports to U.S. DOT FTA on billions worth of active capital improvement projects and programs.

State Comptroller Tom Di Napoli, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, New York City Office of Management and Budget and New York City Independent Budget Office all perform periodic audits of MTA projects and programs.

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State Office of Inspector General, New York City Office of Inspector General and the MTA Office of Inspector General all perform periodic audits of MTA projects and programs.

Gov. Cuomo would be better off using funds intended to create the New York State Design and Construction Corporation as a down payment against the $7.3 billion he still owes the MTA toward fully funding the $28 billion 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Program.

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

LIRR crossings can be done without harm

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n my last article I presented actual times that trains on the LIRR main line crossed over the Roslyn Road underpass east and west bound during a weekday morning and evening rush hour.

Due to the frequency of train traffic during these times it is obvious that it may not be disrupted.

Hundreds of thousands of people would continuously be affected.

It would be a horrible and chaotic long running disaster for it to happen during grade crossing elimination construction.

Deliberation on the subject makes it clear that for the three crossings in New Hyde Park and the two in Westbury, the roads have to go under the tracks.

Anyone not agreeing that the two in Mineola should be closed should go and see why for themselves.

The following is how it could be done with no alteration to the tracks anywhere and no disruption of service.

The roadway on Roslyn Road under the tracks has two lanes in each direction and a walkway on each side under a single span.

The five under consideration really

only need two lanes and one walkway: a span less than half as wide.

I begin with Covert Avenue in New Hyde Park, which should be completed before any others are started-one at a time.

I am picturing everything looking north to south.

If it is considered that each lane would be 10-feet wide, then a pile would be driven into the earth a little more than ten feet to the right of the center of the roadway next to the outer edges of the ties holding the rails.

For the left side, the same, ten feet plus five for the walkway. The result is a span not all that wide.

Drive piles next to the outer and inner edges of the ties to give the aforementioned total width.

Evacuate enough soil (sand) at the ends of the ties along the width of the span and insert an L shaped strong steel beam against the bottom edge of the ties and bolted and welded to the piles at each end of the beam..

The rails would then be supported.

All of the above would have to be done early mornings on weekends be-

tween train passings.

It might seem tedious for those doing the work but nothing like the disruptions for the travelers. The trains would still run on schedule.

Next, enough evacuation would have to be done to fit a heavy steel plate at each end of the width of the span under the bottom edge of the ties and bolted and welded to the four piles.

A wall on the outer edge of the tracks would strengthen the structure and should a train ever derail it would could not go onto the roadway below.

More evacuation would then be done on each side of the tracks. Another beam would then be fitted to the mentioned plates under the center of each track.

Three beams would then support each track.

The engineers would decide on the size of all the foregoing for the needed strength.

At this point, work concerning the tracks would be completed.

Excavation for the roadway and walkway could then begin.

A reinforced concrete wall on each side of the roadway including between

the piles would strengthen and stabilize the entire structure. The trains should pass slowly until the concrete hardens.

How to drain collected water?

Jericho Turnpike dips and rises up where it passes under the Oyster Bay Line. There are drains on each side of the road at the bottom.

The terrain all around is higher as is the case at Covert Avenue. It is obviously managed somehow as water does not collect to my knowledge.

Second and Third Avenues go east and west next to both sides of the right of way at Covert Avenue. Vehicle and pedestrian traffic would have to observed at various times to determine how everything should be altered to best work with the new situation.

The foregoing is a gist of how it all can be done. Surely the important points of what I have said will have to adhered to so as not to create great havoc over a long period of time.

It can be done! And oh! Where are my millions for planning?

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Newsday story unfair: Dem chair

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want to take issue with [Newsday’s] characterization of my involvement in the disbursement of monies from the Gitenstein Foundation.

I have no issue with the facts about my involvement, as they were reported, nor, generally with the story as written.

However, referring to my involvement as “cronyism” is both unfair and incorrect.

To be clear, I did recommend that $200,000 be donated from the foundation to Surprise Lake Camp.

I, along with others, were asked by Steve Schlesinger, if I knew of any quality Jewish-related organizations that would benefit from a donation from a foundation he was asked to oversee.

I was told that in keeping with past practices of the foundation that he needed to disburse the money to organizations that

either benefitted Jewish causes or healthrelated causes.

I recommended a not-for-profit children’s camp on whose board I sit.

The camp is run by a reputable Jewish organization and serves underprivileged Jewish children along with those from other religions. It is a well-run and extremely reputable organization that is known for its great work and is well respected in the camp community.

To my understanding of the term “cronyism,” a basic requirement is that there is some measure of self-dealing or self-benefit.

I get no benefit from being a board member at Surprise Lake.

Truth be known, I have not attended even one meeting in the past 15 or more years. I receive no compensation, business or contracts either directly or indirectly.

No family member or friend of mine works for Surprise Lake or any affiliate. I received nothing for making this recommendation other than the satisfaction of having done something good to benefit a quality organization and the wonderful children it serves. Given the opportunity to revisit the matter – I would do it again!

Your reporting that the investigator — who never interviewed or spoke with me, by the way — seemed to draw his conclusion because “Schlesinger worked for Jacobs as . . .the Party attorney at the time of the donation” is similarly misleading.

Generally speaking, when you “work for someone” there is compensation.

Steve Schlesinger served as the party’s Law Chair. While his reputation may have benefitted, he received no compensation from the party for his service — none.

I take great pride in the reputation that I have worked hard to earn. This article and its inference, based on the unprofessional work of an investigator who never deemed it necessary to even speak with me before offering a very damning conclusion about me does damage to my reputation.

I have never taken one dime for the volunteer work I do as party chairman — not from the party or the government. I benefit neither directly or indirectly from my position – and neither do the businesses that I own and manage. To have my name tarnished by an implication of “cronyism” or self-dealing is something that I take issue with. I see this as just another example of the old adage: “no good deed goes unpunished.”

Jay Jacobs Nassau County Democratic Chairman

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number of letters to the Readers Write column of this paper were about certain writers using this paper for a soapbox, (Yes to letters, no to soapbox”), April,22.

On Monday of this week a headline in Newsday caught my eye. It read: “Signs facing a ‘spy’ charge.”

In his weekly Sunday press conference Sen. Chuck Schumer is upset about “spying billboards” being installed in NY which have the ability for a corporation to track consumers information off of their cellphones.

In the age of digital technology that we live in today with theft of information becoming so common, we are constantly cautioned not to give out too much information about ourselves as it may be used for sinister purposes. We are time after time given this advice about Facebook where members are only too willing to divulge numerous bits of info about themselves.

However, one letter writer in the Williston Times doesn’t appear to have received this message.

In the past three and one

half years Mr. Frederick R. Bedell has used this newspaper for as his personal soapbox as Mr. Beecher’s letter of April 22 suggests.

During those three and a half years a search of Mr. Bedell’s name reveals he submitted almost 170 letters. The reader can do the math as to what that equals in a year. However, he has on a rare occasion had two submissions in the same day.

He has a certain knack of interjecting himself into just about any article he writes. He can be writing on the homeless and he informs us he was homeless. I’m sorry to hear that.

He informs where he works, that he walks with a cane, that he is Grand Knight of the local Knights of Columbus and on and on and on.

So much information that I and the average reader, I haven’t read any of his writings in a year, can write a biography on him just by the information he gives freely to this journal.

And I bet it is not going to stop.

Bill Viggiano Williston Park

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n behalf of the Great Neck Historical Society, I would like to thank Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, town grant writer Tom Devaney, and the rest of the Town Team for authoring the Stepping Stones Lighthouse Grant Proposal, and Senator Charles Schumer for helping to urge the National Park Service to fund the grant.

The $165,000 will help to fund

a dock and begin the process of restoration that the Lighthouse so sorely needs.

I need to point out, however, that this is just the beginning. It has been estimated that at least four million dollars will be needed for complete restoration of the Lighthouse. The Historical Society, a 501(c)3 organization, has embarked on a fundraising campaign to raise the additional

monies, and we welcome your tax-deductible contributions. To show our Lighthouse some love, please visit www.greatneckhistorical.org and click on the PayPal link, or send a donation to PO Box 234483, Great Neck, NY 11023.

Thank you for supporting the Stepping Stones Lighthouse!

Alice Kasten President, Great Neck Historical Society

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s has been reported lately a number of monuments dedicated to the heroes and those who have died on that day of infamy on 9/11, are in disrepair and some of which have been vandalized.

There is much disrepair and decay with these sites. As a nation we have made a vow for future generations not to forget, but have they been forgotten?

Visitors of Eisenhower Park in East Meadow have found a dirty and tattered flag and graffiti facing a section of wall plaques honoring 344 county residents murdered on 9/11.

In Green Bay, Wisc., 9/11 memorial names are illegible due to sub-par building materials, which is found in many states around the country.

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In Brooklyn the Wall of Remem- to protect these monuments which brance at a Park in Coney Island has will keep the memory alive.

If not, then the fallen will be been attacked by vandals. This is just a little in what is happening to mar forgotten! the memories of that day of infamy.

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Dems’ ‘smooth talk’ won’t save America

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n response to Esther Confino’s criticism of Donald Trump (4/22/16 edition of Great Neck News), all of Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s smooth talk will never undo the damage they have done and damage she will do to this country if she is elected President.

Smooth talk does not rebuild a country; action and patriotism does!

Both Hillary and Barack have shown their disdain for this country’s values and have done to this country harm that may be insurmountable (while in position of

trust and authority). Any criticism Ms. Confino has described, even if it were true, were not done while he was an elected or appointed leader of the country.

When you take an oath of office in the country, you are supposed to be beyond reproach.

Hillary and Barack are beyond approach – they lie to the public without a trace of conscience.

Hillary had a good teacher in Bill Clinton, I guess Barack perfected his technique as a community worker.

Morton Perlman Great Neck

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In a news conference at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington, the prominent Huntington Democrat said Stern has shown a “studious and workhorse approach” to lawmaking in the two decades they have known each other.

“It’s not just the fact that we share a first name that brought me to support Steve Stern,” Israel said. “It’s that I do believe that he is just a great fit in terms of my own priorities, my own values and my own approach in representing the district.”

Israel said he has worked more closely with the Dix Hills legislator than the four other Democrats running in the Third Congressional District and has seen his dedication to key Long Island issues, such as supporting veterans and protecting the Long Island Sound.

Stern’s progressive credentials and his record of protecting taxpayer money equip him best for the June 28 primary and the likely general election against Republican

state Sen. Jack Martins in a district that’s “far from a slam dunk” for Democrats, Israel said.

Other Democratic candidates include Levittown attorney Jonathan Clarke, former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan and former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.

Stern’s ability to build an effective campaign and raise money in the first three months of the race also impressed Israel, he said.

“I’m running for Congress because I am exactly the kind of leader that can continue Steve Israel’s legacy and continue to build a new vision on a record that I’m very proud of,” Stern said.

Several of Israel’s former campaign staff, including campaign manager Isaac Goldberg, joined Stern’s campaign in the early stages of the race after Israel announced in January he would not seek re-election.

Israel’s endorsement gives Stern a boost after raising $500,000 in the first quarter — including his and his family’s money — and getting endorsements last week from Port Washington politicos Martin and Laurie Scheinman.

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Ritz cuts ribbon on condos in North Hills B y N o ah Manskar After more than eight years and many changes, RXR Realty cut the ribbon Monday at North Hills’ landmark Ritz-Carlton Residences.

“This place is about to set a new standard for quality of living on Long Island,” RXR Chairman and CEO Scott Rechler said.

The development, slated for 244 luxury condominiums, is Ritz-Carlton’s first property on Long Island and its 47th residential development, said John Hearns, the renowned hotelier’s vice president for global residential operations.

About a dozen people have moved into the project’s first phase of 124 condominiums since last month, RXR sales and marketing project manager Emily Bock said.

More than 100 of the units has been sold, RXR project manager Joe Graziose said.

The opening comes just more than two years after the Uniondale-based developer started construction on the project after buying the property off the Long Island Expressway’s South Service Road in late 2007.

“When you do something that hasn’t been done before, it takes a lot of time,” Rechler said.

The level of luxury amenities and services Ritz-Carlton offers make the development unique not only in North Hills but across Long Island, Rechler and Hearns said.

The hotelier also has specific standards for fixtures building materials, Rechler said.

RXR has seen “incredible” demand for the condos from buyers across Long Island since it broke ground as people seek a blend of an urban and suburban living environment, Rechler said.

“Here we’re creating this urban, super-

luxury-type-quality project, but in the middle of suburbia,” he said. “And I think that appeals to a lot of residents of Long Island at this point.”

The developer originally planned for 60 rent-to-own condominiums to account for the previously uncertain housing market but ended up selling all of them, he said.

The units range from $1.2 million to $5 million in price and 1,533 to 3,824 square feet in size, the developer has said.

The 2008 financial crash dried up investment and delayed the project, leading RXR to undertake a major redesign and include features that have proven popular, including a clubhouse that will open this summer, Rechler said.

Final changes to RXR’s plans for a second phase of 120 units will go before the Village of North Hills Board of Trustees on May 18.

