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Park district prepares for East Side Access Board seeks commuter parking lot solutions B y J oe N ikic Great Neck Park District officials said Tuesday the district was looking for ways to improve its commuter parking lots in preparation for the completion of the Long Island Rail Road’s East Side Access Project.

Park District Commissioner Robert Lincoln said Metropolitan Transit Authority officials said the East Side Access Project, which will bring the LIRR straight into Grand Central Station, would increase ridership by 20 percent at the

Great Neck train station upon its completion.

“We’re trying to get some discussion going within the community not simply about commuter parking but about how we can get people to and from the trains,” Lincoln said.

“We should all be thinking now about what we will need in the next few years.”

The district’s Board of Commissioners set a special meeting for April 19 at 8 p.m. at the Great Neck House to discuss methods the district could use to ensure LIRR riders will be able to conveniently access

the train station.

Currently, the district operates three commuter parking lots near the train station, totalling 354 spaces.

To park in those spaces, residents can obtain a daily pass for $4, a monthly pass for $68 and a yearly pass for $748.

Lincoln said the district completed its own parking analysis report, without a consultant, and found the current Great Neck train station serves about 3,000 riders per week, with that number increasing Continued on Page 63

County police force to fight quality-of-life issues COPE officers to supplement POP cops across county Photo by Mallory Weber

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B y N oah M anskar work of 16 problem-oriented nity loves it, the elected leadNassau County’s most popular cops are getting some help.

The Nassau County Police Department has established a Community-Oriented Police Enforcement, or COPE, program to tackle quality-of-life crimes and supplement the

police, or POP, officers.

The department has plans to expand both programs and add at least eight officers between them, Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said in an interview last week.

“It pays huge dividends,” Krumpter said. “The commu-

ers love it and the executives in this police department love it.”

Six officers and a supervisor were assigned to the program about a month ago, said Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun, commanding officer of the Public information Office.

The force is based at the Continued on Page 63

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Temple Isaiah Rabbi Hi-tech biz offices doors in G.N. Tsuruoka dies at 69 open LaunchPad helps entrepreneurs Remembered by congregation as ‘spiritual man’ B y J oe N ikic Rabbi Theodore Tsuruoka of Temple Isaiah of Great Neck died Sunday. He was 69.

Temple Isaiah Co-President Helman Brook said Tsuruoka’s death was a “difficult day for everybody at the congregation.”

“He was truly a spiritual man who reflected his spirituality in everything that he did; in his sermons, in his teachings, in his counseling,” Brook said. “He was greatly respected by everyone that he met.”

While he was known as a “traditional rabbi,” Brook said, Tsuruoka was raised in a Methodist household to Japanese parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Tsuruoka told the Jewish Daily Forward in 2013 that he was 16 years old when he first went to the Jewish Theological Seminar in Manhattan to speak with a rabbi about his feelings for God. “The questions I was asking the minster weren’t terribly satisfying, and just not connecting me with my feelings towards God,” he said. “I felt more comfortable at the Jewish Theological Seminary, primarily because the connection with God was more direct.”

By age 22, Tsuruoka had converted to Judaism.

After graduating from City College with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and a bachelor of science degree in math, he went on to receive his masters degree in math at Georgetown University.

He served as chief financial officer for Planned Parenthood

Rabbi Theodore Tsuruoka Federation of America until 1979 when he began working for his family’s picture framing business.

Tsuruoka came to the temple in 2000 when the congregation was searching for a new “spiritual leader.”

Lloyd Perell said he remembers when Tsuruoka arrived for his first interview at the temple and its members did not realize he was the candidate they were waiting for.

“At that time, Temple Isaiah was renting space in local church that had an Asian con-

gregation,” said Perell, who chaired Temple Isaiah’s search committee at the time. “It was not unusual for us to see Asians around the building. We didn’t give it a second thought when we saw him.”

Although Tsuruoka was still completing his rabbinic studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion at the time of his interview, Perell said ,the congregation knew he was the best candidate to head the temple.

“He told us the story of his spiritual journey to Judaism as Continued on Page 78

CORRECTION: In the March 18, 2016 Guide to Great Neck, incorrect information was inadvertently published in regard to two religious institutions. Temple Isaiah is located at 1 Chelsea Place, Great Neck, N. Y. 11021 and its phone number is (516) 487-5373. Temple Israel is located at 108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023 and its phone number is (516) 482-7800. We regret the errors.

B y J oe N ikic Start-up companies and hitech businesses looking to launch on Long Island can find a home in the Village of Great Neck Plaza.

LaunchPad, a co-working space with more than 30 offices that aims to provide services for early-stage companies, held a ribbon cutting at its new 3 Grace Ave. location.

“It’s really a resource or platform so whether you need a lawyer, a marketer, an accountant, you come to LaunchPad,” LaunchPad owner Andrew Hazen said. “And any of those things you need, we help you get to the next level.”

Hazen said LaunchPad Great Neck’s opening was the company’s fifth location on Long Island in the last three years, with other locations in Mineola, Old Westbury, Stony Brook and Huntington.

The 10,000-square-foot space, he said, offers young entrepreneurs 24/7 access to their offices, wi-fi and other professional support services.

“Our mission is to help entrepreneurs and start-ups build a viable product, launch fast and prepare for growth,” Hazen said.

He also said last year the company was designated by New York State as an “Innovation Hot Spot.”

“It means that any company or business, of five years or less,

that is a resident or affiliated with LaunchPad, they qualify for five years of no state income tax and other benefits,” Hazen said.

Three companies affiliated with LaunchPad had been granted those benefits, he said.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, who attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony, praised LaunchPad’s efforts in growing business in the county.

“We’re thrilled to have a third LaunchPad in Nassau County,” Mangano said. “These facilities are creating jobs and opportunities.”

He added that company’s like LaunchPad contributed to the county’s unemployment dropping to the lowest in the state at 4.2 percent.

Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender, who was also at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, said she was approached in the spring of 2014 by the Town of North Hempstead’s Business and Tourism Development Corporation Executive Director Kim Kaiman, who was looking for a vacant space for a new Launchpad location.

After seeing the operation at its Mineola location, Celender said, she went searching for vacant spaces in the village and found the Grace Avenue building’s owner, Effie Namdar.

“He’s community-oriented and he wanted to do something Continued on Page 58

LaunchPad owner Andrew Hazen cutting the ribbon with local elected officials

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Edelson nets Israel Lacrosse selection

Former G.N. South High student to represent Israel at international lacrosse championships B y J oe N ikic Great Neck South High School alumni Hayden Edelson has represented Israel in international lacrosse games before.

But after being selected for Israel Lacrosse’s U-19 national team for this summer’s Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships, Edelson said, things are different this time.

“I’ve never really gotten to wear Israel’s colors on a full international stage because it has never been a real comprehensive tournament like this one,” he said. “I think what I’m most excited for is being able to see how Israel really fares up to the rest of the world when it comes to lacrosse development and the level of play the rest of the world has.”

Edelson, who was born and raised in Great Neck, played varsity lacrosse at Great Neck South High School for three years, serving as team captain during his senior year.

He said he was first noticed

by Israel lacrosse scouts in 2013, when he was playing in the Mac-

Hayden Edelson cabi Games in Memphis, Tenn.

He received an email shortly after the tournament ended from Israel Lacrosse, he said, asking if he was interested in going to Israel for a developmental trip.

Edelson said he and some other American lacrosse players were flown out to Poland and then Israel to play in exhibition games against the Poland and Latvia men’s lacrosse teams.

As well as playing lacrosse, he said, players were required to coach younger Israeli lacrosse players to help grow the sport.

Israel Lacrosse, which was founded in 2011, is a non-profit organization “dedicated to establishing the sport of lacrosse in Israel as a gateway to providing meaningful charitable work in Israel’s under-served regions,” according to a press release.

Edelson said aside from getting to play lacrosse, he enjoyed the charity work and teaching young athletes the sport.

“Lacrosse has done so much for me. It has taught me leadership and teamwork, it has given me self-confidence, it has honed my analytical skills,” he said. “I consider it my responsibility to pay it forward, so I continue to play and try to give back in any way I can to a country and a people I love as my own.”

After his first trip with Israel Lacrosse at the beginning of 2014, Edelson said, he was invited for a second time in December 2014 to represent Israel in lacrosse games and continue coaching children the sport.

His continued involvement with the program led him to play this past summer in the Israeli Premier Lacrosse League’s inaugural season.

Edelson said while Israel Lacrosse held tryouts for the FIL World Championships U-19 team, he did not need to tryout.

“Because they were so familiar with me and my playing, they didn’t make me tryout,” he said.

Israel U-19 Lacrosse team

coach Michael Horowitz said he was excited about Edelson’s involvement with the team.

“Hayden is an exceptional player and an inspiring teammate,” Horowitz said. “We are happy to have him join our team.”

While he is only playing for the U-19 team, or a team made up of players aged 19 and younger, Edelson said he hoped to make the men’s professional team in the future.

“That’s the eventual goal assuming the next 10 years of my life are good and I stay an active lacrosse player and I’m healthy,” he said. “I’d like to play on the men’s team.”

Edelson also said he was proud of lacrosse’s growth in Israel and hoped he could continue improving the sport’s popularity.

“Lacrosse has really only been a sport in Israel for about four years and they’re ranked seventh in men’s lacrosse and this is the first time competing in a U-19 national tournament,” he said. “Lacrosse’s growth in Israel has been so explosive and exponential.”

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Northwell seeks medical breakthrough B y J oe N ikic

Northwell Health announced Monday it was seeking the public’s help in selecting one of three medical innovations developed by the health-care system’s employees to receive $100,000 in funding.

Northwell Ventures, a division of the health-care system that develops and finances medical breakthrough ideas, picked three ideas for the contest: a new form of hospital patient identification wristbands, a new way to reduce surgical bleeding and a way to print living cells and tissues using three-dimensional printers.

“All organizations have smart people with a lot of great ideas.

Where we distinguish ourselves is providing employees with an avenue to bring their ideas to life through Northwell Ventures,” Northwell Health President and Chief Executive Officer Michael J. Dowling said in a statement.

“We identify and celebrate pioneering, out-of-the box thinkers who are passionate about advancing medicine and changing lives, and have potential solutions to make that happen.”

Todd Goldstein, a Feinstein Institute researcher, demonstrating 3-D printing technology The contest, which began Monday, carries on until April 18, in which members of the public can go to http://www. northwell.edu/vote to choose which idea they think should receive funding.

“We’re thrilled to be engaging the public in helping us decide which of these worthy innovations will receive our funding and support,” Dowling said.

The first innovation was created by Dr. Peter Costantino, ex-

ecutive director and senior vice president of Northwell Health’s Head & Neck Surgery Service Line.

It aims to remove patient identification wristbands in hospitals and replace them with a “patient identification shield.”

“This surprisingly simple, patent-pending method of temporarily and comfortably securing a patient identification label allows medical information to be extracted directly from an

electronic health record directly to the surface of the skin,” a Northwell Health release said of the idea. “It is comfortable, nontransferable, durable and easily removed.”

The second idea was developed by researchers from Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and aims to reduce blood loss during surgery.

“This device stimulates the vagus nerve through the skin and reduces both the amount of blood lost and the time a wound bleeds in half,” the release said.

“The device works so rapidly that it may one day be used for those suffering traumatic injuries, either patients in a hospital, military personnel on the battlefield or civilian first responders.”

The final innovation, which was also developed by researchers from the Feinstein Institute, utilizes three-dimensional printing to create bodily organs.

“Northwell researchers are already working with clinicians across the health system using 3-D bioprinting to develop alternatives to many traditional medical treatments, including researching ways to create three-

dimensional living tissue made of bone or cartilage,” the release said. “Bioprinting’s potential is almost limitless and has the potential to replace many different parts of the human body.”

As part of its marketing effort to rebrand the company and separate it from its former name, North Shore-LIJ, and in conjunction with the medical breakthrough contest, Northwell Health has run television ads during this month’s National Collegiate Athletic Association March Madness basketball tournament promoting the contest.

Ramon Soto, Northwell Health’s senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer, said the health-care system wanted to work more with its surrounding community.

“As the largest healthcare provider in New York State, we are pursuing new and different ways of telling our story of innovation,” Soto said. “This is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage with members of our community, empower them to help decide the next medical breakthrough we pursue and bring that vision to life.”

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No blame for no disclosure: Kaiman Ex town supervisor sez legal standing of town law was unclear, never enforced before B y N oah M anskar

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“There was a code that said he was. unenforceable.

Gerard Terry, the former chairman of There was a determination that said he the North Hempstead Democratic Commit- wasn’t,” said Kaiman, a Democrat running tee who was revealed in January to have to replace U.S. Rep. Steve Israel in the North amassed $1.4 million in state and federal Shore’s Third Congressional District. “There

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The ethics board is currently investigating Terry’s wife Concetta, a deputy town clerk, because she did not list Gerard’s tax debts on financial disclosure forms dating back to 2006.

A state law required municipalities to adopt an ethics code by January 1, 1991.

Another statute in New York’s General Municipal Law names several specific officials who should file financial disclosure statements, but leaders of town political committees are not among them.

“This is not required anywhere except for certain pockets of communities that have decided they wanted to add it to their legislation, so there’s no state law,” said Kaiman, who was a Nassau County District Court judge for three years before becoming town supervisor. “This is strictly a local ordinance.”

Countywide political committee leaders are required to file financial disclosures with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Brookhaven Town Republican Committee Thomas Neppell sued the Suffolk County Ethics Commission in 2001 after it tried to force him to file the form, arguing the county did not have the authority to require town leaders to make the filings in its administrative code.

The Second Department of the Appellate Division disagreed, ruling in 2003 that the general municipal law did not intend to “occupy the field of financial disclosure to the exclusion of local law.”

“Ultimately there is some legal precedent now that suggests a town does have a power to do that,” Kaiman said.

North Hempstead recently broadened the field of people required to make financial disclosures, adding contractors, family members of town employees and other additional officials.

Gerard Terry had an annual contract worth almost $74,000 as the attorney for Photo by Noah Manskar the town’s zoning board and as special counsel to the town attorney’s office.

Jon Kaiman in Blank Slate Media’s The contract expired at the end of 2015 office last week. and was not renewed this year.

was a practice that never, kind of, materialized.”

Before his administration began in 2004, the ethics board ruled that the requirement adopted as part of the town’s Code of Ethics in 1990 — the only such rule among Nassau County’s three townships — was “not enforceable,” he said.

“When I came to be town supervisor there was no culture of doing it, so I was not aware of it,” Kaiman said. “It was just simply not there.”

Current Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, who succeeded Kaiman in 2013, directed Town Attorney Elizabeth Botwin to enforce the rule last month in the wake of a Newsday report on the tax debt Terry accumulated while holding six government jobs that earned him more than $200,000 a year.

Terry served as chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee from 2007 until February, when he stepped down the same day Bosworth called for his resignation.

In response to questions about past ethics board rulings on the rule for party leaders, town spokeswoman Carole Trottere said: “The supervisor has directed the town attorney to enforce this provision of our ethics code.”

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Kaplan blasts Trump for AIPAC talk Calls him disrespectful toward Obama, not credible in claims of support for Israel

B y N oah M anskar Steve Stern isn’t the only North Shore congressional candidate worried about Donald Trump.

In an op-ed this week, North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) said the Republican presidential frontrunner’s speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Monday left her feeling “almost sick to my stomach.”

While she agreed with some of Trump’s pro-Israel points, Kaplan wrote, she wasn’t buying them, given his previous “offensive” remarks about Jewish people and how “disrespectful” his speech was to President Barack Obama.

“It was like watching a hypnotist perform a trick. Or the reality TV star pander for ratings he is,” wrote the Great Neck councilwoman, one of several North Hempstead officials to write a letter to federal lawmakers opposing the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran.

Kaplan joins Stern among the Democratic candidates for Rep.

North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan (DGreat Neck) Steve Israel’s North Shore congressional seat who have criticized Trump.

Stern’s campaign has issued two news releases asking whether state Sen. Jack Martins of Old

Westbury, the Republican candidate for the Third District, would join the Republican officials who have denounced the New York real estate mogul.

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In a phone interview last week, Martins campaign strategist E. O’Brien Murray declined to say whether Martins would support Trump were he the Republican nominee, referring to the answer he gave when first asked about Trump three weeks ago.

“When the Democrats finish their bloodbath of a primary and are crawling across the finish line, we’ll be happy to address the attacks from any one of them,” he said in a March 9 interview.

David Gurfein, a Manhasset Republican who recently moved the focus of his campaign from the Third to the Fourth Congressional District, said he will support any GOP nominee, including Trump.

Republican voters can’t control who gets on November’s ballot, the retired U.S. Marine said, and will have to support “the lesser of two evils.”

“I’m not necessarily saying that Donald Trump would be the

lesser of two evils, but I am saying when you compare the Republican nominee and what the Republican Party will bring to the table versus what the Democratic Party has done over the past eight years ... you have to realize that it’s time for a change,” said Gurfein, who’s opposing incumbent Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City).

Neither Gurfein nor Martins have decided who to support in the Republican primary.

Stern also attended the AIPAC conference, as did Democratic congressional hopefuls Jon Kaiman, former North Hempstead supervisor, and former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.

The Dix Hills legislator said Trump’s AIPAC speech left him “more repulsed ... than ever.”

“My support for Israel comes from my heart, from ducking for cover as rockets flew over my head in S’derot, and from my deeply personal belief in the bond between our countries,” Stern said in a statement. “True supporters of Israel know a wolf in sheep’s clothing when they see one, and Donald Trump is just that.”

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Opponents of a video casino planned for Belmont Park on Saturday called on state lawmakers to prohibit video lottery terminals anywhere on Long Island.

About 100 community leaders, elected officials and residents of Floral Park, Elmont and other areas bordering the Elmont racetrack pressed Long Island’s 21 state legislators to support identical bills in the Assembly and Senate repealing the 2013 authorization for one video lottery terminal, or VLT, parlor in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

“We’re here to join with you to send one message to Albany loud and clear — the people of Nassau County don’t want this casino, not now, not ever,” said state Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat running to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos.

Opponents said the state should not allow Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. to impose casinos on residents when every community in which it’s tried to place one has refused it.

They also will try to remove lawmakers who do not support the repeal from office, they said, chanting, “We voted you in, we will vote you out.”

“We need effective leadership, not a

bunch of paid political people,” said Neil Doherty, a 25-year Floral Park resident.

“You will not have your casino in our town. You will not violate our dignity, you will not build a casino on the backs of people with gambling illnesses.”

An OTB spokesman said the agency had no comment on the rally or the state bills.

Kaminsky this week became a cosponsor of the Assembly repeal bill, and said he would support it in the Senate if he defeats Republican Christopher McGrath in the April 19 special election.

State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages (D-Elmont), who attended the rally, and state Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick (D-St. James) also sponsor the bill.

“It’s not something I just jumped into lightly,” Kaminsky said.

In a statement, Republican Chris McGrath, Kaminsky’s opponent in the Senate race, said Kaminsky’s appearance at the rally shows he chose “political posturing over working to achieve a bipartisan solution to the most critical issues facing our community.”

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NCC pick for prez Grant renewed for biz withdraws candidacy beautification program B y J oe N ikic The Nassau Community College board’s choice for president of the college has withdrawn from consideration, once again leaving the college’s decision up in the air.

A State University of New York spokeswoman said Friday that Nassau Community College officials needed to present the SUNY Board of Trustees with a new presidential selection.

SUNY spokeswoman Holly Liapis said details surrounding the candidate’s withdrawal would remain “confidential” as would the position of SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and the SUNY board, which must approve any selection made by the Nassau Community College board.

“It’s one of those situations where it’s like any new hire,” Liapis said. “It’s a process and it’s very confidential.”

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

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

Liapis said the SUNY board was prepared to announce its decision at the March 23 board meeting.

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

Nassau Community College sources told Newsday the college’s board had selected Saunders as its choice to head the school.

Saunders declined to comment on whether he was the selection or if he had withdrawn his name from the pool of candidates.

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

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

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

Gardyn told Newsday the board would deliberate a new choice at its next meeting on April 12.

B y N oah M anskar The Town of North Hempstead is renewing a grant program aimed at boosting business by beautifying downtown areas.

For a second year, the town will offer up to $60,000 in matching grants for the Downtown Beautification Program through its Business & Tourism Development Corporation in a effort to restore “the economic vitality of our downtowns and Main Streets,” Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a statement.

“What a lot of people look for in a local downtown that has shown a success rate is something that is attractive and appealing Judi Bosworth to the consumer, something that is identifiable and unique that separates them from another downtown district,” said Kim Kaiman, executive director of the town’s Business & Tourism Development Corporation.

Following its launch last year, the Downtown Beautification Program will again offer up to $10,000 in matching

grants to non-profit organizations and business improvement districts in each of the town’s six council districts.

The grants pay for signage, landscaping, street furniture, trash receptacles and other improvements in retail or mixed-use corridors. ”It really was to make our downtowns a little bit more attractive and appealing for people in the shopping districts,” Kaiman said.

The program has seen success in its first year, Kaiman said, and has awarded $34,465 to six projects in four council districts.

Those projects will lead to more than $93,000 worth of beautification work in Westbury, Port Washington, Great Neck Plaza, Manhasset and New Hyde Park, according to information Kaiman provided.

Local organizations were “beyond thrilled” when they learned they had won the grants and quickly asked if the town would award them again.

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The head of Planned Parenthood in Nassau County on Monday slammed federal lawmakers who are seeking to prevent the organization from receiving federal funding.

JoAnn Smith, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, said at a National Council of Jewish Women-Lakeville Section meeting that defunding Planned Parenthood means women will not have access to critical health care services other than abortions.

“It’s not about eliminating funding

for abortions because, guess what, there is no federal funding for abortions,” Smith said. “The services that are being taken away are not the abortion services because, quite frankly, most people pay for their abortions.”

The services, she said, include Papanicolaou, or pap, tests, cancer screenings, birth control and sexually transmitted infection tests.

Smith said while there was already criticism of Planned Parenthood’s services across the country, a video that surfaced on the Internet in July allegedly showing Planned Parenthood employees selling organs of aborted babies increased the

opposition.

David R. Daleiden and Sandra S. Merritt, leaders of an anti-abortion group called the “Center for Medical Progress,” were indicted in January on a charge of tampering with a governmental record, after they falsified California driver’s licenses to present themselves as biotechnology representatives during the secretly videotaped meeting with Planned Parenthood officials in Houston.

Smith said Daleiden and Merritt were trying to claim that Planned Parenthood was profiting from fetal tissue research.

“This group organized themselves and was working for several years to go

underground to make totally fraudulent videos reporting that Planned Parenthood was doing something illegally,” she said. “They have since been debunked 100 percent. There is absolutely nothing accurate in them.”

Smith said Planned Parenthood officials and the organization’s supporters were “screaming and shouting because it was justice” after the indictment.

“This was a hoax,” she said. “This was a fraud with one goal: to defund Planned Parenthood.”

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From radiation lab to Westminster Dog Show B y A dedamola A gboola Arlene Butterklee won her first dog championship in 1992.

