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City cops get more benefits than in Nassau

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NYPD pays health insurance in full, offers unlimited sick days for officers Empire Plan toward the alternative.

The Nassau County comptrolAlthough Nassau County police ler’s office said as of July, there officers earn an average salary dou- was a new Aetna Health Insurble that of New York Police Depart- ance plan offered to officers who ment officers, city-based officers re- started after April 1, 2014, in ceive a larger benefits package than which they can enroll for no cost as it is below the 85 percent cost their suburban counterparts. equivalent of the According to Empire Plan. the current NasNassau New York sau Police BeCity pays the full nevolent AssociaCounty cost of health intion contract with Police surance for poNassau County, SECOND IN A SERIES lice officers. police officers are According to eligible to receive full health benefits from the state’s the Citizens Budget Commission, the cost for health insurance cov“Empire Plan with Core Plus.”

If officers elect to receive ben- erage is $17,700 for a family plan efits from the Empire Plan, the and $7,280 for a single employee. contract states, they contribute 15 The Citizens Budget Commission percent toward the cost, while the is a “nonprofit civic organization county picks up the remaining 85 whose mission is to achieve constructive change in the finances percent.

The contract states that if an of- and services of New York City and ficer decides to choose a different New York State government,” achealthcare plan, the county will pay cording to its website. the equivalent of 85 percent of the Continued on Page 35

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MINEOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT

Jaclyn Altman’s art students at Hampton Street School in the Mineola school district have been working on a music appreciation mural. Created in conjunction with visiting artist John DiNaro, kindergarteners through second-graders each painted a section of the large mural.

Featuring bright colors to celebrate all musical instruments, the art is being featured on the second floor of the building.

Brother’s diagnosis drives Wheatley senior’s passion ley School senior’s passion for leadership and public policy, he His brother Kane’s diagno- said.

Gilbert, a Roslyn Heights sis of Tourette syndrome at age 3 was “a shocker” for Jake Gil- resident, traveled to Washingbert’s family in 2013, but it also ton as a ninth-grader the folstarted to increase the Wheat- lowing year to train as a youth

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ambassador for the Tourette Association of America, lobbying members of Congress to support research and later going to schools across Long Island to talk about Tourette syndrome.

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Bringing real life to Ed board gives special ed classroom Burns send off Herricks teaches life skills in apartment-style space Asst. super retires after 6 years

BY D AV I D L E V I N AND NOAH MANSKAR The Mineola school board on Thursday celebrated Patricia Burns, the school district’s retiring assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and assessment, as it appointed her replacement.

Burns came to Mineola six and a half years ago after serving as a principal and assistant superintendent in Valley Stream school district 30. She previously worked in New York City’s school system PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRICT for 18 years.

Christine Napolitano, the Students in Herricks High School’s VIP program took their guests on a tour of a new class- school board president, said Burns has exhibited “a no-nonsense yet room and described its features during a Dec. 16 ribbon-cutting event. fair minded attitude” and a “deep The 15 students have used hands-on learning in recent years love and respect” for Mineola’s

BY N O A H M A N S K A R the classroom, known as the “VIP because it shows students how to teachers and students.

“I don’t think I’d ever seen as A new classroom at Herricks suite,” on a daily basis since the apply skills learned in one setting long a résumé as Pat’s at the time High School is giving special-edu- beginning of the school year in to others, Duenges said.

The district modeled it on I interviewed her,” Napolitano said cation students a taste of the real September, she said.

An apartment-style classroom current research in the field and at Thursday’s school board meetworld without leaving the school for a similar program at Herricks visits to similar facilities in other ing. “Within minutes of her initial grounds. interview years ago, I knew we Students in the school’s Vo- Middle School opened last year, districts, Celano said. had the one.”

Having the classrooms helps Celano said. cational Independence Program The school board on Thursday Lessons at the high school Herricks meet more students’ celebrated a ribbon-cutting Dec. appointed Matthew Gaven, the needs, preventing them from vary from day to day and have 16 marking the completion of the district’s director of technology, to classroom designed like an apart- had students cook in the kitchen, having to travel to other districts replace Burns effective Jan. 3. to get a good education, Celano do laundry in the washer and dryment where they learn life skills Burns, a Breezy Point, Queens, such as cooking and cleaning on er and have conversations with said.

“That’s our goal, is to keep each other in the lounge area, real “state-of-the-art” appliances, our kids in district rather than said Julie Duenges, one of two Duenges said.

The classroom also has a bed, have out-of-district placements, teachers in the program, known a touch-screen whiteboard and and this is an opportunity to do as VIP. moveable, “collaborative” desks, that,” he said.

“It’s really the kind of enviThe ninth- through 11thso teachers can use it for just ronment for students in that VIP graders also take life skills-based about any lesson, Duenges said. program, because they’re learnThe older students also use math and reading classes, along ing wonderful life skills and voit to learn skills for the jobs they with some electives, while the cational skills that will really be have during the school day at older students spend about two beneficial for their development places such as Old Navy, Home and a half hours each day at their and their education,” Fino Cela- Depot and Chocolate Works, a job sites, Duenges said. no, the Herricks school superin- shop in Westbury, Duenges said.

No matter what they’re dotendent, said.

“It’s really used to take adap- ing, all the students love spendHerricks High School ex- tive daily living skills and make ing time in the new classroom, panded the program to include them into more real-life situa- she said. students between the ages of 16 tions,” she said.

“They don’t want to leave,” and 21 after offering it to ninthThe classroom reflects best Duenges said. “... I think they see through 11th-graders for several practices in special education, the use of it and the importance years, Duenges said. which have moved more toward of learning in real-life situations.” Patricia Burns

resident, said she is proudest of overseeing the district’s implementation of the Common Core learning standards and other programs, such as its distribution of iPad tablet computers to all students and its dual language program, in which students take classes in Spanish and English.

“I think we’ve aligned curriculum to standards with the teachers, with input from the teachers,” Burns said. “We made sure that all of the parents had an understanding of the standards and how to support kids.”

Burns also helped the district through what she called a “smooth” transition as it consolidated elementary schools and made other structural changes in 2011’s reconfiguration effort.

“Although the position of assistant superintendent is not as public a job as others, I know this community is very thankful for your unwavering determination in making sure the board was always aware of your extraordinary contribution to the advancement of teaching and learning in Mineola and we will forever be in your debt,” district Superintendent Michael Nagler said Thursday.

Burns said Gaven, a former Mineola Middle School principal who started the technology director’s position this year, is “very technology-savvy” and called him “the perfect choice to take my place.”

Burns looks forward to traveling and spending more time with her husband and five grandchildren in her retirement, she said.

She plans to return to Mineola for concerts, shows and other special events, she said.

“All of you know I have truly loved every minute here,” Burns said at the school board meeting. “I’m going to miss the kids; the teachers are dedicated and so caring. Our administrators are so caring.”

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2016: A year of change for N. Shore Indictment of county executive, return of 3rd track plans, new reps lead top 10 stories Cuomo’s slimmed-down proposal has gotten further in a year than that project did in three, touting benefits for communities along the project corridor and Long Island as a whole.

But concerns about construction impacts, traffic and train service remain as the LIRR prepares to hold hearings next month on its environmental study of the project.

BY N O A H M A N S K A R This has been a year of change across the country and the world, and the North Shore had its own share of shakeups.

Political leaders had their first days in court, local and national elections brought plenty of surprises, and communities grieved the deaths of dedicated leaders.

A list of the year’s most interesting stories could contain dozens, but these are the ones Blank Slate Media thinks defined the year on the North Shore and most shaped the conversations in the communities its publications cover.

1. Edward Mangano’s indictment Allegations of corruption had swirled around the Republican Nassau County executive’s inner circle for months before federal prosecutors came for him in October.

But Mangano defiantly denied the charges stemming from a bribery and kickback scheme with restaurateur Harendra

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An artist’s rendering shows what the New Hyde Park Long Island Rail Road station could look like if the third track project, first announced in January, is completed.

Singh, refusing calls for his resignation from within his own party.

The arrests of Mangano, his wife, Linda, and John Venditto, the Oyster Bay town supervisor, came a year after the corruption convictions of the state’s two top legislators, Sheldon Sil-

a third track to a key stretch of the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville.

Mineola, New Hyde Park and Floral Park vehemently opposed 2. Third track returns Gov. Andrew Cuomo re- the Metropolitan Transportation opened old wounds in January Authority’s larger project a dewhen he announced plans to add cade ago. ver and Dean Skelos, and amid another federal investigation of Rob Walker, Mangano’s deputy county executive.

3. Trump, Clinton take North Shore Reporters and political observers from across the world turned to Long Island for a day as Hofstra University hosted Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in September for the pair’s first of three presidential debates.

Before that, the candidates made campaign stops on the North Shore. Clinton talked gun control reform in Port Washington, while Trump spoke at a GOP fundraiser in Woodbury, crediting local party officials with his win in New York’s Republican primary.

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Give NICE ride-hailing fees: Martins Outgoing state senator calls for local benefits from statewide expansion of Uber, Lyft

BY N O A H MANSKAR Nassau County’s bus system should get revenue raised in Nassau from fees tacked onto fares for ride-hailing services if they are legalized statewide, state Sen. Jack Martins said last week.

Martins, an outgoing Old Westbury Republican, said the revenue could help stave off service cuts for the financially beleaguered Nassau Inter-County Express Bus system, which serves nearly 100,000 people a day and is Nassau County’s “only north-south mass transit link.”

“In light of recent proposed cuts, this permanent, recurring revenue would be invaluable to maintaining current service and expanding it in the future,” Martins, a member of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, said in a statement last Thursday.

The expansion of ride-hailing service such as Uber and Lyft out-

State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) wants proposed ride-hailing fees to help fund the Nassau Inter-County Express Bus service. side New York City was part of a legislative package that reportedly could have been called for a vote this month during a special session in Albany.

But talks to convene one reportedly fell apart last week, leaving the ride-hailing bill and other proposals to rest until the Legislature convenes Jan. 4.

A draft ride-hailing bill would charge a 50-cent fee to riders using the services outside the five boroughs, which would be directed to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in counties it services, such as Nassau and Suffolk, Politico New York reported.

Martins says he wants that money to subsidize local transit

systems, such as NICE Bus and Suffolk County’s Suffolk Transit, in counties that have them.

Martins lost a bid for Congress last month and is leaving the Senate, so his plan must be taken up by his successor, Elaine Phillips, a Republican and former Village of Flower Hill mayor, who said she will advocate for it once she takes office.

“Every resident I’ve spoken with who depends on NICE Bus for transportation tells me they need service expanded, not cut,” Phillips said in a statement.

NICE Bus, which is operated by the private company Transdev, is set to lose $3.8 million in county subsidies next year under County Executive Edward Mangano’s plan to cut or delay $21 million in county spending, as approved by Nassau’s state-run financial control board.

The bus system’s transit committee earlier this month rejected a plan to cut nine routes, leaving

officials to fill a budget deficit that could reach $12 million, Newsday reported. The threat of cuts followed the elimination of some routes early in 2016 until the county provided money to restore them.

Michael Setzer, the NICE Bus CEO, praised Martins’ proposal to give the bus system another consistent revenue stream.

“The essential ingredient for planning and executing good reliable transit that helps build community is predictable, dedicated funding,” Setzer said in a statement.

A Nassau County spokesperson, Connie Petrucci, said Mangano’s Republican administration “looks forward to reviewing the legislation as we finalize our state agenda for 2017.”

County Legislator Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead), the county Legislature’s minority leader, did not respond to a request for comment.

M-LFD uses building data to aid response

BY N O A H MANSKAR The Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department wants the villages it serves to share building department data and records that would help firefighters make decisions as they approach an emergency.

The department has asked North Hills, Lake Success, Thomaston and Great Neck Plaza to give First Due Size-Up, a software program, access to the records so firefighters can better understand the scene of a fire or other incident, said Brian Stone, an assistant fire chief.

The software, a product of Garden City-based Locality Media, displays information about buildings’ floorplans, construction, electrical systems and more in an easy-to-read format on fire departments’ existing computers, said Andreas Huber, the company’s co-founder and CEO. “The most important thing for us is to have as much preincident information as possible before getting to the call,” Stone said.

Fire departments could only gather such information for commercial properties by visiting them in person, Huber said.

Information for residences has always been publicly available,

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Firetrucks sit outside the Manhasset-Lakeville Company No. 2 firehouse in Manhasset. but departments lacked a feasible way to gather it and put it in a database, he said.

First Due Size-Up aims to close that gap by pulling records into a central database that visualizes the information through an internet-based application, Huber said.

That can help firefighters make important decisions about how to fight a fire and determine how long before a building might collapse, Stone said.

“Fire chiefs have been asking building commissioners for information forever,” Huber said. “And it’s not that they don’t want to share it for the most part; it’s because there’s no easy

way.”

The Town of North Hempstead and Nassau County agencies provide information to First Due Size-Up, but incorporated villages must give access separately because they have independent building departments, Stone said.

North Hills officials plan to provide the access, but first want assurances that the company will not share its data with anyone besides ManhassetLakeville, village Mayor Marvin Natiss said.

The village Board of Trustees hopes to approve access in January after getting a confidentiality agreement from First Due

Size-Up, Natiss said.

“Manhasset-Lakeville will have the information they need, which will protect their firefighters, and that’s the key,” he said.

Huber said the program only offers a way to access the data and does not keep it or allow anyone but the relevant fire department to see it.

Manhasset-Lakeville has used First Due Size-Up since September and paid about $10,000 for it this year, Stone said.

The department is among more than 20 nationwide that have signed on, Huber said.

Other North Shore fire departments including Port Wash-

ington, Albertson, East Williston, Williston Park, Port Washington, Great Neck Vigilant and Great Neck Alert have signed on or started free trials, he said.

Officials in Lake Success, Thomaston and Great Neck Plaza did not respond to requests for comment.

North Hills also gets fire protection from the Roslyn Fire Companies for 183 properties in the Mews and Highpoint subdivisions there.

The village extended its contract with the Roslyn companies in August to include the Mews, which the Albertson Fire Department covered until it terminated its contract with the village in the spring.

North Hills’ village Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing at its Jan. 18 meeting on a revised Roslyn Fire Companies contract that reflects the extra protection. The village would pay $59,523 under the new one-year contract, up from $53,844.37 under the current contract.

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Israel to lead new LIU Global Institute Brookville university will also hold retiring Democratic congressman’s official papers

BY J OE N I K I C After a 16-year congressional career, outgoing U.S. Rep. Steve Israel is set to take on his next challenge.

Israel, a Democrat, will serve as chairman of Long Island University’s new Global Institute and a distinguished writer-in-residence, the university announced Tuesday.

He said in a statement that he has “always been drawn to LIU� as it is a jewel in the 3rd Congressional District. “The LIU Global Institute will be a premier regional platform for understanding a world that’s increasingly volatile, uncertain and complex,� Israel said. “Our nonpartisan mission will include bringing world leaders, thinkers and analysts to campus, serving as a resource for the university as well as regional business leaders and social activists for information and analysis of world events and helping to prepare students to change our world with new models of innovation and social entrepreneurship.�

He announced in early January that he would not seek re-election this year for his 3rd Congressional District seat.

Democrat Tom Suozzi defeated Republi-

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel can Jack Martins to replace Israel.

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

He served two terms as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and currently leads his party’s Policy and Communications Committee.

“Steve Israel has played a signiďŹ cant role in shaping our nation and the world during his 16-year tenure serving as the representative for New York’s 3rd Congressional District,â€? said Kimberly R. Cline, president of LIU. “His experiences on the House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees, as well as his role within House leadership, have uniquely positioned Steve to provide LIU with expertise and guidance as we build a world-class global studies institute.â€?

The LIU Global Institute will be launched on March 2 at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post at an event featuring former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The event’s focus will be on foreign policy and national security issues, according to the university.

As a distinguished writer-in-residence, Israel will get to continue writing books, which he has said was a passion of his.

His debut novel, “The Global War on Morris,� was published in December 2014 and received strong reviews. It follows a western Long Island salesman through his entanglement with a government surveillance supercomputer.

Israel’s congressional records will be housed and curated at LIU Post’s B. Davis

Schwartz Memorial Library and will be available to students and researchers.

According to the university, the materials contained in his records include “correspondence, emails and historical documents providing a behind the scenes look at how Congress dealt with major issues including 9/11, the global war on terror, the 2008 ďŹ nancial meltdown, the Aordable Care Act, as well as a glimpse into daily life in Congress and the responsibilities of serving in the House leadership.â€? “Long Island University is honored at having been chosen to host the Global Institute and the Israel papers,â€? said Eric Krasno, chairman of LIU Board of Trustees. “Housing these records on campus will give LIU students and faculty a unique view into how our political system works and how future leaders might work to improve it.â€?

Israel will begin his new position on Jan. 4.

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Rice presses states on drunken driving Proposes Congress require states to toughen penalties for drunken driving with kids in car

BY N O A H MANSKAR U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice wants other states to adopt New York’s stiff penalties for drunken driving with children in the car with the threat of losing federal funding if they don’t.

The Garden City Democrat plans to introduce a bill in Congress next month to require states to adopt versions of New York’s Child Passenger Protection Act, the 2009 legislation known as Leandra’s Law, making it a felony to drive drunk with a child in the car and putting drivers who do so on child abuse registries.

If the bill, titled the Prevent Impaired Driving Child Endangerment Act, is approved, states that do not comply with the law by 2018 would lose federal transportation money.

“While most states have taken some action to crack down on those who commit this crime, Leandra’s Law in New York is the toughest and most comprehensive child endangerment law in the country, and this bill will make it

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U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice plans to introduce a federal bill that would require all states to adopt drunken-driving statutes modeled on New York’s Leandra’s Law. and undergo treeatment if necessary, and install an ignition interlock system in their cars, which requires the driver to give a breath sample to check for intoxication before allowing the car to start.

