The Garden City News (7/30/21)

ROCKIN’ SEVENTH STREET

The FiveStone Band and the New York Belles kept Seventh Street lively during the “Christmas in July” Friday night promenade on July 23rd. Upcoming themes are “Back to the Eighties” on July 30th and “Garden City State of Mind” on August 6th.

Adelphi to require student vaccinations for fall semester

Adelphi University has announced that it will require all students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus for the fall 2021 semester. The university said its decision is based on updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, which reported a surge in COVID cases due to the Delta variant. According to the CDC,

more than 83 percent of new cases in the United States are from the Delta variant.

The school said according to research 97 percent of hospital admissions are among unvaccinated people.

In its announcement, the school noted that although it has an existing incentive program to encourage students to get vaccinated, as of now,

BY RIKKI MASSAND

The Board of Trustees’ July 15, 2021 meeting featured a presentation on a traffic study of Cathedral Avenue, which has been the subject of heavy concern at both the Traffic Commission and the Central Property Owners Association meetings during the last three years.

Cathedral Avenue today is a 44-foot-wide roadway which has four, 11-foot-wide travel lanes (two northbound and two southbound). It has no turning lanes and no shoulders; the area is largely residential with residential driveways along the stretch in Garden City, and there is a 30 mile per hour speed limit. The LIRR grade crossing west of the Garden City Public Library intersects with Cathedral, and there are five-foot-wide sidewalks along the road, The Cathedral of the Incarnation sits along a four-block area of Cathedral Avenue. The road is owned by Nassau County.

Consultants Creighton Manning pointed out that Cathedral Avenue was and is already “Road Dieted” in the Village of Hempstead, immediately south of Garden City.

To perform a Road Diet and traffic calming study, Creighton Manning Engineering had to adjust the data of a March 2021 study to match more closely with data from 2019, pre-pandemic, as the effects of the pandemic on the local traffic were calculated. The data collection performed in March was a 24-hour record of traffic data during the week of March 7 through 13, at two locations along Cathedral. Turning Movement Counts (TMC) were done at nine intersections involving Cathedral Avenue, and Creighton Manning noted that local Garden City schools were in-session when the data was being collected.

Ten year projection of traffic trends

only 26 percent of students had uploaded proof of full vaccination. Students who are fully vaccinated are eligible for $25 gift cards and are entered into a raffle for prizes including: a reserved parking spot, tickets to Mets and Yankees games, tickets to an Adelphi Performing Arts Center performance, and LIRR round trip tickets to New York City. See page 41

What Filiciotto presented on July 15 was an adjusted model to predict traffic for the next 10 years. The analysis included scenarios of Nassau County and Garden City deciding on “Dieting” or “Not-Dieting” Cathedral Avenue.

“This study is based on 2019 adjusted data and represents pre-pandemic conditions if COVID never happened. But our analysis then goes even further. Typically in traffic engineering you do not just want to analyze what’s existing; you want to look several years out to the future to confirm that projects can work. We’ve evaluated for five and 10 years from now, looking with an analysis

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Are mask mandates returning?

As we head into August, and illnesses from the pandemic are again rising, a big unanswered question is what precautions schools will have to take when they open in September.

Earlier this month the CDC said that vaccinated students and teachers could go without masks in the fall, but that was before the Delta variant started to take off. This week the CDC reversed itself and said that people in counties with substantial transmission should wear masks indoors. This includes Nassau and Suffolk.

New York State has not, as yet, issued mandates to school districts about masks and other precautions, but you can bet that when it does there will be many parents who will be unhappy.

We just hope that parents don’t take that anger out on members of the school board or the schools administration.

As was outlined by an attorney for the district at a recent meeting, if the state education department requires something, districts have no option but to follow the mandate. To defy the state would mean that administrators could be fired and lose their licenses, board members could be removed by the state commissioner of education, and the district would be forced to comply.

If you don’t like a mandate, aim your anger at the state, not at the local volunteers on the school board. Better yet, offer your creative solutions to help make the best of the situation.

Email: Editor@GCNews.com

Return residents to streets

To the Editor:

Diners, in my opinion, eat at restaurants for the quality of food, service and price. And, although prices have increased, if the food and service remain at pre-covid levels, patrons will, and are, returning to these restaurants. Having a table outside may be a nice option, but not the primary --- or even secondary-- reason for selecting a meal away from home.

Return to our residents the streets, parking spaces and, hopefully, half our sidewalks.

It’s about time to consider Garden City residents and our needs. We eat out too.

Cynthia D. Brown

Keeping garden in Garden City

To the Editor:

There have been a number of comments posted on the online version the the GC News in recent weeks, all evidencing the fact that the Village’s high standards in maintaining the appearance of Garden City have been seriously eroded in recent years. Among the evidence provided is: Poorly maintained public spaces including green spaces and planting beds that are not properly maintained. (See the area around the bust of Stewart in the GC LIRR lot as one example, overgrown grass and weeds everywhere). Failure to enforce Village ordinances regarding when trash and recycling should be put out at the curb. ( And it is always the same houses.) For Sale signs placed on the front lawns of houses (Hilton, the Mott). Cars parked in driveways that block sidewalks. (Always the same houses.) The terrible conditions in parking lots 7S at the top of the list, litter, weeds are the new normal there and the Village, despite repeated requests and statements that trash bins were to be installed there, never followed through. Rusting historic-styled lamp posts along Franklin.

The Village administration has been

made aware of many of these issues, repeatedly.

What is going on? Village officials need to reassess the decision to outsource landscaping services, become proactive in enforcing existing ordinances and ensure that Garden City is maintained as it was in the past.

Linda Ryan

Failure of leadership

To The Editor:

“A stunning failure of leadership” that “will harm both the village and the region.”

That is how the lead editorial in Newsday on July 23 described the FABGC decision to withhold work permits for the Denton Avenue Bridge that are needed to complete the third track project.  FABGC then issued a “ransom note” (MTA’s words) demanding MTA pay the village $10 million to secure the permit, which Newsday called “horrifying.”

Aside from wasting $100,000 in legal fees in a quixotic quest to remove the utility poles (which the judge promptly rebuffed as two law firms predicted), this latest FAB Five PR stunt is likely to jeopardize other benefits MTA/LIRR had offered the village, such as about $1 million for landscaping and other mitigation measures.

The “monster poles” and Merillon Avenue Station construction work are certainly unsightly and very aggravating.  However, the village will benefit from the third-track project in many ways, including an improved commuting experience and direct access the Grand Central Station, which will help increase property values.  Rather than pandering to and exploiting the understandable frustration of GC residents, the FAB Five should try being honest with the residents:  The third track and poles are a reality that is frustrating on one level, but will have many long-term benefits.  And please stop wasting our money and debasing our good name. Just try the truth:  We can handle it! Robert Foxen

Zoom discussion:

Ethical issues in our times

Should we be allowed to choose any personal identity or group affiliation we want? If not, why not?

In this age of individual freedom, many are claiming the right to decide their gender preferences. Others who are “said” to be white have asserted to be African-American, one such person using such a designation even serving as a head of a NAACP chapter, while others who are “said” to be Black have “passed” for white. Another, a respected scholar of indigenous peoples and cultures has been attacked for claiming native American identity while no tribe recognizes her declaration as legitimate. Why can we not choose our personal identity and group membership, and identify with whatever

group as we so choose? What limitations should constrain us? And are these to be cultural norms or legal requirements? What then are the appropriate limitations to our individual freedom and self-determination?

This zoom discussion, led by Ethical Humanist Society of LI member Dr. David Sprintzen, emeritus professor of philosophy at LIU, will take place Thursday, August 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. on Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/896985586

This is August installment of “Ethical Issues in Our Times”: a joint effort of the Ethical Society of Long Island and the Humanists of Long Island.

To register, contact the EHSLI office at 516-741-7304, or office@ehsli.org.

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GCFD fire chief installed

Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin (third right) and Councilman Tom Muscarella (second left) congratulated Devyn Moody, incoming chief of the Garden City Fire Department, during the organization’s Installation Dinner on July 10, at Jericho Terrace in Mineola. Also attending were Garden City Police Commissioner Kenny Jackson, Garden City Village Trustee Colleen Foley and New York State Assemblyman Ed Ra.

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The voting debate

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

A significant debate has broken out over voting procedures in the 50 states, although the controversy has probably produced more heat than light.

Let me first start out by reiterating that I do not accept former President Donald Trump’s assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from him.  There is no proof of the level of voter fraud that would have been sufficient to overturn President Biden’s margins in key swing states.  On the available evidence, Joseph R. Biden is our duly elected President.

Nevertheless, 2020 was a different type of election.  While the turnout in the prior three elections was relatively flat (the 2008 election had 131.4 million voters, the 2012 election had 129.1 million and  the 2016 election had 136.8 million), the turnout in 2020, suddenly leaped to over 159 million.  Although  deep affection or disaffection for Donald Trump undoubtedly played a role in hyping participation, it is also true that election procedures were changed in a number of key states.

German is for Everyone

In Pennsylvania, for example, mail ballots could be requested until election day. Ballots could be counted up to three days after election day, even without a clear postmark.  Drop boxes were permitted, over Republican objections about ballot security   In Michigan, applications for absentee ballots were sent out to all registered voters and not just voters who requested an application.  Residents could register in person on election day.  A number of jurisdictions permitted so-called ballot harvesting, the gathering by third parties of mail in votes.

Even if the many changes cannot be demonstrated to have produced provable fraud, that does not mean  that they are desirable or that they do not add temptation to the process.  Floods of last minute mail votes can defeat signature checking.  Sending ballot applications to those who did not request them produces the possibility of fraudulent applications.  Election day registration is not consistent with verification of the identity of the voter.  Drop boxes certainly present the possibility of fraud when unattended.

Moreover, Democrats have historically opposed much if any voter identification.  (For example, except for first time voters, New Yorkers can show up to the polls and vote just by scrawling a signature next to a name in the books.)   Almost most every democratic nation requires voters to identify themselves, but not in much of the United States.  This is in a country where ID is required, for example, to purchase cigarettes, or to enter federal buildings.

Each no doubt motivated by political self-interest, both Republicans and Democrats have reacted to the vast increase in voter participation in 2020.  Republicans have taken a more restrictive approach in the various states where they control the government, for example strengthening identification requirement, limiting the mailing of ballots to those who request them, restricting drop boxes and to some degree limiting early voting.  Despite claims that these new law are new Jim Crow measures, they really (with a few minor exceptions) tinker around the edges of voting procedures.

