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Marra picked for park

CHILDREN DANCING

District selects former Scarsdale parks head

By J oe N i k i c The Great Neck Park District has selected the superintendent of the Scarsdale Parks and Recreation Department to take the place of Peter Renick at the head of the district.

Jason Marra, a White Plains resident, will take over as Great Neck Park District superintendent the first week of February, Commissioner Robert Lincoln said.

“What we know so far is that he’s experienced, talented and we’re excited. Its obviously going to be a new era,” Lincoln said.

“We feel it’s going to be a good fit.”

Marra comes to Great Neck after serving as superintendent of the Scarsdale Parks and Recreation Department for three years.

Prior to serving as superintendent, he was the assistant superintendent of Scarsdale Parks for four years.

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PHOTO BY MELANIE FUTURION

Rachel Wong, Tess Ramos-Dries and Sarah Wong dance on stage with Children Dancing in June 2015. See story on Page 45.

Bringing technology to Levels New teen center director seeks integration of robotics, gaming to programs

By J oe N i k i c The recently appointed interim director of the Great Neck Library’s Levels teen center said Friday that one of his goals was to integrate more technologybased programs to the center.

“We’re thinking about ways to incorporate technology that

also touches on the arts and engage kids who are currently coming to the program and pull in some new kids who are interested in other stuff like programming, gaming and robotics,” Adam Hinz said. “I want to incorporate the technology in small, low cost ways while we’re off site.”

Hinz, a Rego Park resident, took charge of the center on Nov. 9 after an almost six-month period without a permanent director.

Former Levels director

Ethan Mann resigned in May amid controversy caused by rumors he would be fired.

For weeks prior to Mann’s resignation, Levels teens, parents and alumni had been pressing the library board for answers on Mann’s status as Levels director, with many forming protests at library board committee meetings.

Hinz said he was aware of what happened with Mann’s resignation but wanted to focus on his role at the center.

“The staff has been welcom-

ing and they have instilled a lot of trust in me. I’ve been able to build relationships with the kids,” he said. “On the weekends, a lot of the older students are slowly one by one coming back and checking things out and giving me a shot. I think we’re moving past all that and I think moving back into the new building will finalize the era of transition.”

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Judaica shop to move Plaza collects from Plaza to VGN coats for needy Bral: ‘step by step’ process to bring businesses in

Donations sent to charity organization

By J oe N i k i c

By J oe N i k i c

Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral said Tuesday the village has made progress in attempting to fill store vacancies, with Judaica of Great Neck in the process of opening in the old village.

At Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, resident David Zielenziger asked the board if they were aware of any applications for new businesses to fill the number of store vacancies on Middle Neck Road.

“One of the stores that went to contract was the Judaica that is moving from the Plaza to our village,” Bral said.

Judaica of Great Neck, which is currently located at 107 Middle Neck Road in the Village of Great Neck of Plaza, is a boutique shop that offers various Jewish products.

Yossi Gurevitch, the Vice President of Judaica of Great Neck, said the shop was struggling due to competition with the Internet.

“We were there for 22 years,” Gurevitch said. “It was always a little difficult, but the last couple of years it became impossible to continue.”

While Bral said talks between Judaica of Great Neck and a Middle Neck Road landlord have began, Deputy Clerk Katie Dugan said no application had been filed with the village.

Gurevitch said they were waiting to finish legal processes before beginning to renovate their new location at 581b Middle Neck Road.

“We are still open until probably the end of this month to try to sell as much as possible in discount prices. We want to start fresh in a new location,” he said. “Hopefully it will not take more than a few weeks to fix up the new place. As soon as everything is worked out we are go-

With the days of 60-degree weather behind us, the harsh reality of a cold winter has begun to kick in for those less fortunate this winter, though the Village of Great Neck Plaza has played its part in helping the cause.

The village collected jackets and coats for those in need this holiday season for the 27th annual New York Cares Coat Drive.

“With each drive we have participated in, we have turned to the Great Neck community to help us collect these valuable items that make such a difference to so many. As has been the case previously, Great Neckers responded immediately and donated 30 coats in the span of two weeks,” Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said.

“On behalf of the Village of Great Neck Plaza, I would like to thank all those who donated a coat to someone in need during this season of giving.”

The village alerted residents the second week of December that it would, for the third year in a row, participate in the coat drive.

In a two-week span, the village received 30 donated coats

The Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees ing to move to the new place.”

Bral also said at the meeting he knew of other businesses who have shown interest in coming to Great Neck, but was unsure if it would work out.

“I think there are a couple other ones but I’m not so sure if they’re going to go further with it. We’re waiting,” he said.

“I gave them the green light and said we are eagerly waiting for them to come forward.”

Over the past two months, Bral has met with local business officials and residents to discuss the needs of both businesses and consumers in Great Neck to improve the struggling businesses.

“In those meetings, even though we tried to publicize it, unfortunately not a lot of people came,” he said.

Bral said he wanted the help of residents and others interested in identifying potential village businesses.

“I think what we need to do is to really find out what are the needs of the people locally

to bring it out,” he said. “I think this goes to everybody in the village.”

Bral also said he was looking to meet with representatives and midshipmen from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to determine what the village can do to attract younger people to local businesses.

He said he wanted to hold the meeting the first week of February.

“I’m hoping that the first Wednesday we will be putting on the schedule to meet with the younger people in the Merchant Marine Academy to find out what are exactly their requirements and their needs to keep their business here in Great Neck,” Bral said.

He said he knew the process to fill store vacancies was long, but it is necessary to improving the village’s businesses.

“It takes steps,” Bral said.

“One step at a time to find out exactly.”

The next board meeting is on Jan. 19.

and jackets from residents, down from the 85 donated coats it received during last year’s drive.

Brian Hetey, who is Celender’s assistant at Village Hall, said the village dropped off the donated coats Monday at the 111th Police Precinct in Bayside.

Celender said it was important for the village to remain involved with charitable organizations and give back during a time of need.

“One of the main functions of government is to give back to the people,” she said. “On the local level, in which the connection to the community is greatest, the Village of Great Neck Plaza has had the pleasure of partnering with many great organizations to help those who need assistance.”

New York Cares said its goal was to collect 100,000 coats this winter.

While the village ended its coat drive on Dec. 30, New York Cares is still accepting donations at their Manhattan Warehouse at 157 West 31st Street.

New York Cares is New York City’s largest volunteer management organization, running volunteer programs for 1,300 nonprofits, city agencies, and public schools, according to its website.

Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender and the village’s donated coats

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P.E. teacher gets workout on stage

G.N. teacher Roger Telsey to perform in ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ production at Landmark

By J oe N i k i c For Roger Telsey, performing in an upcoming production of “Bye Bye Birdie” re-opens the curtains to his past in musical and theatrical production.

“My dream was to be on stage,” Telsey said. “But my parents simply couldn’t afford to send me to classes.”

Now a physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Great Neck, Telsey will play Conrad Birdie in the Community Synagogue Theater Company’s presentation of “Bye Bye Birdie” at the Landmark on Main in Port Washington.

He said he always enjoyed the theater when he was growing up in Bellerose, but his start in acting did not begin until he began attending Queens College.

It was there he met Danny Burstein, a five-time Tony award nominee, who gave him his first experience in a production.

“He was the first one to give me a chance at Queens College.

He gave me a role in a show he was directing and it got me started,” Telsey said. “He was a major part in my love for theater.”

Although he had talent and ability, Telsey said, he was not well received by his peers because he was a physical education major.

“People would come out and say ‘how can you give this role to a guy that wasn’t a theater major?’”

Telsey took time off from school to pursue a career in standup comedy, though he returned a year later because it “just wasn’t enough to pay the bills.”

He went on to receive his degree in physical education and began teaching in Great Neck in September 2000.

Telsey currently lives in New Hyde Park with his wife, Tracy, and their two children, Steven and Michael.

Steven, a sophomore at Elon College, is pursuing a degree in music theatre following a successful theater career at Great Neck South High School.

“He’s living the life my parents couldn’t afford to give me,” Telsey said. “Right now we have so much confidence in him and his ability. We can’t wait to see where he goes.”

Michael, a senior at Great

Neck South High School, will be performing in “Bye Bye Birdie” with his father.

“He has zero experience, he’s the athlete in the family,” Telsey said. “I actually had to convince him to audition for the show because he’s a teenaged boy so why would he want to do this?”

“Bye Bye Birdie” will have three production dates: Jan. 31 at 2 p.m., Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 6 at 8 p.m.

Telsey, who also coaches baseball at Great Neck South High School and basketball at Great Neck North High School, said he was advised to audition for the musical by executive director of the North Hempstead Business and Tourism Development Corp. Kim Kaiman, who will also be performing in the production.

It was Steven, he said, who pushed him to audition and helped prepare his lines for the audition.

“Between Kim Kaiman and Steven, they really pushed me to do this,” Telsey said. “And my desire to get back on stage and just see if I can still do it all these New Hyde Park resident Roger Telsey with his son, Michael. years later.”

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LIRR third track plan revives criticism

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

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans Tuesday for a third Long Island Rail Road track, resurrecting a proposed project several North Shore communities have strongly opposed in the past.

The project, part of a downstate infrastructure package in Cuomo’s proposed budget, would add a third track along 9.8 miles of LIRR’s Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville.

“Long Island’s future prosperity depends on a modern transportation network that eases congestion on our roads, improves service on the LIRR, helps this region’s economy and preserves the character of these great communities,” Cuomo said in a statement released after his Tuesday morning speech to the Long Island Association, a business group.

Reportedly expected to cost $1 billion to $1.5 billion, the project would reduce train delays and traffic congestion on eastwest highways by allowing for more rush-hour trains from New York City to Long Island, attracting reverse commuters and spur-

Plans were announced Monday for a third track on this stretch of the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line, highlighted in black, extending as far east as Hicksville. Oyster Bay branch trains run on the Main Line. ring economic growth, Cuomo’s office said.

Trains on the Ronkonkoma, Port Jefferson Oyster Bay branches and some on the Montauk branch use the Main Line.

Those trains stop at stations in Mineola, East Williston, Roslyn, Albertson, Floral Park, New Hyde Park and Merillon Avenue in Garden City.

With only one track in each direction, it’s hard to route trains around disabled trains or incidents on the tracks, causing “cascading delays rippling across the

line,” Cuomo said.

An additional track would be a much-needed upgrade to “the central spine of the busiest commuter railroad in the United States,” which has long been “at its heart very fragile,” LIRR President Patrick Nowakowksi said in a statement.

The project would require the state to take land from 50 properties — mostly in Mineola — along the LIRR’s right of way, down from 200 acquisitions needed for 2005’s third-track plan, the MTA said.

The plans contain provisions to compensate property owners for land it would need, an average of five feet wide for the 20 residential properties involved.

Full buyouts would also be available for residences, and businesses could get help from Empire State Development to relocate nearby if necessary, Cuomo’s office said.

Intense opposition from officials and residents in villages along the Main Line, including Floral Park, New Hyde Park and Mineola, previously derailed the third track.

The MTA abandoned initial plans in 2008, but has said a third track is necessary for its East Side Access project, which will put an LIRR station below Grand Central Station.

Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy said Cuomo’s announcement “pulled back the scab on an old wound.”

In a conference call late Tuesday afternoon, state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola) called the project “dead on arrival,” telling Tweedy and other mayors he hadn’t learned of Cuomo’s impending announcement until late Monday night, Tweedy said.

“This is dead and buried.

This is long gone,” Tweedy said.

“It was debated far and wide, and it has no merit.”

The LIRR plans to hold meetings with all affected communities, launch a website to collect feedback, study potential track and signal improvements, and analyze safety at the seven affected street-level railroad crossings, Cuomo’s announcement said.

Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said he thinks it “unfortunate” that the project in Cuomo’s 201516 budget, meaning state lawmakers must approve or reject it by the April 1 budget deadline.

Cuomo and transit officials said there’s a large economic impetus for a third track.

More train access for reverse commuters would attract workers and businesses to Long Island, they said, and help spur transit-oriented housing development in places near LIRR stations.

A May 2014 Rauch Foundation Long Island Index report predicted a third track would create 14,000 jobs, attract 35,400 new residents and add $5.6 billion in gross regional product.

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Israel won’t make bid for Congress Melville Democrat says he’ll leave House at end of 8th term to ‘pursue new passions’

By N o a h Manskar

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Melville)

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (DMelville) announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election to Congress in November.

After 15 years representing New York’s Third District, which includes Nassau County’s North Shore, the Levittown native said in a statement he will step down in after “pursue new passions and develop new interests,” such as finishing his second novel.

“While I will miss this place and the people I have had the privilege to serve, I am looking forward to spending more time home and frequenting my beloved New York diners,” Israel said in the statement. “Simply put, it’s time to pass on the torch.”

Israel was elected to Congress in 2000, replacing Republican Rick Lazio.

He served two terms heading the Democratic National

Campaign Committee and currently leads his party’s Policy and Communications Committee.

His district stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park, extending as far south as Farmingdale.

Of his accomplishments in Congress, Israel said he is proudest of securing $8.3 million in back pay for veterans and their families.

“Additionally, I’m proud of my work to protect middle-class New Yorkers, as a product of a middle-class Long Island family myself,” he said in the statement.

As the House of Representatives’ highest-ranking Jewish Democrat, he has strongly supported the United States’ alliance with Israel.

He voted against President Barack Obama’s nuclear accord with Iran in September, after North Hempstead town officials sent a letter to Israel and other federal officials asking them to oppose the deal.

Israel has also long supported stricter gun control measures.

He called for tighter background-check procedures around gun sales at an October press conference in Great Neck, where he opened an office in 2013.

His second novel, reportedly titled “Big Guns,” is a satire of gun industry lobbying. He wrote the first 40,000 words of the book on his cell phone over six months in 2014, the New York Times has reported.

Israel’s debut novel, “The Global War on Morris,” was published in December 2014 and received strong critical reviews. It follows a Western Long Island salesman through his entanglement with a government surveillance supercomputer.

The novel is currently being adapted into a television series by Hollywood heavyweight Rob Reiner and Roslyn native Andrew Lenchewski, co-creator and

executive producer of the USA series “Royal Pains.”

In his statement, Israel said he will be a “team player” in making sure the Democratic Party keeps his Congressional seat.

A Democratic Party source said Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) has been “mentioned in a number of circles” as a candidate to succeed Israel.

Democrats have also named Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern (D-Dix Hills) and state Assemblyman Charles Levine (D-Glen Cove) as possible replacements, according to a Newsday report.

In a statement, Lavine said he is “focused on continuing to work hard for the people of the 13th Assembly District, just as I have done for the last 11 years.”

He also commended Israel for his “tireless service to his district, the residents of Long Island and the country.”

And a child leads marketing effort New born featured in television ad rebranding North Shore-LIJ as Northwell Health

By J oe N i k i c Within hours of Austin Joseph Sparacio’s birth, 36 seconds after the start of the new year, he was featured in the first television commercial marketing North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System’s new name — Northwell Health.

“There’s no better way to symbolize Northwell Health’s new beginning than to highlight the first of more than 42,000 babies who will be delivered at Northwell Health hospitals in the coming year,” Northwell Health President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dowling said.

The health system’s former name had been in place since 1997 when the North Shore Health System and Long Island Jewish Medical Center merged.

Dowling said namechange discussions, which had taken place off and on

since 2008, began again last year due to the public’s confusion on the correct pronunciation of the health system.

He also said the new name, which was announced on Sept. 11, was chosen to incorporate the growth of the 21-hospital health system.

“The name has only represented two facilities, and now there are much, much more than that,” Dowling said. “We wanted to reflect the totality and comprehensiveness of the system, not just reflecting one or two facilities.”

The board contemplated more than 600 different names during the selection process while working with branding consultants Monigle and Interbrand, Dowling said.

Marketing firm J. Walter Thompson worked with Northwell Health to develop a rebranding and market-

ing campaign coordinated by the health system’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Ramon Soto.

“Our unique, creative advertising approach vividly

biggest marketing push” in its 25-year existence.

The commercial, which aired for the first time late Friday afternoon, features footage of Sparacio and his

captures how our health system is redefining science and medicine while continuing to put the focus on the allimportant human touch,” Soto said.

The marketing campaign titled “Look North” is the health care system’s first brand campaign in five years, according to the Northwell Health press office, and “the

mother, Vanessa, embracing for the first time.

“The birth of a new health-care system dedicated to a new standard in care deserves more than just another hospital commercial.

It’s not just advertising; it’s news,” said Eric Weisberg, executive creative director at J. Walter Thompson New York. “We wanted to

do something wildly unique to demonstrate the breakthroughs in care happening throughout Northwell Health. Capturing the first birth in their 21-hospital network and releasing the spot on air in a matter of hours would not have been possible without the unprecedented collaboration, partnership and vision of the Northwell teams.”

According to the Northwell Health press office, the commercial will broadcast on various New York-area channels including WABC, WNBC, WCBS and WPIX. Soto said the campaign would also include digital and social media initiatives to give online viewers the opportunity to learn more about Northwell Health and the services it offers.

The name change will cost North Shore “tens of millions of dollars” to rebrand the system and change all of its signage, Dowling said.

He also said the hospitals that makeup the health system network will maintain their original names, but the medical school’s name has changed.

The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine has been renamed the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.

Dowling said the name change is important to the health system’s future.

“This has been an incredible journey over the past two decades,” Dowling said. “The name change and rebranding campaign represent a very exciting milestone that positions us for even greater success in the years to come.”

Northwell Health is the country’s 14th largest healthcare system, delivering clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area. It is also Long Island’s largest employer, with more than 61,000 employees.

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PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

County missing out on state funds The historic International Climate Change Agreement just signed by 195 countries in Paris is significant, but the real progress on making the necessary infrastructure changes to mitigate and reverse the adverse impacts needs to come at the local level.

This is obvious in light of the perverse opposition the Republican Majority continues to wield in Congress, still intent to reverse climate actions taken by President Obama and the Environmental Protection Administration.

Long Island’s infrastructure is at a crossroads, and we have a rare window of opportunity, at a time when millions of dollars need to be invested, that we move to sustainability.

That means that the power plants — described as aging, inefficient, costly, and spewing tons of global warming-causing and sickening carbon emissions — should be rebuilt not to be powered by fossil fuels, even so-called “clean” natural gas, but by renewables such as offshore wind power.

That means that PSEGLI and its overseer LIPA should provide a Power Purchase Agreement so that the private company that has had the plan to build an offshore wind farm in the area of North America

most ideally suited, can finally get the approvals from the federal government.

A PPA is necessary because unlike fossil fuels, for a renewable energy company to get a license, such as to lease part of the Atlantic Ocean to place wind turbines, it needs such a pledged customer on the other end (the Port Ambrose Liquified Natural Gas terminal did not need such a purchase agreement).

It also means that Nassau County’s sewage treatment plants at Bay Park and Cedar Creek, badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy (which is why the county is getting millions of dollars from FEMA to rebuild, even though they were crumbling before), should be built not just to dump treated effluent into the ocean, but to capture water treated to such a high degree that the water can be reused — to irrigate golf courses and landscapes and cool buildings and industrial plants for example — and most importantly, to recharge Long Island’s aquifer.

They should be built so that they can be powered by the methane the process, itself, generates, often producing so much power that there is enough to send back into the grid.

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Pulse of the Peninsula And the county should provide a concession to a private operator to take the used cooking oil from the Island’s thousands of restaurants and kitchens and reprocess it into biofuel that could be used to power not just the county’s fleet, but local governments, school districts, hospitals, rather than simply disposing of it, which entails a cost in itself.

What we can’t recycle, we should be turning into biogas.

These kinds of technologies are not pie-in-the-sky, but were on view at the Vision Long Island’s

Smart Growth Summit (visionlongisland.org).

A company that presented there, Natural Systems Utilities, builds stormwater treatment facilities that treat water to a level of purity sufficient to be reused, in systems small enough to be in the basement of an apartment building — systems cost-effective enough and small enough to serve as few as 20 households.

That means that the Village of Kings Point could install a system under Village Hall, and use the treated water to recharge the aquifer now too polluted with saltwater intrusion to be used by the Great Neck North Water Authority, irrigate the lavish landscaping and even generate electricity.

Systems like this could be used in Great Neck Plaza — a village which hopes to be the first on Long Island to implement a climate action plan — where there are large office buildings, hotels, apartment houses, means that the reused water can be used to flush toilets, in cooling towers and heating systems. Even generate electricity that could go back to the grid.

We saw parking lots turned into parks, which keep stormwater run-off from dumping nitrogen and other toxins into the water-

ways.

We saw how solar power systems — which have really taken off with the Obama Administration’s tax incentive - are making localities self-sufficient. the Long Island Solar Farm, a partnership of LIPA, BP Solar and Brookhaven National Lab already has the largest array on the Island — generating 32 mw of power (enough to power 500 households), and now Invenergy is seeking approval for a 25 mw facility in Shoreham.

And while we are connecting the grid to accommodate alternate sources, we need (anyway) to strengthen the grid, decentralize it, make it less vulnerable to disruption from natural or man-made attacks including cyber attacks. It has long been known that the nation’s grid is obsolete. We need a smart grid. The time is now.

We need to tap new sources.

We keep hearing that Long Island is an island, surrounded by water.

Why aren’t we doing more to tap water power?

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Cumia was due in court on Jan. 4, but the Nassau County District Attorney’s office confirmed the appointment was adjourned because the judge hearing the case was unavailable.

He was arrested for allegedly assaulting his 26-year-old girlfriend, Danielle Brand, at his Roslyn Heights home.

Nassau County Police said he faces charges of strangulation, unlawful imprisonment, criminal mischief and assault.

Cumia hosted his web-based talk show, “The Anthony Cumia Show,” on Monday and briefly mentioned the hearing change. “ I was in court this morning, but alas, the judge didn’t show up,” he said.

“I have to come back... and back and back and keep coming back because apparently this goes on forever... the slow churning wheels of justice.”

He is due back in court on Feb. 4.

