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Bicycle Sundays Continue to Roll in May, June and September Despite construction on the Bronx River Parkway, one of Westchester’s longest-running recreational programs – Bicycle Sundays – will get underway for the 2013 season on Sunday, May 5, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. During Bicycle Sundays, a portion of the Bronx River Parkway is closed to cars for the exclusive use of bicyclists, joggers, walkers, scooters and strollers. The course runs from the Westchester County Center in White Plains, south to Scarsdale Road in Yonkers, a round-trip of 13.1 miles. There are many points of entry and exit
along the way. This year, due to the construction project on the parkway, only one lane of the parkway will be open in both directions in the vicinity of the Crane Road Bridge in Greenburgh/Scarsdale. However, this area will remain available for Bicycle Sundays participants throughout the season. Bicycle Sundays 2013 are May 5, 12 and 19; June 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; and September 8, 15, 22 and 29. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parking is available at the County Center lot in White Plains for a fee of $5.
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News & Notes from Northern Westchester By MARK JEFFERS My horse from last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby took last place; in fact, I think he’s still running. Welcome to this week’s “gallop free” edition of “News & Notes” it is sure to be a winner! Relay For Life, the nationwide fundraiser for the American Cancer Society is returning to Katonah-Lewisboro on June 21st, this is a really inspiring event raising both money and awareness in the fight against cancer. We will be there
to light a candle for my Mom during the emotional Luminaire ceremony. Congratulations and three cheers to our friend from Bedford Hills, Jessica Van Galen, who now pitches for Manhattanville as she was named Freedom Conference softball player of the year. I remember watching Little League games with Jess’ parents; we laughed a lot and even cheered at the correct time, well most of the time… Attention students, parents and teachers in the White Plains School District… on May Continued on page 4
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17th and 18th, the Taconic Opera will be performing Donizetti’s charming opera “The Daughter of the Regiment” at the White Plains High School. To thank you for sharing the facility with them, and since this is the perfect opera to introduce children to this art form, they are offering highly reduced ticket prices in order to encourage you to bring your student(s). “The Daughter of the Regiment” is a very lively comedy that is filled with fun and laughter. Taconic Opera has staged it in the future, providing even more entertaining moments. You will have the opportunity to hear great professional singers and a professional orchestra. The production will be a fully-staged opera with
sets and costumes and sung in French with English dialogue. Here’s my wife’s only gardening tip for the season… do not plant impatiens this year. There is a moldy fungus that will kill them too soon and horticulturists recommend taking a year or two off from this annual staple to our landscapes. But you should stop by the St. Lukes plant sale in Katonah starting on Thursday and running through Mother’s Day. They will have beautiful hanging baskets for gifts and plenty of healthy plants to fill in your garden. Bedford Recreation & Parks is sponsoring a Learn to Ride Bike Program on May 11th at Bedford Hills Memorial Park, then once you learn you can all head on down to the free
Bicycle Sundays on the Bronx River Parkway from 10am to 2pm most Sundays this summer. I am dipping (and we all know I’m a little dippy all ready) a bit into Southern Westchester because I have to mention one of my favorite places. For the past 85 years, Playland in Rye has never failed to open on opening day. This year is no different, despite the challenges presented by Hurricane Sandy; Westchester County’s Playland Amusement Park will open on-time May 11th as planned. Playland management and staff are working tirelessly to ensure the rides (including Kiddie Land), concessions, and entertainment is ready for the season. This 2013 season will once again bring family fun to everyone; my personal favorites include the Dragon Coaster and Log Flume…
Celebrate Mom with a womenonly Mother’s Day 5K Race at FDR Park in Yorktown Heights on May 12th, personally, breakfast in bed sounds more appealing, but to each her own… The Bedford Hills Fire Department has proudly served the citizens of the Bedford Hills Fire District within the Town of Bedford for 110 years. To coincide with their 110th Anniversary, the members of the Department will be hosting a Firefighter‘s Parade to celebrate this terrific accomplishment with the citizens. The parade will be held on Saturday, May, 18th with a 4pm start. The route of the parade will travel south down Babbitt Road from the intersection of North Street, into Depot Plaza past the Fire House onto Bedford Road and conclude with a gathering in the commuter lots on the
west side of the Bedford Hills Train Station. All are welcome to come help celebrate this milestone with them. I’d like to close this week with a very special Happy 25th Anniversary to my wonderful wife Sarah who has put up with me for all those years; she’s a great wife, mother, friend and mows a mean lawn, love to you and here’s to the next 25… see you all next week! Here’s your chance, if you have an event you would like us to mention in News & Notes, we would love to, just drop us an email at marsar@optonline. net, two weeks notice would help as I really can’t write that fast… see you next week.
Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire.
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Bellydancing: Then and Now By SHERIF AWAD Bellydancing originated in The Middle East. It is usually performed by a solo female dancer who bases her moves on articulation of hips, chest, and shoulders. Depending on the country and region, bellydancing takes many forms, both in costume and dance style, as it is mostly performed in res-
taurants and cabarets thoughout the world. There are some dance schools and workshops who often let students perform choreographed dances in groups. Bellydancing is believed to have had a long history in The Middle East. Particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, European travelers in The Middle East wrote extensive accounts of the dancers they saw there and how it reflects two distinct social
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contexts: a folk or social dance, and a performance art. As a social dance, bellydancing is performed at celebrations and social gatherings by ordinary people who are not professional performers. Dancers wear their ordinary clothes rather than a special dance costume. Dances
Suha Deeb during one of her live performances that could be described as bellydancing are performed in this context by women of all ages in Egypt, often including young children. The version of bellydance that is performed on stage has its roots in the social dance, and is typically a more refined version of the same dance, with more emphasis on
stagecraft and use of space, and special costumes designed to show off the movements to best effect. In the golden age of Egyptian cinema, many bellydancers, such as Samia Gamal and Tahiya Karioka
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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday.com), and the artistic director for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. He also contributes to Variety, in the United States, and
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excelled on the silver screen after being tutored under the guidance of Badia Masabni, the founder of modern Oriental dance. Gamal became a respected soloist and brought forth her own style by incorporating techniques from ballet and Latin dance into her solo performances. She starred in many musicals… with singer and composer Farid al-Atrash. Ms Gamal was also the first to perform with high-heeled shoes on stage. In 1949, Egypt’s King Farouk proclaimed Samia Gamal “The National Dancer of Egypt”, which brought her to be noticed in America. In the following year, 1950, Ms Gamal came to the US and was photographed by Gjon Mili while performing at The Latin Quarter, New York City’s trendy nightclub. She later married so-called “Texas millionaire” Shepherd King III. All the attention elevated her to star proportions in the US. Nowadays, many social and artistic elements influence bellydancing and how it is performed and conceived across the Arab world. In Egypt, for instance, professional performers are not considered to be respectable, and there is a strong social stigma attached to female performers