Twenty-four years later, she has racked up an impressive 200-plus dog championship wins all around the country.

Butterklee, who she spends her weekdays at Northwell’s Center for Advanced Medicine in Manhasset as a radiation therapist, said she and her dogs have travelled all over the world from the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland to France.

She has shown her dogs in the West-

minster Dog Show at Madison Garden every year since 1991 and has won eight straight category events — a feat that has never been accomplished before — as well as the Eukanuba Championships in Florida.

Butterklee has accomplished this while waking up at 4 a.m. every weekday to travel from her Ronkonkoma home to her radiation machine in Manhasset by 6 a.m.

“We do radiation treatment in order to make people feel better,” Butterklee said.

“It’s a stressful job but I love it.”

Butterklee, who has worked at North-

well for 18 year, said the radiation machine she operates has to be tailored to different patients because of detailed treatments of patients.

“There’s a lot that goes into cancer treatment,” Butterklee said.

The cancer patients at Northwell, she said, can get the radiation therapy, surgical procedure, get a MRI done at the same place.

“They basically come to one place to get every cancer treatment,” Butterklee said. “Going through cancer is tasking for everybody even on the family of the patient. We offer a lot of emotional support

to the patient and their families.”

Outside of work, Butterklee shows two of her favorite breeds — the Chinese crested dogs, which are very hairy, and the Lowchen or little lion dog, which are rare and fluffy in the front.

“My life is dedicated to them,” Butterklee said. “You start when they are little and you train them till they’re grown.”

Butterklee said she has been breeding and showing dogs since the 1980s and has established a bloodline of the dogs she breeds.

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Book of Esther and Donald Trump Book of Esther (and Grimms’ Fairytales) Hold Lessons for Understanding Donald Trump I read the English version of the Purim Story - the Book of Queen Esther - during this year’s Megillah reading at Temple Beth-El. It’s offered as a morality play about anti-Semitism , and because it is one of only a few instances of Jews triumphing over evil-doers who would annihilate them, it is presented in a festive, carnival-like atmosphere, with children wearing costumes.

But when I read the story through I was horrified. It reads more like Grimms’ Fairytale, than a morality play. What is more, with just a few name-changes, it could very well describe current events.

So on one level, the story is offered as an early instance of feminism – Queen Esther being one of the few women heroes.

Except that she didn’t exactly stand up to King Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes I) of Persia (today’s Iran). She basically took advantage of the King’s infatuation with her.

If anything, the unacknowledged heroine in the piece was Vashti, who is presented as the granddaughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II (634-562 BCE), the most heralded king of ancient Babylonia (today’s Iraq).

Vashti refused to obey the king’s command to appear at his debauchery wearing nothing but her crown. She didn’t just lose her crown, her estate, but her life for standing up to such humiliation.

And the reason given for Vashti’s decapitation was that if she got away with it, wives throughout the kingdom would be emboldened not to obey their husbands. “Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.”

On the other hand, her demise

was a lesson to all, published throughout the king’s 127 provinces and in every language, “that every man should bear rule in his own house.”

Queen Esther – whose Jewish name was Hadassah – was picked out by the king for a replacement trophy wife after a beauty pageant, evoking images of the Miss America pageant.

Which brings me to Donald Trump.

Because if the story of Queen Esther resonates in modern day (anti-semitism, genocide, feminism), it is how much Donald Trump evokes King Ahasuerus, who so cavalierly issues a death decree for a perceived slight, not to mention his objectifying women, while his naïvete and ignorance are perceived as strengths to his followers who view expertise and experience as :elitism” (that is to say, a bad thing).

King Ashasuerus comes off in the Book of Esther as a complete boob, probably deranged narcissist but all-powerful tyrant, who authorizes Haman, his Grand Vizier, to issue a decree to exterminate all the Jews, paying a bounty for their kills (like terrorists today).

Haman’s argument is that the Jews are “others” who do not pay proper homage or follow the laws of the King.

“There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.”

Haman says to Ahasuerus, “If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the

charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

“And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

“And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.”

Now Mordecai, who is Esther’s cousin and guardian, contrary to being a subversive “other” as Haman would describe him, actually saves the King’s life when he overhears a plot to assassinate Ashasuerus. And in true fairy-tale style, Haman is

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Pulse of the Peninsula unwittingly, ironically, undone, when it is he, Haman, who is hung from the gallows instead of Mordecai. Mordecai instead becomes Ashauerus’ Grand Vizier.

But the story, in true Grimms’ fairytale style, goes on to say that the King does not actually rescind the edict against murdering all the Jews but, rather, passes a new edict that allows the Jews to fight back.

“Anything you want,” he basically says to Esther. “Now

what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.”

And what follows is a tally that goes like this: the Jews in Shushan slew 500 men in Shushan palace and the 10 sons of Haman who are hanged on the gallows. But the other Jews of the King’s provinces “stood for their lives” and slew 5070 of their foes, and they “made it a day of feasting and gladness.”

Which brings me back to Donald Trump.

Besides the allusions to the objectifying and demeaning of women, another eerie parallel to King Ahasuerus is Trump’s disdain of “the others” in our society and his autocratic, narcissistic, petty, arbitrary, woefully ignorant and naïve approach to foreign policy – everything from his embrace of torture to the use of nuclear weapons, to unilaterally tearing up trade and arms treaties, to what would likely be the Trump Doctrine, as the New York Times framed it in a headline, March 26: “America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays” (http://www.nytimes. com/2016/03/27/us/politics/ donald-trump-foreign-policy. html) His interview with the New York Times on foreign policy is breathtaking and horrifying – especially to every foreign leader.

As Roger Cohen’s stated in a New York Times op-ed, “Trump’s New World Disorder, “Donald Trump would rip up the post1945 world order, trash an ‘obsolete’ NATO, lean toward a Japan with nukes rather than the “onesided agreement” that leaves the United States responsible for Japanese defense, tell Saudi Arabia that it “wouldn’t be around for very long” without American protection, and generally make

clear that “we cannot be the policeman of the world.”

Add to that he would rip up the Iran nuclear deal (can’t understand why Iran wasn’t compelled to buy US airplanes, not realizing that US still has sanctions in place), overturn the Paris Climate Agreement, use nuclear weapons against ISIS, expand the use of torture, rip up every trade agreement (also not understanding how trade functions (see NYTimes, March 28, “The Trade Deficit Isn’t a Scorecard, and Cutting It Won’t Make America Great Again”). That’s just on Day One of the Imperial Majesty of Trump (don’t get me started on how he would shut out journalists, prosecute, a la Nixon, an “enemies list”) and very possibly make foreign deals around what would add to the profit of the Trump Empire.

Trump’s hyperbolic statements, boil down to, “I’m not isolationist, but I am ‘America First.’ So I like the expression...

We have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher. We were the big bully, but we were not smartly led... The big stupid bully, and we were systematically ripped off by everybody.

From China to Japan to South Korea to the Middle East... protecting Saudi Arabia and not being properly reimbursed... I mean they were making a billion dollars a day before the oil went down... The whole thing is preposterous... We will not be ripped off anymore, we’re going to be friendly with everybody, but we’re not going to be taken advantage of by anybody.”

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GOP lacks credibility on contract oversight

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n response to calls for an independent inspector general to review all county contracts, the Legislature’s presiding officer, Norma Gonsalves, (R-East Meadow) said the county’s contract process is already “the most transparent in the state.”

We don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Yes, the county Legislature did vote last week to lower the threshold for approval of contracts by the Legislature’s Rule Committee from $25,000 to $1,000 — after Newsday discovered that hundreds of contracts just under the $25,000 limit had been approved with no supervision from the Legislature.

And yes the Legislature did make some changes after then Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas launched an investigation

that discovered “troubling problems” in the county contracting process, including no requirements for vendors to disclose subsidiary companies, criminal convictions, political contributions or whether a vendor is barred from government contracts in other places.

But that is not nearly enough.

Singas’ investigation followed the indictments of former state Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) on federal corruption charges, including influencing the awarding of a Nassau County contract to a firm that hired his son, Adam. Both were later convicted of the charges and are appealing.

We recently agreed with Singas that Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s decision to hire a compliance chief to im-

prove accountability was “woefully inadequate” since the office lacks independence.

Our opposition has only grown stronger with the county’s first choice for the $120,000 a year job, Joseph LaRussa. He backed out of the job after questions were raised about an as-ofyet undisclosed inconsistency on his resume.

Oversight is currently in the hands of Carnell Foskey, who now holds the title of county attorney and commissioner of investigations.

Republican legislators say this makes the need for an inspector general moot. We say you got to be kidding.

Singas called Foskey’s two roles “fundamentally incompatible.”

Perhaps the legislators are

also forgetting that another Mangano appointee, Chief of Staff Rob Walker, is under federal investigation for a contract Walker finalized on the day the firm donated to Walker’s political club.

Singas, county Democrats and an independent panel Mangano appointed in the wake of Skelos’ indictment have all called for an independent auditor.

Democrats pledged two weeks ago to block $275 million in borrowing for capital projects until an inspector general’s office is created with the leader nominated by an independent panel and appointed by a supermajority of the Legislature.

We acknowledge that holding up approval on the capital project is a somewhat extreme tactic.

As Deputy Presiding Officer

Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said: “You’re using your power over borrowing to stop us from paving roads, fixing bridges, getting vests for police officers.”

On the other hand, perhaps that is not such a bad thing.

Both the Mangano administration and the Republican-led Legislature have lost credibility after failing repeatedly to exercise proper oversight over county contracts.

Perhaps not so surprisingly, many of those contracts just so happened to go to Republican contributors.

So why not establish an independent office?

The Republicans say this would only duplicate what the county is already doing.

At this point, we might ask, why is that a bad thing?

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Trump, Cruz responses betray American values

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eorge Orwell’s classic, conveyed in these lines describdystopian novella “Ani- ing a meeting between the pigs mal Farm” parallels the and neighboring farmers.

“No question now, what had Russian Revolution of happened to the faces of the pigs.

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It is an allegorical tale about The [animals] outside looked Farmer Jones who mistreats his from pig to man and from man animals and is overthrown. A to pig…but already it was imposnew egalitarian society is estab- sible to say which was which.”

The significance of these lished, but it soon becomes evident that the pigs are assuming lines cannot be overstated.

Orwell has written a cauleadership.

They have gone so far as to tionary tale whose message is reduce the Seven Command- clear….understand what differments down to one: “All animals entiates you from your enemies are equal, but some are more and do not adopt his tactics, methods or strategies. equal than others.”

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which differentiate us from those we oppose: we are a government of laws, not men; we reject the idea that the ends justify the means; in times of war, we subscribe to the Geneva Convention and we don’t torture our prisoners.

Why is it important that we adhere to these precepts? Because they are the essence of our democracy.

It may be emotionally satisfying to deny a criminal his right to a speedy trial, or the privilege against self-incrimination, but then as Snoopy said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Clint Eastwood reveals his lack of understanding about democracy when in films like “Dirty Harry,” he disparages the A.C.L.U. and wants to shoot a criminal using the oft-quoted line “Make my day!”

During his 1988 presidential run, Michael Dukakis was asked a question by reporter Bernard Shaw about the candidate’s wife: “Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?”

Dukakis’ answer was that he had opposed the death penalty all his life and that studies

showed it did not serve as a deterrent. This was a logical and dispassionate answer, but it cost Dukakis the election.

It reveals how the human impulse is to seek vengeance rather than to make an intellectually nuanced response.

What does this discussion have to do with events in 2016?

The answer is “everything.”

The two front-runners in the Republican race for the nomination are Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Both fail to understand the danger in behaving like ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.)

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L.I. Gov: Corrupt and incompetent

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he convictions of Senator Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and ex-Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke were the initial rounds in the feds crusade to drain Long Island’s political cesspool.

In Suffolk, the county’s Conservative Party chairman, Edward Walsh, is presently on trial for allegedly collecting up to $200,000 by falsely stating he was performing his duties as a county jailhouse lieutenant while playing golf, handling political matters or gambling.

The feds are investigating Suffolk’s D.A. Tom Spota, for allegedly “thwarting” an investigation of Walsh’s activities. Don’t be surprised if the U.S. Attorney goes after Spota for obstruction of justice.

Another target is Spota’s chief deputy, Christopher McPartland for allegedly being part of the cover-up to shield James Burke.

As for Nassau County: During the Skelos trial we learned from the defense lawyer that County Executive Ed Mangano “asserted Fifth Amendment privilege, and the government is not

prepared to immunize him.”

Mangano’s first deputy, Rob Walker— who moved his office out of County Hall and may not be speaking to his boss — testified that he invoked his Fifth Amendment right, received immunity, and admitted that the feds are investigating him for allegedly awarding County contracts to vendors who gave campaign contributions.

In February, Nassau Comptroller George Maragos revealed that the U.S. attorney subpoenaed records for Friends of Nassau County Recreation, a private not-for-profit created in 1980 to benefit the parks department.

A county audit by Maragos in 2013 indicated that Friends bookkeeping was so bad the auditors could not determine if money is missing.

A recent IRS tax return revealed Friends raised $1.7 million and retained a bank balance of $361 thousand. And get this: there were no explanations for $947,0000 in expenses.

When Comptroller Maragos discovered this financial mess in 2013, why didn’t he report it to the D.A. or the state Attorney

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Was Maragos told to sit on the findings or was he afraid to blow the whistle, or is he just incompetent?

Then there’s the case against Nassau’s presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, Norma Gonsalves.

In December, state Board of Elections attorney Lisa Sugarman charged Gonsalves of eight instances of failing to file disclosure reports between 2006-2016.

She was also accused of not fil-

ing reports on time “on at least 24 occasions.” The Friends of Norma Gonsalves Committee not only failed to file a list of political donors, the Committee, Newsday reported “was a previously unregistered campaign committee [Gonsalves] controls.”

Although Gonsalves made “a good-faith effort to correct the violations” after they were disclosed to the public, the Board of Elections in February filed a lawsuit against her for “failing to file eight mandatory financial campaign disclosure reports between 2013 and 2015.”

I’m dumbfounded.

In this age of transparency, how can a senior elected official — who recently voted herself a big raise — forget to file donation reports?

There is no excuse for such behavior. But, in Nassau, pleading ignorance or forgetfulness is business as usual.

Nassau County Community College also appears to be in disarray.

After being resoundingly defeated in last years D.A. race, Kate Murray received a consolation prize in January — she was

named the college’s acting general counsel for $150 thousand a year even though she was not qualified for the post.

Trustee Anthony Cornachio, who never met Murray and didn’t know her first name, claimed she was a “dynamo” when placing her name in nomination.

During the board meeting, Cornachio and two other trustees, Edward Powers and John DeGrace, failed to disclose that they donated $9,200 collectively to Friends of Kate Murray between March 2007 and April 2015.

Murray was hired without being interviewed. How can that be?

Were the trustees told what to do? Are they incompetent? Or are they dopes?

This kind of behavior may help explain why the former acting college president, Kenneth Saunders, turned down a fulltime offer from the trustees last week.

I hope the D.A. is looking into this community college mess.

Stay tuned — there will be more to come on corruption and incompetence in my next column.

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Good for learning words if little else

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olitics used to be such a simple business. It was understood by most of the general public because politicians used simple words.

Insults aside, this year’s election is a wordsmith’s dream and a voter’s nightmare.

Even I, as a person who writes columns and books, find myself racing to Webster’s dictionary to see if I got the right spelling.

It all started in the early days of the presidential campaign.

By and large the candidates talked about their positions on a variety of issues and kept slurs, insults and barbs out of their speeches.

The very best insult that candidates Ron Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum could come up with was accusing the other guy of not being “conservative” enough.

As for the Democrats the confusion began when candidate Bernie Sanders declared himself a “democratic socialist.”

First of all Sanders is not a Democrat. He is an independent who just happens to caucus with the Democrats and not the Republicans.

According to Webster’s Dictionary “socialism is a system of society or group living in which there is no private property.”

In short, the government owns everything.

Bernie’s brand of socialism is breaking up the banks, free college tuition for all public college students, administered by the government and a few other goodies.

Most of Bernie Sanders student followers are really not up on world history. They love his presentation but if they did some research they might not be so enthusiastic.

Thanks to candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, we are now being treated to a whole new bunch of words, many of which require a fast trip to the Internet.

These head scratching experiences all started during a debate on Fox television when pan-

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el member Megan Kelly asked Mr. Trump about his past history of debasing women.

Trump pushed back at Kelly with all types of insults including mention that she was “bleeding from all places.”

Once Trump hurled all those invectives at Ms. Kelly, the media raced to Wikipedia and came up with the word “misogyny.”

According to that source,

“misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. It includes hostility, male supremacist, belittling of women and sexual objectification of women.”

Trump maintains that he “loves women” but if you listened to six years of interviews with Howard Stern you could conclude that misogyny is pretty close to the truth.

Thanks to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz their anti-immigrant, go it alone stand on foreign affairs, and insults to many foreign governments, stirred the media into using a new word to describe their conduct.

It’s called xenophobia.

Back in the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, anyone calling for a break in the relationship of America with our foreign partners was called an isolationist.

Somehow, xenophobia seems to fit their positions much better.

The dictionary tells us that it means “an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strang-

ers or that which is foreign or strange.”

In the case of both Trump and Cruz, xenophobia pretty much fits everything they talk about. Mexicans, Muslims, Syrians, immigrants from all countries, China and Japan are their targets.

Trump recently added the NATO alliance, primarily because he knows nothing about them.

As we listen to a daily litany of insults hurled by the two candidates, it is easy to understand why Jeb Bush didn’t catch on with the primary voters.

The best he could come up with was to call Donald Trump “a jerk.”

I am positive that I have left out some other word that currently describes the Republican presidential candidates and how they view the world around them.

But the good news is that it is only March and there are many months left to find new labels for a very pathetic bunch of people.

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A look on the li g hter si d e

New policy a prescription for disaster

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ere’s a prescription for anyone using prescription medication: Fasten your seat-belt, it’s going to be a bumpy year.

New York State has ordained that, starting March 27 (Easter Sunday!), there shall be no more paper-and-ink prescriptions, anywhere in the state.

Anything requiring a prescription must be transmitted electronically, instead.

This measure is supposedly intended to combat the abuse, by addicts, of opioid drugs.

Just how it’s going to accomplish that is beyond me. It seems to me that, now, every hacker from here to China will have free range over things that used to at least require a physical piece of paper, in an actual person’s hand.

But what do I know?

I have other, more urgent questions: Why so little notice? Why no change-over period? And why punish everyone for the sins of a few?

Whoever made this ruling could have limited it to so-called “controlled substances” — you

know: oxycodone; Valium; chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

But no, they’ve come out with a blanket “fatwah” covering anything stronger than Tylenol in the entire state of New York.

It is sure to go haywire; and when it does, I know who will be left holding the (empty) bag: you and me.

Let’s say you’re the mom of an infant with a fever. The pediatrician says it’s a serious ear infection, and you must start the baby on antibiotics immediately, if you want to keep their ear-drums from rupturing.

Once upon a time, you would race to the pharmacy, clutching your child and the magical piece of paper bearing the all-important prescription.

Even then, as often as not, you might be told, “Oh! We don’t have that in stock— it’s on the truck.

Won’t be back until tomorrow.”

But in the bad old days of paper-and-ink, you could walk out the door, script in hand, and down the street until you found a pharmacy that did, indeed, stock what you needed.

But now we’re all efficient and

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A Look on the Lighter Side modern. And when the pharmacy doesn’t have what you need, you must call the doctor; beg them to unsend the prescription to Pharmacy A, and send it instead to Pharmacy B. You will then be told, “Oh, the doctor cannot do that, they’re in with a patient. ” And no one else in the doctor’s office will do.

So you wait. And by the time the doctor can come to the phone, the pharmacist has gone home. So now, in this brave new world, New York State’s only advice for you is

to go home with a sick, screaming child, and no medication.

Somehow, this doesn’t feel like an improvement.

Now let’s add the insurance company — because, of course, nothing today happens without them.

I’m no opium addict, I’m just a middle-aged allergy sufferer. But nowadays, no matter what I need, I can’t have it. It’s not on the “formulary”; I must switch to something cheaper; and usually, it needs to be shipped, every 90 days, from somewhere beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

Sometimes, I’m switched to something I’ve never heard of. But other times, it’s something that, over years of experience with my trusted doctor, we finally figured out was making my nose bleed, or giving me a headache, or for some other reason just didn’t work.

Now, I am forced to switch because some corporate bean-counter has decided it’s two tenths of a penny cheaper — before dashing off, no doubt leaving work early to test-drive a new Mercedes.

Where is their medical diploma? Where’s their oath to “first, do

no harm?” And where, I wonder, will that bean-counter be in the middle of the night, when my child awakens screaming with that earache, or my sinuses hemorrhage again? Since the insurance folks know so much better than my doctor what I should be taking, I think it’s only fair that I have their home number to call, whenever things go wrong.

I can see where all this modernized efficiency is taking me. I will be at the dark end of a parking lot, hunched over with one of my friends, swapping meds.

“I need Singulaire — just a few days, to hold me over till the box arrives.”

“I’ve got some — have you got a Nasonex inhaler?”

“Yeah, I’ve got one — I hardly used it at all.”

“Deal.”

And so this system, supposedly invented to combat crime, ends up turning us into criminals, instead.

Thank goodness plain old headache remedies like aspirin and Tylenol don’t require prescriptions, because we are all going to need them.

Good and evil are choices we all make

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ith all the incidents of terror, around the world and in our own country, it’s only natural that some people might ask, “Why does God allow the slaughter of innocent people?”

I’ve come to realize that it’s not up to God to allow or disallow man made tragedies.

For better or for worse, God gave

mankind free will. Each of us gets to choose to do good or to do evil.

We all know the expression: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

It’s up to each one of us to make the world a place of compassion and justice. Each of us needs to look in the mirror and ask, “What have I done today to improve the world?”

What have I done to help the widow, the orphan, and the stranger?

Was I there when my neighbor needed my help? Have I spoken out against hatred and bigotry and injustice?

What have I done to help those burdened with hunger and homelessness?

Did I help the refugee or did I turn my back and say it’s someone

else’s job?

A story is told about a righteous man who set out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem seeking God. As he traveled, he came across other pilgrims—some were crippled, some had been beaten and persecuted by the authorities, some had to beg for food, some wore rags instead of clothes.

Seeing all of this, the righteous

man cried out, “Merciful God, how is it that a loving Creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?”

After a long silence, God answered. “I did do something about them. I made you.”

David Golbert Great Neck

N. Hills, not firefighters, are at fault on service

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n response to the March 24 article “Albertson firefighters say no to North Hills,” I would like to provide some clarity to the information provided in the story.

As a proud member of the Albertson Fire Company for 40 years and as current chairman of the Board of Trustees, I was disappointed in the angle of the article and some of the information provided.

First, the article implies that the Albertson Fire Company has not responded to certain outreach by Mayor Marvin Natiss about the matter.

In fact, no one from our company has received any emails from the village.

I had a lengthy conversation with Village Administrator Marianne Lobaccaro about the situation, so I

was surprised to read that we have not been responsive to the village’s efforts in contacting us.

Perhaps the information below will provide some further insight to the community.