Democrats for their parts passed in the House of Representatives HR1, the so-called For the People law, which would federalize voting law, establish automatic voter registration, provide for federal financing of campaigns and disallow partisan redistricting.  This bill will not pass the Senate unless the filibuster rule is repealed or modified.

I do not believe that voting law is properly entrusted to the federal government in most cases, and I think there would be substantial court challenges in the event that the Democratic initiatives were to succeed in Congress and states were required to implement their provisions.

In a less partisan time, what might make sense would be a bipartisan commission that proposes a model voting law to be adopted by various state legislatures that establishes reasonable best practices, for example the number of days of early voting and cutoff dates for registration.  Unfortunately, even though the obvious policy goal is to make voting both relatively easy and very secure, this will continue to be a partisan battleground.

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Garden City Real Estate Market Information

18 Chestnut Street

RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN GARDEN CITY

The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes presented were selected based solely on the fact that they were recently sold. Mortgage Rates this week from www.bankrate.com Loan

Sold price: $1,601,500

Date: 07/27/2021

Style: Colonial 4 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 1 half bath

Lot Size: .24 acres

Total taxes: $21,677

MLS number: 3302682

The Seller’s Team: Elizabeth Breslin, Coach Realtors Fennessy Associates

The Buyer’s Team: Laura Carroll, Compass Greater NY

Elegant and inviting Dutch Colonial in the Country Life Press section of the village. This designer showcase home is a quick stroll to the center of town as well as the Long Island Railroad. The house is nicely appointed with all the features that a discerning buyer requires. The eat in kitchen is beautifully designed for function and flexibility and offers luxury stainless steel appliances, generous sized center island and an abundance of counterspace and cabinetry. 2nd level level boasts a glamourous primary master suite with generous closets and a bath perfect for pampering. 2 comfortably sized bedrooms share a jack and jill bathroom with two vanities, the fourth bedroom has a private ensuite bath. The family room and bar area are located on the lower level. Completing this level is an office space, full bath, laundry and mudroom. The 100 x 100 lot size accommodates plentiful greenspace and a large deck with pergola, perfect for relaxation and alfresco dining

Tanners Pond Road

The Seller’s Team: Stephen and Laura Baymack, Coach Realtors Fennessy Associates

The Buyer’s Team: Cheryl Adams McAuliffe and Mary Weille, Coach Realtors Fennessy Associates

This lovely Cape Cod style home features a spacious living room with a fireplace that flows into the dining room and there is an updated kitchen with white cabinetry and granite counter tops. A primary bedroom, a full bathroom and 2 additional bedrooms that can serve as a den or office complete the first floor. The second floor boasts 2 nicely sized bedrooms that are serviced by a full hall bathroom. The basement features a spacious recreation room, a gym area, a laundry room and ample storage space. There are 4 zones of heat, 1 zone of central air conditioning and beautiful hardwood floors throughout. The home is conveniently located near the school, park, shopping and transportation. The location, flexible floor plan and overall condition make this an exceptional value!

Sold Price: $975,000

Date: 07/22/2021

Style: Colonial 8 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 1 half bath

Lot Size: .14 acres

Total taxes: $20,199

MLS number: 3307462

The Seller’s Team: Alfred Kohart, Daniel Gale Associates

The Buyer’s Team: Ann Collins, Daniel Gale Associates

Beautifully Maintained Side Hall Colonial with space for everyone, A total of 8 large bedrooms. Including two primary bedrooms with ensuite baths on 2nd floor and 3 additional bedrooms and a hall bath with tub. 3rd floor has 3 bedrooms and a hall bath with separate thermostat if used as a guest/nanny suite or home offices. There is storage in the attic space. The main floor consists of a large formal Living Room / wood burning Fire Place, formal Dining Room that can accommodate 10 to 12 easily. Eat in kitchen with 2 dishwashers and a large eating area for 10, plus a pantry and coffee bar. Family room has a gas fireplace and adjoining powder room. Basement consists of a rec room, laundry with two washers and dryers. and a utility room. There is lots of closet space throughout the house. Must be seen to be appreciated.

Houses featured on this page were sold by various real estate

Garden City | 107 Salisbury Avenue | $1,399,000

4 BR, 3 BA | Web# 3299053

Garden City Office: O 516.307.9406

Under Contract | Garden City | $1,449,000

3 BR, 3 BA | Web# 3302648

Dana Eaton: M 516.458.7302

Jill Palmeri: M 516.375.2631

Under Contract | Garden City | $825,000

3 BR, 2 BA, 1 HALF BA | Web# 3313088

Katarzyna Kamer: M 917.548.7106

Catherine Gerspach: M 516.238.2771

Quigley: M 516.236.7996

Linda Brunning: M 516.728.4800

Contract | Stewart Manor | $634,999 3 BR, 1 BA , 1 HALF BA | Web# 3313672 Michelle McArdle: M 516.306.4134 Under Contract | Garden City | $800,000 3 BR, 2 BA | Web# 3321299

Christina Riccobono: M 516.524.1597 Stewart Manor | 146 Argyle Road | $775,000 3 BR, 1 BA, 1 HALF BA | Web# 3323722 Michelle McArdle: M 516.306.4134

GC Casino holds annual Presidents’ Dinner

Book Signing Aug 2 – Join Us

An inspiring love story by long-time Garden City resident

Proceeds support the cure for lung cancer. Book available now on Amazon: TheAnniversaryBox.com

Hosted by Prost Grill and Garten 652 Franklin Ave, Garden City Monday, August 2 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm Buy a book – Get a Free Barb’s Beer!

On Friday evening, June 18, the Garden City Casino held its annual Presidents’ Dinner honoring those club members that have served as the President of the Board of Governors. This year’s dinner was hosted by the current president, Andrew Wozniak, and was attended by current Board

of Governor members and their spouses, along with past presidents representing over sixty years of service. The annual event gives members that have served the Club a chance to share good memories and stories about their time serving at the Casino.

This was Garden City’s first public library, located in this small house at the far east end of Seventh Street (later torn down). It began as a volunteer effort by some determined women and proved so popular it was taken over by the village. In 1956 the library was moved into the former Garden City Company building by the railroad station. In 1973, a new modern library was built just to the left and the old Garden City Company building was torn down and replaced with today’s library parking lot.

Interestingly, in the early 1950’s when the idea of a public library was floated a letter to the G.C. News asked “Why do we need a public library? Doesn’t everyone have a library in their home?” Actually many homes did have a room in their home like that. Then came television!! The library room became the “T.V. room” or “den” and so the timing in 1952 of a public library is not a coincidence.

168 Sackville Road, Garden City

$2,199,000 • 4 Bed • 3 Bath • 1 Half Bath

OPEN HOUSE | Saturday, 7/31 11:00-1:00PM

Grand Multi-Level Colonial on secluded midblock location in the heart of the Estates near Stratford Elementary School. Fully renovated in 2021, this 3600 square foot custom-built home by Pryde Contracting has every bell and whistle. Including 9’ kitchen island with leathered quartz stone, Viking appliances, stainless steel farm sink, vaulted ceilings, mudroom, and central vacuum. Open concept living with grand kitchen and family room combination including gas fireplace, perfect for entertainment. Full level Primary Bedroom Floor with double walk-in closets, spa-style bathroom with generously-sized walk-in shower. Lush landscaped 60x110 property with paver stone patio.

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86 5th Street, Garden City, NY

$3,900,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath | 1 Half Bath

Get ready to Fall in Love with this fully renovated masterpiece! This 6000+ SQFT 6 bedroom, 6.5 bath residence situated on .7 acres, balances size and extreme quality, with a floor plan and functionality that creates a feeling which conveys “home”. The owners have spared no expense and have designed each room with the finest finishes offering a sophisticated Manhattan vibe.

Step inside and experience perfection. The impressive 2 story entry foyer leads to the chic lounge centered around a charming wood-burning fireplace. Entertain your family and guests in the magnificent formal dining room with coffered ceiling. The renovated gourmet kitchen is equipped with custom cabinetry, gorgeous custom hood, quartz countertops & backsplash, Sub-Zero fridge, Viking & Miele appliances, a massive island with waterfall breakfast bar, pantry, and wet bar. This drool-worthy kitchen opens to a spacious breakfast area with french doors leading you to the enormous backyard, which includes 2 patios, a lovely portico, built-in BBQ & a brick firepit. A stunning great room with custom textured walls, large private office, powder room, new full bath, and mudroom complete the main level.

Upstairs discover the dreamy primary bedroom suite with a large spa bathroom with glass shower, soaking tub, water closet, separate dressing area, double walk-in closets and bonus room. 4 additional large bedrooms boast walk-in closets complete with custom built-ins. Additional highlights include: magnificent finished lower level with huge recreation room & au pair suite with walk-out egress, 3-car garage with large driveway, walk-up attic with beautiful stairway, 2nd floor laundry, high ceilings, backyard oasis with room for a pool and extensive landscaping for privacy. All of this and prime location. Truly one of the most outstanding homes in Garden City.

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Legion Auxiliary collects CDs, DVDs for veterans

Legion member Denise Carman and Legion President Jacqueline Eltringham are very grateful for the donations.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 265 is collecting gently used CDs and DVDs for the veterans in the VA Hospital in Northport.  Music and videos provide entertainment and enjoyment for the veterans at the hospital.

On Saturday, August 7, from 11 a.m.–2 p.m., the Garden City Friends of the Library will be collecting these

CDs and DVDs in the small conference room. Donations of CDs and DVDs can be dropped off anytime at 38 Locust Street or you can call (516) 746-5194 for the items to be picked up.

You can be assured that your donation will be greatly appreciated by our veterans in the hospital.

Back by popular demand: Library books at the Pool

The Friends of the GC Library are pleased to continue the long held GC tradition of the GC Library Pool Books. Residents are welcome to read and enjoy these books at no charge and to pass them along to others. No library card is required, though having a library card is always a great idea!

Look for the sign in the entryway and the adult section of the pool. The books in the entryway are of general inter-

est for all age groups (children, young adults and adults) while the books in the adult section cater to adult readers.