Rechler commended the village and Mayor Marvin Natiss for being “willing to roll up their sleeves” and work with the developer on changes to the project.

While Monday’s opening was cause for celebration, Graziose said, there is still much work to be done to get through the second phase. Rechler said RXR plans to break ground on phase two by the end of the year.

“What I say to my colleagues, my construction people, my engineers, my sales team — enjoy this hour and a half, because when we get back to the office ... we’ve got a lot, a lot of wood to chop,” Graziose said.

Bock said the residents who have moved in are very happy and are already getting to know each other.

“We’ve had our first proposal in the building, we’ve had a baby being born, so the community aspect is already starting,” she said.

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Suozzi slams Dems’ ‘politics of distraction’ B y N o ah Manskar Democratic congressional candidate Tom Suozzi charged his opponents with playing “politics of distraction” by challenging his ballot petitions this week.

Flanked by canvassers outside his Glen Cove campaign office on Saturday, Suozzi said three other Democrats vying to replace Rep. Steve Israel are not focusing on the issues that affect the people of the North Shore’s Third District, such as jobs, affordable health care and federal funding for local infrastructure.

“They’re playing the same old petty, childish games that make people sick of politicians, and sick of politicians,” said Suozzi, a Glen Cove native and former Nassau County executive.

Suozzi called “destructive” the objections to hundreds of his ballot petition signatures that the campaigns of former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman and current North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan filed this week, as well as Steve Stern’s previous calls for him to return a $11,000 donation he once received from Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

He said he could not remember ever having signatures challenged in any other race he’s run.

“I want my opponents to do what I’m doing, which is to talk about the issues and to talk to the people, because that’s what this campaign should be about — about actually solving the real problems that people face in their lives,” he said.

Kaiman spokesman Quintin Maidment said it is still unclear that Suozzi has the required 1,250 valid signatures to get on the ballot, but Kaplan spokesman Reginald Johnson said the town councilwoman’s campaign is satisfied Suozzi has enough.

The petition Suozzi filed with the state Board of Elections April 18 had more than 2,400 signatures, but Kaiman’s campaign charged Monday that enough were invalid to make Suozzi ineligible to run in

the district stretching from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park to get on the June 28 primary ballot.

“We simply don’t think that expecting every candidate in this race to meet the legal requirements to run is petty,” Maidment said in a phone interview.

Kaplan’s campaign challenged 1,327 of Suozzi’s signatures, and the Board of Elections found 419 of those were invalid, spokesman Reginald Johnson said. The campaign will not appeal for more signatures to be thrown out, he said.

“The challenges were filed to ensure a level playing field,” Johnson said in a statement. “And while the Board of Elections has determined that the Suozzi campaign submitted hundreds of invalid signatures, we’re satisfied that he has collected enough to be on the ballot.”

Stern, a Suffolk County legislator from Dix HIlls, filed general objections to Suozzi’s petition but did not challenge specific signatures.

In a statement, Stern said he spent Saturday talking with Queens voters and maintained his call for Suozzi to return Trump’s donation, saying it indicates his “weak” record on abortion rights.

Trump has given to campaigns for Democratic senators Kristen Gillibrand and Charles Schumer.

“Tom Suozzi is pro-choice and Steve Stern knows it,” Suozzi campaign manager Mike Florio said in a statement. “Stern is a fool and will say anything, even lies, in order to get votes.”

Suozzi also said he will talk with voters at 14 “town hall” events over the next two months, starting in Hicksville on May 4.

Suozzi’s campaign also trained the first group of about 50 canvassers Saturday in advance of its door-to-door operation starting Monday, campaign manager Mike Florio said.

About 30 volunteers are also on board as the campaign shifts from fundraising and gathering signatures to winning votes, he said.

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Democratic congressional candidate Steve Stern announced another pair of Long Island endorsements last week before primary opponent Jon Kaiman unveiled one from New York City.

Port Washington business-owners and philanthropists Laurie and Martin Scheinman gave their backing to Stern for the Democratic nomination in New York’s Third District on Thursday.

Martin Scheinman, a contract arbitrator and attorney from Sands Point, will also serve as Stern’s finance chair-

man as he seeks to replace U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), who is not running for re-election.

“Our litmus test is an easy one: does our representative make us proud to live in New York’s Third Congressional District?” the Scheinmans said in a statement. “Steve Stern is the one candidate where the answer is a resounding ‘yes.’”

Former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Kaiman announced support Friday from the Stonewall Democratic Club, the oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Democratic club in New York City.

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The club backs candidates who advocate for LGBT equality and represent “the political ideas, ideals, concerns and priorities of the LGBT community of New York City and New York State,” Kaiman’s endorsement announcement says.

“I’m an honored to receive this endorsement in recognition of my advocacy for LGBT causes. I am proud of my longstanding support of marriage equality and nondiscrimination efforts throughout my career including the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the Equality Act,” said Kaiman, of Great Neck, in the statement.

The Stonewall Democratic Club’s endorsement questionnaire shows Stern, of Dix Hills, also sought the group’s support in the Third District.

Martin and Laurie Scheinman are the latest Israel allies to back Stern.

Several former Israel campaign staffers now work for the Dix Hills legislator, including campaign manager Isaac Goldberg.

The Scheinmans have together given more than $109,000 to Israel’s campaigns since 2006, and Martin Scheinman gave $250 to Stern’s county Legislature campaign in 2011.

Laurie Scheinman, a child and family therapist and owner of Whit & Whim, a Port Washington shop that donates all its profits to local charities, was once one of more than a dozen Democrats considering a run for Israel’s seat.

The Scheinmans’ endorsement is the first from Nassau County for Stern, the only Suffolk County candidate for the district stretching from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County.

A little more than half the district is in Nassau.

Kaiman has official support from all three counties, including endorsements from former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman and Great Neck public relations executive Robert Zimmerman, who also once weighed a bid for the Third District.

North Hempstead Town Board members Peter Zuckerman and Lee Seeman and former Councilman Tony D’Urso — now one of three Democrats seeking to replace state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel (D-Great Neck) — have also backed Kaiman.

Other Democrats running toward the June 28 primary include Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan of Kensington, former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi of Glen Cove and Levittown attorney Jonathan Clarke.

State Sen. Jack Martins of Old Westbury and Glen Cove financial investigator Philip Pidot, both Republicans, are also vying for the open Third District seat.

The three county Democratic committees have declined to endorse a primary candidate, but Martins has won backing from the Republican committees in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens.

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Troupe plans six performances of ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ B y N o ah Manskar After a hiatus, John Hayes’ daughter Michelle pulled him back into the theater when she was a Herricks seventh-grader in 1976, he said.

Hayes was in the international import-export business when Michelle volunteered him to direct the Herricks Council of PTAs’ production of “Oklahoma,” knowing he’d done community theater before he and his wife Carol Hayes moved to Williston Park, he said.

He wasn’t very involved with the PTA or Long Island theater until then, he said: “Nobody knew who the heck this young whippersnapper from Brooklyn was.”

But he put on “Oklahoma” with a cast of 50 in five weeks.

John and Carol Hayes, along with a core group of collaborators, are marking their 40th year bringing together productions as the Herricks Community Players with Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” opening May 13 at the Herricks Community Center.

“Little did I know, at 78, I’d still be at it,” John Hayes said.

In those 40 years, the Herricks Community Players have done more than 60 shows with companies as small as four and as large as 97, Hayes said. He has directed all of them except for one in 2004, after he had a triple-bypass heart surgery.

People young and old with all levels of theatrical experience put on the Broadway-quality plays and musicals, John Hayes said. Those

in the cast and the audiences come from throughout the tri-state area, Carol Hayes said.

The work gives them a night away from their normal lives, John Hayes said, and gives the audience quality entertainment.

“People walk out of here saying, ‘Why do I bother going to the city?’”

Carol Hayes said.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” is a musical farce set in ancient Rome with about 60 people involved in the production, Carol Hayes said.

The show features a full orchestra, a professional lighting design and a set designed by Peter Triolo of New Hyde Park, whom John Hayes called the “heart” of the company.

The high quality has existed since the beginning, said Sue Weber, an East Meadow music teacher who’s been the company’s music director for 38 years.

It’s John’s direction and the people’s love for theater that makes every production excellent and draws crowds to the community center auditorium, Carol Hayes said.

“As much as I felt that it was a solid, good quality when we started, there is no question that every show gets better,” Weber said.

The crowds have gotten smaller as the surrounding community has gotten younger and more community theaters have opened across Long Island, creating stiffer competition, John Hayes said.

But the Herricks Community Fund continues to invest in the group, giving up to $70,000 for its productions, John said. The company gives all its profits back to the fund, he said.

Hayes said people have suggested just calling the group the “Herricks Players,” but he can’t leave the community out.

“That’s what makes it,” he said.

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An Evening At Merriweather Saturday, May 7, 7 p.m.

Presented under a 30,000 square foot tent on the landmark estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton (now LIU Post), the evening will be reminiscent of the glamorous parties imagined in The Great Gatsby. Exclusive lounges, marvelous cocktails, luxurious fare, dancing, live musical performances and special guests, showcases in fashion, film, and music, and a fireworks spectacular. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Where: LIU Post, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info: 516-829-2570 • www.celebratelongisland.com

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Elliman Film Series: In Harmony Tuesday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.

In Harmony is an inspiring drama in telling the story of Marc (Albert Dupontel), an equestrian stuntman who becomes disabled after a tragic accident. He must deal with Florence (Cécile de France), an insurance agent handling his case, but their relationship takes an unexpected turn that helps both of them find happiness. Starring Cécile de France and Albert Dupontel and directed by Denis Dercourt. French with English subtitles.

Where: Soundview Cinemas, 7 Soundview Market Place, Port Washington Info: (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org

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Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.

“A Very Intimate Acoustic Evening with Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo” shows the married duo of guitarist Giraldo and Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame inductee Benatar at their subdued best, performing their powerful catalogue of songs, including rock radio staples “Heartbreaker,” ‘Shadows of the Night,” and “We Belong”. A four-time Grammy winner, Benatar is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who scored 19 Top 40 singles during the 1980s.

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

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Hair Friday, May 6. 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m., Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m.

Hair puts rock music and the culture that went with it on stage. The show was a bridge between generations and viewpoints. Musical numbers include “Aquarius,” “Good Morning Starshine” and “Hair!” Hair tells the story of the “tribe,” a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the “Age of Aquarius” living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Where: Nassau Community College, One Education Drive, Garden City Info: (516) 572-7676 • https://www.ncc.edu

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Country/folk music singer/songwriter Iris DeMent and Grammy Award-winning American folk singer/songwriter, Loudon Wainwright III headline a twin bill Thursday at The Space. Wainwright III. father of Rufus Wainwright, has 26 albums under his belt, while DeMent’s breakthrough album was released in 1992 and her latest, “The Trackless Woods,” was released just last year.

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

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Kevin Meaney Saturday, May 7, 7:30 &10 p.m.

With a blend of physical humor, impersonations, stylized caricatures of nightclub singers and his signature “man on the street” interviews. Emmy Award winner Kevin Meaney has been one of the country’s most popular comedians for more than 25 years. His first HBO special in 1986 catapulted him to the forefront of the comedy scene and has been a special guest on Saturday Night Live and appeared on The Tonight Show, Letterman, Regis, Oprah and Conan.

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3rd Annual Dutch Festival Saturday, May 7, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

One of Long Island’s favorite traditions, the Hofstra University Dutch Festival is going through a reinvention with more emphasis on family activities and community services. As always, enjoy the annual tulip display, music and theater performances, art exhibits and demonstrations, and carnival games. Children’s activities include music, food and vendors. What a great way to spend a “Family Funday!”

Enjoy live jazz music while strolling through our beautiful campus boasting of tulips in bloom and Hofstra’s Dutch heritage. Plenty of “shopportunities” before Mother’s Day! This will be outdoors on the South Campus. Admission is free.

Where: Hofstra University, Hempstead Info: 516-463-6582 • www.hofstra.edu

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eter and The Wolf Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

Pushcart puts its trademark spin on a beloved Russian folk tale. Classical music

by Prokofiev, storytelling, puppetry and the ageless adventure of growing up comprise this masterpiece. The music offers a different instrument and melody (or “leitmotif”) which represents each character of the play, creating an excellent link to understanding all types of music. The story is a lively adventure about a spirited young boy who meets the challenge of danger with courage, creativity and leadership. The celebration is the value of love, friendship and caring and the dangers of greed, arrogance and prejudice. There is innocence and wisdom, youth and maturity, conflict resolution, moral development, and beauty in the natural order of life! All seats are $18; Friends of the Landmark are $15. All ticket prices include a $2 facilities fee.

Where: Landmark on Main Street, Jeanne Rimsky Theatre, 232 Main Street, Port Washington Info: (516) 767-6444 • www.landmarkonmainstreet.org

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other’s Day Craft Saturday, May 7, 11 am -3 p.m.