If a convicted driver is the parent, guardian or custodian of the child passenger, the state law must require that they be added to that state’s child abuse registry, according to Rice’s proposal.

the national standard,” Rice said in a statement.

Rice’s bill would require states to adopt statutes charging drivers with a felony punishable by up to four years in prison if they drive drunk or under the influence of drugs with a passenger younger than 15 years old.

If convicted, those drivers would have to get a substance abuse or mental health assessment

The U.S. secretary of transportation would withhold 1 percent of federal funding through the National Highway Performance Program and the Surface Transportation Program from states that don’t pass such laws by Oct. 1, 2018, 3 percent of funding for states that don’t comply by Oct. 1, 2019, and 5 percent of funding for failing to comply by Oct. 1, 2020, and each year thereafter.

Combating drunken driving was Rice’s signature intiative when she was Nassau County district attorney from 2006 to 2015.

She drastically increased Nassau’s conviction rate for drunken drivers and publicly backed a 2013 state law closing loopholes in Leandra’s Law. Her federal proposal has support from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, two national advocacy groups that fight drunken driving.

“Child endangerment is not only unconscionable, it’s a crime and a form of child abuse,” Colleen Sheehey-Church, MADD’s national president, said in a statement.

“Children don’t have a voice or a choice when riding with an adult, and they should never be in danger from drunk driving, especially by those entrusted to keep them safe.”

Some 209 children age 14 and younger were killed in drunken driving crashes in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Forty-six states have statutes punishing drunken driving with a child in the car, but only seven, including New York, classify the crime as a felony, according to a 2009 MADD report. The organization calls Leandra’s Law a model child endangerment statute.

Stephanie Selloni, a Garden City-based criminal defense attorney, said a greater emphasis on treating alcohol abuse would do more good than strict punishments that can hamstring offenders’ ability to get jobs and move on with their lives.

“The fact that it’s a felony and there’s no way of getting rid of that, it’s a detrimental effect on a person’s life,” Selloni said.

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Suozzi turns to history for 1st office Dem rep.-elect to house staff in 2 restored 18th-century homes in Huntington

BY N O A H MANSKAR U.S. Rep.-elect Tom Suozzi will open his first 3rd Congressional District office on a site once owned by a 19th century Long Island congressman, he announced Tuesday.

Located near Nassau County’s border with Suffolk County in Huntington, Suozzi’s office will occupy two recently restored and adjoined 18th century houses on Sunny Pond Farm, land once owned by Silas Wood, a onetime state assemblyman who represented Long Island in Congress from 1819 to 1829.

Suozzi, a Democrat, said he will house eight to nine staff members in the 2,400-square-foot space, including Cindy Rogers, his office’s district director, and caseworkers Edward Aulman and Barrie Stevens, who will handle veterans

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U.S. Rep.-elect Tom Suozzi will open a congressional office in Huntington on land once owned by Silas Wood, a 19th-century Long Island congressman. issues and constituent services, respectively.

The office reflects Suozzi’s tendency to keep his government offices in historic buildings, he said

— he moved Glen Cove’s City Hall to a restored building as mayor and moved Nassau County’s government offices into the old county courthouse as

county executive.

“Everyone thinks of Long Island of having started with suburbia and I like to remember our history, because history is such a great lesson for our present and our future,” Suozzi said.

Suozzi, who will replace retiring Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), put his main office in Huntington to provide easy access for all residents of the North Shore congressional district, he said. He also plans to open a satellite office on the district’s western side in northeast Queens.

Suozzi is renting the Huntington office for $3,000 a month from Tom

Hogan, a former Republican Town of Oyster Bay councilman who purchased the Sunny Pond Farm land.

Hogan said he worked with the Huntington Historical Society to relocate and make offices out of the two houses: the 1770 Ketcham House from East Northport, and the 1790 James P. Chichester House, formerly located on Woodhull Road in Huntington.

Hogan and the society are working to turn Sunny Pond Farm into a preserve for historic structures that are in danger of being torn down, he said.

A native of West Hills, Wood also served as a Suffolk County district attorney and wrote two books

about the North Shore’s early history. He died in Huntington in 1847. The South Huntington School District named the Silas Wood Sixth Grade Center after him.

Hogan said he thinks it is “serendipitous” that a congressional office now sits on Wood’s former land.

“I don’t think there’s any place with history like that,” Hogan said.

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

CORRECTION The Dec. 23 article “Community responds after firefighter’s death at 43” misstated the given name of the Williston Park fire chief. He is Richard Sais.

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New option for treating eye disease Northwell unveils new procedure as alternative in treatment to corneal transplant

BY J OE N I K I C Northwell Health’s Ocular Surface Center has begun offering patients with a degenerative eye disease a new option of care rather than a corneal transplant, which was previously the only method used to treat the disease.

Corneal cross-linking, a procedure approved earlier this year by the United States Food and Drug Administration, treats keratoconus, a rare disease that causes a misshaped cornea due to a genetic defect or eye rubbing.

Northwell officials said it is the first health system in the state to offer the cross-linking procedure, which was developed by pharmaceutical and medical device company Avedro.

“We’re one of the few sites in the country that now has the capability of offering the Avedro cross-linking procedure, and this may prevent many patients from needing a corneal transplant,” said Ira Udell, chair of ophthalmology at Northwell Health and professor of ophthalmology at Hofstra University’s Northwell School of Medicine.

Keratoconus causes a patient’s collagen in the cornea to become overstretched, which leads to blurred vision, officials said.

Officials said the cross-linking procedure uses a combination of riboflavin drops and a specially designed machine to transmit ultraviolet light onto the patient’s eye to strengthen the cornea.

“This is a minimally invasive

procedure that’s done in the office, not in a hospital or surgery center,” said Carolyn Shih, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Hofstra’s medical school.

“Cross-linking is done under topical anesthesia so the patient is up and about quite quickly afterwards.”

Officials said the crosslinking procedure had previously been available in Canada, Asia and Europe and was only available in the United States through clinical trials or being done “off label.”

According to the American Optometric Association, keratoconus can be treated early by using contact lenses or glasses, but as the disease progresses, a corneal transplant may be necessary.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH

Carolyn Shih, assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, performing crosslinking on keratoconus patient Ned Daily.

Rapist doc accused of tampering

BY ST E P H E N R OM A N O A Sands Point doctor pleaded not guilty to allegedly taping false jury instructions to the tables and doors of jury rooms while he was on trial in March for raping a patient, the district attorney announced.

Marshall Hubsher, 67, entered the plea on Thursday to 13 counts of attempted jury tampering and third-degree burglary.

Hubsher, a psychiatrist, allegedly entered a private jury room wearing a disguise and placed signs with fake jury instructions in an attempt to tamper with the jury in his trial, according to the district attorney’s office.

“The note allegedly directed at the jury purported to be ‘jury instructions’ concerning reasonable doubt,” a news release from the office said.

Hubsher faces two to seven years in prison if found guilty, the office said.

Efforts to reach Hubsher’s defense attorney were unavailing.

Court records show that a warrant was issued for Hubsher’s arrest on Nov. 21.

“This defendant allegedly put on a disguise and attempted to tamper with a jury while it was deliberating his fate in another case,” District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a statement. “The integrity of the jury process is at the heart of our justice system and we will not tolerate anyone trying to tamper with or threaten jurors in Nassau County.”

Hubsher was convicted of raping a 24-year-old patient he was treating for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other illnesses. He

for the rape charges.

Hubsher and a Long Beach-based doctor allegedly sold prescriptions to patients out of Hubsher’s office, where he was still seeing patients after losing his license to practice.

On at least three occasions, prosecutors said in 2015, investigators found that Hubsher met patients in “a nontraditional setting” such as the office hallway to ask medical questions and receive cash.

This case is pending, court records show.

In June 2012, Hubsher surrendered his license to practice medicine in New York to resolve multiple charges brought by the State Board for Professional MedMarshall Hubsher ical Conduct, records show.

The district attorney’s office dewas arrested in that case in April 2012 clined to comment on Hubsher’s past and is currently serving up to three years cases. in prison.

An investigation conducted by the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct found that Hubsher also asked the patient to take a picture of him for a magazine and sent threatening emails.

Hubsher also left the patient voice mail telling her that if she didn’t take his side in the investigation, he would release “damaging information” about her and her family, the investigation shows.

Hubsher was also arrested in November 2015 for allegedly selling prescriptions for Adderall and Xanax to patients out of his office in the Roslyn section of Flower Hill.

He was charged with fourth-degree conspiracy and three counts of unauthorized practice. At the time, he was set to appear in court in December 2015

Hubsher’s medical license was revoked in 1995 after he was charged with professional misconduct, according an investigation by the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct and the Department of Health, and was reissued in 2006.

He submitted multiple requests to have his license reinstated, records show.

The investigation also found that Hubsher submitted false insurance claims to GHI Insurance Company over 40 times over three years.

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Push for proper cesspool maintenance Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth is urging residents who live in unsewered areas of the town to properly maintain their cesspool systems, also called home wastewater systems, to reduce the risk of contaminating the ground and nearby surface water.

The supervisor would like to make homeowners aware of the Get Pumped! Long Island initiative, a multimedia outreach campaign that teaches homeowners how to properly maintain their cesspool or septic home wastewater system.

Get Pumped! LI is now offering a $50 off coupon for wastewater system service.

The initiative is a collaboration of the Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee and the Manhasset Bay Protection Committee, the state Department of State, Oyster Bay Cold Spring

Harbor Protection Committee and Friends of the Bay. It is funded by a grant from the New York Department of State and the Protection committees.

“Something as simple as the proper maintenance of a home wastewater system can make a big difference in what contaminants get into our drinking water and our bays and waterways,” Bosworth said. “Get Pumped! L.I. is offering homeowners a discount on this service which can head off a catastrophic failure and save money in the long run, while keeping our waterways cleaner.”

To view a NHTV public service announcement about Get Pumped L.I.! see link: https:// youtu.be/lIDXon0QgQ0 According to the Get Pumped! LI program, every home generates wastewater —

via sink drains, dish and clothes washers, and flushed through the toilet, which must be treated to remove bacteria before it reenters the environment.

This home wastewater system discharges into the ground, travels downward until it reaches groundwater.

In the center of Long Island, this water will continue to move downward until it enters the deep aquifer from which we draw our drinking water.

Closer to the shore or to streams and ponds (surface water), the groundwater beneath our houses migrates horizontally until it meets and enters our bays, streams, and ponds.

Any pathogens (diseasecausing bacteria and viruses), medications, nutrients, or other contaminants not removed by our home wastewater systems will be carried into either our

drinking water or our coastal waters.

Regular care and upgrading of your home wastewater system is crucial to protect the water quality of Long Island Sound, its bays, harbors, and creeks.

In addition to the threat of pathogens entering groundwater and surface waters, excess nutrients (such as nitrogen) from home wastewater systems trigger algal blooms, which reduce oxygen in the water when they die, hindering shellfish and other marine life survival rates.

Some algal blooms produce harmful toxins can cause disease and even death to pets and humans.

Excess nutrients also weaken root structures, resulting in the loss of sea grasses and tidal wetlands which help protect your property from damage during storms.

Pumping, inspecting, and maintaining your system will head off catastrophic failure and save the homeowner money in the long run.

“Maintaining your home wastewater system not only protects our harbors and bays, but can save homeowners thousands of dollars. If systems are properly maintained, they can last for decades. If not maintained, replacement of an entire system is inevitable and costly,” said Eric Swenson, executive director of the Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee.

Several of The CESSPOOL Project Partners have arranged for several cesspool/septic companies to accept a $50 off coupon for having your home wastewater system serviced for a limited time. Inclusion in the program does not imply endorsement of these companies.

Bar assoc. offers foreclosure aid

Canceled tourney raises $45K There was no actual golf played – rain kept participants indoors at The Village Club of Sands Point.

But more than 80 attendees of the second Swing into Service Invitational, sponsored by the Service Guild of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, helped raise more than $45,000.

For more than 50 years, the Service Guild has worked to enhance the lives of patients, families and the community.

In 2016, the Guild awarded more than $65,000 in grants to benefit Long Island Jewish Medical Center programs and services.

“It was great to see how many people pledged their support to LIJ Medical Center,” said Michael H. Goldberg, executive director of the hospital. “The Guild is an integral part of our hospital and serves as goodwill ambassadors to the community,” he said.

The event’s special honoree was Chan-

tal Weinhold, senior vice president and Central Region executive director for Northwell Health.

Weinold was quick to thank the golfers who braved the weather at the recent breakfast and extended her appreciation to all of the golfers and sponsors.

Sponsors included: North American Partners in Anesthesia; Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, Medline, Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP; North Shore University Hospital Medical Staff Society; Arrowsight; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Nicholas A. Sgaglione, MD and Thomas A. Mauri, MD; Integrated Wireless Technologies; Rallye BMW; Damianos Realty Group; G.A.F. Seelig, Inc.; Intelli-tec Security Services; KLS Martin Group; Liberty Realty; Long Island Jewish Valley Stream; Medline; PDI; PRO-TEK; Unitex; and Zucker Hillside Hospital.

Nassau residents who are struggling with the prospect of losing their homes in mortgage foreclosure, or still have issues resulting from Superstorm Sandy, are invited to come for help from volunteer attorneys at the Nassau County Bar Association’s free mortgage foreclosure/Sandy recovery legal consultation clinics.

The next two clinics are scheduled for Monday, Jan. 9 and Monday, Jan. 23, both from 3 to 6 p.m., at the Nassau County Bar Association, located on 15th Street at the corner of West Street, in Mineola, two blocks south of the bus and train stations.

NCBA’s clinics allow homeowners concerned about foreclosure matters or who are already in the foreclosure process involving property in Nassau County, to meet one-on-one with a volunteer attorney for a free consultation.

Homeowners then may be directed for additional help with mortgage modifications, loan restructuring, bankruptcy, financial planning assistance, services for lower income households and emotional support.

Many of these resources and agencies are available immediately in the same room.

American Debt Resources, LI Housing Partnership, La Fuerza Unida, and LI Housing Services are the organizations HUD Certi-

fied that will be at the December clinics.

There are no income restrictions to attend the clinics.

Since 2009, NCBA has held more than 140 clinics assisting more than 12,000 Nassau families in distress.

Currently, each clinic is held twice a month and averages 50 homeowners, signifying that mortgage fore continues to be prevalent in Nassau.

Volunteer attorneys also answer Sandy victims’ questions regarding homeowner, flood, property damage and automobile insurance claims; FEMA, debt deferral, and consumer protection issues.

Bilingual attorneys fluent in Spanish are on site.

Attorneys bilingual in other languages, including Russian, Haitian Creole, Korean, Chinese, Hindi and American Sign Language, may be requested when making reservations.

To make an appointment for the next clinic, call the bar association at 516-747-4070.

Attendees are asked to bring their mortgage documents or other important papers and correspondence with them.

This program is funded through the state Attorney General Homeownership Protection Program (known as HOPP).

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Town Siemens Feinstein researchers’ find semifinalists cited North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth welcomed the semifinalists of this year’s Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology to Town Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

The Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology was established by the Siemens Foundation in 1999, and is one of the nation’s premiere science research competitions for high school students.

“We are so proud that 25 of

the semifinalists are members of the North Hempstead community,” Bosworth said. “This once again reminds us of not only the top-notch quality of our schools in North Hempstead, but also the amazing administrators, educators and students that we have.”

There were 25 recipients from North Hempstead schools who were honored, including two finalists, Fred Chu and Stephen Lee from Manhasset High School.

This year’s semifinalists and finalists were: Rachel Chang, Manhasset Senior High School Luhan Chen, John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Tiffeny Chen, Manhasset Senior High School Fred Chu (finalist), Manhasset Senior High School Emma Fleishman, Manhasset Senior High School Sarah Gottesman, Paul D. Schreiber High School Elin Hu, Manhasset Senior High School Shawn Kang, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Caroline Katz, Paul D. Schrieber High School Summar Khan, Manhasset Senior High School Ashley Kim, Manhasset Senior High School Eunice Kim, Roslyn High School Hanxuan Kuang, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Richard Lee, Manhasset Senior High School Stephen Lee (finalist), Manhasset Senior High School Rebecca Muratore, Paul D. Schreiber High School Matthew Palmadessa, Manhasset Senior High School William Peng, Manhasset Senior High School Sung Woo Seo, Manhasset Senior High School Natalie Tan, Herricks High School Ryan Thorpe, Manhasset Senior High School Bart Voto, Manhasset Senior High School Jaysen Zhang, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Vanessa Zhang, Manhasset Senior High School Aric Zhuang, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School

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Researchers at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research discovered more details about how the vagus nerve interacts with the immune system, better understanding how bioelectronic medicine may treat disease.

By mapping the mechanisms of the vagus nerve and identifying new neural pathways by which the vagus nerve sends signals to the rest of the body, researchers now can focus their attention on using bioeletronic medicine to activate the newly revealed pathways and treat a wide variety of conditions and diseases.

The results of this discovery are part of a new study published today in Bioelectronic Medicine, a peer-reviewed biomedical journal published by the Feinstein Institute Press.

“We know from previous studies that the vagus nerve is a conduit for signals from many of our vital organs and that it has a role in reporting changes in inflammation to the brain,” said Patricio Huerta, Feinstein Institute investigator and corresponding author of the paper.

“Our new finding clearly shows that the vagus nerve carries immune-related signals, which makes it a good target for bioelectronic treatment for autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and lupus.”

The nervous system sends signals through the body to control organ and cell function.

Nerves connect to different organs and send signals to the brain to maintain normal function and also to alert to issues such as infection and inflammation.

The emerging field of bioelectronic medicine is looking to harness these neural signals to help the body heal itself.

Key to successfully tapping into these neural signals is having a full understanding of how different receptors within each nerve trigger different reactions in the body.

This information can be used to identify the different mechanisms to treat a condition, while helping medical professionals to identify if their stimulation has an effect on other bodily functions.

