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School board aims to retain staff amid cuts

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Great Neck schools to attempt to rehire laid off employees B y N e g lah S ha r ma an d J oe N i k i c After unveiling its $218.93 million budget last week that calls for cuts to 14 teaching positions and 21 other employees, Great Neck Public Schools officials said the district was looking at ways to rehire employees who get laid off.

“Through retirements, we are going to be able to consider many of those people for other positions if they qualify for them,” District Assistant Superintendent for Business John Powell said. “We’re trying to reduce as much through efficiency and attrition but where possible we will re-employ some of these people in existing openings that were not slated to be reduced.”

Board Vice President Larry Gross said at last Monday’s board meeting after hiring 24 new fulltime positions last year the district would need to reduce the number of teachers by 14 in the 2016-17 school year.

Powell said 21 non-teaching

positions would also need to be eliminated to keep the budget under the state-mandated .17 percent tax cap.

These employees include one full-time administrative staff member, nine paraprofessionals, three full-time and three part-time clerical staff members, one buildings and grounds department supervisor and four cleaning attendants.

“We won’t be able to get everybody, but as many as we can where there’s a position, and the person can do the job, we will redirect that person to that open position,” Powell said.

He also said the decision to decrease spending in the budget came down to either cutting classroom programs or district staff members.

“We try to make any reductions as far away from the classroom as possible,” Powell said. “Every position is important and we value everybody that works for us, however, in making these difficult cuts, which are very painful, unfortunately you Continued on Page 58

Troop 10 of Great Neck recently participated in Great Neck’s Cub Pack 178’s Blue and Gold Dinner at the Adria Hotel in Bayside. Troop 10’s scouts provided a color guard ceremony to open the proceedings. After dinner, the cubs received their recognition awards.

Farrone elected first female line officer in M-LFD history B y J oe N i k i c

as 2nd lieutenant of the department’s Company #5, makThe Manhasset-Lakeville ing her the first female in the Fire Department made history department’s history to hold a last Thursday at its firehouse line officer position.

“It’s very gratifying,” Farelection.

Carly Farrone, a six-year rone said. “All the hard work M-LFD firefighter, was elected that I’ve put into my company

and the department has been recognized in such a way that they were willing to nominate me and then elect me as a line officer that’s leading not only my company but could be leading others in the future.”

Continued on Page 59

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Kings Point offers $16.88M budget Public hearing set for April 20 B y J oe N i k i c

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Burglary task force receives leader praise Villages maintain security efforts; some still call for 6th Pct. B y N oah M ans k a r

The Nassau County Police Department’s creation of a task force to investigate a sharp rise in the number of burglaries on the North Shore is a positive step, village officials and a civic leader said.

Along with the return of the popular problem-oriented police officers, it’s a welcome change to tackle a problem that has worried residents in recent months, four leaders said.

“Anything that the police are able to do to help make our communities more safe and help our residents feel more safe is a plus,” Village of East Williston Mayor David Tanner said.

But some officials say more could be done to provide effective policing in an area as large as the North Shore’s Third Precinct, which stretches from Manorhaven to East Meadow.

Some communities are making their own efforts bolster security and prevent crime, such as private patrols and Neighborhood Watch programs, while continuing to work with the police.

“We’re trying to come up with these programs that complement the police coverage that we get and work with the police to make this the safest community on Long Island,” said Village of East Hills Deputy Mayor Manny Zuckerman, who advises the village’s recently reactivated Security Commission.

The Nassau County Police Department formed a Burglary Pattern Team of four detectives and a detective sergeant in midJanuary to investigate organized burglary rings, said Det. Lt. Richard LeBrun, commanding officer of the Public Information Office.

The move came in response to a 28-percent increase in resi-

dential burglaries in the first two months of this year over the same period in 2015.

As of March 9, Nassau County saw 172 reported residential burglaries, compared to 134 last year, LeBrun said.

The Burglary Pattern Team has reduced the increase from 28 to 23 percent as of March 21, he said: “We’re already making progress.”

The force has so far solved four of this year’s burglary patterns consisting of five to nine burglaries each, LeBrun said.

The team’s work led to the arrest this week of two Bronx men who robbed four cell phone stores in Hicksville and Seaford last year, and a South Farmingdale man’s arrest last week for four burglaries of nail salons there dating back to September 2015.

Last month police arrested Continued on Page 58

Village of Kings Point trustees set a public hearing date Thursday to consider the village’s proposed $16.88 million budget for 2016-17, which calls for a 1.1 percent increase in spending over last year.

While the budget calls for an increase in money collected in property taxes by about $71,000 to $15 million, Village ClerkTreasurer Gomie Persaud said taxes would decrease for residents because of an increase in the assessed valuation of homes.

In the current budget, the village collects $40.73 per $100 of home assessed valuation, but in the proposed budget, the village would collect $40.29 per $100 of assessed valuation.

Persaud said the village’s taxable assessed valuation increased due to the completion of homes that were under construction when developing the current budget.

The village’s largest expenditure in the tentative budget is about $7.23 million for public

safety, which includes police department, fire department and safety inspection costs.

The village’s police force accounts for 49 percent — $6.3 million — of the proposed budget.

The village is also proposing spending $1.35 million, or about 10 percent, of its budget on a contract for fire and ambulance services with the Great Neck Alert Fire Company.

The board will hold a public hearing and vote on the proposed budget on April 20 at 8:15 p.m.

At Thursday’s meeting, the board also voted to pass a local law allowing the village to exceed the state-mandated tax cap, which this year is set at .12 percent.

Persaud said the tentative budget calls for the village to collect about $5,000 less than what the tax cap allows as a “protective measure.”

“If there’s a clerical error or emergency from now until the budget has to be adopted, we have to protect residents and the village,” she said.

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Ex chief finds dream in Kensington Michael Conlon retires from village police department after serving for thirty years B y J oe N i k i c

Thirty years ago, Michael Conlon was working as an engineer in a Park Avenue building in Manhattan.

But, Conlon said, he always wanted to be a police officer, so he decided to take the Nassau County police test.

After his retirement last Friday as chief of the Village of Kensington Police Department, he said the past 30 years have flown by quicker than he could have imagined.

“It was a pleasure and an honor and I served great people and I enjoyed every minute of it,” Conlon said. “When I look back, it doesn’t feel like 30 years went by but now I look forward to new goals and new opportunities.”

Conlon began his policing career in 1986, serving as a patrolman for 13 years before being promoted to sergeant.

After serving as sergeant for 11 years, Conlon was promoted to chief and lieutenant, the highest rank in the department.

Even as chief, he said, he still handled patrol officer duties such as responding to calls in the

field.

“The unique thing about being a supervisor in Kensington is you still perform patrol duties and you’re still out there handling calls,” Conlon said. “The job doesn’t change. You still have to go out there and do the patrol work and day-to-day functions, but you just have to do a little more paperwork.”

Conlon said it was difficult to choose his proudest moment serving because his mindset changed from when he began serving to his final days before retirement.

“When I was a younger cop, you enjoyed the action like the car chases,” he said. “Back in the day when I started, it was the end of the crack epidemic, so you had a ton of thefts from cars at the time.”

As he got older, Conlon said, it became less about the action and more about resident safety.

“I enjoyed seeing the interaction with the residents and seeing we were making a difference with the residents and maintaining quality of life and safety for the residents of Kensington,” he said. “We were able to do that

consistently and I guess that is the proudest thing for me.”

The village held a retirement party last Wednesday for Conlon, where he received proclamations for his years of service from the village, North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan and state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury).

While he said he was appreciative of the honors, Conlon said he is not sure he deserved all the praise and attention.

“To me, it’s an honor, but I don’t know if I necessarily deserve that honor because all I really did was do my job,” he said.

“I was part of a great team and I had a great group of guys working with me.”

Conlon also said he was happy to be leaving the department “on his own terms.”

“Mayor [Susan] Lopatkin had tried numerous times to get me to change my mind,” he said.

“It’s very humbling but I know I’m leaving the department in very good hands with the people I’m leaving behind and I know the village will continue to be policed in a very good manner.”

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Three G.N. women make ‘Roll of Honor’ Schwartz, Kasten, Lopatkin recognized B y J oe N i k i c

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Lori Beth Schwartz, Susan Lopatkin and Alice Kasten have served the Great Neck community in various aspects for years.

For their work, all three women were honored by the Town of North Hempstead last Wednesday and inducted into the May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor at the Clubhouse at Harbor Links.

Schwartz, a former United Parent Teacher Council of Great Neck president, said it was “inspiring” to hear about what Lopatkin, Kasten and the 10 other North Shore women the town honored had done to earn their honors.

“That was worth it all,” she said. “That was like a reward for doing all the hard work, to listen to the other women and get inspired by their work.”

Schwartz has spent years volunteering her time to promoting better education for public school students.

She served on the Parent Teacher Association for both Saddle Rock and John F. Kennedy Elementary schools in Great Neck, as well as for Great Neck North Middle and South High School.

Schwartz has also served on the Board of The East Harlem Tutorial Program and is an active member at Temple Beth-El of Great Neck.

She said she wanted to use her volunteer work to bring together the diverse community of Great Neck.

“I made it a personal goal of mine to include a multicultural conversation in every event that I was part of, whether it be an event at the temple or at the schools,” Schwartz said. “I don’t see the world getting any better, or the rhetoric becoming a kinder or gentler world, but at least personally, one by one, we can model that for our children and keep our community harmonious so we can all thrive.”

She said she developed a passion for bringing different types of groups of people together from her father’s, who was in attendance at the ceremony, experiences emigrating to America from Poland.

“I think that we need to be committed to ensuring ongoing conversation and build personal relationships across the cultural boundaries rather than within our own cultural boundaries,” Schwartz said. “I hope when we go through any try-

ing times, you can then depend on those bonds to keep the community together and keep the conversation positive.”

Lopatkin, who won re-election last week to serve her fifth term as Village of Kensington mayor, said she was impressed with the wide range of honorees.

“I think the town did an excellent job of selecting women geographically as well as based on what they have contributed in areas such as education, health care and government,” she said. “I enjoyed it a lot.”

Lopatkin has served as mayor of Kensington since 2008, after previously serving as chair of the village’s zoning board and executive board member of the Kensington Civic Organization.

She also serves as vice president of the Great Neck Village Officials Association.

Lopatkin is an active member at Temple Israel of Great Neck where she chairs the temple’s finance committee.

She said she will continue to serve her village to the best of her ability and continue to serve her temple.

“For me personally, nothing will change because I will continue to do all the things I have done up until now,” Lopatkin said.

Kasten, who is president of the Great Neck Historical Society, said it was important that the town honors those who try to improve their local communities.

“It’s lovely that the town does this,” she said. “That they recognize people who volunteer time and who work together to make the town a better place to be.”

Kasten is a founding member of the Great Neck Historical Society’s Board of Directors and has worked with the town to help preserve the Stepping Stones Lighthouse.

She has served on the board of CLASP Children’s Center for 20 years.

Kasten also currently serves on the Board of the New York State Science Olympiad, and has coordinated the Middle School Regional Competitions in New York City for more than 20 years.

She said the other honorees’ accomplishments were commendable because of the difficulty in managing volunteer work with other aspects of life.

“It is difficult to juggle work and volunteer work and your life but I think it’s something that really needs to be done,” Kasten said.

From left: Alice Kasten, Susan Lopatkin and Lori Beth Schwartz

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Bringing authentic Italian cuisine back B y J oe N i k i c Cary Rosner said most Italian restaurants do not offer real Italian cuisine.

“When you go out to a restaurant, you’re not being served Italian food, you’re being served an Americanized version of Italian food,” Rosner said. “Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but I believe it has veered so far right that it’s time to bring simplicity back to Italian cuisine.”

Rosner said he hopes to bring diners that authentic experience with the opening of Katerina Ristorante on March 25 at 20 South Station Plaza in the Village of Great Neck Plaza.

To give the authentic Italian feel, the restaurant will import some of its products once a week to John F. Kennedy International Airport from Italy, said Rosner, who the restaurant’s managing partner.

“The end result is it’s a better product because it’s dealt from its origin,” he said.

“That’s what is really most important.”

Rosner also said the Italian trading companies that import food products are eager to provide for American customers knowing their adoration for Italian food.

“The Italian market understands that Americans have a love affair with Italian cuisine,” he said. “They have been really aggressive to ensure that their premium products have the ability at the table.”

While he and Tony Cerra, Katerina Ristorante’s director of operations, heard

Inside of Katerina Ristorante at 20 South Station Plaza about the struggles of Great Neck restaurants and businesses, Rosner said, they believe the business would succeed because of its close proximity to the Long Island Rail Road station and the kind of food it will offer.

“People are flocking out of the area for whatever the reason,” he said. “We

think the area is really under-served and according to what people are telling us, they’re really hungry for something.”

Cerra owned and operated various Manhattan restaurants since 1991.

Rosner said in the restaurant business, Cerra’s “passion is tremendous.”

“He truly does care about the diner

that walks into his store and he cares more about the product that goes on to the plate,” he said. “A lot of people will say what they’re doing and not do it, but he will do it.”

Katerina Ristorante will be offering a wine program in which patrons can select one bottle of wine from a list of 29 bottles for $29.

Rosner said he and Cerra tasted over 1,000 bottles of wine to slim the list down to 29.

“We believe that people are very, very conscious of what they’re spending,” he said. “If we have the ability to over-deliver at the price point, it does well for everybody.”

Rosner also said that instead of offering a glass of wine to patrons, Katerina Ristorante would offer glass-and-a-half portions.

“We know that most people are not sold on getting that second glass because they might be going into the car or don’t want to spend the money,” he said. “It’s just the right amount.”

Katerina Ristorante has a website at katerinany.com, where people can make reservations, inquire about holding an event or private party at the restaurant or check out the restaurant’s lunch and dinner menu.

The restaurant will also be maintaining and mobile text message list, which allows people who text “Katerina” to 41411 will receive news and offers.

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Town widens pool for disclosures Town contractors, family members to make annual financial filings after Terry flap B y J oe N i k i c

North Hempstead officials voted Tuesday to amend the town’s financial disclosure policy after the town discovered it failed to collect financial disclosure statements from the town’s former Democratic Party leader Gerard Terry.

Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said at Tuesday’s board meeting the amended law is “more comprehensive� by requiring family members of employees who work at the town, who also work at the town, to file financial disclosure reports. “Everything that we’re requiring the person who is filling out the disclosure for themselves, they also now have to include all of those members of their spouse’s family as well,� Bosworth said.

Pursuant to state law, North Hempstead adopted a code of ethics in December 1990, the online version of the town code says.

Section 16A-7 outlines who is required to submit the town’s financial disclosure statement each year, including elected officials, candidates for town office, purchasing and contract officers, department heads and their deputies, in addition to party leaders.

The form requires filing officials to

who until recently was the attorney for the town’s Board of Zoning Appeals and special counsel for the town attorney, owes more than $1.4 million in federal and state back taxes, has been party to five lawsuits and let his attorney registration lapse for three years.

The town never collected financial disclosure statements from Terry, the head of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee from 2007 until he resigned Feb. 1, except for a brief period, or any other party leader, town attorney Elizabeth Botwin said.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas has said she is investigating Terry’s tax issues and public jobs.

The North Hempstead ethics board is investigating Concetta Terry, Gerard Terry’s wife and a deputy town clerk, for allegedly omitting her husband’s tax debts from her financial disclosure records.

Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth None of her disclosure reports from the 2006 calendar year list Gerard Terreport financial interests, outside em- ry’s tax warrants or liens, though she did ployment, debts, investments and other report her and her husband’s outstandinformation for themselves and their ing auto loans.

Bosworth said the town attorney’s spouse and children.

Bosworth ordered a review of town office reviewed the financial disclosure policies and procedures after a Newsday policy and received recommendations report revealed last month that Terry, from the town’s ethics board about who

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should be required to file disclosure forms.

Town Attorney Elizabeth Botwin said the town’s Board of Ethics receives every financial disclosure report in May and reviews each of them individually. “There is a process in our ethics code for the board to ask questions about any concerns or what seem to be discrepancies,� Botwin said.

Bosworth said the amended law also requires outside contractors who “directly advise boards� to file financial disclosure reports.

The town code calls for a civil penalty of up to $10,000 if a filer “knowingly and willfully with intent to deceive makes a false statement or gives information which such individual knows to be false� on a disclosure statement.

Also at the board meeting, the board passed a resolution updating the list of employees of the town who hold “policymaking positions� to file financial disclosure reports.

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Plaza to seek grant for LED light upgrades B y J oe N i k i c Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees announced their intention Wednesday to seek a Nassau County grant to upgrade the village’s streetlight fixtures to LED lights.

The Board of Trustees adopted a resolution at its board meeting to authorize the application for the county Office of Community Development’s 42nd Year Community Development Block Grant.

“Since I’ve been mayor I know we’ve applied all but one year,” Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said.

“We want to go now for some lighting upgrades to swap out our street lighting for LED lighting.”

Village Clerk-Treasurer Patricia O’Byrne said she is in the process of completing the application, which required the board to hold Wednesday’s public hearing and adopt a resolution after.

O’Byrne also said the application was due by April 1 and the village would find out if it was awarded the grant at some point this summer.

Celender said the application informs the county on specific plans for project.

“The application will identify how many [streetlights] we’re doing and what our anticipated costs are,” she said.

Celender also said the village received this same county grant last year, which it is applying the funds to the repaving of the village’s Maple Drive parking lot.

Also at the meeting, the board adjourned discussion on an application for a proposed 61-unit apartment complex at 15 Bond St. to review an updated State Environmental Quality Review Assessment submitted by the applicant this week.

Celender said she wanted to give both the Board of Trustees and the Board of Zoning and Appeals enough time to properly review the modified environmental report.

In July, the board voted to become the lead agency on the project to handle the State Environmental Quality Review Assessment, which would determine if the project would have any significant environmental impacts on the surrounding

area.

The engineering firm VHB was hired by the village to oversee the SEQRA review.

In November, the board requested Paul Bloom, attorney for Effie Namdar of 14 Park Place LLC, which is seeking to build the complex, to further respond to environmental review concerns.

Residents of the four surrounding buildings — Westminster Hall Apartments, located at 4 Maple Place, The Cartier Apartments, located a 21 Bond St. 22 Park Place and 25 Park Place — have voiced concerns at past meetings about the applicant’s zoning variance requests.

The developers are seeking a height variance that would permit a four-story, 45-foot high building. Village zoning laws permit only three-story buildings that are 45 feet high.

The developers also asked for a 13-foot-high room on top of the building that would be used as a recreation room.

Bloom had said at a previous BZA meeting that many buildings surrounding 15 Bond St. are more than three stories high.

The application was adjourned to the April 6 board meeting.

Also at the meeting, the board adjourned discussion on an application for a conditional-use permit by the owner of the Shop Delight supermarket to operate a butcher shop three stores down on Welwyn Road.

At the Feb. 3 meeting, Village Attorney Richard Gabriele asked Bloom, who also represents Shop Delight owner Edward Yakupov, to return to the board with answers addressing trustees’ concerns regarding a comparison of ownership between the proposed butcher shop and Shop Delight as well as food delivery information including frequency of deliveries, identity of deliverer, what they deliver, delivery times, size of trucks and if Yakupov would fund a code enforcement officer either through the store or through the village.

Celender said Bloom was unable to gather all of the information in time and requested an adjournment to the April 6 meeting.

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Casino opponents to rally again at Belmont B y N oah M ans k a r

Opponents of a video casino proposed for Belmont Park will rally at the Elmont racetrack Saturday in an effort to gather support for a state law prohibiting such casinos on Long Island.

In addition to growing public support, the group of opponents in Floral Park, Elmont, Franklin Square and other communities bordering Belmont Park hope to get Long Island state senators to support a measure repealing state authorization for video lottery terminal, or VLT, facilities in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

“It’s not a partisan issue. It’s just a quality-oflife issue,” said Tammie Williams, an Elmont-based community organizer who is helping organize the rally.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Queens) introduced a bill parallel to the measure three Democratic Assembly members have sponsored

A rally will be held Saturday here at Belmont Park

in that house, a significant Regional Off-Track Betting the eight sitting Long Island step in the fight against the Corp. announced its plans state senators to support Avella’s bill, Williams said. video casino that residents in December.

It’s part of what Floral The rally aims to push have waged since Nassau Park civic activist Nadia Holubnyczyj-Ortiz called a “two-pronged approach” opponents are taking to kill the Belmont Park plans locally and prevent a casino from opening anywhere on Long Island on the state level.

“If they move on, where else are they going to go?” she said. “We need to remove that threat altogether.”

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She will appear at the rally along with her brother, Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages (D-Elmont) and Village of Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy.

State Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) will also attend, Williams said.

Kaminsky is running against Republican Christopher McGrath for the Senate seat Dean Skelos vacated following his November conviction on federal corruption charges.

The open district includes part of the Belmont Park property.

Patrick Nicolosi, president of Elmont’s East End Civic Association and an ardent casino supporter, said some Floral Park residents told him they were upset the rally was being used as a “campaign tool” for Kaminsky, and that it was being held on the Saturday before Easter, the “World Series” of the Christian religion.

“It’s ridiculous that they would even hold a rally on such a day, and it’s not a life or death situation,” Nicolosi said. “It’s about gambling.”

Holubnyczyj-Ortiz said she has heard “nothing of

the sort” from anyone in Floral Park. Nicolosi is “always looking to stir up controversy,” she said.

Nicolosi said he and the president of Local 707, the union to which Nassau OTB employees belong, were planning a rally for sometime after the Easter holiday.

Supporters and opponents held opposing rallies at Belmont Park in January. A previous event drew more than 2,000 opponents to Floral Park Memorial High School.

Several local officials in recent weeks have joined the opposition to Nassau OTB’s plan to build a 100,000-square-foot VLT parlor on an eight-acre lot north of Hempstead Turnpike.