Make a beautiful seashell necklace for mom, grandma or any special lady in your life! $5 per participant Where: Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove Info: 516-571-8010 • www.garviespointmuseum.org

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ugs with Wings Saturday, May 7, Start between 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Discover metamorphosis, molting, and mating of the butterflies, dragonflies, honeybees and more that call the Preserve home. Our indoor and outdoor stations will include a short presentation, special stories, art projects, and visits to the habitats that attract these bugs with wings.

Admission: Members: $5 per car; Non-Members: $15 per car (includes parking).

Where: Sands Point Preserve, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info: 516.571.7901 • www.thesandspointpreserve.com

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Using a variety of interesting materials, design a special message in a bottle to give to your Special Mother on her Special day!

Where: The Maritime Explorium, Port Jeff Harbor, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson Info: 631-331-3277 • www.maritimeexplorium.org

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tar Warz Returns!

Saturday, May 7, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Back by Popular Demand…. Visit, or visit not. There is no try. In honor of National Star Wars Day, meet Darth Vader, find out how sailors used stars for navigation, create themed crafts, and complete a Star Oars scavenger hunt. $10 Child, Adults $6, Member Adults Free Where: The Whaling Museum & Education Center, 301 Main Street , Cold Spring Harbor Info: 631-367-3418 • www.cshwhalingmuseum.org

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ive Animal Exhibit Open Daily, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Open year-round, CSTL’s live animal exhibit offers visitors of all ages a unique opportunity to meet and encounter a variety of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. Visitors to the exhibit can expect a more intimate, family-oriented experience than most zoos, as they interact with chatty parrots, look eye to eye with alligators, pet dwarf goats, hoot at owls, and even gaze into the inner workings of a live honeybee hive. An outdoor butterfly garden gives visitors the opportunity to see hummingbirds and butterflies! Fun for the entire family! Parents can encourage their children’s curiosity of animals and the natural world, thereby inspiring the next generation of naturalists, wildlife biologists, and veterinarians. Together with a sprawling 17 acres of ponds, streams, forests and walking trails, CSTL’s live animal exhibit has become a popular weekend destination for families on Long Island. Amazing Animals Exhibit Admission – $6/person. Group rate: 12 person minimum – $5/person Where: Center For Science, Teaching and Learning 1450 Tanglewood Road, Rockville Centre Info: 516-746-0045 • www.cstl.org

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“Baba Joon” at Furman Film Series Tuesday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.

Hunt For The Wilderpeople (Soundview Cinemas- Port Washington) LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

Pushcart Players in Peter & the Wolf Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.

Arlo Guthrie Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8 p.m.

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs Wednesday, May 25, 2 p.m.

Afternoon T.E.A.: Motown Acoustics 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 15, 3 p.m.

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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: Conversation & Clips Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

Happy Together feat. Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron

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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 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.

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Adelphi Opera Theatre: Die Fledermaus Saturday, May 7, 2-7 p.m.

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John Pizzarelli Saturday, May 14, 8:30 p.m.

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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 Night Club Style Karakoe McDonald House of New Hyde Park Sunday May 15, from 8 to 12 p.m. at which will be held at: The American The Living Room, 432 No Wantagh Ave Legion Hall: Post 144, 730 Willis AvBethpage. $10 buffet per person. Come enue, Williston Park. Saturday, June 11 sing and enjoy the top Long Island from 6 to 10 p.m. This fun-filled night singers bring back memories. You don’t will include a buffet dinner, open bar,

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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 For Trivia Lovers At 7 p.m. Two Wednesday nights each month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 6258804 for information.

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On Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m., Professor Fred Lazin will offer the lecture: “State of Israel: Political Update,” at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck.

Lazin brings the unique view of an American who has lived and taught in Israel for more than 30 years.

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Lazin to give lecture at Temple Emanuel Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

In 1975 he joined the faculty at Ben Gurion University in Israel where he helped to establish an Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and the Department of General Studies.

The Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government (Emeritus) at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, he is the author of eight books dealing with public policy in the United States, Israel and developing countries, Israeli politics and society, and Jews in American politics.

All members of the community are invited to attend

Professor Fred Lazin will be guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. the Sabbath Eve Service.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane. For further information, please call 516-4825701.

Dem, GOP strategists talk politics at temple The fourth season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m., with a program entitled: From the Left, From the Right — A Dialogue with Paul Begala and Steve Schmidt.

Begala is a commentator for CNN, where he is part of the political team that has won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award.

In the 2012 campaign he was a senior adviser for the pro-Obama Super PAC. After helping engineer Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign with his partner, James Carville, Begala served as counselor to the President, one of Clinton’s closest aides.

He has consulted for political campaigns across the country and around the world.

Begala is an affiliated professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Along with James Carville and GOP strategist Karl Rove, he was recently inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants’ Hall of Fame.

Schmidt served as a top strategist to President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

Following Bush’s successful re-election, Schmidt served as deputy assistant to the President and counselor to the Vice President.

He departed the White House in 2005 to lead the reelection effort of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose landslide victory earned Schmidt “GOP Campaign Manager of the Year” from the American Association of Political Consultants.

In 2007, Schmidt served as a senior advisor to John McCain’s presidential bid helping him secure the Republican nomination.

Schmidt was later played by Woody Harrelson in the HBO film Game Change, based on chapters of the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin that focus on the choice of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate.

Schmidt approved of the film, saying, “It tells the truth of the campaign….”

Currently a political analyst for MSNBC and frequent guest on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, he also serves as vice-chairman of public affairs at Edelman, where he is a strategic counselor to chief executive officers.

Following the dialogue, there will be a Q&A and refreshments.

Tickets are $15 or 2@$25. For further information about subscription discounts and to purchase tickets, call (516) 482-5701.

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

SCW Cultural Arts presents From the Left, From the Right — A Dialogue with Paul Begala and Steve Schmidt on Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck. Call (516) 482-5701 for tickets.

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Adelphi to present Tony-nominated show The department of theatre at Adelphi University is thrilled to present “The Me Nobody Knows.” This musical is based on the book of the same name that was edited by Stephen M. Joseph.

This musical version is an adaptation by Robert Livingston and Herb Schapiro, with music by Gary William Friedman and lyrics by Will Holt (and additional lyrics by Herb Schapiro).

Under the direction of Kerry Prep, the students of the department of theatre will be performing the musical from Thursday, May 12

through Sunday, May 15 in the Black Box Theatre at the AUPAC, 1 South Avenue, Garden City.

“The Me Nobody Knows” is an OBIE Awardwinning and Tony-nominated musical production that has moved and captured the hearts of audiences since its off-Broadway debut in May of 1970.

Occurring over the course of a single day, the show explores the ambitions and worries of a multiracial cast of young people.

Originally inspired by the writings from students

in the New York City Public Schools, the stories are universal and transcend the boundaries of race.

The modern and powerful score helps drive each character’s individual journey while inspiring and touching the audience.

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) is one of Long Island’s premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds.

Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $20, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni.

For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu.

Information is available at boxoffice@adelphi.edu.

Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.

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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 email notifications on upcoming programs, please send an e-mail to willistonpr@yahoo.com with your contact information. You can be notified for adult programs, 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: Tangled Thread — Anthea Freaser Once a Rancher — Linda Lael Miller Killer Reunion — G.A. McKevett No Safe Secret — Fern Michaels Cracked Spine — Paige Shelton

Miracles from Heaven — Christy Wilson Beam What We Find — Robyn Carr Miller’s Valley — Anna Quindlen

ADULt Reiki Circle Tuesdays, May 10 and 24 from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Library. There is a $10 fee due at registration.

Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Author Appearance Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Join LI author Mark Torres as he discusses his novel A Stirring in the North Fork. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

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, May 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 11 a.m. in the Library for children 1-3 yrs old.

After School Story Hour Thursdays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 4 p.m. in the Library for children K-2.

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

LEGO time

Wednesdays, May 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Library for children of all ages.

Tiny Tykes Wednesdays, May 4, 11, 18 and 25; June 1, 8, and 15 at 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Children ages 1 1/2-5 years old are welcome to attend this discovery program. There is a $45 non-refundable fee due at registration. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Children’s ceramic Mom/Dad Cups Friday, May 6 at 4:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children grades K+. There is a $5 non-refundable fee due at time of registration. Please let us know which cup you would like to do.

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

tion (SBA): Own Business — May 4; 4. Social Media Marketing For Business — May 11.

SCORE Workshops* Wednesday at 7 p.m. on May 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 Administra-

Power Up Communities: Home Energy Efficiency* Friday, May 6 at 2 p.m. Power Up Communities is a new green energy campaign 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.

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 hands-on 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!

Shelter Rock Library DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS for drivers of all ages on Saturday, May 21from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fees: Ages 60 plus - $33. All Others - $38. To register please contact Stephen Donnelly at (516) 437-0705

Tuesday, May 24 & Wednesday, May 25 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Please pick up a registration form at the Reference Desk or download from the Library website www.srpl.org.

Non-residents may register on May 10 if space allows.

AARP SMART DRIVER COURSE

SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT

Naomi Zeitlin presents Country & Folk Divas - New & Old. Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. Naomi pays tribute to the popular vocal artists of today’s country and folk music and the legendary ones of yesteryear. Hear familiar tunes made famous by Trisha Yearwood, Sara Evans, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Alison Krauss,

Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Mary Travers and Patsy Cline, to name a few.

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, June 6 at 11 a.m.

Come and join the Shelter Rock Public Library Senior Rap Group. This discussion group is led by volunteer facilitator, David Marx.

A CATSKILL “TUMMLER” LOOKS BACK with Larry Strickler on Monday, May 9 at 1:30 p.m. A Catskill

retrospective that includes the grand 100 year history of the Borscht Belt. You’ll laugh and cry as you take a multi-media tour up Route 17 with a stop at the Red Apple Rest and re-live the stories of the entertainment, the activities and, of course, the food.

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C O M M UNI T Y n ew s

Arts school seeks apps from Herricks students This summer, Nassau BOCES Long Island High School for the Arts, Long Island’s top-ranked arts school, invites Herricks students to learn from the masters in a variety of disciplines.

The LIHSA Summer Arts Academy offers young artists (entering grades six through 12 in the fall) a hands-on learning experience with professional artists who will help them to develop their skills.

Beginner- through advanced-level classes and workshops are conducted in a custom-designed, air-conditioned arts complex that boasts professional dance studios, state-of-the-art digital media, music and audio production labs, art studios, practice rooms and a fullyequipped professional theatre.

Daily courses are available in dance, music (instrumental, voice and digital), theatre (drama and musical theatre),

film and visual arts.

Attendees work with ensembles, enjoy performances from guest artists and take cultural field trips to museums and Broadway shows.

The academy concludes with performances by all students in each arts discipline.

This four-week academy runs from July 5 to 29, from 9 a.m. to­3 p.m. at the Long Island High School for the Arts in Syosset.

Enrollment into the academy requires an individual recommendation from the Herricks school district.

Accepted students are placed in classes based on age and level of achievement.

Interested students should ask their guidance counselors or principals for an application, call LIHSA at 516-622-5678, or visitwww.nassauboces.org/lihsa.

New addition

Carol and Anthony Tazzoios of Mineola announced the birth of their second greatgrandchild. Carmela Noel was born on Jan. 22 at 3:43 a.m.

She weighed five pounds and six ounces and was 18 inches long. The parents are Kayla Johnson and Joe Anzalone of Franklin Square. The maternal grandparents are Scott and Noel Johnson of Oneonta, and the paternal grandparents are Augusta and Steve Anzalone of Franklin Square. The godparents are Michelle Anzalone Nolan, Joe Anzalone’s sister, and Anthony Anzalone, Joe Anzalone’s brother. Carmela Noel will be baptized in May at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Franklin Square.

Monroy picked to program

Daniela Monroy

Daniela Monroy, a sophomore at Mineola High School, has been chosen to participate in The Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program.

This opportunity embeds 20 rising high school juniors and seniors inside a technology company to get hands-on experience in computing concepts, programming fundamentals, mobile phone development, robotics and web development and design.

The program is designed to inspire an interest in and encourage their pursuit of computer science.

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Air quality flags In a joint partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, Mineola High School has become the first school in New York to participate in the school flags program. \Designed to track air quality index levels, the program asks participating schools to raise a flag each day based upon the area’s air quality index. Mineola’s Environmental Club, AP environmental science class and the life skills classes are all assisting in the venture, which kicked off with a special ceremony on Thursday, April 21.

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Business world needs innovators’ magic Over the last several months I have written a few articles about good business practices in Williston Park. I have interviewed people like Steven Parmett of Minuteman Press, Roberto Costillo of EmbroidMe, Steve Asman of Gustbusters Umbrellas and Hildebrandt’s Luncheonette to point out the importance of soft skills, branding, logos and the “wow factor” in business.

This week I want to explore the idea of innovation in business. Some people have this rare ability to innovate and to actually set trends in business, education, fashion, entertainment or art.

The ability to create something that becomes wildly successful and brand new is everyone’s dream.

David Glod of Tour Edge Golf did this by spotting a certain golf club manufacturing trend. The moment he saw this type of club, he bought the patent and proceeded to corner the market on fairway woods.