In the study, titled “Cytokine-specific Neurograms in the Sensory Vagus Nerve,” Dr. Huerta looked at how the vagus nerve responds to the presence of elevated levels of cytokines in the body.

Cytokines are small proteins that are especially important in the function of the immune system.

“In this study, we were looking to sharpen our understanding of what makes the vagus nerve sense the immune response,” Huerta said. “We devised an electrode setup to record down to the vagus fibers that are activated by the cytokines. We found that similar to how the brain perceives and interprets colors differently,

each cytokine is perceived and interpreted by the vagus nerve differently.”

Huerta’s team profiled the vagus nerve’s reaction in an animal model to two pro-inflammatory cytokines — tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1.

The mice normally have very low levels of the cytokines being profiled in their bodies.

Researchers put the cytokines into their bodies, which activated the vagus nerve, which in turn sent signals (called action potentials) regarding their elevated level to the central nervous system.

Remarkably, each cytokine activated signals at different frequencies within the nerve.

Now having a method to record the different fibers of the vagus nerve, Huerta and his team will continue to catalog the different signals of the vagus nerve and what they control in the body.

These findings can all be used to find targets to treat disease with bioelectronic medicine devices.

“Dr. Huerta and his team’s method of recording signals and identifying pathways within the nerve fiber opens up many new possibilities for our research teams to apply bioelectronic medicine to these nerves and treat many diseases and conditions,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute.

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Crossing lines, free speech A number of readers have called and written to say a letter published by Blank Slate Media on Dec. 16 that said Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was backed by “anti-Christian, anti-U.S. globalists” which appeared to contain thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

We agree.

While the letter did not make explicit reference to Jews, the inferences seemed clear to those familiar with the writings of antiSemites.

Not only does the letter-writer, East Williston resident John O’Kelly, say these supporters were led by George Soros, a business magnate of Jewish heritage and philanthropist whose long support of American progressive and liberal causes has attracted frequent criticism by conservatives.

But O’Kelly calls Soros a “Rothschild banker” — a reference to the famed Jewish family banking business in Europe. That appears intended to emphasize Soros’ Jewish roots.

A search online reveals an underground ocean of conspiracyminded posts that link Soros with the Rothschild family as well as with the Rockefellers and others alleged participants in international banking conspiracies. But no actual credible evidence.

As some readers have noted, questions of Jews’ loyalty to their country and international conspiracies have been a staple of antiSemitic writings across history.

The best known and most pernicious example is “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a fabricated anti-Semitic text first published in Russia in 1903 purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination by subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling

the press and the world’s economies.

Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies of the text that were distributed throughout the U.S. in the 1920s. The Nazis sometimes used the Protocols to stir up propaganda against the Jews.

This was understandably the focus of readers’ complaints about the letter’s content.

But there was more in the letter that we found objectionable and extreme.

O’Kelly, a former trustee on the East Williston school board, called both Clinton and President Obama anti-Christian, anti-U.S. globalists in the thrall of foreign influences and Black Lives Matter and MoveOn.Org front organizations.

He also extolled both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin for being Christian and nationalists.

This just seems to be a case of O’Kelly digging his hole deeper.

Our readers’ criticism was not limited to the letter-writer. It also included Blank Slate Media’s decision to print the letter. Some said they found the decision as bad if not worse than the letter itself.

We apologize to all who were offended by the letter. We were offended as well.

But we also had other concerns As believers in the marketplace of ideas that is at the heart of the First Amendment, this newspaper offers a forum to our readers. In doing so, we publish virtually all the letters that we receive no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. We pride ourselves on the diverse opinions presented on our pages and the give and take that sometimes results.

These include opinions with

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which we strongly disagree and that may be unpopular with some of our readers.

But that is, in fact, the core of the First Amendment written by our Founding Fathers — the protection of unpopular opinion.

Popular opinion, after all, doesn’t need protection.

We also believe one of the most damaging changes that has taken place in the media landscape in recent years has been the creation of information funnels made up of cable stations, social media and websites where only one side of a debate is heard.

In the process, many of us do not only have different opinions, but different facts.

We do recognize that the First Amendment is not absolute. There are reasonable limits. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater and there are laws of libel. There are also exceptions to our rule of publishing letters.

The question is where do you draw the line. This is admittedly a subjective decision.

In the case of the O’Kelly letter, we believed his focus on Soros — coupled with his reference to the Rothschilds — was a thinly veiled attack on Jews.

But we recognized others could disagree, or simply be unaware of what he was hinting.

O’Kelly did not make that reference explicit, and criticism of Soros has not been limited to the right-wing fringe. Soros has been a frequent target of those on the right not unlike the Koch brothers, who have been attacked by those on the left.

How much of the criticism of Soros is based on his religion and how much is based on his politics is hard to say.

We have also published letters supporting President-elect Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexicans coming into this country as rapists and criminals, and his call for a ban on Muslims entering this country — positions that many have called racist.

The decision of what to publish has always been difficult. In the age of Trump, it has grown that much more difficult.

When Trump said Federal District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, a distinguished jurist who was born in Indiana, could not preside over a case involving Trump University because of his Mexican heritage, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan called his comments “text-

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book racism.”

Does this mean we don’t publish a letter from Trump or one of his supporters making this argument?

Trump has also expressed admiration of Putin, ran on a nationalist theme of “America First” that rejected the influence of international, or global, organizations, and supported “Christian values” including a promise to make sure all Americans would say Merry Christmas.

And his final campaign ad featured images of Soros, Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein and Federal Reserve Chairperson Janet Yellen alongside phrases like “control the levers of power in Washington,” “global special interests” and “put money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations.” Soros, Blankfein and Yellen are all Jewish.

Some of our readers have written that publishing O’Kelly’s letter gave him a platform for what they see as hate language that can inspire others to commit bad acts.

We share those concerns.

But we also believe we are better served by confronting ignorant or hateful ideas than pretending they don’t exist.

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KREMER’S CORNER

My wishes for an uncertain 2017

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s we approach the end of a tumultuous year I have so many mixed feelings about the good and the bad of 2016.

The nation may be experiencing one of its best years for economic growth, but the political climate is just so poisonous that I am glad that Jan. 1, 2017 is days away. I have so many wishes but a year end column is the best vehicle to express them.

I wish the emotional fallout of this year would subside and the tensions between both sides would subside. It’s wishful thinking because with each passing day, the messages being sent out by the incoming administration are alarming and in some cases scary.

If Donald Trump’s goal is to dismantle the federal government at the expense of his own supporters, then he will be in for a shock in 2018, when incumbent presidents usually take a beating.

I wish the same politicians whose families migrated to this country and are enjoying the

fruits of their struggles, would stop demonizing “immigrants” and Muslims in particular.

There are at least 800,000 young people who were born here and are threatened with deportation, who should be allowed to live a normal life without a serious black could hanging over their heads.

I wish President-elect Trump would keep his promise to act “presidential” so that we can go about our daily lives without dealing with silly utterances from a man who is about to be the socalled leader of the free world.

Each and every word that he spits out on Twitter is an embarrassment to him and to the nation.

I think there are quite a few people who would like to say that they support the president, whether they voted for him or not, but Mr. Trump just can’t accept the fact that he won the election.

Talk about a sore winner.

I wish my Democratic friends would give up mourning for the loss of the presidential campaign

JERRY KREMER Kremer’s Corner and resolve that during the next four years they will be more proactive.

There are going to be plenty of painful issues on the horizon with a new president who may cater to the darkest wishes of the conservative wing.

It wouldn’t hurt if along the way the Democrats developed new leaders and a stronger spine.

I wish someone would intervene in the fight between Gov.

Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio.

The fate of 8 million people is at stake and the pettiness is getting worse every day. Fighting over the carcass of a dead deer makes New York look like a banana republic.

I will let you judge who is wrong in this battle, but it is time for the two of them to smoke the peace pipe.

I wish that our state would develop a fresh list of innovators and big thinkers to get us through the next ten years.

Our young people are leaving upstate and the suburbs soon after graduation because they can’t find affordable housing and industry is not expanding at all.

Isn’t it time for some aggressive young politicians to get out front and fight to attract new businesses who provide jobs and pay taxes?

I would even settle for more leadership from some of the middle-aged politicians.

I wish the not-in-my-backyard crowd would take an ex-

tended vacation.

Somehow every project to make a community better incurs the wrath of a bunch of uninformed people who cling to the past at the expense of the future.

This state is crippled by angry voices whose voices drown out progress.

Yes there are bad proposals, but there are good ones too and the NIMBY’s can’t tell the difference.

I wish our political talk shows would give a sanity test to some of the people who appear as experts or spokesmen for their cause.

So many of them are just plain dumb and ill-informed.

Horses get saliva tests before they race so why can’t we have a sanity test for people who try to tell us the difference between good and bad.

I wish our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

2017 promises to be a real challenge for America and for people who write opinion columns.

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5 problems to fix in Nassau County

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ith Groundhog Day right around the corner, I’m reminded how Nassau County government can’t seem to get out of its own way.

It’s like the movie “Groundhog Day” where the same problems keep recurring year after year.

If we want to attract investment, keep our millennials from leaving, expand the tax base and improve the quality of life, Nassau County government needs to act now.

Here are five problems that deserve immediate attention, along with suggested solutions: 1. Tax Certiorari The Problem — The process to grieve taxes in Nassau has been broken for decades.

Instead of fixing the problem, elected officials have been bonding refunds, over a billion dollars to date, and currently $300 million plus in arrears, by trying to push the broken system onto the towns or school districts.

The current scheme to fix the broken system fines commercial property owners that did not report income and expenses related to their properties and is embroiled in a lawsuit.

The Fix — Reassess commercial properties yearly, and residential properties every three years.

Unless that is done those commercial and residential property owners who don’t apply for a refund will continue to bear the brunt of erroneous assessments and Nassau will continue to bond refunds for payment, pushing us further in debt.

2. Rental Housing The Problem — Nassau has about 20 percent of its housing stock as rental apartments while neighboring suburban counties have 33-35 percent.

It can take over a decade to break ground on a new rental community.

Where will millennials live if not in their parent’s basements?

The Fix — Streamline the permitting process so each Nassau village, city and town has the same process, with a specific time commitment by government for approval or rejection.

Final approval can remain with local government.

This way, developers can know within months (rather than years) whether or not a project will get approval.

This will encourage real es-

ADAM HABER All Things Political tate investment and good paying construction jobs will follow.

3. Increase Transparency in Government The Problem — There is a continued stream of abuse of taxpayer funds.

Look no further than the indictments of Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto and the conviction of former state Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos.

Why would a developer waste their time bidding when past practices indicate the process has been rigged?

The Fix — Post all bids and

requests for proposals for all government entities on one easy to search website.

List every bid and RFP submitted from low to high price.

All bidders should also make public how much has been donated to elected officials.

4. Bring the Islanders Back to the Nassau Coliseum The Problem — The Islanders move to Brooklyn has left a gaping hole in Long Island’s sports and entertainment scene.

Since County Executive Ed Mangano and former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray forced them to leave, there has been a decrease in tax revenue and morale, felt throughout our community.

The Fix — Encourage the team ownership to come back to Uniondale by allowing them to sell seat licenses, similar to what the New York Giants did, charging $5,000 for the first 5,000-seat licenses, and once purchased allow them to be traded in a secondary market.

This will raise the revenue necessary to compensate for a smaller arena.

Long Island needs hockey back! Bringing the Islanders back

would also draw millennials who crave professional sports.

5. Develop Belmont The Problem — The RFP to develop the land around Belmont Raceway went out over four years ago.

The restrictive bidding process brought forth two bids for big box retail and one bid for a doomed Cosmos soccer stadium.

When the Cosmos recently folded all bids were cancelled.

The Fix — Use the location to encourage relocation of a large anchor corporate tenant, like Google or Amazon, or build an extension of the Northwell Hospital system.

Surround the commercial space with a mix of rental housing and condos.

Include a Chelsea Market type food hall, and retail that will attract tourists from far and wide.

This is the most valuable vacant land in the area and it needs to be an exciting project the community can get behind.

There are many other problems to tackle in Nassau County, but if some of the aforementioned problems receive the type of solution-focused attention I’ve described, our community will begin to thrive.

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

American words for us to live by

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s we approach a new year — and a new President — it behooves us to be mindful that words

matter.

Precision in the use of language has always been considered a hallmark of educated and thoughtful people. Martin Luther King, Jr. early emphasized that what people said could fairly be interpreted to convey their values and goals.

The logic in that view is that by encouraging people to express the best in themselves, there is a pathway to holding them accountable when their actions do not match their words.

Most significant, people can be affirmatively challenged to fulfill the highest ideals of their stated principles.

Every nation faces social dangers when leaders and commentators proceed with language that is hostile without cause, and when their speech foments unnecessary

divisions and separations among people.

It can be argued (perhaps, ironically) that society might be better served when language extremists do not camouflage harsh and hateful language.

As historian Richard Hofstadter argued in “The Paranoid Style of American Politics,” there are better chances to confront and overcome xenophobic and undemocratic views when they are undisguised in their repugnance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson provided another way to identify societal undesirables when he wrote: “What you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you say.”

The centrality of a free, investigative media (as heralded by the First Amendment) is critical to hold everyone accountable to democracy’s highest principles.

Fortunately, Americans have experienced many political leaders and social commentators who used their words to establish stan-

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field dards that garnered global admiration for our nation.

Consider, first, our most famous Long Islander in U.S. history, Theodore Roosevelt.

Not only did he use his words to warn against “the malefactors of great wealth,” but he promised a “Square Deal” for all Americans.

For T.R., citizenship was not a spectator sport: “Words without action are intellectual debauch-

ery; one must enter the arena and strive to do the deeds.”

It is no coincidence that President Roosevelt was honored (on Oct. 5, 1908) at the opening of Israel Zangwill’s play, “The Melting Pot.” The growing fusion of many nationalities was seen by T.R. as a strength, while the then thriving KKK and its white supremacist boosters sought to block those “new” and darker skinned immigrants from Italy, Greece, and areas of Eastern Europe.

Roosevelt emphasized: “This will not be a good nation for any of us, unless we make it a better country for all of us.”

Lincoln greatly admired Jefferson because the language he used marked him as one of the world’s pioneers for democratic, representative government: “If we think the people not enlightened enough to exercise power with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take

power from them but to inform their discretion through education. . . We must preach my dear sir a crusade against ignorance, for if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”

Jefferson’s close friend in 1776, Thomas Paine told the new Americans: “We have it in our power to begin the world anew.”

On a personal note, Paine added: “The world is my country, my mind is my church, and my religion is to do good.”

That early idealism of our Founding generation was highlighted by the principal leader of our public school movement, Horace Mann, when he spoke at the 1859 Antioch commencement: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Why Obama administration abstained

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here are those who will regard the U.S. decision to abstain from the United Nations vote condemning Israeli settlement building as a betrayal.

There have been many such resolutions in the U.N. Security Council and the U.S. had consistently used its veto power to cause them to fail, including every single one during Obama’s eight years in office.

But this was different. And the rage being pointed at Obama is misplaced.

In essence, if you believe in a two-state solution as the only way toward Israel-Palestinian peace that preserves Israel as both democratic and a Jewish state, you would understand why the U.S. took this course.

If you believe, as Obama and 99.9 percent of the international community believes, that the twostate solution is the only viable path to peace for Israel with Palestinians and its Arab neighbors, you would understand why Obama took this extraordinary step.

The way I understand the resolution, it addresses future settlements and does not impose a final status or set borders — which the U.S. would have vetoed.

That means that the hysteria (not unlike the hysteria fomented

with misinformation over the Iran nuclear agreement), that Jerusalem is “occupied territory” that would be returned, that the land the Hebrew University sits on would have to be returned, is unjustified.

But first consider the context: One may wonder why, with the atrocities being committed by the Syrian Government, Russia and Iran, the United Nations takes up action against Israel, which happens to be a country that is helping to heal Syrian victims in its hospitals, instead of holding a war crimes tribunal of Assad and Putin.

Why now?

I believe there were two provocations: the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers had just delivered a scathing attack on the United Nations for failing to intervene in Syria and stop the vicious assault on civilians, on hospitals, on schools. Attacking Israel is diversion tactic.

Second: Donald Trump stated that he would the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a clear provocation — and named as his nominee for Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, a man who is encouraging settlement building, who opposes the two-state solution, and who has likened liberal American Jews to “kapos” in the Nazi concentration camps.

KAREN RUBIN Pulse of the Peninsula Recall also that during his re-election campaign, Netanyahu made derogatory statements about Israeli Arabs and said (briefly, until he had to walk it back), that he was no longer interested in pursuing a two-state solution.

But that statement has taken on new vigor.

Netanyahu’s militancy in expanding settlements will undo the success in tamping down hostility to Israel as the Arab world focused more on countering radical jihadism.

Because for awhile, Israel was not solely seen in context of IsraelPalestinian conflict, but as a key player on the right side of a global conflict, with an important place in the international arena.

The White House got on the phone with journalists to give a fuller explanation beyond the headlines.

“This is consistent with longstanding bipartisan U.S. policy as it relates to settlements, as it relates to our opposition to Israeli settlements, as it relates to our opposition to, and condemnation of, incitement and violence and terrorism, and, above all, about our affirmative support for a twostate solution,” stated Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications.

It is also correct to point out that Israel has tried it the other way — even forcibly removing settlers from Gaza, only to have Hamas use Gaza as a base to fire tens of thousands of rockets on Israel’s civilian communities.

Also, the Palestinians had numerous opportunities to come to the table, and that most “outsiders” don’t understand the impossible demands the Palestinians are making: the right of return and to retake Jerusalem.

But every time there has been progress toward peace, the terror faction, which only exists if there is conflict, stirs up a new intifada.

Rhodes acknowledged as much, saying, “Palestinians have missed plenty of opportunities under this administration as well.”