in particular. Bellydancer and actress Dina was scandalized in the media when her secret marriage to a businessman was exposed on sex tapes distributed in the “Arab” streets. Her nomination as the “Last Egyptian Dancer” by Newsweek magazine did not save her from stigma cast against her by regional media. In Lebanon, life for this performing art is brighter with bellydancer Suha Deeb who, while performing across Lebanese musical ballrooms, is teaching her workshop to girls who have also fallen in love with the art of bellydancing. While growing up in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Deeb was introduced to bellydancing by watching her late grandmother Nahla whose dancing was solely performed at weddings and familial gatherings. After studying Eastern and Western music, Suha considered seriously venturing into bellydancing and underwent the complexity of the entire dancing process without professional training. Music and songs by Farid al-Atrash, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, among many many other great musicians were the catalysts of her inspirations as were the classic dances from the golden era of Egyptian cinema. Once she decided to become a professional dancer in 2002, Deeb worked diligently on training her
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New Rochelle School; Library Budget; Candidates est; with an extraordinary attendance at the public programs offered. It is open every day. When the government grant for job development ran out, they stepped up and continued the program. When Library Trustee Hanna Just-Michael was asked what percent of the residents used the library said she did not know; she did note that over 34,000 residents have library cards. Museum passes are also available. During Hurricane Sandy the library stayed open and was widely used as a community center. FEMA reimbursement is forthcoming for damages to the roof. When the question about the number of books the library possesses was asked, particularly nonfiction, the answer given was there are 38 public libraries from which patrons can request books. School Board member David Lacher began his presentation by
saying the school board did not exceed the recommended state tax cap. The proposed budget will allow the School Board to keep the staff they have, providing no reduction in promised aid is dashed. Mr Lacher said the tax base has declined one-third since the l990’s. Not only do churches and colleges take property off the tax rolls, commercial properties have filed Tax Certioraris that reduced tax rolls by challenging the assessed value of property, individual and/or commercial. This year the New Rochelle School Board must pay $5 million in Tax Certioraris challenges. Deirdre Polow, vice president of the New Rochelle School Board brought up the state mandated pension costs. The state is changing the standards for students. The mandates of the Common Core curriculum will cause student achievement scores to drop. Students need instructional in-
terventions, especially in high school. This year the schools have done very well in many areas including college admissions and not just football. The school board is maintaining a firm policy on class size. In the question and answer period, Polow explained that there are many diverse programs at New Rochelle High School including vocational education programs through BOCES. When asked about the number of school children that are projected from new developments, especially the proposed Echo Bay development, Lacher said this project will be different because school taxes will have to be paid. Two school board candidates then presented their views. Pamela Davis is a fifth grade teacher in Elmsford who has also taught at the College of New Rochelle. Before recent budget cuts she was a computer teacher. She
The Courage of Coming Out
lasted his lifetime. We could not have been more different. He was an introspective intellectual given to working in the library, book club and student council. I too was on the student council, but more known for being outgoing, the captain of the hockey club, and involved with baseball and basketball. We first met over the school presidency nomination during which he arranged for me to be disqualified on a technicality, despite the fact that the voting for me was near unanimous. What he did was permitted, but considered to be underhanded and unfair. As silly as it might sound to the current day reader, the incident led to student protests and class boycotts. You might sat it was a sign of the times. Meetings were held among the school administration, student union and the two of us, to try and iron out a solution that would meet the agendas of everyone involved. A power sharing arrangement was reached, and the good Franciscan brothers threw us in an office and said “figure out a way to work together.” The first words out of his mouth were “You should have won that nomination, indeed, would have. I knew I could not beat you so I studied the rules and figured out a way to make deals with other students so you would get disqualified.“ I sat there dumbfounded. “Why”, I said.
“Because that is how real politics is done. I feel bad about it, now, because you are such a nice person. But you were naïve, falling back on your popularity and playing by what you thought were the rules. “Now, it is what it is,” he said. He then went on to explain how he studied political philosophy as a hobby and used what he learned to accomplish what he did. He even gave me the first political book I would ever own, entitled The Right Image, which dealt with the use of cynicism in political campaigns. I was out of my depth. Despite our beginning, we became close friends. He turned out to be one of the most decent, thoughtful and hard working partners I would ever work with in school or business. We achieved a great deal to modernize the almost Victorian way the students were treated; and raised enough money to outfit the sports teams with buses and deposit a sizeable sum in the school treasury. One day, in the fall of 1968, we were on the “N” subway train traveling across the Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn to the city, when he told me he had something important to tell me. He warned me that I might not want to be his friend any more, but that we had become too close for him to hide from me who
By PEGGY GODFREY
The proposed New Rochelle Public Library budget effective as of July l, 2013, totals $4.6 million, amounting to an increased tax levy of 3.9%. Greg Varian, president of the Trustees of the Library told the New Rochelle Citizens Reform Club and the Confederation of Neighborhood Associations on April 25, 2013, that there were increased costs for employees. But the biggest issue for taxpayers is that the assessment rolls have dropped $4 million. Thomas Geoffino, director of the New Rochelle Public Library said the increased debt was due to healthcare costs for employees and bonded indebtedness. The New Rochelle Public Library was last year third highest library in circulation of material in Westchester, and the second busi-
has worked with Monroe College students and appreciates the “cutting edge” program with Don Coqui. Robert Cox, the next candidate, centered his presentation on the financial crisis, school safety, and Echo Bay’s impact on taxes. He said a lot of students who had attended Isaac E. Young Middle School were not graduating high school. He felt these students need “tender loving care.” He is focusing his candidacy on financial issues and security, especially at Isaac E. Young School. Quentin Jacobs and Bo Kemp are running for re-election as Library Trustees. Voting on these budgets and candidates will take place on May 21, 2013. Absentee ballot applications must be received by May 14, 2013. A Public Hearing on the School budget will be held on May 7, 2013 in the New Rochelle High School Library, 26 Clove Road at 7:30 p.m. Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer and former educator.