The Village of New Hyde Park, the Elmont Library Board of Trustees and North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth have formally opposed it, and an attorney for the Village of Floral Park outlined possible legal hurdles for the project in a letter to the state Franchise Oversight Board.

They and other opponents say the casino would increase crime and traffic, decrease property values and otherwise detract from quality of life in the surrounding area.

Nicolosi, OTB and other supporters argue the casino would bring Nassau County millions of dollars in much-needed revenue, support local business communities and create quality jobs.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has included $15 million in casino revenue in his 2016 budget, and OTB is working to formulate a revenuesharing agreement with surrounding communities.

OTB requires state legislative approval for the permanent facility.

Meanwhile, it plans to build a temporary parlor with 1,000 VLTs, which needs approval from the state Office of General Services and the New York Racing Authority.

The Village of Floral Park plans to file a lawsuit as soon as OTB makes a formal application to the Franchise Oversight Board, which it reportedly has yet to do.

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Cancer doctor to play first solo show B y A d e d amola A g b oola For James D’Olimpio, stage fright is the only thing that could keep him from following his passion.

“I had played at the Manhasset Public Library, a Northwell talent show and a couple of other shows and it didn’t go too well,” D’Olimpio said.

But next month, D’Olimpio will step onto the stage at the Jeanne Rimsky Theatre in Port Washington to perform his first ever solo performance.

“I’ve always loved to play the piano but my life situation just didn’t allow me to practice or play like I would like to,” D’Olimpio said.

D’Olimpio, 65, of Manhasset, is the director of Cancer Pain and Symptom Control Service at North Shore University Hospital.

He also serves as the director of Supportive Palliative Oncology at the hospital.

What his patients and colleagues may not know about D’Olimpio is that he is deeply passionate about music.

D’Olimpio said he took his first piano lesson when he was six years old.

Between the ages of 9 and 19, D’Olimpio said he would take numerous piano and accordion lessons.

But when he enrolled at Boston University and medical school, he said he didn’t have the time to practice like he would like.

“You really don’t have the time to accommodate these things when you’re in your 30s,” D’Olimpio said. “I was still trying to establish my career but I had the advocation in me.”

He said he didn’t start taking the innate passion and talent seriously until 2005.

Today, D’Olimpio has an established a medical career spanning over 38 years and have worked at Northwell for over 20 years.

“Now I have more time to practice and do some of the other things I want to do,” he said.

D’Olimpio said he now wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning to practice for two to three hours on his piano before heading out to work.

In 2013, he enrolled at the Bottazzi International Musical Society and School of Music.

There, he met Ana Maria Trenchi Bottazzi, a world-famous pianist, who D’Olimpio said is teaching him not just to be a better pianist but how to practice better.

“It’s not about how long you play,” D’Olimpio said Bottazzi would tell him.

“It’s about how you practice.”

He said he took lessons at the school for two years with Bottazzi before she offered him an opportunity to play a recital at Carnegie Hall.

Bottazzi, had played Carnegie Hall 17 times over her career.

“She gives us the opportunity to play those kinds of events and not any student can do it,” D’Olimpio said. “To have her sit there and teach me is a real honor.”

After his performance at Carnegie Hall, which he said received a standing ovation from the audience, Bottazzi suggested he play a solo show.

D’Olimpio said he was a little apprehensive partly because of stage fright and partly because his previous solos hadn’t gone too well.

But he said he agreed.

D’Olimpio said he will be playing some jazz music, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck and what he calls the “American Songbook.”

He said he will also be performing some new age George Winston music.

The free concert was organized by the Bottazzi Music Society in conjunction with Northwell Health.

The free concert will hold on Saturday March 26, at the Jeanne Rimsky Theatre Landmark from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Proceeds will be donated to Northwell Cancer Institute.

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Albertson firefighters say no to North Hills rates have changed, but did not provide other information regarding the decision The Village of North Hills agreed last or letter.

Deputy Mayor Dennis Sgambati said it Wednesday to secure fire protection from another source after the Albertson Fire De- seems the fire company has made up their partment said in a letter it would not renew mind.

“Isn’t it evident that if he doesn’t return a contract for next year.

Officials said the Village Board received your calls or Marianne’s calls, that they a letter from the Albertson Fire Company don’t want to do it, they don’t want to be on Feb. 10, saying the company did not our fire protection?” he said.

“But that’s not the problem, we told want to renew the village’s contract for the coming year, from June 1, 2016, to May 31, them we would pay them based on their rate from last year and now they don’t 2017. want it anymore,” Natiss The letter said the said. “It makes no sense company would serve me. I don’t know who the area until the village e’re interested in to is in charge there but he could secure new fire protection, but would protecting our village certainly doesn’t return calls or emails so charge on a pro-rated residents and you’re my maybe he doesn’t want basis, not their standard yearly fee, officials said. telling me that you to talk to me.”

Sgambati said the “I was very disturbed with this,” Mayor Mar- don’t want to renew? Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department now has a vin Natiss said. “We’re Marvin Natiss closer location on Plandinterested in protecting Mayor, Village of North Hills ome Road, which could our village residents and better serve North Hills you’re telling me that and reduce response you don’t want to retimes. new?”

The village entered a contract with the Natiss said he sent Albertson Fire Chief Jason Lasek a letter and asked the Village Albertson Fire Company and the Roslyn Attorney Thomas Levin to contact the Al- Fire Company “for the safety of certain porbertson Fire Company attorney, but no tions of our village” that are farther from Manhasset-Lakeville fire houses, Natiss emails have been returned so far.

Efforts to reach Lasek and Daniel Gior- said.

“Maybe we should be speaking to dano, chairman of the Albertson Fire DisManhasset-Lakeville and tell them that we trict’s Board of Trustees, were unavailing.

Village Administrator Marianne Lobac- want their service faster,” Natiss said at the caro said she spoke with a company board board meeting. “Get Manhasset-Lakeville, member, who explained how the payment and let’s find out what has to be done.”

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PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Repeal or replace property tax cap Enjoy your property tax rebate from sive to educate than elementary school, Gov. Cuomo — it’s blood money, paid for which is why for-profit charter schools by the slashes and cuts at public schools, focus on elementary school), or the numcannibalistically eating our young and bers of students requiring (mandated) Academic Intervention Services, or the capping our future.

This year, with the tax cap set at 0.17 numbers of special needs students or stupercent (that’s 17/100th of 1 percent, less dents needing ESL services.

Gross pointed to “the fallacy of the than one tenth of the supposed 2 percent cap), limiting the increase in Great Neck formula,” saying, “what is used to calschools’ tax levy to $346,000, the school culate the tax cap does not reflect what causes increases in our costs, so the costs district had to find $3 million in cuts.

The ramifications are that this year, that are going up are not reflected in the formula, but the disthe schools will cut the trict must reduce its equivalent of 13.77 program in order to full time teaching posilive within the cap. We tions, eliminate beforebelieve it important for school enrichment progovernment bodies to grams and intramurals, be frugal and prudent early morning drop in managing costs, off-elementary schools but we are exceptionand charge for the ally opposed to an arAcademic Intervention bitrary formula which Services summer procan result in having to gram, among other cuts cut back on services be(future columns will go cause of maximum liminto greater detail). it imposed beyond acBut the way the cap tual increasing costs.” works, it makes perBut the way the manent the reductions property tax cap is imbecause it becomes the posed, it gives strong threshold to set the folincentives for the publowing year’s budget.

Pulse of the Peninsula lic to demand their Next year, it is projected municipalities stay unthe property tax cap will der the cap — literally force $7.5 million more cannibalizing its public schools — and in in cuts.

This is after year after year of system- the case of schools and libraries which are atic cuts since 2012, each time coming uniquely required to put their budgets to a vote, gives the minority (40 percent) the closer and closer into our classrooms.

“It’s untenable,” said Trustee Law- power to overturn the will of the majority rence Gross, a member of the school should a district have to pierce the cap.

For the past two years, the state has board’s finance committee.

The property tax cap is a politically tied rebate checks as a reward to municipopular idea, but it is the same as paying palities which stayed within the cap, each year requiring more and more onerous for a contract killing.

People don’t realize that the formula conditions. The present rebate is only in calls for a maximum 2 percent increase in force if the school district combines with property tax revenue or the inflation rate, other districts and promises multiple years of reductions. whichever is lower — not higher.

Instead of an arbitrarily set tax cap The cap does not take into account increases or changes in enrollment or de- — and incentives which make it politimographics of the student population— cally dire to pierce the cap — it should be whether there is a shift in the numbers of enough for residents to see precisely how secondary school students (more expen- districts are spending money, and have

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mechanism to participate.

That’s what we have had in Great Neck, well before processes were mandated. We elect our neighbors to take up this responsibility— they are the ones who live with the impacts of the budget every day.

They practice zero-based budgeting, each year justifying every dollar of allocation or reduction, which we can see during the Budget Review session, held on a Saturday morning (this year’s took place March 19), well publicized on mailings.

We shouldn’t begrudge paying a fair tax— all of us, regardless of whether we still have children in our schools— benefit from a high-quality public school system, and especially those of us who have put one, two, three or more kids through 12 years of school.

If we had to pay private school tuition, putting one child through 12 years of school would cost $20,000 a year x 12, or $240,000, multiplied by the number of children.

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Mineola offers model to combat empty stores

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he re-election of trustees Paul Pereira and Paul Cusato in the Village of Mineola was more than voters’ endorsement of four residential projects that the Village Board has approved since 2008.

It was also an endorsement of an approach to development that began more than a decade ago when the Village Board reached out to the community and began a planning process that resulted in a Master Plan to redevelop Mineola’s downtown business district — an approach that other villages and the Town of North Hempstead would be wise to follow.

The two challengers to Pereira and Cusato — ironically both former mayors who played important roles in the development of the Master Plan — engaged in a substantive debate about the size of four projects projected to produce 1,075 apartments, and their impact on traffic, parking and water sewer services.

Both Larry Werther and John Colbert also raised legitimate questions about tax breaks given to developers by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency.

We share their concerns about IDAs giving tax breaks for projects that don’t produce the jobs called for in state IDA legislation and a flaw in the IDA legislation that prevents school districts from counting the developments that receive the tax breaks in property assessments even after the tax breaks have ended.

But those are issues for the state and county to address, or as their habit, not.

The village trustees had to deal with the law as it is and we believe they responded wisely, negotiating millions of dollars in contributions from developers that allowed the village to fund needed capital improvements at no cost to taxpayers.

The village trustees also addressed concerns about traffic and parking during a number of public hearings on the projects that brought out large crowds on both sides of the issue. The board listened to the concerns of residents, but backed by various studies on the projects were able to make a strong case for approving the four projects — two on Old Country Road on the south side of the LIRR rail

road tracks that divide downtown Mineola and two north of the railroad tracks.

These developments offer a good test for the urban-transit model of residential development touted as a means of attracting young professionals to Long Island.

With one downtown apartment complex open and another nearing completion, the results thus far have been good.

The one building that has opened — the 275-unit Modera at 140 Old Country Road — has reported strong demand and a spate of businesses have opened or filed for permits to open on Mineola Boulevard in the heart of the downtown business district.

In almost each instance, the business owners have cited the opening of the Modera and the other projects in the works for choosing to locate in Mineola.

Mayor Scott Strauss said the Village Board would take a “little breather” after approving Mineola’s fourth commuter apartment complex to further assess the impact on developments that were many years in the making, but have seemed to come together all at once.

But the Village Board has not curtailed its efforts to help improve business in the downtown district, approving a parking study of the downtown business district and unveiling an innovative program to help local businesses upgrade their storefronts through a grant obtained by the village. The program, which has been strongly supported by the Mineola Chamber of Commerce, will help local businesses address an area where national chain stores have often had a strong advantage over local retailers — curb appeal.

These initiatives reflect a commitment on the part of Mineola’s village trustees to work with local businesses and those seeking to open local businesses to find solutions that balance the needs of the businesses with those of residents. Even though circumstances differ from community to community, the Village of Mineola’s initiatives are another example that the other villages on the North Shore as well as the Town of North Hempstead would do well to follow.

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Trustees make right development choices

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am happy that the two Mineola trustees will remain in office.

The published picture with the very tall buildings looked ridiculous and have nothing to do with what is happening.

The way it stands today, the Hudson House is not imposing.

All I suggest is that the lights on the lower edge of the building be shaded somewhat as they are glaring to the distant observer.

The Mineola Modera has a classy ‘Fifth Avenue’ look. 250 Old Country Road is simpler yet good.

I believe that what is referred to as The Village Green should by all means have the go-ahead and make the most of it. In the long run Fox and the other stores on Main Street will benefit.

The present building though in good condition is from another era.

I don’t know its history but there is something dark and spooky about it. I sense it clearly but I don’t know what it means.

The proposed building with what might be like a courtyard in the center would do wonders for that area.

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I went over to Searing Avenue and looked at the two spaces which were church property.

Due to the surrounding buildings, no frame single family houses are visible.

Like the nine others off of Willis Avenue, they will go unnoticed.

After these are completed, a breather would be in order to see how it works out.

As for the concerns of ‘Suburban Mineola’, it would be as if they all don’t exist.

There is room for at least three more apartment houses

south of the tracks and west of Roslyn Road for future consideration.

Mineola downtown should make the most of what is done.

Once those spaces are used, that will be the end of it.

As far as traffic is concerned, the six buildings in Birchwood Court add up to more than twice as much as the Modera and 250 Old Country Road combined.

Two or three years ago on a nice warm weekday morning I watched the entrance to Birchwood Court during rush hour.

The number of vehicles en-

tering and leaving were so few as to have no effect on traffic.

All I did was observe.

None of this ‘do a study thing’ using up money for nothing. So trite like “curb cut.” Some kind of quip?

I also notice that being a ‘politico’ for a length of time develops a blindness for the ability of being ‘honest able’.’

As for the other more than 20 older apartment houses in Mineola, traffic entering and leaving is not as much as noticeable.

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A loo k on the li g hter si d e

What we say to teens, and what they hear

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ne of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons is titled “What we say to dogs.”

It shows a man scolding his pet: “Okay, Ginger!

I’ve had it! You stay out of the garbage! Understand, Ginger?”

The second half of the same cartoon is titled “What they hear”: “Blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER.” Along the same lines, I have often wondered if something similar goes on in the heads of our teenagers, when we try to help them, enlighten them, or — at our most daring moments — give them advice.

For example: You find your teenager slumped at their desk, fast asleep over an assignment they told you was due the next day.

You shake them and say, “Sweetheart, you’re obviously exhausted. Why not put on pajamas, get into bed, and tackle this again in the morning?”

“But mom!” they wail. “I’ve just finished reading the material. I’d only have to read it all over again, in the morning. I can’t waste that kind of time!”

“But you’ll be so much more blah blah blah if you’ve had enough blah.”

Whereupon you close the door and tiptoe away.

Another time, mom almost breaks her toe on her child’s backpack. “This thing is so heavy! Why must you take so many books back and forth? I bet if I put a thread across each one, we’d find you never even opened them.”

“Mom, you’re so weird! I need them all, okay? What’s it to you, anyway?”

“I’m just blah blah blah about your back! I’m afraid you’ll blah blah blah, with so much blah.”

Nothing gets taken out of the backpack.

Teenagers often leave their belongings strewn all around the bedroom — no, all over the

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A Look on the Lighter Side house.

Dad has a suggestion: “Don’t you think it would be easier to find your things if you kept them all in one place? Or at least in the same place, one day to the next?”

“I’m fine like this.”

“But then you wouldn’t have to panic, looking for blah, blah, or blah-blah-blah, every time you go out.”

Deaf ears.

There are times when your teen will start moaning about their to-do list: “Mom, I’ve got so much homework, I don’t know where to begin!”

It is tempting to make a suggestion: “Why don’t you start with the hardest thing on your list?”

But don’t bother. Their answer is ready: “That’s just crazy!

Why would I settle for getting one thing done, when in the same amount of time I could finish everything else on the list?”

“Well, sweetheart, a lot of experts say blah blah blah more energy, but blah blah blah blah blah.”

Hours later, they’re still fussing over that to-do list, without having gotten any farther.

At least you’ve said your piece.

Sometimes teens are upset by what their friends say or do.

But it’s useless to advise them.

“Yes, it’s upsetting when people don’t understand you.

But if you try not to blah blah so seriously, then blah blah blah so unhappy.”

Even shoe shopping can become an exercise in non-communication: “If the shoes don’t fit you in the store, honey, don’t buy them, because they’ll never feel any better.”

“That’s just not true, mom.

The salesman said if I don’t like the fit, I can bring them back and he can stretch them.”

“Yes, they say that, but trust me, blah blah blah never works, and then you won’t be able to blah blah blah for any credit.”

Yes, when contemplating giving advice to teens, you should probably just save your breath.

They will not hear you — at least, not until they have teens of their own.

I should know; I was the teen in every one of those scenarios.

It’s a good thing my parents didn’t strangle me — so I can now pass along all their good advice to my kids.

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A man who helped lead ‘A Citizens Century’

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y dear friend, Harold Saunders, died this month.

Hal’s obituary in The New York Times (March 9) demonstrates why he was respected and admired by so many.

Working with Hal for more than two decades, I was able to learn first-hand the depth of his influence on people of all ages.

In my previous column, I shared concerns that the American Enlightenment was in jeopardy.

Hal will be deeply missed because his life epitomized sustained quests for rational discourse, and for encouraging empathetic relationships.

Hal has been properly celebrated for his key role as Assistant Secretary of State for President Carter in developing the Camp David accords in 1977.

He served on the National Security Council for Presidents of both parties, and he was a member of the International Negotiation Network at the Carter Presidential Center.

My direct ties with Hal came through the Kettering Foundation where he served as director of International Affairs.

Saunders and Kettering were perfectly matched for each other. This marvelous Foundation, headed by David Mathews (who

served as Secretary of Health Education and Welfare for President Ford), undertakes wide-ranging research that seeks understanding of “what it takes to make democracy work as it should.”

During my decades of participating in dozens of “Research Exchanges” at the Foundation in Dayton, Ohio and in Washington, Hal’s international leadership has been increasingly evident.

Representatives from more than 30 nations participate in some of our sessions.

Kettering and Hal represent the polar opposite from angry partisans who often rush to rigid judgments.

Saunders and the Foundation emphasize rational, deliberative, civil discourse as a pathway for citizens to seek reliable knowledge as a basis for making informed public judgments.

The approaches by Saunders and the National Issues Forums (affiliated with Kettering) do indeed take account of “values,” but they emphasize the importance of careful listening to others for understanding and to seek “common ground.”

I always liked Hal’s emphasis on one of the phrases used by Kettering: “A Different Kind of Talk, Another Way to Act.” At Hofstra University and

Michael D’Innocenzo Out of Left Field Long Island libraries, we were privileged, on several occasions, to learn directly from Hal Saunders how our political process and our democracy could be strengthened.

With many students and Nassau adults, I shared an appreciation of Hal’s book: “A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts.”

Hal Saunders believed that our era could become “The Citizens’ Century.”

The Times concluded its obituary appreciation noting his view that governments were faced with more problems than they can address.

Hal Saunders said: “Citizens outside of government increas-

ingly have an opportunity to fill that void.”

Kettering Foundation President David Mathews observed: “We will remember his interest in young people. He reached out to college students and built a network devoted to sustained dialogue, one of the primary themes of his work in recent years.”

“He tackled some of the greatest challenges of our times — protracted conflict, destructive relationships, weak governance, dysfunctional democracy and the need for a new world view,” Dr. Mathews continued.

Living as an “idealist without illusions” is a noble aspiration, as John F. Kennedy averred. Hal Saunders understood that common ground, respect, and empathy were not easy to achieve.

How, then, can “A Public Peace Process” develop when people come from varying religions, races, ethnicities, and genders?

Relationship building for people in deep human conflict “involves putting the past into a manageable perspective so that it no longer blocks development of a fully cooperative and peaceful relationship.”

Saunders states that this “ultimate transformation” involves acknowledgement, contrition, forgiveness and reconciliation.

In his book and through the Sustained Dialogue Network (which he founded), Saunders outlines 5 significant steps for a public peace process to work. The first step is assembling people who are willing to talk and listen deeply about a problem that affects them seriously.

This reminds me of Montesquieu’s “le vertu,” the willed initiative. Like other scholars, Saunders cites Tocqueville’s theme in “Democracy in America” of citizens’ capacity for associational activity.

Gary Wills goes even a step beyond when he writes about the radicalism of Thomas Jefferson and his belief in “benevolence” — that most people are characterized by wanting to do good, and are eager to be respected for social caring.

How many people are enough to start and sustain an effective public peace process?

I will consider those queries in my next column.

In the meantime, I am sure you will find keen interest in three of Hal Saunders’ associations — and you can join the discourse for “The Citizens’ Century” www.kettering.org www.nifi.org www.sustaineddialogue.org D’Innocenzo’s website is: michaeldinnocenzo.com

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ov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest announcements that no homes will be taken and seven grade crossings will be eliminated as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island Rail Road Main Line Third Track project was lacking specific details.

The same is true for MTA’s claim that by using the same contractor for both design and construction, it will save both time and money, resulting in only a five year construction duration.

This may be unrealistic.

Both Gov. Cuomo and the MTA/LIRR claiming that they can fast track this project for $1.5 billion is wishful thinking.

The current cost estimate is based upon previous outdated planning feasibility studies from over ten years ago.

There is little environmental and no preliminary or final design and engineering efforts necessary to validate any actual construction costs. They will need to be refined as the project progresses beyond the planning and environmental phases into real and final design efforts. Value engineering, which is a process used to reduce costs, will be needed during the final design phase.

Unfortunately, history has shown that estimated costs for construction usually trend upwards as projects mature toward 100 percent final design.