But he added, “We exhausted every effort to pursue a two-state solution through negotiations, through direct discussions, through proximity discussions, through confidence-building measures, through a lengthy and exhaustive effort undertaken by Secretary Kerry earlier in the President’s second term. We gave every effort that we could to supporting the parties coming to the table...Prime Minister Netanyahu had the opportunity to pursue policies that would have led to a different outcome today.”

Instead, Netanyahu recently described his own government as “more committed to settlements than any in Israel’s history,” and one of his leading coalition partners, Naftali Bennett, declared that “the era of the two-state solution is over.”

Rhodes stated, “We hear the words about a two-state solution, and then we see the actions that are making a two-state solution far less likely, if not out of reach. And at a certain point, the words and the actions become irreconcilable.

And that’s what we’re concerned about. And we believe that that would be not in the best interest of Israel. And precisely because President Obama cares so deeply about Israel and its security, he would like to see a return to a meaningful effort to pursue peace.”

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A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Smart gizmos, not-so-smart people

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ove over, Fitbit, there’s a smart new gadget ready to take over the lives of the unwary: “Sense” is here! And it’s all set to tell you how to do something you thought you did well enough on your own, namely: sleep.

“Sense” is a bedside gadget and app to keep track of your bedtime and your wake-up time, as well as your motions — or lack of them — while you sleep.

Beyond that, it will also monitor what’s going on around you, in your bedroom — such as the temperature and humidity.

But it doesn’t stop there.

According to someone who reviewed it for the Washington Post, “it is also happy to make suggestions (such as) what time I should stop drinking caffeine at night.”

“Good grief!” said a friend of mine, when I told her this news.

“That’s why I live alone! You know what’s a better name for an app that nags you to go to bed, and not to drink coffee? ‘Mother!’

I spent the first 25 years of my life

trying to get away from mine!”

“Or you could call it your wife,” said my ever-loving spouse.

“When have I ever told you not to drink coffee?” I turn to him.

“Not that — but I have distinct memories of someone telling me to ‘Turn off that stupid show and come to bed!’”

“When did I ever do that?”

“Last night.”

“Oh. Well, of course! You know I can’t sleep if you’re watching zombies. Even a Fitbit could tell you that.”

“Still — If I had wanted someone to nag me about when to get up, and when to go to bed, I’d have gotten married,” my girlfriend continued. “With this thing, you get all the nagging without so much as a foot-rub to show for it!”

And of course, you can share your data on the internet — presumably so the app can tell you how much better you sleep than 98 percent of the other people it nags for a living. (I wonder if it tells the same thing to all its users?)

JUDY EPSTEIN A Look on the Lighter Side People are so eager, these days, to attach everything to the internet.

Take, for example, the weirdly named “Nest” home thermostat, which lets you regulate your home’s temperatures from somewhere else.

What no one has explained to my satisfaction is why I would want such a thing. I suppose, if I have been sent on a lightning trip to Chicago and forgotten to turn down my home thermostat, I

could save myself a few dollars by doing so, remotely.

But most of the time, I could just walk over to it — and instead, what I’m leaving myself open to is freezing, in the middle of winter, because my “smart” thermostat is busy being hacked by someone in Siberia who just wants me to share their pain.

There’s only one scenario where I would really want this — and that’s in every office where I’ve ever worked, where every woman in the building wants to turn the air conditioning down, but the thermostat is located in the office of a man who, apparently, has retained all of his Neanderthal ancestors’ body fur and sensitivities.

“You can put on an extra sweater,” men always say, never noticing how hard it is to concentrate when you’re shivering yourself right out of your chair.

I just cannot understand the fad for hooking everything up to the internet. The marketers call these things “smart.” And maybe they are.

But I’m not so sure about the people buying them… because whether the appliance is smart or not, hackers can somehow hijack them and turn them to no good.

One editor at Atlantic magazine proved how vulnerable we are to this kind of hazard, by creating what he called “an internet toaster” and hooking it up to the Web. “It was compromised in an hour.”

That’s why I really have no patience for people like Donna Hoffman and Tom Novak, at the Center for the Connected Consumer, at George Washington University.

Not only are they big fans of internet-enabled devices, but they can’t wait until smart refrigerators and cat-food dispensers become consumers in their own right, ordering more milk and pet-food without any interference from humans at all. This would probably suit cats just fine.

Then again, cats are probably smarter than the appliances. I only wish I could say the same for the rest of us!

READERS WRITE

Trump, Soros and the news media

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’m responding to criticism of my letter to the editor that appeared in the paper’s Dec. 16, 2016 edition.

My letter addressed the election of Donald Trump. Specifically, it addressed the role of bankers, especially George Soros, along with the corporate media, in opposing Trump and in the ongoing attacks against Trump postelection.

I stated the bankers’ interests, i.e., war and debt, were bad for the country, that Soros should be tried and the media monopoly broken.

In response, six letters were printed. The six essentially accused me of anti-Semitism. They also condemned the printing of my letter by the paper.

First, the title. The title of my letter as submitted was: “Donald Trump, George Soros and the Media.”

The paper substituted the more provocative title, “Trump election a victory for Christians,” under which it appeared. I had no involvement in that. Hence, to the extent the title offended, that complaint should be directed elsewhere, not at me. That said, I

stand behind the substance of my letter in its entirety.

The substance of my argument was that the powers-thatbe, which don’t have U.S. interests at heart, but rather are globalists, as represented by George Soros, used their domination of the media, and of front groups such as Black Lives Matter and Move-On. Org, to attack Trump during the campaign and that they are continuing those attacks today.

The letters in opposition to mine spent little, if any, time disputing these substantive points.

This for good reason. The role of the media and of Soros in assisting Clinton and in opposing Trump is well documented. It can’t credibly be disputed.

So instead of disputing the substance of my argument, the letters in opposition focused their attacks elsewhere.

In this regard, four of the critical letters consisted largely of ad hominem attacks, referring to me as an anti-Semite, Hitlerite, etc.

Those letters, and the writers of them, deserve to be ignored.

Ad hominem attacks expose the weakness of those making them, nothing more.

Such letters are just another way of saying, “shut up.”

That’s what you do when you don’t have a substantive argument; it’s not what you do when you have one.

The fifth was by Rabbi Michael White of Roslyn Heights.

It attacked the paper for printing my letter. It called for a boycott of the paper and for Mr. Blank to be ostracized.

Specifically, Rabbi White wrote, in part: “Else, it will become the responsibility of all decent people in the community to stay away from you, to abstain from advertising with you, to cancel subscriptions to you, to boycott you, as we would boycott any other institution that publishes hateful lies.”

This is a disturbing letter. It strikes at the heart of free speech and the First Amendment.

It is totalitarian in character.

Such thinking, i.e., censorship and retaliation, is short sighted and counterproductive.

It is the reason for the rise of the internet and the alternative media. It’s un-American and antiAmerican.

Instead of being castigated,

Mr. Blank should be commended for his willingness to print controversial viewpoints, practicing the journalistic integrity that is absent in the corporate monopoly media.

This especially given the subject matter of my letter, with which I believe he strongly disagrees.

Whether he is able to withstand the current threats and continues to publish politically incorrect viewpoints (or even wants to) I don’t know, but he should be thanked for what he’s done to date, in any event.

Lastly, the letter by Rabbi Klayman of Lake Success. He wrote, in part: “I am concerned, however, by the post-election fervor of extremists who have so inaccurately and so fervently interpreted this election as a victory for extremist ideologues and ideologies.”

While Rabbi Klayman’s letter is thoughtful and undoubtedly sincere, I disagree with him that there is anything “extreme” about Trump’s populist ideology.

In fact, populism is as American as apple pie. It has always been the majority sentiment of

the American people, when not subject to manipulation.

What is extreme is the internationalist agenda that the elites have attempted, for decades now, to foist upon the country, and much of the rest of the world, with its attendant wars and debt.

The international agenda is the one that embodies “extreme bias and hatred,” not populism.

Populism is natural, not extreme. It seeks good relations, not endless wars.

There is nothing extreme about Trump’s desire to be at peace and to concentrate on rebuilding the U.S., rather than upon nation-building elsewhere.

In fact, the importance of avoiding unnecessary foreign entanglements, i.e., internationalism, was the theme of George Washington’s Farewell Address.

In short, Trump’s election is a return to the norm for America.

Internationalism is extremism, not populism. Hillary was the extremist, not Trump.

That’s why she was rejected and he was elected.

John O’Kelly East Williston

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READERS WRITE

Trump’s vulgarity Inflammatory letter does and hatred ignored not belong in newspaper

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n response (to the) reader letter, “Trump election a victory for Christians,” Trump did not win the election, but rather lost by two and a half million votes.

In this season of goodwill for all, Mr. O’Kelly ignores (the) Trump campaign of hatred and vulgarity.

I hope that President-(Elect)

Trump shows more compassion than O’Kelly seems to have for all of our citizens and keeps his campaign promises.

Mr. O’Kelly is playing the blame game and putting the blame on one specific segment of the electorate.

Ted Knopp Port Washington

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appreciate a variety of viewpoints and political views.

But I was upset with the publication of a clearly anti-Semitic hate-filled letter in your Dec. 16 issue written

by John O’Kelly.

The phrase in paragraph

one, “…led by George Soros, a Rothschild banker” is clearly designed to raise old stereotypes.

In addition, at a moment like this in our country, a period overflowing with divisive and vile messages, publishing such screeds hardly

seems to serve a civic purpose.

Does the newspaper so lack letters to the editor written in a thoughtful way?

Larry Siegel Great Neck

State, NYC not shortchanged by federal gov

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ity, state and federal local elected officials continue claiming that New York sends more money to Washington than we get back, resulting in our being shortchanged, is nothing new.

Republicans are now in charge of the White House and both Houses of Congress, so this theme will grow in intensity.

This is the same old liberal Democratic playbook Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio along with most of our Congress members continue to blame Washington for all of our problems, just like their political ancestors from past decades.

All have an insatiable appetite for more and more federal assistance with no concern about increasing the confiscatory level of taxation to generate the revenues along with increasing long term borrowing to pay for this or how the billions of dollars are spent.

They believe throwing more taxpayer dollars at problems will solve all of society’s ills.

Moving tax dollars from Washington to New York City redistributes the wealth from the haves to the have-nots.

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented how New Yorkers sent more money to Washington than we get back.

Many other cities and states could make the same argument.

This imbalance also holds true in the distribution of state aid from Albany to the 62 counties and hundreds of cities within New York State.

Within Nassau County, residents of the Town of North Hempstead, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, City of Glen Cove and City of Long Beach don’t always get back the same amount of money sent to the Mineola county seat, Albany and Washington.

You could take this analysis

down to every village and local census tract in Nassau County.

Washington always takes a “piece of the action” for expenses.

Since this imbalance will never change, we would be better off leaving tax levies at the most local level of government.

There will be significant savings in administrative costs and a greater percentage of locally generated revenues remaining in our communities.

Generating, keeping and spending local funds in your communities also allows greater accountability and oversight by public officials and citizens from the same neighborhoods.

The real question is how New York State, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC and Nassau County (on behalf of Nassau Inter County Express Bus) manages the billions of dollars they are already receiving from Washington every year.

Federal support for both the Empire State and Big Apple has actually remained consistent and growing.

It has actually increased over past decades.

When a crises occurred, be it 9/11 in 2001 or Super Storm Sandy in 2012, Washington was there for us.

Additional billions in federal assistance above and beyond yearly formula allocations were provided.

Consider federal support for transportation has remained consistent and growing.

It has actually increased over past decades.

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided billions more.

Most U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration grants require a 20 percent hard cash local share.

In many cases, Uncle Sam accepted toll credits instead of hard cash for the local share.

This saved the Metropolitan Transportation Authority $1 billion dollars in the previous 20102014 five-year capital program.

The same will be true with the 2015-2019 five-year capital program.

Did you know that the federal government is paying twice with your tax dollars for building the new South Ferry Terminal no. 1 subway station?

First, for almost $600 million in 9/11 funding.

A second time for over $300 million with Super Storm Sandy funding to rebuild what was damaged.

The downtown Manhattan MTA New York City Transit Fulton Street Transit Center was first paid for with 9/11 funding.

Cost overruns of several hundred million are covered by ARRA funding.

The new PANYNJ PATH WTC Station original start date was 2003 with a completion date of 2009 at a cost of $2 billion.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey subsequently signed a construction agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration.

This made up to $2.201 billion in federal funding available for the World Trade Center permanent new PATH Terminal.

The grant agreement between the PANYNJ and USDOT FTA was awarded in December 2003.

It included a commitment for start of construction in the beginning of 2006 with completion on or before June, 2011.

Another five years was needed until it was completely finished in 2016.

Fast forward to 15 years later after 9/11/2001.

Construction was completed many years beyond the original promised scheduled date.

At $4 billion, the cost was

double the original $2 billion.

The USDOT FTA provided approximately $1.9 billion.

Both the project delays and major cost overruns are nothing to be proud of.

Just how have the MTA, New York City Department of Transportation and Nassau County on behalf of NICE Bus managed the billions of discretionary dollars received in post 9/11 aid after 2001; American Recovery Reinvestment Act in 2009 along with Superstorm Sandy relief and recovery after 2012?

The same for $2.7 billion in federal New Starts funding for Long Island Rail Road east side access to Grand Central Terminal (cost grew from $3.5 billion in 2001 to $10.8 billion today and who knows tomorrow) and $1.3 billion for Phase 1 of Second Avenue subway at a total cost of $4.5 billion.

All of these billions were above and beyond the billions in regular formula assistance received from Washington.

Does the MTA, New York City DOT and Nassau County submit grant applications on time for both formula and discretionary competitive funding opportunities?

Do they take advantage of pre-award authority prior to grant approval?

Use of pre-award authority affords the opportunity to incur costs for reimbursement at a later date after grant obligation of funding.

Are current federal transit programs being completed on time and within budget?

Are funds being expended on a timely basis?

Are there any unspent funds carried over year after year?

Is there waste, fraud or abuse?

Are all change orders for construction projects fair, reasonable and documented?

Have New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli conducted audits of the MTA and NYC DOT to see if they are doing a good job managing current federal transit aid programs?

Has New York City Council Speaker Melisa Mark-Viverto along with New York City Council Finance Committee Chairperson Julissa Ferreras and New York City Council Transportation Committee Chairperson Ydanis Rodriguez conducted public hearings to do the same?

What oversight have the New York City Office of Management and Budget and the New York City Independent Budget Office provided?

Have either conducted any audits to see how MTA and New York City DOT are managing their respective federal transit aid programs?

Has Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos done the same?

MTA, New York City DOT and Nassau County have to submit quarterly milestone and financial progress reports with the federal DOT counterparts who review and approve funding from Washington.

They document the progress being made by the recipient of federal funding.

The reports might make interesting reading for citizens who want to find out how the MTA, New York City DOT and Nassau County are spending the billions from Washington.

Perhaps the MTA, New York City DOT and Nassau County need to do a better job with the billions of dollars in taxpayer generated revenues already available, rather than pick the pockets of taxpayers for even more!

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Adopt a hydrant: town

Girl Scouts join choruses The Girl Scouts of Nassau County Chorus recently performed with Greater Nassau Chorus and Mineola High School choirs as part of the Greater Nassau Chorus’ holiday concert at the school.

The Girl Scouts attended a chorus rehearsal to learn from the experienced women before working together to prepare the Simon and Garfunkle song “The 59th Street Bridge” for their performance.

“We are so glad to have the opportunity to expose our girls to the expertise and leadership of these famed females’ artistic passion,” CEO Donna Ceravolo said. “GNC has helped to set an example for our aspiring singers, teaching them more than just singing technique, but how to be proud, independent women unafraid of following their dreams.”

Formed in 1988, the Girl Scouts of Nassau County Chorus is a youth vocal group who travels throughout Nassau County and the surrounding metropolitan area performing Girl Scout songs, as well as patriotic- and holiday-themed music.

The chorus, comprised of 50 young ladies who range in Girl Scout age levels

from Brownies to Ambassador Girl Scouts, now have the opportunity to form a mentorship with GNC for future performances and to gain extended experience.

“Imagine our good fortune when Catherine Azzara, the director of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County Chorus, became a member of Greater Nassau Chorus,” GNC Master Director 700 Harriette Walters said.

“Everyone knew immediately that bringing these two groups together was an amaz-

ing opportunity. One of the goals of GNC is education, the mentoring of young women in the art of a cappella singing and barbershop harmony. We invited the Girl Scouts chorus members, present and past, to rehearse with us and to perform at our annual holiday show. They responded yes with sheer delight! What better way is there to showcase sisterhood through song? We are pretty sure that the audience loved it as much as we did!”

Greater Nassau Chorus is a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance. Under the direction of Harriette Walters, Greater Nassau Chorus has become an award-winning international competitor, with 12 regional first-place finishes and eight top 10 international finishes.

Since 1960, the GNC has brought fourpart a cappella music to Long Island.

Martins delivers 2,000 toys State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) today helped bring some extra holiday cheer to children in WinthropUniversity Hospital by delivering over 2,000 toys he collected through his annual holiday toy drive.

“Watching a child’s eyes light up when they get a new toy is one of the best parts of the holiday season. When children are in the hospital, the gift of a new toy can really lift their spirits during a tough time.

The community’s continued generosity will bring happiness to families in their time of need. Thanks to everyone who participated in this program,” Martins said.

Students from 12 local schools, patrons of one local library, and residents

from across Martins’ Senate District collected and donated the toys.

The schools and libraries who participated in Martins’ toy drive are: Center Street School (Herricks School District); Cherry Lane Elementary School (Carle Place School District); Floral Park-Bellerose School (Floral Park-Bellerose School District); Great Neck North Middle School (Great Neck School District); Hillside Grade School (New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District); Hillside Public Library (New Hyde Park); John Lewis Childs School (Floral Park-Bellerose School District); Manhasset Secondary School (Manhasset School District); New Hyde Park Memorial High School (Sewanhaka

Central High School District); Parkville Elementary School (Great Neck School District); Rushmore Avenue School (Carle Place School District); Searingtown Elementary School (Herricks School District); and Weber Middle School (Port Washington School District).