FRIENDSHIPS
By BOB MARRONE “I have aids, Bob; I don’t know how much longer I have to live.” With those words, my best friend from high school uttered the second most courageous thing I had ever heard from him. It was 1994, and he had flown in from California for our class’s 25-year reunion. His comments did not fit the dimly lit, art deco interior of the Chinese restaurant where we agreed to meet the night before the event. He spoke quietly, his arm reaching over the table to pour tea in my cup, as if he was telling me about his flight connections. The mid-nineties offered none of the near miracle antiviral drugs, which today have turned aids from a death sentence to a more-or-less chronically manageable illness. My friend knew his days were numbered, yet told me how he had incorporated his treatments into his routine as a clinical psychologist and head of a prestigious drug treatment clinic, which he had founded. I was fortunate enough to be there at the very beginning of the heroics that made him what he was to become. Pertinent to readers of The
Westchester Guardian, he is the person most responsible for initiating my love of politics, from which this column was born. Much has been written about NBA star, James Collins, the first major league athlete to come out about his homosexuality while still an active player. He has been praised and rightly so. Even today, when being gay is more accepted than ever before, and when gay marriage is gaining momentum here in the United States, it is still not easy to lay yourself out as a gay man or women. Forty-five years ago, despite changing morays, it was almost unthinkable. In 1968, despite protests over the Vietnam War, great strides in the civil rights movement and the beginnings of so-called women’s liberation, gay rights were not high on the list of the growing liberal evolution. It would take the Stonewall Riot and the efforts of people like Harvey Milk, before their day would come. It was also not until 1973 that the official diagnostic criteria for mental illness took homosexuality, as such, off the list; only to replace it with a condition they called “ego-dystonic homosexuality. It would not be until 1987, that it was removed completely. Our friendship started late, but
he really was. I told him that he was the same person on the middle of the bridge that he was when he got on the train, and that I could not imagine anything he might tell me that would change that. “I am gay,” he said. I was not expecting anything like that, and I paused to think. Then I was struck by my own words that he was, indeed, the same person who got on the subway car, and I said so. His revelation made us closer. Over the next few years we would become confidents. I would tell him about my girlfriend problems and he would share how his “therapy” to go straight was going. It was not. And finally, way before its time, he realized that good mental health for him and others like him was to accept who he was. Thus he became the good doctor, working to help others accept who they were, and helping those who became drug addled or anxiety riddled as a result of “not belonging.” About a year after the 25th anniversary, my friend died without regret or self-pity. He was ahead of his time, but his courage was timeless His story was never told. Now it has been. Oh, his name was Joe. Bob Marrone is a radio talk show host, author, and freelance writer for The Westchester Guardian.
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Jane Burr, 2: A Thespian of Sorts By ROBERT SCOTT
The acting bug bit Jane Burr in 1914. On Sept. 10 of that year, The New York Times carried a story headed, “Socialist Poet on Stage.” In it, theatrical producers Selwyn & Co. announced that Jane Burr, in private life Mrs. Horatio G. Winslow, would be in the cast of Owen Johnson’s upcoming play, The Salamander. “My family struggled for years to get me contented with money, clothes and society,” Jane Burr told reporters. “They always rebelled against my way of looking at life. I ran away. I went to Europe and remained a year. I absorbed plenty of socialism over there. I saw it. I breathed it and I lived it. “My husband does not object to my going on the stage, therefore I’m doing what I’d rather do than any other thing on earth. Maybe I won’t like it, but that remains to be seen. I’d like to make up as the ugliest woman in the world, because I know that I have more talent for character acting than for being just a society person.” Owen Johnson was a popular novelist with two Broadway plays to his credit. In 1907, his first, The Comet, had played for 56 performances. In 1912, his translation from the French of Maurice Dannay’s play The Return from Jerusalem had played for 53 performances. But when Owen Johnson’s third Broadway play The Salamander opened little more than a month after her 1914 interview, Jane Burr’s name was not among the eight female names in the cast. As it turned out, the play ran for only 14 performances and marked the last appearance of a Johnson work on Broadway. Two years later it would be made into a feature film. The following year, the Times carried a brief squib in its “Theatrical Notes” column on March 29: “Murdock Pemberton’s comedy playlet My Lady’s Honor, which was to have been included on last week’s bill of the Washington Square Players at the Bandbox Theatre and was postponed because of the illness of Jane Burr, will be presented on Friday night.
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Helen Westley will play the role Miss Burr was to have taken.” The Washington Square Players were an amateur group. The Bandbox was a little theatre on the northwest corner of East 57th Street and Third Avenue, with all seats priced at 50 cents. My Lady’s Honor became one of fourteen short plays that were drawn upon for 43 repertory performances at the Bandbox between February 15 and Memorial Day.
dock Pemberton, and was so belated because Jane Burr, who was to have appeared in it, was ill when the rest of the bill was first presented last week.” Helen Westley’s performance in the role of the wife in this threecharacter play was described by the reviewer as “satisfactory,” Considering the short time she had to prepare for the role compared to the two male performers, one the husband and the other a long-haired poet, this may be considered as high praise.
Jane Burr’s acting career began and ended in the Bramwell Playhouse, which opened in 1915. Later it became the Davenport Theatre. Today it is the Gramercy Arts Theatre, home to a bilingual repertory group. Photo credit: Michael J. Palma.
Jane Burr used classified ads to solicit boarders at her Drowsy Saint Inn, Croton’s first Bed and Breakfast. Her ad is the fifth item down of the seven Westchester items. On April 3, 1915, a brief review in the Times reported: “A fourth playlet was added to the program of the Washington Square Players in the Bandbox Theatre last night. It was ‘My Lady’s Honor,’ by Mur-
Helen Westley later would be among the many Broadway personalities who would discover the charms of Harmon and Croton in Westchester. These included playwrights Margaret Mayo, Channing Pollock and
Avery Hopwood, and performers Fay Bainter, Lenore Ulric, John Beal and his wife, Helen Craig. In 1916, Jane Burr--listed in the program as Jane Winslow--finally made an appearance before the footlights at the Bramhall Playhouse in a play, Keeping Up Appearances, which opened Nov. 8, 1916. Its author was Butler Davenport, who also appeared as a member of the cast. The 1916 run of Keeping Up Appearances was actually what Broadway calls a “revival.” The play originally opened on Oct. 9, 1910, at Collier’s Comedy Theatre, at 110 West 41st Street, where it lasted only nine performances. Renamed the Mercury Theatre in 1937, the theatre would become the home of Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre production company. The Bramhall Playhouse opened in 1915 within the narrow confines of a converted brownstone at 138 East 27th Street. One of several smaller “intimate” theatres that were becoming popular, it was built by Davenport, who had been a successful real estate operator with a yen for the footlights and grease paint. From the start, the plays at the Bramhall Playhouse were usually
written by Davenport himself and billed as “produced by the Bramhall Players,” which is to say that the actors were expected to chip in to defray the expenses of each new production. Jane Burr and her money would have been welcome additions to the struggling acting company. Its 1916 revival at the Bramhall Playhouse, some six years after its short initial short run, would last for a satisfying 173 performances. In the program listing the play’s seven players, Jane Burr’s name appears as Jane Winslow, a combination of the first half of her pen name and her married name. On the heels of Keeping Up Appearances, another Davenport play, Difference in Gods, opened in April of 1917, again with Jane Winslow. It ran for 32 performances. Sometime in 1917, Jane Burr purchased the Post Road Inn in Croton, a stagecoach stop on the old Albany Post Road. She named it the Drowsy Saint Inn and advertised for “boarders.” Boarding houses were the forerunners of today’s Bed & Breakfasts. Not content with visits from Bohemian friends or word-of-mouth, she advertised her inn in the classified pages of The New York Times.