Progression of final design refines the

detailed scope of work necessary to support construction. The anticipated final potential cost will never be known until completion.

Costs will be further refined by award of construction contracts followed by any unforeseen site conditions and change orders to the base contracts during the course of construction.

It could easily cost $700 million to a $1 billion more than the $1.5 billion to cover costs of either elevating or sinking roadways at 7 crossings (three in New Hyde Park, two in Mineola and two in Westbury) within the existing right of way.

Cuomo is only advocating providing seed money of $7 million to support planning, preliminary design and engineering along with environmental work within the proposed 2015- 2019 MTA Five Year Capital Program.

This still needs approval by Albany Capital Program Review Board.

Don’t be surprised if the balance of $1.5 billion is higher to support property acquisition of up to 30 businesses, final design and engineering, third party construction and construction management oversight.

There is also the need for contingency funding (usually from 5 percent to 10 percent of the overall total project cost to deal with bids that come in above the engineers estimates, along with change orders to construction, construction management and

other contracts).

Add another $700 million to a $1 billion for elimination of seven grade crossings. You are now looking at a potential project cost between $2.2 to $2.5 billion!

These costs may have to be spread out between the 2020-2024 and 20252029 future Five Year Capital Programs.

(Remember that LIRR Eastside Access started at $3.5 billion in 1999 and has grown to $10.8 billion today and how much more tomorrow.

Funding to date has been spread out over three Five Year Capital Programs and will end up being programmed over five Five Year Capital Programs upon completion in 2023 or later.

MTA LIRR plans to use “design build” as a means to both save money and complete construction within five years. This has pros and cons.

Tradition has most projects reach 100 percent final design reviewed and approved by both user groups (various LIRR departments including communications, maintenance, power, track and signal) and all permitting agencies. Design Build brings the project up to 30 percent final design before being bid.

The winning contractor advances the project up to 100 percent design in parallel with construction.

There are potential problems with fast tracking projects with the design/ build process. Consider the clear conflict of interest when the same firm performs both final design and construction.

When change orders occur as a result of design error, omission or unforeseen site conditions, will the company voluntarily report and pay for their own mistakes?

It is the equivalent of the fox watching the hen house.

The LIRR will have to hire engineering construction management oversight firms, along with additional in-house engineers and procurement specialists to protect their interests.

They monitor quality assurance and quality control to insure that the contractor adheres to the original design specifications.

These resources are also needed for review and approval of change orders to insure that they are both fair and reasonable. Change orders can result in significantly higher project costs above the winning design and construction firms base bid.

If this design/build process has been so successful, you have to ask why the MTA and LIRR did not commit more projects to this method under previous Five Year Capital Plans.

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receive from Albany in services. Long Island’s nine NYS Senators (all of which are Republican) are doing nothing to arrest this trend. Yet these nine keep repeating how a Democratic State Senator would be bad for Long Island. Numbers don’t lie. Long Islanders are not being well represented in the NYS Senate.

Long Island recently received $550 million in the 2015 NYS budget for economic development projects.

Former NYS Senate Leader Dean Skelos was quoted as saying, “The budget was regionally balanced and we’ve been able to secure critical funding for Long Island,” thus creating the perception of a big win for our region. The reality is Long Island business

officials were pushing for $1 billion, to get the same funding that Buffalo previously received. Infrastructure here is crumbling and much more than $550 million was needed.

Again, Long Island pays proportionately more than any other region, yet continues to receive smaller and smaller pieces of the pie.

Though Long Island is a diverse region with great disparity in wealth, when adjusted for regional cost factors, it isn’t much better off than other parts of the state. There will always be a statewide imbalance. The problem is the imbalance keeps growing and the perception that our NYS Senate elected officials are meeting our needs on Long Island isn’t the reality.

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Republican obstruction gave us Trump

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ith the election of Barack maceutical interests. Republicans failed to Obama to the presidency, I had remedy the growth of economic inequalso much hope that our country ity.

There is a sad irony in the anger and would become much more prodisappointment engendered by the Regressive.

He was met with so many challenges publican disinterest in education and inafter the presidency of George Bush. We frastructure. Job development programs had endured wars ostensibly motivated to languished, but somehow the economy affect regime change but actually to pro- recovered while the suffering middle class saw little improvement in sources of bettect oil interests.

There was little regard for the young ter paid jobs, unemployment among colmen, many driven to enter the military be- lege graduates, huge tuition debt, and cause of few prospects in civilian life, and delays in admitting that climate change inadequate attention to them when they demanded a larger commitment to the use of renewable sources of energy. returned after hellish experiences.

So many citizens are fearful about the These wars were not paid for. At the same time corrupt economic ventures, future for themselves and their children, resulting in astronomical job losses, con- and are justifiably angry.

But we cannot anticipate faster imfronted him.

The Republican party, immediately provement if Republicans regain power, upon his inauguration, plotted to refuse to and voters have been irrationally led into cooperate with Obama, and succeeded in spurious claims that America can be great obstructing the passage of many construc- again if Trump is elected president.

His campaign has been marked by tive measures.

In the case of health-care reform, the appeals to the basest instincts. He has President’s signature plan was weakened neither the temperament, character or by heavily lobbied health-care and phar- knowledge to lead this country and face

the complexities of dealing with the rest of the world. In my opinion he is a vulgarian, a pathological liar and narcissist.

He derides his opponents in the coarsest language.

He spouts misogyny, racism, physical damage to any protestors, hatred, sexism, insults, xenophobia. When asked whom he plans to consult for advice and information, he has announced that the first person he consults is himself.

He repeats himself with generalities without any sign of plans he will implement.

When asked when he will present his financial information, he lies when he says he cannot until audits are completed. No rule regarding this excuse exists.

Obviously that information would reveal the extent of his claims.

Evidence of his business failures is available on the internet. He has not built anything in several years because he cannot borrow money.

Many of his ventures have been driven into the ground, pocketing millions while investors lost millions. His income now is

from “The Celebrity Apprentice” and by licensing his name.

He continually vilifies the press.

Actually, the press deserves some disdain and they have not lived up to their responsibility to inform fairly.

They have been very slow to act as investigators; they have given him undeserved attention because of higher ratings and more ad money.

I need not dwell on the abysmal exhibition of a motley crew of Republican aspirants whose platforms offered very little.

Unfortunately, strong opposition has been late. Indeed they failed to respond quickly; inane and toothless. It is very sad that his supporters have failed to see through him and his shenanigans. The real conservatives have not risen to the challenge to offer real conservative thought.

I do not agree with what conservatives have wrought for many years, but there is room for intelligent discussion by the opposition.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Action needed to aid ospreys on North Shore

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n the little bay between Plandome and Port Washington, an Osprey nesting platform stood for many years.

Ospreys, the beautiful fishing eagles whose population returned following the prohibition of DDT, nested on the platform for many years.

When a storm or old age destroyed their nesting platform, the Ospreys relocated to a roadside electric pole near their original platform.

Following this, someone thoughtfully

constructed a new nesting platform in the original spot. Unfortunately, the platform was much lower than the original platform and far lower than an electric pole.

The Ospreys have continued to use the electric pole for their nest, as recently as last spring.

After the Ospreys migrated in the fall, PSEG-LI affixed three cones atop the electric pole to prevent another nest, which is in their interest as well as the birds’ interest.

When I drove past the pole yesterday, the female Osprey was standing, bewildered, between the cones atop the pole.

I think it is likely that the Ospreys will relocate to another electric pole since the new nesting platform is low enough for easy access by ground predators, including humans, and will therefore not be viable as a nest site.

When this situation occurred on Cross Bay Boulevard at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Don Riepe, a specialist in

this area, constructed an Osprey nesting platform of equivalent height alongside the electric pole on which the Ospreys were nesting.

The Ospreys relocated to the platform and all was well.

Could we not do the same here?

It’s probably too late for this year but it would be a shame to lose the nesting Ospreys after so many years.

Melanie Miller Great Neck

Keller right choice Pope Francis right on Mother Teresa for Port library P

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s retiring trustee of the Port Washington Public Library, I endorse Bill Keller in the trustee election on April 12.

Bill will serve our library and community with great distinction and integrity. He is conscientious, fiscally responsible and sensitive to the needs and concerns of our community.

Bill is vice president for finance and administration of Queens College.

His professional experience includes responsibility for facilities management, human resources and technology.

Bill has the distinction of having grown up in Port Wash-

Mother Teresa had truly exemplify what a perope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of son should do for others.

Kolkata a saint at the Vatican on Sept. 4.

Now that in my opinion is a example for all As a Catholic and as Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus council of us to engage in works of mercy and kindness ington. He is a Schreiber High #5911 in Douglaston, I would like to applaud Pope in our own communities and elsewhere where the needs exist.

School graduate, a lifelong li- Francis for the canonization of Mother Teresa.

As it says in Matthew chap.25 vs. 40,” And the She was born to a Albanian family in Skopje brary user, an active school district parent and devoted father, which is now part of Macedonia, she later went to king will say to them in reply, “Amen, I say to you and member and supporter of India in 1929 as a Sister of Loreto and became a whatever you did for the least of my brothers of mine you did for me.” many community organizations. Indian citizen in 1947.

Mother Teresa truly had done that and than She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Bill Keller will bring new some. strength and vision to our li- 1950.

Mother Teresa gave her long life in helping the brary.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Please join me in voting for destitute, poor, sick and those with no hope in their Glen Oaks Village Bill on April 12 and for voting lives. “yes”for the library budget. I also highly recommend a vote letters p olic y for Nancy Comer, a current trustee running for re-election.

Letters should be typed or neatly handwritten, and those longer than 300 words may be edited for brevity and clarity. All letters must include the writer’s name and phone number for verification. AnonyMyron Blumenfeld mously sent letters will not be printed. Letters must be received by Monday noon to appear in the next Trustee week’s paper. All letters become the property of Blank Slate Media LLC and may be republished in Port Washington Public any format. Letters can be e-mailed to news@theislandnow.com or mailed to Blank Slate Media, Library 105 Hillside Ave., Williston Park, NY 11596.

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Letter-writer better at It’s been an honor to history than Spanish serve East Williston Kudos to Dr. Hal Sobel for reminding your readers that there really was a Spanish Civil War which preceded WW II by only three years and in which Americans (and many other anti-fascists world-wide) gave their lives in defense of nascent Spanish Democracy.

The writer’s Spanish, however, is not so good as his history.

He wrote, “Los fascistas no pasarOn.” As written, it means, “The fascists did not pass.”

Unfortunately for Spain, they did and

remained in power (with strong American support from the early ‘50s on) for 37 years (1938-1975).

I believe Dr. Sobel meant to quote “La Pasionaria’s” great cry for the Republic’s defense of Madrid against the coming fascist attack, “¡ No pasarÁn !,” “They shall not pass!”

Dr. Gerald Scharfman New Hyde Park Adjunct Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Nassau Community College.

Letter-writer went too easy on communists Hal Sobel’s long article of praise for the communists who fought the fascists in the Spanish civil war was disgusting.

The communists were as bad as the fascists.

Sobel should have focused his attention on America’s fascist candidate for the White House. Donald Trump follows the ideas of Benito Mus-

solini.

I can just picture the brownshirts marching down Middle Neck Road singing the fascist hymn La Giovanezza in honor of Comrade Trump.

Any American who votes for Trump is mentally sick and should be committed.

Al Fried Great Neck

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arting thoughts from Trustee Robert Vella It has been an honor to serve our community as a Trustee during the past four years and I would like to thank you for your confidence and support during my tenure.

When I was elected four years ago, the most glaring issue facing our village was a longstanding dispute with Williston Park regarding the supply and cost of water.

The issue was highly contentious and caused real divisions between our two communities.

My hope was to assist in bridging the gap and bringing about a reasonable solution.

Through the hard work and dedication of our mayor and my fellow trustees, I believe we have reached a point where our village has two clear and reasonable options that will provide a solution for the next 25 years and beyond.

While we all may not agree on which solution is best, we can all agree that a solution that provides certainty for the next quarter century is a vast improvement over the conditions that have prevailed for the last decade.

Our two villages have finalized an agreement in principal that sets forth the terms of water distribution and costs for the next 25 years.

As many of you are aware, our board has also pursued a parallel path of building our own, independent water supply system.

This choice is one of the most important and permanent issues that our village has ever faced. It is a choice that may never present itself again.

Because of the far reaching implications of this decision, I feel that it is crucially important that all of our residents have as much input as possible into which course of action we should take.

We are not permitted to hold a referendum on the direct question of whether or not to build a well.

However, we are permitted to hold a referendum on whether or not to approve financing for such a project.

In doing so, our residents will have the opportunity to be heard on the issue. Residents would have the ability to vote to approve the financing for the construction of the well or to strike down the financing, which would, I believe, provide the basis to finalize the agreement with Williston Park for the supply of water.

With warm regards, I thank you all for the opportunity to have served as trustee of this wonderful village.

Rob Vella East Williston

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Landmark director to Doc gets research appear on ‘Jeopardy!’ award from Feinstein B y S a r ah M in k e w i c z

broadcast on March 31 at 7 p.m. on channel 7.

To help her prepare for the show, Mogul said, her husband would quiz her with popular facts.

But, she said, that doesn’t prepare someone for the real deal.

“You can’t really study for this,” she said. “I think what it comes down to is you just know what you know.”

This was Mogul’s second time on “Jeopardy!” She previously appeared on the show when she was 18 years-old.

“Now that I’ve been on twice, my career on jeopardy is probably going to be over,” Mogul said. “I’m going to continue working at Landmark and hope my trivia comes in handy.”

A familiar face in Port Washington will be on television next week as a contestant on “Jeopardy!”

“Nothing ventured nothing gained,” Landmark of Main Street Executive Director Laura Mogul said.

“It was a little bit intimidating and nervous and exciting,” she said of his appearance in February.

Mogul said she grew up watching “Jeopardy!” and had always remembered random facts, which she feels helped her on the show.

“Information has just always stuck in my brain,” Mogul said. “Somehow I’m able to retrieve it. Which is part of the challenge when you’re on the spot and have to come up with the information.”

Every year more than 100,000 people take an online test to qualify for the show.

Mogul said she’s taken the test three times and was always among the 25,000 people who made it to the second round.

“If you meet their standards they call you,” Mogul said.

This year, she finally got to the third round of the process and was one of 250 people chosen to be on the show over an 18-month period.

She said she flew to Los Angeles to film the show in February. The show will be Laura Mogul with “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek

COPAY remembers former member Kass B y J oe N i k i c Great Neck resident Bernard Kass, a former board member of the Community Organization for Parents and Youth Inc., died on Feb. 8. He was 96.

“During those years he assumed many rolls and responsibilities,” a COPAY release said. “His enthusiasm, commitment to the children and families of our community, and his unending support of our staff and our agency was palpable.”

At the age of 88, the release said, Kass began serving as COPAY’s treasurer.

The release said his “kind personality” made it easy for the organization’s accountant and director to discuss finances with him.

Kass was known as a “social activist,” the release said.

He and then board President Suzette Gross organized a demonstration, the release said, to seek increased funding for low-income children and assure that fami-

lies would receive necessary services.

He was married to his wife, Donna, for 64 years.

She died from lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 86, according to a Newsday obituary.

The release said Kass “respected and admired” Donna, who was a health-care advocate.

He believed cultural diversity would improve the world, the release said, and at a COPAY board meeting, he emphasized the importance of the board’s members stemming from different backgrounds.

“Look at us. We are women and men.

We are all of different ethnicities and colors. We represent all religions. We are of all different ages,” Kass was quoted as saying.

“We are all here to make a better and more united community. If only the world could do this it would be such a better place and we would live in peace.”

A memorial service was held at 50 Hillpark Avenue in Great Neck last Saturday.

B y A d e d amola A g b oola Feinstein Institute, the medical research arm of Northwell Health announced last Thursday it has awarded Dr. Charles Serhan as the recipient of its annual Ross Prize.

The award, in its fourth year, is awarded to scientists who have made an impact in understanding human disease pathogenesis, its treatment and demonstrate the promise for making greater contributions to the field of molecular medicine.

“The Ross Prize is a wonderful recognition of our relatively new field of research focused on harnessing the body’s own mechanisms to resolve inflammation,” Serhan said in a statement.

Feinstein Instute president Kevin Tracey said Serhan’s approach to science enabled his discovery of resolvins.

Serhan’s research focuses on structural elucidation of bioactive molecules that activate the resolution of acute inflammation.

His laboratory’s mission is to identify novel mediators, pathways and cellular targets critical in promoting resolution of inflammation and reperfusion tissue injury and their relation to human disease.

Tracey who also serves as editor emeritus of Molecular Medicine, an open access, peer-reviewed biomedical journal published by the institute, said the molecular mechanisms hold promise for developing novel approaches to treating inflammation.

Serhan is the director of the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

He is also the Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

The Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine is awarded through the Feinstein Institute Press’s peer-reviewed, openaccess journal, Molecular Medicine.

The prize, which includes a $50,000 gift, will be formally presented to Serhan on June 13 at the New York Academy of Sciences in Manhattan.

Following the award presentations, Serhan will deliver a lecture where he will discuss his discoveries in the resolution of inflammation.

“I am honored and look forward to this exciting symposium and celebration,” Serhan said.

The Ross Prize is made possible by the generosity of Feinstein Institute board members Robin and Jack Ross.

Winthrop-University hospital’s

Mini-Med School Adult educAtion

SLOW DOWN! SPEED UP! An Introduction to Struggles with Focus and Memory at the Crossroads of Life.

Aaron Pinkhasov, MD, Chairman of Behavioral Health will present “Fading Brain, Effects of Memory Loss on Health Outcomes.”

Deepan Singh, MD, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry will present “Unmatched Shoes” - Dealing with Distraction in Children and Adolescents.

They will discuss how to recognize and help reduce these commonly misunderstood problems with a focus on improvement with the correct approach.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7 pm - 9:30 pm Winthrop Research and Academic Center 101 Mineola Blvd, (corner of 2nd Street in Mineola) This is a free event.

Registration is required as seating is limited.

Please call (516) 663-8301

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G.N. Chamber presents family court judge The Great Neck Chamber of Commerce presented to the community Nassau County Family Court Judge Conrad Singer.

Singer spoke to the audience at the Inn at Great Neck of his many varied, and many times difficult, experiences sitting on the bench.

Councilwoman Lee Seeman said that the Great Neck community and the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce is proud to have such an outstanding member of the judiciary living in Great Neck.

Singer has a long history sitting as a justice, first as elected village justice in

Great Neck and now as sitting justice in the Nassau County Family Court.

He has been an active Family Court practitioner and has served as a Law Guardian, representing children, parents and families.

He is also a New York State Department of Education Impartial hearing officer.

Singer is an ex-chief of the Vigilant Hook and Ladder Fire Company, serves as a long-time member of the company, and received a state citation for heroism and a Nassau County Medal of Valor recipient.

G.N. Biener Audi donates CPR training kit Biener Audi presented a Resusci Anne CPR training unit to Roslyn Hook & Ladder Company at the dealership at 795 Northern Blvd in Great Neck.

Biener Audi is a member of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association which administers the CPR donations on behalf of the National Automobile Dealers Association Charitable Foundation.

New York State Senator Jack Martins and New York State Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel officiated the event.

“It’s a great honor to present the Roslyn Hook & Ladder Company with this life-saving CPR unit. They do such an incredible job protecting our community. It’s the least we can do” said Andrew Weinstock, Executive Vice President of Biener Audi.

A true family business, Biener Audi has for the past 80-plus years proudly Since opening its doors in 1929, it has the best dealerships of the year by Dealerhelped Long Island drivers get behind welcomed tens of thousands of New York Rater.com, and they were a recipient of the wheel of some of the finest cars in the residents to their dealership. the coveted Audi Magna Society award. world.

Biener Audi has been named one of The dealership also recently won

an international service award from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences for exemplary service and customer care.

New-car dealers throughout the country devote much of their time and money to the development or projects that enrich the lives of people in their communities.

The donation is part of the National Automobile Dealers Association’s community outreach program.

NADA’s program is administered locally by GNYADA. The units allow personnel to train area residents on the correct way to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), allowing those trained to save the lives of countless people who suffer heart attacks and are in need of immediate attention.

Nationwide, since 1975, franchised automobile dealers have donated thousands of manikins worth more than $4 million on which more than two million people have been trained.

Martins lectures senior citizens on scams, fraud Senator Jack M. Martins (R-Old Westbury) recently held a community program in Great Neck to help local senior citizens protect themselves from scams and fraud.

Staff from the New York State Department of State’s Division of Consumer Protection discussed some of the recent scams targeting senior citizens and taught participants steps to prevent identity theft, protect their personal information, and avoid becoming a victim of fraud.

Seniors also had the opportunity to ask questions.

Seniors who were unable to attend the program but would like information about how they can protect themselves from identity theft and scams can call Martins’ office at 516-746-5924 or email him through his website, martins.nysenate.gov.

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Park district to host Sunday concert series The Great Neck Park District hosts Sunday concerts, presentations and performances throughout the year at Great Neck House.

The Sunday @ 3 Series is a weekly presentation of performance, music, dance, as well as various interesting lectures and programs.

On almost every Sunday throughout the year (except during the summer months when the weekends are filled with live entertainment at Steppingstone Park), there is no need to travel outside of Great Neck to see first-class, Manhattanlevel performances.

This spring, join us at Great Neck House for our Sundays @ 3 Series. You will see top entertainment featuring different artists, singers and other cultural performers invited to share their latest projects and ideas with the Park District community. You can be part of the fun by bringing your park card and presenting it at the door for free admission.

Vinny St. Marten comes to Great Neck House on Sunday, April 3 performing his tribute to Ray Charles.

Born with glaucomaSt. Marten lost his eyesight at about eight years old. St. Marten was 11 when he first heard legendary blues singer Ray Charles.