Howard Shultz, owner of Starbucks, saw a great idea back in 1979 when he walked into the first Starbucks store in Seattle.

He managed to borrow $400,000 and purchased the store, and is now worth $1.5 billion. All that started with an intuitive hunch that America was ready for some good coffee and a place to drink it,

and he almost single-handedly created café life in America.

Bob Carney is an old friend of mine who has been a creative director, one to the guiding lights at “Golf Digest” magazine and is innovative in his approach to golf journalism.

I asked Bob the question of how he keeps coming up with creative and trend setting ideas that the magazine the uses.

He told me he reads a lot, looks for new words that keep popping up in the culture and, most importantly, acts upon his hunches right away.

Sometimes the ideas work and sometimes not, he says, but he keeps churning things out.

I think these innovators keep a watchful eye out for things and do not hesitate to explore something that captures their imagination, like a hawk flying high above the field with a keen eye. When the hawk sees that little rabbit, it swoops down fast and they have a very tasty meal.

If the hawk hesitates for a second, he misses out on his chance to have lunch.

Not everyone can be the innovators. In fact, most cannot be this way.

Maybe most of us don’t have the intelligence, the curiosity, the focus, the courage, the obsessive drive or the will power.

The great artists in a culture

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always have this sense of being the outlier, the one that is different innovative and out to do something different. Jackson Pollack was the first to create drip or action paintings.

Andy Warhol was the creator of pop art, or the guy that embraced the superficiality of our consumer society.

In the business world, I have known some real genius types who are market makers as well.

Fred DeMatteis, one of Long Island’s greatest real estate developers, was like this. And when he had a chance to buy into Home Depot when it was just a start-up, he jumped in with both feet.

These innovators have a deeper understanding of what trends are unfolding and are able to profit from

this sixth sense. I just saw the wonderful film “The Big Short,” about Michael and Mark Baum, the two guys who predicted the real estate market crash of 2008. They were outliers and creative geniuses who spotted a trend and held fast to their convictions despite ridicule and resistance.

People laughed at Andy Warhol when he made paintings of Campbell Soup cans.

In fact the first time he showed the 32 of them at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles not a single one was bought. Now you can have one for the price of about $71 million.

The innovators think faster than the rest, listen to their intuition, fall in love with their hunches, are willing to take risks and are able to withstand ridicule. Some never gain recognition until long after they are dead.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of those guys. In fact he couldn’t even give his paintings away.

He once did a painting of his psychiatrist and gave it to him as a gift. The doctor first put it in his chicken coop to cover a hole before throwing it away. A drug store owner found it and kept it.

That painting sold in 1990 for $81.5 million.

All this suggests that if you are

in a business and are looking for some new idea here, there are two things you can do.

First, read up on all the things in your field. Keep your eyes wide open. See what others are doing and what you like. Borrow from them.

Picasso once said the good artists borrow, but great ones steal.

Bob Carney said much the same thing.

Second, invest time and of money, expect ridicule, setbacks and negative feedback. But know that if your heart is pure and your eyes are clear and your back is strong and your skin is thick, you may just hit lightning in a bottle like Howard Shultz or David Glod or Fred DeMatteis.

Long live the innovators. Let’s hope they keep trying to make their magic.

Andy Warhol managed to make art out of a soup can. He was one of the ultimate innovators.

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Recent RE Sales in the Williston Area

Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $417,500 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

238 Pershing Pkwy, Mineola Sold Price: $477,000 Date: 01/22/2016 4 Beds, 1 Full baths Style: Cape

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $8,987

102 Center Street, Williston Park Sold Price: $500,000 Date: 01/13/2016 3 Beds 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $10,794

132 E Williston Avenue, East Williston Sold Price: $875,000 Date: 01/22/2016 3 Beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 106x142 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $17,933

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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Differences between co-ops, condos Many purchasers today are not in a position financially or it may not fit into their lifestyle at the moment, having ownership of a single-family residence. Instead their choices are to stay with family, rent (dead end street, no equity), or buy a coop (owning shares in the corporation) or condo (you physically take ownership of your unit through a deed).

It all comes down to basic affordability with the down payment, and monthly expenses.

Co-ops generally are much more affordable than condos.

However, the luxury aspect of a condo can be quite dramatic, since most condos come with a doorman, inside parking, square footage is usually greater; and sometimes with an exercise room, tennis and a pool.

It all depends what you are looking for and what you can or want to spend and the location of where you want to plant yourself.

Also, some individuals and

families sometimes have a certain time line to live in a particular area and then move somewhere else to buy a home, or it could be due to a multitude of other reasons such as finances, job relocation, retirement, divorce, etc.

So a condo might sell faster, or you could keep it as an investment, and rent it out, whereas normally a co-op can not be rented out for more than one to three years maximum, if at all.

Some co-ops are 100 percent owner occupied and do not allow any subletting!

However, the rules that go along with buying a coop are more intrusive, albeit necessary, because there usually is an underlying mortgage on the building and land and the board wants to make sure that the prospective purchaser is financially sound with the necessary income and with solid credit.

There are a lot of items that have to be paid for through the maintenance (which a percent-

philip a. raices Real Estate Watch

age of it is tax deductible) from each coop owner: underlying mortgage, a portion of the real estate taxes, daily maintenance of the building and grounds, the super’s salary, heat, hot water, etc.

If any co-op owner can’t pay, then the costs for that coop owner would be taken out of the general or reserve fund.

Assessments and/or increases in maintenance (co-ops) and common charges (condos) are

necessary and can come about when capital improvements, for such things as boiler and hot water heater replacement, roofs, windows, brick pointing and redoing the lobby and hallways have to be made.

The board can also dip into the reserve fund as needed.

Condominiums can also assess the unit owners too, for those previously mentioned improvements, but generally, in the long run, the perceived and actual value of a condo is considerably higher than a co-op.

I might suggest that a 700+ credit score and debt to income ratios of 32-36 percent should help you pass most co-op boards, but I cannot guarantee this.

Ask your agent and he or she might be able to provide you more information, on a specific building, if at all possible.

One last note, is that in Suffolk County, if a prospective purchaser is turned down by a co-op board, they have a law on the books that within 45 days to

let a buyer know why.

However, in Nassau County and other counties there is no such law, which allows those co-ops to use their discretion as to their qualifying and turn down procedures.

It would be very desirable and a time saver, if co-ops would have some kind of consistent standard that brokers could be educated and guided by in advance, to determine the qualification of purchasers for a particular building.

Not all buildings have the same rules and regulations.

I believe this would be a great benefit for all involved parties.

Philp A. Raices is the owner of Turn Key Real Estate in Great Neck. He can be reached by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.

Com or by cell, (516) 647-4289 to answer any of your questions.

To search for property, see what your home is worth or homes that have sold in your area, go to www.Li-RealEstate.Com

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E.W. students aim to ‘free’ beloved teacher Continued from Page 1 of personnel we’re not able to share.”

Education law says a superintendent can suspend a teacher with pay until the next school board meeting in response to a complaint or allegation.

The affected teacher does not have to be interviewed, but must be allowed to present his or her case at a hearing if officials bring charges against him or her.

Haig, 57, has taught at Wheatley since 1985 and is known as a sometimes unconventional but “dynamic” teacher who cares deeply about his students, Berkowitz said.

On one occasion, Berkowitz said, Haig found a student who was skipping his class to work

on art. He told her she could bring her artwork back to his classroom, but he needed her to be there, and she went with him, Berkowitz said.

Dozens of his former students have posted stories of how he affected their lives at Wheatley and beyond in the Facebook group, called “Free Mr. Haig.”

Taub also created a GoFundMe account that has raised more than $8,400 for Haig’s legal fees.

“This is a kind of guy who envelops history and makes it come alive for kids,” said Berkowitz, who retired from Wheatley in 2012.

Haig was also a Wheatley baseball coach, was involved with a faculty organization and was twice named Teacher of the Year, Berkowitz said.

Taub said he has struggled

with his grades in the past year, but Haig always engaged him and made him feel “all the work he gives has a purpose.”

“He wants to make people that will change something for the world,” Taub said.

Many of the anecdotes are remembrances of Haig’s dedication to teaching and students’ lives.

Others express anger about his suspension and the district’s silence; some are a mix of both.

“He worked hard every day and did everything in his power to ensure ALL students (not only the ones in his classroom) received the absolute best education,” Doug Cohen wrote. “I can not fathom him having done something to deserve this treatment.”

Taub and some in the Face-

book group have talked of tension between Haig and Wheatley principal Sean Feeney, whom Haig’s supporters say has focused too much on test scores and rankings and has unfairly targeted the teacher.

Feeney also declined to discuss Haig’s case or allegations, but said any “characterizations of a decline” of Wheatley or its educational standards in his time as principal are “not based on facts.”

Feeney has been publicly skeptical about the significance of national school rankings and signed a 2013 letter from Long Island principals questioning the weight of Common Core test scores.

“We are in different times, and I think we are much better for all of our students, not just a

select few, and I’m very proud of what we’ve been able to do and the programs we’ve been able to offer and continue to offer,” Feeney said. “There’s a lot to be proud at the school.”

Many of Haig’s supporters who live outside the district said online that they plan to travel to Wheatley for the May 23 school board meeting.

At that meeting, the school board can vote to “prefer charges,” continuing the suspension and starting proceedings for a disciplinary hearing officiated by an impartial hearing officer or three-person panel.

School board Trustee David Keefe said at Monday’s event that the board will discuss the details of Haig’s case confidentially, but any vote must be public.

NHP, W.P. robbers both wore surgical masks Continued from Page 1 Police said the culprit of those robberies was wearing a mask and a hooded sweatshirt on both occasions. An image showed him wearing a light-colored sweatshirt one time. The second sweatshirt was light with block lettering, police have said.

A knife-wielding robber who police have called their top priority also held up the Subway store at the corner of Jericho Turnpike and North 12th Street on the Photo by Noah Manskar morning of April 25.

The assailant, described as This Subway shop at 1201 Jericho Turnpike was robbed a black man, standing between twice last week.

5-foot-8 and 6 feet tall, brandished

a kitchen knife at the cashier, who said she was alone in the store, and took $457 before running north on North 12th Street.

The crime was the most recent in a string of 11 knifepoint robberies the man has committed, but was the first to occur in the morning, police said last week.

The robbery pattern started at a New Hyde Park Dunkin’ Donuts on March 1 and has affected businesses from Oceanside to Massapequa Park, police have said.

The other 10 crimes have happened between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m., police have said.

The robber is described

weighing 170 pounds and usually wears a dark-colored scarf or bandana over his face, police have said.

Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the man’s arrest. Anyone with information about any of the crimes can call 1-800-244-8477 to leave an anonymous tip.

Reach reporter Noah Manskar by e-mail at nmanskar@ theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @noahmanskar and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

Animal League finds homes for furry friends will go home with a new family League America . “I can’t tell you member,” said Falco, who adopted how it warms my heart. You’re savwas more than 30,000 shelter pets her dog from North Shore Animal ing the lives of these animals but being placed in loving, permanent homes.

“The event here was phenomenal,” Carroll said. “We had a line starting extremely early in the morning.”

Carroll said homes were found for 557 of the rescued animals.

“It is absolutely amazing to see the empty cages here,” he said.

“There’s no better feeling.”

To begin Pet Adoptathon 2016, actress, adopter and Animal League America supporter Edie Falco and her rescue dog, Niko, participated in the opening ceremonies and cut the ribbon.

“So I look at all these people that are here and it is beyond People waited in a long line to adopt pets at the North thrilling to think that each of you Shore Animal League’s Pet Adoptathon in Port Washington.

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the most important thing is wait till you see what happens to your lives. If you don’t know or if you haven’t been an animal owner before it shifts the air in your house in a way that maybe you can not imagine. I’ve had animals since I was a little kid and they’ve always been family members. They teach you about love in a way that may be a little more difficult, a little more complicated for humans, but it’s very simple and very clear when you have an animal in your life.”

The event also had performances by the Purina Incredible Dog Team and family activities including face painting, arts and crafts, and balloon sculptures.

Former Mets player Mookie Wilson also made an appearance.

“Compared to previous years

it was amazing we had celebrity spokespeople for the event to pump everyone up,” Carroll said.

“The main attraction is obviously the animals and to make sure these animals are going to the best home.”

Carroll said North Shore Animal League America approved 23 overnight adoptions during the Adoptathon and even the older animals were adopted during the weekend.

“Everyone is so excited about the older animals finding a home,” Carroll said. “Everyone here at North Shore Animal League is really excited about that.”

Animal League America has saved more than 1,000,000 lives and is the world’s largest no-kill rescue and adoption organization, according to its website.

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Legal language delays Willistons’ water pact Continued from Page 2 To Williston Park trustees’ frustration, the village has maintained an independent water supply system as an alternative to the agreement with Williston Park since 2014.

Voting down the bond would

effectively approve the agreement, village officials have said.

If the agreement is eventually signed, East Williston would buy water exclusively from Williston Park for 25 years, with the current rate of $4.33 per thousand gallons locked until June 2018.

Any future rate hikes would

have to maintain the ratio of East Williston’s rate to Williston Park’s residential rate.