The derivation of the name is unrecorded and has long been a mystery. A diligent search of contemporary literature of the period reveals its origin. In the collected poems of Scottish novelist and poet George MacDonald is a poem entitled “Summer Song,” made up of six stanzas, each containing two couplets--Jane Burr’s preferred verse form. Here are the first and second stanzas: Murmuring--’twixt a murmur and a moan, Many a tune in a single tone. For every ear with a secret true-The sea-shell wants to whisper to you. Yes--I hear it--far and faint, Like the thin-drawn prayer of drowsy saint; Like the muffled sounds of summer rain; Like the wash of dreams in a weary brain.
In 1918, now billed as Jane Burr, she appeared in the Bramhall Playhouse’s revival of Difference in Gods, which opened 17 days after the Armistice and ran for 68 performances. This play by Butler Davenport would mark the end of Jane Burr’s acting career. Continued on page 9
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The Bramhall Playhouse continued to present Davenport’s plays until the early 1920s, when it switched to standards by St. John Ervine, Oscar Wilde and John Millington Synge. Later the theatre’s name was changed to the Davenport Theatre--and the admission charge was abolished. Money was collected by passing the
hat. The bill included Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Chekov, Maugham-and Davenport. In this unique playhouse, Butler Davenport, who lived in an apartment above the theatre, was the president, director, producer, treasurer, star, playwright, press agent and sometimes “charlady.” He would explain in a resonant voice of great
dignity, “I have dedicated my life to spreading the idea that nobody should pay for theatre admissions. We have free schools, free art museums, free symphony concerts and libraries. Why not theatres?” Fiorello LaGuardia, colorful three-term mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945, figures in a delightful anecdote. His Honor’s favorite pastime was attending fires in firefighter’s helmet and raincoat. Once while indulging in his hobby
near 27th Street and Lexington Avenue, he noticed the sign “Davenport Theatre.” On the faded black wooden door, he read, “First Free Theatre in the World, opened January 17, 1923.” On entering the theatre, the mayor found an Ibsen play being performed. In the lobby he struck up a conversation with an elderly woman who told him that in fifteen years of attendance she had never once paid admission. LaGuardia,
an inveterate promoter of popular culture, nodded approvingly. The next day an effusive letter of mayoral benediction was dispatched to Mr. Davenport. The Davenport Theatre survives to this day on East 27 Street as the Gramercy Arts Theatre, home of Repertorio Español, a bilingual theatre company. Robert Scott is a semi-retired book publisher and local historian. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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would accompany Mary Philipse to St. John’s for services. During the American Revolution patriot soldiers as well as those loyal to the king were treated at the hospital when it was used as a hospital. Its history also parallels that of the city as a whole. Notable Yonkers personalities worked with the church to improve the lives of Yonkers residents. This was especially true in the late 1800’s when they founded St.
John’s Hospital, the Cochran School of Nursing, The Ridge Hill Tuberculosis Hospital, the Hollywood Inn, a club for working men, and a fresh water fountain in the center of town, because at that time there was no other clean water available to the public. Nine of the windows in the church are in peril. Twenty notable individuals have endorsed a letter of support for a restoration campaign. They include Yonkers Mayor Mike
Spano, Senator Andrea StewartCousins, and Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer. Mr. Ron Corti of St. John’s Riverside Hospital and Dean Karen G. Davenport of the Cochran School of Nursing have also both endorsed the project, fittingly enough, as members of St. John’s first founded and then continued to support these organizations. An opportunity to learn more firsthand is the Campaign Banquet on May 23. Local historian Robert
Piwinski, curator of the Yonkers history website, will give a multi-media presentation on the vast civic involvement of members of St. John’s in the late 1800’s. Those wishing to attend the banquet may call (914) 963-3033 or write the church at “St. John’s Church, One Hudson Street, Yonkers NY 10701”. You can also reserve and accomplish payment for your tickets online at www.landmarksociety.info. The deadline for tickets is May 17th and the cost is $75.00. All proceeds go to restore
the windows The campaign has raised almost half the funds needed to save these phenomenal windows, and with the assistance of caring individuals this Yonkers institution can help insure a future for the downtown as fascinating as its last three and one half centuries. St. John’s Church, the first church in Yonkers, is well known for its centuries of service to the community, including those most vulnerable.
able housing is not made up of crack dealers, welfare recipients, but firefighters, teachers and administrative assistants.” At the same time, affordable housing agreements do not amount to a free pass. “If people are not paying their bills or not in good standing in the community, there are procedures in place to remove them,” said Yablon But if the concern remains that the hardened people of New York City and their lackadasial street corner lifestyle will descend in droves, the logistics and applications don’t really support it. “People in New York and lower Westchester don’t really want to come this far,” said Judy Stern of Blue Mountain. “The affordable housing pool mostly comes from people around here.” And that makes sense not just in terms of our economic quality of life, according to Adam Oaks of the Lewisboro Fire Department. “Young firefighters, EMT workers and other volunteers of essential services go to college, and then cannot afford to live here,” said Oaks. The resulting delays in life sav-
ing services are already being seen and the towns are beginning to hire people to do jobs that were always done on a volunteer basis. But without a preferential point system for those essential members of the community and others that work here, it seems that the notion doesn’t quite add up. Andrea Klausner of the Westchester Residential Opportunities acknowledged that to a degree but sees the bigger picture. “The 750 units really is the tip of the iceberg and the idea is to open the doors so Westchester can be affordable to those who cannot remain and more who like to come here,” said Klausner. The experience of pastor Dr. Paul Briggs of the Antioch Church in Bedford Hills echoed that sentiment. “I have so many former members who worked for companies like Pfizer and IBM and can no longer afford to live here when they retire,” he said. “That’s what it’s done to just my congregation.” Extropolating that across Westchester is something none of us can afford.
