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Standing up for the Shutout! Mr. Perna and his children Gerardo and Marina with Lawrence High School students represent-

ing the Italian Club including Stefano Gaspard, Tim Healy, Zach Magliaro, Maria Pulella, Pauli-

na Vega, Anthony Philippou, Brandon Messer, Elvin Herrera, Ari Messer and others came out to

the Homecoming Parade in Cedarhurst on Saturday to support the Lawrence Golden Tornadoes

Varsity football team en route to their 36-0 Homecoming shutout win over rivals Lynbrook. See

Sports Page A6. Photo by Meg Capobianco.

Bulldogs Back in BusinessJeremy Leguillow runs for a touchdown in Hewlett’s 23-21 victory over Manhasset on Saturday. The victory ended a two game losing

streak for the Bulldogs and secured them a playoff spot. Check out the full story on page A6. Photo by Jonathan Walter

District 14 Schools AddingMore Teaching Assistants

By JONATHAN WALTERStandard Staff Reporter

The Hewlett School Board announced the addition of four half-time teaching assistants at Hewlett Elementary and three half-time teaching assistants at the Franklin Early Childhood Cen-ter this past Thursday at this month’s meeting. At last month’s Hewlett School Board meeting, parents were up in arms about large class sizes throughout the district, and parents still remain skeptical of this new plan.

“Eight years ago, my now 12th grader was in 4th grade and had 18 other kids in his class,” Jackie May of Hewlett said. “This year, my fourth grader has 24 children in her class, which I know is be-low the limit, but not where I think Hewlett should be. We’ve brought ourselves to being just standard and making class sizes as high as they can go. Children are getting lost and they aren’t get-

Anchin Calls Kate Murray“Stalin” at Candidate Debate


It was a back and forth battle be-tween local politi-cians on Monday at the League of Wom-en Voters Candidates Night at Hewlett Li-brary. For the most part it was a spirited debate amongst the candidates regard-ing the major issues that affect the Town of Hempstead for the town candidates, and Nassau County for

KOPEL AND MOSERAGREE ON MANY

LAWRENCE ISSUESBy Scott P. Moore

Standard Staff Reporter

Republican incumbent Legislator Howard Ko-pel and Democratic candidate Adam Moser were the subjects of a “spirited discussion” at a meet-ing of the Lawrence Association on Wednesday evening. The two candidates for Nassau County Seventh District Legislator were asked a host of questions on local issues including the Lawrence water quality problems, Rockaway Turnpike traf-fi c and rising taxes.

Both candidates agreed that the Lawrence wa-

NEW COUNTY BUDGETTARGETS CLOSING OF2 POLICE PRECINCTS

By Scott P. MooreStandard Staff Reporter

The Nassau County Legislature released a re-view of the 2012 budget that may be approved next week that included a plan to reorganize and consolidate two of the county’s eight po-lice precincts in a move that could save the county about $15 million.

The precincts that would be closed were not presented in the available version of the bud-get, but the plan calls for a reorganization of the current precinct districts which were laid out in 1972. Two precincts – First Precinct in

Residents Upset with EnvironmentalIssues at Larger Air Noise Meeting


The Town-Village Aircraft Safe-ty and Noise Abatement Com-mittee held its monthly meeting in front of a larger than usual and untamed crowd mixed with fl ight offi cials, government rep-resentatives and upset local res-idents at Lawrence High School on Monday evening.

A large contingent of roughly twenty representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PA), Aviation Development Council and Ter-minal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) were on hand to an-

swer questions to the nearly 50 or so residents that showed up.

When the questions were turned over to the committee

members, many local residents continued to echo the com-plaints of their neighbors from previous months about the lev-

el of noise from aircraft fl ying overhead into and out of JFK.

“I suggest to you that during certain hours, Long Island be-come a no-fl y zone,” said Kurt Langjahr, a representative for New Hyde Park. “It would allow our residents to get some rest.” The crowd applauded his idea, but FAA offi cial Jeff Clarke shot down the idea immediately. A crowd member burst out “Why not?” but was ignored by the representative.

“We have to live with [the noise],” ceded Woodsburgh rep-resentative Bob Seide, to which a few crowd members yelled back

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An airplane flies low over Rockaway Turnpike in Lawrence on Sat-

urday afternoon. Photo by Scott P. Moore.

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Residents Upset with Environmental Issues at Larger Air Noise Meeting

Baldwin and Third Precinct in Williston Park – were the only two specifi cally mentioned to remain open. Two out of the remaining six precincts would be shuttered.

“The precincts are very old, some here are over 85 years,” said Inspector Thom-as Krumpter, Nassau County Police Department Commis-ioner. “The needs for these facilities diminish with each passing year.” Krumpter said that the precinct facilities mostly used to be used for writing and processing tick-ets and picking up accident reports, but tickets are now printed via mobile computer systems and accident reports would be available on the in-ternet within the next year.

“The buildings would be closing, but there would be more offi cers assigned to pa-trol the area,” said Katie Grilli-Robles, a representative from Nassau County Executive Ed-ward Mangano’s offi ce. “The residents would not see a de-cline in the number of offi cers assigned to patrol.” Accord-ing to the budget plan, there would be just over a one per-cent drop in the number of of-fi cers county-wide.

“As we move forward, there’s less and less need for people to go to precincts,” Krumpt-er added. He also said the de-partment was reviewing crime and phone call data from each precinct to identify how the new precinct boundaries would be redrawn. Currently, he said, three precincts in the county have twice the work of the other remaining fi ve.

According to crime statistics provided by the Nassau Coun-ty Police Department, the First and Third Precincts fi eld the third and fi rst-most crimes around the county, respec-tively. The Fourth Precinct in Hewlett has handled the sec-ond-least amount of crimes

in its boundaries, which were down nearly 15 percent from this time last year.

Krumpter compared the en-tire county to Suffolk Coun-ty’s Town of Brookhaven, which is similar to Nassau County in land area.

“Suffolk has seven pre-cincts, you could drop the en-tire county into Brookhaven town and we have eight pre-cincts,” he said. “Brookhav-en has one. We can do same amount of work with six pre-cincts.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, as long as I’m here, they’re not going to close [the fourth] pre-cinct,” said Legislator Howard Kopel, whose legislative dis-trict falls within the precinct’s boundaries, to a crowd at the Lawrence Association meet-ing on Wednesday evening. “The precinct is important to our area, especially with our border to Queens being so close.”

He added: “Consolidation of the precincts will be in the budget... it may not be a bad thing.” Kopel said the county was “paying a fortune” for its police force, including those in administration that do not participate in active duty.

“It won’t be the Fourth Pre-cinct though,” he said. “I won’t allow it.”

His opponent for the up-coming election, Democrat Adam Moser, agreed.

“A police precinct in a com-munity gives its residents se-curity,” Moser said. “When you shutter that police pre-cinct, everybody’s sense of se-curity goes away – and that’s a huge problem.” He added that he would not ever vote to close the precinct.

“Closing the Fourth Precinct would be a huge mistake,” he said. “To think it would not be there would be a diffi cult and impossible pill to swallow.”

Calls to the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association were not returned.

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‘No, we don’t!’ “All of us living in The Five Towns do and we have the planes coming over us at 700 or 800 feet. We have to under-stand that the FAA and PA could do things to improve themselves and we’re looking forward to it.”

Noise, however, was not the hottest topic amongst the above-average sized crowd – environ-mental concerns seemed to be the most pressing topic.

“Basically I feel like I live on a tarmac,” said Sharona Weinberg, a mother of two from Wood-mere. “I think my backyard is noisier than JFK... my bigger con-cern, though, is the health is-sues.” Weinberg said she and her children have developed asth-ma, which she blames on the

bad air quality brought by air-planes.

“Certainly you deserve an an-swer from an FAA perspective,” said Jim Peters, a spokesman for the FAA. “We don’t have an an-swer this evening – maybe we can take an ‘I owe you.’”

Robert Kurtz of Cedarhurst also echoed these concerns.

“There are rumors abound-ing in my neighborhood about [fuel] dumping,” he said. “There are mornings when I walk out that it smells like you’re at JFK... I’ll tell you, everyone will come out in the neighborhood and go, ‘Can you smell it? Can you smell it?’” An FAA offi cial noted that fuel dumping usually only oc-curs over the open ocean during an emergency situation, espe-cially with the rising cost of fuel.

“I believe there can be a change here... we count!” Wein-berg said to some applause. “You have to make a change. It’s bor-derline abuse.”

Peters updated the crowd on the New York/ New Jersey/ Phil-adelphia Airspace Redesign Proj-ect.

“This was a project started in 1998,” he said. “We wanted to improve the route structure of planes going into and out of this metro area... to decrease delays.” Peters said a decision was fi nal-ly made in 2007 and redesigns had already rolled out to LaGuar-dia and Newark Airports. John F. Kennedy Airport recently had made changes over the last few weeks, the fi rst major changes to fl ight paths since the 1960’s ac-cording to Peters.

One of the major changes made at JFK was a new depar-ture procedure for aircraft head-ing to the western United States, including a new exit over New Jersey to “get these aircraft out of New York more easily.” Peters said the FAA was required to do noise modeling before making the changes to make sure the new procedures would not have a major impact on the areas be-ing fl own over.

“Under federal law, if we were to put into effect a procedure that went over the 65 decibel lev-el, we would have to mitigate it,” he said. “We found that we will not go over 65.”

The next meeting of TVASNAC will be back at its normal loca-tion in Lawrence Village Hall on November 28th at 7:30 p.m.

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ting the same attention. That’s fi ne if we want to be another school but we’re Hewlett. Hav-ing 18 children in a class was cer-tainly much better than having 24. I know that times are tough and there are budget cuts, but we were assured when we vot-ed on the budget, that class siz-es would remain the same, but they didn’t.”

“The board listened to the

concerns about class sections on or above the elementary guidelines and the class sizes in sections of Earth Science in Woodmere Middle School,” Su-perintendent Joyce Bisso said.

The board detailed that as of October 18th, in grade one at Franklin, there were fi ve sec-tions of 22 children, and three sections of 23. That nets one student over the guidelines and

the legislative candidates. How-ever, there were a few eyebrow raising moments created by one-candidate and audience mem-bers.

Perhaps the most controver-sial line of the night was when Stephen Anchin, Democratic Town Clerk candidate, giving his closing remarks, compared Kate Murray to Joseph Stalin, draw-ing gasps from members of the audience.

“It’s enough time, 110 years of one party rule, and that’s what it is, one party,” Anchin. “What they used to call in Stalin’s days, the cult of the personality, in this case, instead of Stalin, we’ve got Kate Murray and all of her fami-ly and all of her friends hiring ev-erybody else and you had better not say anything.”

Participants included Hemp-stead Third District Council-man James Darcy, his challenger Owen Rumelt, Hempstead Town Supervisor challenger Gary Port, Hempstead Town Clerk Mark Bonilla, and his challenger An-chin during the Town of Hemp-stead portion. The second por-tion featured Nassau County District Seven Legislator How-ard Kopel, his challenger Adam Moser, and District Six Legisla-tor Francis Becker. Not present were Town Supervisor Kate Mur-ray and District Six challenger Anthony Gonzalez.

An audience member also asked the candidates a question regarding the high amount of mailings that the Town of Hemp-stead sends out. Most of the can-

didates agreed that regardless of how much the mailings cost, that it was an item that is in excess and should be scaled back. That caused the tempers of another audience member to fl are when she pointed out, against the pol-icy set forth by the moderator, which bans editorializing, that many seniors need the mailings to receive notifi cations because they don’t use computers. Dem-ocrats on the panel said they had estimates of the mailings costing between $2.5 to $4 million a year.

“My understanding is that when a town spokesman was asked about switching to an email system, he said “We can’t, it’s too expensive,” Rumelt said.

A big issue between Bonilla and Anchin was the utilization of the Internet to fi ll out and pay for many forms that the Town Clerk’s offi ce handles. Bonilla argued that credit card process-ing fees would cost six dollars a transaction, but Anchin argued that credit card processing com-panies offer a municipal rate of only two to three percent.

The moderator also asked the candidates about how they feel about the consolidation of spe-cial district governments with-in the towns. Most of the can-didates felt that consolidation was a good idea that should be looked at, but Port felt especially passionate about it.

“We all have these elections and no one knows where they take place,” Port said. “We’re be-ing taxed for these services and no one know who they’re sup-posed to go to if they have a problem. Does anyone know

when their sanitation election is? No, but they are the ones who pick up your garbage. Does anyone know who his or her wa-ter district commissioners are? No. But if it were consolidated, perhaps within the town, then you would know that if you have a problem with your wa-ter, you could go to the town to complain. Here, you don’t even know who to complain to.”

Another big issue amongst the town candidates was the lack of progress toward development at the Nassau Coliseum site. Darcy, who was left as the sole Republi-can on the stage after Bonilla left 40 minutes into the debate, de-fended his record as well as the town supervisor on the issue.

“The Town should be and is doing its part,” Darcy said. “My opponent points to the colise-um and the fact that nothing has been built there, but we took the unprecedented step when Charles Wang and his associates stalled the process toward pay-ing experts to complete an en-vironmental review required by state law. We took the unprec-edented step of creating zon-ing law, which is two and a half times denser than any other par-cel in the Town of Hempstead and put the zoning in place so that hopefully we could get a major developer to come in and create the kind of center that is best suited for that property.”

After the town candidates came the Nassau County Legis-lative candidates. With Gonza-lez not present, Moser was the only Democrat, left to square off against Becker and Kopel on

county issues.Perhaps the most pertinent

issue to The Five Towns was a question regarding redistricting, where both district seven candi-dates were asked their stance on the Republican’s plan to redis-trict the county.

“It wasn’t completely to my liking,” Kopel said, echoing his sentiment regarding the issue months ago. “I would choose to keep the Seventh District as it is. As a matter of fact, I did my best after the fi rst map was proposed to negotiate, quietly, because I don’t negotiate through news-papers to get some of the district back. We’re going to do the best, but we’re going to have to under-stand that nobody ever gets ev-erything that they want. I’m go-ing to do my best to urge them to keep this district the way it is.”

Moser was much more blunt regarding the issue.

“To answer the question eas-ily, I’m dead against separating The Five Towns and the way that the maps were drawn,” Mos-er said. “Mr. Kopel just said that he’s going to do his best to keep it that way, but he didn’t vote against it. He did vote for the re-districting plan to separate The Five Towns, and in addition, I can tell you that I don’t believe a legislator doing something qui-etly is the proper way to do it. If you have a position you need to come out and say it, whether the people are going to agree with you or not. We need to amend the county charter to have an independent commission to be the ones who are the ones to re-structure the map.”


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ter system tends to be fi lled with brown water, usually caused by high levels of rust particles in the pipes. Lawrence Mayor Martin Oliner recently had announced the possibili-ty of the village purchasing and controlling the water system to better maintain and improve the quality of it.

“It’s not a simple matter to take it over,” said Kopel. “Al-though if anyone can do it, I’m sure Mayor Oliner can. He seems like a hurricane when he wants to do something.” Kopel noted the system would be very expensive to purchase.

“The state monitors these things – it doesn’t taste great, it doesn’t look great,” he said. “But it’s healthy to drink. It may not be delicious, but it’s healthy.”

Moser said that more health checks should be performed to make sure the water was not harmful.

“You need to hire profes-sionals to do stringent checks,” said Moser. “Nobody wants to turn on their water and see the brown water coming out.” He added change would have to come following more research and bringing state healthy agen-cies in to check the local sys-tem.

Constant traffi c problems on Rockaway Turnpike near the Nassau-Queens border was also an issue brought up by the hosts. Both candidates agreed that the state needed to step in to help ease congestion, espe-cially during rush hour.

“Rockaway Turnpike is a di-saster – you just can’t move,” said Kopel, who said improve-ments were on the way but would not be enough if there were an emergency evacuation event such as a hurricane.

He offered a solution, howev-er: “We want to get the state to

complete the Nassau Express-way (NY-878).” Kopel noted the state-owned roadway was left uncompleted many years ago and actually added to the traffi c problems plaguing Rockaway Turnpike.

“Let’s make it right,” he said. “Let’s bypass all that traffi c... and we’ll have another option for a roadway. It’s not just a mat-ter of convenience... it’s a mat-ter of safety.” Kopel then urged those in attendance to pressure state offi cials to make the proj-ect a reality.

Moser did not stray too far from Kopel’s opinion.

“It’s a big state project that needs to be restarted and com-pleted,” he said. “The problem needs a solution, and it needs to be fi xed.” He also urged the residents to talk with state offi -cials about the project.

Both candidates also agreed that they could not raise taxes any further at this point.

The most tense moment of the night came when a young man in the crowd asked Mos-er about a piece of campaign literature sent out by his elec-tion committee claiming Kopel had voted for a 46 percent pay raise, which Kopel has stated he was not even in attendance for. A similar issue had arisen at the League of Women Voters de-bate a night earlier.

Moser said he had mispoke at the event, noting the vote was not for raising Kopel’s sala-ry but rather a supervisor’s.

“I think Adam is a gentle-men... a nice person, but his campaign is a disgrace,” said Kopel. “He may not have done it himself and I am willing to accept that.” He added that he could “take a punch,” but want-ed any literature to contain just facts. Kopel asked Moser to re-pudiate the literature, but the event hosts cut in before Moser had a chance to respond.




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Lawrence Shuts-out Lynbrook, Last Year AvengedText and Photos

By Scott P. Moore

What was expected to be a collision of the two best Con-

ference III teams on MSG Varsi-ty turned into a televised slaugh-ter by the Lawrence Golden Tornadoes at their Homecom-ing game, continuing their dom-inant season in a 36-0 shutout of the Lynbrook Owls.

Both teams entered the con-test in a tie for second place in Conference III at 5-1, a game be-hind the then-6-0 Bethpage Gold-en Eagles. Senior runningback Ryan Fredericks began another personally great day by running in the team’s fi rst points on a sev-en-yard touchdown run to put Lawrence up 6-0 in the fi rst.

“When we scored fi rst, I knew it – we were going to own this game,” said Capobianco. “[Lyn-brook] wasn’t ready. They came in thinking we were soft from the Bethpage game... they were soft. They should stick to la-crosse.”

Lynbrook made a huge 78-yard drive down the fi eld right after, but just could not get the ball into the end zone past the Lawrence defense, stopping just fi ve yards short on the fi -nal down. With the ball handed back to Lawrence, sophomore quarterback Joe Capobianco led the team on a nine-play, 95-yard drive that ended with Ryan Fredericks running in his second touchdown of the game. Capo-bianco threw to junior running-back Tyler Fredericks for a two-point conversion, putting the Golden Tornadoes up 14-0.

“Ryan and Tyler are hell-of-a-players,” said Capobianco. “They just score whenever they want to – can’t be stopped.”

Lawrence took advantage of every opportunity handed to them. Tyler Fredericks caught an interception only three plays into the Lyn-brook drive. Six plays later on Lawrence’s possession, Fredericks ran nine yards for a touchdown. A trick play al-most went awry when Ryan Fredericks threw to the end zone for a two-point conversion and was defl ected by a Lynbrook defender, but caught by Law-rence’s Islam Mohamed to give Lawrence a command-ing 22-0 lead.

Lawrence’s defense continued to show life – again bringing down an interception on Lynbrook’s third play of their next possession. Only 26 yards away from the goal, Ryan Fredericks ran the ball in for both the touchdown and two-point conversion, putting Law-rence up 30-0 at the half.

“The past two weeks, we’ve really started to play good de-fense,” said Coach Joe Mar-tillot-ti.