“The senator’s visit is always a highlight here at Winthrop, and we appreciate all of the support from the community that goes behind this tremendous effort,” said John F. Collins, president and CEO of Winthrop-University Hospital. “The generosity that is extended to our Child Life Program as a result of this holiday toy drive ensures smiles on our patients’ faces last the whole year through.”

The Town of North Hempstead is encouraging residents to Adopta-Hydrant near their home to help fire fighters locate and access fire hydrants by keeping them clear of snow.

“It is of the utmost importance to the safety of our residents that firefighters have quick access to fire hydrants in case of an emergency,” said North Hempstead Town Supervisor Bosworth. “With everyone pitching in, this will ensure that our fire hydrants are accessible and easy to locate after a snowstorm.”

“It is important for our first responders to have a clear pathway to fire hydrants in case of an emergency, Bosworth said. “Buried fire hydrants can cause dangerous delays, the ‘Adopt-a-Hydrant’ program provides a way to get residents involved and make sure that our fire hydrants are accessible and easy to locate after a storm.”

Any resident or organization, such as a scout troop or civic group, can Adopt-a-Hydrant simply by emailing their name, the location of the hydrant they are committing to adopt, and a photo after it has been cleared of snow to: adoptahydrant@northhempsteadny.gov.

All participants will receive a Certificate of Recognition from the Supervisor for their communityminded service.

Fire hydrants should be dug out at least two feet on each side after a snow storm, according to Town Code.

Although “Adopt-a-Hydrant” is an informal and voluntary program for homeowners, if you are a commercial property owner or the owner of a multi-residential property adjacent to a fire hydrant, you are required under the town code to remove snow and ice from around the hydrant for a distance of two feet, and between the sidewalk and curb within four hours after the snowfall has ended, except between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.

For more information on snow removal procedures or the “Adopta-Hydrant” program, please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Honor Orchestra of America

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Joanna Lau

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Three Herricks High School students have been selected to the 2017 Honor Orchestra of America, one of three ensembles that comprise the Music for All National Festival.

Mikayla Chan, Adam Cordero and Joanna Lau will perform on the violin, clarinet and flute, respectively, at this prestigious event.

Mikayla Chan

The festival will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana from March 9-11.

According to Music for All, the honor ensembles provide a national stage and world-class learning and performance opportunities with distinguished conductors, artists and master teachers.

Chan, Cordero and Lau completed a rigorous audi-

tion process and were selected from among hundreds of contenders.

All three students will perform under the leadership of Jeffrey Grogan, conductor for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Newark Youth Orchestras, the InterSchool Orchestras of New York and the New Jersey Youth Symphony.

Keith Rumm

One of our residents and member of the Williston Park Fire Department.

Keith Rumm, passed unexpectedly at the young age of 43.

He left behind his wife and three children ages 13 to 17.

The Fire Department has started a fund to assist in paying for their college education.

Keith was a friendly guy that was always the first to step up and help his neighbors and we are asking you to do the same.

Please make checks payable to: Williston Park Fire Department Company One Keith Rumm Children's Fund 454 Willis Ave. Williston Park, NY 11596

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BLANK SLATE MEDIA December 30, 2016

Gold Coast exhibit shows art found in unlikely places

BY J OE N I K I C

F

ormer Great Neck Plaza Mayor RJ “Bob” Rosegarten will be returning to the village he once led, this time to showcase his artistic abili-

ties.

The Gold Coast Arts Center will host the opening reception of “Lost & Found: The Art of Assemblage,” an exhibition showcasing his three-dimensional artwork of combined elements.

“In this latest chapter of his creative life, RJ Rosegarten draws upon the rich fabric of his imagination, strong art and design skills, and solid knowledge of carpentry that lets him to execute what he already sees in his mind fully formed,” said Regina Gil, executive director at the Gold Coast Arts Center. “And the results are impressive.”

The opening reception will be held on Jan. 22 at the Gold Coast Arts Center from 4 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will run from Jan. 22 to March 12.

Gil said she was delighted to see the return of her friend to the peninsula and touted his efforts in supporting the goals

of the arts center.

“Without his friendship and assistance, mentoring another dreamer through the shoals of politics, fundraising and community engagement, it is doubtful that this Gold Coast Arts Center could have found its home here,” she said. “It seems fitting that we honor him with this exhibit that introduces the people he served as mayor to the man he is now – the artist.”

In his artist statement, Rosegarten said similar to how he has changed as a person, his artwork has undergone some reinvention as well.

“Over the last 10 years, it has moved from post-Pop paintings to a more muscular sculptural medium, where form and

design take precedence over color,” he said.

Rosegarten, who served as Great Neck Plaza mayor from 1993 until 2000, said flea markets and barn and garage sales have become essential to his artwork, as the objects he finds are stored in “labeled boxes” and “rediscovered” once he has an idea.

“One day I might find a rusted scythe with a broken wooden handle; the next day a box of glass dolls’ eyes or a red View-Master,” he said. “When I select objects for a new composition, I may sit with them for days, moving them around like pieces on a chessboard until they take shape.”

He said placement and balance of the objects are key to his creations.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER

“I remove pieces, add others, balancing shadows, shapes, textures and color until I know instinctively that the work is completed,” Rosegarten said. “The new composition has taken on another dimension, a unity of its own and gained strength and character.”

Jude Amsel, the arts center’s gallery director, said the art of assemblage contains the “thoughtful combination of elements to create something new and original.”

“Each process differs significantly when materials are chosen, collected and combined with one another,” Amsel said.

“The thought process of Rosegarten’s techniques is to synthesize materials to produce a cohesive result.” “‘Lost and Found: The Art of Assemblage’ showcases three-dimensional assemblage pieces alongside one another to create a complex language,” she added.

The Gold Coast Arts Center is located at 113 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck.

For more information, those interested can contact the arts center at 516-8292570 or visit www.goldcoastarts.org.

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The top seven events

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New Year’s Laughin’ Eve Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m.

Now in its ninth year, New Year’s Laughin’ Eve is Long Island’s favorite way to Laugh in the new year with five hilarious shows at four theaters across Long Island. And the best part is that you can still be home in time to watch the ball drop. Laugh in the New Year with Long Island Comedy.

Where: • Theatre Three, 412 Main St., Port Jefferson (shows at 6 and 8 p.m.)

• Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre • The Suffolk Theatre, 118 E. Main St., Riverhead • Cultural Arts Playhouse, 710 Michael Drive, Syosset Info: longislandcomedy.com

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BUSH with Special Guest: The Kickback

Saturday, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m.

Over the course of their remarkable career, BUSH has sold close to 20 million records in the U.S. and Canada alone. hey’ve compiled an amazing string of 18 consecutive Top 40 hit singles on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, including 11 that hit the Top 5, six of which shot to No. 1: “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Machinehead,” “Swallowed,” “The Chemicals Between Us” and “The Sound of Winter.” Bush is currently in pre-production for a new studio album.

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

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The Yale Spizzwinks(?)

Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.

The Yale Spizzwinks(?) are America’s first and oldest underclassmen a cappella group!

Founded in 1914, the Spizzwinks are an all-male a cappella group comprised of Yale undergraduates; our concerts feature an eclectic range of musical repertoire—from old standards of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to chart-toppers of Adele and Sam Smith— and can appeal to audiences across all ages and musical tastes.

Where: The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org

Director Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this timely drama about an aged, ailing handyman’s battle to survive after being denied his government health allowance. His quest for work leads him to befriend the kind-hearted Katie, a single mother, and an unexpected bond is formed. Equal parts enraged and touching, Loach’s powerhouse of a film will remind you what it really means to be human.

Visit goldcoastfilmfestival.org/furman or call 516-829-2570 for tickets. Tickets $15/$10 for students when purchased in advance,

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Kamran & Hooman and Sepideh Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m.

Singing duo Kamran & Hooman and vocalist Sepideh all hail from Tehnran, Iran, and grew up in the United States. They have since made names for themselves around the world. They will take the stage at The Space at Westbury for a New Year’s Eve party to ring in 2017.

Where: The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury Info: (516) 283-5566 • thespaceatwestbury.com

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Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection

Open through March 5 Norman Rockwell, the quintessential American illustrator, anchors an impressive new exhibit of iconic artwork from the collection of Mort Künstler, a gifted artist and a discerning collector of important American illustration. Encompassing 75 paintings and sketches acquired over decades, “Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection” is the first time this important private collection is on public view.

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Madball at The Revolution

With All-You-Can-Eat Lunch or Dinner (Mon-Thurs.)

Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m.

Head to the Revolution Music Hall in Amityville for a night of music headlined by Madball, the hardcore punk band from New York City. Support by Wisdom In Chains, Brick

By Brick and Out Live Death.

Where: Revolution Bar & Music Hall, 140 Merrick Road, Amityville Info: (631) 264-7712 • revolutionli.com

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Converse, collaborate and create at Neiman Marcus Family Sundays at the Museum. Be inspired by the works in the galleries, explore new art materials. Neiman Marcus Family Sundays at the Museum allows children and the adults in their lives to take time to reconnect while talking about and making art together.

Where: Nassau County Museum of Art 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor Info: (516) 484.9337 • nassaumuseum.org

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ew Year’s Eve Skate Party Saturday, Dec. 31 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Celebrate the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 at United Skates of America. It’s a Family New Year’s Eve Party with roller skating, dancing, all you can eat pizza, all you can drink soda, chips and pretzels, glow in the dark necklace, game tokens, and a “countdown to the New Year.”

Where: United Skates of America, 1276 Hicksville Road, Seaford Info: 516-795-5474, unitedskates.com

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irst Day Hike Sunday, Jan. 1 at 10 a.m.

• Weddings • Corporate Events • Special Celebrations • Promotional Occasions

Start the New Year on the right foot with a First Day Hike at Bethpage State Park, led by our own Jim Van Tassell. Participants should meet at the picnic area parking lot near the playground, bring water and a snack; all ages are welcome; we hike in rain, snow or shine—only a blizzard will cancel.

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hildren’s Storytime: Hap-pea All Year

Saturday, Dec. 31 at 11 a.m.

Just in time for New Year’s, the peas from the bestselling LMNO Peas are back for more fun — this time exploring the months of the year!

Along with the story there will be fun activities.

Where: Barnes & Noble 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset Info: 516-365-6723 stores.barnesandnoble.com

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has specialized in sport psychology for 20 years and works in the fields of golf, tennis, soccer, baseball, football, wrestling, lacrosse, figure skating, gymnastics, softball, fencing and more. He has helped professional teams, Olympians and elite young athletes learn how to manage the intense pressure of competitive sports. He appears on both TV and radio and has sport psychology columns in 5 different newspapers and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall street Journal and the London Times. Golf Digest includes him in their list of top mental game gurus in America. For a consultation see below: Williston Park Professional Center 2 Hillside Ave, Suite E. Williston Park NY 11596 (building parallel to E. Williston railroad station)

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Saturday, Dec. 31 Bring your child(ren) to see this blockbuster film in a safe and accepting environment. AMC Sensory Friendly Films helps families affected by autism. They offer monthly films so that kids can enjoy their favorite films. Each program has their lights up, the sound turned down, and audience members are invited to get up and dance, walk, shout, or sing. Check website for locations and show times.

Info: amctheatres.com/programs/sensory-friendly-films

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ofstra Pride Men’s Basketball Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m.

Cheer on the home team as they take on James Madison University. y Great night g off ffun for the entire family! Purchase tickets on line or att box office.

Where: David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex Hofstra University, Hempstead Info: 516-463-8499, gohofstra.com

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Ring in the New Year with turkey Now that the holidays are coming to an end, you have probably roasted a turkey or two.

Do you still crave the homey feeling of eating turkey? Making a turkey breast instead of a whole turkey is easy and delicious.

The left-overs are also great for sandwiches and salads during the week.

One of the beautiful things about this recipe is that you roast the turkey breast on a bed of vegetables that become your vegetable side dish.

The mashed potatoes are decadent and delicious.

You may also add truffle butter to them to kick them up a notch.

Round out this entree with store bought creamed spinach, I like Seabrook’s, which is available in the freezer section of all supermarkets and you have a Holiday feast.

Not only does a turkey breast ring in the New Year, but is also makes for a great Sunday dinner to ring in the week throughout the year.

MENU Serves 4 with left-overs Turkey breast with mixed vegetables Mashed potatoes Gravy* Creamed spinach* *Recipe Not Given

4. Place skillet in the oven and roast until done.

My 3 1/2 lb breast took 1 1/2/ hours. Tent with foil for 20 minutes. Carve and serve.

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect

Turkey Breast with Mixed Vegetables Spray Oil 2 onions, chopped 4 carrots, peeled and chopped 3 celery stalks, chopped 1 3 oz. container of Truffle butter Salt and pepper 3-5 lb. turkey breast 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Spray a cast iron skillet that is large enough to hold the vegetables and the turkey with spray oil.

Add the onions, carrots and celery.

3. Place your turkey breast on a counter and loosen the skin. In between the breast and the skin, smear the truffle butter. Also, smear some truffle butter on the top of the breast. pepper the breast. Place the turkey breast, skin side up in your pan on top of the vegetables.

Mashed Potatoes 8 medium-size potatoes, peeled and quartered 6 tblsps. butter Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper 1/2 cup hot cream 1. Boil the potatoes.

Drain and dry. Mash with a masher.* 2. Add the butter and mash again. Add the seasonings and hot cream and beat with a wooden spatula or spoon until light and thoroughly blended.

3. Reheat in a double boiler, over water, if necessary. Serve in a heated serving dish topped with a lump of softened butter or truffle butter if you wish. *If you prefer, you can use a electric mixer with a paddle attachment.

Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 32 year-old Greenvalebased company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties. She lives in Manhasset with her husband and son.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • goldcoastarts.org Jan. 22 to March 12 Lost & Found: The Art of Assembling LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m.

Tom Papa, standup comedian Saturday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m.

The Olate Dogs, America’s Got Talent winning family show Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m.

Berenstain Bears, live musical show PLANTING FIELDS Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 • http://www.plantingfields. org FRIDAY, JAN. 20 at 7 p.m.

West Side 5 Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.

The Master Keys Thursday, March 24 at 7 p.m.

Hot Club of Flatbush

December 9th

IRISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NASSAU SUFFOLK AND QUEENS 297 Willis Ave Mineola (516) 746-9392 Saturday, Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve Celebration Dinner — Music by Gerard Corbett and Susan Gillespie THE 50+ COMEDY TOUR 2016 SCHEDULE Saturday, Dec. 31 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson Paul Anthony Rich Walker Keith Anthony Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. at The Madison Theatre in Rockville Centre Eric Haft Tina Giorgi Rob Falcone Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. at Cultural Arts Playhouse in Syosset Peter Bales Steve Lazarus Carie Karavis THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566

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A&E Calendar cont’d www.thespaceatwestbury.com Thursday, Dec. 29 at 8 p.m.

Gogol Bordello MADISON THEATRE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 323-4500 madisontheatreny.org Saturday, Dec. 31 at 6 p.m.

A Laughing Rocking New Year’s Eve THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Long Island’s Own – Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti (America’s Got Talent Finalist): Performing the Music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & The Rat Pack Friday, Dec. 23 at 8 p.m.

The Sleeping with Special Guests: Reggie And The Full Effect, Folly & Lux Courageous Thursday, Dec. 29 at 8 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 30 at 8 p.m.

O.A.R. – The XXmas Wish List Tour (2 Nights) Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10 p.m.

BUSH with Special Guest – The Kickback Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m.

The Purple Xperience: A Tribute to Prince with Special Guest Don¹t Believe in Ghosts Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.

O El Amor with Special Guest Judas Priestess Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m.

Michael Carbonaro Live Friday, Jan. 13 “The Ultimate Beach Party Tribute to Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown” TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.

The Yale Spizzwinks LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

11 Davis Avenue, Garden City 516-224-5800 • www.licm.org Tuesday, Dec. 27 to Saturday, Dec. 31 at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

“Red Riding Hood” Book by Mike Kenny; Music and Lyrics by Julian Butler Monday, Dec. 26 and Friday, Dec. 30 from 12 p.m. through 4 p.m.

Green Teen Series – Ice/Snow Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 2 p.m.

Kwanzaa Celebration Thursday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m.

Sock Snowpeople Saturday, Dec. 31 from 12 p.m. through 4 p.m.

Countdown to 12!

Monday, Jan. 2 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, Jan. 3 to 31 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Silly Snow People Tuesday, Jan. 3 and Thursday, Jan. 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. stART (Story + Art) Wednesday, Jan. 4 from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Music and Movement Friday, Jan. 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Kids in the Kitchen Saturday, Jan. 7 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Braille Fest - Happy Birthday Louis Braille Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Messy Afternoons Sunday, Jan. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Traditional Torans Through Jan. 8 Last week - Traveling Exhibit: Your House, My House

Massapequa Sunday, Jan. 15 Mousetrap Cafe Amityville GOVERNORS’ COMEDY CLUB 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs.com/ index.cfm Friday, Dec. 30 at 8 p.m.

John Ziegler Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Nick Griffin

BROKERAGE COMEDY CLUB 2797 Merrick Road Bellmore (516) 781-LAFF (5233) GovernorsFeedback@gmail.com Friday, Dec. 30 at 8 p.m.

Melvin George Saturday, Dec. 31 at 7:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.

New Years Eve with Tim Krompier ZEBRA- A HAMMERHEADS REUNION Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall 3232 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh Saturday, Jan. 14

METROPOLITAN FIGURE SKATING CLUB Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Winter Ice Show at Iceland Rink 3345 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park 516-746-1100 HUNTINGTON ARTS COUNCIL The Human Condition exhibit February 2-25 213 Main Street, Huntington THE JOHNNY MAC BAND Monday, Jan. 2 Paint Night at Big Daddy’s

Happy New Year!