Cumia spoke briefly about the incident during his Dec. 21 broadcast The Anthony Cumia show.

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Anthony Cumia open up and spill everything right on this program about what happened,” he said.

“I have been advised by people much more knowledgeable than me on this, and much less apt to use emotion than me, to not discuss the details of this ongoing case, as it were.”

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Port village gets $270K roadway grant B Y M ATT G RECH The Village of Port Washington North will partner with the Town of North Hempstead to develop a new mapping system to keep track of road assets around the village.

The project is made possible due to a $270,000 state grant to the Town of North Hempstead for economic development, announced on Dec. 14.

“The village is really excited the town was able to take a lead on this project and include us,” Village of Port Washington North Mayor Robert Weitzner said.

“We’re really looking forward to the data,

we think it’ll be a significant asset to our village.”

Weitzner said the mapping project will expand on the village’s already existing Geographic Information System, or GIS, to include all major pieces of infrastructure including all village roads, and surface level features such as signs and light posts.

The Village of Port Washington North was chosen for the $270,000 Joint Municipal Asset Mapping Project to build on an intermunicipal agreement with the Town of North Hempstead that has been ongoing for over 10 years, Weitzner explained.

“They’re already familiar with our

streets,” he said. “Together we will be able to take all of this information and input it into an already existing GIS,” The new project moves the village’s current GIS map beyond cataloging just the locations of these assets, and will include the condition and even age of all surface features located on Port Washington roads.

“The concept really is to have a Google Maps type vehicle that would go out and actually tape and scan all of our streets,” he said. “As the vehicle is scanning it would be able to record, and I believe even rate, signage, hydrants lamp posts, and things of that nature street by

street.”

This will allow workers to search specific roads and points of infrastructure to instantly access data regarding the surrounding area.

“You can pull up a given home, and it’ll give you data of what’s in the vicinity of that home,” Weitzner said. “So if someone says there is a street light out, we can look at everything that’s in that area.”

Weitzner added that Port Washington North is currently one of the only villages in the town with this type of system in place.

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Reverse merger of Third and Sixth precincts

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own of North Hempstead officials, Manhasset civics and the mayor of East Hills have joined a growing call to reverse the merger of the Sixth Precinct in Manhasset with the Third Precinct in Williston Park, citing a reduction in policing in the old Sixth Precinct.

It is hard to find any reason not to.

When he presented his plan to merge the county’s eight police precincts into four in 2012, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano predicted a savings of $20 million with no impact on crime.

But a county legislative budget analysis said the police department’s rising overtime costs

had negated any savings.

Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter disputed the budget analysis.

But after the county decided to reverse the merger of the Fifth Precinct in Elmont with the Fourth in Hewlett in November 2014, followed later that month by the decision to cancel plans to merge the First Precinct in Baldwin with the Seventh Precinct in Seaford, Krumpter was quoted in Newsday saying the change would be “cost-neutral.”

So merging the Levittownbased Eighth Precinct with the Second Precinct in Woodbury and the Sixth Precinct in Manhasset with the Third Precinct in Williston Park saves money, but the merger of the

other two precincts don’t?

Not very likely.

The impact on crime is a little less clear, but still argues for returning the Sixth Precinct, which was designated a community police center, to a full operational precinct.

Krumpter said crime in the county is down 25 percent over the past five years and down 6 percent year-to-date.

But those numbers include the two precincts that were never merged and the two precincts in which the consolidation was reversed.

The numbers also do not hold true for the Third Precinct.

Crime rose 7.9 percent in the newly formed Third Precinct in 2012, dropped in 2013 and 2014

and then increased 2.2 percent in 2015, though still below 2011’s total.

Richard Bentley, the president of the Council of Manhasset Civic Associations, said the elimination of the Manhasset precinct has “dramatically affected” the police coverage of crime, safety and quality-of-life issues.

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, who as a county legislator joined her fellow Democrats in opposing the consolidation, said the county has failed to keep its word in maintaining staffing levels in the north at a time of heightened concerns about terrorism.

This, she said, in a precinct, that extends from Manorhaven in Port Washington to Nas-

sau County Medical Center on Hempstead and includes Roosevelt Field Mall.

Bosworth predicted in 2012 that the merged precincts would be “stretched so thin that the current level of personalized service will be compromised.”

Time has proved her right.

In responding to questions about the county’s reversal of the merger of the Fifth Precinct in Elmont with the Fourth in Hewlett, and the decision to cancel plans to merge the First Precinct in Baldwin, Krumpter said: “That’s how government works; it’s give and take.”

We think as far as the merged Third and Sixth precincts are concerned it’s time for the county to give.

READERS WRITE

2nd Amendment guarantees access to ammo

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esponse to “consider limitations on gun ammunition” by Adam Haber I take issue with the article for many reasons.

The first one being that the article reads like talking points from the anti-Second Amendment advocate former Mayor Bloomberg and his numerous and

well-funded lobby organizations.

The article states gun violence is the issue but there is a difference between crime control and gun control and by suggesting ammunition limits is an attempt to put in the same realm peaceful law-abiding exercises of the Second Amendment with illegal use of firearms in illegal acts.

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I find it peculiar that that article throws in a distinct jihadist act of terrorism (San Bernardino) as generic gun violence.

This fact also undermines the statement the “America has by far the highest rate of gun violence in the developed world“ by using a mishmash of data.

Are we looking murder rates, suicides ,mass shooting?

The CDC report that the article cites that 33,000 American died by gun violence is including suicides which make up 50 percent of the total deaths reported . ooking at murders by gun across America this year is the 11,000. (http://www.romans322.com/daily-death-rate-

statistics.php) While certainly any loss of life is tragic — 33,000 people is figure that comes out when looking at car accident deaths.

If we follow the article suggestion to increase the ammo purchase age to 21 then we all should start driving at 21 as well. There is no reason to do this.

The call for limits on ammunition would be another layer of unnecessary harassment for gun owners and it works towards the real objective of creating a population that is disarmed and vulnerable.

Other counties have tried limiting ammo such as France and that did nothing to stop the ter-

rorists.

America’s’ history with guns is one of self protection, self reliance and in the bigger picture defeating tyranny and winning our independence.

Today’s equivalent is still self protection. The police cannot be everywhere. Sport shooting and continuing the idea to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people “We the people “always posses arms granted and guaranteed to us by the Second Amendment which includes unfettered access to ammo.

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N.Y.’s New Year’s wage increase

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n Jan. 1, 2016, the state’s minimum wage increased to $9.75 per hour and New York City’s hit $10.50.

In addition, the wage for tipped workers catapulted from $4.90 per hour to $7.50. The hourly wage will increase annually until 2021 when it reaches $15 per hour.

Although radical leftist groups — Occupy Wall Street, Working Families Party, Saul Alinsky-type community organizations — are celebrating the pay hikes as a victory for the “folks,” they fail to grasp the negative impact this wage policy will have on the job market for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

Restaurateur Henry Meer was the first to rain on the parade of the radicals, New York’s Mayor de Blasio and City Council, when he announced that after 20 years in business he was closing their favorite downtown watering hole and eatery appropriately named “City Hall.”

The primary reason Meer

cited for closing his restaurant: the 2016 increase in operating costs.

“Everybody,” he told the New York Times, “is going to be facing that in 2016. I mean there’s going to be a 50 percent increase in the tipped employees’ salaries. The cost of labor is a determining factor….”

Blaming the problem on government largesse and interference, Meer went on to say, “City Council people, I jab them…. They’ve never had to make a payroll.”

Meer confirmed what Conservatives have been preaching for decades: Significant raises in the minimum wage cost jobs.

Back in the 1960s, Economics Nobel prize winner, Milton Friedman, warned “the minimum wage law requires employers to discriminate against persons with low skills.”

“The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers,” Friedman declared, “is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right result of minimum wage laws.”

Time and again, Friedman pointed out that “after minimum wage rates were raised sharply, the unemployment rate shot up for both white and black teenagers.”

An American Action Forum study released in November 2015 focusing on how New York’s minimum wage increases would affect the very workers the policy is intended to help,

proves that Friedman’s arguments are still valid.

While the report admits that a hike “would benefit some workers by increasing their earnings, it would also hurt hundreds of thousands of others whose earnings would sink because they could no longer find or keep a job.”

It estimates that during the period the minimum wage increases to $15 per hour, New York will lose between 200 thousand and 588 thousand jobs.

In other words, “potential benefits from revising the minimum wage would be greatly offset by the negative labor market consequences of the policy.”

The most affected region would be economically depressed upstate New York where the median wage is slightly above $15 an hour. Initial losses could be as high as 70 thousand.

This would further exacerbate the ever growing exodus of Upstaters to greener economic

pastures in Texas and Florida.

Long Island would also take a hit. A study conducted late last year by the Long Island Association, projects that a $15 minimum wage could cost the Island 23,380 jobs.

In LIA’s judgment, “Every time the wage is increased, labor demand declines because the demand for labor is a decreasing function of the wage.”

LIA corroborates Milton Friedman’s prognostications and the American Action Forum findings that “raising the minimum wage transfers wage earnings from the low-wage workers who are unfortunate enough to become jobless to the low-wage workers who remain employed.”

As the French maxim goes, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” (The more things change, the more they stay the same.)

Marlin’s latest book is Christian Persecutions in the Middle East: A 21st Century Tragedy.

A ll T hi n g s Political

Corruption’s corrosive effect on L.I.

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ver the last several years on Long Island, a plethora of public officials have been convicted for a variety of crimes.

With several others in the middle of ongoing investigations, there is no shortage of corruption in our community.

This widespread systemic violation of the public trust has infiltrated the offices of local, county and state elected officials.

It’s a shame; because even though most people in the public sector take pride in their jobs and work hard for the common good, the perception is otherwise.

The atmosphere of irresponsible government created by the constant stream of negative headlines has adversely impacted our Long Island community in the following areas: • Business and Development — Corruption and inefficiencies in the permitting process creates massive delays in construction projects and in attracting new businesses, prompting top-notch developers and companies to deploy resources elsewhere.

Why take years and tie up valuable capital without the cer-

tainty of getting building permits when you can deploy that same capital in other parts of the country in a fraction of the time? The local Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) are supposed to use tax money to create jobs. Tax breaks to health clubs and car dealerships are not why IDAs were developed.

Why would a business owner choose to open on Long Island when there’s a conga line of elected officials being convicted of lining their own pockets? The pressure of donating to “connected politicians” to receive preferential treatment does little for fostering a healthy financial environment.

• Society — Corrupt officials create a toxic aura that leads to contempt and disregard for any elected office. How many times have you discussed local politics with friends and heard someone comment, “They’re all corrupt.”

When public officials are accused of malfeasance, faith in the system is diminished, and apathy becomes commonplace, as evidenced by record low voter turnout in recent elections.

• Basic Services — Corruption and mismanagement are

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All Things Political downright expensive. As resources become scarce, budgets tighten, leaving basic services vulnerable to the proverbial chopping block.

In Nassau, youth and bus services are consistently used as bargaining chips, to the detriment of the community. Numerous social service agencies live in constant fear that funding of services for the working poor, homeless, hungry and mentally ill will be cut.

Without the revenue to provide services, planning a yearly budget that will provide stability to serve those in need becomes quite the challenge.

In the midst of so much corruption, it’s important to establish a list of principles for good governance that will help officials regain the public’s trust.

Here’s that list with associated questions to ask, a kind of litmus test, to see if representatives are worthy of holding office: Honesty and integrity — Do representatives have a track record of acting in good faith and representing the people’s interests above their own? Have they become wealthier in their elected office than they were before? Do they use their political connections for their own personal benefit?

Openness and transparency — Can you only communicate by phone call or fax with your elected officials as opposed to sending an email?

Do they respond to your requests and answer FOILs in a timely manner? Are budgets and contracts detailed online so you know how every taxpayer dollar is being spent?

Accountability — Do representatives take responsibility for their decisions, or do they change them when politically convenient?

Are critical votes on impor-

tant topics openly discussed and explained, or does your elected official voice an opinion only when it’s safe?

Leadership — Do your representatives create original ideas and speak out to lead on important issues, or do they follow the pack and only show up for the photo op?

Ethical conduct — Does your representative take donations and then provide contracts or sponsor legislation to benefit those donors?

Sound financial management — Is your local government well run? Does it follow sound fiscal practices, or is it close to insolvency?

Honest, transparent, responsive and efficient government make for a strong community.

Only when the average constituent gets the same attention as the largest donor will the public’s trust be restored. For our community to thrive, the people need to come first and foremost.

Let’s hope our elected officials set more principled New Year’s resolutions than in year’s past, and make 2016 the year they resolve to end corruption.

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Professor ’ s Pers p ecti v e

Virginia controversay has familiar ring

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Virginia high school geography teacher’s controversial Arabic calligraphy writing assignment this month is the latest unfortunate example of ignorance in America.

Ignorance of history and the law, that is.

Located in rural Shenandoah Valley, the Augusta County public school district made national headlines on Dec. 18 when it closed all of its facilities after outraged parents voiced concerns over a homework assignment asking students to write Islamic religious statements by copying Arabic calligraphy.

One parent even accused the school of “Muslim indoctrination.”

The county sheriff reportedly said the school received messages that called for firing the teacher and putting “her head on a stake.”

Many observers have criticized the school parents for being ignorant and intolerant.

While some parents have undoubtedly overreacted and deserve ridicule, the assignment seems to have been in violation of “separation of church and state,” a legal doctrine set forth in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And that’s not OK, either.

Although students may be taught about religion, public schools may

not teach religion. It’s an important distinction, and the line was arguably crossed in Cheryl LaPorte’s geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton, Va. Given that the assignment’s stated learning goal was to “give [students] an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy,” why have students copy — of all things — the Shahada, the Islamic creed?

The unnecessary injection of religion into the assignment put the school district on very shaky legal ground.

The “lesson plan was problematic,” observed Americans United for Separation of Church and State in a press release. “A statement of faith could be studied as part of an objective course about world religions, but students can do that without writing it out. If students were expected to copy passages from the New Testament, Hindu scriptures or even Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion,” there would be obvious problems.

If [the teacher] wanted to help students understand how challenging calligraphy can be, there are other examples she could have chosen.”

This controversy harkens back to a similar situation faced by Long Island school parents.

In 1962, a group of families of public school students in New Hyde

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Professor’s Perspective Park complained after the Board of Regents had authorized a short, voluntary, nondenominational prayer to “Almighty God” be recited at the start of each school day.

In a landmark case, Engel vs. Vitale, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that by providing the prayer to students, New York officials officially approved religion, which was unconstitutional.

Subsequent court decisions have further limited school-directed classroom activities involving religion.

For example, in a 2009 case involving a suburban Philadelphia public school district, a federal court ruled against allowing Bible verses to be read aloud as part

of a show-and-tell assignment.

The lawsuit, Busch vs. Marple Newtown School District, stemmed from an assignment inviting kindergarten students to present important aspects of their lives to their classmates. In addition, the students’ parents were asked to “share a talent, short game, small craft, or story” with the class that would highlight something about their child.

One student made a poster displaying a church and asked his mom to read five Bible verses to the class.

The principal blocked the presentation, saying it was “against the law … of separation of church and state,” and the parent sued.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the parent, stating that “reading from the Bible or other religious text is more than a message and unquestionably conveys a strong sense of spiritual and moral authority … Parents of public school kindergarten students may reasonably expect their children will not become captive audiences to an adult’s reading of religious texts.”

If school officials can’t create a prayer that students may voluntarily recite and if a student’s parent can’t read a handful of verses from a religious text, it follows that a teacher requiring students to write a prayer found in the Quran would also be problematic in the eyes of the law.

As the Joint Statement of Current Law on Religion in the Public Schools, which is co-signed by the American Civil Liberties Union, American Muslim Council, American Jewish Committee, and many other religious and legal organizations, states: “Teachers may not require students to modify, include or excise religious views in their assignments.”

The Augusta County high school’s assignment arguably violated those guidelines, since it required students to write out in Arabic the Shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, which translates to: “There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.” The Shahada’s two phrases are both present in the Quran and recited

by Muslims as part of worship.

Some parents who objected to the assignment may have been motivated by the wrong reasons, such as Islamophobia. But those who defended the teacher are equally ignorant — about the Constitution.

Mark Grabowski is an associate professor at Adelphi University in New York, where he teaches journalism and media law. The former lawyer and journalist is the 2015 winner of the best commentary/ editorial award from the Press Club of Long Island. For more info, visit markgrabowski.com.

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Announcing this year’s GRUMPY awards

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t’s the start of a new year, which means it’s nominating season.

Over at the New York Times, the movie critics have already published their suggestions for what should be nominated for Oscar awards.

Here on the Lighter Side, it is nominating season as well. I think our nominees should have a broadcast of their own …why, here it is now!

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first annual edition of the Good Riddance to Unbearable, Miserable Phenomena of 2015 Awards — also known as the GRUMPies. Here are C3PO and R2D2, with the nomination for Most Annoying Piece of Civic Hardware!”

R2D2 utters some chirps and burbles.

C3PO turns to him and says, “No, R2, the annoying hardware in question does not refer to myself — as you will see, once you allow me to read the teleprompter.

It says, Don’t you just hate it when you finally find an open parking spot on the street, get into it, and try to pay the meter, only to find

out that the stupid thing is broken?

Where is a good Jedi knight when you need one, eh?”

R2D2 burbles again. C3PO replies: “No, my little friend, you may not have a light saber to show them a thing or two. Although I wish you could.”

Applause from the audience as the two androids leave the stage.

Next, Jabba the Hutt slithers up to the microphone, grunting as he reads from the prompter. “Humpgh.

In ceremonies that were held earlier this year, nominations were given out for Most Annoying Outdoor Feature. Hah! Far and away the first in this category were the Driveway-Killing Mushrooms that punch their way every summer up through Judy’s driveway.

Every year she has paid to have them dug out and the asphalt replaced, only to see them pop up in a new location the following year.

Way to go, Ugly Driveway Trolls!

Unghghg!” And the Hutt slithers away.

There is a drumroll as the theater curtains open to reveal…the holographic ghost of Founding Fa-

Judy epstein

A Look on the Lighter Side ther and dictionary publisher, Noah Webster, Jr. “You may wonder why I am here. I am not completely clear about that, myself. But apparently, I am here to nominate every piece of music played this year by a group calling itself ‘The Weeknd’ — no, that can’t be right, there’s a letter missing — Ah, yes, it says here they are nominated for their fundamental misunderstanding of the function of vowels in the English language. I couldn’t have put that better myself.

Truly, most annoying.”

As the curtains begin to close again, two drones come flying into the hall. One of them skims dangerously low, almost hitting the audiences’ heads, and then veers backstage, while the other flies straight into one of the curtains, crashes to the floor, and catches fire.

R2D2 rolls back out onto the stage, putting out the flames with three precision-guided blasts from an internal fire extinguisher. C3PO follows him and picks something up off the stage floor.

“What’s this? Oh, it’s the card for our next nominee! I’ll just read it shall I? The category is, Most Infuriating so-called ‘solution’ — that’s in quotes — looking for a Problem to infest. And the nomination goes to: Drones! Here’s a short film clip.”

The film shows one drone after another crashing into sports stadiums; a Ferris wheel while people are on it; a ski slope right behind a slalom skier; and the White House lawn — not to mention almost crashing, on a daily basis, into countless passenger planes and he-

licopters.

The film fades to black and the stage lights slowly come up to reveal Darth Vader at center stage.

He breathes into the microphone, then speaks while the camera slowly closes in on his masked face: “There is one final nominee to announce. Verizon Fios, this year, has won the Grumpiest title of all, for the Most Infuriating Dis-service this side of the electrical grid in Kabul, Afghanistan.

It keeps dumping Judy’s shows to black, while she is watching them, on an almost nightly basis.

She could be viewing a hotly contested basketball game, or waiting for a murderer’s identity to be revealed, when suddenly — all is black. Soon there is an ominous ‘click,’ and her entire cable signal dies. It takes minutes to come back, during which the show often concludes.

This represents a serious disturbance in the force. Do you know what happens to cable systems that disappoint me?”

Suddenly the program cuts to black, followed by a soft “click.…”

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rea d ers write

County legislators don’t deserve 90% hike in pay

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n Dec. 21, I attended the Nassau County legislature general meeting with the intention of making comments as per the letter below. I waited two hours in the audience, but left without being called on to speak, (as others did) when the Legislature closed public comment.

My comments were in opposition to the proposed salary increases. I learned the next day in Newsday that the Legislature voted unanimously in favor of this legislation.

As a private citizen, and not representing my village as mayor, I think this is outrageous.

To the Nassau County Legislature, December 21, 2015 My name is Susan Lopatkin and for the past eight years I have been the mayor of the village of Kensington.

I am here today as a citizen of Nassau County, not as an elected official however, dismayed and outraged by the proposal to raise legislative salaries by 90 percent.

With Nassau County under NIFA control and continual pressure on spending, I find it unconscionable that you as legislators would take this opportunity to propose a 90 percent raise.

And to couple that with a potential 4 percent annual increase is simply adding insult to injury.

Let me tell you what it’s like to struggle within a New York Statemandated tax cap of 2 percent, which this year is down to .73 percent. It’s pretty tough.

I run a small village and my employees work really hard. One reason is because there is no large bureaucracy to hide behind.

I’d love to give them more money because they really do deserve more. But I can’t.

I think you need a reality check, there is no one who works in a municipal setting who gets a 4 percent raise, certainly not for a part time position and certainly not annually!!

But the Nassau County budget is different perhaps.

In this budget, as an example, you’ve increased the document recording fees to stratospheric levels.

Whereas in virtually anywhere else in the country, the cost to record a new deed is $25-$50, here in Nassau County it is now proposed to be $700. Yes, $700.

This is an incredibly high fee created merely to add revenue to a function that is ministerial and bears no relationship at all to the cost.

What other obscene “fees” have been added to the budget, below the radar?

Yet, you have proposed enormous raises for yourselves. I would think it is hard for you to justify

that.