Our fire company, like most on Long Island, is a volunteer organization.

Our 62 members serve our entire community with great pride and a strong commitment to keeping our residents safe. This commitment is unwavering despite certain challenges we face.

As a volunteer company, we work on a modest budget and do everything we can to contain costs.

When we evaluated our fire service contract with the Village of North Hills last year, we determined

that our fee to the village would have to be increased, based on the assessed valuation of residences in the area.

We have mistakenly undercharged the village for several years now, as we should have been basing our fees on assessed valuations, as we do with properties within our own service area.

In fact, we found that homes within the village were paying less for fire protection than homes within our own service area.

Even with this knowledge, we entered into a fire service contract with the village last year that called for a modest 2 percent increase to our services— far below the increase we sought.

In good faith, however, we did

not want to leave the village without a fire protection company without giving ample notice to find a new provider.

We were also sensitive to the village’s own fiscal constraints, as the mayor indicated to us that the village had to adhere to the 2 percent tax levy cap.

However, the village trustees ultimately voted to pierce the cap.

In our eyes, this was deceptive and misleading to the fire company, as we had already made concessions to the village based on their tax cap limit.

We cannot continue to provide our services to the village without a proper fee schedule.

Thus, in February of this year, we provided notice to the village that

we would not renew our contract upon its expiration in May 2016, leaving them with several months to secure another fire company.

As we have stated to the village before, we remain committed to providing fire coverage to the area on a pro rata basis after our current contract expires and until the village secures a new fire protection company.

We will fully cooperate with the village’s new fire provider in the transition process and wish the residents, the village and the new fire company our best in regard to fire protection for the area.

Richard W. Ockovic Chairman, Board of Trustees Albertson Hook and Ladder, Engine and Hose Company No. 1, Inc.

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No, no and hell no to 3rd track for LIRR

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here are some things I want to say about roads. The first of which is Roslyn Road.

If there was a normal, proper, legal and as expected right turn lane going northbound to access Locust Lane, it is conceivable that the crashes involving death and destruction might never have happened whatever the condition of the drivers.

The cutoff should be covered over and a proper lane with arrows be put in its place.

A southbound vehicle has a left turn lane with arrows. A driver has to wait until there is a break in northbound traffic to make the turn onto Locust Lane.

There has to be a stop sign at the end of the northbound turn lane so that the southbound vehicle has the right of way to be able to clear the crossed northbound

lanes.

Other than that, Roslyn Road should remain as is.

The case of the vehicle smashing into a limo making a U turn on the North Fork was recently in the news.

After all the opposition from various sources, the driver of the limo is being charged for pulling out in front of a vehicle that had the right of way.

West of Manhattan across the Hudson River is the Port of New York and New Jersey. One of the largest in the US. There are various rail tunnels under the Hudson River: Amtrak, Penn, now Con (consolidated) Rail, etc.

They come to the 30th Street Terminal in Manhattan. They then go east under Manhattan and the East River to southern Long Island City where there is a large surface terminal.

The LIRR comes through there also.

There is a Conrail line going south and the same going north through Astoria, over the Hell Gate Bridge into The Bronx.

Going east from this area across Queens and all of L.I., there has never been a freight rail line.

There is the drive for a third rail between Floral Park and Hicksville.

Going west from Floral Park there is the Bellerose, Queens Village, Bellaire, Hollis, Union Hall and then Jamaica Station. Only two tracks all the way, it seems.

With all that, why is only the aforementioned slated for a third rail? It does not make sense.

Do they want to turn the LIRR into a freight line too?

What would work is if a freight line is tunneled from Long Island City to wher-

ever on L.I. On top of all this, statements are made about all the wonders it would do for L.I. Each of these statements would have to be substantiated.

On the internet is mentioned that some of the tunnels under the Hudson River are not high enough to accommodate cargo freight containers.

They would have to dig the tracks deeper and fix that one track at a time so as not to be disruptive.

As I mentioned before, so much money comes and goes (disappears) and not as much two stops on the Second Avenue subway get completed.

Summing it all up I say “No Third Rail! Period!

Charles Samek Mineola

Keller right choice No need for Port schools to pierce state tax cap for Port library

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am writing to urge your readers to support Bill Keller for library trustee. I can think of no one better suited for the position.

I have known Bill all my life. We grew up together in Port Washington.

I know Bill to be a person of the utmost intelligence and integrity.

He loves Port Washington.

In fact, after living elsewhere for a number of years, he decided to settle in Port.

He chose Port for many reasons, including his love of the community and his respect for our school system; Bill’s youngest son has grown up here, receiving an excellent education while attending Salem, Weber, and now, Schreiber.

In addition, Bill is active in the community, serving on the Education Foundation Advisory Board and on the Port Washington School District Legislative and

Governmental Affairs Committee.

On a professional level, Bill is eminently qualified to serve as a trustee of the library. He is currently the vice president for finance and administration at Queens College.

As such, and working closely with the Queens College Library, he is responsible for budgeting, technology, facilities operations and construction, human resources, and strategic planning.

In the years ahead, the library may face new challenges. Bill’s expertise and experience, as well as his love of our town, make him ideally suited to serve as library trustee.

He will take his charge seriously and devote himself fully to doing the best job he can. The library would be lucky to have him on its board.

So vote for Bill Keller on April 12!

Amy Booth Port Washington

Keller for trustee

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lections for Trustee on the Port Washington Public Library Board will be held on Tuesday, April 12, and I urge support for Bill Keller to fill this position.

As a Port Washington native, Schreiber graduate and parent of three, and as an active and dedicated member of the Ed. Foundation Advisory Board and of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Port Washington School Dis-

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ccording to Newsday, Port Washington is one of the few, and possibly the only, Nassau school district planning to break the tax cap. There are a number of reasons I believe this is not at all necessary.

First, our tax cap of 0.85 percent allows a tax increase of $1,100,000.

In addition to this $1.1 million in additional taxes, state aid will likely increase by about $650,000.

We won’t know for sure until the state budget is complete.

We have four announced teacher retirements, to be replaced by new teachers with salary and benefit costs that are about $65,000 lower per teacher, for a savings of $260,000. Finally, our pension costs are going down by $1,600,000.

So, our school district has about $3,600,000 more to spend next year while we still come in under the cap.

We (the Port Washington Educational Assembly) have endorsed

the last four school budgets, and we’d like to endorse this one.

But we cannot if Port proposes breaking the tax cap.

In addition to the higher tax levy, we’d also lose the tax rebate checks as a penalty for exceeding the cap.

Numerous studies show class size can be very important in elementary school grades — K-3 especially.

In higher grades, particularly high school, class size is not nearly as important.

We may indeed have a need for more teachers where enrollment is growing.

But Schreiber today has about 250 classes with 19 or fewer students/class.

Of these, 120 include special needs classes (AIS, ESL, et al) which I would not suggest changing.

But there are 130 regular classes where we could consider some degree of consolidation.

If we consolidate just 25 of these 130 classes with other classes, we’d have five teaching positions to use elsewhere.

Our school district passed a $70 million bond last year in a questionable manner. They did not lie, but they also did not tell the voters the full actual cost increase per average home resulting from this bond.

If the proposed budget breaks the tax cap, we will be holding a public forum at the Port Library on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m., where we will discuss many of these issues more fully with the community, and we will invite a school board member to participate as well to present their side.

If interested in getting on our PWEA mailing list, send your name and address to PWEA, P.O. Box 203, Port Washington.

Frank J. Russo Jr. President, Port Washington Educational Assembly

Make letter-writers adhere to paper’s policy

trict, Bill has demonstrated his commitment to the educational goals of our community.

In his position as vice-president for finance and administrawould like to congratulate your weekly contribution at Queens College he works tor Larry Penner for achieving an all time high in closely with and understands linewsprint space in getting a full page and one half brary operation and needs. printed in your Letter to the Editor section in the He will indeed be an asset as March 25, 2016 edition of the Great Neck News. a trustee on our Library Board.

Larry has not missed a chance to express his views every single week for many, many months goElaine Berman ing from quarter page to half page to full page and Port Washington now competing with your columnist Karen Rubin for

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the same amount of space.

If you set limits to the old write in contest rules of ”25 words or less,” I might even start reading Mr. Penner’s contributions.

I write this out of frustration since some time ago I submitted a letter and it was not printed as I am sure neither will this one.

Victor Beecher Great Neck

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The 1960s were a simpler time to grow up

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uide to Great Neck “Great Neck: A special place to live” (Bill San Antonio — March 18) is indeed true.

In 1961, my parents moved from Brooklyn to the Terrace Circle apartments.

During my two years there, I attended the old Cutter Mill Elementary school, which only served students up to the 3rd grade.

The school disappeared decades ago and the site has stood vacant for some time.

The following year, we moved to a home in the unincorporated Lakeville community. That started my journey through Lakeville Elementary, Great Neck South Junior and Senior High Schools.

I remember going to the Flushing World’s Fair in 1963 and 1964. We rode Schenck Bus, a private bus operator boarding at the City Line. They extended their route from Glen Cove via Northern Blvd. in Great Neck to downtown Flushing, right up to the World’s Fair entrance. In those days, the drivers made change and drove the bus at the same time. Nobody would dare bring soda or food on the bus or leave any litter behind.

I would also ride the Universal Auto Bus route from Middle Neck Road to Great Neck Plaza and on to the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy. There was also the Great Neck to Lynbrook route operated by Schenck Bus. Riding that route, I would switch for the Bee Line Bus and pay another fare taking me to either Hempstead or Freeport. There were no free transfers in those days.

Many of the stores I patronized in the 1960’s have become distant memories.

During those years, my parents would send me to

Mangel’s Delicatessen on Northern Boulevard at the City Line. A dollar would buy milk, bread, a head of lettuce and still leave some change.

In 1964, a two story medical office building was built on the vacant lot next to Mangel’s Delicatessen.

My dentists, Dr. Herman Belkin and Dr. Martin Wenig, practiced there for many decades. There was a barber shop just around the corner. A haircut was a $1 or $1.25. The barbers were either World War II or Korean War veterans.

In those times, a crew cut was the norm. The liquor store at the city line succumbed to a fire years ago. The site is now occupied by a FedEx package shipping store. My first two wheeled bicycle was purchased at North Shore Bicycle.

It is Brickwell Cycling today.

On the next block on the south side of Northern Boulevard one block west of the city line in Little Neck was a bakery.

Sundays, my parents would send me out to buy rolls which were only seven cents each. The Little Neck Movie theater was just 50 cents. There was a matron and children had their own section.

I also remember going to the movies at both the Playhouse and Squire Movie Theaters and shopping at Gertz Department store in Great Neck Plaza.

There was the Walnut Lanes Bowling Alley in Great Neck Plaza which is now a CVS Pharmacy. I also frequented Acme Bowling Alley, on Northern Blvd. one block west of Jayson Avenue. It has been replaced by a series of 10 small storefront stores.

On the next block, Cut-

lers Lighting was originally a supermarket. Down the block at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Great Neck Road stood the original Scobee Diner.

This site is occupied today by Danny Automotive Group of Great Neck.

At the corner of Buttonwood Road and Northern Blvd. was Avis Rent-A-Car. We collected the 50 states buttons Avis gave out to the customers.

They were followed by a cigar store and currently a Maserati Car Dealership.

On the south side of Northern Boulevard where Auto Expo stands today was a Kosher Poultry Market.

You could buy a fresh chicken for a few dollars.

Down the block was the old Amy Joy Pancake House which was our neighborhood version of House of Pancakes. A Korean fast food restaurant took over the site and was replaced by the Moonstone Modern Asian restaurant.

On Great Neck Road, adjacent to the Terrace Circle apartments, was a Sears Roebuck, Terrace Chemists, an old-fashion luncheonette and supermarket. Terrace Chemists is now Petlands Discount.

The Sears Roebuck has become the H Mart Plaza Indoor Mall. If you went upstairs to the management office at Sears, they would offer children a free lollipop.

The old luncheonette has become Mayflower Cleaners. I remember the great ice cream malteds and purchasing Newsday for a nickel. In those days, Newsday published Monday to Saturday with no Sunday edition.

The original Grand Union supermarket changed hands several times before becoming the H Mart. I spent many hours

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at the Lakeville Library and fondly remember Ms. Tisdale. She was a friendly and supportive librarian.

Across the street was the Great Neck American Legion Post. A three story office building housing the Great Neck Medical Group, NYU Langone Medical Center of Great Neck stands there today.

A bank originally occupied the northeast corner of Great Neck Road and Clair Street. Today it is the Babylonian Jewish Center.

In 1964, the government began issuing copper clad coins which would replace old pure silver coins.

Somehow I knew that long term saving pure silver dimes and quarters would be a good investment. I began saving silver coins and converting copper clad coins into rolls returning them to the bank and starting all over again.

At the same time, I was fascinated by the dollar silver certificates which were discontinued in 1933. I managed to find some of those. Finally, the old Freedom Land Amusement Park in the Bronx (which is now Co-Op City) required use of a pure silver dollar for admission.

I managed to save several. Sometimes for fun, we would place coins on the tracks by the LIRR Station on Little Neck Parkway. It was funny seeing the flattened coins though they were no longer of value.

The Great Neck Veterans of Foreign Wars had a building on Great Neck Road located directly across the street from Cutter Mill Park. It was replaced by the Parc Vue apartments.

The old cleaners on Northern Blvd. would give kids a free piece of bazooka bubble gum. It is now an AT&T store. The old Cities Service gas station, which changed its corporate name to CITGO has come and gone to be replaced by a small five store shopping strip.

Supermarkets in the 1960s would issue stamps redeemable for simple gifts. My parents would let me lick the S&H Green (Sperry & Hutchinson), Triple S (Grant Union) and Plaid (A&P) stamps into the

stamp books and help pick out the gifts.

We were probably one of the few families in Great Neck that did not own a car. Neither of my parents held a drivers license. This would help explain how at a very young age I became fascinated with and quickly learned how to get around by bus, subway and Long Island Rail Road.

In my teenage years, several friends and I collected road maps. In those days, we visited all the gasoline stations on Northern Boulevard. In the 1960s, all four corners of Lakeville Road and Northern Boulevard were occupied by gasoline stations. Every gasoline station gave out road maps for free.

I would fill out the postcards they would provide to request roads maps for cities and states. Some gasoline companies would gladly send you a box of maps for all fifty states, dozens of cities or even foreign nations.

Esso and Shell would provide roads maps for Central America, South America, Europe, South Africa and even some Asian nations.

My family physician Doctor Alexief on Jayson Avenue just off of Northern Boulevard charged $20 for a visit.

He kept my medical records on 3 by 5 index cards.

Lakeville Park at the corner of Pembroke and Concord Avenue which opened in the 1960s was built on a vacant lot.

In 1970, my local chapter of the Young Americans For Freedom (a conservative/libertarian youth group) hosted Honor America and Support Our Serviceman rallies during the height of the Vietnam War at the local Great Neck American Legion Post.

We attracted speakers such as the late Jewish Defense League founder Rabbi Meir Kahane and many politicians including Republican Raymond Rice and Conservative Lolla Camardi, who were both running against then Great Neck Congressman Democrat Lester Wolff.

They ended up splitting the opposition vote against Wolff in the November

1970 General Election. This gave liberal Democratic Congressman Wolff another term.

After the shooting of four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State, Ohio, Great Neck South High School, like many around the nation was shut down due to protests and teach-ins.

In the interest of equal time, I convinced our principal to conduct a seminar for those who supported our intervention in Vietnam. He wasn’t happy about classes having to be suspended twice within two weeks.

Being a young conservative/libertarian, it was swimming upstream with a handful of friends going against the always politically correct positions of faculty, school administrators, other students and many Great Neck residents.

On July 4th, 1970, I organized two bus loads of over 100 participants from the American Legion Post to attend the national Honor America Day Rally in Washington D.C. Newsday ran a feature story on the trip. In recognition for all of my activities that year, the local Great Neck American Legion post nominated me for a patriotic student award.

One Sunday, my picture with award in hand made the front page of the old daily Long Island Press.

I rode the original New York City Transit Q12A bus which ran along Little Neck Parkway.

In 1990 it was renamed the Q79 probably due to avoiding confusion with the Little Neck to Flushing Q12 route.

The bus would take me to Union Turnpike and after short walk, to the old Glen Oaks Movie Theater along with Mays Department Store.

A transfer to the Q46 Union Turnpike bus provided connections to the Lake Success Shopping Center with a full Sears Department Store, other businesses and the adjacent bowling alley.

The 1960s was a simpler time to grow up in versus today.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Opposition needed to anti-Semitism at CUNY

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’d like to publicly thank our New York State senator, Jack Martins, for his important role in protecting Jewish and other students from harassment, intimidation and violence perpetrated by the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-American hate group “Students for Justice in Palestine,” on City University of New York campuses.

Many students who live in our local community attend CUNY schools. Senator Martins courageously called for SJP to be suspended.

On March 18, 2016, in a segment entitled “Anti-Semitism on Campus,” the Stuart Varney Fox business television show discussed with Senator Martins the multiple incidents of SJP’s harassment and intimidation of students and faculty at CUNY and even physical violence. (The replay is at: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4807158799001/ state-sen-martins-no-place-incolleges-for-people-who-wanthate/?#sp=show-clips.)

After discussing these events, Senator Martin explained: “We have a responsibility to protect our students. There’s no place for hate on campus.”

Stuart Varney aptly commented on the double standard that is often applied: “It seems that if it was any other small minority group on a university, they would be protected from this kind of behavior. But not Jews. I just don’t get that.”

Senator Martins agreed, say-

ing: “It just doesn’t make sense.

And again, these [the Jewish students] are people who just want to attend school, and there’s this group [SJP]; It [SJP] is entirely constituted by people who just want to harass and attack Jews.

So how would we allow that?”

Stuart Varney asked: “Justice for Palestine? That’s the name of the group?”

[Note: The full name is “Students for Justice for Palestine” or SJP. The name is misleading – because SJP’s goal is the destruction of Israel and attacks on Jews, not “justice.”

Moreover, SJP reportedly includes paid professional nonstudents or one-course-per-semester “students” whose real job is harassing Jews and defaming Israel.]

Senator Martins responded: “Justice for Palestine. They are tax-payer funded. They are part of the student organization at CUNY. And all we’ve asked is suspend the group [SJP]. We know there have been incidences. Suspend the group. You can do your investigation over time.

But there is no place, and no legitimate place, in colleges and universities in New York State or anywhere else, for people who want hate.”

Senator Martins also noted: “We are absolutely on strong ground. We live in a world where ‘political correctness’ has trumped common sense. And we’re going to turn the tables on this one.”

Trump, Cruz betray American values Continued from Page 14 No one condones the beheadings which are the trademark of Jihadist terrorism, but there is widespread disagreement about how we should combat it.

Donald Trump’s solution is: “We should go for water-boarding and should go tougher than water-boarding.”

He has also suggested: “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.”

Again, the question…if we follow Trump’s suggestion aren’t we as bad as ISIS? Ted Cruz, proposes a different approach. He recommends patrolling predominantly Muslim neighborhoods which is tantamount to racial profiling. In her

critique Hillary Clinton states “it’s wrong, it’s counterproductive, it’s dangerous,” to which I would add that America has values and torture is not one of them.

Betraying our values weakens the United States. If the Founding Fathers came back to life, they would not believe the inane proposals, not to mention the level of discourse, of the Republican candidates for president.

Maybe the real definition of American “exceptionalism” should be the belief that we are faithful to those principles which differentiate us from totalitarian societies.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

Indeed, in late February, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sent a detailed 14-page to the CUNY chancellor and trustees, documenting numerous extreme incidents of Jew hatred at four CUNY colleges, and requesting remedial steps.

These incidents include SJP’s calls for “intifada” — which means the murder of innocent Jews, and calls to expel Jews from CUNY. SJP members and supporters chanted and shouted at Jewish students: “Zionists go home!”; “Zionists out of CUNY!”; “Jews out of CUNY!”; “Jews are racist sons of bitches!”; “I hope someone gets y’all!”; “When we take control of CUNY, we are gonna kick you out and make sure you don’t graduate!”; “Go home!”; “Get out of the Middle East!”; “Get out of America!”; “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - meaning that all of Israel will be destroyed and all Jews will be murdered, and Israel will be replaced by a Palestinian Arab state. Some of this is on videotape.

A copy of ZOA’s letter is at: http://zoa. org/2016/02/10315402-letterto-cuny-chancellor-and-board-oftrustees-jew-haters-spread-fearat-cuny-colleges/ ZOA’s letter is eye-opening reading, and has

been cited in numerous press articles about the hatred on CUNY campuses.

The state Senate also passed a resolution to cut CUNY funding to, in part, send a message to CUNY (and universities around the country) that it is time to stop anti-Semitism on college campuses. (There were also reportedly financial efficiency issues involved.) Hopefully, this will spur CUNY to finally take appropriate action, so that no cuts related to the anti-Semitism issue will be necessary.

ZOA President Morton Klein, stated: “This case will send a message to legislators around the country, to force public universities that are ignoring the real fears of Jewish students and staff to finally take appropriate and serious actions. . . “Universities always want to ‘study’ the problem of anti-Semitism instead of acting immediately against it.”

When it comes to other incidents of racism and bias, universities act very differently. “Administrators promptly and rightly condemn the acts themselves and their perpetrators, who are immediately disciplined. But here, when presented with a long list of anti-Semitic incidents dating back several years with clear and consistent perpetrators, all they

do is order an investigation — even though they already know all the facts.”

In addition to thanking Senator Martins for his courage and responsiveness, I’d like to thank Great Neck resident and community activist Jeff Wiesenfeld, who formerly served as a CUNY trustee, for his outspokenness on this issue.

In November, after CUNY failed to condemn an anti-Semitic rally at CUNY’s Hunter College, Mr. Wiesenfeld told the press: “Stakeholders in the system should know that when anti-Semitism goes unanswered by faculty, students and administration — in contrast to their prompt response to other hatreds — that the university is doing a grave disservice in public reputation and in the good will of alumni and donors. SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] is an anti-Jewish, bullying hate group, plain and simple. Their bigotry merits an appropriate response.”

Amen.

Elizabeth (Liz) Berney, Esq. Great Neck Berney is the Zionist Organization of America Director of Special Projects and Long IslandQueens executive director.

Vigilance required by all of us to combat terrorism

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russels airport was struck with bombs by terrorist on Tuesday, and another sad day for humanity.

This attack in Brussels, Belgium is a nefarious and egregious acts by cowards, that I find most appalling.

These evil doers are aggressively pursing these acts against humanity for radical ideas that have no place in our world.

Innocent men, women and children are dying for no reason by these radical Muslims and must be stopped and eradicated.

The entire world must stand up to this evil.

As President Obama said while in Cuba, “ We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith fighting the scourge of terrorism.”

Also Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in and said,” The only way to defeat these terrorists is to join together and fight them

together.”

He further went on to say,” The chain of attacks from Paris to San Bernardino to Istanbul to Ivory Coast and now Brussels, and the daily attacks in Israel-this is one continuous assault on all of us.”

I whole heartily agree with both leaders for united we stand divided we fall. In closing my heartfelt prayers go out to the nation and people of Brussels, Belgium, and all those that travel through their country that were killed and injured.

