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THE PULSE OF THE PENINSULA
Vol. 91, No. 9
ART GUILD PICKS G.N. GRADE SCHOOLS COUNTIES JOIN FORCES PHOTO WINNERS LEAD THE WAY IN HEROIN FIGHT PAGE 27
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Town to enforce own law
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Junior firefighters
Requires party leader filings B y N oah M anskar The Town of North Hempstead will collect financial disclosure statements from town political party leaders for the first time this year. The town has never before collected the forms from town party leaders — including Gerard Terry, the Roslyn Heights resident who stepped down as the town Democratic chairman this month — Town Attorney Elizabeth Botwin said, despite a provision in the town code requiring the “town chairman or leader of a town committee of a party” to file them. “It’s our law, we must comply, and we will comply,” Botwin said in an interview. The decision to collect the forms came at the direction of Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Botwin said. Bosworth ordered a review of town policies and procedures last month after a Newsday report revealed that Terry, who until recently was the attorney Continued on Page 41
The Great Neck Alert Fire Company announced the installation of the 2016 officers of the Great Neck Alert Junior Firefighters. From left: Captain Ryan Motchkavitz, 1st Lieutenant David Oginski, 2nd Lieutenant Nicholas Rietbroek, Recording Secretary Charlie Judson and Financial Secretary Natasha Castro. The Junior Firefighters program is for young adults between the ages of 12 and 17. They meet twice a month and receive training in First Aid, CPR, fire safety and participate in other firefighting drills and activities.
Serving what the doctor ordered Great Neck dentist prescribes chicken soup dish for post-surgery patients B y J oe N ikic To help patients cope with post-surgery pain and loss of appetite, a Great Neck dentist said he has found a treatment that would make a Jewish mother proud. Harvey Passes, a Manhas-
set resident whose dental practice Passes Dental Care is at 415 Northern Blvd. in Great Neck, said he has been instructing patients to eat Ben’s Chicken in a Pot Soup from Ben’s Kosher Deli in Greenvale’s Wheatley Plaza for more than 15 years. “I have been advising my oral surgery patients to consume it in order for them to avoid dehydration and fever,” Passes said. “My patients still talk about their prescriptions even years af-
ter their procedures.” The idea for the treatment came after Passes ordered the soup while out to dinner at Ben’s. He said the dish, which contains half a fall-off-the-bone chicken with one matzah ball, kreplach, noodles, peas and carrots, was “tasty and plentiful enough to take home for another meal the next day.” Later that week, Passes said, he performed a tooth extraction on one of his patients and
instructed her to eat plenty of food and drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration caused by blood loss during surgery and frequent urination after surgery. He said when he called his patient later in the evening to check on her condition, he discovered that she had passed out from dehydration and EMT’s were in her home. “The problem with oral surgery is that people lose their appetite and just want to sleep,” Continued on Page 62
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