“I knew he was different than any other black singer and when I found out he was blind; that gave me the encouragement I needed to follow my musical dream,” he says.

Music became his lifeline. He formed a band, moved to Manhattan from Glen Cove and started his life as a professional musician. He found studio work and played on recordings by The Four Seasons (“The Good Ship Lollipop”), Spanky and Our Gang (“Sunday Will Never Be the Same”) and The Essex (“Easier said Than Done”), among others.

Suzanne Mueller Trio will be performing on Sunday, April 10. Cellist Su-

mance venues have included Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center, New York’s Lincoln Center, and in London at St. John’s Smith Square, The American Church in London and the Chelsea Arts Club.

The Sear Family Festival will be held on Sunday, May 15 as two of our longtime Great Neck residents entertain us on multiple levels. Dave has been a member of the folk music scene since the late 1940s, sharing the stage with every folk singer through the years from Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger. He will perform a show of his folk classics as well as popular tunes from other artists.

As a performer, Sear sees American folk music as a vast body of literature that tells the life affirming story of our country through the songs of the people that built it. Join us for this historical journey by a man who has lived it, sung it and brings it to life through his music.

His wife, artist Charlotte Sear, will have original artwork on display. Enjoy a joyful afternoon of music and art!

Don’t miss these cultural performances at Great Neck House, 14 Arrandale Avenue; Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. Be sure to bring your park card for free admission.

Vinny St. Marten

Karkowska Sister Duo

zanne Mueller is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is a Beech Tree Concerts Artist-in-Residence at Old Westbury Gardens (since 2003), a member of the New Directions Cello Association and of the International Alliance for Women in Music.

For 10 years, she was half of the duo, McCarron & Mueller, with guitarist/composer Mark McCarron, who will join her at this performance along with flutist Pamela Sklar. The program will include music by George Frideric Handel, Nick Drake, Jethro Tull, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hoagy Carmichael and Thomas Walsh.

The Karkowska Sister Duo will be at Great Neck House on Sunday, April 17.

This sister duo is an award- winning, internationally acclaimed ensemble whose repertoire includes beautiful chamber music as well as unforgettable stories and comedy.

Anna, virtuoso violinist, and Kasha, concert pianist, graduated from New York’s Julliard School of Music and Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. They have recorded for Polish National, Mexican and American Television/Radio, including PBS. They have triumphed at the most prestigious venues including

New York’s Carnegie Hall, Miami’s Gusman Center for Performing Arts, National Grand Theater in Warsaw and Mexico City’s National Center for the Arts.

Husband/wife team Marcie Passley and Kevin Scully, will be performing on Sunday, May 1. Singer and actress, Marcie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and has performed with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players at New York’s City Center and Symphony Space, as well as various touring venues throughout the United States.

Broadway credits include concert performances of Brigadoon and Camelot at Broadway’s Schubert Theatre, as well as Something Wonderful at the Broadhurst Theatre. Television credits include All My Children and As the World Turns. In addition to her roles in musical theatre, light opera and television, Marcie sings jazz and Latin standards.

Trumpet player and conductor, Kevin has been a guest conductor for honor ensembles in Montgomery, Orange, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties.

Mr. Scully is a regular contributor of brass recording reviews for the International Trumpet Guild Journal. As a member of ensembles and as a recitalist, his perfor- Suzanne Mueller Trio

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Park district to host Sunday concert series Current programs on Great Neck Public Schools Television (GNPS/TV) are “Focus on Education,” “GNPS/TV Spotlight,” “Student Filmmakers Showcase” and “Martin Luther King, Jr.” Programs can be viewed in the incorporated villages of Great Neck on Cablevision Channel 75 and on Verizon Channel 32.

GNPS/TV programs are also available on demand, 24/7, on the school district Web site, greatneck.k12.ny.us (click on the GNPS/TV logo near the top of the main page), or by going directly to http:// tv.greatneck.k12.ny.us/on-demand.html.

Program highlights follow. Show times are for Cablevision and Verizon viewing.

Focus on Education is an ongoing series hosted by Superintendent of Schools Teresa Prendergast, highlighting what’s

new and interesting in the district.

This edition of Focus features Gerald Cozine, North Middle School’s new principal.

Cozine traveled just a few miles north for this new position, from Great Neck South Middle School, where he served as an assistant principal for eight years.

This program airs at 8 a.m., and at 12 (noon), 4, and 8 p.m.

GNPS/TV Spotlight features school news, sports, and events in a lively, magazine-format.

This edition of Spotlight focuses on Great Neck South High School.

Highlights include the musical, Into The Woods, Pep Rally, Coffee House, Charity Volleyball Night and more.

Spotlight was filmed, edited, and produced entirely by South High students.

Anchors are Haley Raphael and Lau-

ren Reiss; executive producers are Jonathan Arevalo, Abraham Rosloff, and Michael Shen.

Spotlight airs at 9 a.m., and 1, 5, and 9 p.m.

GNPS Student Filmmakers Showcase is new program that highlights short films produced, edited, and directed by middle and high school students.

View a variety of films and styles, including silent films, movie trailers, documentaries, fictional films, and more.

Robert Zahn, district educational cable TV producer/director, is the show’s host. The program airs at 10 a.m., and at 2, 6, and 10 p.m.

South High School’s annual assembly program on diversity and unity celebrates the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This program is reflective of Dr. King’s

words that people be judged not by “the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

King is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.

Featured at South High’s event are poetry readings, skits, music, dance, and song.

This show airs at 11 a.m., and at 3, 7, and 11 p.m.

GNPS/TV programming reflects the offerings of the Great Neck Public Schools and the achievements of its students and staff.

Programs are student-produced.

For further information, contact Robert Zahn, district educational cable TV producer/director, by phone at 516-4414676 or by e-mail at rzahn@greatneck. k12.ny.us.

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County Dems, GOP clash over contracts B y N oah M ans k a r The Nassau County Legislature on Monday unanimously mandated legislative approval for all personal service contracts worth $1,000 or more.

The vote officially lowered the threshold for approval by the Legislature’s Rules Committee from $25,000. Hundreds of Nassau contracts were found last year to have fallen just below that line, barely skirting legislative scrutiny.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves introduced the measure earlier this

month, touting it as another step the county has taken toward greater transparency.

“These are all going to be coming to us,” Gonsalves said. “They’re coming to us, they did not come to us before.”

The Democratic minority and Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said the lower threshold does not go far enough, calling again Monday for an independent inspector general to review all contracts.

Debate over the threshold turned into debate over the merits of the new office, with County Attorney Carnell Foskey again receiving questions from Democrats about his dual roles as county attorney and Com-

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missioner of Investigations, an office Republicans say makes an inspector general moot.

The Democrats’ refusal to approve $275 million in borrowing for the county’s capital plan until an inspector general’s office is created and the GOP’s skepticism about whether one is necessary have created a political deadlock.

“You’re using your power over borrowing to stop us from paving roads, fixing bridges, from getting vests for police officers,” Deputy Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said. “So you’re cloaking it in something it’s not. ... It’s purely political.”

Bonds for the capital plan, which includes sewer projects, police equipment purchases and road repairs in Roslyn and Great Neck, failed to get the required supermajority of 13 votes Monday with all seven Democrats voting against them. They were reconsidered and tabled in another partyline vote.

Democrats pledged two weeks ago to block the capital borrowing until the Legislature creates and funds an inspector general’s office, the leader of which would be nominated by an independent panel and appointed by a supermajority of the Legislature.

Qualifying her position as non-partisan, Singas said an independent inspector general is necessary to prevent corruption, fraud and waste.

In testimony before the Legislature on Monday, Singas called Foskey’s roles “fundamentally incompatible” because the attorney is tasked with defending the county and its officials, while the Commissioner of Investigations is supposed to address “malfeasance” in county government, she said.

An independent panel Mangano commissioned last year in the wake of former state Sen. Dean Skelos’ indictment also reported the county lacks an independent auditor with the two positions combined, Singas said.

Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin said the county executive is in the process of separating the two offices’ duties, in addition to hiring a separate procurement compliance director.

One candidate for the job, Joseph LaRussa, backed out after questions about an inconsistency on his resume. Former Comptroller Alan Gurien holds the position as a search continues.

The two parties held dueling press conferences Monday, with Republicans charging Democrats that blocking the capital borrowing endangers public safety, and Democrats saying Republicans aren’t doing enough to protect taxpayer funds from misuse.

Gonsalves and other Republicans dismissed the move as a “political stunt,” saying Nassau’s contract process is already “the most transparent in the state” and noting every contract requires 10 separate approvals, including three passes through the county attorney’s office.

“This isn’t about the contracting process,” Gonsalves said at the Republican press conference Monday afternoon, flanked by labor union leaders and members. “It’s about the Democrats trying to bring the county to a grinding halt.”

Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (DHempstead) disputed that, saying the fact that 90 percent of the county’s contracts are for capital projects inextricably ties the two together.

The Democratic caucus won’t abandon its position, he said.

“We have history on our side that has proven time and time again that the Republicans in this Legislature and the Republican county executive cannot police themselves,” Abrahams said. “So we need an independent inspector general.”

In recent months the county has created a lobbying registry and required vendors to disclose political contributions.

With the separation of the commissioner of investigations’ and county attorney’s duties, Nevin said, the county will have implemented all the reforms the independent panel recommended.

Singas said she commended such “progress” toward contract reform, but maintained her calls for an inspector general, which she has made since Skelos and his son, Adam, were indicted last year on federal corruption charges involving a $12 million Nassau contract for Arizona-based AbTech Industries.

“If such a case were insufficient to commit this body to reform, then it is clear to me that this is a problem that indeed will never be solved only with arrests and prosecutions and we need comprehensive, best-practice solutions,” Singas said.

Both Skeloses were convicted in November and are appealing.

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B y Ka r en Ru b in In what has become legend, Kenny Scharf, the self-proclaimed “Pop Surrealist,” was a few days away from moving out of his living and work space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that he called his Cosmic Cavern, and decided to throw the last in a series of parties he had been throwing for years, known as Cosmic Cavern A-Go-Go. On that particular evening, Glori Cohen, an art advisor and collector, happened to be in attendance and told him, “You can’t take this down. This has to be a museum.”

And so the artist called the movers and told them he wasn’t going anywhere. The Cosmic Cavern Museum was born.

At the opening reception of the exhibit “Kenny Scharf” now on view at the Nassau County Museum of Art through July 10, several of Scharf’s friends were on hand and recalled their experience attending those Bushwick parties in Scharf’s psychedelic basement cavern, where you were barred from entering unless you were also painted in day-glo.

Scharf has installed his Day-Glo environments at the 1985 Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, and the Portland Art Museum, Portland Ore., (2015), and will be at MoMA next year.

Here at NCMA, the Cosmic Cavern, Closet #29, provides a psychedelic escape. You enter the room-sized installation through black velvet curtains and are transported into a multimedia day-glo, black-light, neon fantastical world of painted and repurposed recycling (some would say garbage) — that brought a sense of delight to everyone who crossed the threshold.

Among the visitors were three young girls walls— but for its surrealist imagery. (Not from Roslyn, Hayden Levy, Izzy Levine, Cam- surprisingly, he had an exhibit, Kenny Scharf; eron Levy, who themselves create abstract art, Pop — Surrealist, in 1997 at the Salvador and pronounced it “awesome” and “favorite- Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla., among his many gallery and museum exhibitions.) ness.”

In 2001, Scharf says, he was invited along Indeed, the visitors become part of the art, especially Scharf’s friend and fellow art- with other, predominantly New York artists, ist from Bushwick, Allison Goldenstein, wear- to showcase contemporary art in historical ing a hand-painted dress that seemed to meld spaces Pordenone, Italy, a town named for the Italian mannerist painter, Giovanni da Pordeinto the pop art background.

According to Art News, “Cosmic Cav- none (1484-1539).

Scharf covered the ern A-Go-Go began at the ceiling with four 33-feet height of the 2008 receslong canvases, which sion, when the artist decidhung there for two years. ed to turn his flood-prone basement into one of the t’s not nostalgic – I When it was time to take works down, much glow-in-the-dark environdid it last week. It’s the had been ruined by piments that have been his geon droppings, so Scharf trademark since the 1980s. what I do. cut the damaged parts Scharf’s Cosmic Cavaway, restretched into new erns had unexceptional Kenny Scharf frames and added layers of beginnings — at the time silkscreen. they were, as he says, “In adding to the actumere ‘Cosmic Closets’— in a room of the apartment near Times Square al physical layer to the painting, this element where he was living with his friend, the late references an increasingly image laden, conartist Keith Haring. “I just started putting gar- fusing world and the effect of a consumer sobage in there and painting it fluorescent, hap- ciety on the environment, another of Scharf’s pened upon a black light, and it just kind of preoccupations,” according to the notes provided for the exhibit, which was curated by started,” says Scharf.

Scharf feigns insult when I ask if it is in- Nassau County Museum of Art Director Karl tended as nostalgia. “It’s not nostalgic — I did E. Willers. “While reworking the painting in Los Angeles, Scharf was surrounded by neighit last week. It’s what I do.”

Exceedingly approachable and hospitable borhood signs in Arabic and Korean, adding to the waves of fans and friends who came another layer of visual imagery as well as a to the opening Friday, March 18, he spoke at political, pro-diversity message to the work.”

Scharf is fond of picking up trash and relength about his own monumental work, “Pop Renaissance” which calls to mind Dali not just cycling ‘found objects’ in his paintings: a gesso for its monumental size — covering all four puddle is poured, objects added, and then

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Emerging with the New York City graffiti and street art movement of the 1980s, Kenny Scharf (b. 1958) is known for his vibrantly colorful large-scale paintings and exuberantly playful installations. His imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons. Kenny Scharf showcases major paintings and sculptures from throughout the artist’s career.

Highlights of this exhibition are the expansive mural Pop Renaissance that surrounds the viewer, a version of the artist’s Cosmic Cavern club-like environment, as well as a re-creation of the artist’s former Brooklyn studio complete with spattered walls, painted furniture and other workspace ephemera.

Speaking of his art, Kenny Scharf commented, “I believe the artist has a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings the creative process into everyday life thereby enhancing the quality of our experience.”

Works by Scharf are in the collections of such major New York institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Jewish Museum.

Internationally, works by Scharf have been collected by Mexico’s Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; and the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

A companion exhibition, Glamorous Graffiti, looks at the work of Kenny Scharf’s contemporaries in the exciting New York graffiti and street art movement of the 1980s. In Continued on Page 25

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Film Screening: Louder than Bombs

Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.

Directed by Joachim Trier, “Louder Than Bombs” tells the tale of an aging schoolteacher (Gabriel Byrne) grappling with the recent death of his photojournalist wife (Isabelle Huppert) and his attempts to reconcile with his two very different sons: a shy, reclusive high-schooler (Devin Druid) and his academic older son (Jesse Eisenberg). Trier delivers an intelligent, emotional and original tale about the disruption that hides behinds an idyllic suburban landscape.

Where: Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck Info: (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org

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Gilbert Gottfried Saturday, March 19, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Gilbert Gottfried is one of the most sought-after comedians, and regularly performs live to sold-out audiences across North America. His first-ever book, “Rubber Balls and Liquor,” was recently released, as was “Gilbert Gottfried Dirty Jokes” featuring 50 non-stop minutes of Gottfried telling some of his funniest and filthiest jokes.

Where: Brokerage Comedy Club, 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore Info: (516) 785-8655 • http://tickets.brokeragecomedy.com

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Teatro Regio Di Parma’s I Due Foscari

Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m.

I due Foscari was Verdi’s sixth opera and is based on Lord Byron’s play “The Two Foscari.” Rich in intrigue, the plot tells of the final days of the famous Venetian doge, Francesco Foscari, and his illegal overthrow in 1457. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in November 1844.

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

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Carly Rae Jepsen Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.

Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum-selling artist Carly Rae Jepsen burst onto the world stage from her home in Canada’s British Columbia with her 2012 breakout hit “Call Me Maybe,” she returned last year with her latest release “E·MO·TION,” featuring the Billboard Top 40 hit single “I Really Like You.” Where: The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info: (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com

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As part of Molloy’s 60th anniversary celebration The Frank and Gertrude Kaiser Art Gallery at Molloy College presents an exhibition on the work of Mary Ann Petry, former art faculty chairperson. Petry was a member of the Molloy Art faculty from 1962 – 1973, and an Amityville Dominican from 1942-1974. She was a mentor to many students at Molloy – organizing art exhibits and encouraging students to enter art related professions.

Where: The Kaiser Art Gallery at Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info: (516) 323-4444 • http://www.molloy.edu

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Formed by four high school friends, The Offshore Regulars are a Long Island-based reggae-rock-funk band with a love for the beach and partying. They have been fortunate enough to play alongside national touring acts such as Badfish, the Supervillains, Ballyhoo!, Collie Buddz, and The Pietasters. They released a full-length album, “The New Guy” in 2013, and followed that up with an EP, “Fueled Up” in 2014.

They released their latest EP, “Heathens” in June of 2015.

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pring Egg Hunt Saturday, March 26, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Bring your Easter basket to collect eggs all over the hatchery! It’s always great fun! $6 adults/$4 children and senior citizens. No extra fee for the Egg Hunt.

Where: Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium 1660 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Info: (516) 692-6768 • cshfishhatchery.org

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Monday, March 28 through Friday, April 1, 12:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Good men doing heroic things in a bad situation.

1:00 PM in the UUCSR Art Gallery 48 Shelter Rock Rd. Manhasset, NY 11030 516.627.6560 · www.uucsr.org

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Enjoy one of the greatest workouts ever combined with awesome, healthy fun.

Sky Zone has been voted the number one “out of the box” workout . Experience WOW – the weightlessness of bouncing, flipping and landing in a pit filled with 10,000 foam cubes. All ages welcome. Prices are based on time you jump.

Where: Sky Zone Deer Park 111 Rodeo Drive, Deer Park Info: (631) 392-2600 • www.skyzone.com

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esop’s Fables” by Mike Kenny

Friday, April 1 at 10:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Saturday, April 2 at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Aesop’s well-known and beloved fables come to life on the LICM stage to motivate and challenge children and adults alike! Fables presented include such classics as the “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” and more. Wolfie, Syd, Barry and Harriet follow in the tradition of comedy teams like the Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello; using witty banter, slapstick comedy and musical sing alongs to share these special stories. Meet the cast as they entertain you and bring these tales and many more to life. Age: 3 and up. Fee: $9 per seat with museum admission ($7 per seat for LICM members), $12 theater only.

Where: Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave, Garden City Info: (516) 224-5800 • http://www.licm.org/

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he Magic & Comedy of Jim McClenahan Saturday, March 26 and Sunday, March 27, 11:30 a.m., 1:15 p.m.

2:45 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

This show will induce giggles from children and adults alike with a unique magical twist that’s fun and exciting. Jim will bring his signature routines, original storylines, and wacky antics to White Post Farms. He is sure to delight and dazzle any audience! While you are at the farm, you can also take a picture with the Easter Bunny as well as hunt for Easter eggs and find the big prize! The comedy show and egg hunt are included with your paid admission to the Animal Farm. Cost: $17 children/adults.

Where: White Post Farms 250 Old Country Road, Melville Info: 631-351-9373 • www.whitepostfarms.com

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Thursday, March 31, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Hear from the King of Arcades himself, Richie Knucklez, who will give a talk from 7:00-8:00 p.m., and then enjoy two hours of free play in our arcade exhibit from 8-10 pm featuring over 50 classic games. The Richie Knucklez Arcade in NJ, one of the biggest arcade phenomenons in the world, is now the focus of the highly anticipated documentary The King of Arcades. Only $10 per person, $8 for members and students with ID. Reservations are required, please call 516-572-4066 or register on-line. (Membership cards and Student IDs must be presented upon arrival) Where: Cradle of Aviation Museum Charles Lindbergh Boulevard, Garden City Info: 516-572-4111 • www.cradleofaviation.org

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Get your game on! 60 minutes of video game play for only $10. Offered every Monday-Friday from 4:30 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

Where: Dave & Busters, 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY Info: (516) 542-8501 • www.daveandbusters.com

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Spend time at the rink with your friends and family!

There are many sessions offered that can work with your schedule any time of the day! Check website for pricing and information.

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

Film Screening: Louder than Bombs Friday, April 1, 8:30 p.m.

LIVE stand-up comedy: Tyler Gildin, George Rini and Frankie Pace Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.

Film Screening: Very Semi-Serious

Take 6 & The Manhattan Transfer Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Selena’s 45Th Birthday Tribute Concert Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.

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

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

Under The Streetlamp Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

Generation Axe! - A Night Of Guitars LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET Saturday, May 7, 7 p.m.

232 Main Street, Suite 1 The Whispers, The Manhattans, Regina Port Washington Belle (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 Friday, May 13, 7 p.m. www.landmarkonmainstreet.org ABBA Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 14, 7 p.m.

Karen Mason I Love the 90s Show Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m.

A Tribute to Gladys Knight & The Pips Frankie Ballard Sunday, April 3, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m.

Tom Rush & John Sebastian The Zombies, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31, 8 p.m.

Are You My Mother?

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin ExperiSaturday, April 9, 2 p.m. ence Graham Parker w/ Brinsley Schwarz Saturday, June 4, 8 p.m.

Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Saturday Night Summer Fever Concert Tommy Tune: Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales Thursday, June 9, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. Dennis Elsas: Rock’n’Roll Never Friday, June 10, 8 p.m.

Forgets Johnny Mathis Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 16, 8 p.m.

The Subdudes Don Rickles & Regis Philbin: ConversaFriday, April 29, 7:30 p.m. tion & Clips Afro Cuban All Stars Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

Happy Together feat. Flo & Eddie, Pushcart Players in Peter & the Wolf Chuck Negron Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 19, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m.