Did you know the cost of a family plan for health insurance is going up next year to $1,900 a month?

So add that $23,000 cost to your proposed salaries of $75,000 and you are at $98,000 of tax payer cost for a part time job.

Doesn’t that strike you as over the top?

What we need instead is new legislation to bring Nassau County’s finances under control and provide transparency and accountability to the government that you represent.

I understand that you want a raise — that you haven’t had one in many years: I agree, that’s a fair point… Go up 5, 10 even 15 percent. Go up a reasonable, not eyepopping number. Be appropriate, be modest and humble as public servants are supposed to be.

But for goodness sakes, don’t raise your salaries 90 percent!

What is your message to the voters?

They are who you represent!

By every standard that we can measure this proposal, it is just plain wrong.

I urge you in the strongest pos-

sible terms to reconsider this piece of legislation and amend it to reflect the realities on the ground for people in this county.

The raise you seek and the annual increases you want to legislate must be in keeping with both the nature of your job and the state of the county finances.

A 90 percent raise and 4 percent annual increases are simply not warranted, not here in Nassau County, and not now.

Thank you.

Susan Lopatkin Mayor, Village of Kensington

GOP candidates divert attention on real threats

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epublican candidates for the presidency, vying with each other to attack the competition, have barely provided solutions for the problems, internal and external, that will face the next president.

Instead, as a diversion, they have seized upon terrorist attacks that have occurred since 9/11, 13 years ago.

And the media, who should be doing their duty to inform the

public of what is really going on, have shamefully given a disproportionate amount of time to exaggerating the danger.

University of North Carolina professor Charles Kurzman and Duke professor David Schanzer explained last June in the New York Times, Islam-inspired attacks “accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 and a half years.”

Meanwhile, right-wing ex-

tremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities.”

Even if we add in some fatalities since last June, it is obvious that our own extremists are more greatly to be feared.

Add to that the deaths caused by persons who so easily can obtain guns to kill other humans.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Charles Hoppe restored confidence in LIRR

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here is more to the recent passing of former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island Rail Road President Charles Hoppe.

He inherited construction of the ongoing Jamaica Hillside Yard and Shop project from his predecessor Bruce C. McIver who served as LIRR President from 1985 to 1989.

This maintenance facility was designed to support LIRR’s electric fleet of almost 1,000 cars.

It was being built at the old Gimbels Department Store Jamaica warehouse site.

Construction of the Hillside Maintenance facility was several years behind schedule. Work began in January 1985 with an estimated cost of $215 million.

By May 1989, the project was already $140 million over budget with a significant number of change orders.

The final project cost was anticipated to be $393 million.

Due to ongoing problems with this project, the U.S. De-

partment of Transportation Urban Mass Transportation Administration (today known as the Federal Transit Administration) made a determination that the LIRR lacked technical capacity for management of this and other major construction projects.

In March 1989, UMTA suspended the LIRR’s eligibility to receive any new federal funding.

Hoppe restored UMTA’s confidence in rebuilding the LIRR’s technical capacity by successfully completing the Hillside Maintenance facility and managing the $100 million Harold Interlocking project (using 100 percent local MTA funding). Under Hoppe’s watch, UMTA once again became confident in the LIRR and two years later restored its eligibility for receipt of federal funding.

UMTA went on to provide $200 million for the Penn Station Improvements project.

Both the Harold Interlocking and Penn Station improvement projects were successfully completed on time, within budget

and without significant numbers of change orders to the construction contracts.

One significant failure under Hoppe was a future fatal flaw in the purchase of both duel mode locomotives and double-decker passenger cars.

Those responsible for design, engineering and bid specifications to support procurement of dual-mode locomotives and double decker passenger cars failed to take into consideration height clearances for the 63rd Street tunnel between Manhattan and Queens. (Construction on this tunnel began in 1969 designed to be used at a future date to provide the LIRR with a direct connection to Grand Central Terminal).

As a result, the LIRR fleet of 23 diesel-electric and 23 dualmode locomotives along with 134 double-decker passenger cars will not be able to utilize East Side Access for future service to Grand Central Terminal.

The anticipated revenue ser-

vice date has slipped on numerous occasions from originally 2011. (Some elected officials with no background in what it actually takes to construct a major transportation project proposed 2009).

The MTA “corporate party line” claim (based upon the most recent project recovery schedule which has also changed numerous times during the life of the project) calls for a December 2022 opening day passenger service.

Based upon previous history of delays, changes in procurement strategy, re advertising of contracts, change orders to contracts, re sequencing of work, recovery schedules, cost overruns and budget issues, don’t be surprised if first day of passenger service occurs in 2023, 2024 or later.

Thousands of daily LIRR riders from diesel territory branches (including those commuting from stations east of Huntington to Port Jefferson, east of Mineola

to Oyster Bay, east of Babylon to Speonk or Montauk and east of Ronkonkoma to Greenport) will still have to change at Jamaica for those traveling to or from the future LIRR Grand Central Terminal or Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn.

When the Oyster Bay branch is converted to a permanent scoot-shuttle service, riders on that line will also have to switch at Mineola including rush hours.

Hoppe served as LIRR President from 1990 to 1994. In the eyes of many transportation experts, he moved the LIRR capital improvements program from the dog house to the penthouse.

Under his watch, it was expected that capital projects would be completed on time, within budget and without significant numbers of change orders to construction contracts.

Current LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski has a tough act to follow.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

An informed citizenry is no luxury

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hen you realize you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

– Jim Hightower

Cheers to a new year and a chance to get it right.

– Oprah Winfrey The NRA: To say that 2015 has been a strange year would be an understatement.

So, I should not have been surprised when I read that the National Rifle Association was somehow linked to the extinction of elephants.

A misprint? No! It seems that thousands of elephants are being killed for their ivory tusks.

And while President Obama recently imposed restrictions on the hunt, there is a gaping loophole.

Every American engaged in this blood sport can import two “trophies” such as the skin, tusks or heads of elephants.

The powerful gun lobby in Washington, D.C., which includes the National Rifle Association, is going all out to fight the administration’s humane efforts. And, to think I was naïve enough to believe that the NRA was only responsible for the deaths of school-children.

Economic Round-up: When Bill Clinton was running for president his campaign came up with the slogan — “It’s the economy, stupid.”

But now, Bernie Sanders has given us — “It’s the inequality, Stupid.”

Over the past 30 years, a huge share of the nation’s economic growth has gone to

the top 0.1 percent who make around $27 million per household.

Contrast this with the average income for the bottom 90 percent who make around $31,000 a year.

If only Karl Marx were alive today!

He’d be ecstatic that his idea about the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer had come to pass.

The Koch Brothers: No year-end wrapup would be complete without reference to the infamous billionaire Kochs whose fortune comes largely from the oil and gas industries.

A Greenpeace expose titled “Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine.” reveals that Charles and David have given more than $70 million to dozens of groups which have attacked the scientific consensus on climate change.

This expenditure buys them support in Congress from the “deniers” who argue that the hurricanes, flooding, draughts, tsunamis, and record-breaking heat have nothing to do with man’s activities. They disagree with Jim Hightower’s conclusion that “our unrestrained use of fossil fuels …has been…spiraling the planet toward climatological catastrophe.”

The Kochs have taken a page out of Joseph Goebbels notebook. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, taught us about “The Big Lie,” any statement so outrageous and so often repeated that the masses come to believe it. Good job, Kochs!

SCOTUS: In the 2016 presidential race, there hasn’t been enough talk about the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, during the next president’s first term in office, there

will be four justices in their 80s. This will give the next occupant of the White House an opportunity to set the country’s direction for decades to come. Our current court, often splits four voting conservatively and four taking a liberal tack.

In these instances, the swing vote is often Justice Anthony Kennedy. But, if say, Hillary were our president and she appointed liberal judges, we might find the Affordable Care Act untouchable, freedom of choice safe from those who would turn back the hands of time, and Citizen’s United overturned. I can just hear Louis Armstrong singing “What A Wonderful World.”

Flint in the news: When I think about Flint, Mich. ( which I don’t often do) what comes to mind is Michael Moore’s documentary “Roger and Me.” It’s the story of Roger Smith, C.E.O. at General Motors who shut down the G.M. plant in Flint.

The resultant hardship wrought upon the community led Moore to try to meet with Smith who wanted no part of the confrontational film-maker.

Today, Flint is still a city suffering economically which leads to the current crisis.

Putting it succinctly, the water in Flint is poisoned.

Originally, Flint’s water came from Lake Huron, but to save money, it now comes from a closer source — the Flint River.

The only problem is that the river water is contaminated with lead. So the National Resources Defence Council and the American Civil Liberties Union are su-

ing the city.

It wasn’t as if there were no warnings. An Environmental Protection Agency whistleblower broke the story, but was called “a rogue employee.”

A study done at Virginia Tech corroborated the charges and a local pediatrician confirmed the findings. But the culprit in the scenario is Republican Gov., Rick Snyder.

Credit for making this a national story goes to muckraking journalists Rachel Maddow and Melissa Harris Perry, both of MSNBC-TV. Their compassion for children experiencing problems of delayed mental and physical development plus problems of learning and attention span are a model for what journalism could and should be.

But the overriding lesson is that the people whom we elect have enormous power. They, literally, have our lives in their hands.

The New Year: As we go into 2016, we should remember that not only will we choose a president, who, in turn, will impact the Supreme Court, but we will be electing one-third of the Senate and 435 members of the House of Representatives.

These politicians can take us to war, keep weapons out of our schools, and keep our food, water and drugs safe.

Voting is a grave responsibility. So is being well-informed. Hopefully, we will rise to the task!

Hal Sobel Great Neck

Progressives cost country jobs, hurt security

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am writing this letter in response to Karen Rubin’s column entitled New Years Resolution: social justice in the Jan 1, 2016 publication.

I counted about 59 paragraphs in this lengthy column.

I cannot give a decent retort to all of them in one small letter to the editor. But I willl attempt to, at least, provide some disputations and clarifications.

Obviously Rubin is of the “progressive” persuasion with the usual fatal dose of socialism and Marxism in the mix.

She begins by lamenting that the American dream has been “exported and outsourced.” She laments the terrible “inequality” that exits in our society.

Well, it might come as a surprise to Rubin, that it is the policies of people of her ilk that has caused American business to export and outsource those jobs.

I would also add that inequality in an economy is a sign of a healthy, vibrant, cre-

ative economy and is to be desired. What Rubin should be lamenting is the falling standard of living for much of the population.

If she understood economics, she would embrace that inequality if the standard of living of the general population was rising as well.

But she is too ignorant to parse out the correct issue.

She then proceeds with a bigoted, stereotypical attack on Republicans who are “clinging to guns and religion.”

Well, I am religious and I do own guns.

While that may be something for Rubin to mock, these two values were both deemed to be important enough to be enshrined into the Bill of Rights guaranteeing my freedom to enjoy them.

Would Rubin like to take them away from me?

She then proceeds with a hate-filled, defamatory screed describing how Repub-

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licans “don’t even pretend to care about the less fortunate,” and promote policies to make those lives even worse by thwarting progress to alleviate the source of those problems.

If Rubin can indulge in moral bullying with outrageous accusations like these, then I can do it too. So here goes.

Rubin is a manipulative hypocrite, who conspires to keep the population poor and stupid for the benefit of her and her ilk. It is she that exploits the less fortunate for political gain and then uses lies and demagoguery to get their votes while handing out government crumbs.

Her political allies can promulgate large government programs that give employment and fat pensions to hordes of worthless bureaucrats who skim 70 percent of the money for themselves while giving the supposed beneficiaries a mere 30 percent.

Their concern for the “poor” is just a pretense for their own sadistic, greedy, power lusting impulses. They get away with it because they tap into the human frailty of telling people the age old lie that they can have something for nothing.

About a century and half ago, Karl Marx vision of a “just society” was to get there by destroying religion, the family, and private

property.

Modern day progressives have repackaged this and sanitized it but basically adhere to its essence. In her next few paragraphs Rubin laments the sorry state of affairs in Balitmore, Md. My take on the situation is that I think that life in Baltimore would be much improved if there was more religion, better families, and more respect for private property.

Baltimore was created by the Rubin’s of this world and I would like to see that both she and them get credit for it What Rubin is ignorant of is that the root of the problems she refers to are philosophical, not political.

Humans must have a proper, rational philosophy by which to run their lives. If they do not, none of her government programs will have any benefit except for the bureaucrats that run them.

Should the Roslyn Times print this letter, I will then proceed to write a second one in response to the remaining segment of the column.

Dr. Wayne Roth Roslyn Heights Letters Continued on Page 22

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REAdERS WRITE

Engaged citizens needed at E.W. hearing

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inally, cooler heads have prevailed in the Water saga between Williston Park and East Williston.

We were recently told that a tentative agreement has been reached, with final details still pending.

I am pleased that this solution resembles the framework for an agreement that I first set forth in this news-

paper in April 2015 to help kick-start negotiations and rebuild a partnership between our villages.

However it is critical that the public inform themselves of the details.

In East Williston, for example, it appears that even after obtaining this agreement, there is a real risk that our elected officials intend to move forward with their plan to build a well, unless

the public overwhelmingly disagrees.

Before residents can vote on either $7 million plus of additional debt or a long term agreement with Williston Park, we owe it to ourselves and our neighbors to be fully informed.

The last time a public works project of this magnitude was considered by our village, our Village Hall project went well over budget and currently

costs residents taxpayers over $500,000 year in principal and Interest payments (25 percent of your village taxes).

If you attend only one village meeting this year, I ask that you attend this Tuesday 1/12 at 7:30 p.m., at the pricey East Williston Village Hall.

John C. Azzara East Williston

Creedmoor no place to house the homeless

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ov. Andrew Cuomo’s idea to house the homeless at Creedmoor has been unofficially been dropped.

Now my wife and myself live a few blocks from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village. We therefore have been concerned over this proposal.

Now let me point out that I’m not bias

against the homeless for I was homeless forty years ago and do feel their pain and loneliness and desperation.

Yet temporary shelters are costly and do not solve the problem. In my opinion we need low-cost, permanent housing which I believe is the ultimate goal.

Added to the problem some of the

homeless have psychiatric problems although at Creedmoor they have facilities to deal with those issues. And yet there are no guarantees those with certain issues could be walking around and could still endanger those in the communities of Bellerose, Floral Park, Glen Oaks Village and Queens Village.

In closing I believe Gov. Cuomo and

Mayor Bill de Blasio need to come up with a plan for the homeless that comes up with a permanent solution that works for all concern and that provides descent and affordable housing.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

E.W. schools should stop dissections

B

eing interested in the educational activities being conducted in our East Williston School District, I happened upon an internet website (http://thewheatleyway.org/tag/science/) displaying the title, “The Wheatley Way: DISTRICT STEAM FAIR ENGAGES LEARNERS AT ALL LEVELS…Posted 5 November 2015.”

Curious as to what Wheatley’s “STEAM FAIR” was, I read the following on the website: “With hundreds of students and adults in attendance, the EWSD Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair engaged all in attendance with a wide variety of activities. Wheatley was blanketed with learning stations, on topics such as dissections…”

Immediately below this written introduction, there were numerous photos upon which the viewer could click to see exactly what activities took place at Wheatley’s STEAM FAIR. To my great dismay, when I clicked on one of the photos, I was brought to another

webpage (http://thewheatleyway.org/tag/ science/#jp-carousel-20903...photos) that continued a slideshow….a slideshow showing elementary school-age children in the process of touching the bodies of dissected frogs (http://thewheatleyway.org/tag/ science/#jp-carousel-20905 and http:// thewheatleyway.org/tag/science/#jp-carousel-20908).

Was cutting-up frogs condoned as a science celebration under the auspices of the East Williston School District — especially involving attending elementary school-age children?

As a retired educator who spent a total of almost four decades as a teacher, dean, assistant principal, and principal in New York’s public schools, I found the aforementioned websites and accompanying photos quite disturbing.

I believe that “celebrating” the dissection of any creature engenders a lack of respect for the beauty of life and promotes cruelty towards it — in direct opposition to a claimed intent to appreciate and under-

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stand it, especially when exposing elementary school-age children to dissection.

A brief internet search reveals even many medical schools, currently, are reexamining the validity of including animal dissections in their curricula.

In the early 1960s, when I was a biology student in a Brooklyn high school, I had a most enlightened teacher who did not believe in dissecting animals of any kind — no fetal pigs, no hamsters, no mice, no frogs, no any creature living or dead.

My high school biology teacher used charts, models, movies, and drawings to help her charges appreciate the inner-workings of life.

As such, my biology teacher gave me great professional gifts, my love of biology, my inner-strength to eschew dissections while teaching my own biology classes years later in secondary schools, and, my desire to employ her role-model, non-dissection, teaching methods.

Three of my nine, permanent, New York State teaching licenses are in science areas, one is Biology, Grades seven-12.

Luckily, I had supportive administrators who shared my belief that dissection promoted cruelty rather than promoting an appreciation for life’s inner, intricate mechanisms.

Throughout my lifetime (approaching seven decades), I have met folks who have expressed guilt, disgust, emotional distress, and horrid memories of having been forced to dissect animals in their high school biology classes, classes that took place in the past and in various states.

One adult even expressed to me his guilt for the horror of having to euthanize a hamster in a Queens’ high school, then being required to dissect it, admitting decades later, that he still smells the chemical that he was forced to use to anesthetize the hamster before being forced to kill the hamster then, ultimately, being forced to dissect

the hamster.”

As a teacher of secondary school-biology classes, I only utilized tools which included books, charts, models, movies, and drawings.

I am privileged to report that, thanks to social media, I have learned a number of my students have become successful medical professionals (I would like to believe I played a small role in helping each of them reach their biology-related potentials).

We live in an age burgeoning with virtual tools that can substitute, quite well, for the use of any living or dead creature in any biology class lesson (e.g., videos, internet sites, biology software, etc.).

Why, then, would any minor age child in any school and/or science fair…especially, in any school below medical school level be subjected to viewing or participating in dissections, ostensibly, to learn to appreciate an animal’s magnificent inner workings, dead or alive?

The “hands on” technique may be desirable in many areas of teaching/learning; however, I believe “hands on” classroom dissections, especially involving minors do more harm than good to both students and society, overall.

If displaying and/or conducting interactive frog-dissections were, indeed, part of the science celebration at the East Williston School District’s STEAM FAIR an event at which elementary school-age were in attendance then, I must voice my strong opposition to such dissection activities, both as a retired educator and as a taxpayer in the East Williston School District for almost 35 years.

In addition, I urge other East Williston School District taxpayers, who feel similarly, to share their concerns with our district’s superintendent, as well.

Kathy Rittel East Williston

bLAnk SLATE MEdIA January 8, 2016

Huntington Folk Music Society to host singers Krokoff, Treacher

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cott Krokoff and Robinson Treacher, both Long Island-based singer-songwriters, are the featured artists during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s Hard Luck Café concert series at the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) on Thursday, Jan. 21.

The 8:30 p.m. concert in the Cinema’s Sky Room will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m.

Krokoff weaves elements of folk-rock and country-pop to create evocative and introspective Americana songs that are both confessional and compelling.

Influenced by his love of 1960s and 1970s music and accompanied by deft fingerpicking guitar work that combines the styles of James Taylor and Paul Simon with a slightly alt-rock edge, his music is imbued with an energy that reflects his own desire to dream big and live life to the fullest.

He began his solo career more than a decade ago after playing in a 1990s college band. He has written and recorded three albums featuring original music dedicated to his philosophy that we must all take risks in life to follow and ultimately realize our individual dreams and goals.

Krokoff ’s most recent CD, Realizations and Declarations, Vol. 2, was released last year. He has played at venues throughout the New York metropolitan area and done shows as far away as Belgium. He recently performed in the 2015 Huntington Folk Festival.

Treacher is an engaging, high-energy performing songwriter with a powerful voice and unique guitar stylings. Passionate, gritty and soulful, he has drawn comparisons to David Gray, Richie Havens and Van Morrison.

Not one to be pigeonholed into one particular genre, he takes fibers from many -- from the bluesy soul of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke to the weathered back- country of The Band and Hank Williams -- and weaves them into his own distinct musical tapestry.

Treacher has performed at venues throughout the New York metro area and across the country, including an appearance at the 2015 Huntington Folk Festival. His most recent album, Porches, was released in 2013.

Established in 1973, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre (www.cinemaartscentre.org) seeks to bring the best of cinematic artistry to Long Island and use the power of film to expand the awareness and consciousness of our community. LI’s only not-for-profit, viewer-supported, independent cinema presents a wide array of films that are often accompanied by discussions and guest speakers.

Now in its 47th year, the Folk Music Society of Huntington (www.fmsh. org) presents two monthly concert series, a monthly folk jam and an annual folk festival in conjunction with the Huntington Arts Council. Its First Saturday Concerts series at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive, off Route 25A, Centerport, features Falcon Ridge Folk Festival favorites The Slambovian Circus of Dreams on February 6.

Tickets are $15 ($10 for Cinema Arts Centre and FMSH members).

For more information, visit www.fmsh.org or call (631) 425-2925.

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

Catch the best new improv comedians from the legendary Upright Citizens Brigade Theatres in New York and Los Angeles. In this 90-minute, unscripted and totally improvised performance, four improvisers perform a high-energy, surprising and hilarious show. The UCB Theatre was founded by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh - has been home to some of the biggest stars in comedy today.

Where: Landmark On Main Street 232 Main Street, Suite 1, Port Washington Info: (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 • www.landmarkonmainstreet.org

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Come relive the 1970s Friday night, as some of the decade’s biggest disco and R&B hits are brought to life by three of the area’s top tribute acts. The night features The New York Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancin’ Tribute Show,” with support from Rainere Martin: A Tribute to Donna Summer and Sir Duke – A Tribute to Stevie Wonder.

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

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British Regiments Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

The Royal Marines Band and Scots Guards perform popular classics, Big Band hits, and military music with their signature precision. The evening’s program, British Isles Of Wonder, features famous songs of the British Isles including the Highland Fling, the Armed Forces Medley, and new favorites.