Please note upcoming date of interest:

Book Donations: Saturday, August 7 from 11:00–1:00

For more information on the Friends of the GC Library, please see the library website at gardencitypl.org

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Open House Sunday, August 1st 11am-1pm

This beautiful Colonial located in Garden City’s western section of town is a commuter’s delight. The home features a spacious living room with a fireplace that flows into the dining room, an updated eat-in kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, a powder room and there is access to an attached garage. The second floor boasts a primary bedroom with a half bathroom and 3 additional nicely sized bedrooms that are serviced by a full hall bathroom. The basement recreation room and the professional landscaped yard with the patio are perfect for entertaining. There are gorgeous hardwood floors throughout, central air conditioning, a young boiler and a sprinkler system. The home is proximate to shopping, the school, the park and 2 different Long Island Railroad stations. The overall condition and low taxes make this an exceptional value!

Offered at $919,000

Please stop by the open house or call us for a private showing.

Stephen Baymack

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker Mobile: 516.216.0244 sbaymack@coachrealtors.com

Laura Baymack

Franklin Court Colonial

Reminiscent of a Nantucket style Colonial, this charming property is nestled mid block on a quiet cul-de-sac convenient to the LIRR Country Life Station. The sun drenched first floor offers a vestibule with coat closet, living room with built-ins, formal dining room with French Doors to a 3 season, south facing porch and kitchen with breakfast bar. There are 3 bedrooms and a bath on the 2nd floor. Basement has a recreation room, 1/2 bath, storage and houses the mechanicals. 1 car attached heated garage. New heat and hot water heater, gutters, chimney liner and cap. The backyard features an amazing flower garden - making for the ideal happy place! $799,000, low taxes $12,248

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Oyster Bay Cove Contemporary

A short 30-minute drive from Garden City yet a world away! Privacy, peaceful location, inspired design with focus on comfort and livability and just the right amount of sophisticated city chic, high-end finishes and a key to the Swan Cove Association private beach with mooring rights are all hallmarks of this 4 bedroom, 3 new bath contemporary home located on 3.34 acres.

Highlights include soaring ceilings on the main and upper levels, a true open floor plan featuring a fabulous kitchen with huge island, wood-burning fireplace, walls of windows and sliding doors lead to the totally private deck and capture views of the natural setting. There are three bedrooms and two baths on the upper level including a truly exquisite primary bedroom with sliding barn doors leading to the luxurious spa bath and walk-in custom closet. The lower level has the 4th Bedroom/office, new bath and direct access to the 2 c garage. A walk out basement with storage is the perfect spot for an office or gym. Take a virtual tour online at: https://tour.vht.com/434183991/16-tennis-court-road-oyster-bay-ny-11771/idxs Offered at $1,649,999 Taxes $26,481

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Licensed RE Associate Broker

Mobile: 516.384.8833

maryweille@gmail.com

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Licensed RE Salesperson

Mobile: 516.383.4316

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Low hanging lines

On July 21st Garden City Police and Firefighters responded to Brook Street for low hanging power lines. Upon inves tigation, they were determined to be utility wires. The proper authority was notified for repairs.

Gas station assault

Garden City Police respond ed to the Mobil Station on Franklin Avenue on July 21st for a report by a man who stated he was assaulted by a man with a bat in Hempstead and suffered multiple injuries. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Hempstead PD was notified.

Stolen papers

vator on July 23rd. Upon investigation, it was determined the elevator was unoccupied. The elevator was taken out of service.

DWI arrest

On July 24th

Garden City Police arrested a 33-yearold male for DWI on Stewart Avenue.

Wall damaged

The brick wall on the north side of the Nassau Boulevard RR Station was found damaged on July 24th.

Multiple thefts

On July 25th Garden City Police investigated the theft of multiple items from CVS Pharmacy on July 25th.

On July 22nd a person staying at the Residence Inn stated important documents were missing from his room.

Suspended license

A motorist was charged with driving on Meadow Street with a suspended license and passing a stop sign on July 22nd.

Identity theft

Garden City Police investigated an identity theft report on July 22nd in which an unauthorized bank account was opened and linked to a resident’s existing bank account.

Porch pirate

Packages were reported stolen from a Washington Avenue porch on July 23rd.

Excessive speed

A motorist was charged with driving on Clinton Road with a suspended license and excessive speed on July 23rd.

Stuck elevator

Garden City Police and Firefighters responded to a building on Old Country Road for a stuck ele-

Additional thefts

On July 26th Walgreens reported the theft of multiple items from the store by a male subject.

Stolen package

A package was reported stolen from a Meadow Street porch on July 26th.

Tree limbs down

On July 26th large tree limbs fell on Washington Avenue and on South Avenue

Assault arrest

On July 27th, after an investigation at the Country Life Press RR Station, Garden City Police arrested a 29-year-old male for four counts of criminal mischief and two counts of assault.

Check fraud

On July 27th a resident reported an unknown person cashed a fraudulent check against his bank account.

Light malfunction

On July 27th Garden City Police responded to 11th street for a malfunctioning traffic light.

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Non-Compliance of Village Sanitation Regulations

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Non-compliance of Village sanitation regulations continues to be a quality of life issue. Warning letters have been mailed and fines will be issued to residents and commercial owners who do not comply with Village regulations. Please refer to the 2021-22 Sanitation/Recycling collection schedule available on the Village website, www.gardencityny. net. Click on the “Departments” tab, then the “Public Works” tab to open the schedule. The sanitation guidelines have also been mailed to all Village residents. Collections are from curbside on your assigned pick-up day, except as noted on the holiday schedule. The recycling container should be used for commingled recyclables only and placed at the curb on the night prior to your scheduled collection, but not before 7:00 p.m. Paper should not be placed in the green recycling container.

Speed Awareness Week

Officers continue to crack down on speeding in the Village. Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson, who is a strong proponent of speed cameras in the Village, said traffic enforcement on Garden City’s 96 miles of roads is always a top priority for the Department. Between July 31 and August 8, 2021, Garden City Police will participate in the Statewide Speed Awareness Week Enforcement Mobilization. In 2018 there were 1,440 reported accidents in the Village. In 2019 accidents were down 8.5 percent. In 2020, accidents were down 46 percent, but the numbers were skewed since traffic remained minimal for three months because of COVID restrictions. This year is trending to be at least 20 percent lower in accidents, Commissioner Jackson said. According to the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, speed continues to be a predominant factor in traffic crashes in New York State. Further, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says three out of every 10 drivers are self-professed “speeders.”

Franklin Avenue

Grade Crossing Renewal

As a reminder, the MTA/LIRR will be performing an emergency

crossing rehabilitation on the Franklin Avenue grade crossing for approximately 24 hours starting on Saturday July 31 at 1:00 a.m. to Sunday August 1 at 1:00 a.m. due to a defect discovered within the crossing. Signage will be placed at the crossing prior to its closure so it will be advertised to the community/business owners/pedestrians/ drivers. The MTA is coordinating and communicating with the Garden City Fire and Police Departments, which will notify the Ambulance crews in advance. The MTA PD will also be on both sides of the crossing to support the closure.

Part-Time Crossing Guards

The Police Department is currently seeking candidates for parttime Crossing Guard positions. Interested persons can contact the Commissioner’s Office at 516-4654110.

Merillon Avenue Train Station

Crews this month began the process of commissioning and testing the new elevators at the Merillon Avenue train station to ensure complete functionality and safety requirements are met. Elevators will be ADA-compliant and will provide easier access to the platforms on both sides of the station. Guardrails and railings are also being installed on the stairs and ramps on both the north and south sides of the tracks this month.

Street Light Pole Painting

Anker’s Electric Service, Inc. will paint approximately 126 “bishop crook style light poles” in the Village. The Board authorized a $30,000 fund transfer to pay for this unbudgeted item. The unit pricing is per the Street Lighting Maintenance Bid, which was awarded on June 18, 2020.

Hands Free

Solar Powered Garbage Pails

Residents are reminded that the solar powered garbage pails installed throughout the business district and Village parks can be operated using foot pedals only. You do not need to touch the pails with your hands in order to operate them. Foot pedals were an optional feature of the pails that the Village decided to include when we purchased the pails. There are a total of 17 pails strategically placed throughout the Village.

Historical Society presents scholarship award

The Garden City Historical Society, which was founded nearly 40 years ago to focus on Education and Historic Preservation, once again partnered with The Stewart Fund to award a $2500 scholarship to Kerin Debany, a Garden City High School graduating senior who excels in social studies and has displayed a significant commitment to community service.

The annual scholarship award is underwritten by the legacy alumni and generous graduates of the Cathedral School of St. Mary’s and St. Paul’s,

August

Long Island Blood Services will be holding a blood drive at the Garden City Public Library on Tuesday, August 10, from 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. in the Large Meeting room on the lower level of the Library. Area hospitals are in need of local residents’ help. Each donation can help to save up to three lives.

According to Bill Garry, Historical Society president, “We selected a short list of worthy applicants from the hundreds of students who applied and conducted individual interviews and we were blessed to consider several very well qualified applicants.

“Kerin met all our criteria. She demonstrated excellence and enthusiasm in Social Studies and has shown evidence of quality community service:  She is a National Honor Society Member, with an AP Scholar Award.  She’s a member of the Latin Honor Society, the Latin Club, the Spanish Honor Society, the History Club.  In addition, she volunteers at St Joseph’s and at Lutheran Church of the Resurrection Vacation Bible School, is a Girl Scout and an accomplished Ballet Dancer!”

The final decision for the winner was based on questions posed to each finalist - with one of the most important being: “Describe what role Preservation should play in our village?  Kerin’s responses stood out.  “We are a Beautiful Town with a rich History but that history is forgotten by many!”

Kerin believes we must preserve the history that makes us unique.  She says it’s fundamental that knowledge of our Town’s history plays a vital role in preservation in the historically interesting and unique Village of Garden City.

code with your phone camera to schedule a blood donation appointment online.

Appointments are strongly preferred, walk-ins are welcomed only if capacity permits. To schedule an appointment, you can scan the QR code with your phone and type in Garden City, click on the link below, call 1-800-688- 0900 to schedule an appointment or for any medical questions concerning blood donations or visit the Garden City Public Library website at www.gardencitypl.org. Due to the current COVID19 pandemic and CDC guidelines, Long Island Blood Services requires that masks must be worn during the entire session. https://donate.nybc.org/donor/ schedules/drive_schedule/282050

Christmas in July on Seventh Street

The Village of Garden City was brimming with holiday cheer last Friday night at the Christmas in July Promenade hosted by the Village of Garden City and the Garden City Chamber of Commerce.

Spirits were bright as snow fell from the warm July skies. The Fivestone Band, a cappella group the New York Belles and School of Rock filled Seventh Street with music, giv -

ing everyone a reason to be jolly!