Tommy Emmanuel Air Supply STEPHEN C. WIDOM CULTURAL ARTS Friday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m.

Charlie Daniels Band AT EMANUEL 150 Hicks Lane, Great Neck The Space at Westbury (516) 482-5701 • www.scwculturalarts.

250 Post Ave., Westbury org/emanuel-series/ (516) 283.5566 Friday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. www.thespaceatwestbury.com Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Thursday, March 31, 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.

The Offshore Regulars Dr. Ronald Crystal Friday, Apr. 1, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12, 2 p.m.

Keb’ Mo’ Band w/Gerald Albright Patti Dunham & Gary Haberman Friday, Apr. 2, 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 17, 3 p.m.

Rock Legends Live A Concert with The Platters and The Friday, Apr. 15, 8 p.m.

Drifters Robert Randolph and the Family Band Sunday, May 1, 3 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 28, 8 p.m.

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

Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.

Harvey Granat presents “By George!”

The Fab Faux with special guest Todd Gershwin Friday, June 3, 8 p.m.

America NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury.

ADELPHI UNIVERSITY (516) 247-5200 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

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Community Calendar Project Independence Support & Social Group The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence is reminding residents that they offer free support and social groups.

Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

include: -- the ABLE Act, federal and state legislation that eases financial strains faced by individuals with disabilities by making tax-free savings accounts available to cover qualified expenses such as education, housing, and transportation.

-- Supplemental Needs Trusts, trusts Long Island Temple Choir Festival that are created for persons with disabiliOn April 3, at 2 p.m., six Long Island Temple ties which can supplement government choirs will gather at Temple Avodah in benefits, such as Medicaid and SSI, without Oceanside for the Long Island Temple Choir disqualifying the individual from receiving Festival. The Festival, held throughout the such benefits.

1990’s brought the best of Temple music -- Options to help plan for future care of to Long Island as choirs and Cantors sang disabled adults and “soon to be” adults. their best numbers, charming both the Attorneys leading the discussion will be audience and the choirs themselves. This Saundra Gumerove of Saundra M. Gumeryear’s festival will bring together choirs ove & Associates, Jericho, and Maureen from Lynbrook, New Hyde Park, Roslyn Rothschild DiTata, Berwitz & DiTata LLP, Heights, Wantagh, Glen Cove and OceansGarden City. ide. Admission is free but seating is limited. The program is chaired by Moriah Adamo, Additional information can be obtained from Abrams & Fensterman, Lake Success and the Temple Avodah Web Site www.avodah. Terry Scheiner, Port Washington. org. Address is 3050 Oceanside Road, Reservations are requested for this free Oceanside. program. To register, call the Nassau County Bar Association at 516-747-4070 or How To Legally Protect Assets For The email ckatz@nassaubar.org.

Disabled Leading attorneys will present a multiTrivia Challenge disciplined discussion of federal and state Come see how much you know. Match wits programs and services for protecting the with other great mind. You may win a prize. assets of disabled persons at a free public Wednesday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at Havana educational seminar on “Legally Protecting Central Restaurant, Roosevelt Field, Garden Assets for People with Disabilities,” April City. For more information, call (516) 6767, 6:30 p.m., at the Nassau County Bar As1976. sociation, 15th Street on the corner of West Street, Mineola. Topics to be discussed Blankets of Love

Tuesday, March 29. The group provides an opportunity for seniors in the community to come together and work in a collaborative manner on a meaningful and rewarding project. All members of the group are registered as volunteers with JASA. Each blanket is donated to a worthy cause. The blankets have been given to various human service programs in Nassau County and New York City. The group meets Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Clinton G. Martin Park, 1601 Marcus Ave., New Hyde Park.

North Hempstead Project Independence invites all Town residents 60 and over.

Please call 311 or 869-6311 to register or for more information.

Project Independence Social Discussion Group Thursday, March 31. Come meet new friends! Enjoy talking with others and meeting your neighbors. The group meets at the Parkville Branch of Great Neck Library, 10 Campbell St., New Hyde Park on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

North Hempstead Project Independence invites all Town residents 60 and over.

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a.m. to 11:30 a.m. North Hempstead Project Independence invites all male Town residents 60 and over. Please call 311 or 8696311 to register or for more information.

Improve Your Balance, Strength and Flexibility Tai Chi Monday, March 28. Presented by Winthrop University Hospital. Join this eight week program and learn how to improve your balance and strength, and flexibility through Tai Chi. The course is held twice a week at the North Hempstead “Yes We Can” Community Center, 141 Garden Street, Westbury on Friday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and on Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants must wear comfortable clothing, secure footwear and bring a bottle of water. North Hempstead Project Independence invites all Town residents 60 and over. Please call 311 or 869-6311 to register or for more information.

All the World’s A Stage Friday, March 25. Back by Popular Demand! Join in for a casual presentation and chat about the stages of our lives, the changes we face and the best ways to live to our fullest! Please join us at Port What Matters to You Men’s Community Washington Senior Center, 80 Manorhaven Group Boulevard, Port Washington on Friday, Friday, March 25. Come and discuss topics March 25 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. North that are of mutual interest to men living Hempstead Project Independence invites in the community. The group meets at the all Town residents 60 and over. Please Parkville Branch of Great Neck Library, 10 call 311 or 869-6311 to register or for more Campbell St., New Hyde Park from 10:30 information.

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Mysterious leap from the mind to body Dr. Hui is a graduate from China’s b y D r . T om F e r r a r o , number one medical school Peking Union S po r t P s y c holo g ist A casual walk down the main street of any town on Long Island will confirm that drug stores, actually really big drug stores are a thriving business.

You will see a CVS, a Walgreens and a Rite Aid within less than half a mile of each other.

The reason for this is that our nation is undergoing an epidemic of psychosomatic illnesses.

Medical researcher Paul Shorter from York University found that there are widespread increases in bronchial asthma, hypertension, migraines, ulcerative colitis, chronic fatigue syndrome and allergies.

Work by Robert Putnam of Harvard (Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community) James Kunstler’s “The Geography of Nowhere” and Wolf and Bruhn’s “The Power of Clan” all put forth the idea of a connection between the American culture and physical illness.

They all suggest that a combination of overwork and social isolation combine to produce increases in many forms of disease including heart disease and increased susceptibility to infection.

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Well to find out more about this mysterious connection leap from the mind to the body I tracked down one of the nation’s leading experts. Meet Dr. Yiqun Hui.

Medial College and then went on the get her PhD from University of Pennsylvania where she researched asthma mediators and discovered the leukotriene receptor.

She is an instructor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has a private practice in Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology in Bayside.

I sat down with her last week in Great Neck where she lives and our conversation ranged over a wide number of topics including the doctor/patient relationship, the value of reassurance and the need to understand the connection between emotions and disease.

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This theory suggests that we now live in such a sterile germ free environment thanks to soaps etc. that the body’s defenses never have a chance to go to work at an early age and thus go into overdrive later on in the form of allergic overreaction. She also admitted that there is also a connection between many illnesses and an overstressed psychosocial environment but that the proof of that awaits more research.

We talked about the placebo effect in medicine and how the doctor’s reassurance in fact has a strong health giving impact.

I would agree with this. Many a time I enter the doctor’s office with both pain and anxiety and after some reassurance I leave with no anxiety and no pain at all.

This is the power and value of a good caring physician. If you’re lucky enough to have a good doc bring them a gift on your next visit.

Dr. Hui also talked about the amazing connection between depression and being prone to infections of all kinds. I have seen this many times with my own psychotherapy patients.

They may come in with a cold or cough that is beginning and by exploring a recent acute depressive episode the cough and sore throat often and quite mysteriously disappears.

We are lucky to have this level of physician right here on Long Island.

If you are an allergy suffer, have bronchial asthma or tend to be infection prone the good Dr. Hui can be reached through her website drhuiallergist.com and by calling (718) 889-1062.

Her office is located in Bayside and she in bilingual in Chinese and English.

Dr. Hui is one of those rare doctors that will actually spend time with you, is highly credentialed and has one of the most valuable skills a physician can have, a good bedside manner and a kind heart.

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Scharf, street art take over county museum Continued from Page 43 cluding a 1988 portfolio of five silk-screened prints

by Keith Haring, a range of graffiti styles are explored through the work of the artists Jean Michel Basquiat, Lee Quiñones, Crash, Futura 2000, Toxic and many others. Films documenting early 1980s graffiti and urban culture are included in the exhibition. The artists A-One, Daze, Dondi, Koor, Lady Pink, Noc, Richard Hambleton and Rammellzee appear in the films Downtown 81 by Edo Bertoglio, Wild Style by Charlie Ahearn and Style Wars by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver.

“Scharf wasn’t as much of a street artist but was of their generation and the cultural phenomenon of graffiti,” Willers says, acknowledging an ascendency of appreciation of graffiti artists of that generation – “pioneers who inspired artists all over the world.

“It brings back the concept of public art, but so much public art is commissioned by a government.

Graffiti manifests a freedom of expression — a “people’s art” that is not just “public art” (read “institutional” or “establishment”), Graffiti is “an invigorated art — out there in the streets, a generation of artists. Graffiti is the visual equivalent of hip hop, rap music, break dancing, a uniquely American art form, like Jazz, a uniquely American endeavor.”

In conjunction with the exhibition of Kenny Scharf, which is sponsored by TAHARI Arthur S. Levine, the Museum is offering related public programming for adults and family groups. Museum docent Riva Ettus presents lunchtime talks on Kenny Scharf and his career on April 14, May 12 and June 9.

A new program, “Sketching in the Galleries,” will be offered Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m., April 5, May 3, June 7.

Visitors are invited on June 19, 12-4 p.m., to watch Kenny Scharf paint a new outdoor mural for the future Manes Family Art & Education Center on the Museum’s grounds.

While the Kenny Scharf exhibition is on view, the artist’s vibrant and imaginative works serve as inspiration for other family and children’s programs, including weekly Neiman Marcus Family Sundays at the Museum, as well as Nature + Kids = Art on April 17, Spring Break for Art on April 26-28, and Summer Picnic Party on June 26.

Scharf will also be on hand for the museum’s Ball, Saturday, June 11, “An Evening of Glamorous Graffiti,” which this year for the first time, will feature a Cosmic after party for the “junior” members (20 and 30-somethings) in the Cosmic Cavern with Scharf (ticket info at 516-484-9338, developmentoffice@nassaumuseum. org).

An extra added treat is seeing one of the gallery rooms with newly exposed original wood paneling and picture windows.

Indeed, the experience of seeing art in such close proximity in the mansion that was home to Childs and Frances Frick, son of industrialist and art collector Henry Frick, is always special.

Most of the 145 acres that are now the Nassau County Museum of Art originally belonged to poet, lawyer, conservationist, political activist, patron of the arts and preservationist William Cullen Bryant, who settled in Roslyn in 1843.

The long-time editor of the New York Post built his home, Cedarmore, and founded Roslyn’s public library.

In 1862, he built a cottage for his friend and fellow poet, Miss Jerusha Dewey (you can see the cottage when you explore the hiking trails).

In 1900, Lloyd Stephens Bryce purchased Bryant’s ‘Upland Farm’ and commissioned architect Ogden Codman, Jr. to design Bryce House, the present mansion. Henry Clay Frick, co-founder of U.S. Steel Corporation purchased Bryce House in 1919 as a gift for his son, Childs Frick, a Princeton graduate who became a vertebrate paleontologist and naturalist.

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Talk on what your genes mean to you Dr. Ronald Crystal will present a lecture “The Human Genome: What Your Genes Tell About You, Your Family, Your Past & Your Future” at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Thurs., April 7 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the fourth season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts Crystal is professor and chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he is also the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, director of the Belfer Gene Therapy Core Facility and Attending Physician at the Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital.

After earning a B.A. degree in physics from Tufts University, an M.A. degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Crystal completed his medical post-graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal medicine and in pulmonary medi-

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The work of his laboratory formed the basis of the current understanding of the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis and the hereditary form of emphysema associated with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, a disease for which he developed the FDA-approved therapy now used to treat thousands of patients worldwide.

In the late 1980s, Crystal shifted his focus to gene therapy, a field in which he is a pioneer.

He was the first to use a recombinant virus as a vehicle for in vivo gene therapy,

and has carried out human trials of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, cardiac ischemia, cancer and central nervous system disorders.

His current research interests are deciphering how human genetic variation modulates gene expression in the context of environmental exposure and exploiting these relationships to re-categorize human disease at the biologic level and identify who is at risk for disease.

Admission is free; donations are welcome.

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

Dr. Ronald Crystal will be guest speaker at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Call (516) 482-5701 for information.

Submissions sought for ‘Motion in Art’ The Art League of Long Island’s juried exhibition “Motion in Art and Art in Motion” challenged artists to submit their artistic interpretations of motion in 2-D or 3-D mediums.

Exhibition juror Marina Press selected 60 works out of 400 submissions from artists residing in Nassau, Suffolk, Brooklyn, and Queens who responded to the challenge.

The exhibit will be on view in the Art League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery March 28 through April 24.

The artists’ reception takes place Sunday, April 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Marina Press is associate director of the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York City.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Press received her B.A. in art history from Pace University and is currently an M.A. Candidate in Art History and Museum Studies at CUNY. cently she curated a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery entitled “3 Points Define a Surface.”

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His last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), and associate director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass.

Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army, including as deputy executive officer to then-General Colin Powell when he commanded the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989), special assistant to General Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and as director and deputy director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Va. (1993-97).

Since leaving the State Department, Wilkerson speaks to groups all over America, publishes articles in newspapers and magazines across the country, and regularly offers commentary on television.

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Great Neck Library Library Closings All Great Neck Library locations will be closed on Sunday, March 27 for Easter.

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, March 29, between 2:00 and 4:00 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 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.

Story Time Registration Story Time Registration for April and May Story Time programs for all Library

locations begins on Wednesday, March 30 at 9:30 a.m. online, 10:01 a.m. in person or over the phone at (516) 466-8055. Programs are for the Great Neck Library school district residents only, on a first come first served basis. All children are required to have a valid Great Neck Library card at the time of registration. Call the Station Branch at 4668055, ext. 209 for further information.

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 through April 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), in New Hyde Park. Registration for AARP Tax Assistance appointments is ongoing.

Contact the Parkville Branch

Librarian Judy Snow will lead a discussion of My Beloved World, the autobiography of Sonia Sotomayor, at the Lakeville Branch.

at (516) 466-8055, ext. 273.

Lakeville Literary Club My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor Librarian Judy Snow will lead a discussion of My Beloved World, the memoir and autobiography of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lakeville Branch, 475 Great Neck Road.

Judge Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench. Call 466-8055, ext.

231/232.

Parkville Book Group Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee Join the Parkville Book Group for a discussion of Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, led by Branch Librarian Jayne Alexander on Thursday, March 31 at 1:30 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), in New Hyde Park.

Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - ‘Scout’ - returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.

Call 466-8055, ext. 271.

Wanted: Prospective Candidates for the Great Neck Library Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee

Branch Librarian Jayne Alexander will lead a discussion of Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman, at the Parkville Branch.

At the end of January 2017, terms will expire for two four-year seats on the Board of Trustees (currently held

by Josie Pizer and Varda Solomon) and one threeyear seat on the Nominating Committee (currently held

by Michael Katz.)

The Nominating Committee invites members of the community who wish to be considered as candidates for the above seats, to send a resume and letter so stating by June 15, 2016 to: The Chair of the Nominating Committee, c/o The Director’s Office, Great Neck Library, 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, NY 11023. If hand delivering, please bring to the Station Branch Library at 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Great Neck, NY 11021 in the Gardens at Great Neck Plaza shopping center.

Any nominee for a position on the Board of Trustees or the Nominating Committee

must be a member of the Great Neck Library Association or a registered voter with the Nassau County Board of Elections by the Record Date of October 3, 2016.

Film at Station Branch All film matinees are now held at the Station Branch while the Main Library building is being renovated. The next film will be shown on Thursday, March 31 at 2:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, 26 Great Neck Road, (2nd level), above Best Market and 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.

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 Social Center World in Depth “With-it” seniors look forward to weekly discussion groups on Thursdays from 2 to 3:15 p.m.

The lively talk goes immediately to local, state, national and global affairs. The wise and witty seniors

who chair the meetings include such luminaries as Janet de Winter, Jeigh Duran, Martha Cohen and an occasional guest moderator. There is no charge to sit in and put in your own opinions!

Welcome Spring Luncheon Did you turn your clock back?

Smell the air all fresh from new leaves and buds? Well, then it’s time to come to a noon luncheon on Friday, March 18th. The luscious lunch will feature risotto

with asparagus as a starter and a smash finish of spring flower cookies for desserts. Stop in to reserve your place at the party.

Mad About Plaid Day Got ancient Celtic genes in your

background! Then these holiday style long sleeve plaid buttonups were originated in the year 100BCE. So at the Center we want to see who is a hip senior by making Friday March 25th Mad about Plaid Day.

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Sign-up for additional skating programs at the rink beginning in April.

Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink Opened Through May Register now for additional skating programs including Bears hockey, synchronized skating team clinics, Skate School classes and freestyle lessons which begin in April.

Skate School classes are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Visit www. greatneckparks.org for our public session schedule or for more information call (516) 487-2975, ext. 114.

The Synchronized skating clinics focus on key elements including blocks, wheels, lines and pair moves. If you are interested in registering or for more information come to the Skate School of-

fice at the Parkwood Sports Complex or contact Carole Liotti at gncliotti@greatneckparks.org.

Camp Parkwood Register your children ages 3 and up for summer 2016 at Camp Parkwood. Age appropriate activities include swimming, sports, arts & crafts, karate, rock wall climbing, sailing, tennis and so much more! We are now offering a new optional doorto-door transportation service for children ages 4 and over as well as a new Junior Travel Program for campers in sixth through eighth grades. Call (516) 482-0355 for more information.

Join us at Caumsett Park for an overview of its history during a moderately long walk. years old. Music became his 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 2 lifeline. He formed a band, at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nature Program: History moved to Manhattan from April 3 at 7:30 p.m. During of Caumsett State Park Glen Cove and started his life the Cold War, an American Saturday, April 9 at 11 a.m., join us for a moderately long lawyer is recruited to defend as a professional musician.

He found studio work and walk in Caumsett State Park, an arrested Soviet spy in played on recordings by The court and then help the CIA Huntington (approximately Four Seasons (“The Good facilitate an exchange of the 2 miles). We will study the Ship Lollipop”), Spanky and spy for the Soviet captured park’s social economic, American U2 spy plane pilot, Our Gang (“Sunday Will architectural and political Never Be the Same”) and Francis Gary Powers. Dihistory. Parking fee applies.

The Essex (“Easier said Than rected by Steven Spielberg, Register by April 1. Ask for Done”) among others. This it is rated R and runs 141 directions when registerminutes. Admission requires will surely be a memorable ing. Call (516) 482-0355 performance. A park card is a park card. to reserve a spot. Children required for admission. under 16 yrs. not permitted Sunday @ 3: Vinny St. to attend.

Defensive Driving Classes Marten at Great Neck House Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m.

Weekend Movie Vinny St. Marten will perform Great Neck House continThe film, Bridge of Spies ues to offer Empire Safety a tribute to Ray Charles at (2015), starring Tom Hanks, Council Defensive Driving Mark Rylance and Alan Alda, Great Neck House. Born Classes. The classes run with glaucoma, Vinny lost will be shown at Great Neck from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. his eyesight at about eight House on Friday, April 1 at

The next class is Saturday, April 2. To sign up for a class or for more information, call Great Neck House at (516) 482-0355.

Spring and Summer Employment in the Park District The Park District is currently looking for lifeguards, sailing instructors, Camp personnel, gate attendants and more at tennis and the pool for the 2016 season. Those wishing to apply may do so by picking up an application at the Parkwood Administration office, 65 Arrandale Avenue, (516) 487-7665; at the 5 Beach Road office, (516) 482-0181; or by going to greatneckparks.org. Time to apply is now

Great Neck Community Calendar NCJW LAKEVILLE SECTION The National Council Jewish Women - Lakeville Section will host a meeting on Monday, March 28, at 12 p.m. at Clinton Martin Park, Marcus Avenue, east of New Hyde Park Road.

The speaker will be JoAnn Smith, president and CEO of Nassau County Planned Parenthood. Call 718-3436222 for information.

WEDNESDAY MONTHLY LUNCHEON 1 p.m. April 13, sponsored by the St. Aloysius Sociables of Great Neck, at Jonathan’s Restaurant, 2499 Jericho Turnpike, Garden City Park, N.Y. Cost: Price of your meal. For res-

ervations, please call John Hyland ( 516) 482-3795.

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) 745-8050.

WOMANSPACE A discussion group devoted 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.

ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS The Rotary Club of Great Neck invites town residents

and business persons to visit one of their breakfast meetings for business networking and to participate in keeping Great Neck ‘great’ as a wonderful place to live and work . They meet Wednesday mornings at 8 a.m. in the boardroom of TD Bank, 2 Great Neck Road. To arrange for your visit as a guest or if interested in becoming one of their weekly speakers please call (516) 487-9392 or email at rotaryclubofgreatneck@ aol.com In alignment with their club motto being, “They Profit Most Who Serves Best”, come and discover for yourself how meaningful and satisfying it is to give back to your

community while networking through the Rotary Club of Great Neck . For further information please see our website, www.Rotaryclubofgreatneck.org.

TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, active people, meets Tuesday, March 29 at Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., at Great Neck’s Adult Ed Center. At 9 a.m., Mischa Schwartz will discuss, “The Industrial Revolutio, Why First in England.” The Business Meeting starts 10:30 am. “My Opinion” will be presented

by Jerry Berkson. Leslie Bokar is our guest speaker.

Our lunch break begins around 11:45 a.m. so bring

your lunch and join us.