Featuring the Band of the Royal Marines and the Pipes, Drums & Highland Dancers of the Scots Guards, Where: Tilles Center For The Performing Arts LIU Post, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville Info: (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org

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Steve White Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 9, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

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Unpredictably and liveliness are to be expected of any showcase headlined by Steve White. His loud voice and vibrant personality assail crowds and dare them to keep up with his up-tempo style. Listed among his numerous movie credits are roles in “Coming to America”, “Harlem Nights”, “Clockers”, “Do the Right Thing”, “Jungle Fever”, and “Mo-Better Blues.” He’s also surfaced on several Comedy Central productions, HBO, BET, and Fox television.

Where: Governors’ Comedy Club, 90 Division Ave., Levittown Info: (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm

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Opening Reception Harvest Of Artists Winter 2016

Saturday, Jan. 9, 6-9 p.m.

This non-juried, exhibition is an opportunity for local artists to exhibit their work at b.j. spoke gallery, one of the longest standing cooperative art galleries on Long Island. The space is starting the New Year by exhibiting more than 50 works of art by 33 local artists. The exhibit will be on display from Jan. 7 through Jan. 31.

Where: b.j. spoke gallery 229 Main Street, Huntington Info: (631) 549-5106• www.bjspokegallery.com

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For more than a decade, Criss Angel has dominated the world of magic with his role as star, creator, executive producer and director of his A&E television series Criss Angel “Mindfreak.” Angel brings together some of magic’s top performers for this night of illusion, including Landon Swank, Spencer Horsman, Stefan Vanel, Adrian Vega, Johnny Domingue and more.

Where: bj spoke gallery 229 Main Street, Huntington Info: (631) 549-5106 www.bjspokegallery.com • www.paramountny.com

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A former professional wrestler, Ryan Maher has performed alongside legendary comedians such as Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling and Dr. Dirty John Valby and top comedians of today such as: Jim Florentine, Robert Kelly, Patrice O’Neal, Rev. Bob Levy, The Killers of Comedy from Howard Stern, Otto & George and Nick Dipaolo.

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now through april, 2016 Four daily sessions available (9:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm and 3:30pm)

Come join us for an exciting interactive exhibit that remembers and reflects on the evolution of video games and the arcades they lived in. The Arcade Age explores the short history of video arcade games through exhibitry and game play, just as they were intended to be experienced - in an arcade! There are unforgettable favorites like Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders, Centipede, Donkey Kong and more. Your 90 minute free play timedticket for the Arcade Age exhibit also includes full access to the Cradle of Aviation galleries. For the 3:30 pm session, please arrive early to enjoy the galleries as we close promptly at 5:00 pm. Adults $24, Children (ages 2-12) $20, (Members $10/$8). Purchase tickets on-line or in person.

Where: Cradle of Aviation Museum Charles Lindbergh boulevard garden City Info: 516-572-4111 • www.cradleofaviation.org

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Sunday, January 10, 2:00pm Join us as we celebrate the birth of our baby trout! Professional staff will be available to answer questions about the baby fish. Enjoy refreshments and birthday cake. Spend time at our other exhibits! $4 children and seniors/$4 adults.

Where: Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery 1660 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Info: 516-692-6768 • www.cshfha.org

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January 10, 2016 through January 23, 2016 11:30am and 2:00pm Billy Bones is generally a Good Pirate! Youngsters of all ages have a little bit of pirate in them, yearning for adventure and carousing. Enjoy Captain Billy Bones in this high energy, very interactive performance which touches on science.

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by David Engel, a veteran family entertainer based in New York who has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. Non-Member Pricing: $9/seat with museum admission, or $12/seat for performance only. Member pricing: $7/ seat. All ages welcome.

Where: Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 davis Avenue, garden City Info: 516-224-5899 • www.licm.org

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Friday, January 8 and Saturday, January 9, 8:00pm-10:00pm

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Bounce!® Trampoline Sports, Long Island’s spectacular indoor sports center, has just become even more exciting with the addition of another first–Galactic Jump ‘n Glow! No other trampoline sports arena has anything like it! There’s a live DJ and fun activities, like Trampoline Dodgeball, Slam Dunk Basketball, Open Bouncing, Foam Pit Jumps, and the only indoor Trampoline Bungee Jump in America. Bouncers, aged 8 years to adult, can “dress to glow” in blacklight sensitive clothing from tops to socks to hats and gloves while participating. Adding to the excitement is FREE glow in the dark face painting.

And you’ll love our giant glow in the dark murals that add a psychedelic spin to the show painted by Long Islander Toni Isnardi. Normal pricing: 1 hour $16, 1.5 hours $22, or 2 hours $28; 3 Hour Price (7pm-10pm): $35; the 1st hour the lights are on, at 8pm the Glow begins! *Complimentary 1 hour Bounce cards are not valid for Jump N Glow Where: bounce Syosset, 310 Michael drive, Syosset Info: 516-762-1300 • www.bouncesyosset.comg

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Where: barnes and noble 1542 northern blvd., Manhasset Info: 516-365-6723 www.stores.barnesandnoble.com

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The winter is a great time to learn about how animals survive in the winter. On this hike we will identify animal tracks, and show you some wild shelters. Afterwards participants will visit the animals in their zoo and have some hot chocolate! Call or register on-line. Cost: $7 Where: The Center for Science Teaching & Learning 1450 Tanglewood Road, Rockville Centre Info: 516-764-0045 • www.cstl.org

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Arts center to preview Arts & Entertainment Calendar Israeli-directed film The Gold Coast Arts Center’s Winter Furman Film Series continues on Wednesday, Jan. 20 with “Tuviansky,” a 2014 film out of Israel directed by Riki Shelach.

The film tells the tale of Israeli Captain Meir Tuviansky, who was accused of treason just six weeks after the State of Israel was established in June 1948.

Only three hours and 45 minutes passed from the moment he was arrested until his body was dumped in a pit.

In that time frame, he was interrogated, court martialed, sentenced and executed.

En route, his arresting party managed to stop for lunch in Rehovot and organize a firing squad in Ramle. A year later Tuvi-

ansky was completely exonerated. One of his executioners was subsequently tried, convicted and lightly punished.

Shelach tells this tragic story in a straightforward, matter of fact style and vividly recreates this turbulent time in the aftermath of the War of Independence and in the shadow of the lingering British presence.

Actor Micha Celektar is memorable in this no-nonsense, compelling film that pulls no punches.

The film will be shown at Bow TieSquire Cinemas, 115 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to individual films (subject to availability) are: $15 adults/$10 students advance sales; $20 at the door.

Arlo Guthrie to play Landmark on May 10 Arlo Guthrie, known to generations as a prolific songwriter, social commentator, master storyteller, actor and activist, will be making a stop in Port Washington this spring when he performs at Landmark on Main Street on Tuesday, May 10.

Guthrie’s iconic “Alice’s Restaurant:, the more than 18-minute account of actual events that took place in Stockbridge around Thanksgiving 1966, became a platinum selling record (1967) and fulllength motion picture (1969).

Due to its length, he has only added the complete Alice’s Restaurant Massacree to his touring menu on the 10-year anniversaries.

With 2016 marking the 50th Anniversary of the lengthiest hit single in music history, Guthrie will once again be

performing it live, backed by Terry Hall (drums), Bobby Sweet (guitar, vocals), Darren Todd (bass), and his son, Abe Guthrie (keyboards).

Each show includes a light show created specifically for this tour by 44 Designs, Inc., along with previously unseen images from the Guthrie archives. More than 75,000 photos have recently been digitized, and selections will be projected during the evening.

General public sales begin Friday, Jan. 8, at 12 p.m. through Landmark’s Box Office, 516-767-6444 or online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org. Tickets are: Premium $107 (Friends $102), Select $92 (Friends $82), Standard $82 (Friends $77).

Showtime is 8 p.m.

LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

Upright Citizens Brigade Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

On Your Radar with WFUV’s John Platt: Roosevelt Dime Friday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Robyn Hitchcock Monday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m.

Reel Big Fish Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

Leo Kottke Sunday, March 6, 8 p.m.

Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort Thursday, March 10, 8 p.m.

Jorma Kaukonen Friday, March 11, 8 p.m.

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

Pink Martini Friday, March 18, 8 p.m.

Martin Sexton Sunday, March 20, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.

Carly Rae Jepsen Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Karen Mason Sunday, April 3, 7 p.m.

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

Are You My Mother?

Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m.

Graham Parker w/ Brinsley Schwarz Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.

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

Dennis Elsas: Rock’n’Roll Never Forgets Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs NYCB THeatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury.

(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

Adam Carolla Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.

Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m.

Kool & The Gang The Space at Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.

The Lords of 52nd Street

Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

The Lords of 52nd Street Friday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.

The B-52s Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

Pink Floyd Experience Friday, Apr. 1, 8 p.m.

Keb’ Mo’ Band w/Gerald Albright Friday, Apr. 2, 8 p.m.

Rock Legends Live Saturday, Apr. 28, 8 p.m.

Nils Lofgren Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

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

The Fab Faux Friday, June 3, 8 p.m.

America ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ Saturday, Jan. 16, 4 p.m.

Philip Edward Fisher Saturday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m.

Adelphi’s Distinguished Faculty in Concert The madison theatre at molloy college 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

(516) 323-4444 • http://madisontheatreny.org.

Friday, Jan. 22 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 23, 2 & 8 p.m.

Sunday. Jan. 24, 3 p.m.

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Jan. 27 - Jan. 31, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

Zooman and The Sign March 3 - March 6, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

March 9 - March 13, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

Circle Mirror Transformation April 29 - May 1, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

May 4 - May 8, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

Hair TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

British Regiments Sunday, Jan. 24, 3 and 7 p.m.

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In trusts you should trust your finances

Michael C. Adges is a 1981 graduate of Stony Brook University (B.A.) and a 1984 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D.) In 1989, he founded the Law Office of Michael C. Adges in Bayside, New York, specializing in real estate transactions. The office later re-located to Bellerose and Mineola and is now located in Williston Park, New York.

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Mr. Adges has served in the capacities of both attorney and realtor on numerous real estate committees on the state and local levels. His experience as an investor - buying and selling properties in New York City and Long Island have given him an insider’s perspective on the real estate process.

Mr. Adges has had many speaking engagements - lecturing on such topics as bankruptcy, real estate transactions and ethics sponsored by the National Business Institute (NBI) and various banks and bar associations. He has also taught real estate transactions at CUNY School of Law in Queens.

Mr. Adges is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York Bar Association and Vice President of the Williston Area Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of various networking groups.

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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust” counseled Judge Learned Hand over 100 years ago.

The advice remains sound today — depending of course, on whether you know how to select the right trust.

Do you wish to reduce the estate tax bite for your children, protect assets in the event long-term care is needed, or merely wish to avoid probate? What is the best type of trust for your home and other assets?

1. Revocable Trust.

If you’ve ever attended a living (revocable) trust seminar, you may wonder why everyone doesn’t have one. The concept is very appealing. The creator can serve as his or her own trustee.

Full control over the assets in the trust is retained. There is no need to go to a third-party in order to access the trust.

The primary purpose of this type of trust is that it will avoid probate at death.

Assets in a revocable trust pass automatically (and privately) to one’s beneficiaries.

So good, so far — right?

What, if any, are the downsides?

There is only one that I can think of.

That is, when someone mistakenly believes that a revocable trust, can, in and of itself, protect a family’s home and other assets from estate taxes and other liabilities.

Common sense (as well as federal law) tells us otherwise.

Think about it. If I have total access to and control over my assets in the revocable trust, how can I then turn around and expect a nursing home to consider the assets unavailable?

The same goes for the Internal Revenue Service. Any asset that I have retained access to (even if it is only an income interest) will be included in my gross taxable estate at death.

It is very important to remember that assets do not avoid estate tax just because they may avoid probate.

2. Estate Tax Trust.

This type of irrevocable trust is useful for an individual or family with assets above the current federal estate tax threshold of $5.4 million.

One may not retain direct access to or control over the assets transferred into an estate tax trust.

A spouse, however, could be an in-

come beneficiary of this trust. The estate tax trust may be a good idea for an individual who wishes to shield some portion of his or her assets that are in excess of the current estate tax threshold. Anyone who owns life insurance should consider transferring it into an estate tax trust.

This will enable the death benefit to escape estate tax and pass to heirs tax free. We usually want to avoid putting the primary residence into an estate tax trust.

This is because we would lose our real estate property tax exemptions and the home would go to the children at death with a so-called carry over basis, thereby subjecting them to capital gains taxes. Investment properties or family businesses can be good candidates to place in an estate tax trust.

It is advisable to first transfer the business or investment real estate into an LLC. This way, the parents can retain controlling interests in the entity prior to transferring non-controlling interests into the estate tax trust.

3. Asset Protection Trust This trust is designed to protect one’s home and other assets in the event that long term care is later needed. There is currently a five-year “look-back” period on transfers to any individual or entity other than a spouse.

To commence the running of this clock (after which the assets are exempt for Medicaid purposes) the trust must be irrevocable.

It need not, however, be 100 percent irrevocable. One can retain the ability to change the beneficiaries and named trustee.

If the trust owns a home, the grantor may retain lifetime ownership rights over the house. It can be sold from within the trust provided that the grantor gives his or her written consent to the sale.

One’s property tax exemptions, stepup in tax basis at death and the $250,000 capital gains exclusion ($500,000 for a couple) will be all be preserved with a properly drafted asset protection trust.

This type of trust will also prevent the house from passing to my husband’s new wife, in the event that he survives me and then remarries.

Ann Margaret Carrozza is a renowned Elder Law and Estate Planning Attorney who served as a New York State Assemblywoman. She is a frequent contributor to television and print media outlets. www.myelderlawattorney.com

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Things to consider before buying an investment property Real estate can be an incredibly fruitful investment. Buying a property at the right time can provide investors with a substantial return when they decide to sell, and that opportunity compels many men and women to consider investing in real estate.

While there’s no denying real estate can yield a great return on buyers’ initial investments, there’s more to making money in real estate than simply buying a property and waiting for its value to rise. Buyers who are thinking of investing in real estate should consider a host of factors before purchasing an investment property.

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Would-be real estate investors can explore real estate websites such as Zillow.com for recent sale information, which may also be available through local government agencies. Such data can be invaluable, showing potential investors which neighborhoods are in demand and which may be in decline.

Taxes Investment properties are not eligible for as many tax benefits as primary residences. However, landlords can write off repairs, management costs and other fees associated with rental properties. But it’s not just their own tax bill prospective investors should consider before buying an investment property. Many potential buyers down the

road may prefer a property in an area where property taxes are relatively low, so even if you can afford the tax on the investment property, you may find buyers are unwilling to assume that burden when you put the property up for sale in the future.

Location Prospective real estate investors no doubt know the value of location with regard to real estate, but if you can’t afford to buy in a neighborhood that’s currently hot, that does not necessarily mean you can’t still capitalize on that area’s popularity. When a town becomes popular, its property values rise, and many buyers find themselves just barely priced out. When that happens, the surrounding towns tend to become the next hot neighborhood, as these areas are nearly as

close to the attractions that make the initial neighborhood so desirable. Buying on the outskirts of a hot neighborhood can set you up to benefit nicely when that area gets too pricey.

Schools School systems should be examined even if you do not have children. In a recent Trulia.com survey of American home buyers, 35 percent of respondents with children under age 18 indicated they want to live in great school districts. GreatSchools.org has profiles of 200,000 public, public charter and private preK12 schools. Investors can use the GreatSchools.org search engine to find information about local schools and school systems so they can better position themselves to buy properties in areas that will appeal to buyers down the road.

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Prospective borrowers can take several steps to earn lower interest rates when applying for loans. Lenders consider a host of factors when determining interest rates for their borrowers. Some of these factors are market-based, while others are determined by the United States Federal Reserve. But borrowers are not helpless when it comes to securing low interest rates. The down payment amount as well as borrowers’ credit scores and histories can help or hurt them when it comes to interest rates. For example, the larger the down payment a potential home buyer is willing to put down to buy a home, the more likely that borrower earns a lower interest rate from his or her bank. That’s because the bank sees borrowers who are willing to put down a substantial sum of their own money as highly likely to repay the loan in full and on time. In addition, borrowers with strong credit histories and high credit scores have already demonstrated their ability to repay their debts, and that reputation often benefits them in the form of lower interest rates on major purchases like homes and automobiles.

Borrowers also may be able to secure low interest rates if they are willing to repay loans quickly. The shorter the duration to maturity, the smaller the interest rate may be. That’s because banks see long-term loans as less likely to be repaid than short-term loans.

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Grieving your property taxes

By G eorg e H a b e r Every year, thousands of Nassau County homeowners pay more property tax than they need to.

By failing to file a formal grievance of their annual property assessment, which determines their property tax, they ignore the possibility of lowering their taxes.

“There’s no risk to challenging your property assessment,” said Charles Berman, receiver of taxes for the Town of North Hempstead, whose office is conducting “Grievance Workshops” throughout the town to educate homeowners on the process of challenging their property’s assessment.

Homeowners need to understand that their assessment can only go down or remain the same as it was if they challenge it.

“It can’t go up,” Berman said.

While the majority of homeowners who file grievances do this through private agencies that solicit clients to represent them, Berman said an increasing number of challengers fill out the necessary forms and file grievances “pro se” — representing themselves.

The two-page form required to correct a property tax assessment is available from Berman’s office or from the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission.

The form is also available from the county’s website (www.nassaucountyny. gov/arc/arow) or, in North Hempstead, from the Office of the Receiver of Taxes at 200 Plandome Road in Manhasset (www. northhempsteadny.gov).

Grievances may be mailed in to Nassau County or submitted online to the Assessment Review Commission on the county’s website.

Filing for the 2017-2018 year extends from Jan. 4 to March 1.

Contrary to popular opinion, Berman noted, “You do not need to use an attorney to file a grievance. You may file your own grievance and save the commission that an agency will take if it succeeds in reducing your taxes. Filing pro-se takes only a few

minutes to complete the application.”

A crucial element in challenging a tentative assessment by the county is the determination of “full market value.”

According to Berman, a homeowner needs to provide an “estimate of full market value” that is lower than the county’s number.

Important to understand, he said, is that the “market value” figure does not represent the sale price of the property.

Homeowners challenging their assessment must write a figure lower than the assessed valuation the county has indicated.

For example, if the tentative assessed valuation is listed at $462,800, the homeowner may estimate the value at $362,000 and enter that figure in Part B of the form which requests the “Owners’ Estimate of Full Market Value.”

Also important to understand, Berman said, is that aspects of the location of the property, of which the assessor’s office may not have considered, need to be noted by the homeowner in the appeal.

For example, if the property abuts a commercial property or LIRR tracks, is near a sump or a firehouse, or is off a major highway, these location features may affect the value of the property and will be considered in the reassessment.

Berman said it is also possible to compare assessments of a neighbor’s property to one’s own.

This information, which is available online, can be used as a factor to challenge the homeowner’s own assessment, but the owner must officially file to receive the reduction.

Berman’s office is conducting Grievance Workshops throughout the Town of North Hempstead from January through February.

Workshops are offered in the afternoon and evening in Great Neck, Williston Park, Albertson, New Hyde Park, Roslyn, Manhasset, Westbury and East Williston.

To obtain the complete schedule, contact the town offices at 200 Plandome Road in Manhasset (516) 869-7800; or go to www.northhempsteadny.gov.

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How to rebuild Private firms show edge in grieving your credit use credit cards and pay your balances in full and on time is an essential part of rebuilding your credit. Use your credit cards to pay small monthly bills, such as your gym membership, and pay the balance in full each month. Over time, doing so will produce a pattern that indicates you are worthy of credit and capable of handling it responsibly.

Apply for an installment loan. Another way to demonstrate your credit worthiness to prospective lenders is to apply for and get an installment loan. If your credit mishaps are very recent, you may want to wait to apply for an installment loan until you have started to rebound and indicate you can once again pay your bills in full and on time each month. Waiting will earn you a more borrower-friendly interest rate, and you won’t be running the risk of being denied for a loan. But it’s good to apply for an installment loan such as an auto loan because you can then use that to restore your financial reputation by making monthly payments on time.

Many men and women work hard to build strong credit and demonstrate their worthiness as borrowers to lenders. But sometimes an unforeseen event, such as a layoff or medical emergency, forces people to rely too heavily on credit, which can negatively affect their credit rating and make them less likely to secure favorable loans in the future.

Rebuilding credit takes time. Lenders want their borrowers to have demonstrated their long-term financial responsibility, so it may take men and women who have suffered a credit setback a substantial amount of time to regain the trust of prospective lenders. But there is a way to rebuild credit and restore your financial reputation.

Examine your credit report. The first step toward rebuilding your credit is to examine where you currently are.

Some credit card companies now offer monthly credit reports or credit updates free of charge to cardholders. If you do not have such a card, the Fair Credit Reporting Act permits consumers to request a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three major credit reporting agencies (i.e., Equifax, Experian and TransUnion). Examine your credit report for any errors, and dispute such errors immediately.

Start using your cards again.

Men and women who have been through the bad credit wringer may want to avoid swiping their credit cards ever again. But demonstrating your ability to

Make all of your payments. Once your credit has taken a hit and your score has sunk, lenders will look for any signs that you may still be a credit risk. Even as your score begins to rise once again, you must continue to make all of your payments on time. One skipped or missed payment is a big red flag to lenders, especially if borrowers have had credit troubles in the past. Don’t let all your hard work go to waste by missing payments.

Rebuilding credit is not always so easy, but many people have endured financial troubles only to reemerge as borrowers lenders want to work with.

By G eorg e H a b e r Statistics reveal that “a homeowner’s best chance to keep money the county erroneously tried to collect [in property taxes] is to hire a private firm.”

This was the conclusion of a Newsday study of tax grievance firms that analyzed the political clout of the firms in Nassau County.

The survey, reported last August, determined that the seven largest firms in the county handled 72 percent of the nearly 137,000 property tax challenges filed for the 2015 tax year.