A big thank you to all of the sponsors and vendors who make these promenade nights possible.  Don’t forget to join the crowd this Friday night and go Back to the Eighties with music by the Tristale Ale House Band. This Friday, July 30, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Seventh Street, Garden City!

Billy Joel tribute band to play August 6

The Billy Joel tribute band “The Cold Spring Harbor Band” will perform a free concert on Seventh Street during the August 6th Chamber of Commerce Promenade on Friday, August 6 between 6–10 p.m.

Pat Farrell heads up The Cold Spring Harbor Band on piano and lead vocals, and will take listeners on an entertaining and chronological journey through the music and life of Billy Joel.

Pat recorded a solo album with Billy Joel band members Richie

Cannata (saxophone), Mark Wood (violin), Ozzie Melendez (trombone) and Barry Danielian (trumpet), and is a voting member of NARAS (Grammy Awards). He has been playing to crowds of all ages around the country and has sung the mational anthem at Carnegie Hall and Shea Stadium, and performed for the 2015 NY Mets World Series VIP Pregame Party and the 2014 NFL Superbowl Pregame Party at the Meadowlands.

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5 Insider Tips and Tricks for Visiting National Parks This Summer from ExploreBetter.com

BY KAREN RUBIN TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM

With interest in outdoor experiences at America’s iconic parks and landmarks at an all-time high,  ExploreBetter.com is sharing tips to help set visitors up for a great experience. The travel planning tips are culled from the experience of ExploreBetter.com’s publisher, Delaware North, a longtime national park concessionaire and partner in the stewardship of many of the country’s cherished outdoor destinations.

“ExploreBetter.com is a lifestyle platform that can make extraordinary outdoor adventures more accessible to first-time and even experienced outdoor enthusiasts. As part of our mission, we want to help encourage and restore responsible and sustainable visitation to National Parks and other iconic destinations. We can do that by sharing our insider knowledge developed from years of working with these amazing places,” said Andy Grinsfelder, vice president of sales and marketing for Delaware North’s parks and resorts division. ExploreBetter.com editors offer these top tips for better outdoor and National Park experiences: Plan Your Route—With many National Parks, such as Yosemite, implementing new reservation systems, visitors must do their research before just showing up. A helpful resource is the National Parks “Plan Your Vacation Like A Park Ranger” program. When individual reservations are full, visitors should consider  guided tours for access to the

parks (https://www.explorebetter. com/experiences/guided-tours/)

“If you’ve left planning to the last minute and reservations aren’t available, you can still enjoy a day in the park by participating in a group excursion,” says Grinsfelder. “Tour buses, such as Tenaya Lodge’s open-air Yosemite Tours, don’t operate under the reservation system for individual cars and are often more enjoyable because visitors don’t have to worry about navigating the roads and parking, plus you have access to an area expert through the guide.”

Time it Right —Arrive early to reap the benefits of more available parking and fewer crowds and explore on a weekday instead of a weekend. Consider visiting more

popular parks in the off-season, when parks are quieter and often equally stunning. With international visitation significantly down due to the pandemic, places like the  Grand Canyon are anticipated to be less crowded in the coming months, creating an opportunity for U.S. travelers now.

Spend the Night—National Parks and outdoor destinations are often best appreciated when visitors can slow down and immerse themselves in the experience. “You don’t have to camp to be part of the outdoor experience,” says Grinsfelder.

“The  Explorer Cabins in Yosemite and Yellowstone are great for families, provide plenty of privacy and have front door access to the forest and natural world.”

GOING PLACES NEAR AND FAR

Explore Less Visited Parks—

While Yellowstone, Yosemite and Niagara are phenomenal, there are hundreds of lesser-known parks with spectacular scenery, recreation and wildlife. For instance,  Olympic National Park  in the Pacific Northwest has a breathtaking setting that includes a temperate rainforest, tide pools and a hot spring.

Be Ready to Unplug— Given their remote locations and attractions, visitors should not expect cell phone service, so advance planning may be necessary. The National Park Service launched a mobile app in April which can be downloaded before arrival and used without cellular or Wi-Fi access for self-guided tours, trail maps and travelogues for over 400 National Parks. Most lodges in the National Parks offer Wi-Fi access, so visitors can stop in if their desperate to share photos from their explorations.

For more tips, tricks and insider information, visit  www. ExploreBetter.com

New Camping Opportunities Along New York’s Canals

Through a new partnership between the New York Power Authority, New York State Canal Corporation and Tentrr, the state is opening more hassle-free campsites alongside New York’s Canals this summer. As part of Governor Cuomo’s  Reimagine the Canals  initiative and the recently announced  “On the Canals”  excursions program, Tentrr created four fullyJuly 30, 2021

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outfitted campsites for visitors to reserve, most within a short distance of a free  “On the Canals” excursion opportunity.

Each of the Canalside camping locations offers turnkey, outfitted camping facilities, allowing guests to camp in style amongst the Canals. Each site is fully equipped with all the amenities for comfortable camping including spacious canvas tents atop

a raised platform, queen size memory foam mattress, solar-powered showers, picnic tables and Adirondack chairs, set up in advance of arrival.

The campsites available this summer within 15 minutes of an “On the Canals” excursion include:

Yankee Hill Getaway (Amsterdam, Town of Florida)  between the Adirondack and Catskills parks in the Mohawk Valley (3 sites available); Oak Island Vista (Waterloo)  nestled between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes

along the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, offering easy access to the Finger Lakes Region (5 sites); Montezuma Canal View at Lock E-26 (Galen) gives access to the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Northern Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (6 sites) and Palmyra-Macedon Getaway at Lock E-29 (Palmyra-Macedon) offers picturesque views (5 sites).

To book, go to https://www.tentrr. com/pages/new-york-canals.

In addition to these new camp-

sites,  Camp Rockaway is managing a glamping site at Lock C-5 on the Champlain Canal in Schuylerville through September 8th.

Through the  Reimagine the Canals  initiative, Governor Cuomo and the New York Power Authority committed $300 million over five years to revitalize the Erie Canal corridor as a tourism and recreation destination while simultaneously boosting economic development and improving the resiliency of Canalside communities.

15th Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party Returns to Governors Island,

BY LAURIE MILLMAN TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM

One of the hottest places to be this summer is on Governor’s Island for the hot jazz of Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra, as they return for an encore of the immensely popular Jazz Age Lawn Party on August 14-15, 11am - 5pm.

The 15th annual festival is a multigenerational, friends and family affair where for a brief time you are transported back to the Roaring 20s. Attendees dress up to the nines in 1920s lawn party fashion -  dapper linen suits, suspenders and straw hats; sequined and beaded flapper-style dresses, chandelier earrings and feathers in the hair, or lawn party styles with dropped waists and white satin ribbons. Many

BY JEFF RUGG

Q: Would it harm a tree if I built a simple tree house in it? It would be nothing elaborate: a deck, three walls and a roof. I was thinking of the nails that would have to be used to make firm steps for my grandchildren and for the support braces.

A: A few nails or bolts in a tree trunk will not harm the tree. The tree needs to be solid to begin with, or else the holes could allow insects and water to enter the trunk. The ladder going up to the tree can be attached to the house instead of the tree trunk to reduce the number of nails into the trunk.

A tree house can be built so it is around a tree trunk without actually being attached to the tree. The weight of the tree house doesn’t have to be entirely supported by the tree. Support posts can be used to prop up portions of the house or even the whole tree house.

A more serious problem to look out for are power lines, not just the ones running down the back yards but also the one to the house. The tree house would need to

bring an elegant picnic lunch complete with fine china, silver utensils, flowers in vases, and fluted wine glasses.

As Covid-19 restrictions are becoming more relaxed, this August Lawn Party may offer dance lessons and beach beauty contents. You will be entertained with 1920s-themed, live jazz, featuring returning performers such as “Queen Esther” and her jazz trio. Local vendors will be set up around the grounds to sell vintage clothes and jewelry, pastries, photography with period effects, craft alcohol and beer, and even food trucks if you decide not to bring your own picnic basket.

Tickets are still available and need to be purchased in advance through eventbrite.com from www.jazzagelawnparty.com or directly at https://www. eventbrite.com/o/jazz-age-lawn-party-18523813336.

The Governors Island ferry (https:// www.govisland.com/plan-your-visit/ ferry) runs from the Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street) and from Brooklyn (Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park). Roundtrip fares are $3/adult; free for seniors, children under 12, military; free on departures before noon on Saturday and Sunday.

Registration Opens for TD Five Boro Bike Tour, Aug. 22

Registration has just opened for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour taking place on its new date of Sunday, August 22, 2021, when 20,000 cyclists ride through New York City on 40 car-free miles (reduced from 32,000 in a normal year).

Bike rentals and lodging blocks with special discounted rates at select hotels are available for riders coming from out of town.

Standard registration is $112; VIP

Tree House and Oak Wilt

be built carefully so that the power line is out of reach of the house itself and the occupants.

A great source of books, plans, tools, photos, ideas and special tree house attaching bolts is a really cool website at: https://store.beinatree.com/.

Q: Do you think it would be OK to cut a few low branches from a live oak at this time? We have several live oaks that are about 10 years old. The branches are about five to six inches in diameter at the trunk. The lowest ones are about five feet above the ground, which is too low to walk under. Please, advise. Any information about young live oaks you can share with me it is appreciated (and really needed!)

A: Live oaks and the other oaks are very long-lived. They eventually need a proper branching structure that is above the street, driveway or house. Out in the landscape, the branches can be a lot lower, but five feet is kind of low because the ends of the branches are going to be even lower.

If the tree is not pruned while it’s

young, large branches will have to be cut off, which will not be attractive for many years to come, and it can be unhealthy for the tree. These five-inch diameter branches should probably have been pruned off when they were only two inches in diameter. The tree would have already healed the cut by now.

After planting in your yard, an oak (and most other shade trees) should be looked at and probably pruned yearly for the first five years. After that, they should probably be pruned once every five years until they are 30 to 50 years old. The mature tree will be able to go many years without pruning.

Oaks and live oaks in particular should not be pruned during the growing season if possible. They can get a disease call oak wilt. It is a fungal disease spread by beetles and root grafts with infected trees.

The beetles spread the disease from red oaks to live oaks. The live oaks don’t produce the type of fungal growth necessary for the beetle to spread the disease, but once it is in the live oak tree, it is fatal.