It is for this reason our nation must remain always on the alert. For if we see something we must say something.

We the people are the eyes and ears of the nation that aids our police, FBI, and counter intelligence in protecting all of us.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

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Zimmerman backs Kaiman for Congress B y N oah M anskar Great Neck public relations executive and Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman endorsed Jon Kaiman on Wednesday in the Democratic race to replace U.S. Rep. Steve Israel.

Zimmerman made the endorsement at a campaign fundraiser Wednesday night at Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington.

In an interview March 24, Zimmerman said Kaiman, a former North Hempstead supervisor, has demonstrated an ability to find common ground and build bipartisan relationships over the course of his career.

“What makes Kaiman stand out is that contrary to the culture of soundbites and press gimmicks that define too much in politics he actually is a man with a record of real results,” he said. “And I think that, over Jon’s career, he’s demonstrated not just strong progressive values, but he’s also demonstrated the ability to build coalitions.”

The two both live in Great Neck and have been friends for at least 30 years, Zimmerman said.

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thority chairman would benefit Long Island in Washington and have a national impact, Zimmerman said, in the tradition of Israel and fellow Kaiman backer Gary Ackerman.

“I’m not voting for a friend, I’m voting for a leader,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman’s Great Neck public relations firm, Zimmerman/Edelson Inc., handles public relations for NIFA, the Town of North Hempstead and several other governmental clients.

He and the firm gave $14,875 to Kaiman’s political committee between 2006 and 2012, campaign finance records show.

Zimmerman, who had considered a run for the seat before Kaiman announced his intentions, said he and business partner Ron Edelson have both given Kaiman’s congressional campaign the maximum donation of $2,700.

He’ll also “help out in any way that’s worthwhile,” he said, such as making phone calls, knocking on doors and visiting train stations.

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi got an endorsement March 21 from former Suffolk County Executive Patrick Halpin.

In a news release, Halpin said the former Glen Cove mayor “brings unmatched experience in both the public and private sectors” to the district stretching from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County.

“Tom Suozzi is a proven reformer who took on Albany, straightened out Nassau County’s finances and has the impressive track record that proves he is the fierce advocate Long Island needs in Washington D.C.,” Halpin said in the statement.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz endorsed Suozzi earlier this month, which his campaign called “an impressive one-two punch at both ends of the district.”

Halpin gave $5,000 to Suozzi’s 2013 county executive campaign and $50 to his 2009 campaign.

Other Democrats running for Israel’s seat include North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan of Great Neck, Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern and Levittown attorney Jonathan Clarke.

Grant renewed for biz beautification program Continued from Page 20 “It’s a win-win for everyone,” Kaiman said.

In a statement, Bosworth said the “muchneeded” projects will “go a long way” toward the town’s goal of boosting local downtown economies.

Kaiman said beautification helps retail areas establish an identity that grows their customer base.

“It’s being able to identify the uniqueness of a certain community and being able to make that as appealing as possible,” she said.

The town will be releasing more informa-

tion in coming weeks about application guidelines and deadlines, Kaiman said.

This year’s grant winners include the Pearls and Ivy Foundation of Westbury, the Westbury Business Improvement District, the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce, the Great Neck Plaza Business Improvement District, the Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce and Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington.

Winners must already have funds on hand for their projects and must spend that money first before getting a reimbursement from the town, Kaiman said.

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B y B endik S orensen As summer is growing nearer, graduate students in the LIU Post art department are scrambling around in the campus’ Steinberg Museum of Art at Hillwood, preparing for their annual Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, this year called “Nexus of 12.”

The 12 refers to the number of student artists who will be exhibiting.

“It’s a reflection of work from twelve artists who have learned and grown together,” said CarrieAnne Gonzales, one of the MFA graduate students in the show.

“Nexus of 12 shows the universe’s

incredible ability to harmonize individual paths and beings in and through itself.”

The show will have a variety of mediums, chosen by the artists themselves, ranging from photography to print making and video art and painting.

Alongside the “Nexus of 12” in the Steinberg Museum, which will be exhibited for six weeks, the artists will also show their work in the SIA Gallery in Chelsea in NYC. The shows are a part of the mandatory thesis course for the students, and show some of the body of work they’ve done throughout their academic careers at Post.

“Your job is to create art... all

of the time,” Gonzales said. “To see where it takes you, to reflect on it, to see what drives you and how far you can come. We all have our own process and way of getting there.”

Gonzales, a photographer, has a pretty rigid process, after over 20 years of being a photographer.

“I start with sketches, or charcoal drawings, or cut outs or collages of an idea and then I stick it to my studio wall,” she said.

“There are many things up there!”

Her work shows the struggle of women, relationships and of the working class. For her thesis project, she gives a nod to the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiro.

“Like Siqueiros, my pieces

also reflect on social and political subjects of today,” she said.

Although the students work on their theses during their senior year, they can show anything they’ve made.

“Most artists usually have some kind of theme and/or ideology that ties the works they’re exhibiting together,” said Nicholas Frizalone, another graduating MFA student artist.

He is showing paintings and drawings. “ It’s helpful to me because I get to experience what it’s like to exhibit alongside artists of other disciplines and backgrounds,” he said.

The show in the Steinberg

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Museum opens on April 11, and will be up through May 6. It is located in the Hillwood Commons on the LIU Post campus.

The show in the SIA Gallery in Chelses will be up from April 13 to April 20, with an opening reception on April 14 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Steinberg Museum hours: Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Saturdays 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the awardwinning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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Karen Mason Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Broadway World Entertainer of the Year Karen Mason returns to Landmark with her critically acclaimed show “Mason’s Makin’ Music.” With numbers from Broadway and the Great American Songbook, “Mason’s Makin’ Music” celebrates the music of our lives and recently had a sold-out seven-week run at the legendary New York City cabaret Don’t Tell Mama.

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Adelphi Symphony Orchestra: Bach

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Under the direction of Grammy-nominated music director Christopher Lyndon-Gee, the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Bach concert, featuring performers from the university’s faculty. Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer, tenor Jonathan Goodman, flutist Linda DiMartino Wetherill, piccolo trumpet player Thomas Verchot, harpsichord professor Elaine Comparone and lute and guitar professor William Zito will all be featured.

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Joe Satriani is the world’s most commercially successful solo guitar performer, with six gold and platinum discs to his credit (including one more gold award for the debut album by his band Chickenfoot), and sales in excess of 10 million copies. Friday he presents “From Surfing to Shockwave, Celebrating 30 Years of Mind Bending Guitar DareDevilry.”

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

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Sinbad Saturday, April 2, 8 p.m.

Born David Adkins, the comedian known as Sinbad has established himself as one of the nation’s best known family-friendly comics, something that had led to roles both on television and the movie screen, including appearances in the films “Necessary Roughness,” “Houseguest,” “First Kid,” “Jingle All the Way” and “Good Burger.”

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Come see our top three performers as they perform for music business execs, producers, radio and TV personalities and more! The winner, as chosen by judges and audience members, will win prizes and recognition that can help boost their music career. Remember, your votes will count in determining the winner! Finalists include: Frankel Sisters, Jaclyn Manfredi, and Matt Grabowski.

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

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Word Up: Long Island LitFest Sunday, April 3, 1 to 6 p.m.

A one-of-a-kind event for Long Island book lovers, Word Up: Long Island LitFest is the area’s preeminent literary festival – an intimate day of live readings by your favorite best-selling authors, award-winning writers and columnists. Join us as each writer takes a turn at the microphone to read an essay or memoir excerpt. You’ll laugh, you may cry – you will definitely be entertained and enlightened.

Where: The Madison Theatre at Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info: (516) 323-4444 • http://madisontheatreny.org

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The Cult Wednesday, April 6, 8 p.m.

Touring in support of their 10th full album “Hidden City,” The Cult return to Long Island this week. Fronted by singer Ian Astbury, The Cult long ago established themselves as one of the preeminent hard rock outfits of the 1980s and early 90s, producing of string of radio friendly hits including “Wild Flower,” Fire Woman” and the iconic “She Sells Sanctuary.”

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Quality spice crucial to a good paprikash My grandfather’s family came from Hungary.

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Potato Soup 4 cups chicken broth, or 4 cups of water and 4 chicken bouillon cubes 4 medium-size potatoes, peeled and diced 1 small onion, cut in half 1 carrot, finely chopped 1 stalk of celery, finely chopped 1 green pepper, cut into 4 pieces, cored and seeded 2 tblsps. flour 2 tblsps. cold water 3 tblsps. sour cream

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1. Bring the broth to the boiling point in the saucepan and add the potatoes, onion, carrot, celery and green pepper. Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes after the soup has returned to the boiling point. Discard the onion and green pepper.

2. Mix together the flour and water, to form a paste. With a spatula, slowly stir in the sour cream and add this mixture to the hot soup.

3. Simmer the soup for another 5 minutes, or until it has slightly thickened, Do NOT BOIL or it will curdle and serve in warm bowls.

1. Use paper towels to thoroughly dry the chicken. You want the chicken to be as dry as much as possible, so that it will brown.

2. Sprinkle the chicken evenly with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.

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Leave the chicken undisturbed until golden brown on one side (5-7 minutes) and then flip them over and brown the other side. Repeat with the rest of the chicken, if necessary.

4. Transfer the chicken to a bowl and then add the onions and peppers. Cover with a lid and let the vegetables steam for 10 minutes.

5. Remove the lid and saute until the onions are golden brown.

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Make better choices when dining out some water if it’s not already on the table. The symptoms of dehydration mimic those of hunger. Also, drinking water before and during your meal will help you to feel full and decrease the likelihood that you will overeat.

Engage in conversation. Bring someone with you to the restaurant so you can share some lively conversation. The more time you spend talking, the longer it will take to eat, giving your body time to digest and prevent overeating.

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ining out can make for an enjoyable evening or afternoon.

Many people enjoy sampling different cuisines, and eating out removes the pressure and the work required when preparing meals at home.

A 2013 poll from Rasmussen Reports found 58 percent of American adults say they dine out at least once a week, while 14 percent go out two or three times per week and 4 percent eat out more than three times per week.

Dining out is also popular in Canada, where, according to Statistics Canada, restaurant sales per capita have increased steadily during the last 15 years. Across Canada, restaurants took in nearly $650 per person in 2012.

As the number of people dining out continues to increase, many people find themselves looking for ways to stay focused on healthy eating when they are not the ones preparing their meals. The following are a handful of ways diners can stay healthy without giving up their love of dining out.

Don’t arrive at the restaurant too hungry. Eat a small and filling snack before going to a restaurant. Eating a snack ahead of time will prevent you from overeating once your food arrives.

An apple, protein bar or some crackers and cheese can take the edge off hunger and reduce the likelihood that you will overeat at the restaurant.

Fill up on water. When the server comes to take your drink order, ask for

Choose the right foods.

When perusing the menu, look for foods cooked a certain way.

Broiled and grilled meats are healthier than fried foods, and steamed vegetables contain plenty of vitamins and minerals your body needs to stay healthy. Avoid heavy cream sauces, lots of cheese and fatty meats. Ask if you can substitute fresh vegetables or brown rice for unhealthy sides or white rice.

Eat more seafood. Seafood is not only flavorful, but healthy as well. Eating certain fish gives your body the right types of fats to help the neurological system function properly and fuel your brain.

Avoid dining out as a reaction to stress. Don’t go out to a restaurant if you are feeling stressed or rushed, especially if you use food as a coping mechanism. You may end up rushing through your meal and eating more than you intended.

Divide your meal. Share a plate with others or ask for a to-go container when your course is served. This allows you to set aside some leftovers before you start to eat, reducing the likelihood that you will overeat.

Dining out is a favorite activity for many people, and diners can take several steps to make their dining experiences healthier.

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Considerations for outdoor entertaining Remove toys, tools and debris. Be sure the grass is mowed and clippings are removed. Address any tripping hazards and make sure there is an easy path in and out of the party, as well as to the restrooms. Take inventory of tables and seating options and rent or buy extra seating if necessary.

Provide shade and shelter

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utdoor parties have a flair all their own. Entertaining outside means being able to enjoy the fresh air, sun and extra space that the great outdoors allows.

Entertaining outdoors may include intimate barbecues with friends and weddings with hundreds of guests.

While parks, yards, and gardens can make beautiful backdrops for parties, hosts still need to emphasize preparation when throwing an outdoor party.

Select and prepare the space Many homeowners host parties for friends and family in their backyards.

Whereas other spaces, including parks, require the transport of food and other supplies, backyards offer the ultimate in convenience, allowing homeowners to cook foods in their kitchens and then carry items directly to the backyard.

Backyards are not always set up or equipped for events, and preparation will be required to turn the yard into a partyworthy area. Plan a day for cleanup.

Every party host hopes for good weather when entertaining outside, but it is best to have a contingency plan in place just in case Mother Nature does not cooperate. Awnings and patio umbrellas can only do so much, and it may be necessary to install pop-up tents or stationary gazebos to protect guests from the elements. Think about renting tents from party supply companies, which usually will erect the tents and take them down after use.

Even if the weather will be pleasant, have spots where guests can escape the sun. It can be uncomfortable and dangerous to sit in the sun for long periods of time.

Keep food temperatures consistent

If you plan to offer buffet-style cuisine, arrange for serving dishes that will

keep foods hot or cold as needed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition advises that it is important to keep foods safe when entertaining outside. Cold foods should be kept in coolers or served on beds of ice. Use hot chafing dishes to keep hot foods at a serving temperature at or above 140 F. Refrigerate or refreeze foods within two hours or after one hour if it is above 90 F outside.

Plan for insects

Entertaining outdoors means sharing the space with insects and animals. Ants can be a nuisance, but wasps and bees can be harmful, particularly if a person is allergic. Use repellent candles around the entertaining space to keep bugs away. Make canisters of insect repellent available to guests.

Home improvement centers sell bug traps to keep bees and other insects away from foods and people by using sweet lures. Netting on tents or a screened-in area also can keep guests comfortable.

Partying outdoors can be convenient and fun. But hosts still must take steps to ensure their guests have a safe and enjoyable time.

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Creative solutions for table centerpieces E ntertaining guests is a great way to open and share your home and make memories with family and friends. If your entertaining includes a meal, chances are everyone will be sitting at the table to dine and converse. A beautifully set table can make guests feel welcome and establish the ambiance for the meal.

A centerpiece is at the heart of a well-dressed table. While centerpieces are most often associated with formal affairs, any meal or gathering is enhanced with the right centerpiece. Here are some easy and elegant centerpiece ideas to dress up your dinner table.

Fresh flowers

Floral arrangements make for great centerpieces. Such arrangements can be as simple or as extravagant as you desire. For casual meals, consider picking some flowers from your own garden or a nearby field. Spring daffodils or cherry blossom branches

can add color to a table. Some smaller, potted impatiens or begonias make great centerpieces for summer soirées, while autumn and winter blooms work for holiday gatherings and parties.

If you want an even more special touch, consider working with a florist. Explain the theme of your party and ask the florist to recommend appropriate flowers for the gathering based on your theme.

Fruit and foods

Floral centerpieces may be some of the most popular, but food also works as a base for interesting centerpieces.

Grab an unused soup tureen or some decorative vases and fill them with an assortment of items. Lemons, oranges and other citrus fruits add a splash of bold color to a table.

Otherwise, look for exotic foods that have interesting appearances, like prickly pears or artichokes. Fill a tall vessel with walnuts or chestnuts for an earthy look. A large basket

brimming with assorted breads and crackers looks attractive and is also ready for guests to dig in.

Candy

Whimsical parties or children’s events can be made more fun with clever centerpieces made from candy. Stick lollipops into buckets filled with sand or push them into a foam form to make a candy topiary.

Canisters filled with candy of all shapes, sizes and colors appeal to guests’ eyes and their affinity for sweets.

Miscellaneous items

Look around the house for any number of other items that can be placed inside vases or clear containers. Bells, tissue paper, pebbles or confetti can be used to create attractive centerpieces for the table.

With some inspiration and a little creativity, hosts and hostesses can create centerpieces that add a touch of elegance to any dinner party.

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Trends you may see when dining out Digital kiosks: Desire an appetizer or want to reorder another beverage?

You may not have to flag down your server to do so. Several restaurants have implemented tablet-based service at their tables. In addition to playing games or getting apprised on the latest specials, guests can order some menu items through table-mounted tablets. And if you’re in a rush for the check, swipe your credit card and pay the bill without waiting for your waiter to bring it over.

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When dining out, expect to find more attractive plates, as restaurateurs understand diners like to photograph and share their meals through social media.

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As crowds waiting in line for their favorite eateries begin to grow anew, restaurants have begun to implement new menus and dining styles in an attempt to attract a broader clientele. Many trends are catering to the younger, technology-driven customer.

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Photo-ready foods: Diners are utilizing social media to share their menu choices with people all around the world. Scroll through anyone’s news feed and you’re likely to find photograph’s of last night’s entrée or an impressive dessert enjoyed during a night out with friends. Many restaurateurs understand that their latest culinary creation is likely to find its way onto social media, so a greater emphasis is being placed on plating — or making foods look better when first presented to diners.

Increase in craft foods: Greater emphasis is being placed on creating meals that look and taste good and are produced in eco- and communityfriendly ways. Craft foods are made in small batches from locally sourced ingredients, helping to create a symbiotic relationship between eateries, farmers, food manufacturers, and diners.

Community tables: Make new friends while dining out by getting seated at community tables, which are no longer restricted to Japanese hibachi restaurants. These larger tables pair different diners together.

Neurogastronomy: Many restaurants are employing neurogastronomy, or the science of manipulating perception of how foods taste by external factors.

Everything from the colors of dishes to the sounds of music being piped in can affect your perception of taste.

Prepaid reservations: Today you can purchase just about anything in advance, from movie tickets to vacations.

Soon you may be able to prepay for restaurant meals as well. Arrive at your reserved time and enjoy your meal.

This trend is beneficial to restaurants because they are guaranteed revenue even if patrons do not show up.

Trends in dining out can make meal experiences more unique. Expect some new changes at your favorite restaurants.

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Make the most of al fresco dining Do your research before visiting. Drive or walk by a restaurant before dining there yourself. Check out how outdoor diners are treated and if the service is as prompt as it is indoors. Pay attention to foot and vehicle traffic near the tables to determine if the spot is conducive to eating. Too much noise or car exhaust can detract from the meal.

Look for covered tables. It’s one thing to sit outside and enjoy some cool breezes. It’s quite another to spend an hour or more directly under the blazing sun. Dine at an establishment that has a gazebo, portico, overhang, or individual patio umbrellas at each table.

This way you can be comfortable and avoid sunburn.

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hen the weather warms up, many people enjoy eating meals outside. Al fresco dining may be available at both highend restaurants and more intimate cafes.

Al fresco comes from the Italian term for “open air.”

Restaurants have recognized the draw of outdoor seating and many have expanded their offerings. While many people need nothing more

than an outdoor table and some nice weather to enjoy eating outside, there are some ways to make al fresco dining experiences as pleasant as possible.

Call ahead for seating.

Because al fresco dining is so popular when the weather is warm, outdoor tables can fill up quickly. For those planning to sit outside, call the restaurant and reserve an outdoor spot. This way you will be guaranteed a table.

Dress appropriately for the weather. Plan ahead for al fresco dining by bringing some accessories along. A light jacket or sweater can keep you warm if a breeze picks up, and sunglasses are recommended in sunny conditions.

A hat worn indoors may be a social faux pas, but it is acceptable to wear one outside to block the sun.

Expand your dining options.

Instead of traditional restaurants, try the offerings at food trucks, take-out places and other spots that serve food.

Set up your meal at nearby picnic tables or another outdoor place and enjoy.

Bring a friend or relax by yourself. Eating outdoors is entertaining with a friend or alone. If you are dining with a group, take your time and linger in the fresh air, enjoying the conversation. If you are dining alone, you can still relax and take your time with the meal. One hidden benefit of al fresco dining is that it provides you the opportunity to relax and watch the world go by.

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How to throw a theme party and help break the ice Socializing can increase when other games or themed components are included in the festivities. Here are some ways to make a theme work for you.

Introduce the theme with the invitations. Let guests know that there will be a party theme by mentioning it on the invitations. The invitations also may tie into the theme. For example, palm tree invitations can indicate a Hawaiian barbecue. If costumes or specific clothing is suggested, be sure to indicate that on the invitations so guests can plan accordingly and decide whether or not to participate.

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any people do not need a reason to throw a party. Although they’re commonly held to mark momentous events, like birthdays, parties can be entertaining ways to get a group of people together just for the sake of being social.

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friends or even family members may challenge party hosts to find methods that encourage their guests to mingle.

One of the most effective ways to break the ice is to give a party its very own theme.

Themed parties have a built-in conversation starter: the theme itself.

Coordinate the music. Guests will feel more comfortable if you have a steady amount of music playing in the background. Find music that fits with your theme, such as music from the 1970s for a disco party. Keep the volume moderate while guests are arriving and getting to know one another.

Later on the volume can be turned up for dancing.

Arrange seats for conversation.

Avoid lining up a bunch of seats along a wall or in a straight line. Instead, group a few chairs around a snack

table facing one another so that guests are encouraged to chat instead of spending the night as wallflowers.

Lead by example. If you want others to get involved and have fun with the party theme, you should lead the way.

Be sure you are dressed for the occasion and participate in any games or activities that you have planned. If you want guests to get up for a round of karaoke, be the first person to belt out a tune.

Decorate the home or venue. Ensure guests know there is a specific theme by decking out the party space with the right accessories. The decor can add to the fun factor and give guests even more opportunities to converse over clever knickknacks, signs or elaborate backdrops.

Don’t forget the food. Tie your food choices into the party theme, offering foods that are theme-specific or renaming foods so they coordinate with the theme. Cheese-and-crackers platters can get fun makeovers if you use cookie cutters to cut the cheese into shapes. Plan cuisine that fits with the theme, such as pretzels and beer for an Oktoberfest party or milkshakes and French fries for a 50’s Drive-In party. By thinking creatively, you can find even more clever ways to keep guests smiling and satiated.

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How to impress when hosting a business dinner

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osting a business dinner is both an honor and a responsibility. Employers typically entrust only their most valued employees with the responsibility of hosting a business dinner, and such opportunities are not to be taken lightly.

adds to both the excitement and the anxiety of hosting a business dinner. But even though hosting a business dinner may inspire a few butterflies to dance in your stomach, the following tips can ensure the night goes as smoothly as possible.

The desire to impress is there whether you’re hosting your first or fiftieth business dinner, but those with experience hosting existing or potential clients know that no two business dinners are ever the same. What works for one client won’t necessarily impress another, and the responsibility of impressing the clients falls on the host, which

• Know your client. Clients tend to have vastly different needs and personalities, so while the ambiance of one restaurant might appeal to some clients, that same atmosphere might not be so impressive to others. When choosing a restaurant, consider its ambiance and how well that matches up with the client you will be taking

out to dinner. Some clients may prefer to make deals in more laid back locales, while others may prefer the five-star treatment. Taking the latter to an allyou-can-eat buffet will hurt your chances of making a deal, while the former may take your willingness to spend lavishly on a meal at a five-star restaurant as an indicator that your company spends lavishly and ultimately passes such spending off on its clients. Understanding your client’s personality should help you choose a restaurant that’s likely to impress.