Of these claims, 88 percent were settled in the homeowner’s favor.

This is a substantially higher percentage than the number of cases settled when homeowners filed their own challenge.

“County Executive Mangano’s assessment settlement program produces huge benefits for homeowners who use the tax grievance process,” says Craig Norberto of the Tax Correction Agency in Ronkonkoma, which has been serving homeowners in Nassau and Suffolk Counties for 23 years. “Those that don’t lose out on big savings.”

The average tax savings of clients Norberto represents, he says, is 31 percent.

Companies that offer help in reducing property taxes typically charge half of the tax savings.

Recently, as competition for serving homeowners has increased private companies have started offering reduced fees. Empire Tax Reductions in Glenwood Landing cites specific savings reductions it has achieved in various zip codes, including more than 30 tax cuts for Jericho homes ranging from $2,686 to $7,989.

“Our discounted fee is only 40 percent of the tax savings,” Empire says, noting that “fees are calculated after taking your exemptions into account.”

The private agencies are alike in explaining that if they are not successful in reducing property taxes, they charge no fee.

“I feel there’s nothing to lose,” said Elinor Grumet of Jericho, who has been using a private firm to challenge her home’s assessment every year for the past decade.

“I think I could do the paperwork myself if I had the time,” Grumet said, “but it seems like the private firms have proven track records in achieving reductions, so I stay with them.”

“Homeowners typically receive many solicitations from attorneys and others who offer to file grievance applications,” observed Helen McQueen of the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission in a talk last year.

McQueen encouraged homeowners “to file their own grievance” to save the fee. “It’s a simple process,” she said. “The attorney fills out the same paperwork as the homeowner, but the homeowner knows his property better” and can cite specific features of the property that may favorably affect the final assessment.

For example, say assessment consultants, a property may be near a baseball field, or a commercial business, or off a heavily trafficked main street — all of which could affect the property’s fair market value and consequently the property assessment. Any of these “special features” should be noted when filing the appeal.

That the word about the benefits of challenging property assessments is getting around — principally because of aggressive mailings and advertising by tax grievance companies — is suggested by the fact that for the 2012-2013 tax year, almost 90 percent of grievances were filed in Nassau County by more than 125 private companies, representing residential property owners.

Only approximately 11 percent of the grievances were field by individuals on their own behalf.

Mark Miller, an attorney with Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group in Cedarhurst, notes that homeowners do not need an attorney to file their grievance.

In fact, anyone may represent a homeowner if the homeowner feels he or she need help in preparing the documentation. Miller said. However, that if a legal issue arises, or an appeal is denied, formal legal challenges may be necessary, which an attorney is in the best position to handle.

While the number of tax preparers in Nassau County has grown steadily over the past decade, Town of North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman said “this is an unregulated industry.”

Before signing the form authorizing a preparer to handle a homeowner’s property tax grievance, Berman said, it’s a good idea to check the preparer’s business reputation on a site such as the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org/newyork-city).

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How to find a financial planner

Managing money can be a daunting task. Monitoring retirement and investment accounts can sometimes seem like a fulltime job, and that’s in addition to the responsibilities many men and women already face with regards to their careers and families.

To combat the sometimes confusing and intimidating nature of money management, many people enlist the help of financial planners. Financial planners can help men and women navigate the plan for retirement and help them prepare for unforeseen events that can affect their finances. Finding the right financial planner can be similar to finding a physician; just like you don’t want to trust just anyone with your health, you also don’t want your finances in the hands of someone you don’t trust.

The following are a handful of tips for men and women as they look for financial planners who they can be comfortable with for years to come.

Choose a certified planner. Many financial professionals claim to be planners, but only those men and women who are certified financial planners, or CFPs, are licensed and regulated.

CFPs must take various classes with regard to financial planning and pass an exam administered by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. In addition, a requirement to maintain their designation as CFPs is that, once certified, CFPs continue their education so they can stay abreast of the latest industry trends and developments. While CFP status does not guarantee a given planner will meet your needs, it’s a good place to start.

Consider how a CFP earns his or her living. How a CFP earns his or her living is another factor to consider. Commissionbased financial planners earn commissions when buying or selling a stock, while fee-based planners earn a percentage of

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your annual assets. Many people starting out prefer planners who earn hourly fees, feeling that such a pay structure makes them more comfortable and gives them time to build up a relationship with their planners.

Work with a fiduciary. Financial planners are held to two standards: the fiduciary standard and the suitability standard. The latter requires that planners give advice that suits investors’ objectives, while the former requires planners to give advice that puts their clients’ best interests ahead of their own. So what’s the difference? A planner beholden to the suitability standard can recommend the least suitable investment option (which may earn him or her more money) among a handful of suitable options, without having to report to his or her client any conflicts of interest, whereas a fiduciary is obligated to recommend the option that is best for the client.

Be wary of boasts. Some planners will try to impress prospective clients with boastful talk of beating the market. Such boastfulness should raise a red flag, as it suggests a planner is more likely to roll the dice with your money than

make sound investments.

Finding a trustworthy financial planner is a great way to grow your money. But who to work with is a decision that requires careful thought and research.

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3 ways to Understanding life insurance maintain good credit Life insurance is a product few people want to think about. That’s perfectly understandable, as life insurance forces men and women to consider their own mortality.

But life insurance is not something adults should avoid, especially if they have dependents.

Many people should consider life insurance when estate planning so they can provide security for their loved ones. But life insurance is a purchase unlike any other, and people may be confused or intimidated when attempting to purchase life insurance policies.

A good credit score can go a long way toward helping men and women secure their financial futures. When armed with a good credit score, men and women can secure lower interest rates on mortgages and auto loans, saving them thousands upon thousands of dollars over their lifetimes.

Some people deftly use credit to their advantage their whole lives by never missing a payment or never digging themselves into deep holes with regard to consumer debt. Others fight an uphill battle, earning a great credit score after digging themselves out of debt accumulated in early adulthood. Regardless of how men and women made it to the top of the credit score mountain, once they’re there the work has only just begun. Credit scores are fluid, so high scores must be maintained in order for lenders to continue to view prospective borrowers as worthy investments. The following are a handful of ways consumers can maintain their high credit scores so they can continue to benefit from their well-earned financial reputations.

1. Routinely monitor your score.

Credit scores change constantly, so it’s important that you continue to monitor your score to make sure there are no inaccuracies that can affect your standing. While each of the three major credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) must supply one free copy of your credit report every 12 months upon your request, some credit card companies now offer free monthly credit report updates. Cardholders can take advantage of such offerings to monitor their scores. Report any discrepancies to the appropriate rating agency immediately.

2. Sign up for automatic bill pay.

Credit scores can plunge quickly when consumers miss payments. No one is perfect, so it’s not out of the question that you

might miss a payment one time. Numerous factors contribute to your credit score, but payment history is perhaps the most influential variable when determining the final score, so a single missed payment can do significant harm. One way to avoid that and protect your credit score at the same time is to sign up for automatic bill pay. When signing up, use a bank account that always has a relatively high balance so you don’t run the risk of having insubstantial funds when the money is automatically deducted from your account.

3. Don’t use too much of your credit.

One of the benefits of having a great credit score is your available credit is likely to go up. That’s because lenders see consumers with high credit scores as good investments worthy of higher lines of credit.

But using too much credit, even when you have a high score, can be detrimental to that score. Credit utilization is another factor used to determine your credit score.

Your credit utilization rate is the sum of all your balances divided by your total available credit. A study from CreditKarma. com found a strong correlation between credit utilization rates and credit scores, as consumers who had lower utilization rates generally had higher scores. While it’s important to use credit (the study also found those with a zero percent utilization rate had lower credit scores than consumers with rates between 1 and 20 percent), avoid using too much of your available credit. Even if you pay your balances in full and on time each month, a high utilization rate may hurt your score.

Achieving a good credit score is only half the battle for consumers. Once that credit score is high, consumers must take steps to maintain it so they can continue to benefit for years to come.

Deciding if you need coverage While life insurance seems like the kind of thing every person should have, that’s not necessarily the case. For example, single men and women with no dependents and no tax or debt concerns generally do not need life insurance. If you are single but have tax issues or a considerable amount of debt, then a life insurance policy can be used to pay those debts upon your death.

Adults with dependents, such as a spouse and/or children, should consider purchasing life insurance, which can help your surviving dependents maintain their quality of life and pay their bills in the wake of your death.

Buying life insurance Much like various other types of insurance, life insurance can be purchased from an insurance agent or via an insurance company’s website. When choosing a company from which to buy a life insurance policy, look for a company with a strong rating, as no one wants to end up being burned by a life insurance provider who goes out of business. Some people prefer to work with independent brokers who can share information about products from various providers rather than just the

ones offered by the firm company-affiliated agents work for.

Choosing coverage When choosing coverage, you will no doubt be asked if you prefer term insurance or permanent insurance. Term insurance is the least expensive life insurance, and such policies only last for a predetermined number of years. Men and women may purchase life insurance policies if they only want life insurance until they retire or until their children reach adulthood. Permanent insurance is more expensive and will last from the moment you purchase the policy until your death. Many people choose permanent life insurance policies so the money their beneficiaries receive upon their death can be used to pay estate taxes.

In addition, there is an investment component to permanent insurance policies, as a portion of the premiums on such policies is invested (policies will spell out how the money is invested) and allowed to grow tax-free so long as the policy is open. Term insurance only provides protection with no investments.

When choosing how much coverage to purchase, it’s easy to go overboard and aim for as much as possible. However, many financial advisors suggest purchasing enough coverage to pay for funeral costs and a level of income replacement you can comfortably afford. If your spouse does not work, you should consider purchasing enough coverage so he or she can afford to pay the family’s day-to-day cost of living expenses.

Life insurance merits serious consideration, and adults should do their homework and fully understand a policy before signing any contracts.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 37

Dreamcoat Friday, Jan. 29, 10:30 a.m., 8 p.m.

TAO: Seventeen Samurai Saturday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m.

Orchestre National de France Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m.

The Winding Stream Friday, Feb. 5, 10:30 a.m.

Garry Krinsky’s Toying with Science Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.

The Bacon Brothers Friday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m.

Bettye LaVette Sunday, Feb. 14, 3 p.m.

Maucha Adnet & Helio Alves with Special Guest Anat Cohen Wednesday, Feb. 17, 8 p.m.

Rosanne Cash Sunday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m.

Disney Fantasia: Live in Concert Thursday, Feb. 25, 2 p.m.

JACK Quartet Friday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m. globalFest On the Road: Creole Carnival Sunday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 29, 10:30 a.m.

Dance Theatre of Harlem Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Sunday, March 6, 7 p.m.

Los Lobos with Ballet Folklórico Mexicano in Fiesta Mexico-Americana Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m.

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Sunday, March 13, 2 p.m.

Monday, March 14, 10:30 a.m.

Childsplay presents Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m.

Rebel Thursday, March 17, 2 p.m.

Friday, March 18, 10:30 a.m.

Shakespeare & Company presents Macbeth Saturday, March 19, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Christine Ebersole in The Big Noise from Winnetka Sunday, March 20, 3 p.m.

Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

Friday Night Fever Thursday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.

The Supernaturalists starring Criss Angel Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents: Bob Nelson Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.

Jon Pardi “All Time High Tour” with Brothers Osborne Sunday,Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

Holy Holy: The Man Who Sold The World Wednesday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.

Donny Osmond Thursday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.

The Blues Brothers: Starring Dan Aykroyd & Jim Belushi Saturday,Jan. 23, 8 p.m.

Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx Friday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Marianas Trench Friday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

Eric Burdon & The Animals

Friday Feb. 12, 9 p.m.

Chippendales Saturday Feb. 13, 5, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Jim Breuer Friday Feb. 19, 9 p.m.

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Wednesday, March 2, 8 p.m.

Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime Friday, March 4, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Jim Norton Friday, March 11, 8 p.m.

The Paramount Comedy Series Presents – Piff the Magic Dragon Saturday, March 12, 8 & 10:30 p.m.

Tracy Morgan Sunday, March 13, 2 p.m.

Imagination Movers Tuesday, March 15, 8 p.m.

Meat Loaf Friday, March 18, 8 p.m.

Mayday Parade & The Maine Saturday, March 19, 8 p.m.

The Marshall Tucker Band Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.

Puscifer Tuesday, April 12, 8 p.m.

Belinda Carlisle Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Robin Trower Sunday, April 24, 8 p.m.

Brit Floyd Saturday, May 8, 8 p.m.

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Comedy based on Betty Davis visit What if Baby Jane came for dinner and stayed … and stayed and stayed!

Based on Elizabeth Fuller’s true-life account of the legendary Bette Davis’s one night visit that lasted a month, Theatre Three’s “Me And Jezebel” is a look at the explosive, intimidating and demanding Davis.

Follow the outrageous icon as she participates in a séance, goes berry picking, signs autographs at McDonald’s and remains every inch the superstar while riding shotgun in a beat up Toyota.

A sparkling, hilarious evening with the diva who came to dine!

The production, which contains adult themes and language, features Marci Bing —last seen in her award-winning performance as Maria Callas in Master Class — and Elizabeth Ann Castrogiovanni as Elizabeth Fuller. The production is directed by Theatre Three veteran Bradlee E. Bing.

Me & Jezebel will be performed Jan. 9 through Feb. 6 at Theatre Three Productions, Inc. 412 Main Street in Port Jefferson. Call 631-928-9100 or visit www. theatrethree.com for further information.

Performances are scheduled for: Saturday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 10, 3 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17, 3 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 24, 3 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m.

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Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday, Jan. 9, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Steve White BROKERAGE COMEDY CLUB 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore (516) 785-8655 • http://tickets.brokeragecomedy.com Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 9 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Ryan Maher Friday, Jan. 8, 10:30 p.m.

Elvis’s 80th Birthday Special Tribute Show Nassau county museum of art 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 • http://nassaumuseum. org MAIN GALLERIES Nov. 21, 2015-Feb.28, 2016 Maxfield Parrish Paintings and Prints From The National Museum of American Illustration Works by the American imagist Maxfield Parrish (18701966), one of the greats of the Golden Age of Illustration, are drawn from the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island, and curated by Judy and Laurence S. Cutler. Maxfield Parrish: The works embody the artist’s long career and extraordinary accomplishments, displaying Parrish’s lush coloristic effect with amazing detail. The exhibition includes original artworks as well as a large collection of vintage prints.

Parrish’s universally popular and instantly recognizable images were produced between the late 1890s through the mid 1960s;

Photo/Peter Lanscombe, Theatre Three Productions, Inc.

Elizabeth Ann Castrogiovanni as Elizabeth Fuller and Marci Bing as Bette Davis

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G.C. eatery adds dash of music to menu Garden City’s Tocolo Cantina announced this week the addition of “Thursday Night Music Club at Tocolo,” bringing artists and bands to the venue with performances every Thursday night from 7 to 10 p.m. at 920 Old Country Road, Garden City.

Upcoming Performers Include:

Jan. 14 Phil Smith of The ‘90s Band Jan. 21- Jesse Andrews Jan. 28- Ryan Dobby Feb. 4- Tom San Filippo Feb. 11- Handful of Chords Feb. 18- Paul Mahos of New Life Crisis Feb. 25- Danielle Brogna of The Breakfast Club Band

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

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

Singles Association of L.I. For information on events, please call (516) 825-0633 or (516) 333-2851 or e-mail singlesassociationofli@yahoo. com.

YOUR WIDOWED SOCIAL GROUP The group meets on the third Wednesday of the each month (except July and August) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church on Franklin Ave. and Fifth Street, Garden City. There is a $5 fee for members and a $8 fee for non-members. For additional information, please call (516) 481-9280.

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they were seen on magazine covers, greeting cards, art prints, calendars, novels, advertisements and packaging. Clear and bold, with uncomplicated subjects, Maxfield Parrish’s art prints papered the walls of American homes for decades.

CONTEMPORARY GALLERY Nov.21, 2015-Feb. 28, 2016 Christopher Hart Chambers Painted sculptural works by award-winning New York artist Christopher Hart Chambers will be on view in a solo exhibition. These sculptures, incorporating urethane-based automotive paints, are rooted in what Chambers calls post-war “consumerist wants and dreams,” inspired by sports cars, hot rods, speed boats and even interstellar spacecraft. His design format remarks on graphic marketing systems, logos and emblems of corporate America. Works by Chambers have been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions and are included in many public and private collections.

EVENTS FILM Nov. 21, 2015-Feb. 28, 2016 Screenings: Tuesday-Saturday:* 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.; Sunday:* 11 a.m. & 12 p.m. *with exceptions for special programs Parrish Blue: American Art History In this rare 1967 film, which includes many of Maxfield Parrish’s original canvases, the artist’s son, Maxfield Parrish, Jr., and friend and fellow artist Norman Rockwell share their understanding of Parrish who dominated the popular arts in early 20th-century America.

We glimpse much of the artist’s work from magazine covers to advertisements, from huge murals to decorative prints, from book illustrations to note cards.

Photo attached-Maxfield Parrish FOR THE FAMILY Sundays, Jan. 10, 24, 31, 1 to 4 p.m.; Family Tour at 1 p.m.

Family Sundays at the Museum Converse, collaborate and create together during Family Sundays from 1 to 4 pm. Family Sundays begin with exhibition-based gallery conversations. Families then go on to explore new art materials, vocabulary and ideas with our museum educator. Family Sundays provide children and the adults in their lives with the opportunity to reconnect while talking about and making art together. New projects are featured every week! For children of all ages and their families to enjoy together.

Reservations not needed. Free with Museum admission. Not offered on January 17. Plan to attend the special family program that day.

Sunday, Jan. 17, 1 to 4 p.m.; Theater Workshops: 1:15, 2:15 & 3:15 p.m.

Once Upon a Time in a Gold Coast Mansion Once Upon a Time, before computers and TV, the museum mansion was the home of the Frick family and their four children. They read stories, made art, and performed plays for entertainment. Travel back in time to the early 20th century where families will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the mansion, participate in improv theater workshops with actor Lauren Brickman, and design miniature sets, costumes and characters. Three theater workshops are scheduled: 1:15- 1:45, 2:15 – 2:45, 3:15 – 3:45. For children of all ages and their families to enjoy together. Reservations not needed. Museum admission plus $10 per family materials fee. Please note: this event is in place of Family Sundays at the Museum.

EXHIBITION LECTURE

Thursdays, Feb. 4, 1-2 p.m.

Brown Bag Lectures: Riva Ettus Bring a sandwich and enjoy lunch with friends as Museum Docent Riva Ettus presents an informative talk on the current exhibition, Maxfield Parrish: Paintings and Prints.

Afterward, join the 2 p.m. public exhibition tour. Free with museum admission. Reservations not needed; first come, first seated.

AUTISM PROGRAMS Tuesdays, March 29, May 3, 17, June 7, 4-5:15 p.m.

Creative Expeditions Children aged 5-10 who are on the autism spectrum, along with their families or caregivers, engage in gallery experiences that encourage talking about and making art.

For further information, call (516) 484-9338, ext. 12.

Tuesdays, April 5 & 19, May 10 & 24, June 14, 4-5:15 p.m.

Autism & the Arts Children aged 11-16 who are on the autism spectrum, along with their families or caregivers, engage in making and exploring art through experiences that promote independence and communication. For further information, call (516) 484-9338, ext. 12.

ONGOING Sculpture Park Approximately 40 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others, are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property.

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

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

Long island children’s museum 11 Davis Ave, Garden City (516) 224-5800 http://www.licm.org/ Museum Hours: Daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated). Museum admission: $12 for adults and children over 1 year old, $11 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact (516) 224-5800.

Pirates sail into LICM to share swashbuckling science lessons LICM starts the New Year in swashbuckling style when it welcomes Captain Billy Bones to share exciting science lessons that have been used by seafarers to navigate the high seas. Visitors will learn how sailors became inventors and used clever machines and instruments to ensure they survived being out on the oceans for long periods of time.

Tuesday, Jan. 12 - Friday, Jan. 15 from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 19 through Friday, Jan. 22, 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Penguin Pals Create your own cute Penguin Pal to “waddle” home with you this winter! Ages: 3 and up. Free for museum admission.

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Pirate Show with Captain Billy Bones Billy Bones is generally a Good Pirate!

Youngsters of all ages have a little bit of pirate in them. Like pirates, kids naturally yearn for adventure, independence and self-actualization. They love discovery, carousing and challenging authority. It captivates children’s imaginations and, when presented in a nurturing, non-violent environment; it’s embraced by parents.

This production was created by David Engel, a veteran family entertainer based in New York who has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $9 with museum admission ($7 LICM members), $12 theater only Tuesday, Jan. 12, 10:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 13, 10:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 21, 10:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 22, 10:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.

The SCIENCE of Pirates!

Historically, seafarers have pushed science and technology forward. Who better to captivate and expand children’s horizons than the swaggering staff of Pirate School? Combining important educational themes with the universal dream of swashbuckling adventure, this performance galvanizes children’s’ attention and stirs their spirits with a mischievous blend of interactive clown theater, eccentric props, adept magic, a rich musical score and cartoon-like sound effects.

Pirate School subjects include simple machines, optics, navigation/astronomy, aero/ hydrodynamics, and of course things that go BOOM! Free family activity packet available online at www.licm.org. This production was created by David Engel, a veteran family entertainer based in New York who has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. Ages: 7 and up. Fee: $9 with museum admission ($7 LICM members), $12 theater only.

All activities will be held at the Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Museum Hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10 am.-5 p.m. and most school holidays. Museum admission: $13 for adults and children over 1 year old, $12 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.

Monday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.

Dreaming with Dr. King Celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and explore his remarkable legacy. Be inspired by his vision of peace, love, and equality to paint a colorful portrait of Dr. King! Ages: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Saturday, Jan. 23, 2 to 4 p.m.