The beetles feed on sap that comes

registration is $350. More information at www.bike.nyc/events/td-five-borobike-tour/faq-2021 or contact info@ bike.nyc. To register, go to https:// bikenewyork.enmotive.com/events/ register/2021-td-five-boro-bike-tour.

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from open wounds. If the sap is infected with the oak wilt fungus, the beetles can spread the disease. Pruning should be done when the insect is not available to spread the disease, which is normally the wintertime.

E-mail questions to Jeff Rugg at info@ greenerview.com. . Copyright 2021 Jeff Rugg, licensed to Creators Syndicate.

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Enjoying family - & visitors - on summer days

BY CLAIRE LYNCH

Some summertime memories stand out vividly in my mind. Taking the L.I.R.R. to and from Rockville Centre, my dad would work all day in New York City. Occasionally he would have days off in the summer, or entire vacation weeks and if we weren’t out of town on vacation he’d surprise us and say, “Let’s all go to our favorite deli and our favorite bakery. Today is a day to celebrate!” We’d look at each other and cheer wondering if the day was a special one or just a beautiful day to enjoy. We’d always think twice because my birthday is in the summer and so is my younger sister, Susan’s, so “birthday or not” the timing was always okay with us.

The three of us girls plus my mom and dad would get into our 1963 Chevrolet Impala while my three older brothers would be off working or doing whatever they had to do. Backing the car out of the garage, dad would head downtown and we would all chat excitedly while the car automatically seemed to know where to go. This was long before the idea of self-driving cars was ever talked about but still, it always struck me that our family car had a mind of its own.

Carrying the large paper bag full of our goodies outside, my dad would have us all pile back into the car. He would drive to the best bakery in town near the railroad station and we were always pleased about that. The five of us liked the crumb coffee cake so we’d either go for that or the still-warm-from-theoven apple turnovers. Mom would say let’s get an extra crumb cake for Mr. & Mrs. Jones, our older neighbors across the street who were great about having a huge Labor Day barbecue every year for the whole block and who each Halloween would invite us trick or treaters into their home for some homemade donuts and fresh apple cider. Either way the freshly-baked goods would hit the spot and we were happy customers. We were celebrating a summer day off with carefree abandon. We had passed our elementary school on the way to the deli but we didn’t give teachers or homework or anything school-related a second thought.

Driving to the park on the south side of Rockville Centre, Mill River at S. Park Avenue, we’d sit on a huge blanket and eat our sandwiches along with cups

I digress, however. Mom would give the deli clerk her hand-written list of our five orders and with all of us inside the delicatessen looking on expectantly, we would watch as one by one our sandwiches were wrapped and bagged for us. I always liked to order a turkey club sandwich, Susan would get a chicken sandwich and my older sister, Michelle, would get a Reuben sandwich. Both mom and dad liked shrimp salad sandwiches so that was the order of the day. Each sandwich came with a pickle and some potato chips on the side.

Teapot and the Milky Way

BY DENNIS MAMMANA

Week of July 25-31, 2021

Nothing in the heavens says “summer” to Northern Hemisphere sky watchers quite like the constellation of Sagittarius. On late July and early August evenings, we can find this prominent star grouping low in our south-southeastern sky just after dark. Sagittarius, the Archer, is often depicted as a centaur: a half-man and half-horse creature, most likely because ancient Greek and Roman authors often confused Sagittarius with Centaurus, a constellation farther to the southwest. Interestingly, however, its origin may have come much earlier than this; the stellar figure seems to personify the Archer Nergal, a god of war who was inscribed on ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablets. It’s even included as a “Horse’s Head” or “Horseman” in the 3,000-year-

of cold iced tea mom had just poured from a Thermos. As we watched the walkers walking past and the joggers out for some exercise we would talk about nothing in particular and about everything important to kids. We would be full after eating our sandwiches, naturally, so as much as we wanted to devour the dessert goodies, the crumb coffee cake or apple turnovers usually remained wrapped until we ate them after dinner.

Occasionally we’d see a lightning storm way off in the distance and whenever we saw those pitchforks in the summer sky, we kids would shriek with fear and amazement. This was around when I was nine, Susan was six and Michelle was 12. One afternoon while we were enjoying our family lunch Colin, a classmate of mine, was walking by and he stopped to visit. Surprised but happy to see us, Colin sat down and mom offered him a pastry.

Thinking he looked unusually pleased I said, “What’s new, Colin?”

“I just came from my best friend, Andy’s house,” Colin said, “because I just had to tell him that my cat, Sadie, gave birth to five kittens early this morning. Mom and dad heard something so they looked and sure enough Sadie had delivered one cute kitten and over a few hours four more came. They’re adorable!”

After they all arrived Colin’s parents placed them all in a basket. Colin said

he named the first one Smokey because it was gray and looked like a tiny ball of fur but his parents said they would have to find good homes for the other four kittens. His brother and sister wanted to keep a second one but they already had a dog, a terrier named Cody so his parents said no to that request.

Susan started jumping up and down asking mom and dad if we could take a kitten when it was ready to leave its mother and after mom and dad looked questioningly at each other mom said, “We’ll talk about it later tonight.”

Susan told me later she felt that was a good sign because if they’d immediately said no we wouldn’t have had a chance. The door was open as people say.

After sharing the good news Colin headed out and eventually we started packing up. Thankfully the storm never got too close to us so we were glad about that. If we’d had to run for the safety of our car we could have but we had a nice, leisurely lunch. The drive home went quickly, in the blink of an eye it seemed like, because we all talked animatedly about our little summertime picnic.

I can’t speak for everyone else but later that night I fell contentedly asleep after spending a summer day having an outdoors lunch with my family, running into Colin and hearing all about his brand-new kittens. I couldn’t wait to see them and hold one in my arms.

old zodiac of India, while the human part of the figure is depicted by a fan of lions’ tails owned by the wife of an Indian ruler.

Of course, you can search for a horseman or archer among the stars if you’d like, but if you’d prefer to save your sanity, forget about these ancient images and look instead for the outline of an old-fashioned teapot. Here you’ll find eight stars that trace its body, handle, lid and spout.

Near the teapot, we can even find stellar outlines of a sugar spoon and a slice of lemon formed by the southern constellation Corona Australis and the Southern Crown. You can even find a teacup outlined by the bottom half of Scorpius, the scorpion.

Stargazers with a moonless sky far from city lights will see a hazy cloud of “vapor” streaming upward from the tea-

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Supplemental Security Income -- It Is a Welfare Program

BY TOM MARGENAU

This is going to be a column about the Supplemental Security Income, or SSI. In other words, it will NOT be a column about Social Security. Supplemental Security Income and Social Security are two entirely different government programs. They really have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that they are both managed by the Social Security Administration.

I’m emphasizing the difference between the two programs because millions of people think SSI stands for Social Security Income. Every single day, I get emails from people who tell me they are getting SSI, when they really mean to say they are getting Social Security. So if you are one of those people, then please remember you are getting Social Security, not SSI.

But the reason I’m writing this column today is because of an email I got from someone whose son really is getting SSI. Here it is.

Q: My son, who is now 42, has been disabled since birth and is getting SSI. He started getting SSI when he was 18. I will be turning 62 and plan to file for my Social Security. I’ve been told my son might lose his SSI when I go on Social Security. Can you explain that? And by the way, in a past column, you referred to SSI as a welfare program. I beg to differ. I would never have filed for any kind of welfare benefits for my son. He is getting a supplemental Social Security check.

A: I will explain what will happen with your son’s SSI checks when you go on Social Security in a bit. But first, let me straighten out the benefits your son is currently getting.

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase: “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck -- it’s a duck.” Well, if a government program looks like a welfare program, runs like a welfare program and has rules like a welfare program -- it’s a welfare program. And believe me, SSI is a welfare program. To explain this further, let me give a quick history lesson.

For most of its history, our country did not have a national welfare system. Even though there was federal money involved, welfare programs were administered by states and sometimes even by cities and counties. And there were wildly different eligibility rules from one place to another. Someone might qualify for welfare benefits in one jurisdiction, but someone down the road in the next county in even poorer circumstances couldn’t get benefits.

And there were all kinds of stories of these local welfare offices being run like little fiefdoms. In other words, if you knew the right person, or maybe if you were the right religion, or had the right

color skin, or if you didn’t speak English with an accent, you were much more likely to qualify for a little help from the system.

Enter Richard Nixon, or more precisely, some higher ups in the Nixon Administration. In the early 1970s, they realized that something needed to be done about our nation’s welfare mess. Their solution was to standardize and federalize the system. They set up one national welfare program with one set of rules that would apply to everyone in the country. They called the program Supplemental Security Income and they gave it to the Social Security Administration to run because that agency had the right infrastructure and the right kind of experience to manage a federal benefits program. (And let me quickly add here that SSI is funded entirely by general government revenues, NOT by Social Security taxes.)

And I remember the very early days within the SSA when we took on the SSI program. And in those early days, some overly conscientious executives within the organization decided to not tell people that SSI was a welfare program. It was drummed into us that we were not to refer to SSI as welfare because that word has negative connotations. We were to tell people it was a “needsbased” program.

Personally, I never liked that directive. I thought we were just not being honest with the people who were filing for SSI benefits. I quickly discovered that many people had no idea what a “needs based” program is. But they all knew what welfare is. And once they understood they were getting welfare, they better understood the rules that went along with it.

For example, you can only get SSI if your income and assets are below certain limits. (Currently, you won’t qualify for SSI if you have more than about $800 per month in income and more than $2,000 in liquid assets.)

So anyway, SSI is a welfare program. You must be either over 65 and poor or under 65, disabled and poor to get benefits. Your son probably could not get SSI when he was young because your income would have prevented him from qualifying. But once he turned 18, your income no longer counted against him and that’s why he now gets SSI.

But like all other welfare programs, the rules require that your son file for any other benefits he might be due. So once you file for your Social Security retirement, your son is going to be eligible for what are known as “disabled adult child” benefits on your record. He will be due an amount equal to 50% of your full retirement rate, even though you will be getting reduced age 62 benefits.

So let’s say your FRA benefit is $2,800 per month. That means your son will start getting $1,400 monthly in DAC ben-

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Or to help you understand that better. He’s getting $800 per month now in SSI benefits because he has no other income. But once he starts having $1,400 per month in income, there is no longer any need for the taxpayers to be supporting him with that $800 per month SSI (i.e., welfare) check.