If East Williston wants to dispute a bill, Williston Park would get the full amount and hold the disputed amount in escrow while the villages settle the dispute within 60 days.

East Williston would pay Williston Park $100,000 over the course of a year to settle existing lawsuits. Both villages would continue maintaining their own water infrastructure.

A clause indemnifies both villages for damages resulting from each other’s water systems as long

as they maintain liability insurance policies.

Reach reporter Noah Manskar by e-mail at nmanskar@ theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @noahmanskar and Facebook at facebook.com/ theislandnow.

Shelter Rock Library Continued from Page 39 CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP with Marguerite Dilimetin, Group Facilitator, Nassau County Office for the Aging and Mental Health on Wednesday, May 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. This support group is designed for all caregivers.

It provides an opportunity for participants to share experiences and help one another.

First time attendees or for additional information, please call 516-227-7055.

BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING In the Confe rence Room.

Tuesday, May 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A nurse from 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.

includes works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and others.

TEEN SEXTING PREVENTION & CYBER SAFETY For Parents and Teens in Grades 9 - 12 presented by Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center Monday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. A workshop to provide information about the laws pertaining to “sexting” and the long-term personal consequences. Students will have a better understanding of the digital trail and what really happens on social networking sites. Participants will learn how to report online incidents and how to better protect themselves from online predators. Registration will begin Monday May 9.

ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUP in the Conference Room on BOOKS AND BITES: A 20 Thursday, May 26 at 1:30 p.m.

AND 30 SOMETHING BOOK The Alzheimer’s Association DISCUSSION Long Island Chapter is offering If you are in your 20s - 30s a monthly support group on and looking for a great book the fourth Thursday of the discussion join librarians Cathy month. The group is designed Loechner and Ellen Miller to provide emotional, educafor this free program where tional and social support for you’ll talk about the book, caregiver’s. Participants will tell us what you are reading, be helped to develop methods share refreshments and meet and skills to solve problems. others.

Caregivers are encouraged to Thursday, May 12 from 7:30 maintain their own personal, to 8:30 p.m. THE ART OF physical and emotional health RACING in the RAIN by Garth as well as optimally caring Stein. Pick up your book when for the person with dementia. you register at the Reference Attendees may register and/ Desk as space allows. or call 1–800–272-3900 for additional information.

THE GELMAN GALLERIES AT THE METROPOLITAN MAY THURSDAY MOVIES MUSEUM OF ART Thursday, May 5 at 2 & with Ines Powell, Educator, 7:30 p.m. THE BIG SHORT. Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, May 13 at 1:30 p.m. Directed by Adam McKay 2015 Rated R 130 minutes The Metropolitan Museum of Cast: Christian Bale, Ryan Art acquired paintings and Gosling, Brad Pitt , Steve Carsculptures from the Gelman rell. Four men in the world of collection in 1988. The colhigh finance predict the credit lection’s emphasis is on the School of Paris, comprised of and housing bubble of the mid French and often non-French 2000s and decide to take on the big banks for their greed artists who lived and worked and lack of foresight. Based in France before and after on Michael Lewis’ best-selling World War I. The collection

book.

Thursday, May 19 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. BROOKLYN Directed

by John Crowley 2014 Rated PG-13 123 minutes Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent. A young immigrant woman lands in 1950s Brooklyn from her home in Ireland and quickly falls in love with a local boy. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist in both places. Based on the bestselling novel by Colm Tóibín.

PLAY MAH JONGG Tuesdays, May 10 & 24 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.

WILLING HEARTS, HELPFUL HANDS Monday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Parker Jewish Institute’s Caregiver Support Initiative is seeking volunteers willing to make a difference in the community by helping family caregivers of an individual with Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia. Free training will be provided and volunteers will assist the person with Alzheimer’s with activities such as friendly visiting, light chores, telephone reassurance and leisure activities. This initiative will offer support groups, enrichment opportunities, education, training and more for the family caregivers. Join us for an informational session for volunteers and caregivers presented by Janine Pessah, MHA. ESOL CLASSES (English for Speakers of Other Languages). For Beginner & Intermediate Students.

Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 15. In the Community Room.

Registration is NOT required.

CREATIVE NEEDLES & THE ART of COLORING Fridays, May 6 & 20 at 1:30 p.m. Registration is not required. Bring your projects and supplies to knit, crochet, needle point, 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”.

TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW AS YOU GROW OLDER with Dr. Marisa Ip of Northwell Health Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Thursday, May 26 at 1:30 p.m.

Join Dr. Ip for an overview of important vaccines you should get and valuable habits that you can incorporate into your daily routine. Quick tips to keep you healthy into your golden years will be offered in this comprehensive approach to aging and wellness.

that you can incorporate into your daily routine. Quick tips to keep you healthy into your golden years will be offered in this comprehensive approach to aging and wellness.

THE FIVE BIGGEST MISTAKES SENIORS MAKE WITH THEIR LEGAL DOCUMENTS NYS Bar Association Elder Law National Healthcare Decisions Program. Monday, May 16 at 1:30 p.m. T. Ethan Choi, Esq. CPA, a partner with the elder law firm of Pfeifer & Choi PLLC and adjunct professor of elder law at City University of New York, will speak about avoiding the five most common mistakes seniors make with their elder law, long-term care planning legal documents and advance directives. Questions and answers will follow the presentation. See flyer for more details.

EXPLORING INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL CHOICES IN OUR COMMUNITY with Jerry Mintz, author, speaker, educational pioneer on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. Jerry Mintz will be meeting with people interested in parental choice, educational alternatives and homeschoolPROGRAMS FOR SINGLES with Marla Matthews, TV Host ing. He is the founder/director HOPEFUL SINGLES. for ages of the Alternative Education Resource Organization that is 55 plus Wednesday, May 25 at 3 p.m. There are no guaran- the foremost network of educational alternatives around tees and change is always the world. He is also interhappening. With new friends ested in exploring the possibiland inspirational guidance, ity of opening a homeschool compassion and support, resource center locally. your journey can be easier!!

STARTING OVER SINGLES COMPUTER CLASS for ages 40 plus Wednesday, Introduction to the iPad & June 1 at 7 p.m. Make new iPhone on Thursday, June friends, learn new skills, find hope and inspiration. It’s never 2 from 2 to 4 p.m. Learn all about Apple’s hottest gadgets. too late to start over!

In this class, you will get an TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD intro to the hardware, learn how to access the Internet KNOW AS YOU GROW and your email, understand OLDER with Dr. Marisa Ip of Northwell the settings, use the apps and learn how to get new ones, Health Board Certified in Internal Medicine on Thursday, discover many tips and tricks and much more. Bring your May 26 at 1:30 p.m. iPad or iPhone or just come Join Dr. Ip for an overview and listen. Space is limited. of important vaccines you should get and valuable habits Registration for Shelter Rock

patrons begins Monday, May 9.

ATTENTION TEEN ADVISORY BOARD (TAB) MEMBERS Our upcoming meetings are in the Community Room for registered TAB members on Thursdays, May 12 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. & June 2 from 5 to 6 p.m.

BABY STORYTIME This program of short stories,simple songs, bounces and play time is designed for children ages 6 — 12 months with a parent or caregiver.

Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m., May 31, June 7 & 14 Please arrive promptly. Space is limited.

Registration begins Tuesday, May 3 GREAT BEGINNINGS This program of stories, simple songs fingerplays and rhymes is designed for children ages 12 – 23 months with a parent or caregiver.

Choose one of the following sessions: Mondays at 10:15 a.m., May 23 – June 20 (No class on May 30) or Thursdays at 10:15 a.m., May 26 – June 16 Registration begins Monday, May 2.

SPECIAL SPRING STORYTIME (A Time for Kids) A program of songs, stories and a craft to celebrate Spring for children ages 2 - 5.

Thursday, May 12 at 10:30 a.m. Registration began on Thursday, April 28.

TERRARIUM PROGRAM Children in grades K — 5 will make mini terrariums to take home and enjoy. Tuesday, May 10 at 4:30 p.m. Registration began on Tuesday, April 26.

TOTS NIGHT OUT Families with children ages 2 — 5 years are invited to participate in a program of songs, stories and a craft. Father’s Day, Tuesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Registration begins Tuesday, May 13.

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School & camp directory

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Interior B. Moore Paints Dustless Vac System Renovations

Exterior Power Washing Rotted Wood Fixed Staining

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PAINTING/POWER WASHING painting

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Interior and Exterior • Plaster/Spackle Light Carpentry • Decorative Moldings Power Washing

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tree service

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Owner Operated Since 1989 Licensed & Insured

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GRACE ROOFING Est. 1977

• Slate, Tile, Flat Roofs • Asphalt and Wood Shingle Roofs • Gutters & Leaders Cleaned/Replaced • Professional New Roof Installation Free Estimates Expert Leak Repairs Lic./Ins. • Local References RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL

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Community Meetings Bryant Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

2 Paper Mill Road, Roslyn (516) 621-2240

Village of Munsey Park Building Advisory Committee Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1777 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset (516) 365-7790

Village of East Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills (516) 621-5600

Village of New Hyde Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1420 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 354-0022

Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 746-0782

New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District Board of Education Budget Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Manor Oaks School, 1950 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park (516) 434-2350

Village of Floral Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Pool and Recreation Building 124 Stewart Street, Floral Park (516) 326-6300

Village of North Hills Planning Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Shelter Rock Road, North Hills (516) 627-3451

Floral Park Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

17 Caroline Place, Floral Park (516) 326-6330 Village of Great Neck Architectural Review Board Meeting Tuesday, May 10 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck (516) 482-0019 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 Gussack Plaza, Great Neck (516) 482-4500

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Village of Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, Atwater Plaza/4 Gateway Drive, Great Neck (516) 482-8283

North Hempstead Town Board/ Solid Waste Management Authority Capital Plan Working Session Tuesday, May 10 @ 8 :00 p.m.

North Hempstead Town Hall 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset (516) 869-6311 Village of Old Westbury Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Stone Hill Road, Old Westbury (516) 626-0800 Village of Plandome Board of Trustees Regular Meeting; Public Hearing on Repeal of Tax Cap Override Local Law; Public Hearing on Annual Storm water Management Report Monday, May 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 65 South Drive, Plandome (516) 627-1748 Village of Plandome Heights Architectural Review Board Meeting Tuesday, May 10 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 37 Orchard Street, Manhasset (516) 627-1136

Great Neck School District Board of Education Annual Budget Hearing Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

South Middle School, 349 Lakeville Road, Great Neck (516) 441-4600

Village of Roslyn Estates Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates (516) 621-3541

WINDOW REPAIRS & RESTORATIONS

Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting Thursday, May 12 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office, 236 East Shore Road, Great Neck (516) 482-0238

Village of Roslyn Harbor Board of Trustees Meeting Thursday, May 12 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 500 Motts Cove Road South, Roslyn Harbor (516) 621-0368

ALL BRANDS

Village of Lake Success Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success (516) 482-4411

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Outdated Hardware • Skylights •Andersen Sashes • New Storm Windows • Wood Windows • Chain/Rope Repairs • Falling Windows • Fogged Panes • Mechanical Repairs • Wood Repairs

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To advertise, call 516.307.1045 or fax 516.307.1046

Manhasset Civic Association Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Plandome Village of Manorhaven Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Tuesday, May 10 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 33 Manorhaven Boulevard, Port Washington (516) 883-7000 Village of Munsey Park Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1777 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset (516) 365-7790

Shelter Rock Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

165 Searingtown Road, Albertson (516) 248-7363 Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 100 East Shore Road, Great Neck (516) 482-3110 Village of Williston Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Monday, May 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park (516) 746-2193 Williston Park Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, May 10 @ 7:00 p.m.

494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park (516) 742-1820 Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted. All meetings, dates and times are subject to change.

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Tuesday 11:00am: Classified Advertising Tuesday 1:00pm: Legal Notices/ Name Changes Friday 5:00pm Buyers’s Guide Error Responsibility All ads placed by telephone are read back for verification of copy context.

In the event of an error of Blank Slate Media LLC we are not responsible for the first incorrect insertion. We assume no responsiblity for an error in and beyond the cost of the ad.

Cancellation Policy Ads must be cancelled the Monday before the first Thursday publication. All cancellations must be received in writing by fax at: 516.307.1046 Any verbal cancellations must be approved by a supervisor. There are no refunds on cancelled advertising. An advertising credit only will be issued.

• Great Neck News • Williston Times • New Hyde Park Herald Courier • Manhasset Times • Roslyn Times • Port Washington Times • Garden City News • Bethpage Newsgram • Jericho Syosset News Journal • Mid Island Times • Syosset Advance

Part-Time Crossing Guard Nassau County, New York The Nassau County Police Department is currently seeking Parttime Crossing Guards for assignments throughout Nassau County.

Qualifications are: E Nassau County residency required.

E Candidates must be able to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic at specified locations for the purpose of protecting children and other persons in the vicinity of a school crossing or other assigned crossings.

E Candidates must be able to speak clearly and effectively in English with children, parents, motorists and other adults. Must be able to give directions and maintain control of children.