Refreshments coffee and tea are served! Current Events round table follows with a subject introduced

by Les Brown. Be prepared for a lively discussion. Book Club and Fitness and Health Clubs will meet at 1 p.m.

Our Play Reading Club continues with the reading of Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible.” So come on down for a good time, eating, drinking coffee/tea, meeting new friends, from both Queen and Nassau.

We are a diversified, educational group which meets in the spirit of friendship and fellowship to increase awareness and you are guaranteed to feel comfortable and welcome!

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Board honors 72 North students Seventy-two North High School students were recently recognized by the Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education for contributing to the quality of life at their school. Students, in alphabetical order, are: Robert Ades, Danielle Ajodan, Leael Alishahian, Rebecca Amir, Lana Anderson, Alessandra Antuzzi, Danielle Beck, Gabrielle Berger, Abigail Berkower, Shirley Bessalely, Joseph Bichoupan, Liat Blumner, Talya Blumner, Danielle Bluth, Sarina Carbone, Gabriela Carrasco, August Chen, Orli Cole, Olivia Descorbeth, Nathanael Diaz, Jeremy Feith, Laura Flores, Jessica Giraldo, Colette Greeenbaum, Jacob Guggenheimer, Tyler Hakimian, Claudia Hakimian, Zachary Han, Rose Harooni, Mitchell Harounian, Ariel Hazan, Griffen Healy, Lee Hofman, Won Jung, Julia Kaluta, Maital Kashani, Lauren Kerendian, Alexa Kimiabakhsh, Jacqueline Kislin, Rachel Klein, Jee Min Lee, Yael Lissack, Yehonathan Litman, Graelin Mandel, Laura Mardkha, Cynthia Mei, Jonathan Monahemi, Nicole Mordekai, Stephanie Nakash, Naomi Nikfarjam, Michelle Nissan, Thomas Okin, Ruby Paisner, Polina Pittell, Danielle Andrea Reyes, Julia Rietbrook, Eric Sedaghat, Isabelle Sehati, Julia Shahery, Eliana Smooha, Jessica Storozum, Danielle Tarras, Judith Teboul, Brenda Tehrani, Andrew Torkian, Ariel Uzan, Adir Vegon, Jamie Weber, Carly Weisen, Jasmine Wong, Ellen X Xu, and Michelle Zak. Joining them are Board of Education members (President Barbara Berkowitz, Vice President Lawrence Gross, and Trustees Donald Ashkenase, Monique Bloom, and Susan Healy), and school and district administrators.

G.N. students picked for Lincoln Center program Members of Great Neck South High School’s chamber music program have been selected to perform at the 2016 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center “Young Musicians Program,” at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, April 14 at 11 a.m. The concert is free and the public is welcome.

Joshua S. Lee, cello; Soyoung Park, piano; and Christine Suh, violin will perform Antonin

Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90 (Dumky Trio) Lento maestoso (Finale).

Zhengkuan (Kenny) Huang, violin II; Joshua S. Lee, cello; Christine Suh, violin I; and Helena Woroniecka, viola will perform Edvard Grieg’s String Quartet, Op. 27 Un poco Andante.

These two ensembles are among the 11 selected from the tri-state area from 41 ensemble

entries.

The Young Musicians Program is a chamber music competition for high school musicians offered by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

High school student chamber music ensembles are invited to submit applications and audio recordings through their school music departments to be considered for participation.

Selected ensembles receive two professional coaching sessions by members of the Chamber Music Society or Chamber Music Society Two, or by guests.

South High’s chamber music program is coordinated by Michael Schwartz, performing arts department head, and Pamela Levy.

“We recognize the important contributions of all of our music

teachers in laying the musical foundation and growth throughout the elementary and middle school years,” Schwartz said.

“Our student’s success is a direct result of the collective efforts on behalf of our music students.”

The Young Musicians Program began in 1998.

South High ensembles have been selected to perform every year since then, except for two.

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Schimel delivers valentine’s to veterans If it is Valentine’s Day, state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel (D-Great Neck) is on the road delivering handmade Valentines and assorted toiletries to veterans at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook and the Northport V.A. Medical Center.

The district-wide effort, headed by Schimel, enlisted public and parochial schools, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, as well as businesses and private citizens, to create homemade

valentines and contribute needed items such as personal care products, outerwear, electronics and gift cards to residents at both facilities.

One gift card was given to a veteran who was scheduled to undergo a several-month-long treatment program and wanted to get a gift for his newborn son.

“For the past nine years, residents in our community have shown their appreciation for the sacrifices that our veterans

have made for us by sending valentines and donating items,” said Schimel, a member of the Assembly’s Veterans Affairs Committee. “I thank the community for generously opening their hearts and showing our veterans that they have not been forgotten.”

Helen Donenfeld’s knitting group at the Great Neck Social Center and The Padre Pio knitting group from St. Brigid Church also contributed and sent handmade items including lap blankets, hats and scarves.

Town seminar to explore buying, selling a home The Town of North Hempstead will host “What to Know Before Buying or Selling A Home,” an educational series hosted by the Town’s Building Department.

There are currently five scheduled seminars that will be hosted throughout the town.

The presentation will teach attend-

ees how to understand which permits and certificates they will need in order to close the sale of their home.

All seminars will begin at 7 p.m.

Residents who have questions or want more information can call 311 or (516) 869-6311, or visit the Building Department’s website at www.northhempsteadny.gov.

The “What to Know Before Buying or Selling A Home” seminar will be held on: Wednesday, April 6 – Shelter Rock Public Library,165 Searingtown Road in Albertson Monday, April 11 – Port Washington Public Library, 1 Library Drive in Port Washington

Tuesday, April 12 – Hillside Public Library, 155 Lakeville Road in New Hyde Park Monday, April 18 – Manhasset Public Library, 30 Onderdonk Avenue in Manhasset Tuesday, April 26 – Westbury Memorial Public Library, 445 Jefferson St. in Westbury

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Troop 10 paints N.S. Presbyterian Church The members of Troop 10 Boy Scouts of Great Neck spent a recent Saturday morning painting the all-purpose room of the North Shore Presbyterian Church, as a thank you to the church for allowing us to meet and store gear there. With rollers and brushes, nine scouts and their parents covered the walls of this 25’3” x 60’6” room with a pleasing baby blue paint, and the trim and baseboard covers with white. Families interested in joining Boys Scouts Troop 10 are invited to email djrosenstein@gmail.com.

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Town officials attend Senior Spring Dance Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board hosted the Town’s Annual Senior Spring Dance at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park on March 7. The event’s theme was “Spring Fling,” and Bosworth and other elected officials welcomed more than 100 senior citizens for an afternoon of dancing, pizza and games. Also in attendance were council members Peter Zuckerman, Anna Kaplan and Lee Seeman, as well as Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman and Town Clerk Wayne Wink.

Seated, from left: Members of the Mineola Golden Age Club, Mike and Nora Coniglio, Kathy Morello, Mary Guarino, and Fe Gerardi; Standing, from left, Berman, Seeman, and Zuckerman.

From left, front: Mary O’Neill, Tom and Marge Zarella, Herbert Aldrich. Back: Nancy Siefert, Bosworth, and George Siefert at the Spring Fling Senior Dance at Clinton G. Martin Park.

Schimel sponsoring 16th pet food drive State Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel is sponsoring the fifth annual Legislative Pet Food Drive in the 16th Assembly district in partnership with Long Island Cares.

The drive, which will run during the month of April, will help local soup kitchens and food pantries meet the needs of struggling families with pets.

“It is heartbreaking to know of beloved pets that are placed into shelters simply because their families can no longer afford to feed them,” Schimel said. “These decisions are made by struggling families who have to choose between heating their homes, buying medications, putting food on their ta-

bles and feeding family pets.”

Pet supplies, toys, food and treats for dogs, cats, hamsters, fish, reptiles and ferrets will be collected at Schimel’s district office at 45 North Station Plaza, Suite 203 in Great Neck.

Collection boxes are also available at the following locations: Great Neck Social Center at 80 Grace Ave., the Herricks Community Center at 999 Herricks Road and the Port Washington Community Chest located at 382 Main St. Last year residents donated 277 pounds of items including bags of dog and cat food, canned food, treats, cat State Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel (D-Great Neck) and Kulsoom Rasheed from Great Neck South High School collect supplies for last year’s annual Legislative Pet Food Drive. litter and new pet toys.

Irish-Americans in Government celebrate holiday The Irish Americans In Government of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens recently celebrated their 21st annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon at Carlton on the Park in Eisenhower Park. At this year’s celebration, Nassau County Clerk Maureen O’Connell joined other area officials and community members in honoring the Feis committee of the Nassau County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The A.O.H. Feis and Irish Festival provide a forum for the celebration of Irish culture, music and custom. The annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon raises funds that are distributed to local organizations including the Nassau County New York Ancient Order of Hibernians, Catholic Charities, Project Children, Special Olympics and The Food and Nutrition program.

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Cuomo, MTA unrealistic on 3rd track Continued from Page 53 Various LIRR departments including communications, power, track and signal will have to insure that any design by the contractor is compatible with existing equipment and systems already in place. Remember that each LIRR department will have to use and maintain what the contractor delivers, builds and installs.

The MTA and LIRR will most likely use a combination of local and federal dollars to come up with $2.2 to $2.5 billion. Each year, the MTA receives over $1 billion in formula funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration. These funds account for 35 percent of the MTA’s Capital Program.

In addition, over the past ten years they received several billion in DOT FTA New Starts funding for both East Side Access and Second Avenue Subway. It does not include several billion in DOT FTA Sandy relief and recovery funding.

The MTA allocates 15 percent or $150 million of over $1 billion in annual formula transit funding from U.S.DOT FTA for the LIRR capital program.

These dollars are usually used for routine state of good repair and safety projects.

Reprogramming a significant portion of these dollars to support Main Line Third Track would impact the FTA funded LIRR state of good repair and safety capital projects program.

Perhaps the MTA may try to qualify LIRR’s Main Line Third Track Project into DOT’s FTA New Starts program.

Regardless of the funding source, LIRR Main Line Third Track will end up competing against many other worthy projects for funding out of the next MTA Five Year 2020 - 2024 Capital Plan This could include, but not limited to the 2nd Avenue Subway Phase 2 ($5.5 to $6 billion), Metro North West Bronx Penn Station Access ($200 million), Staten Island North Shore Bus Rapid Transit ($600 million), Queens Woodhaven Blvd. Bus Rapid Transit ($400 million), Rockland-Westchester Tappan Zee Bridge Bus Rapid Transit, which would feed into the Metro North Hudson Line Tarrytown Station ($200 million) and Western Queens Montauk Branch Light Rail ($100 million) just to name a few.

Don’t forget future electrification of LIRR service on the

Port Jefferson branch from Huntington to Port Jefferson ($360 million), on the Montauk line from Babylon to Speonk ($360 million), on the Ronkonkoma line from Ronkonkoma to Yaphank ($120 million) and Oyster Bay to Mineola ($120 million) is needed. All four combined could easily cost almost $1 billion.

This does not include several hundred million for a new storage yard on the Port Jefferson Yard to support electric multiple unit MU cars.

All would provide a one-seat ride for service to Grand Central Terminal making the LIRR more attractive to current and future new riders.

The original proposed previous 2010-2014 MTA $29 billion Five Year Capital Plan was cut to $24.2 billion before being approved.

The original proposed 20152019 MTA $32 billion Five Year Capital Plan in September 2014 was rejected by the New York State MTA Capital Program Review Board.

In October 2015, a revised $28 billion 2015-2019 MTA Five Year Capital Plan was approved by the MTA Board. It still needs approval by the state MTA CPRB. A majority of the $9 billion in deferred capital improvements cut from these two plans will be still be looking for funding. Don’t forget billions needed for routine state of good repair projects and programs for each operating agency.

Assuming the MTA LIRR elect to pursue federal funding, they will have to comply with the National Environmental Protect Act. Depending upon whether FTA determines that Main Line Third Track requires either an Environmental Assessment or more likely a full blown Environmental Impact Statement, completion of this process can easily take one to two years.

Remember that there is significant local community opposition whose concerns will have to be addressed during the environmental review process. What remedial actions will the MTA/LIRR provide to address this issue?

Once FTA issues an environmental finding, the project usually proceeds from 30 percent to 100 percent final design and engineering.

Final design and engineering could easily take two years.

Add another year for the procurement process to be completed from development of bid specifications, contract advertise-

ment and award.

The MTA/LIRR would not initiate the procurement process until funding is actually approved as part of the next the MTA 2020 - 2024 Five Year Plan.

Based upon past history in delays for approval of previous Five Year Capital Plans, this might not happen until 2021.

As a result, it is possible for the procurement process not to be completed until 2022. Let us assume the MTA/LIRR awards a contract and issues a notice to proceed in 2022. The winning “design/build” construction contractor would begin mobilization of forces and starts work in 2022.

Even in the best case scenario put forward by MTA/LIRR, work would not be completed until five years later in 2027.

It is far more realistic based upon such a complex project that work may not be finished until 2028 or 2029.

Over the past 30 years, estimates for construction of Main Line Third Track have grown from $600 million to $1.5 billion today.

Gov. Cuomo admitted that by reducing the amount of private property acquisition, virtually all construction will take place along the existing right-of-way. He went on to say that this will result in increasing construction costs.

Now Gov. Cuomo has committed that 100 percent of work would be performed on the existing right-of-way.

When you combine this with elimination of seven grade crossing, clearly overall project costs are only going to grow even more.

This is an incredibly complex project to perform 100 percent of the work within two active tracks.

There are 194 weekday and

152 weekend trains serving riders on the Huntington/Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay, Ronkonkoma and Babylon to Speonk branches.

This does not include additional freight trains and movements of passenger trains not in service.

Completion of double tracking on the Ronkokoma line with introduction of 30 minute off peak service by 2018 will add two dozen or more trains each day operating on the Main Line.

Construction has to proceed in parallel with the MTA/LIRR having to maintain existing passenger and freight service. It is the equivalent of performing heart surgery while the patient is running a 26-mile marathon!

No one knows really knows today what the final project cost will be to cover costs of construction or the time needed to complete all work within the existing right of way.

Besides relocating two existing tracks on portions of the Main Line to make room for construction a new third track, you have to deal with noise abatement and sound barriers along with additional safety improvements at grade crossings including elevating or sinking tracks at seven grade crossings.

Don’t forget LIRR force account support to provide flagging protection.

This is necessary to afford third party contractors safe access who perform construction within an active right of way corridor.

Imagine how many times per hour they will have to stop work when a train passes by?

A significant portion of construction work may have to take place evenings, overnight and on weekends when there is less activity on the Main Line.

Each grade crossing elimination may require several full blown weekend track outages resulting in full suspension of service on the Main Line.

There will be a need for 24/7 shuttle bus service between Jamaica and Mineola or Hicksville.

Costs for substitute bus service could easily run into the millions over the five or more year project construction duration.

The current proposal announced by both Gov. Cuomo, the MTA & LIRR this past January is still just conceptual. They have yet to initiate a basic planning study or environmental work.

This is still dependent on approval by CPRB of the initial $7 million in seed money.

That is why the MTA or LIRR have no detailed project budget to share with anyone other than some news releases.

A real project budget would include the estimated costs for each project component.

This information is needed if the MTA/LIRR wish to build credability with commuters, residents, taxpayers, transit advocates, elected officials and the media. Ditto for any project implementation schedule from start to finish. The current proposed project budget is nothing more than a number written on the back of an envelope.

Progression for development of Main Line Third Track is like reading a novel.

We are still on the first page of the first chapter with many more chapters to go until reaching the end of our story concerning Main Line Third Track.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate

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Gurfein opts for run for Rice’s seat Manhasset resident withdraws from bid against Martins in primary for seat in Congress B y N oah M ans k a r Retired U.S. Marine and Manhasset native David “Bull” Gurfein of Manhasset has shifted his campaign for Congress to challenge Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) in New York’s Fourth District.

Gurfein amended his Federal Election Commission filings March 14 to run in the southwestern Nassau County district and announced his decision on Facebook on March 19.

“We intend to run in the Fourth and we intend to win,” Gurfein said.

Leaders in the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties are backing his run and are expected to give formal endorsements within the next week, Gurfein said.

The move comes about two weeks after Republicans and Conservatives endorsed state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) in the race to replace Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) in the Third District on the North Shore, where Gurfein lives and originally planned to run.

Running in the Fourth District will allow Gurfein to avoid a primary and gives Republicans a chance to capture two Dem-

Republican David Gurfein of Manhasset (left) will run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice of Garden City (right). ocratic districts, he said in his Facebook announcement.

In a statement Monday, Rice campaign spokesman Coleman Lamb said the former Nassau County district attorney has proven “such an effective, independent advocate for our district” that her only challenger is coming from outside its boundaries.

“We won’t take anything for granted and Kathleen will campaign hard so that she can keep fighting for our community and Long Island in Congress,” Lamb said.

Gurfein said he is considering moving from Manhasset into the Fourth District, which includes Floral Park, Mineola and New Hyde Park.

Crossing district lines is “not some radical move,” Gurfein said, adding that he spent summers at Jones Beach and was based in Garden City for his first Marine Corps assignment.

“If I was going into Mississippi, that would be something different,” he said.

“This is Nassau County, where I was born and raised.”

Gurfein will now run against an incumbent in the Fourth District rather than seek an open seat in the Third.

That doesn’t deter him, he said, because he was planning to challenge Israel as an incumbent when he first formed his campaign in the fall.

“People are excited to have a vet who understands service-oriented leadership and we’re sensing tremendous backing wherever we go,” Gurfein said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is behind Gurfein’s move, he said, and has maintained his status as a promising “Young Gun” candidate.

Gurfein said he is attracting more attention from larger donors now that he will not have to run a primary. His campaign has close to $300,000 in its war chest so far, he said.

Moody’s give town high bond rating North Hempstead earns Aa1 for fifth time in last three years based on fiscal health B y J oe N i k i c

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth

The bond rating agency Moody’s Investors Service Inc. reaffirmed Wednesday the Town of North Hempstead’s Aa1 bond rating for the fifth time in the last three years, the highest in the town’s history.

The Moody’s report also said the town’s financial outlook was upgraded from “stable” to “positive.”

“The positive outlook reflects our expectation that the town will increase reserve levels modestly in fiscal 2015 and maintain balanced operations going forward,” the report said.

“The outlook also reflects the town’s conservative fiscal management practices, which will support healthy operating performance and maintenance of a strong financial position, as well as full payment of pensions beginning in fiscal 2017.”

The Moody’s assessment highlights the town’s positive financial outlook and covers its $13.86 million in bonds.

“The upgrade in our outlook by Moody’s reflects the hard work by this administration to budget conservatively and to keep the town on a solid financial footing, while maintaining the services that our town residents

expect and deserve,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a statement.

According to the report, the town’s Aa1 rating, which is second-highest to a AAA rating, was given due to a multitude of factors including budgeting and financial planning efforts.

“The rating reflects expected maintenance of a solid financial position given management’s conservative budgeting practices,” the report said.

“The rating also factors the town’s enhanced long-term financial planning and internal controls, a large and affluent tax base and a declining debt burden.”

Bosworth said the town’s financial management practices has reduced debt by $30 million over the last two years.

Town Deputy Supervisor Aline Khatchadourian told Newsday the town has been borrowing less money than it is paying off and its five-year capital plan reflects debt reduction strategies.

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Community Meetings Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Agenda Meeting Monday, March 28 @ 7:30 p.m Village Hall, 2 Prospect Street, East Williston (516) 746-0782 East Williston School District Board of Education Final Budget Deliberations Wednesday, March 30 @ 7:30 p.m.

Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury (516) 333-7804

Great Neck School District Board of Education Meeting Tuesday, March 29 @ 7:30 p.m.

Phipps Administration Building 345 Lakeville Road Great Neck (516) 441-4000

Village of Flower Hill Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, March 28 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset (516) 627-5000

Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting Thursday, March 31 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office 236 E Shore Rd Great Neck (516) 482-0238

Village of Great Neck Estates Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, March 28 @ 8:00 p.m.

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

Port Washington Library Budget Information Session and Meet The Candidates Meeting Wednesday, March 30 @ 7:30 p.m.

One Library Drive Port Washington (516) 883-4400

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Port Washington School District Board of Education Meeting Tuesday, March 29 @ 8:00 p.m.

Schreiber High School 101 Campus Drive, Port Washington (516) 767-5805

Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted.

Roslyn School District Board of Education Meeting Thursday, March 31 @ 8:00 p.m.

Roslyn High School 475 Round Hill Road, Roslyn Heights (516) 801-5100

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Recent Real Estate Sales in Great Neck

The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes presented were selected based solely on the fact that they were recently sold.

Great Neck Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $786,000 Demographics near Great Neck, NY

Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 9,972 7,503 41.4 2.9 86,722 39,686

County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286

1 Links Drive, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,350,000 Date: 09/01/2015 5 Beds, 4 Full/1 Half baths Style: Split

Type: Single Family Lot Size: 22,000 sq. ft.

Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $23,385

46 Radnor Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $645,000 Date: 10/07/2015 2 Beds 1 Full baths Style: Ranch Type: Single Family Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $10,020

67 Soundview Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $794,000 Date: 10/09/2015 3 Beds, 2 Full baths Style: Ranch

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To update or not before selling?

I have had a number of calls from sellers asking me if I would recommend that they update their homes or apartments before selling or just leave them as is.

It’s an excellent question to ask.

But one has to keep in mind the reasons for renovating or not.

Are you going to do this because you think you will recoup your investment upon selling, or that it will sell faster, which is a likely possibility or maybe you just want to enjoy the newness of the renovation for a while before considering selling.

Lastly, maybe retrofitting for an older parent who might be moving in with you or for yourself to make it easier to function so you can stay in place.

All four reasons have their merit, but you have to choose which one makes the most logical sense for you in your specific situation and timeline.