• Don’t go in blind. Unless a client requests a specific restaurant, try to choose a restaurant you have visited in the past.

This is beneficial in a variety of ways. When visiting a restaurant you frequent, you’re in position to make recommendations with regard to the menu, and that insight can increase the chances that your client will enjoy his or her meal.

When choosing a restaurant you’re familiar with, you’re also choosing one where you know the service is exceptional. If it wasn’t, you would not keep going back. No one wants a

business dinner to be overtaken by poor service, which, fairly or unfairly, will reflect negatively on you.

• Avoid restaurants with gimmicks. Restaurants with gimmicks, such as those where the staff sings to customers celebrating a birthday, might be fun to visit with friends or family members, but such establishments are best avoided when hosting business dinners.

Gimmicks can interrupt a meal and make it difficult to make any headway on a business deal, so stick to restaurants where you won’t be interrupted by celebratory staff members or drowned out by live music.

• Don’t just show up. Nothing is more awkward or unprofessional than taking a client to dinner and being forced to wait for a table. If you can’t get a reservation at your preferred restaurant, then choose another establishment. Do not wing it and decide to wait for a table near the hostess or at the bar.

• Avoid exotic restaurants.

Unless your client requests a particular type of cuisine, avoid exotic restaurants with relatively

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• Don’t overindulge.

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

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

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

(516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Patti LaBelle Saturday, April 2, 8 p.m.

Sinbad Sunday, April 10, 7 p.m.

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

Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

ABBA Friday, May 14, 7 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don Rickles & Regis Philbin: Conversation & Clips Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

Charlie Daniels Band The Space at Westbury 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Friday, Apr. 1, 8 p.m.

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

Rock Legends Live Thursday, Apr. 14, 8 p.m.

Oogee Wawa Friday, Apr. 15, 8 p.m.

Robert Randolph and the Family Band Saturday, Apr. 28, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

America ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Adelphi Symphony Orchestra: Bach Saturday, April 2, 8 p.m.

Senior Recital — Amanda Karalis, Voice Sunday, April 3, 8 p.m.

Bregenz Festival’s Die Zauberflöte TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Joe Satriani: From Surfing to Shockwave, Celebrating 30 Years of Mind Bending Guitar DareDevilry Sunday, April 3, 2:15 p.m.

Musical Dialogue: Steve Wilson / Lewis Nash Duo

Friday, April 8, 8 p.m.

Paul Taylor Dance Company Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.

Michael Feinstein Sunday, April 10, 7 p.m.

Esperanza Spalding presents: Emily’s D+Evolution The Paramount 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Back to the 80’s Show with: Jessie’s Girl Sunday, April 3, 8 p.m.

The Wonder Years Wednesday, April 6, 8 p.m.

The Cult Friday, April 8, 8 p.m.

Citizen Cope Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.

Puscifer Tuesday, April 12, 8 p.m.

Belinda Carlisle Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.

Ace Frehley Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Ghost Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Robin Trower Thursday, April 21, 8 p.m.

Olivia Newton-John Friday, April 22, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Bush Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

Bullet for My Valentine with Asking Alexandria & Cane Hill Friday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.

Boyce Avenue Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m.

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

Lamb of God, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m.

Andrew Dice Clay Saturday, May 28, 7 p.m.

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

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

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

Voyage w/ Fleetwood Macked Tuesday, July 12, 8 p.m.

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

Little Feat

The madison theatre at molloy college 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

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

Saturday, April 2, 8 p.m.

The Four Seasons and More: a Vivaldi Extravaganza Sunday, April 3, 1 to 6 p.m.

Word Up: Long Island LitFest Friday, April 8, 1 to 8 p.m.

NY Asbury Short Films Saturday, April 9, 2 and 6 p.m.

Clifford the Big Red Dog – Live!

Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m.

Broadway’s British Invasion Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Eric Marienthal & Chuck Loeb The KAISER ART GALLERY at molloy college 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.

(516) 323-4444 • http://www.molloy.edu March 10 – April 25 Mary Ann Petry - Selected works Nassau community college One Education Drive, Garden City (516) 572-7676 • https://www.ncc.edu May 4 - May 8, 8 p.m., except Sundays at 3 p.m.

Hair GOVERNORS’ COMEDY CLUB 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs.com/ index.cfm Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 2, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Tom Cotter BROKERAGE COMEDY CLUB 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore (516) 785-8655 • http://tickets.brokeragecomedy.com Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 2, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Colin Quinn Nassau county museum of art 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 • http://nassaumuseum. org MAIN GALLERIES March 19 – July 10 Kenny Scharf 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. Curated by Director Karl E. Willers and the Museum’s staff, 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 recreation of the artist’s former Brooklyn studio complete with spattered walls, painted furniture and other workspace ephemera.

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‘Great Ocean Liners’ opens at Coe Hall The Planting Fields Foundation opens its new exhibition, Great Ocean Liners 1900-1940 on Saturday, April 2 at Coe Hall.

The exhibition will run through Oct. 2 and is open every day from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

William R. Coe made his career in the marine insurance business. He was chairman of the board of one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the world, Johnson and Higgins.

The firm brokered the hull insurance on the Titanic which sank in 1912 — the claim was settled in only 30 days.

The exhibition examines the history of the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic and of Cunard, who owned the ill-fated Lusitania.

Competition between the two lines for the highest speed and profits on their trans-Atlantic crossing is a focus of the show.

As a teenager Coe immigrated to the U.S. in 1883; the show examines how ocean liners were built to accommodate steerage passengers in great numbers.

First Class Dining Saloon of the R.M.S.

In 1899, Coe travelled to London on Johnson and Higgins business on the City of New York.

On board, he met Mai Rogers, daughter of Standard Oil partner and millionaire, H.H. Rogers.

William and Mai’s marriage the following year brought significant and influential business contacts to Coe’s work at Johnson and Higgins.

In the exhibition three vessels from each line are prominently featured; for the White Star is the Titanic, the Olympic and the Britannic, and for the Cunard, the Aquitania, the Lusitania and the Mauretania.

Posters, archival documents, ship models and memorabilia are included in the exhibition.

The installation includes large-scale color photos of first class ocean liner public rooms to demonstrate the luxuriousness of first class quarters, and their design relationship with interiors at Coe Hall.

Admission to Coe Hall $5 with an $8 parking fee.

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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.

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

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

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

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

ing Assets for People with Disabilities,” April 7, 6:30 p.m., at the Nassau County Bar Association, 15th Street on the corner of West Street, Mineola. Topics to be discussed 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 that are created for persons with disabilities which can supplement government benefits, such as Medicaid and SSI, without disqualifying the individual from receiving such benefits.

— Options to help plan for future care of disabled adults and “soon to be” adults.

Attorneys leading the discussion will be Saundra Gumerove of Saundra M. Gumerove & Associates, Jericho, and Maureen Rothschild DiTata, Berwitz & DiTata LLP, Garden City.

The program is chaired by Moriah Adamo, Abrams & Fensterman, Lake Success and Terry Scheiner, Port Washington.

Reservations are requested for this free program. To register, call the Nassau County Bar Association at 516-747-4070 or email ckatz@nassaubar.org.

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Transplant Recipients TRIO International Organization Long Island Temple Choir Festival On April 3, at 2 p.m., six Long Island Temple Long Island TRIO of Nassau & Suffolk (Transplant Recipients International choirs will gather at Temple Avodah in Oceanside for the Long Island Temple Choir Organization) will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday April 13. Refreshments Festival. The Festival, held throughout the will be made available at at 7 p.m. with 1990s, brought the best of temple music to Long Island as choirs and cantors sang their the introduction and program beginning best numbers, charming both the audience at 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Stephen Knapick, and the choirs themselves. This year’s festi- senior transplant specialist interim direcval will bring together choirs from Lynbrook, tor, Stonybrook Medical Center with donor Lori Interlicchio and recipient Alana Duran New Hyde Park, Roslyn Heights, Wantagh, Glen Cove and Oceanside. Admission is free to offer a first hand account of soon to be broadcast fascinating Gift of Life miracle but seating is limited. Additional informamade possible by technology, social media tion can be obtained from the Temple Avodah Web Site www.avodah.org. Address is and caring people. Northwell (North Shore) Health Systems, 145 Community Drive 3050 Oceanside Road, Oceanside.

Great Neck. All Welcome. For information How To Legally Protect Assets For The call 516 620-5900.

Disabled Leading attorneys will present a multiFor Trivia Lovers disciplined discussion of federal and state At 7 p.m. Two Wednesday nights each programs and services for protecting the month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School assets of disabled persons at a free public St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 625-8804 for educational seminar on “Legally Protectinformation.

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Kauari talks genocide Asbury Shorts to in lecture at HMTC screen films at Molloy

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County presented “Women, Not Victims: Moving Beyond Sexualized Atrocities During Genocide,” on Sunday, March 13, at Nassau Community College.

The event was a global examination of sexualized atrocities during and after the Holocaust and other genocides, as a way to shatter the silence on sexualized atrocities and give voice to the victims and Survivors. Vepuka Kauari, a native of Namibia, who co-founded the Association of the Ovaherero Genocide in the USA, wore traditional Herero clothing, as she spoke about “Consequences of the 1904 Colonial Genocide on Herero Women in Namibia.

Kauari’s great-grandmother survived the 1904 Herero genocide.

The 1904 Herero genocide will be the subject of a program, “From Southwest Africa to Auschwitz; Forgotten Genocide of the Herero and Nama, from 1904 to Today,” at HMTC, on Sunday, May 22, which

Kauari will take part in. For more information, call (516) 571-8040, visit HMTC’s website, www.hmtcli.org, or find us on social media at Facebook.com/HMTCNY and Twitter.com/HolocaustTolCtr.

Arts Council calls for submissions to show The Huntington Arts Council is issuing a call to artists for their upcoming juried art show “Condition of Light Affecting the Landscape of Spring on Long Island,” scheduled to open in May. Juror Stan Brodsky lives and works on Long Island

and is lifelong resident of the New York metro area.

Brodsky has been an exhibiting artist for more than 50 years — currently with June Kelly Gallery and his work is in many museum collections in the eastern United States. He was recently honored as Artist of the Year at

Tuscan Series #11 by Stan Brodsky

Arthamptons 2015.

The exhibit is open to all artists, including full time students and included any medium, including but not limited to acrylic, oil, watercolor and pastel. (no photography, sculpture or digital art).

All entries must be original to entrant and must be framed (up to 50H x 44W, including frame) with hanging wire on back. No artwork previously shown in the Main Street Gallery will be accepted. The entry deadline is April 8.

The entry fees are, for the first two entries: Artist members $25, Full-time students $25, Non-members $35; for additional entries $5 ea. No more than two works per artist will be selected.

The Huntington Arts Council retains a 25 percent commission on all work sold.

An artists’ reception is planned for Friday, May 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. and the show will run from May 13 to June 4.

The Huntington Arts Council is located at 213 Main Street in Huntington.

Call 631-271-8423, ext. 15 for more information.

Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short-film exhibition, presents its national touring showcase: “The 35th Anniversary Short Film Concert” at The Madison Theatre at Molloy College on Friday night, April 8.

The first film hits the screen at 7:30 p.m..

Special Guest Host is television and film character actor Robert Clohessy, best known for his roles on CBS TV’s “Blue Bloods,” HBO’s classic series “Oz,” and many appearances on the NBC TV franchise: “Law & Order.”

Asbury’s short film concert, founded in 1981 by students from the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, features the best in comedy, drama and animation without promoting competition.

Academy Award-nominated Director Jason Reitman (“JUNO,” “Up in the Air,” “Thank You for Smoking”) calls Asbury Shorts “the best short film show I’ve ever seen!”

Screening classic shorts combined with new international festival winners, ASNY provides a rare opportunity for the public to see world-class films on a real cinema screen as opposed to You Tube, smart phones or computers. Highlights of the April 8th screening include: The Girl and the Gondola — British director Abbe Robinson’s poignant and charming story of a young Venetian girl dreaming of becoming a gondolier like her father while battling 900 years of tradition. This short was recently awarded the Best International Short Film at The

Garden State Film Festival and Best Short Film at The Martha’s Vineyard Short Film Festival.

Rust — A short documentary following an artist in Nova Scotia, Canada who creates pieces from found metal in and around his property. He lets the metal rust utilizing nature as his “co artist.” Director Ben Proudfoot from Halifax won “Best Short Film” at the Shelburne International Film Expo this past September in Canada.

Tulip — A former Academy Award Nominee for Best Life Action Short Film.

Directed by acclaimed Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (A star of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”) The story of a recent widower who has to reluctantly take care of his deceased wife’s pet cow…named Tulip.

Asbury Short Film Concerts have been presented at such prestigious venues as The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Royal Festival Hall in London, Lake Shore Theater in Chicago, The Alamo Draft House in Dallas, The Director’s Guild Theater in Manhattan, The Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida, The AERO Theatre in Los Angeles, Summer Stage in Central Park and the Leminske Theater in Berlin to name just a few. This will be Asbury Shorts fifth year presenting the world’s best short films at the Madison Theatre in Rockville Centre.

The Madison Theatre at Molloy College is located at 1000 Hempstead Avenue in Rockville Centre. Tickets cost $15 general admission.

For reservations and show information go to: www.madisontheatreny.org or call 516-323-4444.

Northwinds band to play Glen Head concert The Northwinds Symphonic Band, under the musical and artistic direction of Helen Bauer, will present Concert Band Classics and Virtuoso Artistry at the North Shore High School Theater in Glen Head on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m.

The concert will include works by renowned composers Giacomo Puccini, Edward Elgar, Robert Sheldon, Philip Sparke, Cécile Chaminade, and an exhilarating new arrangement of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” featuring members of the band in a traditional Dixieland ensemble.

Also demonstrating virtuosic artistry will be Alana De Stefano, soloist in the

poignant and classic Concertino for Flute, and Jacqueline Schwartz, featured in Tosca Fantasy on alto saxophone.

Northwinds will perform selections from the current Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” and demonstrate the band’s strong technique and artistry with “Maker’s Mark,” written by Ryan Nowlin, staff arranger for “the President’s Own” United States Marine Band.

Admission to the concert is free.

The North Shore High School Theater is wheelchair accessible. For additional information call 516.759.9694. Follow us on our website northwindsymphonicband.org

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Great Neck Library Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch and Avram Pengas at Atria Cutter Mill Presented by the Music Advisory Committee Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch and Avram Pengas meet on stage to explore together the rich musical heritage that lies behind their roots on Sunday, April 3 at 2:00 p.m., presented by the Great Neck Library Music Advisory Committee at Atria Cutter Mill, 96 Cutter Mill Road, Great Neck, 11021.

Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch and Avram Pengas will play music ranging from folk (Greek, Belarusian, Polish, Israeli, Russian, Yiddish, Ladino, Turkish and more) to classical to jazz.

Using such versatile instruments as voice, woodwinds, and plucked strings, they put it all together in an adventurous journey across continents of music-making and isles of creativity.

Zisl (Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch) is a New York based clarinetist (reed player/multi-instrumentalist), pianist, Jewish music researcher and performer, composer, and educator. A native of Minsk, Belarus, he is a founding member of the critically acclaimed klezmer collective Litvakus. Zisl has performed, composed, or arranged music for numerous theater, film, TV and concert productions having worked with Edward Zwick, Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Joel Grey, Jon Rifkin and many others. His favorite longstanding artistic collaboration is that with the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene.

As an educator, Zisl gained reputation teaching at numerous programs in Jewish studies, Yiddish, and music worldwide. Zisl’s labor of love is raising his two stepchildren and a daughter together with his wife Mariana, and leading the Yiddish and classical music clubs in Brooklyn. More at

http://DmitriSlepovitch.com Musical arranger, lead guitarist, and self-taught bouzouki (a stringed Greek instrument) virtuoso - Avram Pengas, born in Greece, is a versatile performer who plays popular Israeli hits, exotic Arabic melodies, pulsating Persian and Turkish rhythms, Armenian dances and traditional Yiddish songs. He creates music that is rooted in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and draws upon Eastern and Western musical elements. Pengas has appeared in New York at El Avram, Café Feenjon, and in 1979, opened his own nightclub, Noga, in the heart of Greenwich Village. He has performed in the Off-Broadway production of Hot Klezmer, and can still be heard weekly at SoHo’s Cupping Room Café. More at http://avram.pengas.com Sunday afternoon recitals are arranged by the Music Advisory Committee, now in its 45th year. MAC is co-chaired by founding member Gabe Chieco, and includes Beatrice Aubrey, Mary Dehn, Michele Ganz (co-chair) and Estelle Pace. This all volunteer committee is comprised of Great Neck residents and represents a wide range of musical experience and performance.

Please call 466-8055, ext.

277 to reserve a space or register online at greatnecklibrary.org, as seating is very limited.

English Language Conversation for Beginners and 2nd Level at Station The Library invites all new speakers of English to join our English Language Conversation Group. English Language Conversation meetings are held at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd floor), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza every other Tuesday. The next meeting for beginner’s is on Tuesday, April 5 from 12:30

to 1:30 p.m. Conversations for those who have reached beyond the beginner’s level, will be held on April 5 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

These are small, informal groups of people that get together to have conversations in English. Various conversation topics may be chosen. For further information, please call the Reference Dept. at (516) 466-8055, ext. 218.

West Egg Book Group Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya Branch Librarian Kathleen Cotter will lead a discussion of Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s novel, Panic in a Suitcase on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market and Planet Fitness. Having left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a sense of finality, the Nasmertov family has discovered that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they had imagined. Call 466-8055, ext. 233.

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

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, April 7 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. Inspired by true events, this drama explores the subject of women’s equality.

Refer to the Library Newsletter, film brochure or website for further 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.

Building Advisory Committee Meeting A Building Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting will be held on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market and Planet Fitness. All are welcome. Please confirm with the Library at (516) 4668055, ext. 201 that there has been no change in meeting date, day or time.

Socrates Salon with Ron Gross at Station Join conversation host Ron Gross at Socrates Salon to discuss the subject of ‘Bullshit’ on Friday, April 8 at 3:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market and Planet Fitness.

Talk about Faking It, Hypocrisy, Lies, “Truthiness,” Factoids, Humbug, Hokum, and Phoniness in our personal, professional, and political lives. Come join the Great Neck Salon’s BS-Free zone to share your experiences, ideas, feelings, values and insights.

The Salon sessions are informed by Gross’ work at Co-

lumbia University as co-chair of the University Seminar on Innovation, and inspired by his book about the patron saint of conversation, Socrates’ Way, which has been published in 26 countries. Enjoy light refreshments and thoughtful conversation. Topics are announced one month before the Salon.

Note: Seating is very limited.

For everyone’s safety, once the room is full, there will be no admittance. Please arrive early.

Teen Programs at Station Coloring books are back.

Participate in Coloring Pages for Teens on Saturday, April 9 at 11:00 a.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market and Planet Fitness.

Express your creativity, relax, and relieve stress by coloring.

All materials will be provided.

Fandom Club will be held on Saturdays, April 30 and May 21 at 11:00 a.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market and Planet Fitness.

Calling all fans of anime, manga, comics, graphic novels, science fiction, fantasy, and more. Talk about what you are reading and watching. Bring your artwork and collectibles. Trade comics and cards.

Registration is for April 30 and May 21. Contact Courtney Greenblatt, Young Adult Librarian at 466-8055, ext. 218 or register online at www. greatnecklibrary.org.

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

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 Standup Shakespeare Once a month, Veterans Social Club, their families and guests meet at 2 p.m., always for a Social good time! On Friday, April 1, Bob Spiotto, a wonderful performer, will fill us with chuckles and smiles as he does Standup Shakespeare. Bob will do a fun, creative edu-training exploration of Shakespeare’s famous comedic characters as well as The Bard’s best jokes. Don’t

miss this one! It’s free, and includes refreshments courtesy of Atria Great Neck.

Viva the Boutique: its Back Thanks to our friends and supporters, beautiful merchandise is being offered at the Social Center’s Spring Sale. Come and browse handbags, jewelry, scarves, silver, toys and many more season-brightening new and valued treasures. Hours of the sale are Monday, April 4

through Thursday, April 7. Total proceeds of the sale will go to support the many services offered by the Center. Buy while you save money and help support the Center!

Annual Pet Food Drive Thanks in advance for putting cans or bags of pet food in the box in the hall of the Social Center. At 80 Grace Avenue. In turn, we thank Michelle Schimmel, working with us and Long Island Cares, for collecting

and distributing food for so many abandoned creatures in big trouble when they have been left to suffer in cold and storms. Please drop off your donations of canned or bagged pet food in the box at the Great Neck Social Center from March 25 through April 29, and consider yourselves tail-wagged and warmly purred.

Life Care Decisions Ever thought about what you want

done on your final journey? You know the one I mean- the one you want your family to know about your wishes? Mary Ellen Swersky, Director of Social Services at Grace Plaza, will tell you about ways to make your wishes clear for your family. She will tell you about legal documents that will spell out your decisions about the end of life care.

Her presentation will be on Friday, April 1 at 12 p.m..

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Great Neck Park District Moorings Available at Steppingstone Marina Deep water moorings are available at beautiful Steppingstone Marina on Long Island Sound where there is easy access to City Island restaurants, New York Harbor and western Long Island.

Our launch service begins on April 15. Pick up a complete launch schedule at Great Neck House or the Marina.

Moorings are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

A limited number of moorings will be made available to outof-district residents for an additional fee. Also available are ramp use permits (non-resident fee applies) and beach boat registration (residents only). For further information, please call Great Neck House at (516) 482-0355.

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

Parkwood Family Aquatic Center Early Bird Registration!

Register now at Great Neck House, for your Parkwood Family Aquatic Center 2016

Get a discount when you register for your Parkwood Family Aquatic Center pool membership before May 9. membership and receive the discounted early bird rate. To qualify for early bird rates, applications must be postmarked or received in person by 6 p.m. on Monday, May 9.

Nature Program: History of Caumsett State Park Saturday, April 9 at 11 a.m., join us for a moderately long walk in Caumsett State Park, Huntington (approximately 2 miles). We will study the park’s social economic, architectural and political history.

Parking fee applies. Register

by April 1. Ask for directions when registering. Call (516) 482-0355 to reserve a spot.

Children under 16 yrs. not permitted to attend.

The Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink remains open through May. Register now for additional skating programs and lessons.

Weekend Movie The film, Bridge of Spies (2015), starring Tom Hanks,

Mark Rylance and Alan Alda, will be shown at Great Neck House on Friday, April 1 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 2 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Directed by Steven Spielberg, it is rated R and runs 141 minutes. Admission requires a park card.

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.

Sunday @ 3: Vinny St. Marten Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m.

Vinny St. Marten will perform a tribute to Ray Charles at Great Neck House. Born with glaucoma, Vinny lost his eyesight at about eight years old. 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. This will surely be a memorable performance. A park card is required for admission.

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, 487-7665; at the 5 Beach Road office, 482-0181; or by going to greatneckparks.org.

Time to apply is now.