“We’re settling down and fi gur-ing it out.”

The defense continued to battle Lynbrook all game, keeping the team from mak-ing it further than the 23-yard mark throughout the second half. Defensive lineman Mike Fragner brought down another interception for Lawrence in the third quarter, taking away any steam left for the Owls and a small crowd of their fans.

“When we play good defense, this is what’s go-

ing to hap-pen,” said Martillotti. “We’re just going to blow people out.”Lawrence capped

the scoring on the day on an-other pass from

Ryan Fredericks, hooking up with fresh-man broth-

er Jordan Fredericks in the end zone for a touchdown. A missed extra point kick left Lawrence with a 36-0 lead and, eventually, the win.“Three-hundred-and-thirty

days ago, [Lynbrook] beat us bad and it was an embarrassment for us,” said Capobianco, referenc-ing the last year’s season-ending

playoff game. “This year – we’re going all the way.”

“We had a little bump in the road earlier this season, but our defense has really come together with our offense,” said senior Ryan Fredericks. “But if we play like this every game, I don’t think we can be stopped.”

The win moved Law-rence into sole posses-sion of second place at

6-1, while Lynbrook dropped to third place at 5-2 with Division High School.

“This is the time of the year when we start playing our best football,” said Martilotti in ref-erence to the approaching play-offs. “Hopefully, we can just keep it going.”

Lawrence will play its fi nal reg-ular season game on Saturday, October 29 at Sewanhaka High School (2-5).

Notes: Ryan Fredericks contin-

ued his touchdown streak, this time scoring three and passing for one, giving him 12 straight games with a touchdown... all three Fred-ericks brothers (Ryan, Tyler, and Jordan) scored touchdowns in the same game for the third time this year... the 36-point difference was Lawrence’s largest lead and win of the year... Lawrence’s offense is scoring an average 40.1 ppg... the Lawrence defense has held oppos-ing teams to seven points in the last two games.

1st

Quarter

2nd

Quarter

3rd

Quarter

4th

QuarterFinal

Lynbrook 0 0 0 0 0

Lawrence 6 24 0 6 36

ScoringLaw - Ryan Fredericks run, 7 yards (Fragner kick failed)

Law - Ryan Fredericks run, 1 yard (Capobianco pass to Tyler Fredericks, 2pts)

Law - Tyler Fredericks run, 9 yards (Capobianco pass to Mohamed, 2pts)

Law - Capobianco pass to Ryan Fredericks, 25 yards (Ryan Fredericks run, 2pts)

Law - Ryan Fredericks pass to Jordan Fredericks, 20 yards (2pt failed)

Conference III Standings - 10/23

Team Wins Losses

Bethpage 7 0

Lawrence 6 1

Lynbrook 5 2

Division 5 2

Manhasset 4 3

Hewlett 4 3

Plainedge 4 3

Floral Park 3 4

Glen Cove 3 4

Valley Stream South 3 4

South Side 2 5

Sewanhaka 2 5

Great Neck North 1 6

Roslyn 0 7

The cheerleaders kept the large Homecoming crowd entertained while the Lawrence defense shutout Lynbrook.

QB Joe Capobianco

throws over the Lyn-

brook defense to a re-

ceiver during the sec-

ond quarter.

RB Ryan Fredericks (#8) ran wild all over the Lynbrook defense, scoring three touchdowns and throwing for another.

Hewlett’s Weldon Irvine pushes for extra yards as he returns a kick.

Bulldogs Overcome Manhasset, Snap Losing StreakTEXT AND PHOTOS

By JONATHAN WALTER

The Hewlett Bulldogs got back on track this past Saturday away at

Manhasset High School as they took down the Manhasset Indi-ans 23-21, ending a two game los-ing streak and clinching a play-off spot. Hewlett fell behind early, allowing two touchdowns, but were able to bounce back, outscoring Manhasset 23-7 over the fi nal three quarters to win. After turning the ball over fi ve times over the course of the past two weeks, Hewlett was able to avoid costly turnovers, contrib-uting to their success.

On their fi rst drive of the game, Hewlett was forced to punt after three plays that in-cluded a fumble that was luck-ily recovered by the Hewlett of-fense, an ominous start to the game. That gave the Indians the ball at their own 42 yard line and from there they would convert two fourth downs before quar-terback Kevin Overlander ran a quarterback keep to the left for 26 yards and a Manhasset touch-down, completing a nine play drive. Kicker Matt Mieleszko missed the extra point try.

Another three and out by Hewlett gave Manhasset the ball back at their own 28 yard line, Overlander would show off his legs once again, running for 52 yards before fi nally being dragged down by Hewlett de-fenders. Overlander then com-

pleted a 15-yard pass to wide re-ceiver Owen Grimm, then ran the ball twice, scoring on a four yard run. Manhasset then at-tempted to run for a two-point conversion to make up for the extra point miss earlier, but fell short of the goal line to make the score 12-0 Manhasset.

Hewlett’s offense fi nally came alive on their next possession, sparked by fi rst down conversion runs of 12 yards by running back Sam Martorella, 11 yards by quar-terback Zach Richman, 18 yards by running back Matthew Miller, and fi nally an 11 yard touchdown run by Jeremy Leguillow to put

Hewlett on the board.A few drives later, Jeremy Le-

guillow made another great play for Hewlett, stopping the ball just before it went into the end zone and making Manhasset start their next drive inside the one yard line. The play paid off right away as the Hewlett defense was

able to get into the Manhasset backfi eld. Seeing he was about to get tackled, running back Ste-ven Fratello attempted to make a forward pass, but the pass was deemed illegal by the offi ciating crew, leading to a safety that was credited to Leguillow to make the score 12-9.

Hewlett returned the ensu-ing kickoff to their own 46-yard line and, running the option play, Richman lead a ground and pound drive into Manhasset ter-ritory, picking up small chucks of yards at a time. Hewlett got to the one yard line, but confu-sion among the coaches on the amount of timeouts were left lead to two goal line stands by Manhasset, and before Hewlett could get kicker Trevor Ellman onto the fi eld to attempt to tie the game, the clock expired in the half, sending a confused Hewlett sideline into the locker room.

“We didn’t get in,” Hewlett Head Coach Jay Iaquinta said. “They had a nice defensive stand.

The offi cials told us that we had used all of our time outs, but we weren’t sure and thought we might have had one left.”

Inspired by the safety to-ward the end of the fi rst half, he Hewlett defense came hun-gry in the second half and got two sacks just as Manhasset be-gan to move the ball to force a punt. The Hewlett offense then began a drive from their own 31 that included a conversion on fourth and one by Richman, who got just enough to move the chains. Miller provided the high-light of the drive with a 24 yard run to the outside and Richman punched it in from fi ve yards out to give Hewlett its fi rst lead of the game, 16-12.

Manhasset got their fi rst score since the fi rst quarter when Over-lander completed a 21-yard pass to Dylan Meyer, that helped set up a 42-yard touchdown run by Fratello and recaptured the lead for the Indians, 19-16.

Quarter 1 2 3 4 F

Hewlett 0 9 7 7 23

Manhasset 12 0 0 9 21

M – Overlander 26 run (kick failed)

M – Overlander 4 run (pass failed)

H – Leguillow 11 run (Ellman kick)

H – Saftey Fratello illegal pass in end zone

H – Leguillow 5 run (Ellman kick)

M – Fratello 42 run (Mielesko kick)

H – Martorella 69 run (Ellman kick)

M – Safety Irvine run out of end zone


VOTE FORHOWARD J. KOPEL

VOTE FOR PROVEN LEADERSHIP

WHY IS ADAMMOSER LYING?

FICTIONMy opponent claims . . .

1. That I voted to increase Legislative salaries.

2. I sought to increase Sales taxes.

3. I voted for a Coliseum tax.

4. That I support the closing of 2 police precincts.

5. I voted to split up the Five Towns.

FACTThe truth is . . .

1. The Nassau Legislators’ salaries have not changed in16 years. Proposed pay increases for one Democratleader and two Republican leaders were rescindedonce weuncovered the massive fiscal crisis left behindby the previous administration.

2. Absolutely untrue. I have never voted for, nor evencontemplated, a sales tax increase.

3. Another outrageous lie. I was out of state on the dateof the vote on the coliseum. My colleagues voted toallow the coliseum referendum to go to the people todecide whether the coliseum renovations should bepublicly funded. There was no vote for a Coliseum tax.

4. Completely untrue. How would I support an issue thathas yet to come to vote? And even when it does, I willfight any attempt to close the 4th Precinct, whichserves to protect every part of District 7.

5. No, I did not. I voted to correct the unconstitutionalviolations of Equal Voting Rights, and I have alreadysucceeded in restoring all of Cedarhurst and much ofWoodmere back into LD7.

HOWARD J. KOPEL IS ENDORSED BY:

Instead of mudslinging, I believe candidates should run on their records. Here are just afew of my accomplishments during my first term:1. I have never voted for a tax increase.

2. I repealed the onerous 2.5% Home Energy Tax on your electricity, gas, oil and heat.

3. I eliminated the previous administration’s planned 16.5% four year property tax hike.

4. I Stopped annual reassessments to save taxpayers even more.

5. I have obtained many capital improvements for our area, including the improvements to Branch Boulevard.

6. I work tirelessly to fix streets, repaint road markings, and replace missing signs to protect property values and make the Five Towns a safer, more beautiful place to live.

7. I proposed and am fighting to reform Nassau County’s commercial property assessment process to streamline potential refunds and sustain lower, fairer property taxes.

8. I have supported and advocated common sense economic policies to support local business, strengthen the local economy, and improve the quality of life for all Nassau County residents.

VOTE FOR HOWARD J. KOPEL ON NOVEMBER 8TH

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Standard SportsSoccer Wrap-Up:

Hewlett Headed to Playoffs; Lawrence: Get ‘em Next Year!By Jonathan Walter

& Scott P. Moore

Call it a tale of two sea-sons for The Five Towns’ boys’ soccer

teams. The Hewlett Bulldogs rode a consistent and solid game to fi rst place in Conference 5A, se-curing a third place seeding in the 16-team Class A playoffs starting this weekend. On the other side of The Five Towns, the Lawrence Golden Tornadoes struggled throughout the season to fi nd themselves, ending up below pre-season expectations and missing the playoffs even while having one the league’s top scorers.

Turnaround Season Sends Hewlett to Playoffs as Number Three Seed

Hewlett Bulldogs Boys Soc-cer wrapped up their season this week, defeating Levittown 1-0 in a game that decided the con-ference champion. Hewlett fi n-ished with an 8-2-2 record as they bounced back from a four win season last year and earned the third overall seed in Nassau County.

“I think moving Stephan Pierre into the sweeper position is what made the big difference with us,” Hewlett Head Coach Nick Lacetera said. “He’s just so solid. He made everyone feel more confi dent in the defense and you can’t beat him one on one. He reads the game really well and is a leader in the back. That was the major difference.”

Despite Pierre’s dominance, Lacetera credits overall team

chemistry as what got the team this far.

“We had big games up front from Louis Campos and Kelvin Larios,” Lacetera said. “Both had eight goals and a handful of as-sists. Having Harrison Brenner control the middle of the fi eld really solidifi ed us. The thing about this team is that it was more of a team effort. There weren’t any superstars. At every position I had a solid soccer kid and everyone did a good job and stepped up.”

A perfect example of Hewlett’s depth was their last game against Levittown Divi-sion, which decided the confer-ence title.

“We played really well,” Lacetera said. “We even had one guy get a red card. I was missing

a bunch of key guys and every-one rose to the occasion. We won that game 1-0 and that de-cided the conference.”

Now Hewlett looks ahead to their fi rst home playoff game.

“We play Valley Stream to-morrow at 3:00 p.m. As of right now, it’s at Hewlett El-ementary, but if the weath-er stays bad, we’ll play at the High School,” Lacetera said.

Lawrence Boys’ Soccer Fails to Make Playoffs

The Lawrence Boys’ Varsity Soccer team missed securing a playoff berth after going 0-1-1 in their fi nal two games of the season, ending the year with a 3-6-3 record in fi fth place and leaving their coach scratching his head.

“I think we played some good soccer along the way,” said Coach Pat Leary. “We had some trouble fi nishing and trouble getting over the hump. We never consistently put together two good halves.” Leary added that he thought the team was immensely tal-ented, which added to some

of the frustration throughout the season.

There bright spots on the team throughout the season – junior Carlos Quintanilla was tied second in the league with 11 assists and scored seven goals on the year. Leary said Quintanil-la was awarded All-County hon-ors for his play this season. Se-nior Edgar Quintanilla also was awarded All-County honors for his play on the season which in-clude 12 goals, good for sixth in the conference.

Sophomore Daniel Reiskin and seniors Alex Ramirez and Stefano Gaspard were awarded All-Conference honors.

With the season now behind his team, Leary said the best thing to do was look forward to doing better next year.

“We had some depth in the system and JV had a good sea-son,” he said. “There’s certainly talent there and well try to build on it. We just didn’t achieve the goals this year. Its frustrating for me because its a great group of kids – its a funny game, it just doesn’t always work out that way. There’s plenty to be proud of though.”

Hewlett kicks its way into a third seeded playoff berth. Photo by Jonathan Walter.


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Desperate for a streak ending victory, the Bulldogs lead an ef-fective drive that started at their own 16-yard line. A few moder-ate runs got the Bulldogs to their own 39-yard line. That’s when the explosive Martorella made some impressive cuts, dodging defenders on his way to the out-side and streaking 61 yards for the touchdown that put Hewlett back on top 23-19.

Hewlett’s defense made a stop on their next drive, forcing Manhasset to punt with just over two minutes left. The Bulldogs were able to run down the clock, but found themselves in a fourth and six yards to go situation at their own 17-yard line with four seconds on the clock. Not want-ing to risk a loss, Hewlett’s coach-es elected to go into a punt for-mation. They snapped the ball to punter Weldon Irvine who ran the ball around in the end zone,

waited for the game clock to hit zero and then ran out of the side of the end zone, giving Manhas-set a safety, but ending the game and giving Hewlett the victory.

“It was a great effort,” Iaquin-ta said. “A lot of character came out in this game. We got off of the bus and we spotted them two touchdowns, but we didn’t panic. We regrouped and then it was just a dog fi ght and then at the end they made a great play and Sam Martorella came right back and took one all the way.”

“Our offensive line is work-ing all week long, in the weight room, lifting tires,” Richman said. “We work hard and it shows that when games get down to the wire, we’re the team that comes up on top.”

Hewlett has their homecom-ing game next week at 1:30 p.m. against Plainedge. A win would earn them fourth place in their conference and a home playoff game.

Sam Martorella dashes up the field with the football.

Bulldogs Overcome Manhasset,Snap Two-Game Losing Streak


prompted an administrative recommendation of 2.5 more teacher assistants.

In Hewlett Elementary, in grade four there were three sections of 24, and two sec-tions of 25. That provided a net of three students below the guidelines and prompted an administrative recommen-dation of hiring 1.5 more teach-er assistants.

In grade fi ve, there were fi ve sections of 25. That is a net of two students over the guide-lines and prompted an admin-istrative recommendation of 2.5 teacher assistants.

According to the district, a full time teacher assistant earns a yearly salary of between $24,756 and $26,830 within the Hewlett-Woodmere School Dis-trict.

“We are in the process of re-cruiting and hiring for these new positions,” Bisso said. “Funding for these positions will come from the budgeted contingency fund.”

Other parents were con-cerned that teacher assistants don’t provide the kind of help

that hiring a full time teacher would, but Bisso tried to reas-sure them.

“For the most part, teacher assistants these days, because of the scarcity of teaching jobs, are actually certifi ed teachers. They recommended that we hire part time teacher assistants so that we can schedule them intensively in fi rst, fourth, and fi fth grade. The hiring of them is currently in process.”

Another parent questioned whether the teaching assistants are the long-term solution.

“Are we solving this prob-lem going ahead,” Paul Shanab of Woodmere said, “because I don’t feel that assistant teach-ers are the answer. They may be the answer right now to solve this problem, but looking down the line for the next class-es, I think we should be ready. If they know what’s going on in third grade, fourth grade, fi fth grade, they should be ready with more teachers and have extra classes.”

Board members responded by saying that they would look into the possibility of addition-al hiring when they begin to discuss next year’s budget.




Opinion

LEGISLATIVE VOICE

Where Do WE Go From Here?By FRANCIS X. BECKER

What we have been experiencing here in Nassau County is not unique to what is happening to other munic-

ipalities across the country and even around the world — i.e., Greece, Italy and so on. Govern-ments have been living a fantasy. For too long they thought they could continue to tax the pub-lic and spend their money existing outside the re-ality that businesses and families abide, which is to live within their means.

Here on Long Island it is even worse. Newsday recently reported that 40 percent of all the New York $100K-plus pensions are right here on Long Island. Can you imagine someone being paid by the government (you the taxpayer) $150,000 a year for life? And that is not the whole story, because with this also comes free lifetime health benefi ts. Municipal benefi ts and pensions are far different than private sector unions’ because they have to negotiate with contracting businesses and other businesses that are subject to market conditions and can only pay what they can afford or they go bankrupt. But governments can tax and create new taxes all the time to fund such pensions and benefi ts and other spending. For example, former

County Executive Tom Suozzi created an energy tax that was passed by the Democrat Majority at the time. The tax was levied against your electric-ity, gas and even fi rewood. We in the Republican Majority together with County Executive Manga-no rescinded the tax when we took over the ma-jority in 2009.

The problem for government is twofold: they could give generous contracts because the money did not, in essence, come out of their pockets or business. Municipal unions are permitted to con-tribute to the campaigns of the elected offi cials that must negotiate their contracts which I have always felt is a confl ict of interest. So, in the end, who truly is representing the taxpayer?

Secondly, because of the Taylor Law, which for-bids municipal unions from striking, if the mu-nicipality cannot come to an agreement with the union, the negotiations go to what is called “bind-ing arbitration.” This means that some agency de-cides what we, the taxpayers, should pay in sala-ry and benefi ts, not what we can afford. What is odd about this is that for over a decade, in the pri-vate sector, employees have been paying for part of their health insurance and in most case for all of their pensions. Not so in government.

These laws regarding “binding arbitration” and others are all created in Albany, where the unions have great power. In essence, the taxpayer is locked out again. There is also a provision in “bind-ing arbitration” called the “ability to pay.” That means some arbitrator determines what your abil-

VOX POPULI

NICE TRY, MR. SANTINOBY GEORGE SAVA

On October 12, 2011, I wrote an article en-titled “Why Should We Believe You Now.” In that article I questioned Kate

Murray’s pledge to freeze taxes next year. My con-cern revolved around an article by the Commu-nity Alliance Blog which called into question an earlier budget touted by Ms. Murray. I specifi cal-ly set forth that if the information were true, if in fact prior promises were made and not kept, why should we believe Ms. Murray now.

On October 21, 2011, Town of Hempstead Coun-cilman Anthony Santino, taking umbrage with my audacity to question Ms. Murray, condemned me and touted Ms. Murray’s 2012 budget. Mr. Santi-no’s article reminded me of a quote by Margaret Thatcher, “I always cheer up immensely if an at-tack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” And thus the arguments set forth by Mr. Santino.