Wishing W ishing youu aand nd your family much hhappiness appiness and peace in the new year with many more to come.

DIANE ANDERSEN

Licensed Associate R. E. Broker Platinum Award Winner, 2015 C: 516.695.2400 | diane.andersen@elliman.com 110 WALT WHITMAN ROAD, HUNTINGTON STATION, NY, 11746. 631.549.7401 © 2016 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

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Children’s Museum to 2 trios to share folk help ring in New Year society spotlight Jan. 7 The Long Island Children’s Museum and the Long Island Nets will ring in the New Year with LICM’s 12th annual family-friendly Countdown to 12! celebration on Dec. 31 from noon to 4 p.m. throughout the museum.

A ball drop at noon in the LICM lobby will tip off the event, which concludes at 4 p.m. with a second ball drop.

Long Island Nets players Beau Beech, Carrick Felix and Long Island native J.J. Moore will surprise guests and take part in themed activities, such as designing top hats, basketball-themed noisemakers and whistle necklaces, as well as face painting and a DJ-led dance party. The players will lead the countdown for the first ball drop at noon.

This year’s Countdown to 12! theme, “Have a Ball,” captures the festive

atmosphere and marks the beginning of LICM’s new alliance with the Long Island Nets.

The team will move to its permanent home, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum presented

by New York Community Bank, starting in the 201718 season after playing its first season at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

“We can’t think of a better occasion to start a relationship with the Long Island Nets than a holiday that brings together family and friends,” said Maureen P. Mangan, LICM Director of Communications & Marketing.

“We are pleased to align with the Long Island Children’s Museum, which shares our commitment to community and building a positive relationship with families on Long Island,” said Alton Byrd, Vice President of Business Operations

for the Long Island Nets.

LICM created Countdown to 12! in 2005 to provide families with the opportunity to celebrate the New Year together.

Nearly 20,000 visitors have joined the year-end festivities at the museum since the event launched.

Families have the opportunity to take part in all the traditional elements associated with the year-end revelry, with the simple substitution of “midday” instead of “midnight.”

The new alliance between LICM and the Long Island Nets also includes marketing rights on both organizations’ digital channels and the Long Island Nets’ presenting sponsorship of select LICM events.

All Countdown to 12! activities are included with Museum admission on Saturday, December 31.

For more information, visit www.licm.org.

LIU Post chorus plays Carnegie Hall

BY A L EC M AT U S Z A K The LIU Post chorus performed at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 10, the group’s third consecutive year at the venue. LIU Post Music Professor Mark Shapiro’s connection with Carnegie Hall paved the way for the music students’ performances.

Junior music major Veronica Nguyen, a member of the LIU Post chorus, said she was excited about singing at the celebrated venue.

“It’s a really fantastic experience,” Nguyen said.

“Singing at Carnegie Hall is really like nothing else.

You can really feel the history and the magnitude of where you’re performing when you’re standing on that stage.”

Nguyen is a seasoned singer, as she started singing in middle school.

She said she was ready

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for the moment but admitted that when singing at a place as famous and appreciated as Carnegie Hall, she needed to calm her nerves.

“It’s definitely a lot higher [amount of] pressure. You really have to know all the ins and outs of your music; you have to be prepared because time on the Carnegie Hall stage is really valuable,” she said.

“You really only get one shot at it.”

The chorus worked hard during the entire fall semester to make sure the

performance was successful.

Leading the chorus was Professor Mark Shapiro, who is the director of choral studies at LIU Post.

Nguyen praised Shapiro, noting that he stresses that the students understand music theory concepts as well as using listening skills to “sing by ear,” or without reading notes.

Shapiro also directs the Cecilia Chorus of New York in New York City.

The Cecilia Chorus and its orchestra performed with the LIU Chorus at Carnegie Hall. The performance elicited a standing ovation from the audience of more than 2,000 people.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, LIU Post’s award-winning student newspaper, www.liupostpioneer.com. The article is republished by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

The Boxcar Lilies and Low Lily, two New England based acoustic trios, share the bill during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s First Saturday Concerts series on Jan. 7.

The 8:30 p.m. concert at The Congregational Church of Huntington (30 Washington Drive, Centerport) is preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets, priced at $25 ($20 for FMSH members), may be purchased in advance online at www.fmsh. org, using a credit card, or at the door (cash and checks only).

For more information, visit the website or call 631425-2925.

The Boxcar Lilies is an Americana trio from Massachusetts who have been receiving accolades and wowing audiences with their vocal harmonies and signature mix of folk, country, and bluegrass-tinged Americana music since forming in 2009.

Accompanying themselves on guitar, electric

bass, washboard and cajon, Jenny Goodspeed, Stephanie Marshall and Susan Cattaneo have brought their warm sound and genuine and charming stage presence to venues and festivals up and down the Eastern seaboard and beyond.

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival attendees voted the trio “Most Wanted to Return” artists following the festival’s annual Emerging Artists Showcase in 2013, while The Boxcar Lilies also secured coveted official showcases at Folk Alliance International and Northeast Regional Folk Alliance conferences and impressed FMSH concertgoers during a previous appearance here.

Low Lily, a Vermontbased string and vocal trio who explore the roots and branches of American folk music with traditional influences and modern inspiration, weave together a unique brand of acoustic music.

Liz Simmons (vocals and guitar), Flynn Cohen

(vocals, guitar, and mandolin) and Lissa Schneckenburger (vocals and fiddle) have delved into traditional music styles -- ranging from bluegrass to Irish, Scottish, New England, and old time Appalachian sounds – and combines them with their own composition skills and inventive arrangements to create music that is rooted, yet contemporary.

As PopMatters notes, Low Lily has “an incredible knack for putting a little pop twist on a traditional folk/Americana sound.”

“House Carpenter,” the opening track on the trio’s recent self-titled album, debuted as the most-played song on the international Folk DJ charts.

This will be Low Lily’s first Long Island concert appearance.

Now in its 48th year, the Folk Music Society of Huntington presents two monthly concert series, a monthly folk jam, and an annual folk festival in conjunction with the Huntington Arts Council.

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Williston Park Library From the Director: Please note the following holiday library schedule: Dec. 24: 10am-1pm Dec. 25 & 26: Closed Dec. 31: 10am-1pm Jan. 1 & 2: Closed We are not accepting donations until further notice. Do

not put them in the return bins outside the library!

If you do have books to donate, please contact The Book Fairies, a wonderful non-profit organization in Freeport. www.thebookfairies.org.

Here are some new arrivals

to the library: Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life-Manoah Bowman Odessa Sea— Clive Cussler I’ll Take You There— Wally Lamb Chaos— Patricia Cornwell

Turbo Twenty-Three— Janet Evanovich Sleeping Beauty Killer— Mary Higgins Clark Cross the Line— James Patterson Just Getting Started— Tony Bennett News of the World— Paulette Jiles

ADULT Author Appearance Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Bestselling author Laura Schroff is returning to the library to discuss her new book, Angels on Earth: Inspir-

ing Stories of Fate, Friendship and the Power of Connections. Copies will be available for purchase.

Book Discussion Wednesday—Jan. 25—7pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Copies of The Martian are available at the Circulation Desk.

East Williston Library DAYTIME BOOK CLUB: “Miller’s Valley” by Anna Quindlen. The group will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 1:30 p.m.

EVENING BOOK CLUB: “The Gilded Years” by Karin Tanabe. The group will meet on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m.

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS and NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PASSES: The passes are available to East Williston Library card holders. Each family pass (2 adults and children under 18 years of age) may be borrowed for a 3 day period.

Passes may be reserved in

advance.

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need to achieve the

results you want at school, at work, or in life. Are you looking for a new job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.

Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours are Monday & Thursday

from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.. Photo identification is required. Documents to be notarized must be signed at the time of notarization, not before. You must bring your own witness if needed.

Please telephone the Library to confirm a notary is avail-

able.

COLLECTION ON DISPLAY: This December, the East Williston Public Library Friends invites the public to share in a seasonal display courtesy of the Beautification Committee.

Please come to the Village Hall to view and enjoy.

Mineola Public Library The book discussion group will meet Thursday, December 15 at 7:30PM to discuss Gravity

by Tess Gerritsen. New readers are welcome.

Heartfulness Meditation Workshops Saturdays, remaining sessions: Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 at 12:00-1:15PM (6 sessions) Heartfulness Meditation is a simple and practical way to experience the heart’s un-

limited resources. You will learn how to relax and feel the lightness and joy of your true nature. The Heartfulness technique shows us how to gently turn our attention towards our heart and experience that inner presence for ourselves.

Oldies Dance Party Thursday, Jan. 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Bring in the New Year with

your DJ John Herling. Have fun as you play and dance to the music of the 1950s and 1960s. Listen to 45s on an old time turn table. Bring your danceable 45s and dancing shoes! Refreshments will be served.

Chi Kung (Qigong) Meditation Classes Tuesdays at 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; and, Feb. 7, 14

Join Andrea Albergo for Chi Kung which is considered a beautiful peaceful path for body, mind and spirit.

Zumba Fitness Classes Saturdays, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 at 10:15-11:00AM These fitness based dance classes are not only an amazing cardio workout, but it makes working out fun! At the core of each class is music from all over

the world, resulting in a class that has international rhythms and moves, making the class time fly by. All fitness levels, body types and ages may attend.

FAN FAVORITE MOVIE SERIES Calling all Sci-Fi fans and film buffs! Join us for a new series featuring your favorite movies and fandoms, where you can hop on board

the USS Enterprise, join the Resistance, and save New York from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. For even more fun, come in costume as your favorite character!

All showings start at 6:30 pm.

Dec. 21—Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Jan. 18—Ghostbusters (1984) Feb. 22—Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Shelter Rock Library This is a chance to improve your chess game and unerstand the importance of each piece. You will earn community credit.

Art on Display in the Community Room On Display in December The Art of Jack Grimando Jack loves nature and old world scenes which he paints with great detail... many are painted from his imagination.

Chess Program Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m.

Teens will assist children, who already know how to play chess, in playing a game.

Sing a Silly Song Puppet Show Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 11:15 a.m.

Sing a Silly Song is a high energy 30 minute musical stage production performed by two puppeteers.

Sing along to your favorite songs with “30” of your favorite puppet characters! This production features: Elmo, Cookie, Oscar, Big

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Bird, Snuffy, The Count, Miss Spider, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Wonder Pets, DJ Lance, Brobee, Foofa Plex, Dora, Swiper, Boots Backpack and many more favorites!

Bring in the New Year Thursday, Dec. 29 at 4:15 p.m.

Join the YA Librarian and the TAB group for a recap of 2016 YA programs and some of the Best YA Books of the year.

Then we will play board games and Wii Video games. Enjoy some

refreshments.

The Manhasset Art Association Announces “A Wonderland of Art” The Manhasset Art Association is having a two-month fall exhibit at the Shelter Rock Public Library from Jan. 10-Feb. 27.

Approximately 40 works will be shown, including Oils, Watercolors, Pastels, Pencil, Charcoal, Photography, Collage, Mixed Media and more. We award Best in Show, Award of Excellence, Award of

Merit, 3 Honorable Mentions, and a special award for Figure Drawing.

Our distinguished judge will be Rob Zeller, Owner and Instructor at Teaching Studios of Art in Oyster Bay. The reception and awards ceremony is Saturday, January 14, from 2-4pm.

Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited.

For viewing hours and directions, please contact The Shelter Rock Public Library at 516-248-7363.

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Town gets $1.14M to fund development Will go toward promotion, emergency data collection, wetland restoration and trail

BY J OE N I K I C North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth announced last Wednesday that the town received four state grants worth about $1.14 million to fund economic development projects.

“We are excited to receive this funding from the regional economic grants to assist us with programs and initiatives that are important to the town’s residents,” Bosworth said. “This will help us make improvements to our infrastructure and give our residents outdoor destinations to explore.”

“With over $1.14 million in funding, we know that this will positively impact the town’s long term economic growth,” she added.

The state funds will go toward a promotional campaign for three summer festivals at North Hempstead Beach Park, an emergency data and phone installation study to support areas of the town during emergencies and extreme weather events, the restoration of a tidal wetland at Hempstead Harbor and the addition of 3,583 feet to an existing trail along the eastern shore of Manhasset Bay. Town officials said the town will spend $82,500 of the grant money to promote

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth three summer festivals at North Hempstead Beach Park, which would attract 15,000 visitors from Nassau County, Suffolk County and New York City.

The summer festivals, officials said, would celebrate culture, music and outdoor

recreation.

The town will spend $400,000 of the grant money to restore a tidal wetland in Hempstead Harbor, which town officials said would result in a productive ecosystem and diverse habitat that would filter out

pollutants and nutrients from stormwater runoff.

Town officials said $655,458 of the funds would be spent to make shoreline improvements to construct the town’s “Manhasset Baywalk,” which would result in a 7,347-foot long trail along the eastern shore of Manhasset Bay. The project will be done in conjuction with the Villages of Baxter Estates, Port Washington North and Manorhaven.

The trail, which begins at the Town Dock in Port Washington and ends in Baxter Estates, officials said, would connect to Manorhaven Park in Manorhaven.

The state regional economic development awards and 10 regional economic development councils were established in 2011 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of an initiative to “replace the state’s old topdown approach to economic development, with one that is community-based and performance-driven,” according to Cuomo’s office.

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Ex Merchant Marine prof dies at 96

BY ST E P H E N R OM A N O Robert “Bob” B. Wells, a longtime Great Neck resident and former associate professor at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, died last Wednesday.

He was 96.

Wells was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1940. He moved to Great Neck a couple months later.

As a merchant mariner during World War II, Wells sailed on oil tankers in the Pacific and North Atlantic.

On one run, the ship ahead and the ship behind were sunk by enemy submarines, his daughter Barbara Wells said.

Stories Wells had written about the war were published in “Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of WWII,’’ a book of collected stories, Barbara Wells said.

Continuing his work with the merchant marine, Wells began teaching at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Great Neck in 1954 and retired in 1980 as an associate professor of engineering with the rank of commander.

As a young man, Wells visited the academy’s hospital, where he met Irene Lawson, a nurse from Great Neck, and in 1947 they married.

“He was quote unquote sick,” Bar-

Robert “Bob” B. Wells bara Wells said. “He went to the hospital where my mom was working as a registered nurse, and he fell madly in love with her and they got married.’’

After their marriage, Wells and Lawson moved into a home on Morris Lane, where they lived their entire married life.

After they purchased the house, Lawson told Wells that she’d move in after he

fixed it up, so he began transforming the house, expanding it from 1,500 square feet to 2,300, Barbara Wells said.

“The house they purchased was built at the turn of the century without indoor plumbing,” Barbara Wells said. “Using his considerable craftsman skills, working nights, weekends and vacations, he gradually transformed the small dwelling into a spacious, comfortable home.”

Barbara Wells said Wells’ handiness was passed on to her and her sisters, who helped him fix up their house, sanding wood paneling and laying wood flooring.

“He taught us things not a lot of girls know how to do,” Barbara Wells said.

Living a mile away from the academy, Barbara Wells, said Wells loved suburban life and loved Great Neck.

During a gas shortage in the ’70s, Wells purchased a moped to drive from his house to the academy, Barbara Wells said.

“When that moped was parked in the academy’s parking lot, everyone knew dad was there,” she said.

After Wells retired, Barbara Wells said, he spent most of his time at the Great Neck Senior Center, taking watercolor painting classes, sculpting classes, woodworking classes and model ship building.

“He would go there often and take classes,” Barbara Wells said. “He really liked it, and he had his paintings cover-

ing every wall in his house. He’d say ‘All the paintings in the studio are for sale,’ but he really couldn’t part with them.”

After the war, Wells purchased a “generic Ford” car,” Barbara Wells said, but then he developed a flair for nicer cars.

“He was a Depression baby, so he didn’t have much growing up,” she said.

“But after the war, he began getting fancy cars. He wanted the nice ones. He had a Buick convertible, a Caddy convertible and a Camaro.”

Piling the family into his Buick, Wells would drive his family from Great Neck to Jones Beach, Barbara Wells said.

“He’d pack the car and we’d drive with the top down,” she said. “My mother didn’t love it, but we were having fun.”

Lawson died in 1984.

In addition to Barbara Wells, he is survived by three other daughters, Dorothy Mazepa (Glenn), Roberta Tabert (Mike), and Shirley Dubay (Danny); five grandchildren; six great grandchildren; two nephews and two nieces.

A memorial service will be held at All Saint’s Church, Great Neck, in the spring or summer.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Douglas Elliman Honor saving of student’s life in W.P. aids needy The agents and staff at Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Williston Park held a monthlong drive to collect food, clothing, blankets and other needed items to donate to The Inn in Hempstead.

Headed by agents Kim Pitchayan, Ellen Schaefer and Barbara Strugala, the philanthropic efforts included the entire office and several clients.

A healthy number of boxes and bags of food, clothing and household goods have been dropped off in December at The Inn, which is the largest homeless shelter on Long Island.

Additionally, nearly a dozen Douglas Elliman agents from the Williston Park office, located at 192 Hillside Ave., have volunteered at the Hempstead-based not-for-

profit to stock the shelves in the pantry.

The holiday season doesn’t negate the need for outreach and assistance, says Douglas Elliman Williston Park Sales Manager and Associate Broker Lisa Strobing, who added that there is a constant need for coffee, sugar, canned goods, pasta and gently used towels, bedding and warm clothing.

She encourages her clients, friends and neighbors to donate, especially if they are cleaning house for a sale.

“If you are about to empty out a large house with tremendous amounts of items that could get thrown out, please donate instead,” she said. “We encourage you to donate to this worthy cause.

It’s a wonderful organization.”

Learn more about The Inn at the-inn.org.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board honored teachers, staff and administration from Herricks Middle School in Albertson for saving a student who suffered a cardiac arrest.

Supervisor Bosworth and Councilman Peter Zuckerman (D-East Hills) commended administration and faculty for saving the life of the eighth-

grade boy.