John M. Hamilton is the Priest-inCharge of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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Affordable Housing Discussion in Bedford By Rich Monetti On Wednesday May 1st, the Bedford Town Hall held a public meeting to discuss the issue of Affordable Housing. Piggybacking off the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act, a 2009 settlement with county made $51 Million available for the development of 750 affordable housing units in Westchester. To date, 302 units have been developed or have obtained the necessary permits. A number of players, including Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy of
Somers, Supervisor Warren Lucas of North Salem and Tom McGrath of the Blue Mountain Housing Development Corporation, proceeded to detail the progress made across the county in their individual constituencies. Of course, the baseline stipulates that housing cannot be denied based on race, religion, etc, but is limited based on occupant income. Renters cannot exceed 63% the adjusted medium income of the county, while home buyers must stay under 80%. Currently, though, landlords may turn down applicants whose major source of income is government assisted. But the county is seeking to overturn that through The Source of Income Legislation Bill. Either way, the obvious concerns affordable housing carries was evident but only among a small minority of the packed house on Bedford Road. One member of the public likened the presentation to a whitewash that failed to
mention quota requirements such as welfare recipients and section 8 qualifiers. Tom McGrath of Blue Mountain addressed that to the point. “There are no quotas,” he stated succinctly. What does amount to a quota of sorts is the manner in which people become aware of available properties. Developers must market the property in New York City, Westchester and the surrounding counties of Putnam, Rockland, Fairfield and Dutchess. The application in hand, said McGrath, “then there’s a lottery.” That mattered little to another Bedford resident who also did not identify himself. “You have to aspire to live here as I did growing up poor in Queens,” he said in seeing no reason to make special consideration to afford those without the means or drive to get here. Bruce Yablon of Blue Mountain Housing thus took it upon himself to read between the lines. “I don’t mind having people living here who don’t look like myself,” he said, “and afford-
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THE SOUNDS Tinsley Ellis “Get It!” needs vocals? Tinsley Ellis goes all instrumental, and displays OFBLUE Who his guitar wares. Rating: 8 By Bob Putignano Tinsley turns off his vocal microphone on his first ever all-instrumental album “Get It!” I for one find this concept to be a near home-run for the veteran Ellis who gets ample time to display his strong control and creativity on his guitar. Not that he’s alone here. Ellis is joined by keyboard ace Kevin McKendree who’s The Rock House studio (Franklin, TN) was used to record this fine album, also along for the ride are Lynn Williams’s drums, and Ted Pecchio’s bass. It’s a tight unit that adds a lot of depth and backdrop for Tinsley’s sharp fret board work. Born in 1957 Ellis has been making records since 1983 and has (on albums) backed up Nappy Brown, Col. Bruce Hampton, Chicago Bob, King Johnson, Francine Reed, Jody Williams, Jim Quick and Gov’t Mule.
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Other guitar heavyweights like Jonny Lang, Melvin Taylor and others have covered his songs. www.TinsleyEllis. com offers fourteen albums credited to Ellis’s name. He’s recorded for Alligator, Landslide, Capricorn, Telarc, and was produced by the legendary Tom Dowd for his “Fire It Up” album from 1997. Ten tunes are included, eight were authored by Ellis. “Front Street Freeze” kicks off the festivities in a funky Memphis like groove, the entire band locks down, McKendree fills on piano and B3 as Ellis (at times) unearths Albert Collins like solos. Checkout McKendree’s clavinet comps on “Sassy Strat” where Ellis is more emotive telling stories from his guitar that occasionally unfolds into clusters of dynamite guitar flurries. The ballad “The Milky Way” is tender, but it’s for gazing as it
barely lifts off. Credited to Ellas McDaniel better knows as Bo Diddley “Detour” stomps and marches along with a solid backbeat from Lynn Williams drumming. The ballad “Anthem For a Fallen Hero” is more poignant than “The Milky Way” finds Tinsley firing off hyper guitar solos reminiscent of Roy Buchanan. The title track is a shuffling blues where Ellis seemingly seems very comfortable, McKendree’s back at the B3 as Ellis reveals many of his best guitar tricks and sails. “Fuzzbuster” is a tune that kicks in a Freddy King “Going Down” manner, Ellis utilizes his wah-wah, as McKendree kills on piano with tumultuous piano work that recalls Nicky Hopkins best sideman work. Speaking of Freddy King “Freddy’s Midnight Dream” authored
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“Catalunya” on a soft note ballad that enters the Santana zone, but the band muddles through it, and it’s here that Tinsley gives me the impression that he’s away from his comfort zone. In summary this is very neat collection of tunes where Ellis seemingly pays tribute to his guitar heroes
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under the “Patriot Act.” Now, with the surveillance is inevitable and, whether coming advent of law enforcement sur- or not we agree with it, we should get veillance drones, we are forced to come used to it because there is not anything By JOHN F. MCMULLEN cameras first began to be deployed to grips with a new way of life in which that can be done to stop it. Reaction by for monitoring of possible traffic in- there is no privacy, at least in public out- the New York Civil Liberties Union “Those who desire to places (and, at some point, perhaps (“NYCLU”) to the mayor’s statements fractions (“run a yellow light and getThursdaY, a door FeBruarY 23, 2012 Page 26 WesTchesTer Guardian give up freedom The in order was quick, with Donna Lieberman ticket”), recording of business activity, or indoors in private places). to gain security will not Does Ben Franklin’s admonition of that organization quoted as saying other aspects of public safety. 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even within your own homes, from these individual owned drones – peeking in your window as you undress, make love, drink, smoke, etc. (Pull down the blinds and shades!). At the present, there is no regulation concerning the use of drones in low-flying airspace. If such worries about drones as tools of terrorist attacks or invaders of personal space seem overblown, one only has to look at the United States’ use of drones in military action in Afghanistan and Yemen – they are being used to kill people! The actions of the US government have become a subject of heated debate on ethical, constitutional, and on political grounds and is not the province of this column – but one thing is clear – Drones will not be the weaponry of solely the United States in the future. US hobbyists are certainly not the only ones who can build such devices. Terrorists, criminals, “Peeping Toms,” private investigators, divorce lawyers -- people from all walks of life either can build or have built drones to their specifications. One only has to Google “How Do You Build A Drone” to get a page full of references. Parenthetically, when I went to one of the references (the only link that is not a straight “how to” reference), a story about a father who built a drone to watch over his son as the son walks a quarter mile in Vermont snow to his school bus (http://www.nbcnews. com/technology/futureoftech/ helicopter-parenting-dads-homemade-drone-follows-kid-bus-stop1C7356195) and find that the article is about an old friend, IEEE Spectrum Contributing Editor Paul Wallich (the article also directs the reader to a Spectrum article in which Wallich describes the building of the drone -- http://spectrum. ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/thediy-kidtracking-drone) So, what is a reader of this column to think and, perhaps more importantly, do about the explosive growth and use of surveillance technology? It’s hard to determine a policy at this stage of the game, particularly in the face of the Boston explosions and the successContinued on page 13