In assessing Mr. Santino’s arguments, person-al attacks aside, he completely fails to address pri-or budgets and whether statements were made in previous years that did not come to fruition. In-stead he simply touts the wonders of the Town’s 2012 budget. This makes me question whether Mr. Santino actually read my article, whether he un-derstood my article or whether he purposefully

was avoiding the issue of prior budgets. Notwithstanding, let’s take a closer look at this

legislative piece of perfection, the 2012 Town bud-get. First, costs will not decrease for 2012, they will increase. Consequently, the Town will have to once again go into the reserves. For those unfa-miliar with the Town of Hempstead reserves, they revolve around early years when the community was taxed too much and money was placed into a reserve account. Like your savings account, the Town keeps going to that account to meet expens-es. In 2007, the Town dipped into the reserves in the amount of $6.5 million. In 2011, the Town needed $18 million from the reserves. In 2012, it is estimated that the Town will take $30 million dol-lars from the reserves to maintain the alleged fi s-cally responsible budget.

Once these reserves are depleted, what do you think will happen in order to replenish the re-serves or to pay the Town’s bloated bureaucracy? I don’t know about you but I expect my wallet will become even lighter. Thus Mr. Santino, I am not interested in fi scal tricks, I want to know if there is a plan for reducing the size of government and lowering taxes. In Mr. Santino’s article, although he agreed taxes should be lowered, he failed to set forth what he or his colleagues were doing to re-duce them.

Moreover, was it just me or was Mr. Santino eerily silent on my call for smaller government? When looking again at the 2010 budget fi gures for the animal shelter, the Town spent $7.1 mil-lion of which almost half was payroll. Accord-ing to Newsday, “[T]he shelter’s $3-million payroll dwarfs the total budgets of each of the eight oth-er municipal shelters.” As an animal lover I am always willing to pay for the protection of ani-mals. I am not, however, willing to pay for pa-

EDITORIALS

Misleading Campaigning

Adam Moser is the Democratic Candidate for the Nassau County Legislator in District 7 (which encompasses The Five Towns) and he’s challenging one-term incumbent

Howard Kopel. Unfortunately, Mr. Moser has seen fi t (or his cam-paign staff at the very least) to try and garner votes through misrep-resentation.

In this issue of The Standard and in various other publications, Mr. Moser has in some cases been totally fabricating Mr. Kopel’s po-sition on certain issues and outright imagining Mr. Kopel’s record to suit his objective of besmirching his opponent.

On Page A5 of this issue, Mr. Moser asserts that Mr. Kopel “voted to increase legislative salaries.” This fl at out never happened. While in 2009 the Legislature was going to increase the salaries for both the Democratic and Republican leaders (and not for the rank and fi le legislators) this was immediately rescinded in the wake of the county’s enormous fi nancial problems. In point of fact, Nassau leg-islators work for some of the most paltry wages of any legislative body in New York, about $35,000 a year and this hasn’t changed in eons. Legislative salaries are a total non-starter as an issue or as an allegation. We’re quite sure it costs Mr. Kopel far more to serve in the legislature than what little compensation he and his colleagues derive from their service.

Mr. Moser charges Mr. Kopel with “supporting a taxpayer fund-ed Coliseum that would have raised property taxes by $400 mil-lion.” In point of fact, Mr. Kopel never endorsed this project (as far as we can recall) and moreover was fl at out not in New York at all when the vote on the referendum took place and didn’t cast a vote on the issue.

Additionally, Mr. Moser states that Mr. Kopel allegedly “voted to split The Five Towns up” in the GOP redistricting plan. We have Mr. Kopel quoted here in this paper throughout the past several months on the record as stating that he would prefer that District 7 remain within its current confi gurations. What’s disingenuous about Mr. Moser’s charge is that by law (federal, state and local) the legislature must be redistricted due to changes in census data so that all districts approximately have the same number of resi-dents. We are totally opposed to gerrymandering The Five Towns into two or three districts but it’s unfair to say that Mr. Kopel in any way, shape or form took a leadership position in dismember-ing The Five Towns or “diluting the strength of the Jewish voting bloc in Nassau County” (as Mr. Moser charges). Why would Mr. Ko-pel want to reduce the size of his core voting constituency? Com-mon sense here is as clear as daylight.

One of the more specious prevarications in Mr. Moser’s ad is that Mr. Kopel “now supports raising our sales tax.” Mr. Kopel has voted to repeal countless taxes and fees during his term of offi ce and has stated categorically that he is opposed to any tax increases of any kind. In fact, more than 1,000 county workers’ jobs have been elim-inated as part of Mr. Kopel’s cost-cutting. Mr. Kopel has told us on numerous occasions that he will not vote for any tax increases and we take him at his word and will hold him to his word.

Lastly, Mr. Moser charges Mr. Kopel of supporting the closure of the NCPD’s Fourth Precinct – something Mr. Kopel has never issued any kind of public statement on whatsoever. While it is true that County Executive Ed Mangano is seeking major cost reductions in the NCPD which could include the closure and consolidation of two precincts, Mr. Kopel has stated that he would be fi ghting tooth and nail to prevent any closure of the Fourth Precinct.

The bottom line here is that in a bid to have his fl edgling cam-paign gain some traction, any traction, Mr. Moser has resorted to fabrications, fi ctions and misrepresentations in an effort to smear Mr. Kopel’s record and reputation. This kind of campaigning is be-neath Mr. Moser’s dignity and we call on him in the 10 days or so that remain before election day to rescind and repudiate these charges and tactics and instead wage a campaign based truthfully on the record and on the differences between the two candidates.

ENDORSEMENT

Bonilla for Town Clerk

Hewlett resident Steve Anchin is a lifelong Five Towner, former head of the Five Towns Democratic Club and a Democratic Committeeman. No one doubts Mr. Anchin’s

commitment to or love of The Five Towns. In all of his many de-cades here, this is Mr. Anchin’s fi rst run for public offi ce and in this week’s debate held at the Hewlett Library by the League of Wom-en Voters his neophyte status as an offi ce seeker was on unfortu-nate display.

During Mr. Anchin’s summation towards the close of the debate, Mr. Anchin chose to characterize Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray personally and her style of administration to that of the late genocidal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, which elicited a palpably audible groan from across all parts of the audience. (See our story in this issue). When we spoke with Mr. Anchin after the debate he staunchly and adamantly stood by his charge and characterization, offered no apology, clarifi cation or elaboration and he further stat-ed that he would be repeating his “Murray as Stalin” charge at oth-er debates and public appearances.

Overzealous demonization of opponents on that level goes to the issue of character and emotional stability to serve in a region-al elected offi ce. Touro Law School graduate Mark Bonilla, in of-fi ce since 2003 has done a reasonably competent and effective job running the Clerk’s offi ce. No chaos or malfeasance reins there and we’re hard-pressed to fi nd any substantive complaints emanating from that department of town government. Competence, com-bined with many high-fl ying fl ags of caution about Mr. Anchin’s temperament impel us to endorse Mr. Bonilla for another term as Town Clerk on November 8th.

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Flying with Kids 101

By Miriam L. Wallach

No one wants to be the hated family on a fl ight. We’ve all

been there. The fl ight when your baby screams for what seems to be a lifetime, with lung capacity rivaling that of opera singers. When ev-eryone stares at you, won-dering why you cannot get your child to be quiet, decid-ing you must be a terrible par-ent. The time when you dis-cover, the hard way, that your toddler has a raging ear infec-tion. Or, perhaps, when you learn that the Benadryl you gave your daughter to knock her out actually had the op-posite effect. So much for be-ing asleep in her seat – now she’s bouncing off the walls. Instead of a fl ying tin can, you wish for a white padded room, as do all of the people sitting around you.

Only once you have re-ceived the stares and jeers of total strangers on a plane can you appreciate the plight of others as their child turns into Damien. We have all shared similar experiences. How many times have you cleaned up vomit on an in-ternational fl ight? Now you never fl y without a spare set of clothing for you and ev-ery member of your fam-ily. Have you ever thrown out soiled clothing on an air-plane, having no interest in taking it home with you? I’ve been there, having recently thrown out an outfi t in Roos-evelt Field, after stripping my toddler down to her diaper in the middle of the mall. A bunch of wipes, a quick ward-robe change and a large dose of Purell later, we were good as new. As parents, we have to learn to go with the fl ow.

We all have our own in-fl ight horror stories, either as the parent with the unman-ageable child or as the fellow passenger. When my nephew was younger, he became in-consolable, almost enraged, when he awoke mid-fl ight to fi nd he had missed the dinner service. A boy who never skips a meal and loves his food, he screamed, called his mother a liar and carried on while the darkened cabin that had been fi lled with sleeping passen-gers was now waking to a pre-schooler’s tantrum . Even af-ter he was given a snack and visited the on-board kitchen, he was still in despair, as the many around him can attest.

On our most recent fl ight, screaming babies seemed to have been carrying on in uni-son, a cacophonous choir from hell. My daughter had a solo. Bodies of nearby pas-sengers stiffened as one, their weary eyes catching each oth-er’s glances, wondering if this was to be their fate for the next 12 hours on an interna-tional fl ight. I looked around, saw their body language and announced that my daughter would certainly settle down. “Once she falls asleep,” I said, “she’ll be fi ne.” They did not believe me, not that I blamed them. You have to know your child, however, and we do.

DEAR THAT’S LIFE

Miriam L. Wallach,

MS.ed., M.A., has been writing “That’s Life” for close to fi ve years. She lives in Woodmere with her husband and six children and can be found all week long on her blog at www.dearthatslife.com.

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Fran Becker is a member of the Nassau County Legislature and was most recently the Republican Candidate for Congress in the district which includes The Five Towns.

George Sava was the 2010 Democratic Nominee for N.Y. State Senate, 9th Senate District. He is an attorney with Port & Sava, a local law fi rm, and a Veteran of Operation

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OCT. 28 - NOV. 3, 2011, 2011 • THE SOUTH SHORE STANDARD • A11THE LEGENDARY DANNY O’DOUL

MY LEGENDARY CURE FOR ELECT-ILE DISFUNCTION!

I am in a particularly jovial mood today – after all, it’s a beautiful autumnal day,

I have a nice, fragrant and deli-cious “no name Honduran” cigar on this afternoon’s agenda, and, best of all, it’s almost “Election Time!” Oh, yes, and, even better, it’s Local Election Time – when all the area’s Bozos and yahoos already incumbent and those fresh-faced wannabee profes-sional political nudnicks with a last name that will fi t on a sign, all vie for the adoration of a truly apathetic public. What could be more fun to watch? Well, with the possible exception of a UFC cage match between “Hot-Oven” Mitt Romney and Rick “Warm-Hearted” Perry – not much!

And, I, for one, will be watch-ing those election returns com-ing in all night for any sign of a political “hail-Mary” in which, say a, Steve “Give-him-an-Inch” Anchin, should pull an up-set over incumbent Mark “The Shark” Bonilla in the Town of Hempstead-sanctioned “belt match” for Town Clerk. Fun like this just doesn’t come around often enough here in The Five Towns.

And, if we are really lucky – we may get a chance to actual-ly spot incumbent Republican County Legislator, Howard “Can-I-Borrow-A-Cup” Kopel, who is spotted in person in these parts slightly more infrequently than my dear friend, Elvis Presley. In fact, many in The Five Towns have been wondering if Mr. Ko-

pel’s under-the-radar presence is actually possible evidence that he pulled “an Elvis” and left the state without telling anyone!

Just kidding, Mr. Kopel, I wish you luck against whatever great statesman happens to be run-ning against you. I know I saw some signs about it, but his name escapes me!

Well, and if that’s not enough – it’s going to be trick-or-treat time in a few short days – and local children are busy picking out their costumes. I heard that one of the most popular choic-es this year is “The Great Magne-to” -- which is similar to a “Scare-crow” costume from the Wizard of Oz – but instead of country-bumpkin shirt – it consists of a T-shirt with a picture of the Nas-sau Coliseum with the legend “If I Only Had a Brain -- I Would Know What To Do With This!”

But, in all the fever-pitched rhetoric and campaign speeches -- the one thing that all the can-didates have refrained from do-ing is saying anything against my plan to incorporate Wood-mere as a real, genuine “Village.” It is clear to me that no can-didate has any bit of disagree-ment with my brilliant initiative – and, I am sure that when the paint dries on these upcoming election results – all of the win-ners will then whole-heartedly, and with a loud unifi ed voice, endorse my masterful bit of cut-ting-edge post-urban planning and will declare their backing to

The Legendary Danny

O’Doul’s selfl ess bid to become the “First Mayor” of the Village of Woodmere. Even my soon-to-be colleague, the Honorable Mayor Martin Oliner of Law-rence, will be excited that The Five Towns will return to their once orb-like glow and celestial stature as the premier region in Nassau County and, perhaps, all of New York State.

Finally, “The Hamptons” will become known as just the a name a jitney bus line and the A-list stars and even, the “Flavors-Of-The-Month” will all fl ock here just to hobnob with the local glitterati, literati and cognoscen-ti and with local powerhouse politicos like Lawrence Mayor Martin Oliner, and The Legend-ary Mayor Danny O’Doul. Get ready to compete with TMZ pro-ducers and cameramen, as well as hot supermodels, all in pur-suit of that parking spot that you “had your eye and direc-tional signals on!” Even Conan O’Brien will come to Rock Hall to tape a week of special “Five Town” Comedy shows. Quick, somebody call Kenny Gluck and all those “Kosher Comedians!”

Well, now that I think of it – perhaps, Kenny should be mak-ing whirlwind pit stops at the election headquarters of all the losers on The Big Night and sign-ing these unfortunate runners-up to a long-term contract for the “Kosher Comedy Tour” – which will be coming soon to King David’s Deli, Wok Tov, and the Amphitheater in “Brach’s Glatt Parking Lot”!

Remember to “get out the vote” on that fi rst Tuesday in November and cast you choice for our next local civic leaders, as well as, for all those “Future Kings of Kosher Comedy!”

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This is The Legendary Danny O’Doul urging you vote this Election Day and remember to pull the “Resolution Lever” and vote “Yes” for the Initiative to turn the current ghostlike visage of Woodmere into a bustling, thriving Incorporated Village!

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County Executive Edward Mangano and the Assessment Reform Team announced that they have unveiled a new process that will result in a more effi cient handling of tax assessments in the coun-ty and save the county over $28 million, as well as unveiling a Tax-payer Bill of Rights.

The Assessment Reform Team includes Lawrence resident Sha-lom Maidenbaum, who spoke about the new plan.

“We wrote an approximately 30-page report and made recom-mendations that the administration is going to implement and it’s saving the county a lot of money and for the fi rst time in years, giv-ing homeowners the ability to have their cases looked at more fair-ly,” Maidenbaum said. “Its resolving tax assessments prior to them being paid out.”

Maidenbaum also discussed changed in policy within the De-partment of Assessment regarding interaction with taxpayers.

“The big change is that The Administration has changed the De-partment of Assessments into a user-friendlier department,” Maid-enbaum said. “This is a huge change in Department of Assessment policy. What they are doing now represents a huge shift in the way

Van Strikes, Club Fires, Town Halls and Fences FixedBy Scott P. Moore

Additional Reporting by Jonathan Walter

& Susan Varghese

Hewlett Ace Hardware Hit By Van

A van driven by a teenage boy crashed through the front win-dow of the Ace Hardware store in the Peninsula Shopping Cen-ter on Sunday afternoon.

Ace Hardware manager Justin Hay said the driver was either 15 or 16 years old and his parents had let him move the family van up into the spot before he accelerated into the front of the

store. The front of the store was boarded-up Monday morning.

“He was supposed to move the car up a little bit,” said Hay with a sheepish smile. “He moved it into our store.”

No one was seriously hurt during the accident, but Hay said the store lost a lot of mer-chandise that was in the path of the vehicle and the entire front window would need reframing and replacing.

“No one was hurt, or at least we did not hear anything back,” said Hay. He added, with a

Lawrence Offense Comes Up Big Over Plainedge in 56-40 Win

The Lawrence Golden Tornadoes overpowered the Plainedge Red Devils 56-40 in front a home crowd on Thursday afternoon. Junior runningback Tyler Fredericks lit up the fi eld, running in fi ve touch-downs during the game. Brothers Jordan and Ryan Fredericks each had a TD, QB Joe Capobianco also added a TD. For more on Thurs-day’s game visit our website at standardli.com and pick up next week’s edition of The Standard on Wednesday for in-depth game coverage. Sports this week begin on page A6.

The Beat Goes On for Lawrence Philharmonic OrchestraBy Scott P. Moore


If the music of George Gersh-win sends chills through your body or the relaxing sounds of compositions by Leroy Ander-son bring you happiness, the Lawrence Philharmonic Or-chestra should be your next lo-cal concert choice.

The group, made up of a mix-ture of high school students and local community mem-bers, has been in existence for over 15 years and serves as an inter-generational bridge with-in the local area, according to director Lonnie Ginsberg. Many high school alumni, such

as Ginsberg himself, are mem-bers of the orchestra. While you probably will not see the group of 40 to 50 musicians performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City anytime soon, the group delivers performanc-es that provide more than am-ple entertainment to local res-idents.

“We tend to play mostly community events,” said Gins-berg, who has been the director of the philharmonic for two years. “The last few years we’ve played at the [Andrew J. Parise] Park in Cedarhurst and we’ve done a lot of American music.” The group most recently per-formed at the 9-11 Memorial ser-

vices held at the park for the 10 year anniversary of the terror-ist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

“We played a lot of American music there, especially high-lighting American composers such as Copland, Gershwin,” he said. “We also were able to play ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’... We were very proud to play there.”

While the Philharmonic does not have another concert date defi nitively set, Ginsberg said he is looking towards lat-er in the school year for anoth-er public performance --- pos-sibly in March. Many of the

New Taxpayer Bill of Rights Instituted by County

Senior Ryan Fredericks, drives down the field during the fourth quarter leading to a touchdown in Thursday’s Lawrence victory. Photo

By Scott P. Moore

Hewlett Falls to Lynbrook 40-21With Hewlett quarterback Mark Rizzo still injured and on the

bench, the Bulldogs couldn’t get it together against Lynbrook on

Thursday evening, falling 40-21. Visit our website at standardli.

com for more details and see Wednesday’s Standard for com-

plete game coverage.

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The 27th Five Towns Community Chest Cedarhurst Fair was held this past weekend at Andrew J.

Parise Park on Saturday and Sunday. The park was filled with games, rides and food stands from

local vendors including La Viola, Burgers Bar and Pretzel Time. “I like the one that’s tilted and

spins you and you rock back and forth because you scream and you have fun and get dizzy.” Brian-

na Alvarez, from Lawrence. Here, a young boy enjoy the swings in the middle of the park.

Photo by Scott P. Moore

COUNTY, TOWNELECTIONS SETFOR NOV. 8TH


The face of local politics could change by the the end of this year with less than two months separating now from Election Day on November 8th. Republi-cans as incumbents and Demo-crats duking it out for spots, its up to voters in The Five Towns to decide who represents them come next year.

Nassau County Legislator Seventh District

Incumbent Republican How-

ard Kopel will be matched up against Democrat Adam Mos-er for the single legislative spot that includes all of The Five Towns.

Kopel (R) of Woodmere has been in offi ce since early 2010 and has been visible around the area helping residents, includ-ing a venture most recently to

replace sidewalks along Branch Boulevard that have been in dis-repair for at least fi ve years. He said earlier this year he planned to run on his record of holding down taxes in the area. He cur-rently owns a national title in-surance and settlement servic-es business out of Valley Stream.

His Democratic opponent, Adam Moser of Hewlett, is no newcomer to local politics. Moser was a 2nd District Court Judge from 1999 to 2005 and runs a private law practice out of Rockville Centre. Moser said he wants to “run the county in

an effi cient manner and save people money.”