Earth Rattling Shakers Join us as we celebrate the arrival of “When the Earth Shakes,” a traveling exhibit all about the science of earthquakes. Come and create your own fun shaker toy as you learn about the Earth and what makes it shake! Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, Jan. 24, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Not-Its! This Seattle “kindie rock” quintet will have children and their parents on their feet “Raising Their Hands” for more. They rock kids and families with their up-tempo albums and live concerts which give children their first “rock show” experience. Moms, dads and

kids will have an awesome alt-rock experience – together when we welcome The Not-Its! to the LICM stage.er. Ages: 3 and up.

Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members), $10 theater only.

Jan. 23 – April 24 Traveling Exhibit -When the Earth Shakes Get ready for the science of earthquakes, tsunamis and earthquake engineering! Jump on the Quake Karaoke platform and match an earthquake seismogram! Build a structure, then make waves crash on a ‘beach’ in the 16-foot long Tsunami Tank. Did your structure hold up? Spin the dial, replay the impact in slow-motion, then improve your design. Can it withstand more powerful waves? Find out what happens when you add a seawall.

Complete Puzzled Earth, the plate tectonic puzzle, before time runs out and the pieces fall! Spin through geologic time to make Earth’s continents move and re-form. Be an engineer as you design and build structures to withstand earthquakes on the Shake Table.

Find out what engineers do to keep our world safer…When the Earth Shakes! This exhibit was created by Sciencenter with the support of the National Science Foundation and Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

All activities will be held at the Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Museum Hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10 am.-5 p.m. and most school holidays. Museum admission: $13 for adults and children over 1 year old, $12 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.

THE DOLPHIN BOOK SHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop. com Wednesday, Jan. 20. 20, 7 p.m.

Author Book Discusssion: “Hereos to the End” by Jim Smith PLANTING FIELDS Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 • http://www.plantingfields.org Friday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m.

Music At The Mansion Concert Series Joelle and the Pinehurst Trio Saturday, Jan. 23 - Sunday, Jan. 24, 12 - 4 p.m.

Paradise Weekend at Planting Fields Saturday, Feb. 13 - Sunday, Feb. 14, 11 a.m.

- 4 p.m.

Celebrate Chinese New Year at Coe Hall Friday, Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m.

Music At The Mansion Concert Series Dolce Vita Strings Saturday, March 5 - Sunday, March 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Camellia House Weekend Friday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.

Music At The Mansion Concert Series The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn Saturday,April 23 - Sunday, April 24, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Arbor Day Family Festival Queensborough Performing Arts Center 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 (718) 595-2905 • http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/ qpac/ Sunday, March 13, 8 p.m.

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Broadcast of famed violin’s return in Port The Brotherhood of The Community Synagogue welcomes 92 Y LIVE’s prerecorded broadcast of “The Return of the Violin”: Screening and Discussion with Joshua Bell, Sigmund Rolat and Budd Mishkin on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at The Community Synagogue at 160 Middle Neck Road in Port Washington.

Following the broadcast discussion, the film, “The Return of the Violin,” will be shown in its entirety.

“The Return of the Violin” chronicles the odyssey of a 301-year-old Stradivarius, now played by Joshua Bell. The story is told through the eyes of holocaust survivor Sigmund Rolat who is responsible for the film.

The movie reveals the violin’s relationship to Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, a legendary humanitarian who saved Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians by forming the Palestine Orchestra.

Following the film, Joshua Bell and Sigmund Rolat discuss this remarkable instrument’s journey. Desserts, coffee and tea will be served.

Individual tickets are $15 each and can be purchased on The Community Synagogue website at http://www.commsyn. org/programs/92y-lecture-series, or by email at btobin@optonline.net or call the Synagogue’s 92nd St Y order line (516) 883-3144, ext. 390 and leave your name, phone number and the number of tickets.

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Celebrating with pot pie dinners 2 carrots, diced medium There is just something about winter that says hot, steaming, deli5 tblsps. Wondra cious pot pies. I often serve them as a 2 cups chicken broth midweek meal in our home because 1/4 lb. frozen peas, thawed I have created a recipe that takes al2 cups diced cooked chicken most no preparation time. The crust (I use rotisserie chicken) is store bought, turning this meal Salt and pepper into an assembly project, rather than 1 sheet, thawed puff pastry a full blown cooking affair. (available at supermarkets or Round out your pot pie with CULINARY ARCHITECT a salad and a hot, bubbly apple CATERING) crumble and you have yourself a 1 beaten egg hearty winter feast. It is even special 1. In a large saucepan, melt enough to serve at a dinner party.

Just add a few hors d’oeuvres and butter over medium-high heat. Add you have a wonderful evening for onion, celery, and carrots and cook until onion is translucent, about 5 entertaining friends. minutes. Add Wondra and cook, Menu stirring, 1 minute. Gradually add Serves 4 broth, stirring constantly, then bring Warming Chicken Pot Pie to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer Salad with Extra Virgin 5 minutes. Add chicken and season Olive Oil Vinaigrette with salt and pepper.

Apple Crumble 2. Divide filling among four 8-ounce ramekins. Roll out 1 sheet Warming Chicken Pot Pie puff pastry and cut 4 squares to fit This recipe is very forgiving. You ramekins. Instead of cutting an may substitute cooked beef for chick- “X” in the top of each for venting, en and change up the vegetables.

I cut out the initials of the diner.

3 tblsps. unsalted butter Brush with beaten egg. Bake at 375 1 small onion, minced degrees until filling is bubbling and 1 stalk celery, thinly sliced crust is golden, 30 to 40 minutes.

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect

Salad with Extra Virgin Olive Oil SALAD 16 oz. greens of your choice, cleaned, dried and ready to dress (I like Baby Red Romaine, Green Leaf and Boston.)

DRESSING 2 tblsps. red wine vinegar 2 tblsps. balsamic vinegar

Salt Fresh ground pepper 1 tsp. sugar 2 tblsps. Dijon mustard 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 1. Make dressing by placing all ingredients, except the oil, in a food processor. Turn on food processor.

2. Slowly, Pour in oil, while motor is running until dressing is emulsified.

3. To serve salad: Take a large bowl and pour 1/4 of dressing in the bowl. Add greens and toss.

Add more dressing, if needed. Plate and serve.

Apple Crumble Topping 1 1/4 cups old-fashioned oats 1 1/4 cups (packed) golden brown sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup (1 stick) chilled and unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes Nonstick vegetable oil spray Filling 2 lbs. large Granny Smith

apples, peeled, halved, cored, each half cut into 6 slices 2 tblsps. fresh lemon juice 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1. Mix oats, 1/2 cup sugar, and flour in bowl. Add butter, rub in with fingertips until topping comes together in moist clumps.

(Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover, chill.)

2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray 13X9X2-inch porcelain baking dish with non-stick spray. Mix apples, lemon juice, cinnamon and 1/4 cup brown sugar in bowl. Transfer to dish. Sprinkle topping over.

3. Bake crumble until apples are tender and topping is brown and crisp, about 1 hour. Cool slightly. Serve.

Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 32year old Greenvale-based company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties. For more photos and presentation ideas, follow Culinary Architect Catering on Facebook.

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Program to honor Isadora Duncan Great Neck-based Dance Visions NY will presents “The Divine Flame: The Life, Times, Inspirations and Dance of Isadora Duncan” on Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Jericho Library Auditorium at 1 Merry Lane in Jericho, and at the Long Beach Public Library Auditorium, 111 W Park Ave. in Long Beach.

“The Divine Flame” is a multi-disciplinary program that brings together Duncan’s dramatic life, her revolutionary dances and the art and music that inspired her.

Dance Visions NY presents the au-

thentic Duncan dances to the music of Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Gluck, and Scriabin.

Featured in this program about Isadora’s life and art are actress and television personality Shirley Romaine as narrator and Duncan dancers Beth Jucovy and Adrienne Ramm, sisters, who have been immersed in the Duncan tradition since childhood. Their life-time teachers included Anna Duncan, Julia Levien and Hortense Kooluris.

Dancers Louisa Armstrong and Vanessa Ferranti as well as teen dancers, all

trained in the Duncan aesthetic by MJucovy, round out the program.

Accompanying musicians are pianist Mark Fiedler, soprano Patti Dunham and flutists Herbert Waldren and Bernard Rose.

The program incorporates slides of Isadora and the art that inspired her.

The Divine Flame was presented from 1995- 2001 to wonderful reception throughout the Metropolitan area and in 2009 for the Hofstra Museum of Dance.

Dance Visions is reviving this acclaimed program.

There is no fee for tickets. For ticket reservations, please call Dance Visions NY at 516 314 2359 or the individual venues, Jericho: 516 935 6790; Long Beach: 516 432 7201 The mother of modern dance, Duncan was a pioneering feminist and one of the first international superstars. The originality of her art characterized her life, which was restless and exciting, triumphant and tragic. This program brings together her story, her dances, and music to create a fascinating theater piece.

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Great Neck Library Jr. Levels and Totally Tweens Workshops For 5th and 6th Graders Calling all 5th and 6th graders – check out the Great Neck Library’s Jr. Levels and Totally Tweens program.

This includes arts and crafts, video gaming, movie-making, theatre games – and much more. This co-presentation of the Library’s Children’s Department and Levels (the Great Neck Library’s Teen Center) promises some really exciting workshops for the new year, Mondays through Thursdays, from Jan. 25 through March 10.

Each workshop will meet for six sessions. The following four will meet from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Library’s Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza. Monday is Gaming Workshop, where students will learn the basics of video game design.

Tuesday is Arts and Crafts, featuring painting, drawing, jewelry-making and other crafts. Wednesday is Theatre Games, where students will play hilarious improvisational games and learn to create scenes and sketches on the spot. Thursday is Animation, where students will use Legos, action figures and even themselves to create mini-animated films.

Totally Tweens Gaming Club meets at the Library’s Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), in New Hyde Park on Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Each week, participants

while the Main Library building is being renovated. The next film will be shown on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Station Branch, The Gardens at Great Neck, 26 Great Neck Road, 2nd level (above Planet Fitness).

Refer to the Library Newsletter, film brochure or website for information on the films scheduled. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Arrive early as seating is limited.

Priority seating is given to Great Neck School District residents. Please bring your Library card, driver’s license or other ID showing your Great Neck School District address.

Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park will pick and play a game on the Library’s Nintendo Wii U console - ranging from Mario Kart 8, to Super Smash Bros., and others. Bring your friends, because it’s about to be on like Donkey Kong.

Workshops are for 5th and 6th graders only. Registration for all workshops begins Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 9:30 a.m. online, 10:01 a.m. in person or over the phone.

Please call the Library’s Children’s Department at (516) 466-8055, ext. 209 to register or for more information, or visit the Library’s website at www.greatnecklibrary.org.

Parkville Library Club You’re invited to come and spend Tuesday afternoons at the Parkville Branch for our new Parkville Library Club. Join us Tuesday, Jan. 12, between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park, 11040. Bring your knitting or Canasta set… or your Mahjong tiles… Scrabble board… Chess set…Backgammon board - whatever games or hobby you enjoy.

There will be someone here to enjoy the time with. We’ll bring the coffee and cake.

The Parkville Library Club will continue each Tuesday, between 2 and 4 p.m.

AARP Tax Help at the Parkville Branch AARP Tax Assistance volunteers will be available to help with preparation and filing of simple Federal and State tax forms (online only) on Wednesdays, Feb. 3 to April 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), in New Hyde Park. Registration for AARP Tax Assistance appointments begins on Monday, Jan. 11 at 10 a.m. Contact the Parkville

Branch at (516) 466-8055, ext. 273.

Finance Committee Meeting at Station The next Board of Trustees Finance Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza. Please check with the Library at (516) 4668055, ext. 201 to confirm that the meeting date, time and location has not changed.

Film at Station Branch All film matinees are now held at the Station Branch

Great Neck Library Closing/Cancellation Information Online Library patrons connected to the Internet are asked to check the website: www. cancellations.com for Library weather related closings/ program cancellations.

In order to access this service, Library District residents can log on to cancellations.com, type in their zip code or Great Neck Library and obtain information on program cancellations or Library closings. In addition, at no charge, residents can request automatic e-mails from cancellations.com when the Library has posted any information. This is a great way for Library District residents who are connected online to be advised of weather related changes in Library hours or programs.

Great Neck Community Calendar TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, active people, meets Tuesday, Jan. 12 at Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., at Great Neck’s Adult Ed Center. At 9 a.m. Herb Finkston will discuss, “James G. McDonald, First Ambassador to Isreal.” The Business Meeting starts 10:30 a.m. “My Opinion” will be presented by Joan Weiner. You are invited to join in the discussion! This week’s speaker is Les Penner, who will discuss his Visit to Cuba!

Hot off the Press! We all eat lunch together at 11:45 a.m. so please join us and bring your lunch. Current Events round table follows

with a discussion led by Les Bokar. Refreshments coffee and tea will be served. The Economics Club meets every second Tuesday; Book Club meets the last Tuesday of the month; Short Story Club meets the thirrd week; Science Club meets the first week, all at 1 p.m.

ST. ALOYSIUS SOCIABLES St. Aloysius Sociables of Great Neck will host a luncheon at the Jolly Fisherman, 25 Main St,. Roslyn at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13. Cost: Price of your meal.

Please call John Hyland for reservations ( 516) 4823795.

FREE EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strengthening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors. Monday through Saturday. Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck.

Call for more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, (516) 7458050.

LIONS CLUB HEARING AID PROGRAM The Great Neck Lions Club is pleased to announce their participation in “Lions Lend An Ear,” a program of the Nassau County

district of Lions Clubs International. The program provides hearing aids and related products and services at no cost to hearing impaired individuals who qualify based on financial need and communication need. Great Neck Lions Club is asking the local places that accept donated eyeglasses to accept used hearing aids as well. Note: The hearing aids should be placed in the eyeglass collection boxes located in all the Great Neck Libraries as well as offices of the Village of Russell Gardens, Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Village Hall on Baker Hill Road.

ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS The Rotary Club of Great Neck currently meets every Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank, 2 Great Neck Road. Community residents and business members are welcome to visit Club meetings and discover how meaningful and satisfying it is to give back service to the community while networking through Rotary. For further information please see: www.clubrunner.ca/ greatneck/ or call (516) 487-9392.

WOMANSPACE A discussion group de-

voted to issues concerning women. Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Great Neck Senior Center, at 80 Grace Ave, Great Neck. New members welcome. For more info call Joan Keppler at (516) 487-5844.

LIONS CLUB OF GREAT NECK Lions Club of Great Neck meets the first Monday of each month at Pearl East Restaurant, 1190 Northern Blvd., Manhasset at 12 p.m. If you would like to attend a meeting and learn more about our club, please contact fernweiss@aol.com or call (516) 829-5192.

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Great Neck Park District Commissioner Robert A. Lincoln, Jr. Sworn in for Another Term Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m., Commissioner Robert A. Lincoln, Jr. is sworn into office for his sixth term as Great Neck Park District Commissioner. This installation for the constitutional oath of office, takes place at the Park District Office, 5 Beach Road. Jason R. Marra, new Superintendent of the Great Neck Park District will be introduced at the new meeting.

All welcome to attend.

Nature Program: Maple Sugaring Sunday, Jan. 10 at 12:30 p.m., join us for Maple Sugaring in Steppingstone Park (90% indoors). In addition to learning how to identify and tap a maple tree, you will discover the cultural, historical, economic and scientific background of this uniquely American craft. Call 516-4820355 to register. Children under 16 yrs. not permitted to attend.

Weekend Movie The documentary, He Named Me Malala (2015), directed

by Davis Guggenheim and starring Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai Yousafzai will be showing at Great Neck House this weekend. It is a look at the events leading up to the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls’ education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

It can be seen at Great Neck House on Friday, Jan. 8 at 8

He Named Me Malala will be shown Saturday and Sunday at Great Neck House. p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 9 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. It is rated PG-13 and runs 128 minutes. Admission requires a park card.

Great Neck Park District Bears Hockey Team The Great Neck Park District Bears Hockey Team is looking forward to Session II which begins on Monday, January 4 and runs through April 15. Children ages 5- 12 are welcome and experience is not necessary. For interested participants, there is still room to join the team. Call 516-

The Great Neck Park District Bears Hockey Team

487-2976, ext. 128 for more information.

Sunday @ 3 at Great Neck House Twin Gold, is a doo wop and oldies harmony sister act that will perform at Great Neck House on Sunday, January 10 at 3 p.m. Join us for a special afternoon. A park card is required for admission to Great Neck House.

Skate Lessons at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink. The Great Neck Park District Skate School offers programs that are designed to develop a

skaters’ natural ability and encourage future athletes. Call to learn about private or group lessons at 516-487-2975, Ext. 114. Register now for next semester’s classes. Private lessons may be arranged with a professional and can be taught during any of our many public or freestyle sessions.

Defensive Driving Classes at Great Neck House Great Neck House continues to offer Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Classes.

The classes run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The next

class is Saturday, February 6.

To sign up for a class or for more information, call Great Neck House at 516-4820355.

Indoor Playscape at Steppingstone Park Children, ages 2-9, will love the indoor Playscape, at Steppingstone Park no matter what the weather is outside.

LEGO walls and tables in one area, a play diner and supermarket in another and many other imaginative ways to explore. Residents must present a park card to be admitted into the park (two guests welcome per park card). Open Monday through Sunday; 8:45 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Reservations are required (or come down for first-come, first-served) because there is a limit to how many children can play at once. An adult must be present with the child(ren) as there are NO drop-offs permitted. Call for more information (516) 487-9228 or to reserve an open play slot.

The phone will be answered only when the Playscape is open.

Birthday Parties in the Park District If you’re looking for a new way to celebrate your child’s birthday, the Park District has choices for you. Enjoy a private party room at Steppingstone Park with one of

our unique birthday packages (Dancin’ Disco, Glamour & Glitz, Superhero Style, to name a few) which includes invitations, pizza, cake, 2 party hosts and more. For more information or to book a party at Steppingstone Park call 516-482-0355. Ice skating parties are also offered at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink with a package that includes skate rental, food and more. To reserve your child’s next birthday party at the rink or for more information call 516-829-4323.

Commuter Parking Violations As a courtesy to residents, the Park District issues one parking window decal per resident household at no cost.

If needed, a second permit may be purchased for $12. IF YOU ARE NOT A RESIDENT or do not have a window decal on your car, you are in violation of our parking rules and risk receiving a costly parking ticket. We have increased our code enforcement staff to ensure that only park district residents have complete access to parking in our commuter lots. Parking window decals and daily, monthly and annual parking tickets can be obtained or purchased at Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue.

Call (516) 482-0355 for further information.

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Rotary Club delivers toys to tots On Dec. 21, club members of the Rotary Club of Great Neck delivered toys, games, school supplies and holiday cheer to the students of COPAY, a Great Neck community organization for parents and youth, at their annual holiday party.

The theme of Rotary International is to “Be a Gift to the World, through Service Above Self”, and providing support to COPAY, is one way the Rotary Club of Great Neck fulfills their commitment to the Great Neck community.

For fellowship, interesting programs, a chance to network and promote your business or service and an opportunity to provide service above self , you are invited to join club members at one of their free breakfast meetings on Wednesday mornings, from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank at 2 Great Neck Road.

For further information please see www.clubrunner.ca/greatneck or call 516-487-9392.

Junior firefighter elected officials sworn in The junior firefighters of the Great Neck Alert Fire Company recently held their annual dinner and 2016 officer elections.

The newly elected officers for 2016 were sworn in by Alert Chief James Neubert and Alert firefighter John Motchkavitz.

The new officers are Captain Ryan

Motchkavitz; 1st Lieutenant David Oginski, 2nd Lieutenant Nicholas Rietbroek, Recording Secretary Charlie Judson, and Financial Secretary Natasha Castro.

Motchkavitz was sworn in as the 35th captain, following in the footsteps of his father, John, who was the Company’s third juniors captain in 1984.

Prior to becoming Captain, Ryan

served as Financial Secretary in 2014 and 2nd Lieutenant in 2015.

During the dinner, Motchkavitz and former 1st Lieutenant Julia Rietbroek presented a plaque to outgoing captain Conner Campbell.

Motchkavitz also presented a special award to outgoing 1st Lieutenant Rietbroek.

Campbell joined the Alert Juniors in 2011 and prior to becoming Captain in 2015, he also served one year as first Lieutenant and one year as Financial Secretary.

Julia joined the Alert Juniors in 2011 and first served as Recording Secretary in 2014 before becoming First Lieutenant in 2015.

Rubin to speak at Reach Out America January meeting Journalist, news reporter, opinion writer and photographer Karen Rubin will be Reach Out America’s guest speaker at their monthly meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m..

Her topic will be an important one to her and to all citizens as well. It is: “How the News Business Impacts Democracy.”

There have been so many changes in how we get our news, who controls it, how it is conveyed, who pays for it, what passes for news and how it impacts our de-

mocracy.

Rubin was for many years the editor of the Great Neck News. She now contributes a weekly opinion piece to the paper. Her topic can be local, national or international. It is always timely.

Rubin hails back to the days when newspaper reporters did everything. She covers every local event be it political, cultural, sports or spectacle. Beyond the Great Neck News and the other On the Island papers she writes independent opin-

ion pieces and covers events for her own website www.

Examiner.com. It will be a newsworthy meeting. Don’t miss it!

The meeting will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road in Manhasset. All are invited. Admission is free. Refreshments.

Prior to the guest speaker at 12:30 Reach Out America’s regular meeting with reports on ongoing activities upcoming actions will take place. All are invited.

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Landscape company decorates Village Green For the past three years, the Great Neck Park District has accepted Santelli & Sons offer to decorate the Village Green tree for the holidays.

It takes hours out of Santelli’s schedule but they said they are delighted that the entire Great Neck community can enjoy the festive cheer in the park during the holiday season.

All of the other decorations throughout the park are put up by the Park District staff.

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Children Dancing to present winter show Children Dancing will present their 27th annual Winter Showcase including excerpts from the Nutcracker and other Winter Dances on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at Huske Hall in All Saint’s Church at 855 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck.

The public is welcome to this free celebration of Winter.