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Boston, Cameras, and Drones Continued from page 12 ful use of the technology in the determination of the identity of the perpetrators. As a starting point, what we all might do: Educate ourselves is all aspects of the issue – the Constitutional protections against search and seizure, etc.; the technology developments; the ongoing terrorist threats; the success of the technology in discouraging criminals (and apprehending the un-discouraged) – and, while we’re at it, consider the Constitutional and moral questions concerning out military use of drones. Find out what our representatives and public
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Bountiful and Bountiless By JOHN SIMON Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” is one of the finest plays by a close observer and unassuming celebrant of ordinary lives. In Foote’s pseudonymous hometown, Harrison, Texas, ordinary does not mean negligible, and the regional by no means excludes the universal. We have here the humble office worker Ludie Watts, recovered from a long illness, building up his resolve to ask for a raise. His small Houston apart-
concealed by her to finance her next trip to Bountiful, something from which she promised to desist. She and Jessie Mae are continually at loggerheads, with the good-natured Ludie unhappily but patiently drawn into the throes of Jessie Mae’s active and Carrie Watts’s passive aggression. How the old lady steals away yet again to her dreamt-of hometown, and what happens then, is the play’s main focus, in equal measure humorous and moving. The story has been a TV and Broadway vehicle for Lillian Gish, and a cinematic one for
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ment is shared by his wife, Jessie Mae, whose chief activities are visits to the beautician, perusing movie magazines, and Coke-drenched gossiping at the drugstore. Living with them is Ludie’s mother, old widow Carrie Watts, who once tried unsuccessfully to revisit her birthplace, Bountiful, a tiny burg that, unbeknown to her is no longer inhabited. Mrs. Watts receives a regular government pension check, the latest of which seems tardy, but is actually
Geraldine Page. More recently, Lois Smith shone in a 2005 revival. Now, however, is the first time it has been played by an all-black cast, affording a triumph for Cicely Tyson, who, at 88, is something of a senior prodigy as Carrie. Her return to Broadway after 38 years, and investment of such energy and charm in the part, somehow justifies Carrie’s otherwise merely quixotic Continued on page 14
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Colm Tóibín’s “The Testament of Mary,” directed by Deborah Warner and enacted by her partner Fiona Shaw, is both the summit and sinkhole of impudent presumption. Based on a book by Tóibín, it is his adaptation of this solo performance as the Virgin Mary contemplating the life and death of her son Jesus. One question discussed is how long it takes for the victim of crucifixion to expire. It seems to vary; not so the excruciation to which the show subjects its audience, clocked at exactly 85 megalomaniacal minutes. As a prologue, we are invited up on the stage to view various props the play will employ (and a few it won’t), which include a live vulture and Mary in Renaissance garb sitting motionless inside a glass cube. During the play, the bird, briefly hoisted by Mary, has nothing to do; instead of the Fra Angelico attire, Ms. Shaw will wear vaguely modern clothes when not taking a nude bath in an old-fashioned tub. She will also light and wave about a cigarette, and the set will include an enormous, winding tree trunk with fully exposed roots and topped by a horizontal wheel featuring
a toy bird perched on it, all of which will serve no purpose whatever. There are also a variety of chairs, a glass-covered supposedly archeological dig, an empty bird cage, a tall ladder Ms. Shaw will toss noisily about, and other objects useless except as noisemakers when frequently turned into projectiles. And there is Mary’s endless sitting, standing or promenading while delivering her boring and rarely revelatory maunderings. For a while, she also wears a barbed-wire wreath on her shoulders, though unfortunately not a crown of thorns around her mouth, as shown on the poster for the show. And she talks, shouts, screams Tóibín’s totally uninvolving verbiage, exercising some arbitrary, meaningless vocal dynamics, which the audience absorbs rapturously as proof of great acting. There is some widening and narrowing of the panels that frame the set, as well as some perfectly meaningless changes in the color of the lighting. What there isn’t is any special insight, any reference to the Immaculate Conception, certainly no angel of the Annunciation, and not much interest in repeated quoting of one Marcus, an
invented and invisible cousin of Mary’s. Noteworthy, though, are the standing ovation, thunderous applause, and sundry whoops and cheers from a reverent audience mindlessly rewarding this imposture. Need I say that most of the reviews were similarly awed? Paul Claudel, with “L’Annonce faite à Marie” proved that one could write a valid play about Mary; Tóibín, Warner and Shaw merely demonstrate that one could also concoct a lumberingly gratuitous one. Walter Kerr Theater, 218 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036 – Tickets: 866-459-2035.
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the Village parks, including Sagamore, Bicentennial and Maltby, but we have routinely turned a blind eye when pets could peacefully co-exist with the primary park users. However, just last week, we had to add the tennis court grounds as a “No Dogs” enforced area. Essentially, dogs off the leash were scaring some of the youngsters taking tennis lessons and the bucolic setting was being marred by dog waste. Sadly, it takes only a few indifferent dog owners to spoil it for all the good and conscientious owners. Our “Yield to Pedestrian” warning stantions, which serve as a traffic calming device, at the intersection of Kraft Avenue and Park Place are routinely destroyed by area delivery trucks. As a consequence, we tried just posting the pedestrian signs on the adjacent posts. However, in response to resident on-site input, the stantions seem to be needed and new ones are ordered and will be in the intersection shortly. As graduations and family celebrations increase during the spring months, the Village Parking Office has crafted a test overnight parking policy
to aid residents who may need a spot on the street now and then for visiting family and friends. The new pilot plan would be a courtesy or limited exemption from current Village Law which always supersedes. Per local Code, parking is prohibited on all public streets and in parking meter zones within the Village between 3AM and 7AM. However, effective May 1st, callers to the police desk requesting overnight parking will receive up to three courtesy nights per month, as tracked by their license plate number, so as to accommodate guest visits or emergencies. The spring and summer months bring more people out of their homes and offices. Our children are fully engaged in outdoor sports activities and can be seen walking through the Village from fields and track to school and home. Please use extra caution when moving about our Village as spring is officially here.
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longing for the largely symbolic Bountiful. Altogether, hers is a performance to be repeatedly revisited in your grateful memory. To Jessie Mae’s annoyance, Carrie loves to sing hymns. When she does so while waiting for the bus along with Thelma, a young bride missing her militarily deployed husband, who becomes her fellow bus traveler and supporter, Ms. Tyson radiates more than mere religious faith. She becomes a life force, enlisting all of us in the audience to become her backup group. Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ludie and Condola Rashad as Thelma are firstrate; Vanessa Williams, though good, may be a mite too glamorous as Jessie Mae. There are winning contributions also from Tom Wopat as a helpful sheriff, and Arthur French as a friendly ticket agent. Good, too, are Jeff Cowie’s idiomatic décor, Van Broughton Ramsey’s apt costuming, and Rui Rita’s sympathetic lighting. Michael Wilson’s leisurely direction allows our easeful
immersion in a play and production full of bounties. Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 124 W 43rd Street, between Avenue of The Americas and Broadway, New York, NY 10036 – Tel: (212) 239-6200
John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature and has taught at MIT, Harvard University, Bard College and Marymount Manhattan College. To learn more, visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored.com website.