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The challenges of buying real estate, especially co-ops

BY PHILIP A. RAICES

Over the course of my real estate career of 40 years one hears many, many varied and interesting stories from the sad and tragic challenges and tumultuous and stressful situations of Certificates of Occupancy, title and survey problems and issues to the ecstatic, positive and wonderful “no problem” happy endings.

But today, most sales and transactions seem to come with some type of issues and glitches and at the last minute. However, I do blame the majority on human error due to non-caring, lack of knowledge and lackadaisical performances by people without proper planning and/or training and education leading to a delayed closing. The goal should have resulted in a positive outcome if the individuals from the agents, attorneys, banks, title companies, co-ops and sometimes even the buyers and sellers did more prioritizing and careful planning, the process would go more smoothly.

It comes down to working as a team, so the left hand knows and is aware of every step what the right hand is doing, so doesn’t that make sense? However, it may be one or more individuals that throw a monkey wrench into what was a smooth sale and now a stressful unhappy event. This is why the new law passed a few years ago in Nassau County that co-op managements and boards have 40 days to review their applicant’s board packages once received, to speed things up and to provide a scheduled interview, and either pass or fail that individual or couple. If not done within that time constraint the first time a warning would be issued by the County, the 2nd time there would be a $2000 fine and thereafter a similar fine. Suffolk County has had a law on their books for a multitude of years, whereby if an applicant(s) are turned down and denied by the co-op board for their purchase, then the board has a legal requirement to respond to the buyers within 45 days as to why they were not accepted.

Since the law has been in effect, I am quite sure more have got to the closing table celebrating their successful purchase; but without the law I believe it would be business as usual and less individuals and families would end being “happy campers.”

In Queens there are those co-op boards that actually disclose what verified and documented incomes are required to purchase a 1, 2 and 3 bedroom unit. Also, in their resolution they are allowed to set prices on a monthly basis. If a co-op has no resolution then setting prices or denying an applicant is what I believe anti-trust as per the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 against setting prices. If a buyer believes that they were turned down either due to discrimination or price fixing then a buyer’s attorney should be sending out a letter to the management and co-op board president. Also, when the price is lower than what the board would accept, maybe they should visit the specific unit to understand why it is selling for less, to be more informed. The buyer would most likely 99% of the time will be renovating, so then the market value would be comparable to others that are selling that are in similar condition.

there is much more legal protection and avenues for recourse if this were to happen. An individual’s and family’s financial situation, including income via tax returns, debt/income ratios and business and/or job status as well as a background checks should be the only variables used to judge whether or not those being reviewed are a sound and viable fit for the specific co-op. But I would venture to say there have been marked improvements and more positive outcomes in the purchasing process due to the passing of the co-op board process and review law. I am not making a generalization about all co-op boards but those discriminating for any reason outside of financial reasons are breaking the law. I am quite sure the majorities of boards use their due diligence in carefully reviewing prospective buyers and tenants and act accordingly by doing the right thing.

plexed and frustrated as the coop board wasn’t obligated to let him know why. It is now in the hands of his attorney. I believe the State and local legislatures should standardize the requirements that co-ops should have in place so all are treated equally and fairly. The necessary documentation for all buyers would still be required, but at least we as Realtors would know in advance what we needed to do searching for qualified purchasers reducing wasted time and money. Maybe Newsday should be holding some co-op board members feet to the fire too! Are you listening Newsday???

Another idea is to have a seller’s concession so the price that is shown after it closes is more related to the standard selling price in that particular development, but my professional opinion is my first idea is much better. To me it’s called transparency and making it easier for purchasers to know what is expected of them. However, some co-op boards have debt/income ratios less than 30% as added protection to make sure buyers are not overleveraged with debt, especially today with what and how the Covid-19 Pandemic has affected incomes. More co-ops should adopt a similar system so Realtors would be that much more educated as to what is necessary for a buyer to qualify. Making it more challenging and difficult for the agent in a way discriminates against us in earning a living. Being open and transparent by allowing us to do a better job in searching out qualified individuals in a team cooperation mindset, will save a lot of time, effort and aggravation for all involved parties.

Unfortunately, discrimination today still occurs in our world but at least

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But in the very near future I truly believe that the Nassau County Legislature should and will do the right thing too and pass a similar law as Suffolk County so within 45 days purchasers who are turned down will be provided a reason. Some co-op board members might disagree with that potential law, but if you are treating people fairly and basing their approval on financials then you have nothing to be concerned about unless you discriminate arbitrarily due to race, religion, national origin, gender, family status. If real estate Brokers and their salespersons were being scrutinized as Newsday’s 3 year investigation disclosed and 68+ Brokers and agents were caught steering buyers to other communities had their licenses suspended or revoked, so should some type of punishment or fines be levied against coop boards that don’t stay within the laws. I recently had one of my clients who wasn’t even allowed the opportunity to get a review and I was told that they shredded up his 1000+ pages of his application without returning it to him. He wasn’t provided any reason as he couldn’t fathom or understand and was extremely per-

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S.). He will provide you with “free” regular updates of sold and new homes in your town via the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island (MLSLI) or go to http://WWW. Li-RealEstate.Com and you can “do it yourself (DYI) and search on your own. For a “FREE” `15 minute consultation, as well as well as a “FREE printout or digital value analysis of what your home might sell for in today’s market without any obligation or “strings” attached. He can also provide a copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality, and our Seller’s and Buyer’s Guides for “Things to Consider when Selling, investing or Purchasing your Home.

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Dear Carrie: I am trying to simplify my finances and have way too many accounts (savings, checking, brokerage, credit cards). What happens when you close an account? Is that bad to do? -- A Reader

Dear Reader: Decluttering is certainly a popular concept these days. So why not apply it to our finances? While we all start out thinking we’ll keep things simple, as time goes on, it’s not unusual to find ourselves with accounts we no longer need -- whether it’s a checking or savings account that lured us in with initial higher interest rates or that credit card with irresistible perks. So you’re wise to step back, review what you have and decide what’s no longer useful.

However, while there’s no real downside to closing a bank account, a credit card is another story. Here’s what I’d suggest.

Review Your Checking and Savings Accounts

How many bank accounts do you need? There’s no cut and dried recommendation. It really depends on your own situation.

-- If you’re single, having one checking account should be sufficient, especially if it has low fees and earns interest. Add to that a high-interest savings account and you should be set to go. I’d also set up an automatic transfer between the two to make saving that much easier.

-- Couples may want to add an account or two to take what I call a “yours, mine and ours” approach. In this case, you might have a household checking and savings account for mutual expenses and goals and separate checking and saving accounts for personal use.

-- For a special goal, such as a big trip or a down payment on a home, it may make sense to have a savings account specifically for that purpose. Seeing the balance grow in that dedicated account can be a real motivator.

-- The FDIC insures up to $250,000

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pot’s spout. This is the Milky Way that seems to rise out of the southern horizon and stretch completely across the sky to the north.

The section of the Milky Way just above the teapot’s spout marks the direction of our galaxy’s center. Though no one can see its core directly because of all the gobs of interstellar material filling the nearly 26,000 light years

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per depositor per bank. Therefore, if you have accounts with large balances, you might consider spreading your money across two or more banks. The FDIC’s Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator can help users get details about their specific situation.

Other than that, there’s no reason to have multiple checking and savings accounts. So when you review your accounts, compare fees, interest rates and any other benefits and decide which ones work best for you. Then simply transfer your balances to the accounts you want to keep and close the accounts you no longer need.

Handle Business Banking Separately

If you own a small business or are a sole proprietor, you should have a separate checking account to keep track of business expenses and make accounting easier come tax time. To simplify things, consider having your personal checking, savings and business checking accounts at the same bank. Many banks offer a free business checking account in conjunction with a personal account.

Consider Consolidating Your Investment Accounts With One Company

Brokerage accounts can be a little more complicated because you’re potentially talking about different types of accounts -- taxable brokerage accounts, tax-advantaged retirement accounts or special accounts for things like college savings.

-- Taxable Brokerage Accounts -Here again, it depends on your particular situation. If you’re single, having one brokerage account is the best way to keep on top of all your investments. If you’re part of a couple, you might again opt for three accounts: one brokerage account for each of you and one for joint investments.

-- Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts -- All retirement accounts are individual. Whether you’re single or married, an individual retirement ac-

count or 401(k) is in your name only. Ideally, you’ll have one of each. There’s also the possibility that you could have both traditional and Roth retirement accounts, so that could potentially double the number.

-- College Savings Accounts -- When saving for a child’s education, you might consider a 529 account or custodial account. If you have multiple children, best to have an account for each of them.

Having multiple brokerage accounts doesn’t have to be overly complicated. You can simplify by holding all your brokerage accounts at one financial institution. Not only will you have access to all the accounts in one place, you’ll also be able to see how they all work together, which will help you stay on top of your overall asset allocation and investments. If you currently have brokerage accounts at different companies and want to consolidate, contact the brokerage firm you want to work with; they can help you transfer your assets.

An exception would be your current 401(k), which is held by your employer. However, should you leave your job, you could roll that account into a rollover IRA at the brokerage firm where you have your other accounts, or possibly to your new 401(k). You’ll want to make sure you understand all the options available so you can make the best decision for your circumstances.

Close Credit Cards With Caution

Here’s where you have to be careful. Closing credit cards could affect your credit score. That’s because of what the credit industry calls your credit utilization ratio. You get this ratio by dividing your total credit balance by your total available credit.

For instance, say you have $50,000 in available credit. If your credit balance were $10,000, your credit utilization ratio would be 20%. If you were to eliminate a card or two, bringing your available credit down to $25,000, your ratio would jump to 40%. And while there’s

STARGAZERS Teapot and the Milky Way

that separate us from it, astronomers suspect that a supermassive black hole might lurk in this galactic core.

The first thing you’ll notice about the Milky Way is that it’s not uniform in brightness. It is, instead, mottled with dark rifts along its entire length. These are known to astronomers as giant molecular clouds: massive clouds of interstellar dust that stand in stark silhouette against the Milky Way’s brighter stellar band. It is within these GMCs

that massive star- and planet-forming regions exist, hidden from eyes not capable of seeing infrared radiation.

Scan binoculars along the Milky Way on a clear, dark night, and you’ll be impressed by all you can see. Not only will binoculars reveal countless stars invisible to the eye, but also dozens of deep-sky objects, or “faint fuzzies” as astronomers like to call them; these include star clusters and gaseous nebulae. All will appear as small, hazy smudges

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no precise cutoff, in general, it’s a good idea to keep your ratio below 30%. A higher ratio can result in a lower credit score.