If you are going to renovated and update, have you thought of a budgeted amount that you want to position yourself within and not go over.

I have seen couples and families pick a budget and then they get into the renovation and sometimes go way past the origi-

nal amount, because they get into the job so much, that they keep adding more and more amenities or extras that they never thought of; but now want them and lose sight of the original amount that they earmarked for the job.

The more you spend, the longer you may have to wait for the market to increase to get back your investment.

There are exceptions if you have been in your home for 1550 years and have a lot of equity and the location has enabled above average appreciation.

Many purchasers do not have the time and are afraid to go in that direction to renovate, since they are very busy and both husband and wife also may not have the basic skills or necessary knowledge or connections or comfort zone to go through the renovation process.

So that part of the market may only want a renovated home and will consider paying more, so they will not have to deal with it themselves.

In those situations, the seller might get back his investment, but it really depends on the timing of when you will be selling.

The longer you can wait in a sellers market the better you can potentially do when putting

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your home up for sale and gaining back the renovation costs.

However, if you are looking to try to sell faster, updating will obviously work, but be careful with the amount you allot.

Look at your home like a buyer and see which items you would want to do before moving in.

Do the kitchen or bathrooms, Interior or exterior paint job, sanding the hardwood floors and polyurethane them, landscaping.

More important, how old is your roof, boiler, hot water heater, electric panel. The cost of replacing those necessary things might save you money, compared with the potential adjust-

ment in price that buyers might consider.

If you have a home older than 30 years, you might want to hire a certified home inspector/ engineer to let you know in advance all those deficiencies that you may have, so then you can decide what are the real crucial things to be done prior to selling.

So you are not selling right now for the foreseeable future.

The kids may or may not still be living with you, but you would thoroughly enjoy renovating your living space is another answer why some will want to add that fresh look to their domicile.

Is it possible you may have a parent coming in to live with you?

Or maybe you just want to stay in place, and not going to a Senior residence and want to set your home up properly to make it much easier to deal with the everyday functions of getting around in your home.

The following are links to provide you a gargantuan amount of information for renovations and their costs as well as pros and cons to doing them: h t t p : / / w w w. h g t v. c o m / design/decorating/clean-andorganize/which-home-improvements-pay-off http://www.thisoldhouse.

com/toh/article/0,,408045,00. html http://www.houselogic. com/home-advice/home-improvement/home-remodelingprojects-with-long-term-ROI/ http://www.styleathome. com/homes/renovating/returnon-renovation-costs-how-muchwill-you-get-back/a/882 h t t p : / / w w w. f o r b e s . com/2011/02/11/home-improvements-personal-financebest-payback.html http://www.seniorpedia. org/housing-financial-options/ retrofitting-your-house/ h t t p : / / w w w. i n v e s t o p e dia.com/articles/personalfinance/092515/10-costs-retrofitting-your-house-senior.asp Remember only you can make the final decision as to your budget in relation to what you want done; but also, what are your real reasons for doing the fixing and updating?

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

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

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Tweeting isn’t just for the birds B y Diane B r an g man Social Security District Manager in Mineola Ten years ago, on March 21, 2006, the CEO of Twitter sent out his first tweet. It’s appropriate, with spring coming, that the famous CEO was chirping in a format that the world now embraces as a vital form of interactive communication. Similarly, Social Security is no

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Updated regularly, Social Security Matters is our blog. It’s our hub for Social Security news, like new features to my Social Security, changes in policy, retirement planning, and benefit information. The blog allows us to address issues in a longer format than a tweet or typical social media post. Check out Social Security Matters at blog. socialsecurity.gov and select “Get blog updates” if you want to stay

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Burglary task force receives leader praise

Continued from Page 2 Mamuka Bokuchava, a 31-year-old Brooklyn man allegedly connected to 17 burglaries in Nassau County, including eight in Port Washington, two each in East Williston and Williston Park and one each in Mineola, New Hyde Park and Manhasset.

Village of Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar called the task force “a step in the right direction.”

He and other local leaders said any additional police effort to tackle crime is welcome, especially after the strings of burglaries in the area concerned residents.

“I guess they’ve had enough time to observe that it’s systematic, that the problem is systematic, which is why Nassau County P.D. has escalated it,” Tanner said.

Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, said the dedicated force is “long overdue” and will likely better communication between police and communities the crimes have affected.

Residents have previously gone months without learning whether a nearby burglary has been solved, he said, and the burglary team could help clarify such questions. “(T)he creation of a task force for this specific purpose will now give us specific individuals that we’ll be able to (follow up) with,” Bentley said.

Some communities are keeping up local efforts to increase security and prevent crime.

A private security officer has patrolled East Williston since a spate of burglaries there in the fall, Tanner said.

It gives residents an extra level of comfort and “visibility,” he said: “Every little bit helps.”

Led by former Mayor Doreen Ehrbar, Paul Ehrbar’s wife, Williston Park’s Neighborhood Watch is trying to recruit more

block captains to monitor neighborhoods.

Manhasset residents have an informal Neighborhood Watch, Bentley said. They share information about crimes or suspicious activity on Facebook.

“The greatest asset is that individual being able to be a good witness and provide us accurate details of any type of crimes or suspicious persons,” LeBrun said. “That often comes from Neighborhood Watch or people being able to be very astute to their surroundings.”

While burglaries fell by more than three-quarters in East Hills last year, Zuckerman said, the Security Commission it resurrected following two violent robberies is evaluating more extensive measures.

The village already has private security patrols, he said, and the committee is proposing to install surveillance cameras and additional lighting on dark streets.

Other possibilities include safety kits and village decals for residents’ cars.

East Hills aims to work in concert with police to protect residents’ safety and welfare, Zuckerman said. For example, surveillance footage would not be actively monitored, he said, but would be given to police to help an investigation.

“We want to come as close to zero (crime) as possible,” Zuckerman said. “It’s important that we do things, but that we do not conflict with the police.”

Tanner and Ehrbar said they think the return of four problem-oriented police, or POP, officers will provide another layer of protection in the Third Precinct.

The police department reinstated the popular program last year after budgetary constraints suspended it in 2014.

Along with the Burglary Pattern Team, the POP cops play an on-the-ground role in investigating and suppressing burglaries, LeBrun said. “(T)hey’ll be detailed to specific areas to get an understanding of what’s going

on here and provide more eyes and ears and information going both ways,” Ehrbar said.

The Third Precinct’s North and South Subdivisions each have two POP officers, police have said.

While Bentley praised the POP officers’ return, he said it will prove difficult for two officers to cover the whole North Subdivision, the former Sixth Precinct that merged with the Third in 2012 as a cost-saving move.

Beyond the task force, opening the precinct would provide better overall police coverage for the North Subdivision, Bentley and Zuckerman said.

“Two officers just don’t cut it,” Bent-

ley said. “As good as those two officers are and as dedicated as they are, it’s physically impossible. But it’s a start.”

LeBrun said reopening the precinct would not create any resources to stop burglaries beyond what already exists.

There would still be 177 daily patrols county-wide, he said, a number that has not changed since before the merger.

“We have the same number of police officers out there every day no matter if you have five police precincts or eight,” he said.

LeBrun also said major crimes have decreased overall since the merger and crime has dropped 25 percent countywide since 2009.

Continued from Page 3 Although crime in the village is not increasing, Conlon said, the rising number of heroin-related incidents on Long Island leaves his former colleagues in a major challenge.

“I can’t say in Kensington there is an uptick in crime but on Long Island, in general, there is an uptick in the heroin epidemic,” he said. “My concern is for the guys still here having to deal with the heroin epidemic.

Conlon said Sgt. Curt Giraulo would take over as chief and lieutenant and appoint a sergeant once he takes his seat as head of the department.

In his life after retirement, he said, he wanted to travel, take up writing and spend more time with his family.

“As a police officer, you tend to miss a

lot of family things because of hours and shifts you have to work,” Conlon said. “I kind of want to make up for that.”

He said he would never forget his years serving the village, as 30 years went by quicker than he imagined.

“It was a pleasure and an honor and I served great people and I enjoyed every minute of it,” Conlon said. “When I look back, it doesn’t feel like 30 years went by but now I look forward to new goals and new opportunities.”

Thirty years after joining the Kensington police force, he said he will always remember his years serving the village.

“I’m very fortunate to serve my whole career in Kensington,” Conlon said. “You become very acquainted with the residents, and working with them, you always felt appreciated by the residents.”

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School board aims to retain staff amid cuts Continued from Page 1 will not see these types of numbers without touching the instructional program.”

The preliminary budget for 2016-17 school year calls for a $2,229,611, or 1.03 percent, increase to the current year’s budget.

At a budget workshop on Saturday, the board presented how it intended to spend $19 million of a capital reserve fund established last year after residents voted to approve a 10-year capital plan for infrastructure improvements to the district’s school buildings.

Great Neck South High School student government president Tina Pavlovich said that although some of the district’s buildings have air conditioning in its classrooms, the student body wanted all classrooms and buildings to be air conditioned.

“Our school is fighting for air conditioning for a very long time,” Pavlovich said. “We were told that the air conditioning and roofing [should] be done at the same time.”

The district said it plans to repair roof-

The Great Neck Board of Education ing in the near future, but the cost is still unknown.

If air conditioners were installed in every school within the district in addition to roofing repairs, Powell said, it would add an estimated $12.1 million in costs.

“If we were to install AC’s in every building, it would take us well out of the

$19 million, and we would then have to cut numerous other projects,” Board President Barbara Berkowitz said.

Powell said the district had an “external building study” completed that identified over $100 million in needs for the district’s buildings.

“Not that we’re going to do all of those

projects,” he said. “But a decision will be made on what to move forward on and what not to.”

The board said it is seeking community input before the budget is finalized.

Powell said staff cuts would continue to be discussed and the board would continue to look for ways to prevent the need for staff cuts.

“It’s not just the 16-17 year we are positioning ourselves for, we are also thinking about certain financial concerns we will be faced in the 17-18 budget,” he said. “We certainly don’t want to make any decisions that would further make those situations worse.”

An informal budget hearing is scheduled for April 4 at 7:30 p.m. at North Middle School, followed by an official hearing and adoption on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at South High School.

For registered voters living north of the LIRR, the final budget vote is set for Tuesday, May 17, from 7 a.m.-10 p.m. at E.M Baker School, while registered voters living south of the LIRR are required to go to South High School’s west gym to vote.

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Farrone elected first female line officer Continued from Page 1 Farrone, a seventh-grade social studies teacher and Queens resident, said she hopes her election will open the doors for other women to join local fire departments.

“Any female can do this and there are no limitations to what you can do,” she said. “Just because this is a heavily male profession doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to do it.”

Farrone comes from a family with a long history of service to the M-LFD. Her father, Mike Farrone, is a 30year veteran of the department, who currently serves as vice president of Company 5 and formerly served as chief of the department.

While he never pushed his daughter to join the fire department, Mike said, his years serving the department may have sparked her interest in joining the fire department.

“She grew up in the fire house since I’ve been there for more than a whole life, but I never forced it on her,” he said. “I never asked her why she wanted to do it but I was very proud that she did.”

Mike added that it was “unbelievable” that she was elected as Company 5’s 2nd Lieutenant by members of the company.

Carly said seeing her father’s dedication to the fire department made her want to serve the community.

“Being able to be with him for five years, I was able to do and learn so much,” she said. “The dedication he has to this organization is definitely a reason why I pursued being a line

officer.”

She added that she was like her father’s “right-hand” when they would respond to calls together.

“When we would go on calls, yeah, he had other people, but I was there too,” Carly said.

She said her duties include handling company membership, making sure fire trucks are loaded with the necessary supplies and equipment and making decisions for her company both within the firehouse and on calls.

Mike said he would like to see an increase in female firefighters in the department.

“I hope that she’s a role model for other women because we can use all the volunteers we can get with men or women,” he said. “Hopefully it opens up the doors for other young women.”

“It’s a job that men and women can do,” Mike added. “It’s not just a man’s job anymore.”

Carly said her election as line officer shows the growth of women in Nassau County who are getting involved with local fire departments.

“I see, generally in Nassau County, more females in the fire service and I think it’s great,” she said. “I’m so excited that we can serve our community just as well or better than a man can.”

Carly Farrone, the first woman ever named a line officer in ManhassetLakeville Fire Department history, with her father Mike, a 30-year Manhasset-Lakeville veteran.

State should repeal or replace property tax cap Continued from Page 13 All of us benefit by good schools— not the least in the value of our homes, but also, ultimately, the priceless reward of our children having the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and what that means for our society.

No room to rehash here, but when you consider the number of truly successful people who have come out of our small community of 43,000, it is absolutely remarkable, but not accidental.

The property tax cap should be repealed— it is destructive to public education and local control. It disrespects the community and education professionals, and most of all, it harms our students.

But if it is not politically satisfying to repeal the cap (declare victory and withdraw), at very least, the formula has to be changed: • Instead of the lesser of 2 percent or inflation, it should be which is higher.

• It should accommodate increases in enrollment, or chang-

ing demographics including the enrollment in secondary schools (more expensive to educate), special needs students, ESL students.

• It should remove from the formula the increases in spending due to mandates, such as mandated contributions to the Teachers Retirement System and health insurance, mandated testing and academic intervention services.

• It should allow a 1-2 percent cushion to cover unanticipated expenses (such as recovery from Superstorm Sandy or delayed payment by LIPA of its taxes).

Even before there was a mandatory cap, the school district kept its increase to the 2 percent, and after the mandatory cap, there was at least one year when the budget increase stayed below the cap— a decision for which the board was criticized because it set a lower threshold for the budget that created more challenges the following year.

The budget cap perversely discourages school districts (which account for 60-65 percent of the property taxes we pay) from budgeting only the exact dollar amount it needs, and also to delay year-to-year improvements in favor of a larger bond issue (because debt service is not counted toward the cap).

But the state’s cap isn’t the only squeeze on school budgets.

Another is the change in tax structure in the county — the changes in the assessment system.

Which is why the 2 percent (or less) tax cap is a fiction.

So, over the years, Nassau County has continually been shifting the burden of paying the property tax pie from commercial, utilities and multi-family dwellings (condos, coops), onto single-family property owners.

Even if the school budget did not increase a solitary penny, your school taxes would rise 3 percent.

If the school district did not increase the budget a penny,

individual homeowner would still see 3- 3.5 percent increase in taxes because of shift in the “base proportion” of the assessments away from commercial property owners onto single family residential owners.

Also, about 65 percent of your neighbors regularly sue for reductions in their assessment, winning “tax certiorari.”

Guess what, the pie of total property tax that still has to be collected (since unlike income taxes, the schools and special districts put out a budget of what they need to pay for, and your tax rate is your share of that total tax pie).

That means that every ones’ taxes go up, even the tax cert winners, though the ones who don’t sue for a reduction pay more (you feel like a chump if you don’t seek a tax cert). It’s an exceptionally non-virtuous cycle.

It is important to recognize that 95 percent of Great Neck’s school budget is funded through property tax.

We get a scant 5 percent from state and federal aid (compared to New York City and Hempstead which have 50 percent of their operating budget paid for by state aid).

In some ways, that makes us more immune against cuts in state aid. On the other hand, it means that we are more impacted by the restriction of the tax cap – something else the formula does not account for.

When it comes down to it, what people are most upset about government is bureaucracy, its inability to be responsive to “the people.”

And yet, that is what the property tax cap does. It replaces the ability of our elected representatives (who serve as volunteers, without any compensation) and our professional administrators and teachers, parents and students to make appropriate decisions for our community in favor of an arbitrary formula.

Repeal or replace the property tax cap.

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cleaning

cleaning

$$ Top Cash Paid $$

STRONG ARM CLEANING

CLEANING HOMEOFFICE

Residential and Commercial Cleaning Specialist • Post construction clean ups • Stripping, waxing floors • Move Ins and Move Outs

HIGH END ANTIQUES HIGH CASH PAiD Oil Paintings, Mid-Century Accessories 1950s/60s, Porcelain, Costume Jewelry, Sterling Silver, Gold, Furniture, Objects of Art, etc.

• 1 Pc.or entire estates • Premium prices paid for Tiffany, Damaged Meissen Porcelain, Bronzes, Quality Pieces Marble, etc. also

wanted

CALL JOSEPH OR

RUTH

718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128 Family Business for over 40 years

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home improvement

Carry - In and On - Site Repairs Desktop, Laptop, Mac and Servers Virus Removal and Cleanup Hard Drive Data Recovery Home and Office Services

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Hourly Rates Residential • Grout cleaning • Move in and out Adam

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“Quality Construction with a Personal Touch” Deal direct with owner - Serving li over 25 years

Insured, License # H18C730000

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home improvement

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• Home Tutoring • Computer Repair • Virus Removal • iPhone/iPad Repair • iMac/MacBooks Fixed

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We do all types of improvements including HANDYMAN REPAIRS No job too small

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home improvement

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• We haul anything & everything • Entire contents of home and/or office • We clean it up and take it away Residential - Commercial Bonded Insured / Free Estimates

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MOVING SERVICE moving

lawn sprinklers

Serving the community for over 40 yrs

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MOVERS

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window repairs

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WINDOW REPAIRS & RESTORATIONS

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

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Insurance Since 1919 Bill Spitalnick 486 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY 11596 516.535.3561 • Fax: 516.742.7209 A 2013 Chubb Personal Cornerstone Elite Agency

Financial Strength and Exceptional Claim Service Property | Liability | Executive Protection | Workers Compensation | Marine | Surety Homeowners | Auto | Yacht | Jewelry | Antiques | Accident & Health Chubb Group of Insurance Companies (“Chubb”) is the marketing name used to refer to the insurance subsidiaries of The Chubb Corporation. For a list of these subsidiaries, please visit our website at www.chubb.com. Actual coverage is subject to the language of the policies as issued. Chubb, Box 1615, Warren, NJ 07061-1615. ©2013 Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company.

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ARC OF DELAWARE COUNTY seeks dynamic professionals to lead our nationally recognized organization in supporting people with I/DD in living personally fulfilling lives. Positions include: Chief Services Officer Speech Pathologist Supervisor​/​Life Coach 10 Assistant Director of Residential Services House Manager. Apply: www.delarc.org

BENEFITS CONSULTANT: AFLAC Fortune 500 Company.

With an AFLAC career, there are no limits to what you can achieve. It’s a unique opportunity to take control of your career and set your own unlimited goals. Looking for individuals to grow with the largest provider of voluntary employee benefits in the country. Sales experience welcome but not necessary. Lifetime vesting renewals. Office located in Garden City. Please call Director of District Sales, Bill Whicher 516-574-1064

DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service oriented professional with good communication skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Earn up to $60,000 in the first year representing 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well as 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slate Media’s partner, Litmor Publications. Minimum 2 years outside sales experience required. Must have own car. Protected sales territory, salary plus commission, health insurance, paid holidays and sick days.

To apply, please email resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve Blank at 516-307-1045 x201

CHILDCARE​/ HOUSEHOLD HELP NEEDED: Two children (ages 15,12) from 3:30pm to 6:30pm (Mon-Thur) and 7:00am-8:00am (3 mornings).

Drive to activities, homework assistance & laundry. Must be mature, loving and have references. Stacey 516-770-4780

BABYSITTER WANTED: After school 3:00pm to 7:00pm daily for GCMS 6th grader and 8th grader.

Flexible hours and hourly compensation. Duties include driving to activities, light housework and meal prep.

Must have own car and references.

Contact Lauren 917-796-4443

Deadlines

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

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

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

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

H A N D Y M A N ​/ ​H E L P E R : N o r t h Shore Contractor. Must be clean cut, speak English, Driver’s License and some basic construction experience. Call 516-365-6685 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR CAN YOU DIG IT? We offer training and certifications operating bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. Lifetime job placement VA benefits eligible! 1-866-362-6497

COMPANION & HHA WANTED

516 328-7126 Agency seeks experienced workers who love working with the elderly.

P/T and F/T hours Drivers preferred

WANTED

• Full Time Waitstaff • Full Time Dishwasher • Part Time Grillman Diner Experience • Inquire within

Yesterday’s

Diner-Restaurant 443 Jericho Tpke.,New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Administrative Assistant Monday –Thursdays 1-5 and Fridays 10-2

Please call 516-742-5243 or send resume to EileenDevaney@seedsofthewillistons.com

516-352-5290

Receptionist (Part Time) Biener Audi seeks evening receptionist to receive calls, greet customers and perform various other light clerical functions. Professional appearance, pleasant phone voice a must, with some computer skills helpful.

Hours: Monday-Thursday 5:00pm-8:00pm with occasional weekend hours to start.

Competitive salary & clean friendly, energetic work atmosphere.

For immediate consideration email resume in confidence to:

(Speech, Education, Evaluation & Developmental Services) 129A Hillside Avenue, Williston Park, NY 11596

Tele: 516-742-5243

Fax: 516-742-3536

careers@biener.com

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Help Wanted

HIGH SCHOOL OR MIDDLE SCHOOL boy wanted to play ball with sports crazy 3rd grader once or twice a week for a few hours after school. We live close to the HS. Contact gsr124124@yahoo.com

NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION PART TIME: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for a person experienced in Adobe In-Design to lay out classified and legal pages on Tuesday evening. Office conveniently located in Williston Park.

To apply please email resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve Blank 516307-1045 x201

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 MEDICAL OFFICE SECRETARY​/​ RECEPTIONIST Part Time in Garden City. Duties include front desk reception, patient intake, patient data entry, collection of fees and posting insurance information, filing.

Telephone skills required. Attention to detail is important. Office is well well-organized with a patientoriented focus for service and care.

Basic computer skills are needed.

Days include alternate Saturdays 8:30am-2:30pm, every Monday and Tuesday 9:00am-4:00pm. Workweek flexibility is important. Salary is competitive based on experience.