The program this year will include a rendition of the snow dance as well as the

Spanish dance from The Nutcracker with young dancers ages 7-10.

Dancers from this age group will also perform a jazz/pop dance to “Same Od Love”.

Teen dancers will perform original dances from the opera Carmen.

In addition, they will dance in Isadora Duncan dance works.

A special treat this year will be adult dancers from Jucovy’s class of Classical/Creative Dance at Great Neck Continuing Education who will also perform Isadora Duncan repertory.

The works of original choreography are by Jucovy, school director.

Children Dancing and Dance Visions NY, Great Neck’s professional dance company (www.dancevisionsny.org), both under the direction of Jucovy, are housed at All Saint’s Church as well as at the other end of town on Horace Harding Boulevard.

Children Dancing begins a new semester of classes Feb. 1, with registration taking place now.

Contact Beth Jucovy at 516-482-2621 or children. dancing@gmail.com for information or visit the website www.childrendancing.net.

Lawrence picks up state honor Stella Lawrence, a teacher assistant at the John F. Kennedy School, is the recipient of a special award from the New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL). She was nominated for this award by Susanne Marcus, past president of NYS TESOL. In her recommendation, Marcus wrote that Lawrence has assisted “countless families” in the more than 25 years that she has been in the district, “reaching out to our Spanish-speaking families, making home visits, and even collecting and delivering clothing to the new arrivals.” She is often the translator at Committee on Special Education meetings and is a “staunch advocate for our immigrant students.” Lawrence was also a charter member of the Great Neck Hispanic Community organization.

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On Jan. 24, the Gold Coast Arts CenWith International Women’s Day ap- ter will open its “Wonder Women” exhibit, proaching in March, the Gold Coast Arts an exhibition showcasing contemporary Center is set to present an exhibition in- female artists and their stories. spired by the growth of women in the art Continued on Page 62

Great Neck Social Center Appealing Your Property Assessment?

Town of North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes, Charles Berman, will review the grievance process at the Great Neck Social Center on Friday, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m.

He will have applications available at this valuable workshop helping you to use your right to appeal your property’s assessment.

It only takes a few minutes to fill in the Application for Correction of Property Tax Assessment.

Veterans Social Club Join Veterans, their families and guests on Friday, Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. Every program of the monthly Veterans Social Club is planned as both stimulating and entertaining. There is no charge, and refreshments are served courtesy of Atria Great Neck.

World in Depth The whole globe seems to be in a state of chaos, but the moderators of The World in Depth meet with us every Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m.to sort it all out. These savvy moderators guide us into lively and productive discussions.On Jan. 14, John Tokar moderates. On Jan. 21, it’s Jeigh

Duran and on Jan. 28, Martha Cohen moderates.

There is no charge to put your own opinion into the mix, so join the group for a stimulating afternoon.

National Pharmacist Day Recognize the special know-how of our highly skilled pharmacists on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at the Great Neck Social Center.

At 10 a.m. they will present a program on Prescription Drugs to give you the latest on the national and international drug scene. Bring your questions. They’ll have answers!

Sharon Patel and Healthy Eating Tips Our neighbor, Grace Plaza, sends Sharon to us on Jan. 14 at 11a.m. to give us tips on healthy, delicious eating. She shares ideas just in time for winter when we like to give in to tummy testers that feel good going down while weight goes up.

Hear her “take” on how to stay moderate while enjoying delicious meals.

Lunch and Learn Janet De Winter will present one of her fabulous book reviews on Jan. 12.

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Why wait until spring to sell home?

I have spoken to many homeowners who have decided to wait until the spring to sell their homes.

I ask why, and the response has been, “Well there will be many more purchasers at that time of the year.”

Right now, with the lack of snow and the weather more than cooperating, buyers are out in full force, buying, pretty much everything in site, if the home is priced correctly.

So waiting until the spring, is not really the best path to take.

Plus, if you are planning to relocate south or west, prices will potentially be lower at this time of the year than in the spring.

More important, interest rates have or will have gone up by then, eliminating some buyers from the market.

Also, as of Jan. 1, mortgage recording fees have gone up (three fold for each mortgage recording document) hundreds of dollars, (better than raising our real estate taxes that much more, which I am sure was an option, but I guess some want to get re-elected) so Nassau County will have another source of income to pay their every ballooning bills and debts.

So all transactions that are now occurring will cost the buyer and seller in each and every new transaction.

I am curious about whether or not there is additional savings that would occur, if the county looked into their expenses and examined every line item to see if money

could be saved.

It is always easier to tax the public, rather than seeing if savings could be determined by looking deep into budgets that in many situations, have areas of being bloated with costs over runs. Who is accountable for this? It is easy to go after homeowners, especially when there are larger numbers and who will really complain about it; less constituents will even know or maybe care where that extra money that is taken from the transaction is going or even ask where it is going.

It is the least path of resistance to collect that money, than raising our real estate taxes more than the proposed increase of 1.2 percent for 2016.

So, again, this is an excellent time to put your home on the market to sell.

Your savings of heating, assuming you sell quickly by pricing it where the market is and having a bit of a bidding war too; real estate taxes, maintenance of your home etc.

More important, once you have sold, are you going to rent or purchase? Will you be applying for a mortgage or paying cash for your next purchase?

Interest rates just might go up again in the spring, so your interest savings could be substantial over a 15-30 year period. Just do the math. If the rates are a ¼ point higher on a 700,000 purchase, with a 4 percent interest rate, 20 percent down over 30 years; your total interest payments would be

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$402,469.24 (assuming you make no extra payments and pay the mortgage through the 30th year).

The same situation with 4.25 percent interest would boost your total interest payments to: $431,750.82 and if the rates go to 4.50 percent then total interest payments would then go to $461,477.58.

You can see and understand that time is of the essence in purchasing in today’s market and waiting will cost you on average $29,000 in additional interest over 30 years (or an average of an extra $1,000 per year) for every ¼ point increase in mortgage interest rates, plus you will sacrifice any price appreciation which could be from 3-5 percent (or normally based on the current inflation rate, as has been in the past).

One must also calculate the lost tax deductions that you will miss out, so you would pay additional

income taxes, based on your tax bracket and not having the allowed home deductions of taxes and interest. This example is geared to those who are renting. If you own, then the impact might be less. But more important, even if you might lose some money on your current home (due to purchasing in the height of the market 8-10 years ago) to move up to the next level, you will gain it back, in potential negotiations, greater appreciation due to the higher price point purchase, potentially greater tax deductions and the need of more room and satisfaction in moving to a better location, school, etc.

Look at selling your property as a stepping stone to getting out of what you really want to move away from to where you really need and want to be.

Look at the big picture and maybe renovating and/or expanding your current residence, could be another possibility.

However make sure what you are spending in your upgrade, doesn’t turn your current home into the most expensive domicile on the block or the surrounding blocks; in the event you might have to sell within the next three to five years.

Stay within a planned budget. Get two to three estimates, preferably from referrals and ask for names, addresses and, if possible, phone numbers of at least three jobs that the contractor has completed.

One that was done 10 years ago, five years ago and one that was recently completed.

Make sure that those clients were satisfied with the work and that it was done in a timely manor.

Also, make sure they have complete insurance (also ask, from whomever you finally choose, to have you as an additional insured on a certificate of insurance, so in the event of God forbid, a fire, damage, or someone getting hurt, etc. that the contractors insurance will cover the liability and not your homeowner’s).

Only you can decide whether to sell and upgrade or downsize or expand your existing home.

Look at all the options and feel comfortable with the decision and then move ahead. The winter will be the best time to expand or relocate, since there will be less competition for the existing inventory and contractors will be a bit more negotiable, since work is usually slower at this time of the year.

One last tip, replace central air in the winter and heating in the summer for the best deals.

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Enjoy a More Healthier, More Happier, & Hopefully More Prosperous 2016!

Philip A. Raices, Pres..C.E.O. Licensed Real Estate Broker Consultant Turn Key Real Estate 7 Bond St Great Neck N. Y. 11021 Mobile: (516) 647-4289 Email: Phil@TurnKey RealEstate.Com

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Port Washington Parking District patrons who park their cars in Port Washington will no longer need to obtain papers or stickers to prove they are registered.

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio announced on Monday that the town is adopting a new paperless parking system, which will begin in the Port Washington Parking District.

“This new initiative will allow Port Washington Parking District residents to acquire their permits and vouchers online from anywhere at any time,” Bosworth said. “Not only will this be more convenient for our residents, but it will also save our taxpayers money.”

The new system removes the need for any parking stickers or decals, and will save “a minimum of

$150,000 over 10 years from the parking district budget,” a release from the Town of North Hempstead said.

The town Board approved an agreement Gtechna USA last November to provide the Town of North Hempstead with the software and services necessary to establish this new paperless system.

Town parking enforcement vehicles will be equipped with license plate readers to scan and verify parking permissions, and residents will be able to apply for and obtain their parking permits on the town’s website, according to the release.

“I am very excited for the parking district to implement this convenient and cost effective parking permit service,” De Giorgio said. “Gtechna will help to alleviate some of the stress of commuter parking, while reducing expenses within the Parking District. I look forward to using ground-breaking technology to further assist in

resolving parking issues throughout my District.”

A similar “pay by plate” system is used in the cities of Baltimore, Md., Buffalo, Flint, Mich., Galveston, Texas, and Miami, FLla. the release said.

Gtechna developed e-Citation software to automate law enforcement and parking activity for police and public works departments in North America.

According to their website, Gtechna “offers public safety and parking agencies the first complete and integrated multi-application software designed to automate the entire range of law enforcement activities.

From license plate recognition to code enforcement and parking software, gtechna Officer helps you manage all aspects of your enforcement program efficiently and cost-effectively.”

The program does not have definite start date yet but will begin early 2016.

Bringing technology to the Levels teen center Continued from Page 1 elor’s degree in social sciences.

He went on to receive his master’s in secondary education from Fordham University.

After college, Hinz taught Social Studies at a New York City middle school for three years, where he said he would incorporate various aspects of the arts into the projects he assigned his students.

“As a teacher, all of my projects that I had students work on culminated in an art-based project,” he said.

In August 2007, Hinz took a position as a curriculum developer at Kaplan K12 Learning Services, where he authored middle school and high school curriculums.

He said he “climbed the ladder” at Kaplan, moving up the company ranks to serve as a curriculum editor, an English

language arts curriculum manager and finally becoming the director of content and product development for college prep.

At the Oct. 27 library board meeting, residents said they had concerns about Hinz’s background in test preparation rather than in the performing arts, which Levels specializes in.

Great Neck Library Director Kathy Giotsas said while he did have a background in music, Hinz’s background in managing staff members at Kaplan played a role in his hiring and that his position was not limited to just theatrical and musical production.

Hinz, who is originally from Mastic Beach, said the management skills he gained from working at Kaplan and his passion for music make him the right person for the job.

“I’ve always been an artist at heart. I love the arts but particu-

Adam Hinz larly my skill set is in music,” he said. “I have my own band and play in other bands. I think I have enough of a working background to help kids in the program.”

Hinz is the co-founder of Badinba, an Afro-Caribbean inspired group that performs throughout New York City, in

which he plays various percussion instruments.

He also recorded the xylophone parts of the teen center’s upcoming play, “You Can’t Take It With You.” Hinz said he was excited for the play because it was one of the first plays that he had read.

“It was the first American play that I read,” he said. “I love the characters in it and I think the kids are doing a great job.”

The play will be featured in the Saddle Rock Elementary School auditorium on Jan. 14, 15 and 16 at 8 p.m.

Hinz said while he is the program’s director, he wants to allow his staff to do their jobs and support them when he is needed.

“That sort of folds into how I want to make myself useful there,” he said. “I don’t want to come in and flip everything

upside down. i want to support people in their strengths.”

Hinz also said he appreciates what the Great Neck Library has been doing over the years for the teenage community, something most other library districts are just beginning to incorporate into their programs.

“It’s an amazing program and I think a lot of libraries are now looking to a teenage community to sort of revive the library,” he said. “That’s something Great Neck has been doing for a long time when other libraries are just starting to play with teen advisory boards. I love the student centered aspects of Levels.”

“I’m glad to be here. I think the staff and kids are glad to have someone in the role now,” he added. “We’re moving forward and I’m really excited about it.”

Marra picked for Great Neck Park District Continued from Page 1 the areas. I think the transition will be smooth for me,” Marra said. “Scarsdale was a very demanding community and I enjoyed it. I like to be held to a high standard.

It motivates you and pushes you to be as best as you can be.”

He said a big difference between the two is that the Great Neck Park District is its own district, whereas in Scarsdale, the parks and recreation department would work with other village departments.

“The focus sometimes gets away from parks and it is appealing to get to work with just parks,” Marra said.

Renick retired effective the end of 2015 after 43 years with the park district, the last three as superintendent.

Lincoln said the park district advertised the open position throughout the metropolitan area and received eight total applicants.

Marra, he sad, was determined to be the “best one.”

Marra graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in recreation and leisure studies.

He went on to receive his Master’s from Lehman College in recreation education.

“My main goal is always to improve the quality of life of residents of the community. I know the facilities and parks are beautiful and well maintained,” Marra said. “I’d like to move things forward, open to new ideas and focus on bringing some technology and online registration to the table. As well as focus on some marketing and branding for the department.”

He said his long-term goal was to make the park district a nationally accredited agency.

The National Recreation and Parks Association accredits park districts for providing high quality park and recreation services and programs, according to its website.

The Westchester County Parks department is currently the only one to have that status.

Lincoln said Marra would be introduced to the public at the Jan. 7 Board of Commissioners meeting.

“I definitely look forward to working with the three current commissioners and offering the best possible Jason Marra programs,” Marra said.

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Nassau County missing out on state funds Continued from Page 8 power is one of our earliest forms.

As discussed in an earlier column, this could provide an additional use for Stepping Stones Lighthouse — where the boulders that make it so dangerous for vessels on the side closest to Steppingstone Park and the Merchant Marine Academy — you could have small underwater turbines sending power back to the Great Neck Peninsula (there are already underwater cables for the cable companies).

Perhaps the Town of North Hempstead’s sustainability officer (the very fact the town has one is notable), could take charge of seeking grants and issuing a design contest as discussed in the Dec. 25 column.

We always hear that the problem is money.

But the money has to be spent anyway.

Indeed, New York State is giving millions of dollars away to help communities devise sustainable solutions — clean energy, water reuse, waste treatment — that reduce use of resources, reuse the byproducts, and decentralize power generation and vital systems to make communities more resilient.

This is actually happening — but in Suffolk.

In September, Gov. Cuomo announced the launch of an anaerobic digester project in Suffolk that will serve as “an innovative model of how clean, on-site power can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainable communities.”

The new anaerobic digester at Long Island Compost’s 62-acre facility in Yaphank, scheduled to open in August and operated

by American Organic Energy, will process 120,000 tons of food waste, 30,000 tons of fats, oils and greases and 10,000 tons of grass clippings from the Long Island region annually that would otherwise have been transported and dumped into landfills, contributing to harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

The digester will convert these waste streams to clean energy, clean water to be used for plant processes, and solid-based fertilizer, and is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 40,000 tons annually, equivalent to removing 8,125 cars from the road.

All the electric power needed to run the digester and the existing facility will be generated using biogas from the project. Long Island Compost also plans to convert the biogas to renewable natural gas that will be used to fuel its trucks on-site, reducing diesel consumption by 200,000 gallons annually.

An additional 1.9 million gallons of diesel per year will be offset by injecting the remaining renewable gas produced by the digester into the National Grid natural gas pipeline on Long Island. This will enable the gas to be used to fuel compressed natural gas vehicles in other areas.

The project is part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, a major statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local plans and projects.

The program enables communities to form partnerships that transform markets and lead to expanded deployment of clean energy, the reduction of emissions and the generation of economic development benefits. The program, administered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, also empowers communities to take action, providing technical resources and decision-making tools on

land use, housing, transportation, energy, economic development and environmental practices, resulting in a more vibrant and prosperous New York.

“Under Reforming the Energy Vision, New York is making it possible for innovators to test and market sophisticated energy solutions uniquely tailored to the needs of our communities — a vital part of building a cleaner, efficient and affordable energy infrastructure,” Richard Kauffman, chairman of Energy and Finance for New York said.

“Projects such as this anaerobic digester are positioning New York today to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals of the future.”

John B. Rhodes, president and CEO of NYSERDA said, “Communities are at the heart of New York’s clean energy goals and play a central role in advancing the state toward a cleaner and more sustainable future. This anaerobic digester project is a significant step forward for the Long Island region in minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing material going into landfills, providing economic and environmental benefits to its residents.”

“The Department is committed to working with communities and businesses to expand and enhance organics diversion and use in order to conserve existing resources, reduce environmental impacts and promote alternative uses of previously wasted materials,” NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Acting Commissioner Marc Gerstman added. “This project demonstrates that excess food and food scraps, that cannot be donated or used for animal feed, are resources that can be used to generate clean energy with the end products being recycled into a valuable soil amendment. This outstanding project will help New York lead the way in these efforts.”

Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO, water and process technologies for GE Power & Water, said, “To achieve greater regional and national sustainability, we are seeing a growing trend underway in which municipalities and industries across the country are focusing more of their efforts on energy neutral resource recovery solutions to reduce their environmental impacts and boost local economic development, including producing more of their own on-site cleaner water and energy.”

Reuse of water is another critical area of sustainability. At the Riverhead Sewage Treatment plant, piping is being installed so that beginning in April 2016, the Indian Island Country Golf Course will get 300,000 to 350,000 gallons a day for irrigation, instead of the water being dumped into the Peconic River — saving 2000 pounds of nitrogen a year, and cutting the amount of water being pumped out of the Long Island East End aquifer by 63 million gallons.

And because the golf course will no longer need to pump their own water, it will save energy and money.

There are 128 golf courses in Nassau County and Suffolk in close proximity to dozens of sewage treatment plants of various sizes that could provide the wastewater in close proximity.

Meanwhile, Dave Smith, Natural Systems Utilities, a sustainable water company, discussed small-scale wastewater treatment and reuse systems, small enough and economical enough to be installed in the basement of office buildings and apartment houses.

One is under the Banana Republic store in the Streets of Chester Shopping Center,

NJ, that treats 15,000 gallons a day. The heat recovery offsets the cost for hot water use. It uses 367 kwh/day to run but recovers 610 kwh/day, for a net energy gain of 243 kwh/day.

So given the eagerness of the state to encourage innovation in communities, where is Nassau County? With our population density and high living standard, we generate tons of waste.

But instead of hearing about such an innovative project being based in Nassau, we get reports of trucks being turned back because they carry waste oil, when instead, with all the restaurants in Nassau, this can be a source of fuel, as the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District has proved, and is using waste oil to fuel its vehicles.

Suffolk is where virtually all the Long Island StartUp NY funding has gone — for entrepreneurs to develop new batteries, new technology that plugs into the green energy revolution.

Suffolk is where there are solar farms, waste treatment plants that generate electricity, biogas and reuse water.

But Nassau County has been pathetic in terms of any clean power and sustainability initiatives, or making any effort whatsoever to green our economy, or even make our county a center for technology development — which means more jobs — despite the high concentration of academic institutions (NYIT, CW Post-LIU). Instead, the Mangano administration has squandered millions of dollars in bonds on its sewage treatment plants, getting bailed out by Superstorm Sandy which generated a whole new federal funding stream.

But what is happening? Is there any thought to moving toward a 21st century facility?

Sean Sallie, planning division supervisor of the Nassau County Planning Commission in the Public Works department, was greatly outgunned at the Smart Growth Summit, saying meekly that the county is “heavily engaged” in retrofitting its stormwater infrastructure. “We’re working with New York State and NY Rising — a bunch of projects through community planning process. Now we have real projects to implement.”

But the projects he only obliquely described are for flood mitigation and resiliency, not going the extra step to harness energy or reuse water (for irrigation, street cleaning, cooling, industrial processes, agriculture, groundwater recharge, preserving wetlands).

And yet, there are literally millions of dollars being made available for communities to pilot and implement innovative projects.

Indeed, also in September, Gov. Cuomo announced 53 state-supported projects are underway or set to begin in New York to provide clean, resilient on-site power for hospitals, schools and other buildings, as well as reduce demand on the state’s power grid.

When completed, these projects will increase the total number of combined heat and power systems in the state by approximately 10 percent. The NYSERDA is providing more than $41 million with $217 million coming from private investment for these 53 new systems.

“New York is committed to a clean energy grid that also reduces our electricity demand, saving money for taxpayers and businesses,” Gov. Cuomo said.

“These projects will help contribute to

this goal, cutting existing energy consumption and working toward creating a sustainable and resilient community.”

Also known as co-generation, combined heat and power uses on-site power generation to provide efficient and affordable energy, often shaving 15 to 30 percent off existing energy consumption. It is currently employed in more than 500 buildings in New York State, which is equivalent to approximately 12 percent of the 4,100 buildings nationwide that use the technology.

Examples of these systems can be found at sites across the state, from medical centers to universities and hotels. While most systems run on natural gas, other types operate on biogas produced through anaerobic digestion of waste water or organic farm waste, and a combined heat and power site at a landfill near Buffalo runs on landfill gas.

When the 53 pending projects are completed and join the ranks of previously-supported projects, total NYSERDA-supported combined heat and power systems will offset more than 200 megawatts of grid power, equivalent to the energy needed to power more than 32,000 homes.

But out of the 53 projects, only one is slated for Nassau County: Adelphi University Nassau, which is projected to reduce peak energy consumption by 1.979 mw. NYSERDA is ponying up $2,400,000 with $ 5,445,000 coming from private investment, for a total of $ 7,845,000 “Combined heat and power also played a critical role in providing uninterrupted energy to facilities in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee,” the governor’s office stated. “In the event of wide-scale electrical outages, on-site generation improves a system’s ability to provide greater resiliency and reliability by acting as a main component of a community’s microgrid.”

It is also notable — and deserving high praise — that the Village of Great Neck Plaza has declared its intention to be the first Long Island village to implement a climateaction plan.