Town of HempsteadTown Supervisor

Incumbent Republican Kate Murray will be squaring off with Democrat Gary Port for

E-BOOKS NOWAVAILABLE ATLAW. LIBRARYE-books are now available

at the Peninsula Public Li-brary. The library entered into an exclusive project with Overdrive Systems and Ama-zon.com last week, which al-lows library patrons to check out e-books from their lo-cal library on all Kindle mod-els. They can also check out e-books through platform ap-plications, including the Kin-dle Cloud Reader.

Books are downloaded over Wi-Fi or USB, but 3G will not be supported. Ama-zon’s “Whispersync” technol-ogy will also preserve digital notes and bookmarks in case you later buy the book from Amazon or check it out a sec-ond time. Kindle users also get some loan features not of-fered by other e-book formats--for example, borrowed books can be downloaded from al-most anywhere using Ama-zon’s Whispersync wireless network.

When a patron sees an e-book that they want to bor-row, among the options avail-able will be “send to Kindle.” If the patron chooses that op-tion, he or she will be sent to Amazon. After the patron logs into their Kindle account, they will be able to send the book to any of their Kindle lo-cations—smartphone, com-puter, tablet or e-reader. After the loan period expires, access to the book will be disabled and the patron will be advised to delete the book to free up space on the patron’s device.

Changes, Relief on the WayFor Area Airplane Noise?


Some relief might fi nally be on the way for residents living near and in the fl ight path of planes arriving and departing from John F. Kennedy Airport. Town-Village Air Safety and Noise Abatement Committee (TVASNAC) Executive Director Kendall Lampkin announced to a small crowd that the Fed-

Fans Come Out to Cheer-on Teams at ‘Five Towns Bowl’By Scott P. Moore

and Jonathan WalterStandard Staff Reporters

The Hewlett and Lawrence Varsity football teams faced off in possibly the biggest game of the regular season --- not neces-sarily for a championship or a playoff berth, but rather for what the fans and respective players will hold near and dear to their hearts until the two teams meet again --- local bragging rights.

Hewlett’s fans outnumbered the Lawrence crowd, fl anked by a large marching pep band, and dressed mostly in the team’s navy blue and white cheering on the home team at their brand new turf fi eld. With Hewlett ahead 35-34 at halftime, many of the fans were feeling good about the team’s chances at victory.

“I think that the Bulldogs are doing great,” said Omir Sultan of Hewlett. “We’ve had a lot of excit-

ing plays. Sam Mortarella’s run was beautiful. It was the best I’ve seen and I think we’re pull-ing through.”

“The atmosphere is very nice,” said Kelly Rizzo, mother of Hewlett quarterback/punter Mark Rizzo. “I’d like for our fans to cheer a little more. Every time it’s in the offense’s hands, we’re defi nitely moving it down the fi eld very quickly. It’s fun and exciting and hopefully we build up that Hewlett score a little bit more.”

On the other side of the fi eld, Lawrence’s fan contingency was holding out vast amounts of hope. With a score so close, most fans were found still smil-ing, head-to-toe in blue and gold.

It’s a great game and fun to watch,” said Lawrence math teacher Sal Saracini. “It’s going to ruin every football game [my kids] see from now on.” He pre-dicted a Lawrence victory, 74-73,

due to the amounts of scoring during the second quarter. His friend disagreed --- on the score.

“No way! 45-44 Lawrence,” said his friend, Mike Balzano of Bell-more. “It’s unbelievable --- every play seems to be a touchdown. We got here when it was 7-7! It’s been exciting, for sure.”

When play started back up af-ter halftime, Lawrence quick-ly jumped out to a 40-35 lead. Hewlett’s fans, who had been wildly cheering the team on be-gan to quiet while Lawrence’s side of the fi eld got louder and louder.

“Go, Lawrence, go! Go, Law-rence, go!” yelled the Lawrence cheerleaders in unison.

As the game slipped further out of Hewlett’s hands, the pep band decided to make its exit during the beginning of the fourth quarter while many other

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HIGH HOLIDAYS 2011

Local Cheerleaders Flying and Jumping Into ActionBY SUSAN VARGHESE

Standard Associate Editor

Both Hewlett High School and Lawrence High School cheerleaders are prepping for a busy fall. The squads are practic-ing and training in preparation for pep rallies, homecomings, and competitions.

Hewlett High School The team is currently perfect-

ing their “wall stunt,” Hewlett High School varsity cheerlead-ing coach, Jennifer Tuminello explained. “My squad has beau-tiful jumps — these girls reach the sky when they jump. We’re working on a wall stunt, which is a connected stunt. While the

girls are in the air they basically have to connect each other.”

Three new captains were also appointed: Tai Dowdell, junior, Alexis Weiner, senior, and Sapi-ra Zubery, senior.

Tuminello also said that al-though the varsity and junior varsity cheerleading teams are at different levels, they try to make sure that both squads work to-gether.

“We tried to keep the junior varsity and varsity girls togeth-er as much as possible together during practices, so they’re able to form a camaraderie between squads,” Tuminello said. “Even-tually junior varsity will move up, too. We really want them to be role models and good peo-

ple.”Both cheerleading teams have

16 members each. Only a few practices into the season in, Tu-minello noted that the girls are already excelling. “With being their third practice, they’ve al-ready developed a trust among each other, from the fl iers who are in the air to the bases who lift the girls up. They’re all liter-ally taking one for the team be-cause sometimes they’re doing a position that maybe they didn’t want to do.”

Their next event is the pep ral-ly on October 28, but the home-coming game on October 29 is their biggest event. “The home-

H-W PARENTS ARECONCERNED OVERINCREASING SIZE

OF CLASSESBy Scott P. Moore


A group of parents raised their concerns over growing class sizes within the Hewlett-Wood-mere School District’s elementary schools at a Board of Education meeting on Thursday eve-ning. Parents complained increased class sizes could lead to education problems throughout the year due to less attention from teachers.

“There’s a common thread to each of the [parents’] conversations — class size,” said Al Grazioso, who has a son that is one of 25 in a fi fth grade class at Hewlett Elementary School. “We’re very concerned that class size will be the ‘X factor’ in determining the budget next year… Our concern is that if we need to make a bud-get under the dire constraints that we’re going

CHILDREN ARETOP PRIORITY IN“NEW LAWRENCE”ACADEMIC PLAN


New Superintendent Gary Schall and the Law-rence School District Administration unveiled their District Academic Plan for a “New Law-rence” last Thursday at Lawrence’s Number Two School in Inwood. Last year, the district was giv-en recommendations by a representative from the New York State Education Department af-ter the high school was placed on the Needs Im-provement List. Lawrence is doing their best to follow through on those recommendations, ini-tiating changes to the district’s educational plan that includes restructuring the administrative team, aligning curriculum maps with the new

Plenty of Pleas in Cedarhurst Traf c CourtBy JONATHAN WALTERStandard Staff Reporter

Everyone has a story at Ce-darhurst Traffi c Court. On Tues-day nights, during arraignments, and on Wednesday during trials, around 20 people try to escape their fate each week. The back and forth drama between Cedar-hurst Village Court Justice Mar-tin Zuckerbrod rivals any prime time television drama. Just head on down to Village Hall and you’ll be in for some laughs, just don’t laugh out loud during pro-ceedings or you’ll be escorted outside by police offi cers.

“I don’t think that I deserve it,” Lucy Ackerman of Hillcrest said. “I was parked by Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst. I put three hours worth of change into the meter. It was during the earthquake, so I don’t know if I had anything to do with it, but when I came back to my car, the meter was emp-ty and I had a ticket. Whatever it was I put in enough for three hours.”

Ackerman, a grandmoth-er, was in Cedarhurst to have a meal with her family, has her re-ceipt to prove that she was in the restaurant at the time of the earthquake. However, she didn’t

have any proof that she put three hours worth of quarters in the meter.

“I got a ticket for parking more than 12 inches from the curb,” Tony Rosenberg from Wood-mere said. “I don’t remember where but it had snowed and I couldn’t park right next to the curb because of the snow and I ended up with a $50 ticket and I’m here trying to fi ght it. It was a metered space, but you couldn’t open the door if you parked less than 12 inches from the curb.”

He plead not guilty and sched-uled a trial date.

Another woman, who did not

wish to be named, had a ticket on her car for having an expired registration.

“I got a ticket on my car, which made me realize that I had al-ready taken care of getting my registration renewed a month ago but had never got my new registration,” she said. “So, I called the Department of Motor Vehicles and she sent me a letter saying that I had it, that I paid for it on the ninth, that it didn’t ex-pire until the 20th, and they sent me a new registration and a new sticker. She told me not to ex-

Village Court Justice Martin Zuckerbrod prepares for arraignment proceed-ings on Tuesday. Photo by Jonathan Walter

The Hewlett High School Cheerleaders at the Hewlett’s football season opener on Saturday, Septem-

ber 10.

Tornadoes TrouncedBethpage’s Danny Chillanis runs right through three Lawrence defenders in the first

quarter of last week’s game, leading the Golden Eagles to one of their four touch-

downs on the night, upsetting the number-one ranked Lawrence Golden Tornadoes,

37-19. Complete story on page A7. Photo by Scott P. Moore.

Bulldogs Slay Knights

Hewlett quarterback Mark Rizzo tries to move the pile on a run up the middle during Hewlett’s

24-0 victory over the Floral Park Knights on Saturday at Hofstra University. See complete cover-

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Solemn Commemorationof 9-11 Held in Cedarhurst

BY Natasha M. Velez

Five Towners haven’t forgot-ten, and it was evident as they fi lled Andrew J. Parise Park on Sunday for the Cedarhurst 9-11 Memorial Service. The tragic event that lingers fresh in the minds of residents, resurfaced as local clergymen, town offi -cials, legislators and residents joined to pay tribute to fallen heroes in the Five Towns.

The Lawrence Philharmon-ic Orchestra performed a rendi-tion of the “National Anthem” sang by Katy Miller, a Lawrence High School senior. The Law-rence Acapella Choir and the Lawrence High School Color Guard also participated.

Senator Dean Skelos who was a guest speaker at the me-morial said, “We need to refl ect on the greatness of our country and where we are today. It’s not about being black, white or Lati-

no. It’s about being an American today. We are blessed to be in the best country in the world.”

The memorial and concert ceremony was sponsored by the Lawrence Cedarhurst Fire De-

partment, the Lawrence School District, the fourth precinct of the Nassau County Police De-partment, the Town of Hemp-

Savoring the Last Weekend at the BeachBy Scott P. Moore


Ravaged by Hurricane Irene only a weekend be-fore, many beach clubs along the Atlantic Beach shoreline kept their cabana doors open to give their guests one last opportunity to enjoy a week-end at the beach before the summer sun set for good this past weekend.

“We managed to get almost everything back open… it was a huge effort on the part of our staff,” said Mark Raab, manager of New Plaza Beach Club. “It was disgusting here after Irene. This thick, black seafoam covered everything.”

The damage was noticeable — contrasting with the clear skies and bright sunlight were many of the cabanas underneath the boardwalk rendered unusable by fl ood waters and wave action. The kid-die pool was left with at least a foot of sand and de-bris. Raab said the beach club would do everything it could to make sure it is back to normal when the

season reopens next year.“We thought staying open an extra week would

be good will towards our customers,” he said. “We know a lot of people from the city are still having trouble getting here.”

While New Plaza seemed to be open like any other day during the summer with guests fi lling many of the cabanas, the scene on the beach was completely different. Only a few beach chairs scat-tered the sands while lifeguards sat under an um-brella at ground level, their guard tower still stand-ing but broken when it was carried by Irene’s waves into the boardwalk. Beach-goers were even more sparse, with only 10 or so people in the wa-ters in and around New Plaza and nearby clubs.

“We’re going boogie boarding,” said Bree Corbett of Long Beach who was at Atlantic Beach with fam-ily and friends. “[Hurricane] Katia is giving us some nice waves and we’ve got this extra weekend, so

Atlantic Beach Parents UpsetOver Late School Bus Service

BY SUSAN VARGHESEStandard Associate Editor

If you’re a resident of Atlantic Beach, your kids may not have to worry about missing the bus -- the bus may miss them. Ac-cording to parents at the Lawrence School District Board of Edu-cation meeting on Monday, their kids have been arriving late to school from what appears to be miscalculated bus routes.

One resident, Andrew from Atlantic Beach, who has four stu-dents in the district, noted a problem with his kids’ transpor-tation. “…I have two students in Lawrence Middle School, and what I can tell you is that three days out of the four fi rst days of school, my children are arriving at school 10 to 15 minutes late every morning. Not only is it disruptive to my children, and to others… I have to imagine it would be disruptive to the teachers and the students that are in the classroom.”

The problem isn’t as simple as a traffi c delay, though. An-drew added, “The bus driver had told myself and numerous oth-er families in Atlantic Beach that it’s physically impossible for

MANGANO PLANNING TOLAYOFF 1,000 WORKERS,AND SLASH $63 MILLION


Over 1000 Nassau County jobs will be lost if County Ex-ecutive Edward Mangano’s new budget plan passes. Also meet-ing the ax are non-revenue gen-erating county museums and requiring county workers to pay 25 percent towards their healthcare coverage. Mangano’s budget cutting efforts this fi scal year have already seen the de-mise of 300 county jobs.

Mangano’s proposed spend-ing plan for 2012 totals $2.64 bil-lion, $63 million less than the current budget. According to Mangano, it will mark the fi rst time in a generation that a bud-get will be less than the previ-ous year’s budget.

Mangano submitted his plan to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) on Thursday. NIFA took over county fi nances in March and ordered the coun-ty to take proper action to elim-inate a possible $310 million budget gap for 2012.

“My budget tackles labor costs head on by implement-ing common-sense reforms that produce $210 million in reoc-curring savings,” Mangano said. “Through layoffs and attrition,

my budget reduces the coun-ty workforce by over 1,000 po-sitions.”

Mangano also announced changes in the Nassau Coun-ty Police Department, with of-fi cers being moved from desks and onto the streets.

“This program enhanc-

KOPEL WORKINGTO OVERHAUL

TAX ASSESSMENTERRORS, REFUNDS


Howard Kopel is keeping his campaign promise to reform the Nassau County Tax Assess-ment System. In a fl yer sent out to homes within his district, Ko-pel says that 46 percent of every dollar in county debt is due to tax assessment errors and his plan will drastically reduce that.

Currently, homeowners fi le tax grievances before pay-ing their assessment, but don’t have the grievances resolved until afterward. This leads to Nassau County having to bor-row money in order to pay back refunds. The county must pay back 100 percent of refunds to the taxpayers, despite only 17 percent of taxes being attribut-able to Nassau, with 83 percent being attributed to other mu-nicipalities and governments. Kopel’s proposed reform would instead settle tax grievances be-fore taxpayers have to pay their assessments so that no refunds or borrowing is necessary.

“With this plan, no one has to get a refund,” Kopel said. “You save a lot of time and a lot of money and everyone is hap-py. It’s just a win in so many different ways. You can’t solve every case like that because sometimes one side is going to be unreasonable. It happens. You really have to make a seri-ous effort and that hasn’t been happening in recent years.”

Reforms enacted in 2010 in-clude freezing residential as-sessments for four years, end-ing the payment of refunds for municipalities during the 2013/2014 year, ending the bor-rowing of money to pay re-funds in 2011, and reducing this year’s refund-debt accrual by $28 million through the new Residential Tax Grievance Ne-gotiation and Settlement Pro-gram which gives participants a reduced tax bill instead of a re-fund check.

Democratic Legislator

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The sand at New Plaza Beach Club was nearly bereft of people last Saturday afternoon.

Photo by Scott P. Moore.

Five Town residents bowed their heads in prayer and paid tribute to the fall-en heroes who lost their lives on 9-11.

Photo by Natasha M. Velez

Ed Mangano

Moser on Kopel on Redistricting

To the Editor,Earlier this year, the New York

State Court of Appeals rejected a plan by the Nassau County Re-publican Party to move over half a million voters into new county legislative districts without any input from the public. While we should all rejoice that justice and the rule of law won this fi ght, we must also recognize what a grave threat the Republican plan was to our rights to fair and equal representation in local govern-ment.

We in The Five Towns worked for decades to create a stron-ger voice for our neighborhood in county government. Our in-terests are only heard when we are united with one clear voice. With a simple vote, your Repub-lican Legislator Howard Kopel tried to sell us out to the narrow interests of his party bosses.

While this travesty of a re-districting plan was being pro-posed, what did Legislator Kopel do? Did he exercise any indepen-dence from his party bosses? Did he stand up for The Five Towns and say “no” to his party’s plan to turn them into the Two-and-a-Half Towns? Sadly, he did not. Kopel did what he’s always done in these situations: he took his marching orders and towed the party line. When asked about the legality of the plan to tear apart the community that elected him, here’s what he had to say: “I’m not qualifi ed to give an opinion that’s worth reading. I’m not an election lawyer.”

Let’s take Kopel at his word. His opinion’s not worth reading, because his bosses in the legisla-ture tell him what his opinion is supposed to be. I’m running

for legislature because I want to bring an honest, independent voice that the county is sorely lacking under the current lead-ership. I believe that redistrict-ing should be an open and fair process, with full input from the public. I support amending the county charter to create a non-partisan redistricting commis-sion that would draw the new district lines instead of partisan legislators seeking to maximize their political power. Fair repre-sentation is not a Democratic or Republican issue. It is a citizens’ issue, and it is in our best inter-ests that we move away from partisan gerrymandering.

Standing With You,Adam Moser

Democratic Candidate for County Legislature, 7th District

Moser Campaign Insensitive to Observant Voters

To the Editor:This past Thursday and Fri-

day, while many Five Towns res-idents were celebrating Simchas Torah, their home phones were ringing off the hook. The caller was On Target Communications: a fraudulent push poll company posing as independent pollsters, coaxing respondents to partici-pate in a faux survey designed to smear County Legislator How-ard Kopel with a list of negative innuendos and accusations.

Because observant Jews gener-ally do not pick up their phones on Simchas Torah, most were ex-tremely upset by the intrusive, non-stop phone ringing. More so after learning that every sin-gle call was paid for by Ex-Judge Adam Moser and the Democrat-ic Committee bankrolling his campaign.

As many know — especially

those already tired of tripping over the Adam Moser lawn signs plastered on every inch of our community — Mr. Moser is chal-lenging Legislator Howard Kopel in this November’s election. He’s already invested thousands of dollars trying to convince us he’s ready and able to represent our needs. Yet, his appalling insensi-tivity to observant Jewish fami-lies, subjecting them to repeated crank calls over a three-day-Yom Tov, makes it perfectly clear that Adam Moser doesn’t know the fi rst thing about the voters he is appealing to.

Responsible politicians under-stand there’s a place and time for politics. It’s a shame Mr. Moser does not realize that Orthodox Jewish homes during Simchas Torah is neither the place, nor the time.

Avi Fertig

Deputy Campaign Manager, Howard Kopel for Legislator

Kopel Cares About Constituents

To the Editor,I’m writing to comment on

your article about Legislator Howard Kopel’s involvement in having the missing fence re-placed along the LIRR tracks in Woodmere. I have a strange di-chotomy of political heroes. My fi rst is former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, who is fa-mous for his comment that “All politics are local.” My second is former New York State Sena-tor Al D’Amato, who earned and wore with pride the nickname, “Senator Pothole.”