So first, look at all your cards. Which ones do you really use? What is each card costing you in terms of annual fees and interest rates? Try to narrow them down to the most useful and the least costly. Then decide how to manage them. The easiest way is to put unused cards aside and carry only the ones that suit your current needs.

However, you may want to judiciously close accounts with annual fees or high interest rates. If that will increase your utilization ratio, one solution is to raise the limit on the cards you keep before you close the ones you don’t need so your available credit remains consistent. Also, it’s best to hang on to the cards you’ve had the longest; a long credit history is considered a positive. Your credit history is about 15% of your credit score.

Think of It as ‘Kondo-izing’ Your Account Decluttering your accounts may not exactly spark the same sense of joy Marie Kondo describes when you clean out your closet, but in the long run, it can make your financial life easier to manage and give you a greater sense of security. And that’s certainly a good feeling.

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Certified Financial Planner, is president of the Charles Schwab Foundation and author of “The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty.” Read more at http://schwab.com/book. You can email Carrie at askcarrie@schwab.com. The information provided here is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for specific individualized tax, legal or investment planning advice.

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HAPPY FUNDRAISER

NEWS- but we need YOUR Help!

After a year and a half COVID hiatus, Last Hope will be resuming public fundraising events in August.

We have 3 summer events already scheduled, but our stockpile of gift cards & new items for prizes & raffle baskets has been depleted.

*The first event will be a Barkin’ Brunch at the Refuge in Melville on August 1.

*Then a SPAYghetti Dinner Fix-A-Feral Fundraiser at Levittown Hall August 13.

*And a Supermarket Bingo at Levittown Hall on September 24.

CAN YOU HELP by donating gift cards or new items that will can be either free-standing prizes or fit into raffle baskets?

*Bottles of Liquor & wine make fine prizes.

If you can donate, please bring these items to the Wantagh Adoption Center or call Terri at 631-332-6606 for more info. Thanks a Million!

There may be little time in the schedule to prepare homemade breakfasts and enjoy a leisurely morning meal on weekdays. But once the weekend arrives, home cooks can experiment with tasty treats that fill homes with decadent aromas and rouse late sleepers from their slumber.

French toast or pancakes may

SWEET SUNDAY ROLLS

be popular weekend breakfast options, but why not switch things up with another sticky and sweet option? “Sweet Sunday Rolls” from “The Contented Vegan” (Head of Zeus) by Peggy Brusseau are quick to prepare and perfect for a relaxing morning meal when time allows. Enjoy with tea or coffee.

Serves 4

1⁄2 cup desiccated (shredded) coconut

1⁄2 cup lightly packed soft light brown

sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

10 and 1⁄2 ounces all-purpose or wholewheat flour, plus extra for dusting your work surface

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 3⁄4 ounces coconut oil, plus a little extra for greasing the dish

5 ounces plant milk

2⁄3 cup raisins

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

3 ounces maple or barley malt syrup

Preheat the oven to 425 F, and grease an 111⁄4 inch round baking dish or similar ovenproof dish with a generous coating of coconut oil. Sprinkle the shredded coconut over the greased dish, jostling it a little to distribute evenly.

Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar over the coconut-coated baking dish.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Add the coconut oil and use a table knife to “cut” it into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the plant milk and stir well, then knead to a firm dough using your hands. Lightly flour a work surface. Turn out the dough and shape it into a rough rectangle. Use a rolling pin (or simply press with your hands) to flatten it into a bigger rectangle of about 8

by 12 inches, with a thickness of about 5⁄8 inch. With the long edge closest to you, spread the raisins over the dough, leaving a gap of about 11⁄4 inches all around the edges. Lightly press the raisins into the dough. Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon sugar over the raisins, and drizzle with the olive oil and half of the syrup. Roll the dough into a log from the long edge, working away from you. Press firmly as you roll to ensure the filling is properly embedded. Check that the ends and the long edge are closed — if necessary, dampen those edges and press together to seal.

Using a serrated bread knife, cut the roll into slices about 11⁄4 inches thick. Lay the slices flat in the prepared baking dish, leaving a little room between each slice. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

While the rolls are baking, cut a piece of baking paper large enough to cover the baking dish. When the rolls are cooked, set the dish on a wire rack or trivet. Lay the baking paper over the dish and put a large plate or tray upside down on top of the paper, with the baking dish centered underneath. Using oven gloves, carefully lift the dish and plate, holding them firmly together as you turn them over.

Leave the baking dish upside down on the plate for 2 to 3 minutes, then carefully lift off. Collect and spread any coconut mixture left in the dish over the rolls, which are now upside down. Drizzle the remaining syrup over the rolls while they are still hot. Cool for 10 to 15 minutes before gently pulling them away from each other. Eat while still warm.

Garden City Senior Center is Open

Garden City Recreation and Parks’ Senior Center is now open.

Our hours will be 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  We will be practicing social distancing so no exercise or group activities will take place at this time Anyone visiting the Center will be required to wear a mask during their visit.

“Senior Day” at the Pool with Entertainment by George Salem

Garden City Recreation and Parks will host a Senior Day at the Garden City Pool on Monday, August 2nd.  The pool will open at 10 am for Senior who are members of the pool and at noon for non-member Seniors who are residents of the Village of Garden City.  Regular

FOR SENIORS fyi

guest fees will apply for non members.

Disc jockey George Salem will entertain the participants with his repertoire of music from the oldies, 50s, and 60s. He will be playing many memorable hits from his vast collection.

Come to the pool and enjoy the day!

Summer Concerts at the Gazebo Recreation and Parks Summer Concerts at the Gazebo have begun.  Concerts are held at the gazebo on the corner of Hilton and Stewart Avenues and begin at 7:15 p.m. Bring a chair, wear a mask and please practice social distancing while attending the concert.

In the case of less than “better than perfect” weather, the concert will be moved to St. Paul’s Cluett Hall.

Our performers are as follows:

August 5 - Hour Glass – The Music of James Taylor

August 12 - Stan Zizka and the Del-Satins  - Doo Wop and More From This Legendary Group

August 19  - Radio Flashback – 70s Radio Hits

Senior Exercise with Felicia Come join us for Senior Exercise with Felicia at the Garden City Senior Center!  Due to COVID restrictions, this program will no longer be a drop in program.  Participants will need to pre-register, wear masks, and fill out a COVID form, and space will be limited. Classes will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10 a.m.  In order to attend a class you must pre-register.  You may pre-register up to two

days before the class you want to attend by calling the Senior Center between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at 385-8006.  For a Monday class, you may call the Friday before. Space is limited. “Zumba” Exercise Classes

Our spring session of our “Zumba Gold” fitness will be held in on Thursday afternoons at 2:15 p.m. at The Senior Center. Each 45-minute class, teaching the basics of Zumba exercise, is led by Felicia Lovaglio, our certified Zumba exercise instructor.  This class is geared for seniors or the beginner adult.  The six week session will begin Thursday, July 15. The price for the session is $36. To register this class, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

THI S WEEK AT ROTARY

Pictured at July 27 lunch meeting were (from left): Past Club Presidents Gary Fishberg and Jim Brady; Helmut Schuler, sergeant in arms; NC Legislator Laura Schaefer; Althea Robinson, PR/speakers bureau chair; Past President Bob Bonagura and Peter Gall, past Garden City mayor and Club treasurer.

(Not pictured is Past Club President Bob Schoelle.)

Businesses, Corporations,Schools & Churches,Charitable Organizations & Residents Invited to Join Rotary

With membership opened to “all,” the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club extends a special invitation to individuals or representatives interested in learning about Rotary membership and its mission of service to the community and beyond.

Prospective members are invited to attend a complimentary lunch meeting to learn about Rotary along with the many services the Mineola-Garden City Rotary provides.  (See below). Should a company or organization wish to join Rotary, they may choose various individuals to represent their company or organization.  And, the annual dues remains the same for all!

Traditionally, the Club meets at the Garden City Hotel, but throughout most of the pandemic, when the Hotel was unable to serve lunch, we met virtually on Zoom.

Now, for the past several weeks, the Club has arranged with Calogero’s to meet within its outside tented restaurant where we will continue to meet until the reopening for lunch at the Garden City Hotel.  Always featured are noteworthy speakers representing a cross-section of the professions or organizations which provide information on

various subjects.

For more information about Rotary or how to join our Club, please email Club President Diane at Diane. Marmann@gmail.com

Rotary Services Continue Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club has been able to carry on with most of its’s traditional services during the Pandemic. Club support has continued for RotaCare, which provides free medical care for those in need; for the Gift of Life Program which provides life-saving cardiac surgery for children in developing countries; Club volunteers rang the bell to assist the efforts of the Salvation Army during the 2020 holidays.

We continued to support the annual Alford family Thanksgiving Day Program for homebound seniors and those in need; continued to support RYLA (Rotary’s Youth Leadership Program); continued to provide college scholarships for both a Garden City and Mineola High School student.  Additionally, to assist with the COVID19 pandemic, Rotary responded to the District’s” Million Mask Challenge.”   Mineola-Garden City Rotary volunteers delivered 10,000 masks to various charities for distribution to those most in need within our local communities.

Diane

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county-related issues, recently passed legislation, local road issues plus the NC Legislature’s opposition to the proposed NYS tax on gas and heating products.

Teen Dungeons and Dragons at the Library Friends of the Library Book Donations Day

Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta hands out pencils and dice to teens for them to use on their adventure during the third meeting of Teen Dungeons and Dragons, which was held Wednesday, July 21 at the Library.

The Friends of the Garden City Library is pleased to schedule a new Book Donations Day.  Donations must be brought to the downstairs Cafe in the library on Saturday, August 7 between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.  Only two bags or cartons of books will be accepted per family.  At the front door, you will be met by a volunteer who will instruct you to proceed downstairs by the lobby elevator.  There the books will be received by a member of the Friends of the Library.

The Friends ask that only new or gently used books be donated.  They are not able to accept textbooks, encyclopedias, CDs, DVDs or magazines.  Please refrain from bringing books that are ripped, have been written in, have traces of mold on them or in any way are water damaged.

Please know, however, in spite of all these rules and restrictions, the Friends are delighted that you remembered the

Library and the Friends for all these months and cared enough to gather the volumes together.