“I think this is an issue people care about and they want to see how we are becoming more energy efficient. We don’t want to see all the dramatic effects that climate change is doing all over the world,” Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said.

Celender said that while 170 municipalities have pledged to support the DEC’s Climate Smart Communities Program, no village has implemented a climate plan on Long Island and she wanted them to be the first, Joe Nikic reported, “We’ve been part of all those planning sessions and we took the pledge and we have been drafting our own village climate-action plan to become more energy efficient, reduce our carbon footprint, incorporate renewables, and all the goals and objectives that the state level has been set,” Celender said. “We’re now doing analysis of how we can further that in our own village and actually using data on the amount of electricity we use in our village facilities through all the infrastructure that’s here that we have information on.”

Mayor Celender has shown the way to obtaining grants and support for sustainable projects, such as traffic calming. She can lead the way in showing how localities as small as a village can implement climate action strategies.

The village is scheduling a hearing on the plan for Feb. 3.

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Meetings ending week of 1/11/16 Bryant Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 7:00 p.m.

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

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Village of East Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills (516) 621-5600 Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, January 12 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 746-0782 Village of Floral Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Thursday, January 13 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Floral Boulevard Floral Park (516) 326-6300

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Floral Park Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

17 Caroline Place, Floral Park (516) 326-6330

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Great Neck School District Board of Education Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 8:00p.m.

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Village of Great Neck Architectural Review Board Meeting Tuesday, January 12 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road Great Neck (516) 482-0019 Village of Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, Atwater Plaza/ 4 Gateway Drive, Great Neck (516) 482-8283 Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office, 236 E Shore Rd Great Neck (516) 482-0238 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Thursday, January 13 @ 8:00 p.m.

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

Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Association Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 8:00 p.m.

Town Hall 220 Plandome Road Manhasset (516) 869-6311 Village of Kings Point Board of Trustees Meeting Thursday, January 14 @ 8:15 p.m.

Village Hall 32 Steppingstone Lane Kings Point (516) 504-1000 Village of Lake Success Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success (516) 482-4411 Village of Lake Success Planning Meeting Thursday, January 14 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success (516) 482-4411 Village of Munsey Park Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1777 Northern Blvd.

Munsey (516) 365-7790 Village of Munsey Park Building Advisory Committee Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1777 Northern Blvd., Munsey (516) 365-7790 Village of New Hyde Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1420 Jericho Tpke.

New Hyde Park (516) 354-0022 New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District Board of Education Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Garden City Park School 51 Central Avenue Garden City Park (516) 434-2390 Village of North Hills Planning Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

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

Village of Old Westbury Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Stone Hill Road Old Westbury (516) 626-0800 Village of Plandome Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 65 South Drive, Plandome (516) 627-1748 Village of Plandome Heights Architectural Review Board Meeting Tuesday, January 12 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 37 Orchard Street, Manhasset (516) 627-1136 Roslyn School District Board of Education Meeting Thursday, January 14 @ 8:00 p.m.

Harbor Hill School 3 Glen Cove Road, Greenvale (516) 801-5400 Village of Roslyn Estates Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates (516) 621-3541 Village of Roslyn Harbor Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall 500 Motts Cove Road South Roslyn Harbor (516) 621-0368 Shelter Rock Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, January 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

165 Searingtown Road Albertson, (516) 248-7363 Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees Budget Meeting Monday, January 11 @ 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, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park (516) 746-2193 Williston Park Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, January 12 @ 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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$$ Top Cash Paid $$ HIGH END ANTIQUES HIGH CASH PAiD Oil Paintings, Mid-Century Accessories 1950s/60s, Porcelain, Costume Jewelry, Sterling Silver, Gold, Furniture, Objects of Art, etc.

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COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL/DEMOLITION

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Help Wanted AFLAC BENEFITS CONSULTANT: Fortune 500 Company.

With an Aflac career, there are no limits to what you can achieve. It’s a unique opportunity to take control of your career and set your own unlimited goals. Looking for individuals to grow with the largest provider of voluntary employee benefits in the country. Sales experience welcome but not necessary. Lifetime vesting renewals.

Office located in Garden City.

Please call Director of District Sales, Bill Whicher 516-5741064 CAN YOU DIG IT? Heavy Equipment Operator Career!

We offer training and and certifications running bulldozers, backhoes and excavators. Lifetime job placement VA benefits eligible! 1-866-362-6497 HOME CARE SERVICES Caring and compassionate people needed to enhance the lives of the elderly. We are a caring and compassionate company to work for providing home care services for the elderly.

Please call 516-710-7995 or email resume to: info@gardencityhomecare.com LEGAL: Process serving company seeking full time detail oriented individual for office assistant in Williston Park.

Computer knowledge a must.

Will train. Email resume to: LRadler@courtsupportinc.com TAX PREPARER PART TIME: Franklin Square. Experience required. Retirees welcome.

Call 516-358-9455 Fax resume 516-358-9483

Situation Wanted Situation Wanted Situation Wanted AIDE​/​CARE GIVER: CARING, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE looking to care for your sick or elderly loved one. 14 years experience. Just ended 7 years with previous patient. Live in, live out, ft​/​pt nights, weekends. References available.

Call 516-448-0502

CERTIFIED HOME ATTENDANT Nurse’s assistant available to care for the elderly.

Live in or live out. Offering compassionate home care full time or part time. Available for overnight also. Please call 347543-5960

BABYSITTER AVAILABLE BOSTON COLLEGE NURSING STUDENT Experienced babysitter with car available until January 15th daytime​/ nighttime​/ weekends. Call or text 516-307-7701

CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT: I’m a certified nursing assistant seeking private home care position. Over 15 years experience. Licensed driver. Available Monday to Friday and some weekends. Contact Cynthia 917-805-7782

BABYSITTER AVAILABLE IN GREAT NECK mature, reliable and experienced. Full or part time.

I have very good references. 917828-2809 BABYSITTER: OUR WONDERFUL BABYSITTER OF 17 YEARS IS AVAILABLE! Our full time babysitter needs a new home! She is reliable, responsible, energetic and loving! She is also a driver. Please call 516-238-9894 to inquire.

CAREGIVER​/ COMPANION: 20 years dedicated, reliable, efficient experience to care for elderly with Alzheimer’s​/ Dementia, assist daily activities in their home. Immediate. Pam 516-9025185 or Carlene 516-850-4258 CERTIFIED AIDE: Looking to provide private duty care to Garden City or local area resident.

Available Monday through Friday, part time or full time, flexible hours, own transportation, exceptional references. Call Annmarie 917586-7433 CERTIFIED CNA​/ HHA available to care for sick & elderly. Mature, reliable, honest & punctual. Over 20 yrs experience. Flexible hours day or night. References available. Call Jennifer 347-288-0539

CHILD CARE: Parent Support person available to assist with the home, children, transportation. Experienced. Lives locally. Contact 516-488-1346 ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly.

Available to live in or out and nights. Over 20 years experience. References furnished upon request. Call Vicky 516610-0074 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 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: miranda-nancy@hotmail.com

HELP WANTED: Porter Biener Audi Seeks detail-oriented individual to maintain overall cleanliness of the shop, showroom and dealership grounds.

For immediate consideration call (516) 829-2834 (Ext # 109) or email resume in confidence to: sgarrett@biener.com

HELP WANTED: Driver/Valet Biener Audi seeks responsible Valet to check in, wash and park customer cars for service, etc.

Must be at least 21 years of age with clean NYS drivers license.

For immediate consideration call (516) 829-2834 (Ext # 109) or email resume in confidence to: sgarrett@biener.com

NEW YORK PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT: Care giver​/​ companion available. Over 20 years experience available 24/7. Specializing in patients with CHF, Alzheimer’s, Dimentia, surgical procedures, hospice and more. Call Jackie 516-306-0257 or Joel 516965-1940 PART TIME NANNY AVAILABLE: Our loving nanny is now available 2 days​/ week (Fridays + TBD day). She is extremely responsible, caring, energetic and respectful.

We just love her! Very familiar with Garden City. Please call Arleen at 347-869-7423 Career Training AIRLINE CAREERS Start here. Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866296-7093 NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Overnight classes available. Call AIM 866-296-7093

ANNOUNCMENTS 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 MAH JONGG PLAYERS WANTED: Tuesday and Thursday evenings my Lake Success home. fun game, no snowbirds please. Call Toby 516-353-0172

Marketplace

Wanted to Buy CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, entire collections, Estates.

Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /​B ox!

Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid! Call Juley today! 800-413-3479 www. cashforyourteststrips.com LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc.

Please call 718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www.iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Wanted to Buy Tag Sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-7468900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles TuesFri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org AUCTIONS, TAG SALES & CONSIGNMENTS INVITED SALES by TRACY JORDAN Live and Online Auction House, Estate Sales, Appraisals and Consignment Shoppe. 839 Stewart Avenue Garden City 11530 516-2796378 www.invitedsales.com OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Mon, Wed, Fri 10- 6 Tuesday 10-4 Thursday 10-4 & 7-9pm Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-5 Located next to the La Quinta and behind the Garden Gourmet Deli. Live Auctions Monthly!

Free walk-in evaluations for items to be considered for Live Auction every Tuesday 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary. Auctions are live every Wednesday from 8am8pm and pre-bids are accepted at anytime. Visit www. invitedsales.com and click on the online auctions tab.

Visit www.invitedsales.com to see pictures and information regarding our upcoming tag sales and estate sales.

Our 50% off room is open everyday and includes items that have been in our shoppe for more than 60 days. To receive discount coupons and promotional information, join our email list. Text “invited” to 22828 and enter your email address when prompted.

Consignments are taken by appointment to provide you with the best service. Please call the shoppe at 516-2796378 to schedule an appointment or email pictures of your items to info@invitedsales. com. We can provide fair market values on any item that you may want to sell, consign or enter into auction.

If you need advice on hosting a sale, selling an item or liquidating an estate, please call Tracy Jordan at the shoppe or directly at 516-567-2960 YOU’RE INVITED! Tuesday January 12 9:30 am 108 Poplar St Garden City, NY 11530 Beautiful home selling contents from the kitchen, living room, den, basement, bedroom and garage. Fishing accessories, exercise items, tools, costume jewelry, decorative items too. Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

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

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DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away.

Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references.

Limited availability. Book early!

Annmarie 516-775-4256

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Doggie Day Care Dog Walking & Running Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Cleanup GC Resident 516-382-5553

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peT Care PUPPY/ DOG SITTER: Boarding and day care provided in my home for small dogs up to 25 lbs. Love and attention all day.

Reliable. Call Rose 516-735-1911

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GARDEN CITY HOUSE SHARE: Beautifully furnished bedroom. Use of all common areas of house. Includes heat, w/d, a/c. Near public transportation. No smoking, pets or overnight guests. $850 / month. Call 516-747-4293

GARDEN CITY SOUTH: Beautiful newly renovated four room apartment. Very safe neighborhood. Light filled and airy. Granite countertop in kitchen. Built in dresser and double closet with mirrors.

Air conditioned. Hamptons bleached oak floors. Blocks from Adelphi University, Nassau Blvd, LIRR. Near all: food, dry cleaning, tailor, laundry, shoemaker, barber, dentist, nail salons. No pets, no smoking, no party animals! $1575 plus utilities. Call 516-564-1138

oFFiCe SpaCe GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate. Near LIRR, stores. Available now. $1,475 / mth. Call Owner 516-5387474 or 538-7476

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GARDEN CITY SOUTH Newly renovated office space in ideal location. Just blocks to LIRR and stores. Quiet spacious location on 2nd floor. $1500 plus utilities. Call owner: 516-564-1138

COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman. 516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@gmail.com www.

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vaCaTion renTal JAMESPORT BAYFRONT BEACH HOUSE for rent: pristine condition, unsurpassed views, on a private, manicured, one acre lot; only a 70 minute drive from Garden City. See photos on HomeAway site #4058365.

Available weekends, weekly or seasonal. Call 516-3200566 for rates and availability.

SKI MT. SNOW ON FEBRUARY BREAK! “Timber Creek” Ski house for rent by owner.

3 BR, 2 Bath, Den, LR w/fireplace, Sauna & Large Deck.

Access to fitness facility with pool / hot tub, weight room and basketball courts. Shuttle from front door to the lifts.

Please call 516-404-8483

REAL ESTATE WANTED

HoMeS WanTed HOUSE WANTED TO BUY: Good or bad condition to build or fix. Fast closing.

Call George 516-972-8787

SERVICE DIRECTORY

COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL/ DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office.

We clean it up and take it away.

Residential/Commercial. Bonded /Insured. Free estimates. 516538-1125 LIBERTY ONE HOME CARE LLC Safety and your well being are our number one priority. Personal Care Homemaker Services. Companion. Helping provide that extra hand! Email: libertyonehomecare@gmail.com or 516-243-9400 OVERWHELMED? Whether you’re overloaded with paperwork or it’s just time to declutter, I can help. Please call Joanne 516-829-6680. For a complete list of services go to: www. clericalorganizing.com NEED A CLEANOUT OR A MOVE? We can move it, sell it or haul it away!

2 Guys and a Truck Just $150/hr Call 516-279-6378 Invited Sales by Tracy Jordan 839 Stewart Ave Garden City, NY 11530 Bonded/Insured www.invitedsales.com

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A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www.ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 23year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead​—​ Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, January 20, 2016, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20111​—​Robert DePace, variance 70-50.A to construct additions within a required front yard setback; E/ side 5 Miles Ave., 150’ S/of I.U. Willets Rd., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 55, Lot 799, R-C District.

APPEAL #20112 ​​ Kyoung Lee, variance 70-100.2.A(4) (a)[5] to construct fencing exceeding permitted height; NE​ /​cor.​/​of #105 Searingtown Rd. & Sampson Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 649, Lot 50, R-C District.

APPEAL #20078 ​​ Ayman Aly, variance 70-100.2.A(2) to maintain fencing forward of a front building line; NE​/​cor.​/​of #18 Pinewood Ln. & Elm Dr., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 211-08, Lot 79, R-C District.

APPEAL #20093​—​John Venetis, variance 70-29.C to construct a detached garage exceeding the permitted floor area, NW​/​cor. 57 Aldershot Ln. and Foxcroft Rd., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 222, Lot 30, R-A District.

APPEAL #20102 ​​Madrid Deratus, variances 70-195.16.B(3) (b) & 70-195.16.D to maintain a cellar bathroom and exterior cellar entrance; S/side #754 Brush Hollow Rd., 65’ W/of Siegel St., Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 101, Lot 6, R-C District.

APPEAL #20105​—​Altoona Memon, variance 70-100.2.H

to maintain 2 A/C units within a required side yard setback; E/side 35 Haven Ave., 503.94’ N/of Davis Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 90, Lots 45-46, R-C. APPEAL #20113​—​John & Met LLC, variances 70-103.M, 70-132, 70-196.K(4), 70-197.M, 70-203.G, 70-203.P(2)(f), and 70-229.A to construct alterations to a gas station including insufficient front yard setback, parking in a required front yard, insufficient perimeter landscaping and buffers, signage exceeding permitted height and type, and not in conformance with a prior BZA decision. S/E​/​cor. #848 Willis Ave. and Dorset Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 111, Lots 35 & 36, B-A District.

APPEAL #20114 ​​ 110 Main Street PW LLC, variances 70-103.A, 70-103.B, 70-103.F, 70-229.A to convert office space to medical office in a two-story commercial building with insufficient off-street parking and loading zones; NW​/​ cor. #110 Main St. & Belleview Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 81, Lots 4,​5,​7,​8,​10,​101,​ 102,​106,​108,​B-A District.

APPEAL #19993​—​Roslyn Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. #1, variances 70-49.B, 70-49.C, 70-50.C, 70-51.C, 70-52.3.A, 70-52.3.B, 70-52.5, 70-52.6, & 70-103.A(1) to construct a firehouse exceeding the permitted front yard impervious coverage, eave height, and floor area within the required sky exposure plane and required front and side yard setbacks with insufficient parking; S/side 6 Locust St., 300’ W/of Walnut St., Greenvale, Sec. 20, Blk. 35, Lot 18, R-C District.

All interested persons should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting and​/​or hearing.

DAVID MAMMINA, R.A., Chairman; Board of Zoning Appeals GNN 142777 1x 1/08/​2 016 #142777

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Exhibit to honor women artists Continued from Page 47 “I feel like as a female curator, it’s appropriate to do an exhibition that celebrates women artists,” gallery director Jude Amsel said.

“Wonder Women is dedicated to the inspiration, celebration, and encouragement of women working in the division of fine arts.”

Nine artists from all over the world using different styles of art including photography, paintings and sculptures will be presented at the exhibit.

Amsel said each artist would have a statement next to their work explaining how they were able to get to where they were.

She added that it was interesting hearing the contrasting situations between younger artists and older

artists, who faced difficulties breaking through into the art world as women.

“Young generation artists don’t really have that feeling,” Amsel said.

“That for me is very encouraging for women coming up in the artist world that they would be recognized not by gender but by talent.”

The celebration and showcase of female artists has been a focus recently of international art shows like Art Basel, which presents artist showcases in Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Beach.

While she said she started planning the exhibit “months ago,” Amsel said she is pleased to organize an exhibit similar to trends seen at other exhibits in the art world.

“The Gold Coast Arts Center is

right in the cutting edge,” she said.

“I’m proud that my intuition was right about this.”

The exhibit will last through March 10, two days after International Women’s Day, a day Amsel said she planned for the exhibit to pass through.

She added that International Women’s Day was an important day for celebrating the work of women, not just artists, over the years.

“It’s incredible that it has become international and I wanted to become a part of that in our little area of Great Neck,” Amsel said.

The opening reception begins at 4 p.m.

The Gold Coast Arts Center is located 113 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck.

LIRR third track plan revives criticism Continued from Page 4 dergast said the “direct correlation” between transit development and economic growth has been borne out in the parts of Westchester County and Connecticut along the MTA’s Metro-North Railroad.

“When there is train capacity to allow New York City residents to ‘reverse commute’ to suburban jobs, people take that opportunity and the job growth follows,” Prendergast said.

New Hyde Park Mayor Robert

Lofaro said he wants “concrete evidence” of demand for reverse commuting. He and village residents are also concerned the third track would increase freight traffic of potentially hazardous materials along the Main Line from Brookhaven National Lab in Upton.

“We will fight the governor vehemently on this,” Lofaro said at a village Board meeting Tuesday. “It’s not a Democratic-Republican issue; it’s what’s best for the residents of the village of New Hyde Park.”

Strauss said he would favor the project if it will help make travel easier for workers coming to and from Mineola, which has two commuter apartment buildings standing and two more in the works.

But “it would have been better if the governor had reached out to Long Island to find out what we consider priorities, what we think should be done to develop the economy on Long Island,” he said.

Neglah Sharma contributed reporting.

P.W. receives $270K roadway grant Continued from Page 13 four awarded to the Town of North Hempstead when it was named as the recipient of four state Regional Economic Development Council Initiative awards. The total award grant to the town is $757,000.

“These grants will enable the Town to address several environmental initiatives that are critically important to the Town’s environmental health, as well as other projects that will improve our infrastructure and enhance our communities,” said Town of North Hempstead Supervisor, Judi Bosworth. “The more than $757,000 in funding will serve

as a great economic engine for our Town.”

The town will use a $316,250 grant to generate a Surface Water Priority Action Zone for 20 villages within the the North Hempstead border, to create a GIS map for septic systems.

A $122,200 grant will be used to prepare a town-wide environmental master plan, for surface and ground water and habitat protection, as well as climate change strategies and even include concept designs for an 83 acre environmental and waterfront recreational beach parks with about 6,000 feet of shoreline and

200 acres of wetlands and meadow habitat.

The last $49,500 grant will be used by the town to create a North Hempstead cultural master plan, to assist the town in prioritizing arts initiatives, to raise awareness and visibility of local artists beyond just the community level.

Weitzner said the village is excited to expand their work with the Town of North Hempstead.

He said the village is “pretty forward thinking with our roads and GIS system, so it was pretty intriguing opportunity for us to work with them.”

Shock jock’s court appearance postponed Continued from Page 9 ia’s attorney, Alan J. Schwartz, said Cumia “emphatically denies the allegations brought against him.”

“He entered a plea of not guilty to all charges and was released without bail, and directed to appear back in court in January,” Schwartz said.

He added that “simply put, things are not always what they appear to be, and this case is a perfect example of that.”

The incident was filmed and posted online to the social media application Periscope by Brand, and later on Youtube, in which she can be heard making claims of being injured with a broken hand.

At one point Cumia can be heard telling Brand to leave his house.

Cumia, a resident of Roslyn Heights, was part of the shock jock duo “Opie and Anthony” alongside Gregg “Opie” Hughes that broadcast

through the subscription-based Sirius XM network from 2004 to 2014.

The show was cancelled in 2014 after Cumia was fired for posting racially charged tweets online alleging he was assaulted by a black woman in Times Square.

He has since started his own subscription-based internet radio show, which is broadcast from studios in New York City and his Roslyn Heights home.

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St. Mary’s wins Christmas Tourney

The Church of St. Mary 3rd Grade victory.

The Church of St. Mary 3rd Grade Miller basketball team won the St. Francis de Sales, Rockaway Beach, ‘30th’ Annual Miller basketball team are: Kyle Melkonian, Timmy Murphy, Daniel Kolin, ParkChristmas Tournament.

The 10-day tournament pits the top er Madden, Kevin Magee, Owen Magee, teams from Brooklyn, Queens and Long Matt Infranco, Ronan Miller, Luke Egan, Padge O’Connor and Brian Reilly.

Island against one another.

St. Mary’s won all five of their games Congratulations to all of the boys that in a field of 12 teams. played in the tournament this year and to St. Mary’s faced a determined Gate of Coaches John (Jumbo) Miller and Chris Heaven, Park, team in the08-28-15_Layout champi- O’Connor and his 12:04 squadPM for winning CHERRYOzone - 1-8 Page GENERAL 1 8/25/15 Page 1 their onship round and roughed out a 26-21 division championship.

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