Both of these historic fi gures were the political powerhouses they became because they nev-

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All Politics, Water Bills andGarbage Services are LocalBy Joel Moskowitz

I’ve always had a soft spot for Chuck Schumer. Well, ever since he was my congress-

man back when I was living in Brooklyn. I was recently mar-ried, just had our fi rst child and just bought our fi rst new car, a light blue Mazda 626. Must have had it for two or three days be-fore it was stolen from right in front of my building. The police found the car, but because the thief was a minor who chose to use my brand new car for oth-er crimes, they impounded it as evidence. I was stuck in a bu-reaucratic nightmare, still hav-ing to make payments on the car and the insurance with no idea when my car would be re-leased. I called friends at the Brooklyn D.A. I asked anyone I knew for help, got nowhere. Then one morning I was climb-ing the stairs to the F train near my apartment on my way to work and there was my con-gressman asking for my vote. So I told him my story. He took out a notebook, wrote down my name and various numbers and promised me someone in his offi ce would call me in a few hours. True to his word, some-one called me, the end result, I got my car back that afternoon with the assistance of his offi ce.

I don’t always agree with Mr. Schumer’s policies and don’t al-ways vote for his party. But bar-ring a very compelling argument against him, I always vote for Chuck. The reason is simple, he gets it and he has a class A con-stituent relations offi ce. He got

my car out when no else could. Tip O’Neill used to say “all poli-tics is local,” Chuck took that to heart. So a guy usually busy vot-ing on budgets, foreign aid, in-frastructure and other pressing matters, understood that a con-stituent with a small problem is his problem and he took care of it.

Contrast that let’s say with my recent experience with Sen-ator Dean Skelos’ offi ce. I like Mr. Skelos, have voted for him and agree on many of his pol-icies. But to me, his constitu-ent relations offi ce gets a failing grade. I called his offi ce to com-plain about Long Island Ameri-can Water (LIAW), LIAW seems to live in some regulatory pur-gatory akin to the Port Author-ity of NY/NJ and the Metropol-itan Transit Authority. All of those organizations have im-plied quasi governmental over-sight. But did you ever hear of a politician losing their job for a toll or rail fare hike? No you did not. Because the way these things are structured, politicians are given six degrees of separa-tion from any unpleasant news from these places. They get to say “hey, it’s not me, it’s the MTA or the Port Authority.” But who appoints the board of the MTA or Port Authority? The politi-cians of course!

Back to Skelos. I called his of-fi ce because I found it utterly unfair how Long Island Ameri-can Water, a company not based on Long Island or even New York State, can go around plac-ing very noticeable and em-barrassing notices on people’s

doors when they are late on a water bill especially in this cur-rent economic environment. Additionally, they changed their billing cycle from quarterly to monthly thereby shortening the time to cut someone off of their water for a late bill. If you want to clear up a past due bill, you cannot pay online or by phone (you can through online banking but that can take a few days to hit their account render-ing it useless when you’re fac-ing a cutoff). In fact, they don’t have a local offi ce to accept pay-ment; they direct you to check cashing places which frankly are not always located in areas I enjoy hanging out in. But the part that really eats my craw, the part that boils my blood is that the Water Company cuts off wa-ter service AT ALL. That’s right, they cut off the WATER of old people, families with children, anybody. They don’t care who, they just shut it off. LIPA won’t shut your lights in the middle of the winter, and neither will Na-tional Grid cut off your heat, in fact they have a community re-lations offi ce for just such prob-lems. The cable company will give you as much time as you need and you can pay them elec-tronically or any other way. If you call your cell phone carri-er they will work out a reason-able payment plan. Long Island American Water could care less if you have to drink sewage; it’s their way or no water. You know what Sandy Smith in Skelos constituent services department told me? That the Majority Lead-er of the NYS Senate can’t do any-thing about Long Island Ameri-can Water because the rules are set by the Public Service Com-mission. That’s right, the second or third most powerful person

Joel Moskowitz is a writer and businessman who resides in Lawrence. He is married with three children and prides himself on being outspoken. Comments can be sent to [email protected].


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LHS Homecominga Key Club Success

By Zena Ballas

As a part of unity at Lawrence High School, Key Club

brings together a lot of stu-dents in effort to help raise money for key activities such as Homecoming. It’s an in-ternationally recognized club and participates in a variety of school oriented and chari-ty oriented projects like blood drives, coat drives, food drives, Relay for Life, and various oth-er important projects.

Key club does all of the dec-oration and preparation for Homecoming. To kick off Homecoming , they plan spir-it week. This year we had col-lege jersey day to go along with

all of the colleges that visited LHS this month. We also had Decade Day, Pajama Day, Twin Day, and Blue and Gold Day.

For Homecoming, Key Club decorates the bleachers at the high school with streamers and balloons. At the train station there was a crew that decorat-ed fences and a truck that holds the Homecoming court with streamers and balloons.

For Spirit Week, every day Key club members come to the school at 5:00 p.m. to decorate the night before. For Home-coming we also have a parade and Homecoming Court. Stu-dents run for Homecoming Court by picking up petitions from our key club advisor Mr. Mayo, or any key club board member.

Each student who ran for Prince or Princess must get at least 25 signatures from their respective grade. Any senior running for King or Queen must get 25 signatures from every grade. After all the peti-tions are in, Key Club members make ballots and pass them out to the classes in order to allow students to vote.

The Homecoming Court was recently announced at our Fall Pep rally on Friday, October 21st. Our Spirit Week conclud-ed with our Homecoming pa-rade which took place on Sat-urday the 22nd that marched from the Cedarhurst Train Sta-tion to LHS where our football game began against Lynbrook.

Another event that took place recently was on Tues-day, October 18th. The Lawrence High School Marching Band at-tended the 49th Annual News-day Marching Band Festival at Hofstra University. Schools

from all over Long Island as-sembled together to demon-strate the many hours of hard work dedicated to this one night.

On Tuesday night, the band, along with 14 other schools, performed their half-time show in front an audience of at least 400 people. The March-ing Band, led by drum majors Ayal Ciobotaru, Michelle Roth-stein and Kwadwo Agapong, paid tribute to the renowned pop sensation Lady Gaga by playing her four hit songs “Just Dance,” “Bad Romance,” “Born this Way,” and “Pokerface.”

Mr. Stabile, the director of the LHS marching band, com-mented on the performance:

“I think the students did a

fantastic job and I’m extremely proud of them. They did a won-derful job and I’m sure they had a great time at the Hofstra fes-tival.”

There was a lot of Lawrence support, not only from Mr. Sta-bile, but many members of the Lawrence staff. Superintendent Mr. Gary Schall, Principal Dr. Jennifer Lagnado, and Assistant Principals Roseanne Epp and Sean Coffi n all came to cheer on the band. Even after the performance, Lawrence spirit fi lled the air.

Performing at Hofstra was a new experience for both the freshmen and sophomores this year since the marching band did not participate in the fes-tival last year. The enthusiasm of the night was expressed by freshman trumpet player Max Siegel who exclaimed “At fi rst I was a little nervous but after I started playing, I began feeling more confi dent and when the camera was on me I was think-ing ‘Yay! I’m going to be on TV!’”

But for the seniors in march-ing band it was much more than just paying off tedious hours of practice. Hofstra be-came a sort of tradition for those who have been in the marching band since freshman year and parting with it was emotional for most, tears even welling up in some of their eyes.

Although they will not be able to take a part in next year’s show, they will still have the many joyful and comical memories that derived from it. Hopefully, the ritual of going to Hofstra will continue for many years to come; it is something that is wholeheartedly enjoyed by all who take part in it.

LHS Band plays at the Homecoming game last Saturday. Photo by Scott Moore.

Zena Ballas is a senior at Lawrence High School and is Editor-In-Chief of the Newspaper Club. She enjoys writing and has a passion for photography, which she hopes to pursue in the near future.

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Real Estate & Home DesignSEPT. 30 - OCT. 6, 2011 • THE SOUTH SHORE STANDARD • B1

Lifestyles of the Rich and Fabulous:Some of The Dream Houses for Sale in The Five Towns


If you have ever dreamed of living like a star, relaxing peacefully on your property while fl oating in your pool with your large water-

front home in the background or have perhaps drooled at the thought of owning your own ten-nis court in your backyard? Then some of the most expensive homes on the market in The Five Towns might be for you. From historic halls

to harbor-side havens, the cur-

rent crop of multimillion dollar homes are full of unique features and more than comfortable living to make ev-eryone feel like a king or queen of their own castle.

Looking for a manse on a hill overlooking a quiet rural country-side? Perhaps an expansive manor overlooking the water and perfect for a large family? The huge estate located at 360 Longwood Crossing in Lawrence would be perfect for you.

“It’s like living in Nantucket,” said Ronni Berman, whose lived there for 35 years. “But you’re fi ve minutes from Cedarhurst where you can grab a quart of milk or shop. It’s really wonderful.”

The home, built in 1895, is more than spacious and feels more like living in the Hamptons year-round rather than near New York City. The estate is situated on almost three acres of land overlooking the bay, complete with pa-tio deck to watch sun-sets from. The home also has an in-ground heated pool and titanic-sized dining room.

Berman noted: “It’s wonderful for enter-taining – the dining room is huge. We’ve sat 25 people for dinner!”

With seven bed-rooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, the house is perfect for a new family looking for some privacy and peace in the middle of The Five Towns.

“It’s a beautiful set-ting, in the middle of a bird sanctuary, and it’s like being on a vaca-tion twelve months a year,” said Berman, who said she was mov-ing nearby within the area to a smaller home since all of her children had since moved out.

This is one of the largest pieces of property on the current market in The Five Towns and the home is for sale through Pugatch Re-alty for $3,299,000.

If you were look-ing for a home with a more historic feel, however, look no fur-ther than Hewlett Har-bor – a community with a knack for older homes

from the early 1900’s. Another home set back on its expansive prop-erty, 207 Everit Avenue has afforded its owner Rob Pines lots of stretch-ing room on its over two acres of space. His home, he says, was one of Hewlett Har-bor’s fi rst, being built in 1918.

“It has this old colonial brick – Byzan-tine brick with these knobs on them,” he said. “It really makes the place look great.” Pines noted the property, situated on some 200 feet of waterfront, had a great view into a nearby wildlife sanctuary and the salt marshes to the south. The fi ve bed-room, six-and-a-half bathroom colossus is set back on the property, however, afford-ing Pines and his family some appreciat-ed privacy.

“It’s a very secluded property because you can’t see it from Everit,” he said. “I

wouldn’t say it has one particular thing that other homes do not have, but no other home in the har-bor has the privacy that we have.”

The home, of course, features more than its fair share of exclusive features – a full tennis court, in-ground pool, the aforementioned waterfront and bulkhead and its own billiards room. As Pines said, the home has it all.

“You might fi nd a two-acre property, but you wont fi nd another like this,” he said. “As a second home for people in New York – you do not need to go to the Hamptons to have everything you want, the harbor is beautiful and quiet and an arm’s length from The Five Boroughs and Manhattan.” The home is for sale through Prudential Douglass Elliman Real Estate for $3,450,000.

While prohibition-era homes on Long Island are noted for their size and features, older homes from before the turn of the 20th century are still on the mar-ket – especially for big bucks. Take, for example, a late 1800’s home in Lawrence designed by the same men who also designed the famous Sagamore Hill estate for President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.

“If I remember correctly, my home belonged to the architect himself and Roosevelt even slept there,” said Michele Golan, the home’s current owner.

Set back on one and a third acres of land, the home at 298 Ocean Avenue in Lawrence was designed by Hugh Lamb and Charles Alonzo Rich and built in 1894, and named “Sunset Hall” by its creators. Nearing its 120th birthday, the home was recently renovated by its current owners to bring the home up-to-date. With over-sized rooms, mar-ble and granite bathrooms, a sunroom, walk-in closets and an indoor gas barbe-cue, the home is fi t more for a modern king rather than an affl uent 19th centu-ry family.

“We totally gutted it in 1996, but we kept the whole outside of the structure the same,” she said. “You cannot have a third level in Lawrence if you knocked this down now.” As if the home by it-self is not enough, the property also features a separate guest house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Those interested in owning a lit-tle piece of history can purchase the

home for $1,680,000 through Morton Haves Real Estate.

Older homes seem to have found a niche in Five Towns’ hearts – especially those that have been brought up to modern standards while never losing their original charm. In the very south of Law-rence is a colonial style home, built right before the beginning of the Prohibition era in 1919, suitable for the largest of families with eight bedrooms and fi ve-and-a-half bathrooms sprawled across nearly two full acres of land nearby the Isle of Wight.

The 6,500-plus square feet of this home at 90 Bannister Lane in Back Lawrence, with its in-ground pool, sprawling layout, and pri-vate carriage house with its own three bedrooms and two bathrooms gives any family the unique feeling of privacy without leaving the hustle and bustle of The Five Towns behind.

The manor is currently listed for $3,800,000 with Milky Forst Prop-erties.

The lifestyles of the rich and famous are never far away in The Five Towns, especially with these outstanding properties available for those with a yen for the fi ner things in life.

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bathrooms, $339,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-56511 Steven Drive, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $629,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-56511275 Sturlane Place, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 2

bathrooms, $424,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-56511567 Moffi tt Ave, 10/30, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $425,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651100 Princeton Ave, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $597,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-56511149 East Broadway, 10/30, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 4

bathrooms, $697,000, Coach Realtors, (516) 536-8100

HEWLETT HARBOR1349 W Boxwood Dr, 10/30, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 5 bedrooms, 3.5

bathrooms, $899,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000

HEWLETT NECK150 Dolphin Dr., 10/30, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $899,000, Morton Haves Real Estate, (516) 316-7862250 Dolphin Dr, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 5 bedrooms, 3 bed-

rooms, $1,349,000, Morton Haves Real Estate, (516) 374-0100

LAWRENCE376 Central Ave #4L, 10/30, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 1 bedroom, 1.5

bathrooms $375,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000395 Barrett Rd, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $800,000, Milky Forst Properties, (516) 239-0306

LYNBROOK41 Concord St, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $339,000, Coach Realtors, (516) 536-8100

NORTH WOODMERE656 Colfax Pl, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $499,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000923 Jewel Ave, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $519,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000845 Fanwood Ave, 10/30, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $459,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-56511031 Cedarhurst St, 10/30, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 2.5

bathrooms, $649,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651834 Fanwood Ave, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $499,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651879 Cherry Lane, 10/30, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 6 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $669,000, Coach Realtors, (516) 536-8100

VALLEY STREAM1263 Barry Dr, 10/29, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $349,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000219 Gibson Blvd, 10/30, 1:00 p.m-2:00 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 2 bath-

rooms, $349,999, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651

WOODMERE46 Clubside Dr, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $679,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000132 Combs Ave, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $749,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000500 Forest Ave, 10/30, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath-

rooms, $499,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000563 Sunset Dr, 10/30, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $499,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000826 Central Ave, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 6 bedrooms, 3.5 bath-

rooms, $699,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000835 Jefferson St, 10/30, 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath-

rooms, $399,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000954 South End, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $499,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-30001046 Dartmouth Lane, 10/30 (by appt), 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath-

rooms, $488,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651912 Mayfi eld Rd, 10/30, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 3 bath-

rooms, $549,000, Jan Kalman Realty, (516) 569-5651776 Arbuckle Ave, 10/30, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bath-

rooms, $710,000, Milky Forst Properties, (516) 239-0306

WOODSBURGH110 Wood Lane, 10/30, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bath-

rooms, $1,292,000, Pugatch Realty, (516) 295-3000


1030 Seawane Drive, Hewlett Harbor

Stats: A lot size of 27,710 square feet. The home is 3,199 square feet with 10 rooms, fi ve bedrooms and four-and-a-half bath-rooms. The property is selling for $950,000 with annual taxes of $27,428.

Details: A colonial-style home, built in 1965, features an amazing master suite with open and spacious master bathroom, addition-al bedroom with private bathroom, open fl oor plan, formal dining room, and a den with a wet bar. The home also has a huge eat-in-kitchen and spacious full basement.

Contact: Morton Haves Real Estate, Robin Meshonek at (516) 964-6883

50 Auerbach Lane, Lawrence

Stats: A lot size of 14,500 square feet. The home is 2,770 square feet with nine rooms, fi ve bedrooms, and three bathrooms. The property is selling for $900,000 with annual taxes of $14,012.

Details: An expanded ranch-style home, built in 1950, features a living room with wood-burning fi replace, large inviting den, for-mal dining room and located on a beautiful street in the heart of Lawrence.

Contact: Pugatch Realty, Irene Steiner at (516) 295-3000

250 Dolphin Drive, Hewlett NeckStats: A lot size of 29,400 square feet. The home has 10 rooms,

fi ve bedrooms, three full bathrooms and an attached garage. The property is selling for $1,349,000 with annual taxes of $38,788.

Details: A colonial-style home, built in 1964 and remodeled in 1987, is featured on 100 feet of waterfront overlooking a wildlife sanctuary and salt marshes. The home features a living room, din-ing room, stone fi replace, library, greenhouse, eat-in-kitchen, wood fl oors and a large two-car garage.

Contact: Morton Haves Real Estate, Lenore Schattman at (516) 428-6481

1620 Kent Drive, Hewlett

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321 Broadway, LawrenceA split-style home with 11

rooms, six bedrooms, three bathrooms and a detached ga-rage. A lot size of 12,264 square feet. Year built: 1973. The home sold on October 17th for $727,500.

823 North Flanders Drive, North Woodmere

A split-style home with seven rooms, three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and an attached garage. A lot size of 7,215 square feet. Year built: 1959. The home sold on October 18th for $412,000.

352 Felter Avenue, WoodmereA contemporary-style home

with 12 rooms, four bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and

an attached garage. A lot size of 5,840 square feet. Year built: 2008. The home sold on Octo-ber 20th for $572,000.

2 Prospect Avenue, Woodmere

A colonial-style home with nine rooms, four bedrooms, and three bathrooms. A lot size of 14,175 square feet. Year built: 1948. The home sold on October 24th for $618,000.

31 Washington Avenue, Cedarhurst

A colonial-style home with eight rooms, three bedrooms, and one-and-a-half bathrooms. A lot size of 6,250 square feet. Year built: 1902. The home sold on October 25th for $330,000.

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Stats: A lot size of 8,000 square feet. The home is 3,032 square feet with 11 rooms with fi ve bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and an attached garage. The property is selling for $699,999 with annu-al taxes of $17,571.

Details: A colonial-style home, built in 1950, on a quiet street. The home features an open eat-in-kitchen, great room, full dining room, living room, sun room, full fi nished basement, new siding and roof and a lovely brick patio.

Contact: Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Ronnie Ger-ber at (516) 623-4500

95 Willow Road, WoodsburghStats: A lot size of 18,300 square feet. The home has nine rooms, fi ve

bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and a two-car attached garage. The property is selling for $1 ,275,000 with annual taxes of $27,539.

Details: A colonial-style home, built in 1948, features central air condition, eat-in-kitchen, full fi nished basement, formal dining room, two fi replaces, a backyard deck and in-ground sprinklers.

Contact: Milky Forst Properties, Milky Forst at (516) 239-0306

839 Lowell Street, Woodmere

Stats: A lot size of 6,200 square feet. The home is 3,080 square feet with eight rooms, four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a two-car attached garage. The property is selling for $599,999 with annu-al taxes of $10,212.

Details: A high-ranch style home, built in 1960, features central air conditioning, an eat-in-kitchen, formal dining room, family room, offi ce, attic, rear deck and patio and in-ground sprinklers.