Citations were presented to physical education teachers Artie Friess, Pam Seebald, Dennis Horton and Joe Welsh, nurses Tracey Baumann and Dana Lieberman, principal Joan Keegan, assistant principal Tom Aird and Herricks school district Superintendent Fino Celano.

SCHOOL NEWS

Congressional app winners

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Four students from Mineola High School were selected as a winning team in the 2016 Congressional App Challenge.

Announced by members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the challenge promotes the importance of coding and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.

More than 2,000 students participated in the national competition, which yielded over 650 original student-created apps.

Mineola’s winning team consists of Bryan Guda, Malcolm Hylton, Joseph Mueller and Vincent Rodrigues.

They developed an app called Cia Chow, which connects people who are in need of dog sitting services with someone who can take care of the dog.

The app asks users to create a profile and fill out a questionnaire and then makes recommended pairings based on location for services. The team worked on their project as part of the school’s partnership with

the Queensborough College Computer Technology Program.

“We learned a lot of coding skills and how to work together as a team to achieve a common goal,” said Mueller, the app’s coder and scriptwriter.

Winners from across the country will have the opportunity to showcase their apps to members of Congress and

the technology community at #HouseOfCode, a Washington, D.C.-based reception to be held in April 2017.

The Congressional App Challenge, marking its second year, is coordinated by the Congressional Internet Caucus and by the Internet Education Foundation, the non-governmental sponsor of the project.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Yu plays with All National Orchestra

Conte signs letter of intent The Wheatley School Athletic Program recognized the accomplishments of senior Katie Conte.

Conte signed a letter of commitment to continue her impressive academic and athletic career at Lock Haven University, in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

Conte has been swimming for her club team, Long Island Express, for the past eight years.

While Wheatley does not have a swim team, this has not stopped Conte’s commitment to the sport. She practices yearround, six months for the short course season and five months for the long course season.

Conte swims on the competitive level for eleven months out of the year, with little to no time off.

She also finds time to volunteer with the Girl Scouts and the East Williston Recreation Committee. At Wheatley, Conte is also a member of the Environmental Action Committee.

Conte specializes in distance freestyle with the 200-meter freestyle, 500-meter freestyle, 1,000-meter freestyle, and 1,650-meter freestyle, or “the mile.”

She is ranked second in the 1,650-meter free, fourth in the 1,000-meter, 12th in the 500-meter and 25th in the 200-meter in the Metropolitan Swimming organization for 17and 18-year-old girls.

Conte will enter Lock Haven with times that will score at the conference level and contend with school records in the 1000-meter and the 1,650-meter freestyle.

As a member of the National Honor Society, Conte’s efforts also come from the classroom.

She has completed numerous community service hours.

As a member of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County Troop 1283 she received the highest award possible, the Gold Award.

She was the only scout to receive the Gold Award in the

WARM Association (Willistons, Albertson, Roslyn, Mineola) of Girl Scouts this year.

Her Gold Star project, “Stay Ahead of the Curve,” focused on alternative treatments for scoliosis through chiropractic care as well as awareness of chiropractic care in general.

The treatment Conte gets from her chiropractor has allowed her to continue swimming despite her scoliosis.

After finishing this 80-hour project, Katie decided that she wants to become a chiropractor and is planning on majoring in the pre-professional program at Lock Haven.

On Nov. 14, Conte made her decision to accept the Lock Haven University’s academic and athletic scholarship.

“She believes in the culture that we are building here at LHU and I am excited to have her as a part of our program,” said Joel Blesh, Lock Haven’s head swimming coach. “She will be a great addition to our team.”

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Kelly Yu, a Herricks High School senior, shared a stage with some of the country’s most outstanding musicians this past November.

Through the National Association for Music Educationsponsored All-National Honor Ensembles, Kelly shared, enhanced and fine-tuned her skills in Grapevine, Texas with the All-National Symphony Orchestra.

Conducted by University of Iowa Director of Orchestral Studies William LaRue Jones, the ensemble performed the piece “Danzon No. 2” by artist Arturo Marquez.

“It was really exciting to perform together,” Yu said. “It was a good experience to meet people from all over the country, and to play with such talented musicians was inspiring.”

A longtime violinist, Yu has several musical accomplishments and was most recently selected to the National Association for Music Education’s All Eastern Orchestra.

She was accepted to the

Kelly Yu New York State School Music Association’s All-State ensembles last year and has participated in the New York Youth Symphony for four years.

According to the NAfME, the All-National Honor Ensembles represent the top performing high school musicians in the United States and are comprehensive musical and educational experiences.

Lau featured at Met Orchestra concert Herricks High School sophomore Joanna Lau was featured performer in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra’s Nassau Symphony Orchestra and Nassau Principal Orchestra, held on Nov. 13 at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center. Lau played the flute in this event after having been named the 2016 Concerto and Vocal Competition Winner.

She also recently participated in the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition and was named a winner for woodwind and brass.

Last school year, Lau won the MYO Concerto Competition after being selected as one of only 10 other finalists from all over Long Island.

She has played the flute for six years and also plays the violin, and has participated in the high school’s concert band, TriM Music Honor Society and pit orchestra.

Lau additionally earned ac-

Joanna Lau ceptance to the 2017 Honor Orchestra of America, a component of the Music for All National Festival.

She was selected to the New York State Band Directors Association’s High School Honors Band the past two years, and has participated in the New York State School Music Association’s All-County Band since fifth grade.

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Business&RealEstate Housing prices, inventory in 2017 Where are prices and inventory headed in 2017, you ask?

Well, to be perfectly candid, we may not just be done, by any stretch of the imagination because of several major factors: inventory is at a very low point, demand is gone higher than in 2007 and interest rates are still at an historic 40 year low!

According to Lawrence Yun, chief economist and senior vice president of the National Association of Realtors, in his Dec. 13 report, explained available housing has fallen for the last 17 months and is now 4.3 percent lower than in October of 2015, (2.02 Million Units in the U.S.) when it was 4.4 percent.

There is a 4.3 month supply of unsold housing (2.02 million units in the U.S.), while a normal market has six to seven months of inventory.

Housing starts in the U.S. in September were approximately 869,000 units; insufficient to satisfy the ever increasing demand by first time purchasers (millennials bought 33 percent of first time purchases in October, up 2 percent year over year), foreign and domestic investors (61 percent of investors bought for cash in October), reducing the inventory

below normal levels.

On average, 43 percent of homes sold in October, were on the market less than 30 days.

Northeast sales were up 1.4 percent to 750,000 units and prices were 1.4 percent higher up to $255,500, 2.9 percent above October 2015 prices.

Builders will have to really ramp up and supercharge their construction schedules to add a greater amount of new housing to try to satisfy the ever increasing demand that has been occurring since 2011.

Many buyers had been sitting on the fence, saving for down payments, improving their credit and recovering from the downturn in 2008, while also waiting for the turn around in the market.

Moreover, investors have also had a voracious appetite for purchasing and stockpiling properties and have contributed to the drought of available inventory by snatching up foreclosures and short sales over the last five years.

Investors are not flipping properties the way they did in the past and what would help is if they would put some of their investments back onto the market, but that is doubtful, due to the excellent return on investment.

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch Many cannot move or downsize due to the lack of available housing, so that stagnates the market for those new buyers looking to purchase for the first time.

Median home prices have increased by about 42 percent, since 2011, while median incomes have only gone up 17 percent.

This fact and the recent escalation of interest rates, has made this disparity for affordability more challenging, more distant and unattainable for more and more families and individuals; a fact of supply and demand economics.

Low supply, higher than normal demand, very low inter-

est rates, all variables that aid to the increase in values and prices, while also eliminating many from the current market.

However, this is an unsustainable environment for the long term.

So, I believe due to these factors, prices somewhere along the line, will slow down and possibly stabilize, as demand decreases, due to eliminating many purchasers in many markets, especially in the higher priced locations on the East and West Coasts.

However, inventory could take many, many years to catch up to normal levels. The only logical recourse as mentioned is to have as many builders as possible, multiply by four fold the number of new reasonably priced units coming onto the market as soon as possible.

Five million six hundred thousand properties will have been sold in 2016, the highest amount since February 2007.

Economic logic says that 1.1 to 1.2 million net new households are now forming each year. That is the minimum number of homes that need to be constructed and come into the market just to meet the year over year demand.

Lastly, approximately

300,000-400,000 homes are demolished each year, adding to the need for that much more new housing to be added to the every increasing demand.

Bottom line, it’s an amazing moment in time to place your homes, homeowners associations, condos and co-ops onto the market with the over the top demand that has been occurring in the current market.

So why wait unit next spring, when interest rates may be higher, again, lessening demand and possibly slowing price appreciation in our local markets.

The serious qualified income and credit worthy purchasers are out there this winter, grab them while they are available and willing to purchase!

This year has ended on a high note for real estate, but we will see what the future holds over the next four years, as I mentioned last week.

I am open minded to see what is proposed and what is accomplished and will be watching to see what President-elect Trump’s impact has on those changes on our real estate market.

Wishing all my readers a very healthier, happier and more prosperous 2017.

OUR TOWN

Meditation and our hunt for God Meditation has been around for five thousand years. In fact they say there is evidence on wall paintings dating from 5,000 B.C. that people would sit with hands on knees and with eyes half shut which is the posture associated with modern day meditation.

The Hindu’s systematized the practice about 1,500 B.C. and the Buddha used it to find true enlightenment at about 600 B.C. The practice of meditation remained largely an Eastern practice until Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha written in 1922. His novel was about the life of the Buddha and served as awakening in the West to the practice of meditation.

Not so many years later Deepak Chopra, the Indian physician made the practice even more popular in the West along with the growth of yoga which is referred to as ‘moving meditation’.

Since I have heard so much

about meditation I thought it wise hunt down a meditation instructor to ask more about this practice.

As it turns out my Pilates instructor at Healthtrax is Caroline Carpentiere and she’s a meditation teacher.

I sat with her for a few moments after one of my Pilates classes to ask some questions about the value of meditation.

She told me that meditation was a practice to steady the mind, to connect to an inner silence and to a deeper state of consciousness.

She said meditation is a way to stay in the present and that by thinking about what might happen tomorrow or what happened yesterday can generate negative emotions like fear or regret.

She also said it was a way to reduce stress and/or to find the spiritual in your life.

Given the fact that I feel lots of stress and very, very little spiritual-

DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town ity I knew this was for me.

However I must confess that I have failed miserably in my efforts to meditate in the past. Whenever my yoga instructor would tell us to lie in savasana and meditate I thought that gave me perfect chance to make a list of what had to be done that day.

How wrong I’ve been. I also took it as a bad sign that more than

one yoga instructor referred to me as ‘monkey mind.’ I am not sure what monkey mind means but I am certain it’s not a good thing.

Needless to say I had no time to ask Caroline exactly how to meditate so I was left to my own devices.

I referred to a number of books and the process seemed simple enough.

The first thing I read was that you can light a candle and concentrate on the movement of the flame. I did this for five minutes but nothing seemed to change.

I still felt plenty of stress and most certainly did not see or hear God or even an angel talking to me.

Way back in 1881 Nietzsche informed the world that “God is Dead” and I have hoped for the longest time that he was wrong.

I remained undaunted and I went and spoke to Jasmine who is

my favorite yoga instructor and she said not to give up on meditation and that maybe it would take longer than one five minute session.

So I listened to her and tried meditating the next day. This time I concentrated on closing my eyes and seeing a spot about 12 inches in front of me for 15 minutes.

This was a great improvement. I did feel relaxed and when I opened my eyes and noticed the Christmas wreathe hanging on my living room wall and did feel a momentary kind of cosmic connection to all the beauty in the cosmos.

I’m not sure that was God talking but as the New York State lottery ad tells us “Hey, you never know.”

I’ve always felt that meditation was a lot like praying and so I went off the church the next morning with the idea to meditate on a Christmas tree in church.

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NYPD benefits greater than Nassau’s Continued from Page 1 After 20 years of service, Nassau police officers are eligible to retire and receive a pension equal to one-half of their final average salary, according to the state comptroller’s office.

Each year after the 20 years of service, the state comptroller’s office said, 1.66 percent of an officer’s final average salary will go towards their pension.

Once a Nassau police officer retires, the New York State Police and Fire Retirement System is responsible for paying pension costs, but the county continues to pay the health insurance costs for the retired officer, according to the Nassau County comptroller’s office.

New York Police Department officers have the option of retiring after 22 years of service with a pension of one-half of their final average salary, according to the NYPD recruiting website.

The starting salary for a police officer in Nassau is $34,000, said Det. Lt. Richard LeBrun, commanding officer of the department’s Public Information Office.

After nine years of service, LeBrun said, police officers reach their maximum salary of $120,000, not including overtime or benefits.

NYPD officers reach their top salary of $78,026 after five and a half years of service, according to the NYPD recruitment website.

The average pay for Nassau Police Department employees was $150,292 compared with the $73,676 average pay for NYPD employees, according to data compiled by the Empire Center for Public Policy,

The Nassau County Police Department’s 3rd Precinct is seen in Williston Park. a nonprofit think tank that promotes public policy based on free-market principles.

NYPD officers are offered 10 paid vacation days during their first two years of service. That number then increases to 12 paid vacation days for the following three years.

After five full years of service, NYPD officers are eligible to take 27 paid vacation days, according to the NYPD recruiting website.

In Nassau County, police officers start with 15 paid vacation days, which increases to 30 paid vacation days after 15 years of

service, according to the county police’s recruiting website.

NYPD officers are also offered unlimited sick leave, while Nassau County police officers receive 16 sick days to start, which then increases to 26 sick days after one year of service.

Police Department costs have been a topic of concern for Nassau County officials, with county Comptroller George Maragos releasing a report earlier this month stating that Police Department overtime pay for 2016 is projected to exceed $69.9 million,

with more than 30 police officers earning more than $100,000 in extra pay.

The 2016 overtime costs are projected to surpass the budget by $13 million, or 23 percent, said Maragos, who switched parties to run as a Democrat for county executive. Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter criticized Maragos for not first consulting with the Police Department and said the report “demonstrates the comptroller’s lack of understanding of police operations and the Nassau County police labor contracts.”

Krumpter said that operations pushed

by Homeland Security, the presidential election and the Verizon strike all contributed heavily to the amount of overtime needed.

The county’s initially proposed $2.9 billion budget for 2017 included a $105 traffic and parking ticket surcharge to fund the hiring of 150 new police officers and 81 civilian workers.

But the Nassau County Legislature cut the fee, originally proposed by County Executive Edward Mangano, to $55 last month and applied it only to traffic tickets.

The Nassau Interim Finance Authority, which oversees county spending, forced county officials to reassign 30 police officers to patrols and delay the hiring of new officers, as well as make other budget cuts, to cover a $36 million budget hole. The county has a $2.9 billion budget.

Brian Nevin, a Mangano spokesman, said the county will delay hiring 120 new police officers until Sept. 1.

The 2017 county budget has $56 million allotted for police overtime.

Brother’s diagnosis drives senior’s passion Continued from Page 1 “That’s sort of when I realized that the capital is where change is made and if I wanted to make a change for my brother and for my country, then that’s where I’d end up,” said Gilbert, 17.

Later in 2014, when he was in 10th grade, Gilbert started The Track Foundation, a nonprofit that raises money to support Tourette research and sends volunteers to other groups’ fundraising events. He also built and coded the foundation’s website.

That was also the year Gilbert was elected president of his class, a position he still holds. He also leads four other clubs at Wheatley, including the robotics club.

Combined with his straight-A grades and high SAT scores, Gilbert’s leadership got him into Harvard University in a year when it accepted 14.5 percent, or 938, of its early applicants, according to the Harvard Gazette.

Gilbert said he credits much of his success to Wheatley, where classes have been “a good mix of challenging and interesting, and I think the clubs have been just so prevalent and involved that I’ve been able to do so

many of them and take charge and rise through the ranks of them,” he said.

Gilbert’s interests in politics and computer science overlap sometimes, he said. For instance, he’s created new divisions and roles in the robotics club and, along with other members, recently asked the East Williston school board for more funding, he said.

Gilbert said he has raised about $10,000 through The Track Foundation since 2014 for the Tourette Association of America and the TicTocStop, a Tourette research organization founded by WFAN sports radio personality Craig Carton.

He first became a youth advocate for the Tourette Association to help debunk myths about his brother’s disorder, which is often inaccurately associated with random cursing, he said.

Tourette syndrome, a disorder that produces physical and vocal tics, affects one of every 160 children in the United States, according to the Tourette Association. But only about 6 percent of people who have it develop cursing as a tic, Gilbert said.

“I just wanted to dispel the mis-

conceptions surrounding the disorder and sort of [support] this research that could make him [his brother] start doing better,” Gilbert said.

Gilbert said he will continue running The Track Foundation from Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and eventually hand it over to a younger brother, Derek, a ninthgrader at Wheatley.

He planned to apply to 17 colleges, he said, but Harvard’s campus and strong political science and computer science programs made it a top choice.

Gilbert wants to eventually run for public office no matter which major he chooses, he said. But it was Wheatley’s high standards that first got him motivated to work hard as a high school sophomore, he said.

“Really I feel blessed to be going to a high school with so many opportunities and such personal teachers,” Gilbert said.

Reach reporter Noah Manskar by e-mail at nmanskar@theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204.

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2016: A year of change for N. Shore Continued from Page 3 4. Gerard Terry’s fall from grace The North Hempstead Democratic Committee chairman lost his party post and all but one of his government jobs by the time he was charged with felony tax fraud in April.

That came after Newsday’s January report that Terry, a longtime local power broker, owed $1.4 million in back taxes, was a defendant in multiple lawsuits and let his attorney’s registration lapse.

The saga led to the revelation that the Town of North Hempstead had never enforced its own code to collect financial disclosure forms from Terry or any other local party leader, which could have alerted officials to the problems. The town implemented several ethics reforms in the following months.