Must be able to read and write English and be able to complete basic Police Department forms without assistance.

E Candidates must be able to report for work on a daily basis and function efficiently throughout an entire work shift without interruption. Candidate must have the ability to travel to an assigned post in a timely fashion without departmental assistance. Candidate must be able to adjust for changing irregular hours and be able to work weekends and holidays as assigned.

E Candidates must be able to withstand varied environmental conditions including extreme heat, cold, moisture and low light conditions. The described position requires a level of physical ability to include vision, hearing, speaking, flexibility and strength.

E Starting salary for this position is $ 18.00 per hour with no fringe benefits. This part time position can require up to 17 hours per week.

E Candidates must have graduated 8th grade. ** Selected candidates will be required to pay a $75.00 fingerprint fee and will undergo a background investigation conducted by the Nassau County Police Department.

All interested candidates meeting the above stated criteria can obtain an application at any Nassau County Police Precinct or download one at: www.pdcn.org FIRST PRECINCT 900 MERRICK ROAD, BALDWIN, NY 11510 573-6100 SECOND PRECINCT 7700 JERICHO TURNPIKE, WOODBURY, NY 11797 573-6200 THIRD PRECINCT 214 HILLSIDE AVENUE, WILLISTON PARK, NY 11591 573-6300 FOURTH PRECINCT 1699 BROADWAY, HEWLETT, NY 11557 573-6400 FIFTH PRECINCT 1655 DUTCH BROADWAY, ELMONT,NY 11003 573-6500 SEVENTH PRECINCT 3636 MERRICK ROAD, SEAFORD, NY 11783 573-6700

Nassau CouNty

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Equal opportuNity EmployEr

Help Wanted

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, SALES​/​ LICENSING: Seeking sales person with a strong work ethic and exceptional communication and organizational skills to join our sales team in generating sales revenue from new and existing clients. Port Washington based music publishing company creates and licenses background music for a wide range of clients.

Background in music helpful but not necessary. Working knowledge of Mac OS and good computer skills.

Base salary plus commission. Email cover letter and resume to:sarah@ omnimusic.com

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.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT GARDEN CITY: Established and friendly Garden City Dental office looking for Part Time front desk help.

Work experience preferred. Please call 516-746-4510 BABYSITTER NEEDED: P/T SUMMER for our 2 boys, 1 & 3 yrs old.

Mon​​Thurs 8am to 12:30pm, June 27th through August 4th. Must drive & have references.Please call 516435-3014 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

CONCIERGE: Saturday and Sunday from 3pm-11pm shift. Provide superior customer service within a luxury residential setting in Port Washington. Please fax resume 516-767-6837 or email sgaddison@ gmail.com 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 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: 516487-7170

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

Email resume to publicsafety@villageofeasthills.org.

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

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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

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

TEACHER’S ASSISTANT FT and PT at Romper Room Nursery School. ALSO NEEDED: BUS MATRON P/T Email resume to romperroomschool@verizon.net Or call 516-746-8606 Closed all school holidays.

HOME HEALTH AIDE: New York certified HHA (male) experienced in elder care including Alzheimers, dementia, Parkinsons, strokes, hospice care, etc. Licensed driver w/car.

Dependable & reliable. Willing to relocate if needed. Excellent references both private duty and agency available upon request. Call Matthew 347-945-8164

INTERNET ASSISTANT: 1-2 hours per week. $20 per hour. Must have own computer. If interested, call Lisa 516-487-8129

MEDICAL SECRETARY​/ FRONT DESK: Manhasset Physician, part time, will train. Wednesday 10am12pm, Thursday 10am-12pm, break for lunch then 2pm-4pm, Saturday 10am-12pm. 516-627-5540 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 516-307-1045 x201

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

WORK THE BELMONT STAKES RACING WORK THE BELMONT STAKES FESTIVAL RACING FESTIVAL

Noor Staffing Group will be conducting interviews at Noor Staffing will be conducting interviews NoorGroup Staffing Group will be conducting interviews BelmontRacetrack Park for&the following positions: at Aqueduct Racetrack & Belmont Park for the following positions:positions: at Aqueduct Belmont Park for the following

BETTING CLERKS*, PARKING, BETTING CLERKS*, PARKING, WHITE CAPS, BETTING CLERKS*, PARKING, WHITE CAPS, USHERS, WHITE CAPS, USHERS, USHERS, GUEST SERVICES & SUPERVISORS GUEST SERVICES & SUPERVISORS GUEST SERVICES & SUPERVISORS INTERVIEWS TO BE HELD ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD THE FOLLOWING DATES: INTERVIEWS WILL BE ON HELD ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

SATURDAY, MAY 14:

10AM-3PM THURSDAY, APRIL 21: 21: THURSDAY, APRIL 3 P M - 73PPM M-7PM

SUNDAY, MAY 15

10AM-3PM SATURDAY, MAY 14: 14: SATURDAY, MAY 1 0 A M -1 3 0PAM M-3PM

BELMONT NORTHTERRACE SHORE TERRACE BELMONT PARK NORTH SHORE BELMONT NORTH SHORE TERRACE

AQUEDUCT EQUESTRIS AQUEDUCT EQUESTRIS

(CLUBHOUSE ENTRANCE, ENTRANCE, 3RD FLOOR)3RD FLOOR) (CLUBHOUSE

(CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR)

(CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR) 2150 HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE ELMONT, NY 11003 (CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR)

SUNDAY, MAY 15: 15: TUESDAY, MAY 3:MAY

SUNDAY, MAY TUESDAY, 3: 1 0at A(646) M -1 3 M 2 P M - 6contact Please 790-2777 0PA M-3PM 2PPM M - 6Noor P M Staffing Group NORTH SHORE TERRACE BELMONT NORTH Recruiter@NYRAjobs.com SHORE TERRACE BELMONT NORTH SHORE TERRACE NORTH SHORE TERRACE BELMONT or BELMONT email for more information.

(CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR) (CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR) (CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR) (CLUBHOUSE ELEVATOR TO 4TH FLOOR) Employment applications can be completed at www.NYRAjobs.com Noor Staffing Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer *Betting clerks must be at least 18 years of age to apply and present a current resume 2150 Hempstead Turnpike 110th St. and Rockaway 2150 Hempstead Turnpike 110th St. and Blvd.

Rockaway Blvd.

This position requires a minimum of 3 years cashElmont, handling NYexperience* 11003 NY 11003 Ozone Park, NY 11420 Elmont, Ozone Park, NY 11420 Bring 2 forms of ID (I-9 appropriate). You must be at least 16 years of age with working papers to apply.

Please Please contactcontact Noor Staffing Group at (646)at790-2777 Noor Staffing Group (646) 790-2777 or email for more orRecruiter@NYRAjobs.com email Recruiter@NYRAjobs.com forinformation more information Employment applications can be completed at NYRAjobs.com Employment applications can be completed at NYRAjobs.com

* Betting clerks must clerks be at least of age to apply andtopresent a current resume. * Betting must18 beyears at least 18 years of age apply and present a current resume.

This positionThis requires a minimum 3 years cash experience.* position requires aofminimum of 3handling years cash handling experience.* Bring 2 forms of ID2 (I-9 appropriate) You must beYou at least of age with working papers to apply.

Bring forms of ID (I-9 appropriate) must16 beyears at least 16 years of age with working papers to apply.

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 BABYSITTER AVAILABLE SUMMER FULL TIME June-August: Garden City resident, Quinnipiac University Nursing Graduate CPR Certified. Athletic, fun loving, dependable. Own transportation. References upon request. Call Shana 516-782-2506 BABYSITTER​/​MOTHER’S HELPER AVAILABLE: College Student, Education Minor, Dean’s List, Division 1 Athlete. GC resident, own car, responsible. Call 516-776-1680 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 862-2410883 COMPANION SERVICES Available Monday​​Friday for the elderly.

Licensed driver with own car will also do light housekeeping, cooking, driving errands, to and from doctor​ / hospital appointments. Also available to pick up children from school​ /​camp. Full or part time. Live out.

Experienced with references available upon request. Call EV 516-6733479 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: full or part time, live in or out, not available on weekends to take care of the elderly, excellent references, 9 years experience. Call Sandra 516-423-0332 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 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 HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR available to do any odd jobs around your home​​yard work, cleaning out & organizing garages and basements, pet sitting, party help, etc. Call Drew 516-712-5361 or 516-741-9669

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 HOUSECLEANING AVAILABLE: 15 years of experience, good references, English speaking, own car, very reliable and responsible.

Please call us: Lucy or Livia 516444-6351 NANCY’S CLEANING SERVICE Let 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 516468-1340 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

CAREER TRAINING SECURITY GUARD TRAINING LONG ISLAND & MANHATTAN 516-444-9686 & 646-942-1457 Exclusive training for guard companies. Also: Homeland Security, Anti-Terrorism, Active Shooter, Loss Prevention, Supervisory

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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 IF YOU HAD HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND SUFFERED AN INFECTION between 2010 & present time, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 800535-5727

MARKETPLACE ANTIQUE LOVERS TAKE NOTE: BRIMFIELD’S, Famous outdoor antique​/​collectibles show of 5,000 dealers starts Tuesday May 10th.

Info on 20 individual show openings​​ www.brimfield.com May 10th-15th 2016

Marketplace HP 2840 ALL IN ONE LASER JET PRINTER FOR SALE Network printing, faxing and scanning, plus walk up copying and direct digital photo printing. Used, excellent condition.

Located in Garden City. Pick up only. Cash. $250. Needs color toner.

Call 516-489-2891 or email nlzcas@ yahoo.com KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers​/ KIT Complete Treatment System. Available at hardware stores, Home Depot, homedepot.com

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

LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-7753048 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 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, CollectiblesTues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@atstewartexchange. org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org 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 YOU’RE INVITED! Monday, May 9 10:00 am 5 Barnum Avenue Plainview, NY 11803 Electone Organ, ‘60’s and ‘70’s furniture, needlepoint and crafting supplies, office supplies, desks, kitchen nook, dining room table and chairs, costume jewelry, living room furniture, lots of linen, tablecloths and decorative items... Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details ! YOU’RE INVITED! Wednesday, May 11 10:00 am 43 Floral Blvd​​Apt 1B Floral Park, NY 11001 Living room and bedroom furniture, hall tree, artwork, collectibles, costume jewelry, housewares and garage items...Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

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ALBERTSON: We are back! Multi generation moving sale. Saturday, Sunday May 14th and 15th from 10am-4pm. 31 Grant Ave. Willis Avenue to I.U. Willets to Grant. Furniture, collectibles, lots of great stuff.

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 516-2480079 or 516-732-9435

ANDY FOUNDATION 13th ANNUAL YARD SALE SATURDAY MAY 7 9am​​2pm ST. PAUL’S FIELD HOUSE GARDEN CITY FURNITURE, BOOKS, JEWELRY, LINENS, ART AND MUCH MORE! ONE OF LONG ISLAND’S BIGGEST & BEST! More info: www. theandyfoundation.org

PETS

Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability.

Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256

PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care Boarding Dog Walking Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

AUTOMOTIVE

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.

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Town eyes more reforms after Terry’s arrest Continued from Page 6 disciplining or supervising family members, the statement said.

McCann’s brothers, Thomas and John Tiernan, work for the town highway department and her son works for the parks department. Her husband, Nassau County Corrections Sgt. James McCann, is one of several county sheriff’s department officers reportedly under investigation for allegedly not escorting Terry out

the front of the courtroom where he was arraigned.

Botwin’s review did not recommend changes to the town’s contract procurement policy, but the town plans to adopt her recommendations that it centralize procurement and hire a procurement adviser to make the town’s approach to bids and requests for proposals more competitive, according to a town statement.

“The town’s current vendors provide great services and do

fine work,” Bosworth said in the statement. “However, we believe that by centralizing the procurement procedures and preparing bids in a way that attract a wider pool of possible respondents, we will be able to open the town to new vendors and increase competition.”

The town changed its procurement policy in August 2015 from “strongly recommend(ing)” to requiring requests for proposals for any contracts worth more

than $20,000, but they were not legally required for Terry’s 2014 and 2015 contracts, Botwin’s memorandum says.

Despite the $20,000 threshold for competitive bids, longstanding relationships with contractors make town departments hesitant to work with others who could provide better services for less money, Botwin said in the memo.

“It takes an institutional commitment to good procure-

ment practices to continually open the door to new vendors,” she wrote. “This is a broader problem than just the example of Mr. Terry’s contract.”

Terry had a total of six government jobs that earned him more than $200,000 in 2015.

He has lost contracts with North Hempstead and four other agencies; his contract with the Freeport Community Development Agency was set to be evaluated May 2.

Israel backs Stern to succeed him in House Continued from Page 20 Israel said he told Stern he would back him two weeks ago at the Sweet Hollow Diner in Melville after declining to make an early endorsement out of fairness to the other candidates. He said Stern was on an early list of potential successors that also included North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, who declined to run in January.

Israel said he has known Stern since he was a Huntington town councilman before being elected to Congress and watched Stern coach Little League. They since have worked together on local issues since Stern got into the Suffolk Legislature in 2006, Stern

said.