Contact: Lori & Associates LI Realty, Lori Schlesinger at (516) 791-8300

1330 Adams Road, Hewlett Harbor

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UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Living on Hewlett BayBy Dr. Jon Garito

Summer Sundays on the beach. That was my introduction to the

ocean. My mother would take me to Long Beach and I’d spend hours playing in the waves. The soft, warm sand, the blue spar-kling ocean, and the white wash of the crashing surf all came to-gether to kindle my lifelong love affair with the water.

But growing up in Cedarhurst in a three bedroom, one bath house, I could not have imag-ined that one day I might actual-ly live in a waterfront home, let alone a waterfront home in that little piece of paradise known as Hewlett Harbor. As a young teenager my only thought about a home upgrade was having a second bathroom so I wouldn’t have to wait in line to use the toilet or shower. With my par-ents, sister, and grandmother all sharing a single bathroom, the waits were often long and pain-ful.

At 13 I started caddying at a lo-cal country club and discovered a new, amazing world of long, grassy fairways, perfectly man-icured greens, and winding wa-terways. I listened to the sounds of seagulls and large birds as they gracefully glided between the land and the water. Around these beautiful waterways were homes with long, rolling back-yards and docks with boats. While carrying the heavy golf bags along the course I’d of-ten think about what life was like, living on the water with those magnifi cent views and the sounds of nature and access to boats in your own backyard.

At 17, I became a certi-fi ed ocean lifeguard for the Vil-lage of Atlantic Beach. I couldn’t believe that I was getting paid to be on the beach all day, spend-ing hours in the ocean. Some of the residents brought their Ho-

bie Cat sailboats, or their kayaks or surfboards down to the wa-ter. I was only too happy to par-ticipate in all of these water ac-tivities with the residents and I was lucky enough to do this for seven summers.

During one of those great summers I became friends with a fellow lifeguard who lived in Hewlett Harbor. He invited me back to his house one after-noon after work. We walked out of the back of his home and I suddenly realized that this was most likely one of those beau-tiful houses on the water that I had seen from the golf course years before as a caddy. It was sitting right on Hewlett Bay and beyond the long, green lawn was a deck overlooking the Bay, along with a boat dock. At the dock there were several boats. One boat, belonging to my friend’s father, had a variety of fi shing poles hanging from the side railing. There was a ski boat that had several pairs of water skis leaning on the seat. Sitting on the dock itself were two red kayaks with paddles. My friend and I spent the rest of that sum-mer waterskiing off his dock, kayaking around the winding waterways, and even fi shing with his dad off his boat – all this from the backyard of my friend’s Hewlett Harbor home.

It was that summer that I de-cided that someday – somehow – I would have a home on the water.

Years later, with a very young family, I moved to Hewlett Har-bor. We had to settle for an in-land home at the time. We looked at homes on the wa-ter but, alas, the prices were out of reach. And while my pri-ority was living on the water, my wife’s priority was getting the children into the Hewlett school district. As a compro-mise, I bought a small ski boat and rented a slip at the Law-rence Yacht Club, about twenty minutes from our Hewlett Har-bor home. Although I reasoned that the expensive winter stor-age costs and the boat slip rent-al could be eliminated with a home on the water, my dream of living on Hewlett Bay would be put on hold.

Still, we spent many hours on our boat skiing, tubing, go-ing to Short Beach and Fire Is-land, and cruising to water-front restaurants for lunch or dinner. The only legal ski-ing was on Hewlett Bay so we spent a good deal of time in that area. And as we skied and boated around the Bay, I couldn’t help but stare at the houses on the water and my thoughts would turn again to my dream of owning one of

those homes. One evening, the father of a

friend of ours called to tell us that he and his wife were mov-ing to Florida and would be putting their Hewlett Harbor waterfront home up for sale. Would we be interested? Of course we stopped everything and went to look at the prop-erty immediately. It was my dream home. It reminded me of the homes I saw from the golf course and the house that my lifeguard friend had lived in. In fact, it was one of the very homes I had spied with envy when we would water ski on Hewlett Bay.

The property had a great open bay views, with a deck and a large fl oating dock. The house itself was dated but the proper-ty was perfect. We bought it. It took a year to renovate it, but when we fi nally moved in, it became the home I had always dreamed of.

With its mini marina, wa-ter toys, and large deck, the house soon became an enter-tainment magnet for teenagers and adults alike. Our daughters became expert skiers and their friends all learned to ski and ride wave runners. Later, my daugh-ters’ boyfriends and their friends began using our mini marina. They added wake boarding and barefoot skiing to the water sports activities.

But I found that the water ac-tivities were just part of the al-lure of waterfront living, espe-cially on Hewlett Bay. What I perhaps came to appreciate the most was the relaxing lifestyle – the peace and tranquility. I’d often listen to the comforting sound of water hitting the wood bulk heading, and the sounds of the seagulls, geese, and ducks. It was a feast for the eyes as well; the colors of the sky at sunrise and sunset were magical, and on moonlit nights, the water of the bay glistened like dancing dia-monds.

It’s just my wife and I now. The kids are grown and 6,500 square feet is a bit much. We’re moving to a smaller house in the Hamptons – still on the wa-ter, of course. And we spend a good part of the year in Key Biscayne, Florida, in our (what else?) waterfront condo. But I will always remember the beau-ty of Hewlett Bay; the boating and sailing and fi shing and kay-aking; riding the wave runners, wakeboarding, and tubing. Not to mention the evening bar-becues with friends and fami-ly. And, of course, those moon-lit nights. Hewlett Bay is a little piece of paradise, a place where you feel as though you’re on va-cation…every day.

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ON THE MARKETfeet with 11 rooms, fi ve bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, and a two-car attached garage. The property is selling for $1,675,000 with annual taxes of $35,000.

Details: A colonial style home, built around 1900, with a gigantic amount of land. The home features an eat-in-kitchen, formal din-ing room, family room, offi ce, patio and deck, granite-lined pool, in-ground sprinklers and enough room for a large family.

Contact: Marjorie Hausman Realty Corp., Carol Weisse at (516) 569-5110

1325 Auerbach Ave, Hewlett Harbor

Stats: A lot size of 32,336 square feet. The home features 11 rooms, fi ve bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms and an attached two-car garage. The property is selling for $999,000 with annual taxes of $29,366.

Details: A split-style home, built in 1957, with spacious fl ow

throughout home. The house features a grand entry foyer, full din-ing room, breakfast room, living room, den, full fi nished basement, and the possibility for a mother-daughter set-up.

Contact: Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Ronnie Ger-ber at (516) 623-4500

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in the State of New York can’t do anything about how his constit-uents get their water, because it’s not his responsibility.

I give Howard Kopel a B+ for his offi ce constituent relations. When the sanitation department continually ignores my calls for special pick up, or when they leave half the trash in my bins or when they unilaterally decide that my special pick up is too big for their truck I call Mr. Ko-pel’s offi ce and usually get help. I give him a B+ because he helps with the immediate problem but can’t do anything about the core problem; our sanitation service is horrible. The people that work for the department are mean, just call for special pick up on any day, they are curt and rarely give you their name so you can call back and say “Bob promised it would be done by Tuesday.” They often speak harshly to the residents like when G-d forbid

your car is too close to your bins. My favorite is when they leave your bins uncovered on a rainy day, but only take half your bags. Then when you complain that they left half your garbage they tell you they don’t take wet bags.

In the good old days, these things would seem like normal local issues that can be resolved quietly in a local manner. Now, water cutoff and poor garbage collection fi t into a much larg-er pattern of government inept-itude and a realization by most people that we no longer need just the immediate gratifi ca-tion of fi xing some small spe-cifi c problem, we need a com-plete overhaul of the system. It’s time for our local representa-tives to have to answer for toll hikes on bridges and tunnels, for fare hikes on trains and rail roads, for sub-par sanitation ser-vice and any other problem we face. Recently, I’ve heard many people say that the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street move-

ment have no demands thus begging the question, what do they want? I don’t know specif-ically what they want, but like them I’m sort of fed up. I don’t want anything not demanded of me, responsibility, compe-tence, problem solving, forward planning, non partisan dialogue, sanitation men who aren’t jerks, conductors who apologize for the delays in rail service and a few other basic things that al-low me to keep my dignity. We need level heads to solve our problems and we need those so-lutions starting now. I’m about ready to “Occupy Central Ave-nue” just to get decent garbage pick up, clean, tasty water in my tap, the right to pay my bill online or by phone and to not get a rate hike because we don’t know who dropped the ball on the MTA budget. Our problems might be local, but read the pa-pers, our local issues are global. Some are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore. Count me in. .

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Homes Selling, Prices Falling and Inventory Rising In Single Family

Home Sales in The Five TownsBy JONATHAN WALTERStandard Staff Reporter

Home sales aren’t what they were a few years ago in The Five Towns

and across Nassau County, ac-cording to statistics and realtors throughout the area. While sales have remained level through-out the economic downturn, the high prices on houses seen in 2006-07 have gone away and there has been no indication of any change with home sales re-maining steady throughout the past year.

“Two Thousand Six and 2007 were amazing years,” Lori Schlesinger, owner of Lori and Associates, said. “In 2008 it start-ed to come down. I did a little less in 2009 and a little less 2010. I’m actually doing a little bit bet-ter this year though. It picked up a little bit. We’re still selling here and we’re above water, but it’s not like the days of 06 and 07 and prior. The reason I opened my offi ce in the summer of 2005 was because I was doing so well elsewhere that it was time open my own offi ce.”

From October 25th 2009 to

October 24th 2010, 247 homes were sold in The Five Towns, compared to 244 this past year in the same time frame. That three home difference is negligi-ble statistically and realtors say that the number of homes sold hasn’t taken as big of a hit in re-cent years as was the price the homes are being sold for.

“Houses are still selling but not at the same prices as three years ago,” said Milky Forst, owner of Milky Forst Properties. “Anyone who is ready to recog-nize that the market is not what it was, will sell their house. The buyers are more careful in terms of price and the economy is not that great, so there’s an adjust-ment for the buyer and the sell-er. Just because they are get-ting a deal on the house, doesn’t mean they are pocketing all that much. Also, the banks are giv-ing us a hard time, but we’re still selling, with a lot more effort on everyone’s part. The buyer puts a lot more effort into getting a mortgage and the seller has to put more effort into the house that they might not have to do in a good market to satisfy the bank and the buyer. The sellers

just need to realize that the mar-ket is not what it was. Those who adjust to that will sell.”

The average contract price of sold Nassau County homes in 2008 hovered around $600,000. Now, the average price has dropped to around $525,000 for Nassau County homes for 2011 and fell to one of the lowest av-erages in years for the month of September, sitting at $452,877.

There are plenty of homes available according to Dafna Wengrod, a 14-year agent at Mar-jorie Hausman Realty. She says that while it may seem like a good time to buy, high Nassau County property taxes make in-vesting in a home here a diffi -cult proposition.

“The change is that we have a lot more inventory,” Wengrod said. “A lot of people are put-ting their homes on the market despite knowing the market is 30 percent lower than three or four years ago. There is an over-fl ow. We have 80 exclusives on multiple listings. So there is a lot of supply and a lot of hous-es despite people knowing that

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The new condo complex called “The Regency at Lawrence,” located at

260 Central Avenue in Lawrence, is moving right along on sched-ule to be opened to new resi-dents in about 12 months time, according to the building’s archi-tect John Capobianco.

“It’s like a high-end condo — sort of like a condo in Manhat-

tan, but without the higher pric-es,” said Capobianco, an Inwood resident. “And, of course, you’d be right on Central Avenue.” Capobianco said the huge build-ing would house some 138 units, including a few penthouse-style units on the fourth fl oor of the building. Most of the units will consist of two or three-bedroom condos.

“It was designed to be spa-cious with good room sizes and a large balcony for each,” said Capobianco. “Plus, the ameni-ties are really nice.” The complex is scheduled to house two pools – one indoor and another out-door, storage rooms, large court-yards, a health club and a party room.

The Regency would be like

a high-end hotel, according to Capobianco, with valet parking, concierge and a security team to help make the building secure for its residents.

The Regency is currently lo-cated on the site of the former Lawrence School District’s Num-ber One School. The three-story elementary school was closed in 2004 due to changing demo-graphics in the area that did not require the school’s usage, ac-cording to the school district. In 2007, the site was purchased and plans were made to build what will become the new con-do complex.

“It’s going be the high point of luxury in Lawrence,” said Capo-bianco.A rendering of The Regency at Lawrence when it will be completed in 2013.

Rending courtesy of John Capobianco, Architect.

The condo’s exterior as it appears to-day is nearly completed. The next year will be spent on finishing the interior of the building. Photo by Scott P. Moore.

people could have the value drop. It’s leveling off, although it’s leveling off to the down-side. We’re seeing more hous-es selling in the $300,000 range and $400,000 range than a year or two ago. Prices have been going a little bit lower for ask-ing prices, but for selling pric-es they are defi nitely going for less. Even in Hewlett Harbor there are houses selling in the $700,000 range. That was un-heard of a few years ago. So many are putting their hous-es on the market and I believe that it’s because of the high tax-es and people can’t absorb the cost. Because the taxes are so high, the value of the houses are lower. Twenty thousand dollars in taxes can be like a

second mortgage. Taxes need to be lower for the prices to go up. It’s depreciating the value and people want to sell. It’s an unfortunate situation going on in real estate right now.”

“Property taxes in School Dis-trict 14 (Hewlett-Woodmere) are really high compared to School District 15 (Lawrence) and the majority of the customers we deal with are from there,” Su-san Pugatch, owner of Pugatch Realty Corp., said. “There are a lot of people who are way more interested in buying a house in District 15 because of that. The districts are just as good, but there are many people who are sending children to private school, and if they are then they might not want to be pay-ing such high property taxes [in District 14].”

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A local home on the mar-ket in Hewlett Neck that, in a true twist of fate, was bought after it had been abandoned by its previous owners. The home at 949 East Broadway was built in 1920 and most re-cently bought in 1993 by its current owners for a fraction of its current market value – $410,000.

“We put it back togeth-er,” said Sharon Haber, the home’s current owner. “It has the charm of what it was sup-posed to be.” Haber said the six bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom home has fi replac-es throughout and a screened-in porch, which allows her family to enjoy relaxing and playing games during any sea-son.

“It’s the house that every-one came to – there was al-ways a million kids here,” she said. “It’s on a busy corner, but the house is set back and you wouldn’t really see it from the road. Isolated, but in a great spot because you can get ev-erywhere.” Haber also not-ed the homes other exclusive features – a dedicated billiards room and full fi nished base-ment, the latter of which she called a great hangout for chil-dren. With most of her chil-dren grown up and moved out the nest though, Haber said it was time to move on.

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Cedarhurst is the Center for Sleek Interior DesignNo End of Options for the Fashionable Home

BY SUSAN VARGHESEStandard Associate Editor

A deluxe design center in Cedarhurst just opened up, complete with a showroom fi lled with appliances, cabinets, kitchen

vignettes, wallpapers, and fabrics. Virtually a one-stop shop for design and furnishing needs, it con-tains J.Mark Interiors, Brookville Cabinets and Roy-al Green Appliances.

Although there are no other current, complete design centers in the area, there are other interior designers with varying styles. Separate from J.Mark Interiors and the new design center, is another Ce-darhurst interior designer, JGL Interiors. They have had their showroom and offi ce open for four years, and also carry furniture and antique accents.

JGL Interiors and J.Mark Interiors are different, but they both have their eye on trends. They ex-plained the importance of clean lines, contempo-rary looks, muted and neutral colors, and other popular trends in the interior design world.

J.Mark Interiors, Brookville Cabinets & Royal Green Appliances

Some of the current design trends, Jeffrey Mark of J.Mark Interiors explained, are modernism lean-ing towards minimalistic designs, and colors like grey, silver and pops of lavender.

“Everything’s much cleaner today,” Mark said. “Cleaner lines, and not as much wood showing…it’s all simpler looking.” He also described “cool” accents like carpet tiles, which provide tradition-al carpeting in a tile format in endless designs and patterns.

In The Five Towns, Mark noted that there’s a higher standard in design. “We’re careful with our work and selections. Rather than using leather that can scratch or stain, we’re using vinyl…on the walls maybe we’ll use polyvinyl chloride rather than painting where they would usually need to re-paint in a few years.”

Mark has designed hundreds of homes in The Five Towns, but specializes in designing luxury and vacation homes in Israel. “I travel back and forth twice a month to do apartments, homes, and projects there,” Mark said. “I come back with tile samples, paint selections, and we can conference call the contractor from here to Israel. I know how to make it all move.”

The length of design varies depending on the home, but he’s done full houses in less than a year. “I did a full home overseas. I tore the house down and gutted the whole place, supervised the contractor, and designed it…it was done in nine months.”

The shared showroom and center seems to be perfect for the companies, Mark said, “The cool thing about what all of us is the synergy, we’re all intermingled. Someone comes in to do a kitchen on the Brookville side, they need colors, chairs, ap-pliances from Royal Green…they need more help with design, it’s all here.”

Rob Satran, the owner of Royal Green Applianc-es, one of the companies located inside the loca-tion, noted that the concept behind the design

center was visibility. “The theory was we all wanted a little more vis-

ibility. I didn’t have presence in The Five Towns. The theory was to take a visible location and cre-ate a one stop shop,” Satran said. “It’s also trying to bring Central Avenue back to what it was -- when I grew up it was the Fifth Avenue of the South Shore. We’re a different store that Central Avenue hasn’t seen in a while. It’s also a way we can take a big space, share expenses and create a design cen-ter.” Satran noted that they have a variety of ap-pliances that can cater to different needs, from a dishwasher with a separate section for meats and dairy to deluxe refrigerators.

Dan Hoenig, owner of Brookville Cabinet and Design focuses on custom cabinetry and kitch-ens. “We do layout and design. It’s the most cru-cial part of your kitchen plans because no mat-ter how beautiful your cabinets are, if the layout stinks you’re going to yell every time in the kitch-en,” Hoenig said. “Eighty percent of my work is kitchens.”

Hoenig noted that he’s been doing a lot of white paint with a medium walnut color and cleaner lines. “I meet with my clients and fi nd out their needs. Maybe they need a meat side and a Parve side. I try to use as much of the space as possible. Or if someone says I bake a lot, I’ll make a whole baking center.”

About J.Mark Interiors, Brookville Cabinets & Royal Green Appliances

The showroom is currently open but the grand opening will be in mid-November. J.Mark was started 15 years ago and services consumers and the trade. “There are many designers that come here and buy their fabric, wallpaper and furnish-ings through us,” Mark said. “We do commercial work also, like hotel work and public spaces. We have the full gamut - prices vary, but we discount everything off of retail.”

Hoenig opened his showroom in Cedarhurst six

years ago. He also does semi-custom kitchens, vanities, libraries and entertainment centers.

Satran went to high school in The Five Towns area, and his main offi ce is in White

Plains. The Cedarhurst location is the sat-ellite location and will have 40 select

pieces on display specifi cally for the needs of the community.

The design center and showroom

is located at 461 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. The number to Brookville Cabinets is (516) 374-4675. The number to J.Mark Interiors is (516) 295-0856. .

JGL Interiors

Neutrals, grays and taupes are back in a big way, according to JGL Interiors owner, Judith Gold-smith Lazaros.

“You have deep plums and other colors, but I’m seeing the big colors go back to neutral -- very classic colors,” Lazaros said. Aside from col-ors, Lazaros noted that she’s paying specifi c at-tention to the architecture accents of a room. “A lot of molding work, new doorways, and new archways. Make the background of a room look timeless, and you can fi ll it with things like an-tique furniture, which you can switch out.”