Great Neck Community Calendar 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 reservations, please call John Hyland ( 516) 482-3795.

TUESDAYS WITH REAP REAP, retired, energetic, active people, meets Tuesday, April 5 at the Cumberland School at 30 Cumberland Ave., at Great Neck’s Adult Ed Center.

At 9 a.m. there is a board meeting. Those interested may attend. The business meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. “My Opinion” will be presented by Ellen Rosen.

Carolyn Pompa is the guest speaker with her subject to be announced. Current Events round table follows with a subject introduced

by Peter Lubell this week.

The science club will meet at 1 p.m. They discuss health, nutrition, genetics, developments in all aspects of science. REAP is a diversified, educational group which meets in the spirit of

friendship and fellowship to increase awareness.

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.

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.

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.

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G.N. South High to present opera ‘Carmen’ Great Neck South High School’s music department continues its long-standing tradition, now in its 47th year, of presenting exceptional, full-scale student-performed operas.

This year’s opera is Bizet’s classic masterpiece, Carmen.

It will be performed on Friday, April 8, and Saturday, April 9, both evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium at 341 Lakeville Road.

This opera is a dramatic love story with memorable music and song.

Carmen, a fiery, seductive gypsy, first flirts with Don José, a soldier, then takes on another lover, Escamillo, a bullfighter, with tragic consequences.

Carmen will be sung in French with English supertitles.

In addition to the high school

singers and orchestra, a chorus of students from Lakeville and Saddle Rock Schools will be a part of the production.

Carmen will be under the musical direction of Pamela Levy, conducted by Michael Schwartz, and directed by Robert Stivanel-

lo.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

Tickets may be reserved in advance by calling 516-441-4851 or may be purchased at the door.

There will be open seating for both performances.

GNPS/TV airing four student-made programs 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

Shakespeare comedy at North High Great Neck North High School’s Junior Players will present one of Shakespeare’s early comedies, Love’s Labour’s Lost, on Thursday and Friday, April 7 and 8, at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday, April 9, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

All performances will be held in the school auditorium at

35 Polo Road.

Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting.

Foiling their plans is their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her

ladies.

The play draws on themes of love and desire, reckoning and rationalization, and reality versus fantasy.

For ticket information, call 516-441-4743, or contact Ilana Meredith Schikler, drama teacher, at ischikler@greatneck.k12. ny.us.

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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Birnbaum honors woman ‘trailblazer’ Nassau County Legislator Ellen W. Birnbaum (DGreat Neck) honored Lois Schaffer on Monday, March 21 at the 18th Annual Trailblazers Awards Ceremony at the Nassau County Legislative Chamber in Mineola.

As part of Women’s History Month, the county legislators honor outstanding women in their legislative districts who have “blazed trails” through the wonderful work they do in their communities.

Schaffer is an activist, dance-enthusiast, coordinator, administrator and grants writer for non-profit organizations who has devoted her energies to protecting human rights.

Schaffer’s activism prompted her to participate in marches and rallies in support of the civil rights movement and to protest the war in Vietnam.

In 2008, Schaffer tragically lost her daughter Susie to gun violence when she was shot by teen-aged burglars in her home in St. Louis, Missouri.

Schaffer had been actively working to reduce

gun violence even before her daughter’s murder but since the tragic event, her energies have been even more focused on this pressing issue in order to honor her daughter’s memory and prevent tragedies for other families.

In 2013, Schaffer wrote a book titled, “The Unthinkable: Life, Loss and a Mother’s Mission to Ban Illegal Guns.”

She hopes that this book will help to counteract the violence and easy accessibility of guns.

Schaffer has been donating copies of the book to local colleges because as she says, students are “our future.”

Her ongoing mission to reduce gun violence has included speaking about sensible gun legislation to various local and national groups, attending press conferences, gun-control rallies and the legislative hearings on gun control in Connecticut after the Newtown massacre.

Schaffer and her husband David live in Great Neck. They have a son, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Lois Schaffer receives honor from Ellen W. Birnbaum (D-Great Neck).

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Students win at magnetic competition Great Neck South Middle School Maglev Club members won six of the top 21 awards at the 26th annual Middle School Maglev Contest held at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in mid-March.

They garnered the most awards of the nine schools entered.

The competition is based on the concept of the magnetic levitation technology invented by two Brookhaven Lab retirees, scientist Gordon Danby and engineer James Powell.

Using the principle that magnets of the same “poles” repel each other, students build vehicles that float on a particular track.

“In each individual category, the vehicles are timed to one one-hundredth of a second, going down the track. Sensors are spaced 12-feet apart, giving each contestant the same exact distance for their vehicle to travel. Speed alone does not determine who wins,” Coach/Advisor/Technology Teacher Randy Lane said of the competition. “Each student must submit a detailed portfolio that describes why he/she chose his/her design, what changes were made along the way, along with sketches and orthographic drawings

showing the exact car. In some cases a nicely done portfolio may project a contestant ahead of someone who’s car traveled faster, but who’s portfolio was not done as well.”

Maglev Team members are sixth-graders Andrew Dea, Collin Li, Neal Sodhi, Jansen Wong, John Xie, and seventh-graders Reid Fleishman, Robert Gan, Yangen (Stephen) Ye, and Kobe Zheng.

Xie and Wong took first and second Places, respectively, in the Self-Propelled Other event.

Sodhi and Ye took first and third Places, respectively, in Wind Power. Fleishman finished Third in Gravity. Li took Third Place in the Scale Model Design category.

“This is the second time a South Middle Maglev Team has come home winners with six trophies,” Lane said. “In 2013, we

had similar success at the Cradle of Aviation competition.”

The Maglev Club meets Wednesdays after school from October to March.

The club assembles in the Technology lab where the school’s state-of-the-art track is located.

Members are taught the importance of magnet polarity, friction, proper weight distribution, balance, and symmetry.

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G.N. Rotary hosts Lyons foundation In 1982, Marty Lyons, New York Jets defensive lineman for 12 years, experienced three life altering events in one weeks time.

From these events has grown The Marty Lyons Foundation.

As explained by Jeanne Ellis, one of the three full time employee’s of the Foundation here in New York, over these past 34 years, 7,100 wishes have been granted to terminally-ill children bringing many special moments of joy and happiness to the children and their families.

Members of the Rotary Club of Great Neck were presented with written letters testifying to this fact at one of their recent breakfast

meetings and were encouraged to support the foundations fine work in anyway possible.

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 at 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.

Emanuel to host ex Holocaust center head On April 5, the Sisterhood of Temple Emanuel of Great Neck welcomes Dr. Arthur Flug, retired Director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center of Queensborough Community College to their Lunch & Learn series.

Flug taught in the New York public schools for 30 years and then went on to

become a legislative development consultant, budget designer, fundraiser and community relations expert.

While at the Center, he instituted many unique programs and exhibits including The Comfort Women of Korea and a Holocaust Library with audio tapes preserving the testimony of local Holocaust

survivors.

These tapes were made by students at the college with the pledge to present them again in ten years to a diverse group of people so that these interviews will be remembered.

The Lunch & Learn series presented by the Sisterhood at Temple Emanuel of

Great Neck, at 150 Hicks Lane, has become a well-attended event.

Lunch will be served at noon and the presentation will begin at 1 p.m. Reservations are a must. Call Doris Rosman 516482-7181 to ensure your place. A donation of $18 for each person is requested.

Bring your friends and family.

Book of Queen Esther and Donald Trump Continued from Page 13 strengthen Iran in the region; weakening NATO would be a Christmas gift to Vladamir Putin, and suggesting that Japan and South Korea get nuclear weapons would overturn 50 years of trying to de-nuclearize the world and set off a new

arms race, most probably inspire North Korea’s insane dictator Kim Jong-un to be even more aggressive than he has been (since George W Bush era) to use nuclear warheads.

Trump says he wants to “Make America Great Again!” but what does that mean

Hi-tech biz offices open doors in G.N. Continued from Page 13 to give back to the community by bringing in new businesses and having hi-tech and entrepreneurial businesses,” she said.

Offices at LaunchPad start at $100 per month for a working space, with bigger offices going for anywhere from $500 to $1,200 per month.

Hazen said he was offering the first month of rent free for new businesses.

He also said LaunchPad was awarded $375,000 from Empire State Development’s Regional Economic Development Council, which the company would be spending over the next three years.

Hazen said he was excited to open in Great Neck because of its close proximity to the Long Island Rail Road station and New York City.

“It’s connected to a municipal parking garage, which is fantastic because everyone always needs somewhere to park,” he said.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by local officials including Mangano, Celender, Village of Great Neck Plaza Deputy Mayor Ted Rosen, Village of Great Neck Plaza Trustees Lawrence Katz, Pamela Marksheid and Gerry Schneiderman, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, North Hempstead Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, Village of Great Neck Village Justice Mark Birnbaum, Great Neck Chamber of Commerce President Scott Zimmerman and Village of Great Neck Zoning Board of Appeals Chairperson Dennis Grossman.

exactly? Apparently, Trump is enamored with the glory days of the 1940s and 1950s: meaning he wants to go back to the 1940s, 1950s. “..we started getting, we were not pushed around, we were respected by everybody, we had just won a war, we were pretty much doing what we had to do, yeah around that period.”

But as New York Times’ David Sanger pointed out to Trump (interviewed by telephone), that was the Cold War era, when there was grave insecurity and real concern whether there would be mutually assured annihilation, when kids (like me) were drilling for a nuclear bomb by hiding under our desks. What else was true about the 1940s and 1950s? No civil rights – not for women, Blacks or any other minority, old people, disabled people, or anyone else.

What really, really peeves Trump is that the US is no longer in a position to push around other countries. What he wants is to be able to dictate to other countries, and not even pay for it. – Essentially bully countries the way he bullies underlings. Try that with Putin or North Korea or Israel or just about any place else.

Sitting down with the Washington Post editors to discuss foreign policy, he answered a question about using a battlefield nuclear weapon to take out ISIS this way: “I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear. Remember the one thing that everybody has said, I’m

a counterpuncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a lowenergy individual, he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent 18 million dollars’ worth of negative ads on me. That’s putting [MUFFLED]…”

Prodded again to respond to whether he would use a tactical nuclear weapon against ISIS, he said, “I’ll tell you one thing, this is a very good looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to?”

As a Florida Republican Congressman said, “America can survive a President Donald Trump on domestic policy because the Congress can rein him in” but in foreign policy, a president wields power more like a king.

Trump in fact, has that attitude: as Trump himself has said during the Republican debate in Detroit, when confronted with the reality that torture and killing families of terrorists, which he has advocated as his “solution” to defeating ISIS and terrorism, are illegal and “the military will refuse because they’ve been trained to turn down and refuse illegal orders.

So what would you do, as commander-inchief, if the U.S. military refused to carry out those orders?”

Trump replied, “They won’t refuse.

They’re not going to refuse me. Believe me.”

Like I said, a Grimms’ fairytale, and every bit as unreal and frightening.

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Operation: Clean Sweep coming to Town Starting April 25, North Hempstead Highway crews will be hitting the streets around the clock to sweep up the winter debris on Town streets as the annual “Operation: Clean Sweep” gets underway. This two-week initiative is held each spring and aims to sweep every mile of North Hempstead roads.

“The winter leaves the streets full of dirt and debris, which is in part the result of sanding our roads to keep them safe over the winter months,” said Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “That’s why Operation: Clean Sweep is so important! It will make our roads cleaner and safe for motorists and cyclists. This is North Hempstead’s spring cleaning.”

Last year, the Town’s environmentally-friendly biofueled street sweepers kept debris out of the Town’s fresh-water catch basins as required by New York State, and gobbled up 5 million pounds of debris, with an even higher total expected this year.

The Highway Department needs the public’s help to make Clean Sweep a success. They ask that residents refrain from parking vehicles on town roads from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. during Operation: Clean Sweep days. The public’s cooperation will ensure that the roads get as clean as possible.

From Monday, April 25 to April 29, all areas NOT within incorporated villages and south of the Long Island Expressway will be swept. From Monday, May 2 to May 6 all areas NOT within incorporated villages and Town Councilwoman Lee Seeman, Superintendent of Highways Tom Tiernan, Supervisor Judi Bosworth, and Councilman Peter Zuckerman at last year’s Operation: Clean Sweep. north of the Long Island Expressway will be swept.

Operation Clean Sweep Dates: South of the Long Island Expressway Monday, April 25 • New Cassel • Polo Park Section • Westbury Hills • Albertson, beginning at Train Station and heading west • Manhasset Hills section, heading towards City Line • South Park (Roslyn Heights) Tuesday, April 26 • Carle Place • Searingtown

• New Hyde Park, E/O Denton Avenue and N/O Hillside Avenue Wednesday, April 27 • Country Club Section • Devonshire Section, E/O Denton Avenue and S/O Hillside Avenue • West Williston • New Hyde Park, W/O Denton Avenue and N/O Hillside Avenue Thursday, April 28 • Garden City Park, from Mineola H.S. and heading west

• Stewart Avenue Section, from North NHP, continuing W/O Denton Avenue • NHP, W/o Denton Ave., and S/O Hillside Ave., (including Barwick, Willis, Cherry & McKee) Friday, April 29 Touching up, cleaning up and spot sweeping where necessary *Dates are subject to change based on weather conditions and volume of debris Operation Clean Sweep Dates: North of the Long

Island Expressway Monday, May 2 • Port Washington: E/S PW Blvd., beginning in New Salem, and heading north • W/S PW Blvd., beginning at Marino Ave., and heading north • Great Neck: University Gardens • Manhasset: South Strathmore Tuesday, May 3 • Port Washington: Continuing north from Monday’s cut off location • Great Neck: Pembroke and

Jayson Avenues • Manhasset: South Strathmore Roslyn: W/S Mineola Avenue, from L.I.E. to Village line • West, North and East Parks Wednesday, May 4 • Great Neck: Terrace Circle • Little Neck • Saddle Rock • Manor Section Manhasset: North Strathmore • W/O Plandome Road and N/O Northern Blvd Roslyn: E/S Mineola Avenue, from L.I.E. to Village line

• Glenwood Landing • Greenvale Thursday, May 5 • Great Neck: Terrace Circle • Manor Section • Allenwood Section • Harbor Hills • Embassy Court / Russell Woods Road Manhasset: W/O Plandome Road and N/O Northern Blvd • Behind St. Mary’s Friday, May 6 Touching up, cleaning up and spot sweeping where necessary

Town officials meet with Israeli Deputy Consul General Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, council members Lee Seeman and Peter Zuckerman and Town Clerk Wayne Wink met with Israeli Deputy Consul General Amir Sagie at the Nassau County Legislature on March 16. Israeli Deputy Consul General Sagie spoke about the state of Israel and current efforts to reach out to ethnic communities in the New York area. Nassau County Legislators Judy Jacobs and Ellen Birnbaum were also in attendance. From left: Arthur Katz Senior Ambassador of the Jewish Community Relations Council, Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Council Member Lee Seeman, Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs, Israeli Deputy Consul General Amir Sagie, Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Council Member Peter Zuckerman, Mindy Perlmutter Jewish Community Relations Council Long Island Executive Director, and Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum.

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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 $$840,000 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

39 Old Pond Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,230,000 Date: 08/11/2015 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Colonial

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 80x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $22,167

18 Tuddington Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,621,800 Date: 11/24/2015 4 Beds 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 65x100 Schools: Great Neck

50 Merrivale Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,220,000 Date: 08/27/2015 4 Beds, 4 Full/1 Half baths Style: Ranch

Great Neck Office 11 Bond Street | 516.466.2100 110 WALT WHITMAN ROAD, HUNTINGTON STATION, NY, 11746. 631.549.7401 | Š 2016 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE.

# of Families: 1 Lot Size: 157x68 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $24,015

Visit us at elliman.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

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Getting a home through gift, death This will be a very brief informational article on how real estate may be treated when receiving a gift of real estate from a family member, relative, friend as well as through divorce or death.

However, you must seek licensed and professional assistance when trying to determine if any taxes might be owed due to the transfer of property to another individual or any other entity.

By making inquiries, it will surely keep you out of trouble and not receiving any surprises later on from the IRS that you owe taxes on acquired property.

Some people today get a home through a family member, relative or non-married individual as a gift and you need to know the tax consequences, if any for that gift.

However, it can get very complicated due to how it is setup in a trust or other fashion.

I am not licensed to provide any type of guidance or make a decision as to the law, so you would need to consult a tax attorney or your CPA to determine how your individual situation should be handled.

Here are some links that you

can go to and be able to ascertain information that will be helpful, even before you speak to a professional about your specific needs and wants. http://www.elderlawanswers. com/giving-your-home-to-yourchildren-can-have-tax-consequences-9667 http://homeguides.sfgate. com/quitclaim-deed-vs-giftdeed-1494.html http://www.nolo.com/legalencyclopedia/free-books/livingtogether-book/chapter6-7.html In a divorce situation, which can be and a much more complicated situation, 41 states are equitable distribution states and this is where the courts step in and make the reasonable call as to what is fair, reasonable and an equal distribution of assets, including real estate.

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There are exceptions to the rule, so you must know this and the differences by reading and most important, asking your CPA and/or Lawyer. You cannot hide anything in a divorce situation, so full disclosure is necessary on all assets, especially property. The following are link which will delve more into the subject matter: http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2013/ apr/20126248.html http://www.americanbar.org/ newsletter/publications/gp_solo_

magazine_home/gp_solo_magazine_index/weiler.html When a husband or wife pass away in a marriage, everything that was jointly owned passes through tax free based on the unlimited marital deduction. (including real estate).

There could be exceptions, based on whether other family members had partial ownership.

Again, ask your CPA or attorney for advice.

When you sell your primary residence you are allowed a $250,000 exemption from profit if single and $500,000 (plus your original purchase price plus any documented capital improvements) if married (exceptions will apply, when one spouse dies depending on the time of the sale) The following is a link that will provide a greater in depth explanation and information about the subject matter: http://store.msuextension. org/publications/FamilyFinancialManagement/MT199104HR.pdf Lastly, there is a tax of 3.8 percent tax on some (but not all) income from interest, dividends, rents (less expenses) and capital gains (less capital losses) that

was passed by Congress in 2010, but became effective Jan. 1, 2013 on those individuals with adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 and couples whose AGI was above $250,000.

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Social Security aids veterans’ dependents B y D iane B rangman Social Security District Manager in Mineola Traditionally, on Memorial Day we honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Social Security respects the heroism and courage of our military service members, and we remember those who have given their lives in defense of freedom.

The unexpected loss of a service member is a difficult experience for the family. Social Security helps by providing benefits to protect service members’ dependents.

Widows, widowers, and their dependent children may be eligible for Social Security survivors benefits. You can learn more about Social Security survivors benefits at www.socialsecurity.gov/survivors.

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ans when an injury prevents them from returning to active duty.

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Opponents call for VLT ban on Long Island Continued from Page 10 motes economic growth.

As they have argued since December, opponents said Saturday a casino would increase local crime and hurt the quality of life in the surrounding areas.

Proponents say it would bring much-needed revenue to Nassau County, create jobs and support local economies.

Nassau OTB has estimated the Belmont Park casino would generate $24 million in revenue for local business communities.

Elmont civic leader Patrick Nicolosi was the only casino supporter to appear at the rally.

He said repealing the VLT authorization would give “a free ticket” to nearby casinos in Queens and Yonkers to take in gambling revenue and leave Nassau County with “nothing.”

Leaving the land surrounding Belmont Park undeveloped does no good for the economy, he said.

“It’s good up in Yonkers, it’s good in Monticello, it’s good enough in Saratoga — why isn’t it good enough for us?” Nicolosi said.

Also appearing at the rally were Village of Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy, New York City Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Bellerose) and Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages (D-Elmont), Michaelle Solages’ brother.

State Sen. Tony Avella’s (DQueens) introduction of a repeal bill in the Republican-controlled Senate was considered a significant step in the fight residents have waged since Nassau OTB announced its plans for Belmont Park in December.

Tammie Williams, an Elmont community organizer who helped organize Saturday’s rally, said she thinks the measure will pass the Democrat-controlled Assembly, but the Senate will be a “roadblock.”

In the coming weeks, Williams said, opponents will target state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, an East Northport Republican who has the power to bring the repeal bill to the floor.

“All 21 (are) on watch,” she said of the state senators. “They are all on notice, and we want all our constituents in surrounding communities to rally and also to lobby those state delegates.”

Martins has not taken a position on the Belmont Park casino plan, but has said there are many questions that need to be answered.

Flanagan has not taken a public stance on the issue.

Aides for both senators did not immediately return requests for comment.

OTB wants to build a 100,000-square-foot VLT parlor on an eight-acre parcel of land north of Hempstead Turnpike

An opponent of the proposed Belmont Casino at Saturday’s rally near Belmont’s grandstand.

While it awaits state legislative approval, it plans to erect a temporary facility with 1,000

VLTs, which needs approval from the state Office of General Services and the New York Racing Authority.

Planned Parenthood head slams opponents Continued from Page 12 cember repealing the Affordable Care Act and stripping Planned Parenthood of all federal funding.

President Barack Obama vetoed that legislation in January, saying it would reverse the progress made in the country’s health care services.

“If not for Barack Obama, today there would be no money for Planned Parenthood,” Smith said.

She said federal and state lawmakers should look at the good Planned Parenthood does for both women and men.

Smith said Planned Parenthood of Nassau County provides 27,000 services for 14,000 patients per year.

She also said the organization’s Nassau branch targeted the areas of Hempstead, Roosevelt and Westbury, three locations where teen pregnancy rates were much higher than elsewhere in the county.

“I am very proud to say that the teen pregnancy rates in those three communities have decreased according to our most recent statistics,” Smith said.

She said in Hempstead, the teen pregnancy rate dropped 29 percent, in Westbury, the teen pregnancy

rate dropped 35 percent and in Roosevelt, the teen pregnancy rate has dropped 50 percent over the past few years.

Smith said the results did not just relate to the medical services the organization provides, but also its education efforts in promoting safe sex initiatives.

“This is because they have access to education and they have access to birth control,” she said. “That combination is magical.”

“By defunding Planned Parenthood, they are taking those two things,” Smith added.

From radiation lab to Westminster Dog Show

Award-winning dog at the Westminster Dog Show

Continued from Page 12 movie she saw in 1968 when she was young.

“When I saw the ‘101 Dalmatians,’ I knew I wanted to get a dog,” Butterklee said.

Butterklee said when she got engaged, she bought a pitbull.

“I took the dog to a vet and she was surprised that I owned a pitbull,” Butterklee said laughing.

She said the veterinarian suggested she take the pitbull to an obedience school where she could have her dog trained.

“The trainer told me about a show on Long Island and told me to attend,” she said.

That began Butterklee’s dog training journey.

In any given day, Butterklee keeps about 15 to 20 dogs in the “dogs wing” at her Ronkonkoma home.

“I have a nanny who takes care of them when I’m away,” Butterklee said. “I have to keep the dogs separate, because you

don’t want dog fights and gang bangs.”

Butterklee said taking care of the dogs takes a lot of time and a lot of money but said it is worth it.

“I go to all the specialty shows,” Butterklee said.