Israel pledged to do “whatever Steve Stern asks me to do that is legal,” and said to anticipate a TV ad featuring him and Stern.

Israel said Stern’s funding, record and his personal approach to campaigning will help him overcome his lower name recognition relative to better known candidates, such as Kaiman and Suozzi.

“Name recognition in this environment ain’t what it used to be,” he said.

Asked for comment on Israel’s endorsement, Suozzi’s campaign manager Michael Florio said, “Voters are looking for a leader like Tom Suozzi who has a track record of standing up to power-

ful interests to get things done for people.”

Kaiman looks forward to working with Israel “once we win the primary and we are all on the same side again,” campaign manager Jeff Guillot said in a statement, also citing the campaign’s support from former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman.

While Kaplan has appeared publicly with Israel several times, campaign manager Reginald Johnson said it is “completely understandable that he would support a fellow Huntington politician” and that Kaplan will continue to focus on “laying out her vision on how to make the district a more affordable place to live,

raise a family and retire.”

Clarke said he found Israel’s endorsement “very, very unfortunate” because he’s supporting a candidate who does not support meaningful campaign finance reform despite saying he’s tired of the congressional fundraising cycle.

“I just think that it’s very disingenuous and really shows the true colors of Steve Israel,” Clarke said.

Martins campaign strategist E. O’Brien Murray said he thinks Israel’s endorsement will hurt Stern by linking him with “Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, higher taxes, out of control spending and partisan gridlock,” adding that Martins

has support from Republicans, Democrats and independents.

“Steve Israel will help Steve Stern the same way Steve Israel’s support of other Democrats gave Republicans the largest majority since the 1920s,” Murray said in an email.

Also in the Third District, the National Republican Congressional Committee named Martins one of 11 nationwide “contenders” in its “Young Guns” program for up-and-coming candidates.

Martins has backing from the Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Republican committees but faces a primary challenge from Glen Cove financial investigator Philip Pidot.

Photo by Noah Manskar

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel has endorsed fellow Suffolk County Democrat Steve Stern, a county legislator from Dix Hills, in the race to represent New York’s Third Congressional District.

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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 commencing 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

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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​/​or 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 holidays, 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 regis-

tration 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

INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF EAST WILLISTON LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF MEETINGS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of East Williston will hold the following meetings in the month of May 2016: Monday, May 9, 2016, at 7:30pm: Regular Board of Trustees meeting. Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:30pm agenda meeting at the East Williston Village Hall, 2 Prospect Street, East Williston, New York.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MARIE L. HAUSNER, VILLAGE CLERK Dated: May 6, 2016 East Williston, New York WT 143466 1x 5/06/​2 016 #143466

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING INC. VILLAGE OF EAST WILLISTON PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village of East Williston will hold a public hearing in the Village Hall, 2 Prospect Street in said Village on May 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. to hear the application of Stephan Leccese, 388 Feather Lane, East Williston, New York to request the following variance from: Article IX Section 160-32.

Placement of accessory uses and buildings (c)not be placed in a front yard.

Applicant seeks to legalize masonry stanchions that have been erected in the front yard.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any interested party may appear personally and be heard.

BY ORDER OF BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS INC. VILLAGE OF EAST WILLISTON Michael Holland, Chairman Board of Zoning Appeals DATED: East Williston, New York May 6, 2016 WT 143465 1x 5/06/​2 016 #143465

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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Notice of Formation of OBS Zeros LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/22/2016. 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, 1 Birchwood Court, Apt 5M,Mineola, NY 11501 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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The Herricks Union Free School District, Town of No. Hempstead, New York, will receive sealed bids for SUMMER OUT OF DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION, at the Office of the Transportation Director, 999 Herricks Rd., New Hyde Park, NY 11040, until 10:00 a.m. Room 105, on Thursday, June 2, 2016 for the 2016​—​ 2017 school year.

All bidding documents may be obtained from the Transportation Office during school hours. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids received and to accept any bids that it deems to be favorable to the interest of the District. No bid shall be withdrawn pending the decision of the Board of Education.

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The Herricks Union Free School District, Town of No. Hempstead, New York, will receive sealed bids for FALL OUT OF DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION, at the Office of the Transportation Director, 999 Herricks Rd., New Hyde Park, NY 11040, on Thursday, July 14, 2016 until 10:00 a.m.

Room 105​—​for the 2016​—​ 2017 school year.

All bidding documents may be obtained from the Transportation Office during school hours. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids received and to accept any bids that it deems to be favorable to the interest of the District. No bid shall be withdrawn pending the decision of the Board of Education.

WT 143398 1x 5/06/​2 016 #143398 LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Board of Trustees will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 8:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as possible, at the Village Hall, 494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY 11596 for the purpose of considering the adoption of the following Local Law: Local Law No. 3 of 2016 entitled “A Local Law on Prohibiting On-Site Smoking Businesses Within the Village of Williston Park.”

The above Local Law would be effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.

A copy of said Local Law is available for review at the Village Hall during business hours.

Julie Kain Village Clerk-Treasurer Dated: May 3, 2016 Williston Park, NY WT 143492 1x 5/06/2016

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READERS WRITE

Chin is a ‘pillar’ Chin cares for school families of the community

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t is my honor and pleasure to support and endorse Juleigh Chin for trustee of the Herricks Board of Education.

Juleigh has been a pillar of our community for many years and she is, without a doubt, the best candidate for this election.

Juleigh and I have worked together for the betterment of Manhasset Hills for over seven years.

In 2011, Judi Bosworth — then Nassau County Legislator — honored Juleigh and myself with the prestigious “Trailblazer of the Year” award for our work battling crime in our neighborhood.

Fondly dubbed “The Desperate Housewives of Manhasset Hills,” we increased awareness among our neighbors and received the commitment of security from the Nassau County Police Department’s 3rd Precinct.

Juleigh continues to keep our neighbors informed with the email list that we started together as a result of the rash of burglaries that was taking place.

Our neighbors and I know

that we can count on Juleigh to give us reliable information regarding our community whenever we receive those emails.

I believe Juleigh has proven herself and her abilities through her dedication to our district in multiple ways.

From the impressive three years she has already served on the Board of Education to her allegiance to all the organizations that she supports, Juleigh champions for our children and our community.

Her leadership and thoughtfulness is evident in her persona and her work ethic.

On Tuesday, May 17, I implore all of the residents within the Herricks District to join me in supporting Juleigh Chin as trustee for the Board of Education.

Juleigh Chin has a proven reputation of leadership, commitment, and dedication to our district.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Mariann Giliberto Manhasset Hills

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am supporting Juleigh Chin in her candidacy for Herricks Board of Education trustee.

My family’s ties with Herricks run deep.

My parents moved our family into Herricks district because of their paramount concern for their children’s education, and I graduated from Herricks High School in 1984.

My son, graduating this year from college, owes his success to wonderful Herrick’s school

system, and my daughter who is finishing her junior year at Herricks High School is confidently poised to start her college admissions process due to the caring Herricks community.

For the past several years, I was honored to represent and lead the Herricks Korean Parents Association and worked with Juleigh who was truly instrumental in assimilating Korean families into this wonderful school district.

Juleigh displays genuine concern for helping families and students as she continues to dedicate her talent, time and enormous enthusiasm to our district in making it the very best.

She has worked tirelessly as a trustee for Herricks Board of Education in the past term, and I encourage you in voting for Juleigh on election day!

Joyce Kim Herricks

Pick Chin for second term

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s 21-year residents of the Herricks school district, we urge all residents to support Juleigh Chin for re-election to the Herricks Board of Education.

We have been lucky to count Juleigh as a friend since our boys joined Cub Scouts together at the Denton Avenue school a decade ago.

She was an extremely active parent at Denton, a scout den and committee leader for many years, and a consistent advocate for students through the PTA, serving as president for four years.

We have watched as Juleigh put countless hours of hard work and dedication into everything she’s touched, from the PTA to the scouts to the Athletic Boosters and now the Board of Education. The list is never-ending.

Juleigh puts her heart into being a community volunteer and organizer, as well as a parent and an

employee.

As busy as she is, she always finds time to give a smile, say a nice word, or make a home-cooked meal for neighbors who have suffered a loss. And at the end of a long day, she sends a community email reminding us to stay safe and to look out for one another.

Anyone who has known Juleigh since she moved into our district in 2005 has seen her immense dedication to our youth, the betterment of our schools and the safety of our neighborhoods.

She is an advocate for Herricks, and for maintaining the high standards we expect of our schools and our community. She gives tirelessly for our students, and deserves our support.

On May 17, we urge you to support her second term on the Herricks Board of Education.

Kevin and Rachel Ryan Manhasset Hills

Support Chin in upcoming election Chin committed to service

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have great admiration and gratitude for members of the community who serve on school boards. It is a huge responsibility, a big time commitment & totally voluntary.

We at Herricks are blessed to have a great School Board.

All the elected members on our school board truly care about our schools & our children.

I am writing to support Juleigh Chin for the upcoming election. I know Juleigh since 2009. I have worked with her on several committees, seen her lead, participate, support and guide members of the community on several occasions.

She is warm hearted, generous, compassionate and a genuine human being. She truly cares not only for her own family but also for the whole community & for all our children.

At present Juleigh works at the Northwell Health care system as a Volunteer Coordinator where she oversees thousands of volunteers at LIJ & the satellite campuses. Her job speaks volumes about the kind of person she is.

The Northwell health system

could not have picked a better person to do this job.

Juleigh has been involved with the school and the community in practically every aspect.

She has been a PTA president for four years, a council V.P. for two years, PARP co-chair, Yearbook and 5th grade Move Up co-chair, a member on the Hiring Committee and Nutrition Committee as well as a M.S. Fundraiser cochair.

The Town of North Hempstead has recognized Juleighs work by honoring her with the 2011 Trailblazer of the Year Award. She also serves on Clinton G. Martin Advisory Board; TONH Steering Committee; Annual Asian American Festival Committee Leader I could go on and on about Juleigh’s commitment & participation in making our community a better place but I have limited space on this newspaper column.

I strongly urge you to support this wonderful and caring Leader in the upcoming election.

Vote for Juleigh Vaishali Rasquinha Hamilton Park Resident

I am writing to you today to support my friend, Juleigh Chin, in her run for re-election as trustee of the Herricks School Board.

I have had the pleasure to work with Juleigh for many years on various PTA matters, as well as at Northwell Health, where I volunteer and Juleigh works as in the Volunteer Service Dept at LIJ Hospital.

At LIJ, Juleigh is able to continue her commitment to giving back; as coordinator of the vol-

unteer department, she is responsible for managing the responsibilities, locations and schedules of hundreds of volunteers.

Juleigh is kind, fair minded, dedicated, and hardworking, and I have such a deep respect for her.

She is an amazing mom and wife and she is so very proud of her family.

Juleigh is also extremely proud to be a member of the Herricks Community.

Whether as a member of the

PTA, the Herricks Community Coalition, Herricks Korean Community, the Chinese American Association of North Hempstead, or as trustee of the Herricks School Board, Juleigh has worked tirelessly for every member of our community.

If you love the Herricks Community as much as I do, I sincerely hope that you join me in supporting Juleigh Chin by casting your vote in her favor on May 17.

Roberta Carleton

Chin stands for what’s right

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am proud to go on record endorsing Juleigh Chin for a second term as a Herricks Board of Education trustee.

Along with her excellent credentials, she is also a bold, honest woman who always stands up for what she believes is right.

I was impressed by Juleigh Chin from the first time I met her nine years ago.

At that time she had just begun serving on the Parent Committee of Cub Scout Pack 202 at Denton Avenue School.

It was clear she was not only committed but was a true “doer.” I was amazed at how she always managed to find the time to run den meetings and orga-

nize elaborate Pack Night events while balancing all her familial responsibilities.

I most admire Juleigh for her selfless involvement not only with Scouts, the PTAs and the School Board; all which she does while working full time and attending both of her sons’ many athletic events!

Her spirit is always upbeat, her smile contagious.

She is eloquent and a genuine community member.

Please support and vote for her.

Herricks needs her.

Monica Pavlidis Manhasset Hills

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Port woman helps in W.P. company wins fight against racism

national biz award

Sound Roof Systems, LTD, a roofing contractor from Williston Park, has been named the National Subcontractor of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Company President F. Xavier Fleming will be honored along with other national winners and finalists for the National Small Business Person of the Year by SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet at ceremony scheduled to be held at the United States Institute of Peace next week to kick off National Small Business Week on May 2.

According to SBA Regional Administrator Kellie LeDet, who oversees the programs and services for the agency throughout New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Sound Roof Systems was nominated for the award by Jill Clough-Johnston, small business liaison officer of Brookhaven Science Associates LLC/Brookhaven National Laboratory and was recognized for the award based on criteria that include: management and technical capabilities, financial strength of the contractor, delivery of a firm’s products and services, cost performance and innovativeness of the firm¹s products or services sold to the U.S. government.

Sound Roof Systems is a familyowned and operated independent roofing contractor that has served Nassau and Suffolk counties for over 30 years.