To add to the ambiance of a room, Lazaros said that people are leaning towards contem-porary light fi xtures, like overhead light fi x-tures and lamps for softer lighting rather than recessed lighting. Frou-frou designs and fabrics are out. “People are tired of heavy looks. Side panels to soften the window in a simple way,” Lazaros noted.

On average, it can take anywhere from four months or more to design a space. “It’s plan-ning, shopping, ordering, receiving, too. It’s a process. It doesn’t happen overnight,” Lazaros said. In the past, she’s designed ballrooms in the lower-levels of homes. “They’re lower lev-els now, not basements anymore. They have 11-foot high ceilings.” She’s also done elaborate

home theaters, indoor pools, and gyms in resi-dential spaces.

About JGL Interiors Lazoros designs and decorates from the

ground-up, and does consultations, commer-cial, and residential work. She estimated that she has designed 300 homes in The Five Towns, and designs in New York City, across Long Is-land, and Westchester. She’s a graduate of F.I.T and has been in the business for 32 years. JGL Interiors has a wide selection of fabrics and wallpaper, and also sells furniture – antiques, which are mostly reproductions.

Although she’s had different clients, Lazoros said that she can accommodate religious needs.

“ I cater to the Orthodox customer – I know the exact needs and lifestyle. In The Five Towns, it’s about being practical; people have a lot of kids and grandchildren. We want to make the dol-lar stretch and go with the lifestyle. You’ll have two-years olds using the rooms at the same time 32 year olds are – it has to be functional. “

JGL Interiors is located at 125 Cedarhurst Ave-nue in Cedarhurst. (516) 374-2898. Jgldesigns.com

AvenuetheHOUSE & HOME • FASHION & FEATURES

OCT. 28 - NOV. 3, 2011, 2011 • THE SOUTH SHORE STANDARD • C1

Dan Hoenig, Jeffrey Mark, and Rob Satran in the design center in Cedarhurst

Showroom and design center in Cedarhurst

A dining room set at the showroom and design center in Cedar-

hurst

Some of Judith Lazoros’ past work

Judith Lazoros

Showroom and design center in

Cedarhurst

C2 • THE SOUTH SHORE STANDARD • OCT. 28 - NOV. 3, 2011, 2011

IN THE KITCHEN

Open Sesame: Fall Cooking with the Sensational SeedBY EILEEN GOLTZ

Special to The Standard

I may not be Scheherazade with her tales of wonder but say the enchanted words

“open the sesame seed jar” (ok, so I took a few liberties with the phrase) and a magical world of fl avor is open to all.

Sesame seeds are one of the oldest condiments in recorded cooking history dating back to as early as 1600 BCE and are an integral part of the cuisines in the Middle East, Asia, India and Turkey probably originated in an area of the world called the

Spice Islands. Because sesame seeds are a

plant food, there’s no choles-terol. Natural sesame seeds (un-hulled) are high in calcium, hulled not as much. However, they contain copious amounts of B vitamins ribofl avin, thia-mine, and niacin so it’s all good. Most of the sesame seeds sold in the United States are already hulled and come in light, brown and black colors. As far as I can tell the only difference is in the color, not the fl avor. Sesame oil comes in two varieties. The fi rst is cold pressed with very lightly golden color and a subtle fl avor.

The Asian variety of sesame oil that most of us associate with Chinese/Thai and other orien-tal foods is made from roasted sesame seeds and is much dark-er in color and has an intense almost smoky fl avor.

Tahini or sesame seed paste and hummus two very popular Middle Eastern dishes have ses-ame seeds as their base and are served instead of butter or oil as condiments throughout many countries in the world.

To keep your sesame seeds from becoming rancid, store them in the refrigerator or the freezer. Sesame oil has an ex-

ceptionally long shelf life but since it’s rather expensive so most people tend to buy it small quantities so it isn’t in the cabi-net all that long.

Many recipes call for you to toast your sesame seeds so that they have a slightly nuttier fl a-vor. Easy to do. You can either place them in an un-greased fry-ing pan and cook, stirring con-stantly over medium heat for a minute or two, just until they are lightly browned. Remove them from the pan immediate-ly by putting them into a dish. Leaving them in the pan can cause them to burn from re-

sidual heat. Or you can also toast them in the oven on a cookie sheet with sides at 350 but you have to watch them CAREFULLY. They will burn quickly.

So open sesame already and get started creating your own treasure trove of dishes with a rich nutty fl avor that adding sesame seeds create.

CLASSIC SESAME CHICKEN (meat)

• 2 teaspoons cornstarch• 2 tablespoons rice wine• 1 tablespoon lemon juice• 1 tablespoon soy sauce• 1 dash hot pepper sauce• 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger• 1 clove crushed garlic• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite size pieces

• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds• 1 tablespoon sesame oil• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil• 4 ounces fresh mushrooms, quartered

• 1 green bell pepper, sliced• 4 green onions, sliced diagonal-ly into 1/2inch pieces

To Make Marinade: In a nonporous dish or bowl blend cornstarch with wine or sherry; then stir in lem-on juice, soy sauce, hot pep-per sauce, ginger and gar-lic. Blend together and stir in chicken strips. Cover dish and refrigerate to marinate for 3 to 4 hours.

In a wok or large skillet, place sesame seeds and dry-fry over medium heat, shak-ing the wok, until the seeds are a golden brown color. Re-move seeds and set aside.

To same wok or skillet add sesame oil and vegetable oil and heat slowly. Drain chick-en, reserving marinade, and stir-fry in wok a few pieces at a time, until browned. Re-move chicken with a slotted spoon and set aside.

Add mushrooms and green bell pepper to same wok or skillet and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the scallions and stir-fry 1 minute more. Re-turn chicken to wok, togeth-er with reserved marinade, and stir over medium high heat for another 2 to 3 min-utes, or until the ingredients are evenly coated with the glaze. Sprinkle toasted ses-ame seeds on top and serve immediately. Serves 4.

PEANUT AND SESAME NOODLES (pareve)

For peanut dressing• 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter• 1/4 cup soy sauce• 1/3 cup warm water• 2 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger

• 1 heaping teaspoon minced gar-lic

• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar• 1 1/2 tablespoons dark sesame oil

• 2 teaspoons honey• 1 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes

For noodle salad• 3/4 lb dried linguine or spaghet-ti

• 4 green onions, thinly sliced• 1 red bell pepper, cut into 1/8-inch-thick strips

• 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 1/8-inch-thick strips

• 3 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted

Make dressing:In the bowl of a food pro-

cessor or blender combine the dressing ingredients and pro-cess until smooth then transfer to a large bowl.

Make salad:Cook pasta in a 6- to 8-quart

pot of boiling salted water until tender. Drain in a colander, then rinse well under cold water. Add the pasta, scallions, bell peppers, and sesame seeds to dressing, tossing to combine, and serve immediately. Serves 4

Modified from Gourmet June 2002

LEMON AND SESAME DRESSING (pareve)

• 1/2 cup sesame oil • 1 cup honey • 1 cup rice wine vinegar • 2 tablespoons toasted sesame

seeds• 1 tablespoon lemon juice• Zest of 1 lemon • 2 teaspoons minced garlic• Salt and pepper to taste Combine ingredients in a

large jar with a tight fi tting lid and shake well. Refrigerate until ready to use. Shake again before dressing salad. Makes 2 1/2 cups

SESAME TURKEY BURGER (meat)

• 2 lb ground turkey • 3 tablespoon sesame seeds • 2 tablespoon soy sauce • 2 cup sliced green onions (white

and green parts) • 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped

fresh cilantro or parsley• 2 teaspoons minced garlic• 2 tablespoons sesame oil • 3 to 4 cup breadcrumbs • Salt and pepper to taste• Oil for cookingIn a bowl combine the turkey,

sesame seeds, soy sauce, green onions, cilantro, garlic, sesame oil, about 1 teaspoon of salt, and bread crumbs. Cover and let the mixture sit for at least 2 hours for the fl avors to meld. Form the mixture into 6 to 8 patties and brush them with a little oil be-fore cooking (the turkey has very little fat and may stick to the grill pan or grill). Grill for 4 to 5 minutes on each side or un-til the center is hot and no lon-ger pink. Makes 6 to 8

SESAME ASPARAGUS AND BEEF SALAD (meat)

• 2 to 3 lbs. rib steak• 4 to 6 cups sliced fresh aspara-

gus (cut into bite sized pieces)• 3 to 4 tablespoons soy sauce• 2 to 3 tablespoons sesame oil• 1 to 2 tablespoon rice vinegar• 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger• 3 tablespoons sesame seeds• 4 green onions, sliced thin• Chopped romaine lettuce• 3 shredded carrots• Red pepper flakes (optional)Cook steak to desired done-

ness. Cool and cut into thin strips or bite sized pieces.

Cook the asparagus until it’s just crisp tender. Drain and cool. In a bowl combine beef and asparagus and set it aside. In another bowl combine the soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar, ginger and green onions. Mix to combine. Pour the dressing over beef and asparagus. Mix to coat. You can heat this up if you prefer a warm salad. Place the chopped lettuce and shred-ded carrots on a serving plat-ter and spoon the beef and as-paragus over the top. Sprinkle the top with sesame seeds and red pepper if you’re using it and serve warm or at room tempera-ture. Serves 6.

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50/50 |1hr 39min| Rated R|FRI&SAT&SUN: 1:20pm

Anyonymous| 2hr 10min| Rated PG-13FRI&SAT: 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05pm|SUN: 11:05am, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05pm

Please be advised that the Green Acres Theater is closed and therefore, there will no longer be any list-ings for them.

O F L O N D O N

Sunday, October 30thAIDS+CANCER 5K RUN WALK

The Richard M. Brodsky Founda-

tion is holding an AIDS+Cancer 5k

on Sunday in Oceanside Park in

Oceanside at 9:00 a.m. The run

will benefit the treatment of AIDS

and Cancer sufferers and survi-

vors. Those interested may reg-

ister at 5kaidscancer.com. Reg-

istration is free, but the purchase

of a AIDS-Cancer 5k tee shirt is re-

quested to support the cause.

FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL

Woodmere Middle School will be

host for this year’s Fall Harvest

Festival in Woodmere from 1:00

p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event will

feature prizes, giveaways, food

(including kosher), games and

amusements. There will also be

a children’s costume parade with

prizes for all participants, as well

as robotics, dance, music, cooking

and environmental demonstration

and other activities. David Adler,

author of the Cam Jansen series

of children’s books will be making

an appearance. The event is free.

For more information, please visit

HWPSEF.org.

THE SORCERER, IN CONCERT

The Peninsula Public Library will

be hosting The Gilbert and Sulli-

van Light Opera Company of Long

Island’s presentation of The Sor-

cerer at 2:30 p.m. The story re-

volves around the betrothal Alex-

is and Aline and will feature Gilbert

and Sullivan classics such as My

Name Is John Wellington Wells.

Time Was When Love and I Were

Well Acquainted, and Now To The

Banquet We Press. The show is

free for all District 15 residents to

attend, but you must pick up your

tickets up at the library prior to the

show.

Thursday, November 3rdPISSARRO, THE FIRST IM-

PRESSIONIST Join Ines Powell,

art historian and former educator

at The Metropolitan Museum of

Art, will be leading a lecture of im-

pressionist painter Pissarro at the

Peninsula Public Library at 1:00

p.m. Pissarro took his subjects

from rural life, the behavior of the

bourgeoisie, the effects of the in-

dustrial revolution, and daily life in

Paris. This lecture is free for all to

attend.

Sunday, November 5th GLOW IN THE DARK BOOT

CAMP Warren Levi Martial Arts

and Fitness in Cedarhurst is

hosting a “Glow in the Dark Boot

Camp,” that will feature dancing

to music and other fitness exercis-

es, all while glowing in the dark, in

two Sundays time. Registration is

$20 and must be submitted by Oc-

tober 30th. The event, from which

the proceed benefit Kulanu, is for

women only. Call 516-569-0808

to register.

We welcome submission of events of interest to the communi-ty. Please email your event information, including any photos to [email protected].

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4 Boil over, when one tells you breakfast is

ready? (3-5)

10 Bandy about having part of clutch delivered

(3-6)

11 Bar welcoming navy subjected to arson at-

tack (5)

12 Doctor provided note employer finally need-

ed for vagrant (7)

13 Be very keen on use of oars to return to main

vessel (7)

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15 Fool’s given very hard time in this, to be suc-

cinct (8)

18 Refuse to deal with diamonds — on the sur-

face, it’s dodgy (5,3)

20 Knotty problem with load, starting from

north (5)

23 Dance provided with excessive input (7)

25 Depending on having tirade, priest is ac-

cepted (7)

26 Smooth, about to pick up right bottle (5)

27 Dine out, having food brought over, given in-

troduction to haggis here? (9)

28 Risky detonation’s not on — there’s a sim-

ple remedy (8)

29 Edge in via producing introductory book (6)

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(4,4)

2 Bored with canopy, finally got another (7)

3 Smart chap holds one duty-list up, as chanc-

es appear (9)

5 Run away, as failures might? (2,4,3,5)

6 Is one in underground movement, or still veg-

etating? (5)

7 Harry spoils first officer (7)

8 Implement key process for correcting er-

rors (6)

9 Factor restricts dreaming wildly about sec-

ond route to power (14)

16 Cope with pub that’s used by bikers (9)

17 One used to make a living from The Archers

(8)

19 Some profligate revellers turning up hare

about in spring (7)

21 Indian city embarking on vague plan (7)

22 What’s central to sugar production in part

of Africa (6)

24 Basis for getting a grip on wetweather driv-

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PREVIEWSNEAK Late Night HumorThe Best of This Week’s Post 11pm Wit

Jimmy Fallon David Letterman Jay LenoConan O’Brien

David Giuntoli in Grimm

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in The Rum Diary

“They say now that Gaddafi is dead and Michael Jackson is gone, we have enough over-the-top military uniforms to outfi t an entire gay army.”

–Bill Maher

“I’m guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a coun-try where there’s crumbling infrastructure and an igno-rant population, but they said they’re happy to come home anyway.”

–Bill Maher

“Earlier this week, a protest-er at Occupy Wall Street pro-posed to his girlfriend. His exact words were, ‘Will you occupy my parents’ basement with me until I get a job?’”

–Conan O’Brien

“Yesterday the CEO of Citi-group said that he can under-stand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus.”

–Jimmy Fallon

“I love the protests. And if you think about it, what bet-ter way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.”

–David Letterman

“This Occupy Wall Street movement is now in 1,500 places all around the world. I was at the Occupy Bever-ly Hills today. It’s two Jews at Starbucks complaining that the scones aren’t fresh, but still it’s a start.”

–Bill Maher

“The Occupy Wall Street protesters traveled around New York to stand outside the mansions of the most wealthy

people in New York. Is that protesting or tourism?”

–Jimmy Kimmel

‘’Obama called on Ameri-cans to have more grandchil-dren. Probably so there’s more of them to pay off our debt.’’

–Jay Leno

‘’Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a speech urg-ing Arab leaders to enact real reforms. Halfway through the speech, Arab leaders looked at each other and asked, ‘Why is a woman talking?’’’

–Conan O’Brien

‘’Texas Governor Rick Per-ry distanced himself from George W. Bush by saying, ‘I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.’ In other words, his idea of instilling confi dence is by saying, ‘Don’t worry. I’m not as smart as George W. Bush.’’’

–Conan O’Brien

‘’The boyhood home of Bill Clinton has been designated as a National Historic Site. It’s great, but I hope it stops there. Because there are a million places that can say ‘Bill Clin-ton Slept Here.’’’

–Craig Ferguson

‘’Osama Bin Laden’s sup-porters want to rename the Arabian Sea where his body was dumped Martyr Sea. Real-ly? Martyr Sea? Hiding in your bedroom for six years? How about Chicken of the Sea?’’

–Jay Leno

‘’Hillary Clinton says she and her family stay in touch by e-mailing a lot. Bill said, ‘Yeah, that’s why I’m always alone on the computer in my room, e-mailing my family.’’’

–Jimmy Fallon

New on TV

Friday, October 28Grimm: NBC 9:00 p.m. In-

spired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Portland detective, Nick Bur-khardt (David Giuntoli) uncov-ers that he comes from a line of criminal profi lers that are known as “Grimms,” who kept harmony between mythologi-cal creatures and humans. As he dives deeper into the Grimm world, he tries to keep it a se-cret from his fi ancé, Juliette Silverton (Bitsie Tulloch), and partner, Hank Griffi n (Rus-sell Horsnby). He confi des in a changed Grimm creature, Mon-roe (Silas Weir Mitchell). Blut-bads, Hexenbiests, and other ancient evils are just the begin-ning of his problems.

Sunday, October 30Allen Gregory: FOX 8:30 p.m.

Seven-year-old Allen Grego-ry De Longpre is sophisticat-ed, artistic, and a connoisseur of many things. The new an-imated series documents his very mature life. His sophistica-tion can be credited to his dot-ing father, Richard, who Allen’s very close to, but is often inter-rupted by Richard’s life partner, Jeremy. Richard, Jeremy, Allen, and Allen’s adopted Cambodi-an sister, Julie, share a humor-

ous family dynamic in a spa-cious loft.

New in Movies

Friday, October 28In Time: Rated R. In a future

of genetically programmed people who stop aging at 25, people want to stay young for-ever, but need “time credits,” which have to be bought or stolen. The wealthy can live forever because they can buy as many time credits as they need, and the poor struggle to stay young. Star, Will Salas (Jus-tin Timberlake) gets falsely ac-cused of murder, but sets out on a mission to fi ght to survive. Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried), Ra-chel (Olivia Wilde), Borel (John-ny Galecki), Philippe (Vincent Kartheiser) and Raymond (“Cil-lian Murphy”) also star in the fi lm.

The Rum Diary: Rated R. Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), is a journalist who travels to Puer-to Rico to write for a run-down paper. Depp pursues Chenault (Amber Heard) his off-limits and engaged-to-another-man love interest. Co-stars include Sanderson (Aaron Eckhard) and Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). The fi lm is adapted from the novel, The Rum Diary by Hunt-er S. Thompson.

Look Good for Less at

Lonny’sAnimal prints are big this sea-

son, and the Alexis Katerina

Taupe Snake One Shoulder Top

at Lonny’s is the perfect way to

jazz up an ordinary fall wardrobe.

Pair it with a cardigan during the

day, or wear it alone for a night-

out. It’s regularly priced at $252,

but is now on sale for $126.

Loose enough to compliment

different figures, the Vince Loose

Knit Boatneck Sweater at Lon-

ny’s is string-knit and wool, so

it provides a little warmth with-

out the stuffiness. It’s compli-

mented by a bateau neckline and

long sleeves. It’s regularly priced

at $245, but is now on sale for

$122.50.

Lonny’s is located at 1312 Broadway in Hewlett. (516) 569-4884. Lonnys.com

If you’re a local

store with a big sale

going on with some

hot items, feature it in

our On Sale section.

Let us know about it;

email us at news@

standardli.com.