GOVERNMENTSection MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN
By Mayor MARY C. MARVIN In honor of Earth Week, Bronxville School parents and the School administration organized a “Walk to School” week. It was a huge success with “moving trains” of children coming down the hills and not a single traffic jam or delay on Midland Avenue. Hopefully, the walking routine will continue as there is scientific evidence that a morning walk to start one’s day increases alertness and correlates with improved academic performance, greater self-esteem and a sense of independence. As a nation, the trend has been to rely more and more on the car. According to government statistics, the number of children driven to school within a one mile radius of their home was 20% in 1969. Now the number is over 55% and growing and climbing with it
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is childhood obesity, traffic congestion and air pollution. With the aim of making Bronxville an even more walkable Village, we will be looking at areas that may now be suitable for additional sidewalks. Residents have also asked about bike riding and the possibility of designated bike paths. By Village Code, bicycles may be ridden on sidewalks throughout the Village if the rider is under the age of 11. However, no one can ride bikes or skateboards on the sidewalks in the two business districts. Unfortunately, none of the Village streets are wide enough for regulation bike lanes. Our wide streets – Pondfield Road and Midland Avenue – either have continuous parking areas and/or a hedge divide. Even if wide enough, Police Chief Satriale is not a proponent because bike lanes sometimes complicate bicycle and car turning movements at intersections. When riding in the road, bicycles should always be travel-
ling in the same direction as cars. With the warmer weather, more pedestrians are out and about especially youngsters. With that in mind, our police department, in the interest of safety, will be stepping up enforcement of the texting and cell phone use while driving laws as well as speed laws and the crossing of double yellow lines. As a reminder, the areas adjacent to all of the schools in the Village, including our nursery schools, are school zones with a 20 mph speed limit. As to the crossing of a double line violation which continues to be a scourge on Pondfield Road, a police officer, not a Parking Enforcement Officer, must personally witness the violation. Frustratingly, calling the police after witnessing one of these infractions has no ramifications. In addition to increased pedestrian activity, many more dogs are out and about on daily walks. Per Village Code, pets are not allowed in any of
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of Bronxville, New York. Direct email to mayor@vobny.com.
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Who Wants to Be the New Sheriff? By NANCY KING As Westchesterites’ eyes focused on the nomination of Noam Bramson’s upcoming challenge to incumbent Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino as a result of last week’s Westchester County Democratic Committee, the nomination that got the least attention was that for Westchester County District Attorney. Current D.A. Janet DiFiore easily received overwhelming support and votes from the delegates, but in the back of the auditorium was a small grass-roots group proclaiming their support for a different candidate, White Plains lawyer Mayo Bartlett. Bartlett, who once served as the Chief of Difiore’s Bias Crime Unit has an impressive resume. He is a founding member of “We are Westchester”, a coalition of Not-For-
Profit organizations that focus on social justice, he is also the co-founder of SAFE PASSAGE , a youth law forum that brings issues of law and policy to classrooms throughout the county among other professional affiliations. Mr. Barlett is however best known for being one of the attorneys representing the family of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a retired Marine who was shot to death by White Plains Police Officers back in 2011. Interestingly enough, the wouldbe candidate was a no-show at the convention and has not formally come out and announced his candidacy. He is speaking to nobody. However within a day of the convention, there has been a Facebook page launched in support of Mayo Bartlett. This page appears to have been launched by Mt. Vernon activist Damon K. Jones and a handful of Westchester residents who have been
unhappy with Ms. DiFiore’s handling of not only the Chamberlain case but the cases of Danroy DJ Henry and the killing of Mount Vernon Police Officer Christopher Ridley by members of the Westchester County Police Department. All of those cases involve deadly force used by police and in all three cases; the Grand Juries summoned at the D.A.’s behest have cleared all respective police officers of any wrongdoing. Of course any candidate who runs against D.A. DiFiore will have an uphill battle. She’s been cleared of any wrong doing in obtaining social services benefits for her former nanny and she’s got a friend in Governor Andrew Cuomo even though her resignation from JCOPE was more than likely a direct order from him. She has most law enforcement unions behind her and she’s got tons of money in her war chest; all ingre-
dients needed to win an election. If Mayo Bartlett has opened an election committee and has started his fundraising, it has not been made public as of yet. If he is going to primary Ms. DiFiore in September, these basic housekeeping tasks better be set up soon if he going to be a legitimate candidate. In the meantime, voters in Westchester haven’t heard if the Republicans will put their own candidate forward when they hold their own convention later this spring. Earlier in the year there was some talk that
Rory Bellantoni was interested in running for the office of the District Attorney but he has been strangely quiet. Could there have been a nonaggression pact made with Republicans not to put forth a candidate? It could just be that; remember Janet DiFiore used to be a Republican. Competition and election choice for voters is always a good thing but you’ve got to remember that this is Westchester County and transparency in elections and government is more of an illusion than a veil of transparency. If Mr. Bartlett is actually going to take on Ms. DiFiore, he’s got to come out of the gate swinging the sword of Damocles. Show us what you’ve got and give the voters a choice. Being promoted on social media does not a true candidate make, get out there and tell us how you will make Westchester County a better, safer and a more just place to live. Nancy King is a freelance investigative reporter.