5. 9/11’s 15th anniversary With silence and song, North Shore residents remembered the neighbors and loved ones they lost on a significant anniversary of one of America’s darkest days.

At a ceremony in Great Neck, former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman recalled his “out-of-body experience” watching the World Trade Center collapse.

When someone asked him that day

what had happened, he said, “America has just lost it’s innocence. It’s awakened to the reality of what is happening in the world.”

and won his first election in 11 years.

But Phillips kept his state Senate seat in Republican hands with support from a New York City-based pro-charter schools group that spent heavily against Haber.

6. Port Washington’s football shakeup Concerns about safety led Paul D. Schreiber High School to remove its football team from its regular conference and play an independent schedule against smaller schools.

Six players had suffered concussions in the prior season, and the team was not competing well against larger Nassau County teams.

Some parents called for the football program to be eliminated altogether, but administrators defended it, saying athletics are as important as the arts.

8. Great Neck’s many empty stores Local officials say the problem used to be worse, but Blank Slate Media found about one in eight storefronts is unoccupied on Great Neck’s commercial thoroughfares.

Business leaders cited parking, an aging population and external forces such as the internet and national chain stores as drivers of the problem.

Village governments also play a role because they set rules for parking, permits and other things.

7. New North Shore reps Republican state Sen. Jack Martins’ decision to run for Rep. Steve Israel’s congressional seat set up a heated state Senate race between Elaine Phillips, the Republican Village of Flower Hill mayor, and Adam Haber, a Democrat making his second run for Martins’ seat.

Martins eventually lost to Democrat Tom Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, who made a political comeback

9. No Belmont casino after all The proposition of a video casino near Belmont Park’s historic horse-racing track had hundreds of Floral Park residents concerned for their community’s safety.

Nassau Off-Track Betting Corp.’s past plans for the casino met similar opposition, but many wondered where else it would go if it was not allowed at Belmont, where, supporters noted,

gambling already happens.

But state Sen. Jack Martins brokered a $43 million deal in which Nassau OTB leased its right to operate the video lottery terminals to the company that runs Resorts World Casino in Queens, keeping a casino out of Nassau.

It pleased almost everyone — until it became known that Nassau County got no revenue guarantee out of the deal.

10. Judy Jacobs’ death The 20-year lawmaker, a Democrat who represented Roslyn Heights, was known as the grandmother of the county Legislature and a dedicated public servant.

Her death at age 77 after a fall at her Woodbury home surprised many, and her funeral drew 1,000 people who remembered her humor and love for the community she represented.

Jacobs was elected to the Legislature in 1996, the year of its inception, and was its presiding officer when Democrats controlled Nassau’s government from 2000 to 2008.

“People trusted her,” Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs said of Jacobs, to whom he is not related.

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Left: Republican President-elect Donald Trump appears at Hofstra University after this year’s first presidential debate. Right: Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano leaves the federal courthouse in Central Islip after being arraigned on corruption charges.

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Meditation, our hunt for God Continued from Page 33 I ďŹ gured that I could kill two birds with one stone. I could de-stress and also ďŹ nd God. What could be better than that? Caroline said multi-tasking was wrong but I ignored that advice.

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Community Meetings Village of Baxter Estates Board of Trustees Meeting

Manhasset School District Board of Education Meeting

Thursday, January 5 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 315 Main Street, Port Washington 516-767-0096

Thursday, January 5 @ 8:00 p.m.

Manhasset Secondary School 200 Memorial Place, Manhasset (516) 267-7700

Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Agenda Meeting

Village of Mineola Board of Trustees Meeting

Tuesday, January 3 @ 7:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday, January 4 @ 6:30 p.m Village Hall 155 Washington Avenue, Mineola 516-746-0750

East Williston School District Board of Education Work Session

Wednesday, January 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury 516-333-7804 Village of Floral Park Board of Trustees Meeting

Tuesday, January 3 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Floral Boulevard, Floral Park 516-326-6300 Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, January 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset 516-627-5000 Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees Meeting

Tuesday, January 3 @ 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, January 5 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck 516-482-0019 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees Meeting

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Federal National Mortgage Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Kerry Espinoza a/k/a Kerry A. Espinoza; Milton Espinoza a/k/a Milton A. Espinoza; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 13, 2015 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501. on January 10, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 92 Dartmouth Street, Williston Park, NY 11596. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of NY, Section 9 Block 200 Lots 38 and 39.

Approximate amount of judgment $548,980.16 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 13-001911.

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SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC. F/K/A VERICREST FINANCIAL, INC., Plaintiff against DAVID W. SILBER A/K/A DAVID SILBER, PATRICIA A. FOUR-SILBER A/K/A PATRICIA SILBER A/K/A PATTIE SILBER, DYLAN SILBER, SAGE SILBER, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on December 8, 2015.

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Said premises known as 10 Orchard Meadow Road, Williston Park, N.Y. 11596.

(Section: 9, Block: 139, Lot: 31).

Approximate amount of lien $ 393,702.10 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No.: 003469-14. Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU Index No. 8652/2012 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (MAE’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, against JOHN A. RANDAZZO, SR., A/K/A JOHN A. RANDAZZO, CAPELL VISHNICK LLP AND FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, LLC and Doe’ and/or Doe’ #1-10 inclusive, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants, To the above named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the amended complaint is not served with this supplemental summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within 20 days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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READERS WRITE

Thanks for support in sewer district election

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am humbled and grateful for the support and confidence the community has placed in me to be the next commissioner of the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District.

To the Great Neck community — thank you for your vote, support and involvement during my

campaign.

It was a remarkable experience to talk with so many engaged community members and discuss the ideas I wish to bring to the district.

I would also like to extend a warm thank you to my family and friends for their tireless efforts and

encouragement along the way.

Upon my swearing-in, I intend to carry forward the tremendous legacy Deena Lesser is leaving behind as she retires after nearly two decades with the district.

Additionally, I am eager to voice my own vision for the future and work aggressively to pursue

environmentally sustainable and cost-effective projects that will deliver long-lasting value to our community.

In the coming years, I look forward to working alongside three proven leaders in Superintendent Chris Murphy, Commissioner Jerry Landsberg and Com-

missioner Steve Reiter to continue the district’s leading role amongst wastewater treatment centers in the northeast.

Thank you again for your support and participation.

Patty Katz Great Neck

Shame on Cuomo for lack of time on 3rd rail

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ive us more time to study the impact.

Shame on Gov. Cuomo, the MTA and the LIRR for their rush to judgement with the over $2 billion third track project from Floral Park to Hicksville.

Despite many, if not all local elected officials urging that the public hearings be delayed from mid-January to a later date to

allow more time for the impacted communities to review the over 1,000-page draft environmental impact statement, they still forge ahead showing no concern for the people who will be most affected.

And this request to delay is not NIMBYism, or intentional interference.

It’s an honest request to allow for openness, transparency

and due consideration.

A delay will allow the homeowners or business owners who will have speeding trains closer to their front doors or living rooms to truly understand how the LIRR will mitigate adverse environmental issue that will directly affect their lives.

The spokesman for the LIRR will make statements that they are allowing for more in-

put than what was needed for the Tappan Zee Bridge, but the bridge doesn’t cut through the middle of residential communities.

The third track idea has been around for decades, and now material has been prepared to document the impact to each and every main line community.

Give us the time to prop-

erly review and understand if the negative environmental impacts will be properly mitigated.

We urge our residents to email the governor and LIRR and ask for more time.

Bob Lofaro Mayor, Village of New Hyde Park

American words for Michael gave much, all of us to live by despite demons Continued from Page 16 wished to apply), it was striking that Martin Luther King, Jr. compiled the most first place votes over those decades, eclipsing Lincoln (with JFK in third place).

Even more striking was the fact that probably 95% of voting students were White. Clearly, Dr. King’s words — and actions — resonate with young people.

Dr. King’s assessment still explains the extent of racial and other social divisions in our society: “Men often hate each other

because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.”

When Dr. King spoke at Hofstra’s graduation in 1965, he emphasized that everyone had a responsibility to address the “triple evils: racism, poverty and war.”

He emphasized that “all of our lives are interconnected,” that “injustice anywhere is a threat to

justice everywhere.”

Now as we enter 2017 with the dangerous expansion of “Fake News” along with increasing attacks on responsible, investigative journalism, the words of a University of Chicago President are admonitory.

Robert Maynard Hutchins wrote: “To destroy the Western tradition of independent thought it is not necessary to burn the books.

All we have to do is leave them unread for a couple of generations.”

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e have just lost George Michael who died much too young.

Here was a music icon whose music brought both joy and tears to those of us that listen to his music.

He even came out about his sexuality, which is the fact that he was gay and was a brave thing for him to do.

George Michael had his demons as many of us do.

Yet he battled those elements in which I do respect him for that.

As such I offer my heartfelt prayers to go out to his friends, family and all those that loved him.

George Michael rest in peace for his music I think did make a difference.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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Sports Floral Park holds off Plainedge

BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI The Floral Park Lady Knights defeated the Plainedge Lady Red Devils 68-55 on Monday afternoon, led by Marykate Guerriero’s 25 points.

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Faith Balletta recorded a double double with 12 points and 10 rebounds for Floral Park.

Head coach Mike Spina said the team responded admirably in their first league game after some preparation in non-league matchups.

“The girls really handled the pressure,” Spina said. “We shot the ball good, my bench played great and they switched up defenses very well. They did everything that I was hoping for that we weren’t doing in the preseason and they did it here today.”

In the first quarter, Floral Park got off to a good start and outscored Plainedge 14-7. Senior captain Natalie Hickman led Floral Park with seven points in the opening quarter. Four of her seven points came from the inside.

In the second quarter, Guerriero took command for Floral

Park by putting up nine points.

The junior guard posted six points from the interior. Katie McSweeney led Plainedge with seven points. Floral Park took a 33-18 lead into halftime.

Guerriero said a big factor in her game was being patient and finishing her shots.

“I didn’t get frustrated when I was missing my shots,” Guerriero said. “I kept shooting and saying ‘the next one will go in’ and I kept driving to the basket to get the fouls.”

In the third quarter, Plainedge outscored Floral Park 17-11 but Floral Park led 44-35. Guerriero recorded four points on free throws and added a three point shot to cap off a seven point quarter.

In the final quarter, Floral Park went 13-18 at the foul line.

Balletta led Floral Park with 10 points; as they held on to win 68-55.

Guerriero said it was good to pick up the win.

“It’s a good note to begin on,” Guerriero said. “I’m glad it ended the way it did.”

Weekly Girls B asketball Scores Monday, Dec. 19 Great Neck North defeated Carey 39-36.

Shaina Yazdanpanah led Great Neck North with 11 points, while Caroline O’Byrne recorded eight points and 11 rebounds.

Floral Park senior center Faith Balletta Sewanhaka defeated Bellmore JFK 65-49.

Destiny Hurt and Carley Bolivar led Sewanhaka with 24 and 16 points respectively, while Kate Weinschreider posted six points, five assists and four rebounds.

New Hyde Park defeated Roosevelt 49-32.

Hannah Arkin led New Hyde Park with 21 points, five assists, three rebounds and four steals, while Joanna Mauceri chipped in with 11 points, seven rebounds and seven steals.

Mineola defeated Clarke 6536.

Meghan McCaffrey and Vickie Venus led Mineola with 24 and 21 points respectively.

Tuesday Dec. 20 Cold Spring Harbor defeated Wheatley 53-49.

Caroline DeBellis led Cold Spring Harbor with 19 points, four rebounds and three assists. Jen Rosenberg recorded 16 points while Niki Mormile posted 10 points, five rebounds and three assists for Cold Spring Harbor.

Mepham defeated Herricks 61-39.

Maeve Testa led Mepham with 16 points and eight rebounds while Julia Anderson contributed with 13 points and seven rebounds.

Great Neck South defeated Long Beach 52-27.

Madison Solomon led Great Neck South with 12 points and 13 rebounds.

Port Washington defeated Plainview JFK/Old Bethpage 43-38.

Tyler Owens led Port Washington with 13 points and Rebecca Rosen recorded 13 points and seven rebounds. Rachel Rosen contributed with seven points and 11 rebounds and Ava Sann hit two free throws with 2.2 seconds left to give Port Washington the 43-38 lead.

Thursday Dec. 22 Great Neck North defeated Garden City 44-42.

Roslyn defeated Hewlett 6439.

Samantha Busch led Roslyn with 19 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and six steals while Emily Cohen had nine points and 11 rebounds.

Seaford defeated Wheatley

57-34.

Jenna Siler led Seaford with 15 points. Maddie O’Hagan compiled 12 points and 14 rebounds while Julia Siler posted 12 points and five assists for Seaford. Wheatley’s Allison LaMonica scored her 1,000th career point. She now has 1,011 points.

Mineola defeated Valley Stream South 46-32.

Meghan McCaffrey and Vickie Venus led Mineola with 17 points each.

Baldwin defeated Port Washington 79-34.

Aziah Hudson led Baldwin with 26 points and five assists, while Jenna Annecchiarico recorded 15 points, five assists and five rebounds.

Friday Dec. 23 Calhoun defeated Herricks 46-21.

Katie Healy led Calhoun with 17 points and nine rebounds, while Honora Campbell posted 15 points and seven rebounds.

Mepham defeated Manhasset 56-34.

Maeve Testa led Mepham with 14 points and six rebounds.

Maryann Bagonis recorded 11 points while Julia Anderson chipped in with eight points and eight rebounds.

South Side defeated New Hyde Park 85-37.

Jourdin Thomas led South Side with 20 points and five assists.

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G.N. North girls tennis exceeds expectations 20.

BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI

Kazin said after losing to Cold Spring Harbor in two tight games during the season, beating them in a close 4-3 semi-final match was the highlight of the year.

“It was probably the biggest win in my coaching career,” Kazin said. “I’ve been coaching for 14 years and to beat the number one seed in the semi-finals of the Nassau County playoffs is really impressive. It was an amazing match.”

Great Neck North went on to lose in the finals against second seeded Friends Academy, after splitting their two regular season meetings.

Kazin said their expectations were to make it to the semi-finals and they exceeded that with an

The Great Neck North girls varsity tennis team finished their 2016 season by coming up short against Friends Academy in the finals of the Nassau County Tournament on Oct. 25.

Great Neck North, coached by Michael Kazin, finished 9-5 in the regular season, and placed fourth in Conference 1.

Their two biggest victories include an early season triumph over Friends Academy and a win against Manhasset on October 7, according to Kazin.

In the playoffs, the girls were ranked as the fourth seed and pulled off an upset against top seeded Cold Spring Harbor on Oct.

impressive run to the finals.

“I told the girls and my assistant coach I thought we could challenge for it all this year but the goal was to at least make it to the semifinals,” Kazin said. “When we made it to the championship, it was really an amazing run. We fell a little bit short but it was a great season.”

Leading the way for Great Neck North was freshman Amy Delman, who went 11-3 in first singles.

Delman picked up All-State honors and finished in third place in Nassau County single matches.

Delman also garnered All County and All-Division, in which she was the only player to win 75 percent of her matches, Kazin said.

Other standouts on the team

include Alina Lyakhov and Alyssa Ghassabian, a pair of eighth graders who earned All-Conference accolades.

They each went 10-4 in second and third singles respectively.

Kazin said with these three girls leading the way, the Great Neck North girls tennis team are looking forward to a bright future as they look to build off their impressive run.

Great Neck North girls varsity tennis team.

NHP’s Siozios to continue tennis career at B.U.

BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI Pete Siozios will continue his tennis career at Boston University next season after finishing his senior year with the New Hyde Park varsity boys tennis team this spring.

Siozios said his love for the game came when he was a toddler.

He said he first got into tennis at the age of three, when his father use to throw tennis balls to him and he tried to swing with a little beach paddle in their apartment in Queens.

“My father noticed that I was catching on rather quickly,” Siozios said. “When I was around three and a half years old, he put me in group classes at Queens College, where I would continue playing around twice a week for the next four years”.

At the age of eight, Siozios said that is when he started taking his training more seriously and to

the next level.

“Tennis is a sport where only you can control how well you do and you have to be very solid mentally,” Siozios said. “I think because of this, it’s very empowering and it allows me to motivate myself to be better on and off the court. In the end everything is up to you and only you.”

To date, Siozios’ tennis accolades include All-County and All-State honors. He captained the tennis team for three years and was the number one player for four campaigns.

On the academic side, Siozios is part of the National Honor Society and received the AP Scholar Award.

He said playing for New Hyde Park helped him become a good teammate and developed a good relationship with his peers.

“I think that tennis tends to get a bit lonely since it’s always just you on the court with your own destiny in your hands,” Siozi-

os said. “However, being on the New Hyde Park tennis team with a lot of close friends has allowed me to develop bonds that I cherish and helps me to motivate my teammates to be better every day.”

Siozios said he chose Boston University because he believes in what the coaches are doing and how they have been improving the men’s tennis program over the last few years. He also said having the opportunity to play for a Division 1 program allowed him to make his decision official.

“I really liked their athletic facilities and their College of Engineering, as well as the fact that it’s all in a city type of setting, which in the end collectively prompted my decision,” he said. “I also got to meet all the guys on the team.

They’re all really nice and gave me advice that I could use when I start up there.”

Siozios said positivity, perseverance, and determination are what he brings to any team. He

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said this is the main reason why he is excited to join the Boston University’s men’s tennis team next year.

“The team is a very closely knit group of guys that are all great tennis players,” he said. “They all feed off each other in order to improve their games on a daily basis.

I think what I could bring to the team atmosphere will definitely contribute to our future in the years to come.”

New Hyde Park head coach James Stagnitta said Siozios has shown some great leadership since joining the team, as his skills and hard work served as an inspiration to his teammates.

“Pete is an excellent player,” Stagnitta said. “He has beaten some of the best players in the state and even has a victory over a nationally ranked player. Not only will he bring his competitive spirit, but his skill set and ability will surely mean he will be very successful on the college level.”

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