ON SALEBargains Around Town

The Alexis Katerina Taupe Snake One Shoulder Top

The Vince Loose Knit Boatneck Sweater


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Sparkling H/W fl rs, Dining area, Terrace. $129K JANKAL-MAN.COM 516-569-5651Cedarhurst: 4/5 BR, 2.5 Bth Spacious Split, Bsmt,2 Car Gar,CAC, Near All .. $599K PRUDEN-TIAL 516-238-4299Cedarhurst: 3500 Sq Ft of Living Space, Sun-ny Exp Hi Ranch. 5 BR, 3.5 Bth, XLarge EIK & FDR,CAC,Near All..$599K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Cedarhurst: Condo 1 bed, 1 bath, 1st fl $149K MARJORIE HAUSMAN REALTY 516-569-5110Cedarhurst: Townhouse, 3Br, 2.5 Bth, X-Large Master, Full Stand Up Attic, Great Storage…..$475K VI PROPERTIES 516-791-1313Cedarhurst: Charming 3 bdrm col ,attic ,base-ment, lg rooms $410K MILKY FORST PROPER-TIES 516-239-0306Cedarhurst: Expanded cape with main level den 3 bdrms $349K MILKY FORST PROPERTIES 516-239-0306Cedarhurst: Mint 3-4BR 1 1/2bth bright spa-cious Col. EIK, FDR, LR/fpl, Den, 1st fl r, lndry rm, cath ceilgs, hardwd fl rs, lge backyard. Full bsmt. Great loc. $649,000. 516-569-6560East Rockaway: Enjoy The Natural Beauty Of This Cont. Waterfront Home!Open Layout Leads To Mag. 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FSBO 516-569-6579Hewlett Bay Park: Colonial, 7 Br, 2.55 Bths, Atri-um w/spa, Palladium Window, New Bath, Cul-De-Sac, SD#14…….$1.499M VI PROPERTIES 516-791-1313Hewlett Harbor: Private Hideaway on Over 2 Acres! 5 Br,6.5 Bth Colonial,200’ of Bulkhead & Dock,IG Pool, Tennis Ct...$3,450M PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Hewlett Harbor: 4 br’s, btful prop $1,050M MARJORIE HAUSMAN REALTY 516-569-5110Hewlett Harbor: What A Steal! 5 BR, 3.5 Bth Split w/ Golf Course View, Full Bsmt,SD#14..$899K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Hewlett Harbor: Fabulous location in Heart of Hewlett Harbor, 6BR, 3.5Bth Exp Ranch,Listening to All Off ers All Off ers........$949K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Hewlett Harbor: Elegant & Grand 5 BR, 4.5 Bth Split,Over 1/2 Acre Prop, Poss M/D/Per-mits......$999 PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Hewlett Harbor: BOATERS DREAM HOME! Dia-mond Waterfront Contemporary, 6 BR, 5.5 Bth, Open Floor Plan, SD#14...$2,495M PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299Hewlett Harbor: Original Balin Expanded Ranch On Beautiful Corner Property. 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Large Sunroom. Rentable 3Br,2Ba Car-riage House. $1,680,000 MORTON HAVES 516-374-0100Lawrence: THE PLAZA: Spacious Junior 4. Presti-gious Building. 24 Hour Doorman, Indoor Park-ing & Pool. Renovated Lobby, Elev., Laundry Room & Storage On Same Floor. Freshly Painted, Refi nished Floors, 3 Walk In Closets, Double Ter-race Overlooking Central Courtyard. Quiet Loca-tion. $359,000 MORTON HAVES 516-374-0100Lawrence: THE PLAZA: 2br 2ba in Prestigious building w/24hr doorman, security, indoor parking & pool. Elevator, laundry room & stor-age on the same fl oor, Many closets $449,000 MORTON HAVES 516-374-0100Lawrence: Lovely Sunny 1BR, 1.5 Bath Con-do, Handicap Accessible Shower, Washer/Dry-er, 24hr Doorman, Elevator Bldg…$375K PU-GATCH REALTY 516-295-3000Lawrence: 7 br Col,2 story living rm, 3/4 acre $1.9M MARJORIE HAUSMAN REALTY 516-569-5110Lawrence: 2br Co-Op updated EIK, 2 bths $199K MARJORIE HAUSMAN REALTY 516-569-5110Lawrence: Co-op, Elevator building, 1 Bed-room, 1 Bath, Lr/ Dr, New Kit, Hardwood fl oors. $149,000. LORI & ASSOCIATES (516)791-8300Lawrence: Very aff ordable! Lovely 1Bedroom, 1st fl oor garden apt.H/W fl rs, Hunter-Doug-las window treatment. Gar. Reduced! $99,000 JANKALMAN.COM 516-569-5651Long Beach: 2 BR, 2 Bth Renovated Ocean-front Co-op w/ Terrace Overlooking Pool, New Gym, 24 Hr Security..$399K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299North Woodmere: NEW! 4/5 BR,2.5 Bth Splanch on O/S Prop, CAC,HW fl rs, 2 Car Gar, SD#14..$589K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299North Woodmere: New! 4 BR,3 Bth Raised Ranch w/ Waterview, Spac Rms, CAC, Low Taxes..$499K PRUDENTIAL 516-238-4299North Woodmere: Spac Split, 4BR One Lev-el, 2.5Bth, EIK, Cath Ceiling LR, FDR, Den, Fin Bsmt,CAC, 2 Car Gar, SD#15......$629K PRUDEN-TIAL 516-238-4299North Woodmere: Split, 4 Br, 3Bth, Fin. Base-ment, Plyrm, SD#14……$599K VI PROPERTIES 516-791-1313North Woodmere: Split, 3Br, 2.5 Bth, Located in a Cul-De-Sac, Granite Kitchen, Closet Galore, X-Large Family Rm, SD#14……$560K VI PROPER-TIES 516-791-1313North Woodmere: SD.14 Stunning all renov Ranch. 3+BRs, 3Bths. Huge fi n bsmt w/playrm, BR,Bthrm $479K JANKALMAN.COM 516-569-5651North Woodmere: Beaut 4BR,2.5Bth H/R. 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Flying with Kids 101CONTINUED FROM P. A10




Once she calmed down, she slept for almost ten hours, in-cluding landing. We actually had to wake her to get her to disem-bark.

Our arrival on board had not gone unnoticed, as we fi lled two rows of seats. One wom-an could not hide her horri-fi ed face as we trudged through the aisle on our way to the as-signed seats. She, however, had been sitting in the front of the plane as the custom of many airlines is to sit those with small children in the rear of the air-craft. “Don’t worry,” I said to her, “we’re sitting in the back.” The gentleman walking in front of me turned around and said, “Then I guess I should worry – I’m sitting in the back, too.” I raised my shoulders. “Guess so,” I said, knowing full well my kids are good fl yers, but having no interest in letting him off the hook that easily.

“You don’t seem like a parent who is fazed by much of any-

thing,” someone said to me re-cently, specifi cally about taking my family on a long fl ight. “No,” I confi rmed. “I’m really not.” Nei-ther is my husband. She, on the other hand, had just told her el-dest that they went nowhere as a family until everyone was toi-let trained. I appreciated that, knowing just how much fun it is to change a toddler on a mov-ing aircraft at 30,000 feet us-ing a changing table meant for Cabbage Patch Kids. In my case, however, if I waited for every-one to be toilet trained before we traveled, we would never leave the house.

A plane is like a moving city. Everything needed is available on board, and no one gets off until all get off. The result is a captive audience, or just cap-tives. The reality is that passen-gers on a fl ight are all in it to-gether. No one wants to have an unpleasant experience, and no one wants to be labeled a “bad parent.” It is what it is – and you just have to make the best of it.

After arriving home safely, I happened to meet someone in the supermarket who had been on our fl ight. “I guess you did not get any sleep,” he said. Confused, I said I had slept for a number of hours, only to real-ize what he had assumed. “The screaming child was not my daughter,” I said. A bit surprised, he said, “Really?” I smiled. Hav-ing had a very diffi cult fl ight, we empathized with the family of the screaming baby and the sick child who watched the minutes tick by, praying the fl ight would end quickly. He agreed, having been there himself as a parent, adding however that he’d take a screaming child on a plane over the problems faced by older kids any day. “Big kids, big problems,” I said, “little kids, little prob-lems.” We smiled.

I felt for that family, but was honestly happy it was not me. He and I spoke for a couple min-utes more, confusion cleared. “So, since she was not your kid,” he said, “man, did she have a set of lungs or what?!”

ity is to pay for municipal ser-vices. We are the highest taxed county in the nation; we haven’t had the ability to pay additional taxes for some time. Of course, the reality is also that school tax-es account for 60 percent to 70 percent of our total tax bill. And much of which is stated above in county government also ap-plies to our teachers.

No one is opposed to any-one earning a fair salary. Every-one wants to see their neighbor succeed and do well. Howev-er, in the end it is the taxpayer that has to pay for the salaries and benefi ts of their munici-pal union neighbors, and they are doing all that in this down economy. It seems that in

many cases municipal unions have created their own fi ef-doms, in a sense, and there is no one there to protect the tax-payer.

So where do we go from here? The Republican Majori-ty here in Nassau, despite a $310 million dollar defi cit, has drawn a line in the sand which our Federal Government and other governments should adhere to. We are going to fi x the county fi nances without raising taxes. It is tough as heck to do this. If the unions won’t help us, then there will be massive layoffs, which is going to change the face of the county for years to come. However, what choice do we have? There is no mon-ey left. To fi x the problem, if we were to raise taxes which we are

not, would require a 36 percent tax increase.

In the end government has to start to live in the same world in which the taxpayers who foot the bill live. Despite what it may seem, this is not us ver-sus them. In the end we have to come together and fi x the prob-lem together. We need to min-imize any layoffs, because that is counterproductive in the long run. Where we go from here is to stop the spending and stop creating programs that can’t be paid for. In addition, the public must demand from their elect-ed offi cials accountability in the sense of what they consider to be the entitlements they receive. If this can be accomplished our future will be bright and our best days ahead of us.

tronage. According to the same Newsday article, “[N]ine Hemp-stead Animal Shelter employees –one third of the full-time staff – were paid more than $100,000 in 2010. Eight of them have GOP ties. Of those, six were elected to Nassau GOP commit-tee seats in 2009, the last year elections were held. Three hold or have held leadership posts at GOP clubs. All but one has do-nated repeatedly to the local party, to Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, or to both, records show.” Read-ing the Newsday article, I be-came concerned.

But alas, who am I? I am merely a small business owner

and family man trying to make ends meet. Because of my con-cerns, however, Mr. Santino, as-serts that you should not lis-ten to me “ever.” Too often in politics we are told by politi-cians that all is well and that we should keep our mouths shut while they take care of us. Un-fortunately, in many instances, this is by individuals who have not run a business and who have never had to sacrifi ce sal-ary for the betterment of their employees. Instead, they are government employees, whose salaries will always be met by the taxpayer.

For those of us who run a small business, for those of us who have had to sacrifi ce salary and savings and for those of us

fi ghting to provide for our fam-ilies, I do not think it too much to ask that our government sup-port our efforts by lowering taxes and lessening the size of government. We can begin by ending patronage in the Town and in the County.

For having the temerity to raise my voice, however, Mr. Santino has accused me of be-ing, among other things, uneth-ical. This, of course, is not Mr. Santino’s fi rst time calling out someone who dares question the regime. Well, nice try Mr. Santino, but I will not be bul-lied. You claim that residents de-serve better than the concerns I expressed. Well Mr. Santino, I am not the one holding the purse strings.

er forgot that elected offi cials are elected by the people they serve, and that to be elected by the people, the people needed to be served. Mr. O’Neill encapsulat-ed the idea that the power of the people originates in America’s cities, neighborhoods, streets, and homes. Mr. D’Amato was giv-en his nickname because he nev-er forgot that serving the people often means doing something as simple as fi lling potholes.

At a time when Nassau Coun-ty’s budget hole seems bottom-less, and the political stakes seem like they’ve never been higher, Legislator Kopel took the time to worry that one of the people he serves could get hit by a train or electrocuted because of some-thing as simple and serious as a missing fence. Earlier this year, Legislator Kopel remembered to check up on a hazardous dump-ster in Woodmere, and when he realized the problem still wasn’t fi xed to his satisfaction, he took the time to see that it was.

Maybe these sound like lit-

tle things, but like Mr. O’Neill and Mr. D’Amato, Legislator Ko-pel understands that those little things add up to a better quality of life for the people he serves. In the upcoming election, many people will consider not to vote because they don’t see how their one little vote can make a differ-ence. I urge those people to look to Legislator Kopel and reconsid-er, as his example is proof that those little things quickly add up in a big way.

Thanks,Dawn Ackerman

Cedarhurst

Willing to Cut Salary if Elected

To the Editor,The Town of Hempstead pay-

roll is rife with political patron-age and cronyism that waste tax-payer’s dollars. As some media outlets have reported, there are many examples of relatives of elected offi cials or Republican Party leaders being put on the payroll and given exorbitant rais-es shortly after their hiring.

As Supervisor, I would end

this practice: no more lavish rais-es for political appointees. To extend upon this and to lead by example, I would cut my own salary by 25 percent and reduce that of other senior offi cials in my administration by 10 percent. This is a dramatic difference be-tween me and the incumbent supervisor, who has gives herself a pay raise every two years; ever since she was appointed in 2003.

At the same time, I would pro-tect civil service employees -- the rank and fi le personnel who carry out the Town’s day-to-day function -- from politically moti-vated hiring or fi ring. Civil ser-vice employees would be hired and retained based solely on merit, as the law requires.

In an environment where jobs are number one on peo-ple’s minds, we need a Hemp-stead town government that has the interests of all the people at heart, not just the well-connect-ed few. In a Port administration, the common good would trump partisan politics.

Gary Port

Democratic Candidate for Town Supervisor

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Compassionate Five Towns Clowns Lifting SpiritsBY SUSAN VARGHESE

Standard Associate Editor

Painted faces topped with bright red noses, juggling and light-heart-

ed banter are all synonymous with clowns, but the therapeu-tic clowns of Lev Leytzan offer more than just whimsical tricks. Their purpose is to visit hospi-tals, nursing homes, hospices, and even go abroad to offer hope and smiles for the elderly and se-riously ill.

Lev Leytzan: The Heart of Compassionate Clowning, Inc., was founded by Neal Goldberg, Ph.D. Goldberg, Woodmere resi-dent, co-authored a book in 2004 on grief and bereavement called “Saying Goodbye,” which eventu-ally led him to clowning.

“It was a powerful project try-ing to make sense of coping with serious loss. After the project, it sort of struck me that there was a lot of energy that was needed to help people live life more ful-ly,” Goldberg said. “I took a long,

refl ective moment and went to my background in psychology and musical theater. “ Goldberg became a medical clown in 2004 and realized the power it held. “I really look at the medical clown-ing as helping individual and pa-tients. The thought is that laugh-ter has the power to heal -- a universal language that works for oneself and the people we’re connecting with. “

Lev Leytzan has various pro-grams including; Clowns for Safe-

ty, which provides fi re and burn prevention and safety program-ming, International Therapeutic Clown Corps, who travel to East-ern Europe and Israel through-out the year and focus on work-ing with holocaust survivors and communities with underser-viced social service needs, and El-derHearts, their newest initiative which professionals work with those who have Alzheimer’s dis-ease and dementia. ElderHearts is being spear-headed by co-di-rector, Rachel Pill, L.C.S.W.

“We use a lot of non-directed play and engagement and im-provisation. It’s not perform-ing,” Goldberg said. “We empow-er people we work with to create imaginative and magical mo-ments.”

Two local students and Law-rence residents, Yoni Katz and Eli Pollack are also clowns for Lev Leytzan.

Katz, is 17-year-old senior at DRS and has been clowning since eighth grade.

“It was the time of my Bat

Mitzvah…my mom found out about it and she asked if I want-ed to do it. I said yeah, because I’m considered the funny one in the family. I fell in love with it and been with it since then.” They undergo one year of train-ing, which is usually every Sun-day, and they also visit hospitals and homes on Sundays, too.

“We go anywhere that peo-ple need a smile and forget their emotional physical or any pain. I’ve been on two international

trips and I’m planning to go on my third. I’ve been to Munich, Hungary and Israel. I’ve visited holocaust survivors at an adult home. It was good to connect with the past, but it was sad to see.”

After living in the Five Towns, Katz said that his experience with Lev Letzyan has given him a different view of life. “When you’re in The Five Towns, you’re pretty much sheltered. When I was in Munich and I saw holo-caust survivors…we can’t imag-ine what that’s like. The world’s a crazy place,” Katz said knowl-edgably. “We go wherever were needed. I work hard in school and I do my best to balance both. You can get some long nights, but it’s worth it in the end.”

Pollack is a seventeen-year-old senior at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov and has been clowning for about four years. Pollack recalled train-ing and explained that they’re trained on various aspects includ-ing understanding the mental and emotional aspects, slapstick comedy, juggling, and “clown stuff.” Although he goes to school six days a week, he tries to fi t in clowning on several Sundays a month, when his schedule al-lows. He’s been to Munich and Israel and recalled visiting the holocaust survivors. “ It was pretty intense, considering my grandparents were also survi-vors,” Pollack said.

It takes about half an hour to put on make-up and the cos-tume (which they make them-selves), Pollack explained. “A lot of people tell me I’m a cute clown,” he said bashfully with a smile.

“I like making people hap-py. [Visiting people] gives me appreciation for what I have, and I’m blessed with— I’m healthy.” His favorite part, though, is being mischievous. “In the hospital, I was talking through the hallway, I took the fi re extinguisher out, and [deliberately] walked past the receptionist’s desk. She was laughing.”

Goldberg noted that al-though both of the boys are different people, they both have important characteris-tics. “They’re both special peo-ple who are able to bring a lot of light, play and hope to peo-ple. Eli is very light and whim-sical. Yoni is deep and cerebral and uses that to engage people differently.”

One similarity is that both Katz and Pollack recalled hav-ing touching moments with kids that they’ve made an im-pact on. Pollack remembered a terminally ill child and a visit

to his home. “There was one kid, who was kind of unresponsive. We sang and gave him a present,” Katz said. “He smiled a little and he enjoyed it. On our way out the family was thanking us so much, they couldn’t thank us enough. We found out later that those

were his last moments. It makes you feel good knowing that you can make even someone’s last moments special.”

Lev Leytzan’s eight annual hos-pital clown training program has an open house and fall registra-tion on Sunday, October 30. The

boys session is from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and the girls session is from 8:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. The open house is located at 5 Holly Lane in Lawrence. For more infor-mation, call Neal Goldberg at (516) 612-3264 or Rachel Pill at (516) 612-3787. Levleytzan.org.

Neal Goldberg pictured with other Lev Leytzan clowns

Pictured are Mendy Rubin, Avi Ballabon, Chaim Dov Cohen, Yoni Katz, Ellie Szpigiel, Eli Pollack, and Benji Fink

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RE-ELECTLegislator Howard J. Kopel

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www.howardkopel.comRepublican, Independence, Conservative, Tax Revolt

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Legislator Howard J. KopelPromises Made… Promises Kept

Here’s what Legislator Howard J. Kopel, our community advocate, has accomplished for us:

• Supported two consecutive no tax increase budgets

• Cut county spending over $170 million

• Turned a $134 million deficit inherited from the pre-vious administration into a $26.6 million surplus in his first year in office.

• Worked to eliminate the unfair 2.5% tax on home energy and electricity

• Eliminated unnecessary patronage jobs and cut the size of the county workforce to its lowest levels since the 1950s

• Stopped annual reassessments and made it easier for residents to grieve unfair and incorrect property value assessments

Howard Kopel isn’t a professional politician. He’s a local businessman who ran for the County Legislature two years ago, promising to make the tough decisions necessary to cut spending, reform Nassau’s assessment system, and reverse the habit of endless tax hikes that were making Nassau unaffordable for our working families and seniors.

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