Butterklee said she was recently at the New Brunswick Kennel Club showing her dogs. She was in Philadelphia on the weekend of March 19 and in Rockland County two weeks prior to that showing her dogs.

Dog showing isn’t just a getaway, she said, it’s a lifelong passion she’s owned over many years.

She said training a dog takes quite some time before they appear at shows at all.

“You have to teach them how to walk,” Butterklee said.

The dogs have to be conditioned, properly fed and groomed.

At the events, the dog han-

dler steps forward with the dog and proceed to give out a number of commands that the dog has to obey, Butterklee said.

“You have to have taught them how to walk on a leash, pay attention to the handler and walk with head and tail up,” she said.

Judges at these events, she said, examine the dogs, the teeth and body structure.

“And the dogs have to stand still while they’re being touched by strangers,” Butterklee said.

“They have to move their front and rear and they have to be balance.”

In the obedience challenge, judges determine whether the dogs do what they’re told.

“They have to walk off leash, stop or sit next to you,” Butterklee said.

“The passion I have for my job also goes for my dogs,” she said. “I work hard and I play hard.”

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Viscardi Center presents ‘Great White Way’

B y N oah M anskar events, said Kim Brussell, the leave our school, they don’t have nights, adaptive sports, cook- attend the luncheon, Brussel The Viscardi Center will bring the Great White Way to Woodbury next Tuesday at its 34th annual Reach for a Star Luncheon.

Chilina Kennedy, the star of Broadway’s “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” will be the featured performer at the fundraiser for the Albertson-based non-profit’s Henry Viscardi School for people with severe physical disabilities.

The Viscardi School’s second-grade class will join Kennedy for a song on stage at Crest Hollow Country Club, a tradition of the Reach for a Star

Viscardi Center’s associate vice president for development and external relations.

“It’s really a special day for them,” Brussell said.

The event will fund the coming year’s after-school programs and wheelchair basketball teams at the state-accredited school for physically disabled youth, Brussel said.

The Viscardi School gets state funding for its academic programs, Brussel said, but has to raise its own money for those after-school programs, which have an important place in the students’ lives.

“When they go home and

the opportunity to participate in a local soccer team or the Girl Scouts or whatever, ...” she said.

“It’s really important for them from a socialization standpoint.”

Denise Wolfbiss, one of three Reach for a Star event cochairs, saw Kennedy in “Beautiful” and thought she would be a fitting guest for the luncheon, Brussel said.

She agreed and a Viscardi School student got to do a backstage tour with Kennedy and interview her, she said.

The Reach for a Star Luncheon usually nets between $180,000 and $220,000 for the programs, including recreation

ing classes, dance therapy, arts, crafts and more, Brussel said.

Proceeds also support transportation for students, nursing staff, the Viscardi School’s three wheelchair basketball teams, its swimming pool and the Viscardi House, where students can go for overnight programs that teach them daily life skills.

Past Reach for a Star guests include “Today Show” host Hoda Kotb, “American Idol” singer Elise Testone and members of the cast of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Kinky Boots.”

The Viscardi School’s graduating high school class will also

said.

It’s a meaningful day for the many students who have never before seen live theater or music or gone out to eat at a restaurant, she said.

“There are so many things that children who do not have severe disabilities take for granted a little bit, but there are just so many places that are not accessible,” Brussel said.

The Viscardi School in Albertson was founded in 1962 and has classes in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Its students get advanced Regents diplomas and go on to college and careers, Brussel said.

County force to fight quality-of-life issues Continued from Page 1 police headquarters in Mineola and targets low-level offenses, such as open-container violations, underage drinking and narcotics violations, LeBrun said.

Village of East Hills Deputy Mayor Manny Zuckerman said he thinks a force like COPE is “sorely needed” on the North Shore, but wondered whether it would be sufficiently staffed to address problems thoroughly.

“It seems a step in the right direction but I’m just hoping it’s not too little in terms of what we can do,” he said.

The 16 POP officers handle quality-of-life offenses now, but a force dedicated to addressing them — like those in many police departments nationwide — is the “most efficient, strategic way” to increase community policing resources without increasing expenses, LeBrun said.

Rather than assign a few to each of Nassau’s eight precincts, the central location allows COPE officers to “assist any precinct as needed,” he said.

“The commissioner wanted to make sure that our quality of life issues were being investi-

gated and proper enforcement utilized,” he said.

The police department relaunched the POP program last year after many civic leaders, elected officials and residents called for its return.

Before the program was suspended in 2014 as a cost-saving measure, the North Shore’s Third Precinct had four officers assigned to each of its two subdivisions. Each subdivision now has two POP officers.

“We had to focus on the core function, which was responding to calls for emergency service,” Krumpter said.

The POP officers are charged with directly responding to residents’ concerns and forming relationships within the communities they cover.

The COPE force is meant to supplement their work, LeBrun said.

Since March 14, COPE officers have made eight arrests and issued 285 vehicle and traffic summonses and 16 parking summonses, police data shows.

Though they’re not stationed in specific precincts, COPE officers will still attend community

meetings and collaborate with POP officers, he said. They will also help investigate burglaries and other crimes.

“They’re going to be very in tune to what the residents are asking for,” he said.

The police department plans to grow both programs from the current 22 officers to at least 30 by the end of the year, Krumpter said.

The specific timeline for expansion is uncertain, he said, but the POP program will likely grow after the summer months.

North Shore village officials and community leaders have raised questions about whether two POP officers in each precinct would give communities the same level of coverage they had at the program’s height.

The COPE program “definitely will be a positive move” as an aid to the POP officers and a line of defense against quality-oflife crimes, said Zuckerman, who oversees the Village of East Hills’ Security Commission.

But he wondered whether COPE officers would be assigned less often to areas with little crime, such as East Hills.

“If they are expanding the program and it’s sizeable enough to be effective, it’s an excellent program, there’s no doubt about that,” Zuckerman said. “But we’ll just have to wait and see how effective it will be and whether they’re going to expand it, and how they’re going to distribute the personnel.”

The ultimate solution to the North Shore’s enforcement is still the reopening of the Sixth Precinct, Zuckerman said.

The Sixth and Third precincts merged in 2012 as a costsaving move. Led by the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, community leaders, town and county officials and police union leaders have called for the police department to reopen a fully staffed Sixth Precinct.

They say the area it formerly covered, now the Third North Subdivision, gets less effective police service while the promised cost savings have not been realized.

Krumpter defended the merger in an interview, saying the recent clamor for the Sixth’s return is driven by “agendas.”

The merger has met and ex-

ceeded all cost-savings projections, he said, and crime is down 26 percent countywide over the past six years.

“Don’t the taxpayers deserve to garner some benefit by the significant reductions in crime?”

Krumpter said.

There are still 177 daily patrols as there were before the merger, and the Sixth Precinct is more than adequately staffed as a community policing center, he said.

A full Sixth Precinct would require 25 new positions the county doesn’t have money for, Krumpter said, and reassigning officers from operational to administrative roles would compromise public safety, he said.

The Third and Sixth Precincts’ detective squads are also working more efficiently as a combined unit, he said.

Police officials continue to evaluate and adjust community policing strategies and learn from other departments around the country, Krumpter said “We operate under the premise here that just because it’s not broken doesn’t mean we can’t make it better,” he said.

Park district prepares for East Side Access

Continued from Page 1 by 600 in the coming years because of the East Side Access Project and housing developments on the peninsula.

The report also found that 70 more parking spaces were needed to accommodate the number of expected riders by the completion of the East Side Access Project in 2018.

Lincoln said while constructing new parking facilities would solve the issue, there may be other solutions.

“We are reluctant to build a garage because that is very expensive,” he said. “We don’t want to build up the downtown to where there is no open area at all.”

Other possible solutions, Lincoln said, include shuttle bus or van service, group cab service, car pooling, and

valet parking for commuters using the train.

He also said as well as resident input, the board was seeking suggestions from elected officials, Nassau Inter County Express bus officials and LIRR officials.

The district also set a discussion for its April 14 meeting to address resident concerns about a pilot program allowing residents to walk their dogs on leashes in Allenwood Park.

The pilot program began in late January after residents requested the district allow them to walk their dogs in Allenwood Park, similar to what is permitted at the Village Green.

But, Lincoln said, the district received a petition last week from a resident urging them to discontinue the

program.

“Society is becoming more dog friendly,” he said.

“But as elected officials, it is our job to respect the will of our constituents and if they say ‘we don’t want this,’ we have to act accordingly.”

Lincoln said there have been no incidents leading them to think the program should not be continued.

“We talked in generality that some people might go in there with an aggressive dog but we couldn’t point the finger to any event that actually happened,” he said. “If we see there is any type of issue or problem, even in the Village Green, obviously we would shut it down.”

The park district’s meeting will take place at the Great Neck House at 8 p.m.

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John Ryan, newly elected Leader of the Democratic Party of North Hempstead who will be guest speaker at Reach Out America’s monthly meeting on April ll at 2 p.m at UUCSR in Manhasset.

Reach Out America will present as its guest speaker on Wednesday, April 13 at 2 p.m, John Ryan, the newly elected leader of the Democratic Party of the Town of North Hempstead.

Ryan will address the group on his new position, his thoughts about its future and what he to brings to it.

The meeting will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road in Manhasset.

Professionally, Ryan is a vice president of investments and a certified long term care specialist. He has been in the financial service

industry for over 30 years and has received many prestigious awards for his financial and estate planning work as well as for his grief counseling with seniors and their families.

He is the past president of the Great Neck Rotary Club, is President of the Great Neck Social Center, President of CLASP (Children’s Learning After School Program), founder of SAFE Long Island (a project to protect seniors), and co-founder of the Great Neck Business Circle.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock and serves on its Social

Justice Committee. Ryan is consultant and host of Project Independence’s weekly radio program every Friday on 88.1 FM from 10 to 12 a.m.

There will be a Q and A following his presentation. All are invited. For information call 516-487-3786.

Reach Out America’s regular meeting with reports on its ongoing activities will begin at 12:30 p.m.. All are invited to that as well. Reach Out America is an action oriented grassroots organization engaged in a progressive social and political agenda with others for peace, justice and a sustainable planet.

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Community Meetings Village of Baxter Estates Board of Trustees Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 315 Main Street Port Washington (516) 767-0096

Village of East Hills Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 8:00 p.m.

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

Village of East Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 8:00 p.m.

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

Village of East Williston Budget and Annual Organizational Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

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

East Williston School District Board of Education Work Session Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 7:30 p.m Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury (516) 333-7804

Village of Floral Park Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Floral Blvd, Floral Park (516) 326-6300 Village of Flower Hill Organizational Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset (516) 627-5000

Village of Floral Park Reorganizational Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Floral Blvd, Floral Park (516) 326-6300

Great Neck School District Board of Education 2nd Budget Hearing and Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

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• 1 Pc.or entire estates • Premium prices paid for Tiffany, Damaged Meissen Porcelain, Bronzes, Quality Pieces Marble, etc. also

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Renovations New Mouldings Doors Windows

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Community Meetings Continued from Page 72 Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office 236 E Shore Rd., Great Neck (516) 482-0238 Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 61 Baker Hill Road Great Neck (516) 482-0019 Village of Great Neck Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 61 Baker Hill Road Great Neck (516) 482-0019 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Gussack Plaza, Great Neck (516) 482-4500 Herricks School District Board of Education Meeting Thursday, April 7@ 7:30 p.m.

Herricks Community Center, 999 Herricks Road, New Hyde Park (516) 305-8900

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Village of Kensington Architectural Review Board Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 8:30 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Nassau Drive, Great Neck (516) 482-4409 Manhasset School District Board of Education Informal Budget Hearing Thursday, April 7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Munsey Park School 1 Hunt Lane, Manhasset (516) 267-7400 Village of Manorhaven Planning Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 33 Manorhaven Blvd.

Port Washington (516) 883-5900 Village of Mineola Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall 155 Washington Avenue, Mineola (516) 746-0750 Village of Mineola Board of Education Workshop Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 7:00 p.m.

Willis Avenue School 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola (516) 237-2000

Village of New Hyde Park Budget Hearing Monday, April 4 @ 7:30 pm Village Hall, 1420 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 354-0022 Village of New Hyde Park Board of Trustees Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 1420 Jericho Turnpike New Hyde Park (516) 354-0022 Village of North Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall One Shelter Rock Road, North Hills (516) 627-3451 Village of Old Westbury Planning Meeting Monday, April 4 @8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 1 Stone Hill Road, Old Westbury (516) 626-0800 Village of Plandome Heights Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 37 Orchard Street, Manhasset (516) 627-1136 Village of Plandome Work Session Monday, April 4 @ 7:00 p.m.

Village Hall 65 South Drive, Plandome (516) 627-1748 Port Washington School District Board of Education Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Schreiber High School 101 Campus Drive, Port Washington (516) 767-5805 Village of Port Washington North Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 3 Pleasant Avenue, Port Washington (516) 883-5900

Village of Roslyn Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Monday, April 4 @ 9am Village Hall 1200 Old Northern Boulevard Roslyn (516) 621-1961 Village of Russell Gardens Board of Trustees Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 6 Tain Drive Russell Gardens (516) 482-8246 Village of Saddle Rock Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 8:30 p.m.

Village Hall 18 Masefield Way Saddle Rock (516) 482-9400 Village of Sands Point Planning Meeting Tuesday, April 5 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 26 Tibbits Lane Sands Point (516) 883-3044 Village of Thomaston Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 00 East Shore Road Great Neck (516) 482-3110 Village of Williston Park Board of Trustees Workshop Meeting (6:30 p.m.)

Budget Hearing (7:00 p.m.)

Reorganizational Night (7:30 p.m.)

Monday, April 4 Village Hall 494 Willis Avenue Williston Park (516) 746-2193 Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted. All meetings, dates and times are subject to change.

Village of Roslyn Estates Planning Meeting Wednesday, April 6 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates (516) 621-3451 Roslyn School District Board of Education Meeting Thursday, April 7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Roslyn High School 475 Round Hill Road Roslyn Heights (516) 801-5100

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Help Wanted ACCOUNT CLERK PART TIME HICKSVILLE WATER DISTRICT is seeking a motivated individual to work in our accounting department to assist with AP accounts, processing bills, claims and purchase orders with some minor filing. Also reconcile bank statements, run end of month reports, answer phones. Experience working with a municipal budget a plus. Please send resume no later than April 15, 2016 to: Mr. Anthony Iannone, Superintendant Hicksville Water District 4 Dean St, Hicksville, NY 11801 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

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Phones, data entry, filing, scanning.

Experience a plus. Please fax resume to 516-498-9005 BABYSITTER 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

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North Shore Village is seeking Public Safety Officers Must be available for all shifts including overnight, and weekends.

Must Have NYS Driver's License and NYS Security Guard License Retirees Welcome

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2016 SUPER SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE PARK AT EAST HILLS!

Park Attendants and Lifeguards 1. Are you looking for an exciting summer job with competitive pay and an upbeat environment?

2. Would you like to spend the summer at the finest park facilities with the largest municipal pool on Long Island?

3. Do you like the outdoors? Then our position is a perfect fit for you!

REQUIREMENTS: • At least 16 years of age • Lifeguards must be Nassau County Certified • Available to work through Labor Day weekend To apply: Contact The Park at East Hills at 516-484-9800, e-mail us at: clastraglio@villageofeasthills.org or simply visit Village Hall on a business day from 9am-4:30pm. We are located at 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills, NY 11576.

Ask for Christina Lastraglio to get an application.

The Village Of East Hills is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Elder Care Companion Mature Woman With Car Available for: • Shopping & Errands • Activities • Cooking Meals • Doctor Appointments • Home Organization

NEILA ROSENBERG (347) 387-6798

TRUSTWORTHY • RELIABLE • COMPASSIONATE • FLEXIBLE

Email resume to publicsafety@villageofeasthills.org.

No Phone Calls.

Please do not respond unless you have the Security Guard License.

8hr/16hr certificates ONLY do not qualify The Village Of East Hills is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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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 917796-4443

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

HANDYMAN​/​HELPER: North Shore Contractor. Must be clean cut, speak English, Driver’s License and some basic construction experience. Call 516-365-6685

NANNY GARDEN CITYFULL 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

SEASONAL HELPER: HICKSVILLE WATER DISTRICT is looking for motivated ambitious people to work full time over the summer in the water industry. Some duties would include painting hydrants, digging holes, housekeeping of treatment facilities, assisting work crews repair mains and meter reading. A valid NYS driver’s license required. Starting May 1st to September 30th, hours are from 7:30am to 3:45pm at $15​/​hour. Please send resume no later than April 15, 2016 to: Mr. Anthony Iannone, Superintendant Hicksville Water District 4 Dean St, Hicksville, NY 11801

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

HVAC ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT experienced, part time to work 2 or 3 days a week 7am to 4:30pm based on candidate’s availability. Duties include but are not limited to: maintain service calls and dispatch technicians to job sites, client contact, filing, phones, emails, mail, Quickbooks invoicing and data entry, customer payments. Qualified candidates must be able to multi task in a busy office environment, a self starter, able to work independently, meticulous, organized and punctual. Proficient in Word, Outlook and Quickbooks.

Please email resume to bizqd5wr@ verizon.net or fax to 516-437-6156

HOST​/ HOSTESS​/ BUSBOY AND SERVER POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Experience preferred.

GRIMALDIS PIZZERIA, 980 Franklin Ave, Garden City 516294-6565 ​​Ask For Megan 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 patient-oriented focus for service and care. Basic computer skills are needed. Days include alternate Saturdays 8:30am-2:30pm, every Monday and Tuesday 9:00am4:00pm. Workweek flexibility is important. Salary is competitive based on experience. Medical employment references are required.

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WATER PLANT ATTENDANT​ / WATER SERVICE TRAINEE HICKSVILLE WATER DISTRICT is seeking highly motivated individuals to work full time in the water industry. The position is an entry level position working in the field repairing mains or at the water treatment facilities. The individual will perform a wide variety of semi-skilled manual tasks.

The candidate will be expected to work after hours on emergency repairs & maintenance.Typical duties include performing tasks involving physical labor at building, roadway and plant sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare work sites, dig trenches, clean up work debris and assist other workers. Other duties may include cleaning water treatment plants, delivering and working with chemicals, performing general maintenance and other related activities. The individual must be a high school graduate, possess a valid NYS driver’s license and willing to work days, nights, weekends and inclement weather. Individuals must pass a pre-employment medical examination and drug screening, which the District will pay for. The medical examination is intended to evaluate the candidate’s ability to meet the physical & health requirements for this position. Water industry knowledge and construction experience is a plus. Hicksville residents will receive first consideration. Starting salary $41,500-$45,619 depending on experience & ability, with a wide range of benefits. This is considered a non-competitive entry level civil service position.

Please send resume no later than April 18, 2016 to: Mr. Anthony Iannone, Superintendant 4 Dean St, Hicksville, NY 11801

NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION PART TIME: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for a person experienced in Adobe In-Design to lay out classified and legal pages on Tuesday evening. Office conveniently located in Williston Park. To apply please email resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve Blank 516-307-1045 x201

Situation Wanted AIDE AVAILABLE: Kind, Compassionate HHA working with sick, elderly and newborn care seeking FT​/​PT position on weekdays, weekends or overnight. 25+ years experience. References available.

Call Liz 516-590-5338 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 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 SERVICES available for homes, apartments & offices.

Flexible hours. Available anytime.

Experienced with excellent references. Located in West Hempstead.

Own supplies & transportation. Free estimates Call Reina 516-643-9341

Situation Wanted 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 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 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 NURSE’S AIDE Certified, 15 yrs experience, honest, reliable, licensed driver with own car. Available full time, part time, overnights.

Call Barbara 516-468-1340 NURSING ASSISTANT I’m a certified nursing assistant seeking private home care position. Over 15 years experience. Licensed driver.

Available Monday to Friday daytime hours and some weekends.

Contact Cynthia 917-805-7782

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marketplace ▼ Situation Wanted NURSING ASSISTANT: 17+ years experience seeks to care for the elderly. Live in or out.

Great references. Driver’s license. Immediate. 917-470-8976

career training SECURITY GUARD TRAINING LONG ISLAND & MANHATTAN 516-444-9686 & 646-942-1457.

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Adoption ADOPTION: Loving couple hoping to adopt a baby. Open, accepting, secure. Contact Sue and Gary at suegaryadopt@ gmail;com 516-234-7187 See our video: www.suegaryadopt.com

marketplace

for sale FURNITURE FOR SALE GARDEN CITY: Ethan Allen 8x10 rug, sisal with a beautiful Damask design border Ethan Allen 47x28 coffee table Raymour & Flanigan bed & upholstered 40x30 coffee table All in good used condition. Prices & more details upon request. Call 516-633-2456 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 GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY Saturday April 9 10am-2pm 21 Lydia Lane Mega Cleanout !!

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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!!

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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

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pets

Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256

*BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-7468900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles 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 WILLISTON PARK: Resurrection Thrift Shop Shared ministry between St. Aidan’s & Resurrection housed at Resurrection, 147 Campbell Ave @ Center Street. OPEN Thursdays 9:30am to 1:00pm and Saturdays 10am to 2pm. 516-746-5527. Jewelry, clothing, household items, etc.

DONATIONS accepted Monday through Thursday 9am to 1pm

Advertising Sales Executive Blank Slate Media Blank Slate Media, a fast-growing chain of 6 award-winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service-oriented professional with good communications skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Earn up to $60,000 in the first-year representing the 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well the 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slate’s sales partner, Litmor Publications.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and service-oriented sales professional with good communication skills.

Requirements: Minimum of 2 years outside sales experience.

Newspaper sales experience a plus. Must have your own car.

• Exclusive, protected territory • Opportunity to sell both print and online programs • A collegial, supportive sales team • Award-winning editorial coverage.

• A separate newspaper for each community allowing advertisers to target their markets.

And you to provide the most cost-effective way to advertise.

• Represent media that produce superior response for clients.

Compensation • Salary plus commission • Health insurance • Paid holidays • Sick days & holidays

To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter to sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve at 516.307-1045 x201 for more information.

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▼ real estate, service directory PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING

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Doggie Day Care Boarding Dog Walking Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

GARDEN CITY PARK: 1st floor, private bedroom and bath, full use of basement with separate washer​ /​dryer, share kitchen, $1,100 utilities included. Move right in! Jill 516-354-4340

PUPPY​/ DOG SITTER: Boarding and day care provided in my home for small dogs up to 25 lbs. Love and attention all day. Reliable. Call Rose 516-735-1911

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

Auto Services ELITE AUTO DETAILING: Anthony Masia, Owner​/​Operator Dependable, professional detailer. SUV’s, vans, pick-ups also detailed at a higher price. We specialize in imports​/​Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Jaguar & Maserati. $10 off complete detail. Spring Wash & Wax Special $85​/​cars only. Coupons not to be combined 631-612-7152

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Apartment For Rent

GARDEN CITY Large 1 Bed, New EIK Immediate $2100 Four rooms, 2 Bed, updated Kitchen & Bath $2,800 up Five rooms, 3 Bed, 2 Full Baths, Many Extras $3,000 up Many other rentals available!!

GARDEN CITY PROPERTIES 516-746-1563

Office Space GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate.