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At War With An Idea By LARRY M. ELKIN As of this week, at least 100 of the 166 men held at Guantanamo Bay prison have joined the hunger strike that began in January. The hunger strike at Guantanamo seems to have reminded the president that the prison is still there. On Tuesday, Obama addressed the issue head-on at a White House news conference. “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are, contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop,” he said, according to The New York Times. Yet despite his campaign promises back in 2008, Guantanamo is still open, and though the president stepped back from the issue in his first term, the hunger strike has refocused his attention. I sympathize with the president’s feelings, if not with his objectives. Shutting down Guantanamo is not a simple issue. The problem is that we are at war with an idea and
a movement, not a nation. The prisoners taken in that war must wait for peace, but there is no counterparty with which we can conclude a treaty to secure it. It is not difficult to understand why prisoners succumb to despair while waiting for peace, which very well may not come in our lifetimes, as a prerequisite for their eventual release. There are only three valid reasons to continue to detain prisoners at Guantanamo. First, it is possible that some of them may have information that could save lives. However, since virtually all the prisoners currently in the facility have been detained there for many years, very little information of this sort is likely to come from them in the future. The second reason is that some of the detainees have no place to go. Certain prisoners, such those who are part of the Muslim Uighur minority in China, were captured on the battlefields in Afghanistan but would face persecution if returned to their native countries. These prisoners may not be a direct threat to the United
States, but neither do they qualify for admission to our country, unless we take the remarkable step of changing their status from “enemy combatant” to “asylum grantee.” But the third, and most valid, reason to confine enemies indefinitely is that they remain our enemies. As long as the jihadi movement that declares Americans a target wherever they can be harmed remains viable, and as long as there is any realistic chance that detainees continue to sympathize with this movement, we have a right to defend ourselves by
preventing them from rejoining it. Currently, we primarily defend ourselves through lethal drone attacks, but since these people were captured alive, it is our duty to keep them in that condition if it is in our power to do so. But it is also in our interest to keep them. Imagine the outcry if, for example, the Boston Marathon bombing turned out to involve a former Guantanamo detainee who had been released. That particular scenario appears highly unlikely, but it is certainly not implausible that
some detainees would resume their violent activities elsewhere in the world, given a chance to do so. According to the military, some already have, though the exact numbers are a subject of debate. It is entirely proper that violent extremists who commit crimes inside America be prosecuted in the American civil court system, as will be the case for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. But American prosecutors and courts do not have global jurisdiction. Battlefield captures are not subject to the normal rules of criminal prosecution. Soldiers are not cops, and there are no crime scene investigation units available to collect and preserve evidence at extremist hideouts in Afghan mountains or the Somali bush. We should absolutely make our best effort to identify and release detainees who never were, or who no longer are, threats to our citizens. But there is no reason to liberate people who we believe have supported violence against us and who we have reason to believe might do the same again if they are able. In some circumstances, we can safely return de-
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tainees to their home governments (as indeed we have in the past). But most detainees remaining at Guantanamo today lack the option of repatriation for one reason or another. We have certain responsibilities to those we hold in custody as enemy combatants. Some prisoners have been forcibly fed during the current hunger strike. Many commentators, including Jeremy A. Lazarus, president of the American Medical Association, have claimed such tactics violate the medical ethics of the doctors involved. The military disagrees, and so do I, for this reason: The prisoners are not declining medical treatment because they wish to starve. What they want is to be freed, or at least to have the conditions of their detention altered – options our military, charged with fighting this amorphous war, has determined it must deny. The detainees thus are not making a voluntary choice between two options. These are not patients. These are prisoners, who lack many freedoms. Freedom to leave is one; freedom to starve is another. Those who hold the contrary position might as well
argue that we ought to furnish a cyanide capsule to any detainee who demands one. Having detained these men, we have a moral and a legal obligation not to let them die. Our right to continue to hold them, for our own protection, goes hand in hand with our responsibility to preserve their lives. The reality is that Obama did not fail to close Guantanamo because he simply forgot about it. He failed because, for the past five years, he has had no better options. No matter what his current emotions on the topic may be, his options have not changed.
Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided personal financial and tax counseling to a sophisticated client base since 1986. After six years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a senior manager for personal financial planning and family wealth planning, he founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta in 2008.
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Yonkers Water Billing Estimates May Soon Create Class Action Lawsuit Another Round of Documents Receive No Mitigation; Only Greater Insult By HEZI ARIS The Fabio Corsi / Susan Tressler household received another inane letter from the Department of Finance and Management Services with regard to water bills that were based on estimates that have proven so outrageous vis-à-vis the actual readings exceeding usage by a factor of 4 or 3 to 1, depending on a respective year’s billing / readings. After a letter from the Corsi / Tressler household and the Yonkers Tribune more than 2 weeks ago, Corsi / Tressler received a letter from the Department of Finance and Management Services. Unfortunately, instead of solving the problem the Department of Finance and Management Services made it worse by requesting an additional payment of $153.59. Commissioner John Liszewski, presently the commissioner of Yonkers Department of Finance and Management was the former commissioner of Department of Public Works and commissioner of the Department of Water prior to present Mayor Mike Spano. (Editor’s Note: No conflict here!) Corsi / Tressler advise they cannot determine
whether this conduct and response is plain incompetence or actual fraud. Their story can be read as per the attached documents. As a matter of principle, they advise they are ready to take legal action, if it comes down to that. However they still hope that someone in the administration will be capable of sorting things out. Water bill complaint 3 Previous Correspondence Corsi - Tressler Water bill complaint 3 - Yonkers Dept Of Finance & Management Services Letter Water bill complaint 3 - Letter - Interpretation aids Besides satisfying the Corsi / Tressler household, and recognizing this issue replicated throughout the City of Yonkers, what has happened to all the money collected? How is it accounted for? What is the accumulated sum of these over billings? Former Finance Commissioner Jim LaPerche must be made to respond ad most former Water Commissioner John Liszewski? Yonkersites demand an accounting of this money!!!
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THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT
Albany – ‘We’re Infested with Rats’ By CARLOS GONZALEZ Everyone is wired up in Albany. The Westchester Guardian has learned a state senator has now been wired and providing prosecutors with secret recordings, Last month, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that a New York State assemblyman had been secretly making audio and video recordings on behalf of law enforcement, and other legislators began nervously joking that they could never be sure who else was taping them. Prosecutors disclosed that Shirley L. Huntley, when she was a Democratic state senator from Queens, had secretly recorded conversations with seven elected officials and two other people after she was confronted by the FBI and asked about her alleged participation in criminal schemes involving embezzlement
and bribery. According to trusted sources, federal authorities are expected to zone in on five of the unnamed seven, and suggested that the top leader was a notable elected. On Friday, prosecutors said in court papers that Ms. Huntley’s recordings of a senator and two other elected officials “did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities.” The senator was not identified in the court documents, but a person with knowledge of the matter advised the alleged senator was John L. Sampson, a Brooklyn Democrat and former Senate leader who has long been under investigation. His aide, Paul Rivera, who at one time was
given almost a whopping 50k raise by Sampson, has also been allegedly been recorded. Mr. Sampson has not been charged, and neither Mr. Sampson nor his lawyer responded to
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James Sanders Jr., a Queens Democrat who defeated Ms. Huntley, 74, in a primary last year after she had been indicted, said he was “not the least bit surprised” that she had worked with law enforcement. “There are few among us who can stand up to 20, 30, 40 years without, as the streets call, snitching,” he said. “I think that it is tragic that one finds themselves in a world of pain and even more tragic if you’re trying to buy down your sentence by ensnaring others,” Mr. Sanders added. “Now, if you are merely speaking of what they have done, then you’re probably doing a public service. But if you are ensnaring people, then it just proves you have no honor.” Ms. Huntley pleaded guilty in federal court in January to stealing over $87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit organization that she was running; she is
scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, May 9, 2013. In a meeting prior to her conviction in her home in Queens, former Senator Shirley Huntley informed us that she was going to be fine. “I am confident that even if I don’t win this case that I’ll win,” she said. When asked to elaborate, the senator smiled and said, “Justice is good, and God is great.” Huntley’s turning “rat” is the latest move in an expanding Brooklyn US attorney corruption probe into Queens and Brooklyn pols that has led to investigations into Congressman Gregory Meeks too. Closer to the hallways of the Capitol all has turned silent. Even at off-hour and off-premise bars and restaurants, they’re empty. “Nobody wants to go anywhere anymore or speak to people,” said an insider to Sen. Jeff Klein. Carlos Gonzalez pens The Albany Correspondent column. Direct comments and inquiry to carlgonz1@gmail.com.
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