Medical employment references are required.Call 516-294-0253 NANNY GARDEN CITY FULL TIME SUMMERTIME Seeking full time Nanny for summertime for 3 school age boys in Garden City. Need to be a licensed driver with a car and good references. Salary negotiable. Call Jeanne 631-848-9671

OFFICE CLERK ENTRY LEVEL: Must be reliable, willing to learn & be a team player. Position requires strong computer, organizational & phone skills. We will train. Lake Success office. Please send resume to: newmilabs2000@gmail. com OR fax: 516-280-5221 OFFICE WORK TOWN INSURANCE AGENCY in Garden City is hiring for office help including computer work, Full or Part Time. Starting at $15​/ hr. Call Robert Sommer 516-294-1000 VOLUNTEERS WANTED: G.C. BIRD SANCTUARY located on Tanners Pond Road in Garden City is seeking volunteers (age 18+) to greet GCBS visitors on Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 4pm beginning April 16. Retirees welcome! Interested? Please email: gcbirdsanctuary@gmail.com

DONATE YOUR CAR

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*Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible

* Wheels For Wishes is a DBA of Car Donation Foundation.

Situation Wanted

Situation Wanted

CARE GIVER​/ ELDER CARE: Seeking live in or live out position.

Full or Part Time. Housekeeping as well. Flexible hours. Excellent references. 10 yrs experience. Call Colleen 516-732-2189

ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly. Live in or out. Over 20 years experience.

References furnished upon request. Call Florence 718-288-6123

CAREGIVER AVAILABLE 24/7 Experienced caregiver available.

Will also help with errands, bringing to doctor appts, housekeeping, light meals. Excellent references, licensed driver with own car. Call 631-838-9875 CAREGIVER AVAILABLE Experienced woman seeks full time position to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Live in. Very reliable, non driver, references available.

Call May 516-292-2662 CERTIFIED NURSES AIDE​/ HHA: Seeking position weekdays live in or live out. Experienced, references. Call 347-257-4367 OR email Irie.rbeckford@gmail.com CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT: 17 years experience, caregiver​/​companion for patients with Alzheimers, Dementia and Hospice. Very professional with excellent references. Available nights and weekends. Gladyl 516-521-9391 CLEANING AVAILABLE Houses and Apartments. Flexible days and hours. Experienced, reasonable prices. Very good references. Own transportation. Please call 516272-5154 or 516-385-5547 COMPANION​/ HOME HEALTH AIDE: Are you looking for someone to take care of your elderly parents in the comfort of their own home? I am a home health aide and companion with years of experience and very reliable.

Please call 917-889-1606 COMPANION​/​HHA seeks live in or live out position caring for sick or elderly. Loving, caring and dedicated person with excellent references. Please call Maria 718-541-9273

Your Homeownership Partner

ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly.

Available to live in or out and nights. Over 20 years experience.

Very professional. References furnished upon request. Call Lorraine 347-255-8603 EXPERIENCED POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation.

English speaking. Flexible days​/​ hours. I will do a good job. Please call 516-589-5640 HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR available to do any odd jobs around your home​​yard work, cleaning out & organizing garages and basements, pet sitting, party help, etc. Call Drew 516-712-5361 or 516-741-9669 HOUSE CLEANER AVAILABLE Monday​​Saturday 8am​​2pm. Experienced with excellent references.

Licensed driver w/ own transportation. Please call 516-325-5153 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 I CLEAN HOUSES, apartments, offices, etc. I have 12 years experience, good references and am responsible. Own transportation and available 6 days. Free estimate!

Please call Viviana 516-728-4893 or 516-939-5778 NURSING ASSISTANT I’m a certified nursing assistant seeking private home care position. Over 15 years experience. Licensed driver.

Available Monday to Friday daytime hours and some weekends.

Contact Cynthia 917-805-7782 NURSING ASSISTANT: 17+ years experience seeks to care for the elderly. Live in or out. Great references. Driver’s license. Immediate.

917-470-8976

announcements HOME SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER being organized for children 4 and up. Limited to 1012 students. Meet several times​ /​week. Do not have to be home schooling to enroll. 516-621-2195

The State of New York Mortgage Agency offers: • Competitive, fixed-rate mortgages for first-time homebuyers • Downpayment assistance available up to $15,000 • Special program for veterans, active-duty military, National Guard and reservists • Funds available for renovation

1-800-382-HOME(4663)

www.sonyma.org

announcements

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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

ABE BUYS ANTIQUES: Silver, paintings, rugs and all contents.

917-817-3928 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /​ Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid! Call Juley today!

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MONEY TO LEND Get funding now for your small business​​ up to $2 million in as little as 2 days. Minimum 2 years in business. Call BFS Capital: 888732-6298 or apply online www. bfscapital.com​/ ​n yp

Novenas/Prayers PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity.

Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother.

Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my Mother.

Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine.

Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published. Grateful thanks. (MAK)

marketplace

for sale DINING ROOM TABLE & CHAIRS: Gorgeous, Georgian style dining room table, 2 upholstered arm chairs and 6 upholstered side chairs for sale. Mahogany finished beech wood with brass claw foot details. Heirloom quality, beautiful condition. From Safavieh collection. Offered at $3500. Located in Garden City. email debinc@mac. com OR call 414-379-0000 FURNITURE FOR SALE WEST HEMPSTEAD Thomasville Dining Room Set Oak Secretary Round Side Table w/ Inlaid Leather Top Small Sideboard Regency Antique Sette Text: 516-606-0287 PRIVACY HEDGE SPRING BLOW OUT SALE. 6’ Arborvitae (cedar) reg. $129 NOW $59. Beautiful, nursery grown. FREE installation​/ FREE delivery. Limited supply! ORDER NOW! 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttrees.com

LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@ atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org INVITED SALES BY TRACY JORDAN 839 Stewart Ave Garden City, NY 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales.com Open 7 Days! Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 10-6 Thurs 10-4 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-5 Consignments by Appointment Estate Sale and Tag Sale services available to liquidate the contents of your home. Call 516-279-6378 for a consultation. LIVE AUCTIONS are held monthly. You can place items on auction by scheduling an appointment to bring your items in to the shoppe for consideration.

Email pictures to be considered for consignment or auction to info@ invitedsales.com Invited Sales also offers TRUCK SERVICES to move your items to or from your home or office to the consignment shoppe to sell on your behalf, and help clean out your home, attic or garage! Check out our website at: www.invitedsales.com for special sales and shopping events, tag sales, auctions and more!!

YOU’RE INVITED! Thursday, March 31 9:30 am 44 First St Garden City, NY 11530 American Girl and toys for girls, furniture, Dining Room set, chairs, stereo equipment, decorative and household items, Waterford, Baker armoire and sideboard, lamps, bedding, baby furniture, changing tables, basement and garage items....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details!

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▼ REAL ESTATE, SERVICE DIRECTORY Tag Sale YOU’RE INVITED! Tuesday, March 29 9:30 am 87 Lincoln Street Garden City, NY 11530 Collectibles, bedroom furniture, holiday, books, records, costume jewelry, china, dishes and more...

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 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.

automotive

Auto For Sale 2006 LINCOLN ZEPHYR: Beige, 51K miles, 1 owner, loaded, well maintained, excellent condition.

Car has 1 computer glitch ($1,200 to repair) that can be ignored depending on driver’s needs. $6,800. 516-457-3545

real estate for rent

Apartment For Rent GARDEN CITY Art Deco 1 BR with EIK, Living room, 5 huge closets!

Top floor between Franklin and Hilton Avenues. Walking distance to LIRR, parks and town center. Pet friendly. Large rooms with southern exposure! SAVE MONEY! ASSUME OUR LEASE THROUGH 11/2016 Available immediately!

Live here while you remodel your home! $2,100 Call 516-262-2788

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Limited availability. Book early!

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▼ LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Formation of 210 MINEOLA ASSOCIATES LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/25/16. Office located in Nassau County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC, 286 Northern Boulevard, Great Neck, New York 11021.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

GNN 143231 6x 3/25, 4/01, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016 #143231 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck will hold a Public Hearing on April 5, 2016 at the Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York 11023 at 7:45 P.M. to consider the following: The adoption of the proposed budget for the General Fund and Debt Service Fund for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2016 and ending May 31, 2017.

Salaries in the proposed budget for the Village Board are as follows, Mayor $10,000 annually, Trustees $4,800 annually.

Copies of the proposed budget are available in the Office of the Clerk-Treasurer and may be inspected by any interested persons during normal business hours.

At the time and place of said public hearing all persons will be given an opportunity to be heard.

Those persons planning to attend any meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck and who require special accommodations because of a disability are requested to notify the Village

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BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK Pedram Bral, Mayor Joe Gill, Clerk-Treasurer Dated: Great Neck, New York March 16, 2016 GNN 143196 1x 3/25/​2 016 #143196 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: 150-15 Units LLC Arts of Org. filed by the Department of State of New York on: 12/01/2015, Office loc: County of Nassau. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secy. State of New York (SSNY) desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o BRG Management LLC, 150 Great Neck Road, Suite 402, Great Neck, NY 11021.

GNN 143096 6x 3/04, 11, 18, 25, 4/01, 8, 2016 #143096 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Union Rope Access, LLC. Articles of organization filed with Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/26/15. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC to c/o: Union Rope Access, LLC, 17 Pine Hill Road, Great Neck, NY 11020. Purpose: any lawful activity.

GNN 142989 6x, 2/19, 26, 3/04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 #142989

Notice of Formation of A.Foros Imports, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/12/2016. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 36 Valley View Rd., Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

GNN 143082 6x 3/04, 11, 18, 25, 4/01, 8, 2016 #143082

Notice of Formation of LISA WONG, CPA, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/2016. Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The PLLC, 49 ALLENWOOD ROAD, GREAT NECK, NY 11023. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

GNN 143213 6x 3/25, 4/01, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016 #143213

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, April 6, 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

NOTICE OF TAX LIEN SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the Real Property Tax Law of the State of New York, The Treasurer of said Village will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law on the 1st day of April, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. (prevailing time) at the Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which Village Taxes remain unpaid for the year 2015/16 as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of such sale and shall continue the same from day to day until the said sale shall be completed. Excepted from said sale are parcels of property on which the Village of Great Neck owns and holds one or more unredeemed certificates of tax sale.

The following is a list of real estate to be sold for unpaid taxes for the year 2051/16 with a statement of the amount of all charges thereon as of April 1, 2016 the descriptions of properties being those on the Tax Map of the County of Nassau.

Property Owner Name 75 Parsons BLVD LLC Middle Neck Equities LLC Zaboulani Joshua & Jennifer Shanasaji Sepideh Woodhill Development Corp.

Empire Custom Homes LLC. Toma Lucian Chanchalashvili Michael & Estate Of J. Chamberlain Doustar Mobasser Frankel Mark A/amy Bell Gerta/jones Aline Rosenberg Miriam Livian Kourosh Bartco Holding Daryoush Nami Gohar Gilbert Road LLC MJM Development GN LLC Wykowski Henry T Ebrani Louise & Evelyn Hakimian Shariar/Laden Steamboat Road/Tennis Center Mitchell Barbara Chen Xiao Kwong Michael Levy Charlotte Bruce R Lieberman & Co. Pickwood LLC Nadder Roofeh Klein R L Ezair Sharoona & Saleh Jacob D Friedman Llya/Horowitz M. Farankashani Yaghoob Kenny Development Corp.

Robsam Investors LLC Schwartz Lawrence E Long Island Fiber Exchange Inc

Section/Block/Lot 1/1/5 1/53/629 1/54/118-120 1-84/233-234 1/85/457 1/92/1-4 1/92/5-7 1/96/6-10 1/106/2-117 1/108/61-64 1/110/162 1/128/5 1/128/571 1/129/398 1/136/182 1/136/437-441 1/142/18 1/142/71 1/182/41 1/193/5 1/193/14 1/198/15 1/199/4 1/201/22 1/201/23 1/201/24 1/201/57 1/201/73 1/201/134 1/203/55 2/147/11-14 2/148/28-30 2/173/110 2/181/214-215 2/187/325 2/229/510-206 2/229/510-210 500/6/1

Total Due Including Taxes, Penalties and Fees 2666.16 1324.80 2534.70 3903.74 104.37 3774.81 2561.85 4054.72 9699.26 2570.33 2493.99 1998.63 2635.06 2695.86 183.43 2707.74 2441.40 2112.28 1869.70 3433.82 2775.61 6587.48 884.06 2359.97 2526.22 2478.72 236.70 2516.04 2507.56 3384.63 2957.12 4852.06 2353.19 2208.88 141.69 1299.39 1627.96 475.70

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and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20137 ​​ Dean Kaplan, variances 70-30.A, 70-31.A, 70-101.B & 70-208.F to construct additions to a nonconforming dwelling with insufficient front and side yard setbacks, & a portico in a required front yard. W/Side #34 Devon Rd., 100’ N/of Woolley Ln., Great Neck, Sec. 1, Blk. 31, Lot 51, R-A District.

APPEAL #20138 ​​ David DeBaun, variance 70-40.A to construct a portico in a required front yard. N/Side #105 Nassau Ave., 540’ E/of Park Ave., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 73, Lot 133, R-B District.

APPEAL #20139​—​Joshua and Melissa Strugatz, variances 70-40.A and 70-40.B to construct an addition, a bay window and a portico within required front yards; SE​/c​ or.​/o ​f 79 Radcliff Ave. and Warwick Pl., Port Washington, Sec. 4, Blk. 16, Lot 23, R-B District.

APPEAL #20140​—​David Bartow ​​ variances 70-50.A and 70-100.1.B to maintain a covered porch within a required front yard and a shed within a required side yard; E/side 15 Jefferson St., 325’ S/of Webster Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 49, Lot 11, R-C District.

APPEAL #20141 ​​ Caroline & Thomas Huszar, variances 70-49.C & 70-50.C to construct additions and a front porch exceeding permitted floor area and with an insufficient front yard setback. S/Side #64 Bayview Ave., 773.5’ E/of Carlton Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 5, Blk. 54, Lot 6, R-C District.

APPEAL #20142 ​​ James Dorane, variances 70-30.C & 70-31.A to construct additions with insufficient front and aggregate side yard setbacks. N/ Side #48 Crescent Rd., 316.54’ W/of Summit Rd., Port Washington, Sec. 6, Blk. 34, Lot 13, R-A District.

APPEAL #20143 ​​Paul Bednarski, variance 70-50 to maintain a porch in a required front yard.

W/Side #34 Chaffee Ave., 100’ N/of McKinley Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 56, Lot 872, R-C District.

APPEAL #20144 ​​ Robert Thomson, variance 70-52 to maintain a deck within a rear yard setback; W/side #12 Atlas Ct. 107’ S/of Pubins Ln., New Hyde Park, Sec. 9, Blk. 550, Lot 47, R-C District.

APPEAL #20145​—​Gloria Parra, variances 70-51.A, 70-52 and 70-103.A to maintain a deck and awning within a required side yard and with insufficient aggregate side yards, a deck within a required rear yard setback and the conversion of a garage to dwelling space with insufficient off-street parking; S/side 652 Whittier St., 200’ E/ of Tennyson Ave., Westbury, Sec. 10, Blk. 29, Lot 4, R-C District.

APPEAL #20146 ​​ Hong Kong Cafe, appeal for determination & conditional use 70-126.A & variances 70-208.F & 70-103.A to permit a fast-food restaurant, a conditional use, in a non-conforming building with insufficient off-street parking; N/W​/c​ or #19 Northern Blvd. & Nassau Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 2, Blk. 54, Lot 89, B-A District.

APPEAL #20147.A ​​ Locust Partners, LLC (Owner​/​ Applicant)/U. Arias Corp. (Applicant), renewal of conditional uses 70-103.K and 70-212.A and variance 70-212.B to permit the continued use of a vacant lot for parking and storage; W/side 65 and 73 Locust St., 300’ S/of Hillside Ave., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 48, Lot 102, Business-B District.

APPEAL #20147.B ​​ Locust Partners, LLC, renewal of vari-

ances 70-103.A, 70-103.F, 70-103.P, 70-145.A and 70-231 to permit the continued use of a property with insufficient off-street parking and loading zones, enclosed parking spaces, without direct access to a street, and vehicular entrance doors with insufficient setback; W/side 73 Locust St., 300’ S/of Hillside Ave., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 48, Lot 101, Business-B District.

APPEAL #20147.C ​​ Locust Partners, LLC (Owner)/U. Arias Corp. (Applicant), renewal of variances 70-103.B, 70-103.F, 70-103.O, 70-103.P, 70-138.G, 70-145.A, 70-208.F & 70-231 to permit the maintenance of an accessory use on the same lot as a non-conforming use for outdoor storage of vehicles and equipment, with insufficient parking stall dimension, width of drive aisle, number of loading zones, enclosed parking spaces, without direct access to a street, and vehicular entrance doors with insufficient clear space; W/side 65 Locust St., 250’ S/of Hillside Ave., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 48, Lot 5, Business-B District.

APPEAL #20148​—​James Goldstick, conditional use 70-225(b)(7)(a) to modify kitchen equipment; E/side #444 Plandome Rd., 50.16’ N/of Orchard St., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 71, Lot 102, B-A District.

APPEAL #20149​—​The Russell Partnership, renewal of special permit under section 70-225.E to permit the maintenance of an existing detached garage for commercial storage; N/ side 225 Russell St., 101.1’ W/ of Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights; Section: 7 Block: 70, Lots: 6-8, R-C / B-A Districts.

APPEAL #20150 ​​ LSC Development LLC (Applicant)

/ Feldman Wood Products Co., Inc., variances 70-103.A, 70-196.J(1)(a), 70-196.J(1) (b), and 70-196.J(1)(f) to construct a second floor addition to convert a warehouse to a self-storage building with insufficient off-street parking, and installation of signage exceeding the permitted area, height, and height above grade; W/ side 1 Herricks Rd., 364.54’ S/ of Broadway, New Hyde Park, Sec. 33, Blk. 167, Lot 427, I-B District.

APPEAL #20151 ​​ 7-Eleven, Inc. (Applicant)​/​Robert Realty, LLC (Owner), conditional use 70-126(F), appeal for determination, or in the alternative, variances 70-196.J(1), 70-196.J(2), 70-203.G, 70-219.E(5) to convert a restaurant to a convenience store with an existing insufficient landscaped buffer, installation of signage exceeding the permitted area and within a required front yard; NW​/​cor.​/​of #875 Willis Ave. & Bagley Ave., Albertson, Sec. 9, Blk. 70, Lot 1360, B-A District.

APPEAL #12149.A ​​ Hillside Medical Center Condominium, for relief from a condition imposed under Appeal No. 12149 requiring a security guard to be present at all times; N/side 270-01 Hillside Ave., 108.92’ W/of New Hyde Park Rd., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 212, Lot 402,602 & 702, B-A & P Districts.

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 143189 1x 3/25/​2 016 #143189

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LIU Pioneers improve to .500 for season B y M i c hael O te r o The LIU Post baseball team has improved its record for the season to .500, at 8-8 this past week.

Pitching was dominant for the team on Thursday, March 17, with seven strong innings from junior Dan Jagiello. In addition to the length Jagiello provided, he also allowed just one run on five hits and punched out nine members of Bloomfield College.

The offense took care of business as well, pushing across six runs en route to a 6-1 victory.

The scoring began for the Pioneers in the first inning, when senior first baseman David Groeneveld drove in a run via a sacrifice fly. After another Pioneer run, sophomore outfielder Rob Andreoli drove in a pair on a base knock, which gave the Pioneers a 4-0 lead.

After a Bloomfield run trimmed the lead to 4-1, the Pioneers responded with two more runs to put the game out of reach. Sophomore shortstop Joe Spitaleri and sophomore designated hitter James Cohan both had three-hit performances.

The Pioneers returned to the diamond on Friday, March 18, when they faced off against the University of New Haven in a non-conference game in Conn. After surrendering a five run lead and giving up seven unanswered runs, the Pioneers rallied for three runs in the ninth and 10th innings to win 8-7 in thrilling fashion.

The Pioneers got out of the gate strong and delivered the first punch; scoring three runs in the first inning. Junior catcher Thomas Asbaty and Groeneveld each had run scoring singles and in the third inning, Groeneveld hit his second home run of the young season, making it a 4-0 Pioneer lead.

New Haven finally broke into the run column in the sixth inning and pushed

two runs across. Their bats stayed hot in the seventh inning too, adding four more runs and subsequently giving New Haven a 6-5 lead. New Haven added another run in the eighth inning, giving them a 7-5 advantage.

In the top half of the ninth inning, the Pioneers were staring at a two run hole.

After a one out base hit by Spitaleri, Asbaty kept the pressure on with a double, putting the tying run in scoring position.

Following a fly out, head coach Mike Gaffney looked to his bench in the most crucial spot in the game. Pinch-hitter Cohan, fresh off the bench, came through

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in the biggest way; belting a ball to deep day, March 20, double-header against Le center and tying the game with a two-out Moyne College was cancelled and has not two-run triple. yet been re-scheduled.

In extra innings, the Pioneers won the The LIU Post baseball team is back in game with some fundamental baseball. action on Thursday, March 24, when they Freshman third baseman Jimmy Mendyk host Molloy College in the first of a four reached on a two-out hit and stole second game set over a five day span. First pitch base a few pitches later. Then, with two from the LIU Post baseball field is set for strikes on him, Andreoli plated Mendyk 3:30 p.m with the game winning single. .

Freshman reliever James Varela, who This article was originally published earned his second win of the season, went in the Pioneer, the award-winning student 3.1 innings and struck out four. newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.

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Must present coupon at time of order. (Min. purchase $25) Not to be combined with any other offer.

178 Middle Neck. Rd., Great Neck. NY 516-304-5055 We deliver

www.mumbaigrillny.com