Near LIRR, stores. Available now. $1,475​/​mth. Call Owner 516-5387474 or 538-7476 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 2000 sf. available on Hillside Ave. Professional Building. Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission paid. Tony 516-248-4080

Vacation Rental OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Best selection of affordable rentals. Full​ /​partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800-638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com SOUTHOLD WATERFRONT VACATION HOME Kayak from the backyard to Goose Creek and beaches. Close to vineyards, town, beaches and all the North Fork has to offer. Beautifully decorated home with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 living rooms and large eat in kitchen. Deck with BBQ, kayaks and bikes for your use.

June $12,000 July $15,000 August​​ Labor Day $18,000 See pics on VRBO listing 805085 Call 917-5336144 for more info

real estate for sale

Lots for Sale CATSKILL MOUNTAINS Lender ordered sale. 39 acres​​Was $119,900 NOW $99,900. Fields, woods, apple trees, valley views, stonewalls, ATV trails! 3 hrs NYC! Terms avail. Call 888-701-7509 NewYorklandandlakes.com HANDYMAN FARM 5 acres, Trout stream​​$69,900. Country 3 BR house, stream, fields, views, beautiful Catskill Mountain setting! Call 888-905-8847 Newyorklandandlakes.com MOUNTAIN GETAWAY! 5 acres​​ $39,900. Jaw dropping views, fields, stonewalls, southern exposure, less than 3 hrs from the GW bridge. Call 888-479-3394 Newyorklandandlakes.com

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Open House JAMESPORT BAYFRONT! Saturday, April 2 12pm to 2pm 27 Pye Lane Charming cedar shingled 2 story. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, LR​/ fireplace, Kitchen & Dining area, CAC. Large deck with fabulous views of the bay. Fantastic beach! Great location. $879,000. Colony Realty, 631-722-5800

Out Of Town Real Estate JAMESPORT PANORAMIC WATERVIEW ARTS & CRAFT style custom 2 story. Deeded beach rights! 4 BR, 3 Bath. Gourmet galley Kitchen. Master BR suite​ / large balcony. Large screened porch. Exercise room. Detached 2+ car garage with studio.

50ft to Sandy Sound Beach. $1,249,000 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623 SOUTH JAMESPORT Beautiful Bay views abound from this legal 2 family cedar home. Sandy beach across the street. 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath. Water views from every room! Experience historic South Jamesport all year long with income producing property. $695,000. Colony Realty 631-722-5800

service directory LABORERS - Days / Nights Live In or Live Out NO FEE TO EMPLOYERS **EVON’S SERVICES ** Call: 516-505-5510 NEW YORK MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS: Joan Atwood, Ph.D. An experienced therapist makes all the difference. Individual, couple, family therapy and anger management.

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Computers COMPUTER REPAIR AND INSTRUCTION Technical College Graduate Eliminate viruses, malware, bloatware, adware, spyware Computer Instruction Home & Business Networking Reasonable Rates Call Phil at Aspect Networking 516-830-3366 OR email: support@aspectnetworking.com

Home Improvements AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 23year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 DEVLIN BUILDERS Since 1979.

We do all types of improvements including HANDYMAN REPAIRS. No job too small. Bob Devlin 516-365-6685. Insured License H18C730000 GRACE ROOFING: Est. 1977. slate, tile flat roofs, asphalt and wood shingle roofs, gutters and leaders cleaned and replaced, professional new roof installation.

Free estimates, expert leak repairs. lic​/​ins, local references, residential​/​commerical 516-753-0268 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard 646-996-7628

Home Improvements ONE STOP FOR ALL YOUR HOME improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown molding, closets, doors, sheetrock, painting, dry wall, repairs, spackling & wall paper removal and installation, decks power washed, stained and built. Gem Basement Doctor 516623-9822. www.gem-home.com SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain​/​rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands.

Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience. 631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

Painting & Paperhanging JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing. Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378

Party Help LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

Tutoring BAR​/ BAT MITZVAH LESSONS Take the struggle and hassle out of Hebrew and Bar​/​Bat Mitzvah lessons. Michael Marcus Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tutoring and Services. Call 516-524-0191 email michael@barbatmitzvahlessons.com

Tutoring STOCK MARKET TUTOR: Retired banker and experienced stock market trader available for tutoring high school students on the stock market. Should have some knowledge of the market. Adults welcome. Text​/​call Ron Goldberg 516-567-8434

Instruction PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty. 516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons.com

Cleaning CLEANING HOME​​OFFICE: Weekly, monthly since 1979. Insured​ / bonded. Trusted​/ reliable. Call Olympia Cleaning 516-883-0359 SPRING INTO ACTION LET US CLEAN YOUR HOUSE WINDOWS GARDEN CITY WINDOW CLEANING Home Window Cleaning Service by Owner Free Estimates Inside & Out Fully Insured 25 Years Experience 631-2201851 516-764-5686 STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates. Bonded and insured.

516-538-1125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com SUPER CLEAN: Hourly rates, residential, grout cleaning, move ins and outs. Adam 516-943-6831

Services

MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus.

Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 MATHEMATICS TUTOR: NYS certified math teacher. Experienced and patient. All elementary and middle school grades. HS Algebra, Geometry and SAT prep.

Text or call Ken 516-526-8315 or email: kmctutor79@gmail.com SPANISH TUTOR: High School​ /​Middle School, College. Spanish Grammar-Literature, SAT II, AP Exam. William Cullen, M.A., M.B.A., S.D.A. Chaminade, Fairfield Alumnus. 516-509-8174 wdctutor06@aol.com

• Spring Turn-Ons • Backflow Device Tests • Free Estimates • Installation • Service/Repairs

Joe Barbato (516) 775-1199 A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www.ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405 COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman. 516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@gmail.com www.

CollegeArtsAdmissions.com COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL​/​ DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential​ /​Commercial.

Bonded​/​Insured.

Free estimates. 516-538-1125 OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated sine 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed​ /​insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc. Please call 516466-9220 TAX PREPARATION by Maria Passariello. Registered IRS & NYS Tax Preparer. We make house calls! New client discount 10%. 25 years experience. Available all ye ar, appointments 7 days. 516-9843328 or mptax1040@gmail.com

ELEMENTARY​/​MIDDLE SCHOOL TUTOR: Reading, Writing and Math. 20+ years general and special education. Trained in Wilson Reading, Fundations, Project Read, Go Math, Big Ideas Math.

Email: kerrisapuppo@gmail.com ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT​/​ACT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-5998007 or email: dianegot@gmail. com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

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CHILD CARE ELDER CARE HOME HEALTH AIDES AND MORE! We offer the following services: Companions, Home Health Aides​/​Elder Care Child Care and Housekeeping

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▼ LEGALS Legal Notice BUDGET HEARING & ADOPTION GREAT NECK LIBRARY PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing on the proposed Great Neck Library Budget for 2016/17 will be held on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Parkville Branch Library, 10 Campbell Street (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park, NY 11040.

GNN 143205 2x 4/01, 8, 2016 #143205

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

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 BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION OF THE GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual election of the qualified voters of the Great Neck Union Free School District Nassau County, New York will be held on May 17, 2016 in the two election districts: ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 1​ —​All that section of the School District lying north of the Long Island Railroad, at the Great Neck E.M. Baker School, 69 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York; ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 2​ —​All that section of the School District lying south of the Long Island Railroad, at the Great Neck South Senior High School, 341 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, New York, for the following purposes: A) To vote upon the annual school budget for the year 2016-2017 and to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable property of the district for the foregoing purposes (PROPOSITION NO. 1).

B) To vote upon the following propositions: PROPOSITION NO. 2 (Capital Reserve Fund Expenditure Proposition): RESOLVED, that the Board of Education (“Board”) of the Great Neck Union Free School District (“District”), be hereby authorized to appropriate and expend from the District’s Capital Reserve Fund I, heretofore established by the voters of the District on May 19,

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2015, an amount not to exceed Nineteen Million Dollars ($19,000,000), plus interest accrued thereon, to undertake and perform certain school building improvement projects (“Projects”) substantially as referred to and described in the District’s Proposed Capital Improvements 2016 Report (“Report”) on file and available for public inspection in the office of the District Clerk, all at no additional cost to District taxpayers; said Projects to commence during the 2016-2017 school year and to consist of capital improvements, renovations and​/​or alterations in all District buildings and facilities and the sites thereof, including (as and where necessary): Phipps Administration Building, South High School, South Middle School, North High School, North Middle School, Lakeville School, Parkville School, Parkville Annex, John F. Kennedy School, Saddle Rock School, E.M. Baker School, Village School, Clover Drive, Grace Avenue and Cumberland buildings; all of the foregoing to include furnishings, equipment, machinery, demolition and other work required in connection therewith, as well as preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; provided that the detailed costs of the components of the Projects as set forth in the Report may be reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interests of the District and no material change shall be made in the scope of the Projects.

PROPOSITION NO. 3: RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Great Neck Union Free School District, Nassau County, New York, shall pay to the Great Neck Library, Great Neck, New York, a sum to be requested by the Board of Trustees of the Great Neck Library, Great Neck, New York, such sum to be raised by tax on the taxable property of said district for the support of said Great Neck Library for the year beginning January 1, 2017.

C) To elect for a three-year term, a member of the Board of Education to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of Monique Bloom, the new term to begin July 1, 2016.

D) To vote upon such other propositions as may properly come before the meeting.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Board of Education will hold a public budget hearing on May 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. DST, in the South Middle School located at 349 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, New York for the purpose of discussing expenditure of funds and the budgeting thereof relative to the appropriation of necessary funds to meet the necessary expenditures of said school district for school year 2016-2017 at which time and which place all persons interested in the subject matter thereof will have an opportunity to be heard.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that the annual election shall be conducted by voting on propositions and candidates on voting machines on May 17, 2016 commencing at 7:00 a.m. and ending 10:00 p.m., DST. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (school budget) exclusive of public monies, and copies of propositions involving expenditure of monies for the operation of the school system for the ensuing year, may be obtained by any resident in the district during the fourteen days immediately

preceding the annual election, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at each schoolhouse in which school is maintained during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The aforesaid budget statement shall contain the amount of money to be paid to Great Neck Library for library services for the year beginning January 1, 2017.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by the statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payment in lieu of taxes and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that nominations for members of the Board of Education shall be made by petition signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District and filed in the office of the District Clerk between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. not later than the 30th day preceding the election at which the trustees shall be voted upon, this year, April 18, 2016. Such petition shall state the residence of each signer and shall state the name and residence of the candidate.

The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes shall be considered elected to office.

Where terms are of different length, the candidate receiving the highest vote shall be elected to the longest term.

However, a nomination may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for the office or declares his or her unwillingness to serve.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that registration is permitted in the office of the District Clerk, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, during the hours 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, up to and including May 12, 2016.

A register will be prepared and will be filed in the office of the District Clerk, 345 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, New York, and such register will be open for inspection by any qualified voter between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (DST) on each of the five (5) days prior to the day set for voting on the budget and election, except Sunday, and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon (DST) on Saturday, and at each polling place on election day.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a person shall be entitled to vote at the annual election who is a citizen of the United States, eighteen years of age, a resident of the School District for a period of thirty days next preceding the election at which he​/s​ he offers to vote and registered to vote for said election. A person shall be registered to vote if he or she shall have permanently registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections or with the School District’s Board of Registration. Only persons who shall be registered shall be entitled to vote. Said register shall include (1) all qualified voters of the District who shall present themselves personally for registration, and (2) all voters previously registered for any annual or special District election and who shall have voted at any annual or special District election held or conducted at any time within the four calen-

dar years (2012-2015) prior to preparation of said register.

AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Registration will meet during the hours of voting at the Annual District Election on May 17, 2016 at the polling places in each of the election districts to prepare a register for District elections to be held subsequent to May 17, 2016.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvas ballots pursuant to Education Law ß2019-a.2.b at said special meeting of the Board.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that applications for absentee ballots for the school district election may be applied for at the office of the District Clerk. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the office of the District Clerk on each of the five days prior to the day of the election except Sundays.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Education has adopted rules governing the election, which include the following: a) Any proposition or question to be placed upon the voting machines (except propositions or questions which are required to be stated in this Notice) shall be submitted in writing by petition subscribed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District or 5% of the eligible voters who voted in the previous annual election, whichever is greater, and filed in the office of the District Clerk between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., not later than the 30th day preceding the election at which such question or proposition shall be voted upon, except that on the 301 day, this year, April 18, 2016, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. b) All petitions submitting questions or propositions shall clearly and concisely state the proposition or question to be submitted to the election, but the form and language of such question or proposition shall be determined by the Board of Education. c) The Board of Education shall examine each petition filed with the office of the District Clerk for the submission of questions and propositions and may reject said petition if its purpose

is not within the power of the voters, or where expenditure of money is required by the petition, if the proposition fails to include the necessary specific appropriation.

Dated: March 14, 2016 Great Neck, New York

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT MICHELE DOMANICK, DISTRICT CLERK GNN 143292 4x 4/01, 15, 22, 5/13, 2016

to reject all proposals, or to accept any proposal, which in the opinion of the Board of Education will be in the best interests of the School District.

Board of Education, Great Neck Union Free School District, Great Neck, New York By: Terry S. Hood Business Administrator GNN 143294 1x 4/01/​2 016 #143294

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.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of Great Neck Union Free School District of the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, (in accordance with Section 103 of Ar\icle 5-1 of the General Municipal Law) hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for: DRIVER EDUCATION INCAR INSTRUCTION 20162017 THROUGH 2018-19 For use in the schools of the District. Bids will be received until 10:00 AM prevailing time on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at the Purchasing Office, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, New York 11020 at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened.

Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the same office. The Board of Education reserves the right to waive any informality in the bids, or to reject all bids, or to accept any bid which, in the opinion of the Board of Education, will be i n the best interests of the School District.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of Great Neck Union Free School District of the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, (in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5-1 of the General Municipal Law) hereby invites the submission of sealed proposals for: RFP​—​RESIDENCY MONITORING SERVICE 2016-17 THROUGH 2018-19 For use in the schools of the District. Proposals will be received until 10:30 AM prevailing time on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at the Purchasing Office, Phipps Administration Building, 345 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, New York 11020 at which time and place all proposals will be publicly opened. Specifications and proposal forms may be obtained at the same office. The Board of Education reserves the right to waive any informality in the proposals, or

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF GREAT NECK PLEASE PUBLISH ONE TIME, FRIDAY, April 1, 2016 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Assessor of the Village of Great Neck, Nassau County, New York, has completed and verified the final assessment roll of the Village for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2016 and ending May 31, 2017. A copy of the aforementioned final roll has been filed with the Clerk-Treasurer at his office, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck, New York where it may be seen and examined by any person during business hours, 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Mondays through Fridays, from April 1, 2016 until April 30, 2016.

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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.

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Helen Keller Center to hold walk/run B y S arah M inkewic z

People of all ages and abilities will join together at the Sands Point Preserve for Helen’s Run/Walk 2016 on April 17 hosted by the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults.

Director of communications and events Deborah Rodriguez and Development Officer Marina Carroll both encouraged the community to come out to the event and show support.

“It’s a wonderful community event,” Carroll said. “Even those people who don’t want to run can still show their support by being cheerleaders.”

“It’s going through an amazing area,” Rodriguez added. “Last year the weather was great and it was a beautiful event.”

The Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults is a national organization based in Sands Point that enables individuals who are blind, visually impaired, deaf-blind or have combined hearing and vision loss to live, work and thrive in the communities of their choice, according to the Hellen Keller National Center website.

Currently top fundraising team: Holly’s Homies The annual 5K/3.1 mile event benefits Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults in Sands Point, which is located at 141 Middle Neck Road.

“There are over 2.4 million people who have a combined visions and hearing loss,” Carroll said.

Rodriguez said more than 300 participated at last year’s event. As of March 28, 140 are registered.

Individuals of all ages and disabilities are welcome to participate. Participants under 18 years of age must have a waiver signed by a parent or legal guardian.

Carroll said former deaf-

blind student Jon Gabry formed a team and is the highest fundraiser so far.

Participants can support Jon’s team, form their own, or participate as an individual.

The goal is to raise $50,000, which Carroll said they are half way there.

“HKNC students come from

all across the country and we strive to offer them a healthy lifestyle while they are attending our independent living and vocational training program,” Carroll said.

All proceeds from Helen’s Run/Walk 2016 will go directly to HKNC’s recreation project that includes renovating and upgrading the gymnasium on HKNC’s campus in Sands Point.

Those who can’t attend the event in Sands Point, can support Helen’s Run/Walk from anywhere in the country by registering as a ‘Virtual Walker.’ People can also participate by sponsoring a team and/or participant, or becoming a sponsor.

Check in and registration is from 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. The official start is at 9:30 a.m.

Registration before April 14 is $25 for adults; $15 for youths age 18 and under. After April 14 and day of event will be $30 for adults and $20 for ages 18 and under.

Registration includes refreshments and a souvenir T-shirt.

Awards will be presented at the conclusion of the race.

To register for Helen’s Run/ Walk 2016, please visit www. helenkeller.org/hknc.

Northwell announces Cosmos as partner B y A dedamola A gboola Northwell Health announced Friday it has entered a partnership with the New York Cosmos that will see three of its orthopedic surgeons join the soccer as team physicians.

As part of the agreement, Northwell Health will provide medical services to the soccer team’s “A” and “B” squad.

Doctors Nicholas Sgaglione, Andrew Goodwillie and Randy Cohn will be on the three-man medical team serving the Hempstead based soccer team.

“Northwell Health Orthopedics is excited to announce our partnership with the New York Cosmos as their official orthopedic providers,” said Sgaglione who is a professor and chair of the department of orthopaedic surgery at Northwell Health. “We are honored that the 2015 North American Soccer League champions recognize our commitment to treating athletes at the highest level.”

Sgaglione will serve as the Division Two team’s medical director, while Goodwillie and Cohn will be head team physician and associate team physician, respectively.

“We are very excited about working with Northwell Health,” Cosmos Chief Operating Officer Erik Stover said in a statement. “They have a great network and through this partnership they will help us maintain high quality treatment for our players, avoiding injury where possible along with fast and effective recovery.”

The Cosmos are reigning champions of the North American Soccer League, having captured their second league title in three seasons and seventh overall on November with a 3-2 win over Ottawa Fury FC in the championship final.

The team was founded in 1971 playing 14 seasons in the NASL winning five Soccer Bowl trophies The Cosmos since its existence have been instrumental in bringing some of the biggest names in world soccer to the United States from Pelé, Franz Beckenbau-

er, Giorgio Chinaglia to Carlos Alberto.

It had been nearly 30 years since the Cosmos played in a professional league. Yet throughout their absence, the club maintained a loyal and dedicated fan following.

On Aug. 3, 2013, the New York Cosmos returned to the NASL with a sellout win at Shuart Stadium, before embarking on a season that would see the Cosmos win the 2013 Soccer Bowl with a 1-0 victory against the Atlanta Silverbacks on Nov. 9, 2013 at Atlanta Silverbacks Park.

Raúl and Marcos Senna, legends at famed Spanish sides Real Madrid and Villarreal CF, each suited up in Cosmos colors for modern era championship runs, adding their names to the impressive list of global soccer stars to feature at the club.

“As national and regional leaders in sports medicine, our team of specialists is dedicated to providing expert care to both local and professional players. We look forward to our partnership and a great 2016 season,” Sgaglione said.

Temple Isaiah Rabbi Tsuruoka dies at 69 Continued from Page 2 a young man,” Perell said. “We were so taken by that we didn’t feel the need to interview anybody else.”

Temple Isaiah Co-President Kathie Davis said Tsuruoka’s demeanor during the interview impressed the search committee.

“At the interview, he sat right

down, he rolled up his sleeves and boom,” Davis said. “We just knew right away that he was our rabbi.”

Tsuruoka was ordained a rabbi in 2004.

Perell said members of the congregation had attended his ordination ceremony.

Over the past 15 years since

joining the temple, Perell said, Tsuruoka was active in offering classes, lectures and engaging with its members.

“He energized the congregation. He was involved in everything,” Perell said. “He was a very, very active rabbi. Even when he was a student he was working the equivalent of full

time hours.”

Davis said aside from his sermons and teachings at the temple Tsuruoka was an easily approachable person that anybody could talk to.

“If you needed him, he was a good shoulder to lean on,” she said. “He was very intelligent, very caring and he would visit

people in the hospital or at home to comfort them.”

Tsuruoka is survived by his wife, Linda, their two children, Jeff and Amy, and two grandchildren, Sarah and Noah.

A funeral service was held Tuesday morning at the Boulevard-Riverside Chapel in Hewlett.

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GN North drops season opener, 8-0 B y G regor y G iaconelli The Great Neck North varsity baseball team dropped its season opening matchup to the Bellmore JFK Cougars, 8-0, Tuesday afternoon. A combination of sloppy defense and an outstanding opposing pitching performance stymied the Blazers in the first game of the new year.

“We faced a very good pitcher” said head coach James Bailin. “He’s one of the best pitchers in Nassau County. Offensively we needed to do a little bit more.”

The Blazers were held hitless in the game and the Cougars’ pitching kept the opposition off balance at the plate and off the scoreboard.

The Cougars got the scoring started in the first inning with two outs. An error, which should of ended the inning, allowed the game’s first run. From that point on, the Cougars would never relinquish the lead.

Two innings later, the Cougars loaded the bases twice and took a 5-0 lead into the bottom half of the third. One inning later, they loaded the bases full and tacked on another run and in the top of the seventh, two more runs would come in.

Blazers senior starting pitcher Eric Bernstein took the loss tossing 6.1 innings, striking out five, walking two and four earned runs.

Senior catcher Jake Guggenheimer went 0-for-1 with a pair of walks. He said the team couldn’t execute the few opportunities to score they had, but thinks this team still has a chance to be successful as the season progresses.

“Most of baseball is mental” said Guggenheimer. “We need to keep a good head collectively as a team. That will really help us.”

With this loss in the rearview mirror, the Blazers will focus on what lies ahead. Bailin said he feels his team needs to have a better approach at the plate and stressed that they need to work on hitting the ball the other way and making better contact.

Bailin added that with an interesting mix of youth and veterans, he has the confidence in his group to be competitive in their conference.

After moving into the Nassau A-1 Conference this year, Bailin expects his squad to win some games, compete hard and hopefully make it into the playoffs.

Great Neck North will play their next home game Photo/Gregory Giaconelli CHERRY - 1-8 Page GENERAL 08-28-15_Layout 1 8/25/15 12:04 PM Page 1 Pitcher Eric Bernstein tosses 6.1 innings pitched and fanned five batters Monday April 4 against Sewanhaka at 4:30.

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We are conducting tryouts for players ages 7 through 10 on Saturdays April 23rd and 30th for our summer and fall programs.

GYMNASTICS Mommy & Me Classes Separation Classes Girls Instructional Classes

Teams will be competing in summer & fall LI Hot Stove and several other tournaments in the NY Metro area.

We are also looking for players for our 16U team.

Please visit our website www.merillonaa.org for additional information or email us at sharks@merillonaa.org

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