Under Fleming¹s direction, along with his son and partner Xavier Fleming, Jr., the company has provided comprehensive roofing services for myriad customers.

Some of the services Sound Roof Systems provides include roof repairs, roof removal and replacement and related sheet metal work.

“In the 2015 fiscal year, the federal government awarded 25.75 percent, or $90.7 billion, of all federal contracts to small businesses, which translates to more than 537,000 jobs supporting revenue for the job creators who produce two out of three net new private-sector jobs in the U.S. economy, LeDet said.”

Small business owners like Fleming of Sound Roof Systems play an important

role in the recent surge small business owners are seeing in government contracting awards.

“We could not be more proud of the fact that a Long Island company was chosen among 10 regional subcontractors of the year for this prestigious award,” LeDet said. “It tells you a great deal about the company and its ability to manage large contracts, to deliver quality workmanship at a cost-savings to the federal government.”

Sound Roof Systems’ list of customers has grown to include Brookhaven National Laboratory, WW Grainger, MSC Industrial, AVR Realty, Nassau County’s Department of Public Works, Northport VA Hospital and multiple Long Island school districts.

In October 2012, when Superstorm Sandy damaged the roof of the Child Development Center, a preschool and daycare facility for employees of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sound Roof Systems worked exclusively on weekends to replace the roof, remove hazardous materials, expedite storage and provide 24-hour monitoring to ensure the safety of the children and personnel.

The company established a strong reputation for high-quality workmanship, jobsite safety, integrity, competitive pricing and professional services.

Also being honored at the Washington ceremony with the Flemings will be this year¹s winner of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence, recognizing large prime contractors that have excelled in utilization of small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors.

The recipient for this year’s award for the category of Research and Development is Brookhaven Science Associates’ Jill Clough-Johnston, Small Business Liaison Officer for the Upton-based facility — the same person who nominated Mr. Fleming for his award.

Both award winners will also be recognized at a local Small Business Week award ceremony hosted by SBA’s New York District Office on May 3 at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

1972, Community Advocates has concentrated on addressing homelessness and the For Port Washington resident Marge Ro- lack of affordable and equitable housing by gatz, volunteering her time to advocate for supporting the development of safe, lowcost rental apartments in mixed income, human rights is more rewarding than a job.

“From the time I was very young, my vol- integrated neighborhoods and downtown unteer efforts to make a positive difference in areas across Long Island and mobilizing cothe lives of persons who were hurting, par- ordinated efforts to initiate and strengthen ticularly those who were being discriminated resources, programs and services to meet baagainst, have always been more challeng- sic needs and combat discriminatory policies ing and rewarding to me than my well-paid and practices, according to its website.

Rogatz was a founder of the Nassau-Sufjobs,” said Rogatz, founding officer and curfolk Coalition for the Homeless, serving as an rent co-chair of ERASE Racism. officer on its executive Rogatz, who previously board for 16 years and lived in Roslyn Heights, said playing a leading role in she was inspired to become helping the coalition to an activist for human rights bring some $70 million because of her parents. in federal Housing and “My parents were strong Urband Development supporters of civil and huHomeless Assistance man rights and taught my grants and other fundbrother and me to care about ing to non-profit housand respect everyone’s freeing and service providdom, sense of dignity and acers in Nassau County. cess to opportunity as much “My greatest acas we cared about our own,” complishment as an Rogatz said. activist and community Rogatz said he has voladvocate has been to unteered for more than 15 co-found organizations years with ERASE Racism to that are working to eliminate barriers and create address the issues of more racial equity on Long Marge Rogatz homelessness, affordIsland. able housing and racRogatz is also serving as ism on Long Island,” this year’s co-chair of the Annual Benefit Committee responsible for plan- she said.

She was a founder and an officer of Susning the fundraising event, which supports the organization’s research, education, policy tainable Long Island for 10 years, a founder advocacy, legal action and civic engagement of the Long Island Campaign for Affordable Rental Housing and an emerita member of activities.

“I know that time spent working on be- board and grants committee of the Long Ishalf of ERASE Racism is time well spent,” land Community Foundation.

Rogatz also served on the Nassau CounRogatz said.

The Annual Benefit Committee will host ty Task Force on Homelessness and in 2007, the annual ERASE Racism 2016 Benefit Cel- was appointed by then-County Executive ebration from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on June Tom Suozzi as chair of the Nassau County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, which 8 at the Garden City Hotel.

The ERASE Racism 2016 Benefit will she headed until 2010.

In 2008, state Comptroller Thomas P. honor Rockville Centre Superintendent of Schools William Johnson, known nationally DiNapoli appointed her to the board of dias an innovative expert in closing the achieve- rectors of the State of New York Mortgage ment gap for poor and minority students, and Agency.

In this capacity, she also serves on the Kevyn Orr, partner-in-charge at the international law firm Jones Day, for his work in Mortgage Insurance Fund Committee and helping bring Detroit back from the edge of on the NYS Homes & Community Renewal Governance and Program committees, parfinancial collapse.

ERASE Racism will also present its Lead- ticipating in state-wide housing finance and ership Award to the National Center for Sub- development decisions.

Previously, Rogatz carried out consulting urban Studies at Hofstra University for spotlighting the effect of racial disparities on Long assignments in fields related to community development and human services for New Island.

“ERASE Racism has put a spotlight on York City Mayor John Lindsay, Nassau Counthe far-reaching impacts of inequities on the ty Executive Eugene Nickerson and Suffolk residents of Long Island and has successfully County Executives Lee Dennison and John worked to eliminate barriers to opportunity Klein.

She also consulted for New York City for minority residents,” Rogatz said. “Long Islanders should show their support for in- Head Start and community hospitals and tegrated communities and fair policies that organizations in East Harlem and the South combat structural racism by becoming a Part- Bronx.

During the civil rights movement, Roner for Racial Equity and by attending our gatz served as special assistant to James annual benefit.”

Rogatz has been president and full-time Farmer the national director of the Congress unpaid CEO of Community Advocates since of Racial Equality, or CORE. For more information visit www.erasera1986.

A nonprofit organization founded in cismny.org or call 516-921-4863.

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Mineola Pony avenges loss to Bellerose On Thursday, April 28, the Mineola Pony Baseball team, sponsored by Sperry Federal Credit Union, played the Bellerose Orioles, taking the second game of the home and home series 16-7.

Mineola, eager to avenge the loss to Bellerose earlier in the week came out swinging the bats hard. In the bottom of the first, Mineola hitters led by Mike Bavaro, Kenny Solosky, Bryan Carlucci, Kevin Perlow, Bryan Landino and Aidan Mcguire scored eight runs on seven hits and set the tone for the game.

Bryan Carlucci earned the complete game win, striking out 6 and allowing only 2 hits to Bellerose batters. Chris Scott smashed a double to left for one of his two RBIs and both Alex Breitenstein and Zach Wasnofski scored two runs a piece in the Mineola offensive attack.

The Mineola defense supported Carlucci’s pitching with nice plays by Kenny Solosky, Mike Bavaro and Andrew Sarnel at first base. Sarnel made a few “pick-ups” from Mineola infielders and really shined making a stop of a hard grounder at first , straying well to his right and then flipping to Bryan Carlucci covering first for a major

league caliber defensive play.

The Mineola Pony Baseball team plays in the East Meadow Junior League consisting of nine teams from Mineola, Levittown , East Meadow, Bethpage, Bellerose, Wantagh and Seaford. The tea is managed by teach coaches Ken Solosky, Johns Strein and Butch Bavaro.

Mineola Pony Baseball earns the opening day victory On Sunday, April 17, the Mineola Pony Baseball Team, sponsored by the Sperry Federal Credit Union, opened their season at Macarthur High School In Levittown, NY. The team opened against a team from Levittown, Seaford and Wantagh (LSW).

Bryan Carlucci got the opening day start and was brilliant. He struck out 6 and allowed, one run on no hits. Mike Bavaro came in for middle relief and had a strong two innings, striking out three and allowing 3 runs on 3 hits. Kenny Solosky earned the save with a scoreless 7th inning to seal the Mineola victory.

The offense was led by Miguel Freitas who blasted the first Mineola home run of the season with a blast down the third

base line. Freitas’ solos hot was the first run of the Mineola season. The following Mineola hitters netted a hit: Mike Bavaro, Kenny Solosky, Yusuf Mehghji, Andrew Khafif and Aidan McGuire.

The 2016 Mineola Pony Baseball Team, sponsored by Sperry Federal Credit Ubion is made up of the following players: Brandon Aguiar, Mike Bavaro, Alex Breitenstein, James Capodanno, Bryan Carlucci, Alexander Castiglia, Jason Franklin, Miguel Freitas, Andrew Khafif, Phil Lapierre, Brian Lendino-Nieves, Andrew Lewis, Aidan McGuire, Yusuf Meghji, Kevin Perlow, Andrew Sarnel, Christopher Scott, Kenneth Solosky and Zachary Wasnofski.

The Mineola Pony Baseball team plays in the East Meadow Junior League consisting of nine teams from Mineola, Levittown , East Meadow, Bethpage, Bellerose, Wantagh and Seaford.

14 hits by Mike Bavaro, Aidan McGuire, Kenny Solosky, Miguel Freitas, Brian Carlucci, Brian Lendino-Nieves and Alex Breitenstein. Bavaro led the attack with 5 hits and Carlucci and Solosky had extra base hits in the Mineola attack.

Sunday, April 24 vs Bellerose Orioles at East Meadow Mineola met the Bellerose Orioles in the first of a home and home series against each other. The Mineola pictching was led by Christian Duarte, RJ Hazelton and Patrick Solosky. Due to a couple of timely Bellerose hits, the Orioles plated 8 runs against Mineola’s 5 runs for the victory.

Stellar defense by RJ Hazelton with a diving catch in center, Kenny Solosky with a backhand stop at third deep down the line, Andrew Sarnel with a spectacular diving stop at third and the subsequent Saturday, April 23rd vs East throw from his knees, ended with a nice Meadow Yankees pick-up by Brian Carlucci.

The Mineola team met the East MeadMineola hitting was led by RJ Hazelow Yankees n a game that ended in a 14- ton, Kenny Solosky, Bryan Carlucci, Yusuf 14 tie. In what can only be described as Meghji, Miguel Freitas, Patrick Solosky an all-out slug fest, Mineola pounded out and Andrew Sarnel.

St. Aidan’s Middle School baseball season continues

Sunday, April 17 at Mineola High School vs the Mineola Hurricanes St. Aidan’s played a non-league game against a Mineola Hurricanes travel team at the newly-refurbished Mineola High School field. Behind excellent pitching by Aidan Scott and Jack Mackay the Stallions defense made some nice plays. Matt O’Leary, Liam Cooke, Sean O’Hara all made some sharp defensive plays. Hitting was sparked by Matt O’Leary, Sean O’Hara, Patrick Solosky, Jack O’Sullivan. Despite playing tough , the Stallions of St. Aidan’s

down the left field of Peace at Seamans Neck Park took the loss. line. Strong pitchM o n d a y, The Stallions of St. Aidan’s took to the ing was turned in road again and faced our Lady of Peace April 18, at Kelby Stephen Poarch Middle School at Seaman’s Neck Park in lenberg High and Joe Dellolio, Seaford. With a stiff off-shore breeze blowSchool The defense was ing in , St. Aidan’s battled hard all game.

St. Aidan’s travled by Colin Fisch, Behind strong pitching by Joe Dellolio elled to Uniondale Joe Delillo and Pat- and Stephen Poarch, who combined for to face the Firerick Solosky who 9 strikeouts and only allowing one hit, St. birds of the Kellencombined for two Aidan’s rallied in the 5th inning for four berg Latin School. double plays in the runs. Unfortunately, the momentum for St. The Stallions of St. Aidan’s played the first place Firebirds in field. Despite a strong performance, the Aidan’s was cut short by the “time limit” a tough game. Patrick Solosky was 1-2 Stallions of St. Aidan’s fell to the Firebirds of the game and the Stallions had to take CHERRY - 1-8 Page GENERAL 08-28-15_Layout 1 8/25/15 12:04 PM Page 1 Thursday April 21 vs. Our Lady the 5-4 loss. with a smash single in the first inning

Floral Park’s Sarah Morgan running toward NJIT in fall Floral Park Memorial High School is proud to announce that senior Sarah Morgan will attend New Jersey Institute of Technology on an academic/athletic scholarship in the fall.

Sarah has achieved many accomplishments as a varsity runner, including being designated All-Conference and Most Valuable Player for cross-country in 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. She was also named All-County and Most Valuable Player in 2014-15 for spring track.

In the 2014-15 cross-country season,

Sarah was running in the All-County meet and was in 10th place when she stopped to help another runner in need. Sarah ran to get an official before finishing the race. She would have placed as an All-County runner, but ultimately didn’t qualify because she stopped to help. Sarah’s action during that race speaks volumes of her character.

Coach Kathy Crowley and coach Ken Becker, along with Principal Dr. Kathleen Sottile and Athletic Director James Jackman, are so proud of Sarah’s accomplishments.

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