Also, we hope that you are aware that there is a Book Sale Area toward the rear of the library where on a weekly basis, new fiction, non-fiction, softcovered books and children’s books are added to the shelves.  Presently featured, in the Non-Fiction Section, there is a good selection of books on Americanism—its history and the biographies of famous Americans.  The Children’s Section now features wonderful books to inspire patriotism and a greater awareness of the history of our country as well as recognizing the challenges we now face.

The money raised by the Friends provide the library with the ability to offer its patrons Museum Passes, and greatly expands and enhances the Adult, Young Adult and Children’s Programs.

Library Board to meet

There will be a Special Meeting of the Board of Library Trustees on Monday, August 2nd at 7:30 p.m. in the Library's small meeting room located on the lower level. The Board plans to discuss personnel matters, and it is expected that the Board will move immediately into Executive Session (non-public).

There will be a Regular Meeting

of the Board of Library Trustees on Monday, August 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Garden City Public Library in the small meeting room on the lower level. Further details about the meeting will be posted when available on the Library’s website www.gardencitypl. org.

News From the Children’s Room

Summer Olympics - 2021

The Summer Olympics are on -  after a one year delay! The opening ceremony is on Friday, July 23, 2021 and the Olympics continue until the closing ceremony on Sunday, August 8, 2021.  There are 339 scheduled events.  Some of those events include: artistic swimming, baseball,  beach volleyball, diving, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, rowing, soccer,  swimming,  track and field, softball, water polo and wrestling.  The Children’s Room has a wide selection of books on these topics and more.  Stop by to see our display!

https://www.today.com/news/ tokyo-olympics-schedule-t220617

July is Park and Recreation Month!

Parks are at the center of so many experiences and memories — moments that park and recreation professionals help make happen. Our local parks are often our first experi -

NOTICE OF FORMATION

Maggie Johansen Coaching, LLC.

Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State New York (SSNY) on February 24, 2021. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served to 82 Oxford Boulevard, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: Any lawful acts.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION Forwheel LLC.

A domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/26/2021. Office location: Nassau. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3716 Stokes Avenue, Bethpage, New York,

ences in nature, our introduction to a favorite hobby or physical activity. They are places to gather with friends and family, spaces to celebrate life’s special moments, spots of respite and healing, sites that connect us with essential community services, and so much more.

https://www.nrpa.org/events/ july/

We have many books in the Children’s Room collection about our National Parks and all types of recreation.  Check out our display featuring:     “ Great Smoky Mountains National Park ” by Lisa M. Herrington, “ Welcome to Yosemite National Park ” by Pamela Dell, “ You are Home: An Ode to the National Parks ” by Evan Turk, “ Welcome to the Grand Canyon National Park ” by Teri and Bob Temple, “ National Parks in the U.S.A. ” by Kate Siber,  and “ The Camping Trip That Changed

America:  Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and Our National Parks ” by Barb Rosenstock.

Summer Reading Club

The Children’s Room of the Garden City Public Library will hold the drawings for the grand prize winners on Wednesday, August 4, 2021.  The drawing will be virtual and winners will be notified via phone or email.  The Summer Reading Club activities will conclude at the end of August.

Page Turner Adventures July 30 at 10:00 a.m.

Page Turner Adventures - a virtual program available online from www. gardencitypl.org.  No registration required.  Friday is Special Guest Day.

WEEK ONE FRIDAY, JUNE 25

Guessing Game winner for week 1 was Nell.

LEGAL NOTICES

11714. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

Tresses by TI, LLC.

Arts. Of Org.filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/22/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: TRESSES BY TI LLC, P.O. BOX 340905, JAMAICA, NY 11434. Purpose: Any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

Nelly Suazo Agency LLC.

Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State on NY (SSNY) on 5/6/21. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 35 Gladiolus

Ave., Floral Park, NY 11001. Purpose: Any lawful act.

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NOTICE OF SUMMONS

State of South Carolina In the Court of Common Pleas Fourteenth Judicial Circuit CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2021-CP-07-763

MARK C. RAFFA, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN CLAYTON RAFFA; PIERINO HOLDINGS, LLC, Defendant(s).

TO: THE DEFENDANT

JOHN CLAYTON RAFFA: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you by publication, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribers at the offices of Russell P. Patterson, P.A., Post Office Box 8047, Hilton

WEEK TWO FRIDAY, JULY 2

Guessing Game winners for week 2 were Matthew Kumpel and Kai Noble.

WEEK THREE FRIDAY, JULY 9

Guessing Game winner for week 3 was Ryan Williamson.

WEEK FOUR FRIDAY, JULY 16

Guessing Game winner for week 4 was Samantha Davis.

WEEK FIVE

Guessing Game winner for week 5 was Michael Geiger.

WEEK SIX FRIDAY, JULY 30

Guessing Game - Week 6

Summer Reading Club Finale

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4

TIME TBA: Summer Reading Club Finale - Raffle winners announced.

Head Island, South Carolina, 29938, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date this Summons is last published, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Summons, Complaint and Lis Pendens in this matter were filed on April 22, 2021 with the Beaufort County Clerk of Court.

RUSSELL P. PATTERSON, P.A.

/s/ Russell P. Patterson Russell P. Patterson P.O. Box 8047

Hilton Head Island, SC 29938 (843) 341-9300 russell@russellpattersonlaw. com

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

July 20, 2021

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that bids for the following will be received at the Garden City UFSD, Business Office, 56 Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 until 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at which time and place bids will be opened and read aloud.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRS 2021-2022

Copies of the specifications and instructions may be obtained at the aforesaid Business Office between the hours of 8:30 a.m. through 4:00 p.m., Monday –Friday up to the time of the bid opening.

Dana DiCapua Asst. Supt for Business & Finance Garden City Union Free School District GC 1230 1X 07/30

It’s What’s Happening For Young Adults Through the Library

Tails and Tales Tweens and Teens

Summer Reading Club:

Registration began on Monday, June 21 for the Tweens and Teens “Tails and Tales” Summer Reading Club!  This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2021 only. Tweens and teens can register online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). Registrants can pick up their Summer Reading Club Bags and free YA books in the Tweens and Teens Room while supplies last.

Once you sign up, you can submit raffle entries for each book you read at the Library or online through our website (www.gardencitypl.org).Tweens and teens who submit one raffle entry will have a chance to win one of this year’s raffle prizes. All books must be at the appropriate reading level and be read and reviewed between June 21 and July 30. Registration is ongoing until Friday, July 30. Raffle entries must be submitted no later than Friday, July 30. This year’s raffle prizes include:

• $50 Gift Card to Amazon

• $50 Gift Card to Starbucks

• Popcorn Machine

• $50 Gift Card to TCBY

• $50 Gift Card to Dunkin Donuts

• $50 Gift Card to Target

• Plus a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card will be awarded to the tween or teen who reads the most books!

The more books you read and the more reviews you enter, the more chances you have to win!

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, August 4, so check the Library’s social media pages and website that day to find out who wins!

If you have any questions, email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https://www.gardencitypl.org/ young-adult-department/contact-theyoung-adult-tweens-teens-department/.

Tree Ornaments for Community Service: Apple Ornaments

Earn community service by painting ornaments for the Garden City Public Library’s Tweens and Teens Department’s Tree Ornament! Each volunteer will receive 3 ornaments and a set of paint pens to decorate their ornaments at home. Paint pens must be returned to the library. These ornaments will be used to decorate our new ornament tree each month!

For the month of August, the ornaments will be apple-shaped. Registration begins Tuesday, August 17 at 10 a.m. online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. Completed ornaments must be returned by August 26 to the Library.

Registrants will be asked to pick up their ornaments at the library in order to participate in this community service program. Volunteers must return 3 decorated ornaments and their set of paint pens in order to receive community service. Volunteers will receive 2 hours for every 3 ornaments they submit, at the discretion of the Tweens and Teens Department. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Teen Advisory Board is Tuesday, August 3, 5 p.m.–5:40 p.m. The meeting is for Tweens and Teens in Grades 6–12. Registration begins Tuesday, July 27 at 10 a.m. online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl. org).

If you are interested in helping to come up with programming ideas, volunteer ideas,  or social media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board Online applications are avail-

“Among Us” at the

Library

able at https://www.gardencitypl. org/teen-advisory-board-application/  Applicants should be entering Grades 6-12 in fall 2021.

Volunteer Teen Reviewers Needed

Would you like to be a reviewer for the Library? Need community service hours? Then become a Volunteer Teen Reviewer. This program is for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12. The Library is looking for teen reviewers to review books and media in the YA collection as well as digital content, such as ebooks and audiobooks, available on Nassau Digital Doorway. There might be a book you've already read in our physical or digital collection that you can write a review on!

• Browse the physical collection here: http://encore.alisweb.org/

• Browse the digital collection here: https://nassau.overdrive.com

• Submit a review here: https:// www.gardencitypl.org/submit-a-teenreview/

Reviews will be used to update the Tweens and Teens Library Review Page (https://www.gardencitypl.org/category/teen-reviews/) as well as update our social media pages. Reviews are subject to approval by the Young Adult Librarian. Please make sure to follow the guidelines for reviews in order for the review to count toward community service.

Teen-Created Social Media Content

Earn community service by submitting a photo, video, or other content for us to add to the Library's Tweens and Teens Facebook and Instagram pages! Ideas for submissions include book reviews, artwork, poetry, short stories, personal essays, photos of food you’ve cooked or baked, or any other creative idea you have for content. Not all submissions will be used on our social media

and submissions including photos of people are not allowed. Submit social media content here https://www.gardencitypl. org/social-media-submission/.

Follow

Tweens and Teens on Facebook and Instagram

Follow Garden City Library’s Tweens and Teens on Facebook and Instagram! The Young Adult Department has been using both social media platforms as a tool to post updates, announcements, digital resources, ebook recommendations, and more during this time of social distancing. Here are the Facebook and Instagram pages for the Garden City Public Library Tweens and Teens Department:  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/ GCPLTweensTeens

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ GCPLTweensTeens

If you’re interested in participating and want to learn when new virtual events will be happening for tweens and teens (Grades 6–12), or if you have any questions, email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https://www.gardencitypl.org/ young-adult-department/contact-theyoung-adult-tweens-teens-department/ .

Teen Advisory Board Applications Now Available Online

If you are interested in helping to come up with some programming ideas or social media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board Online applications are available at https://www.gardencitypl. org/teen-advisory-board-application/  Applicants should be entering Grades 6–12 in fall 2021. Email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https:// www.gardencitypl.org/young-adult-department/contact-the-young-adulttweens-teens-department/ if you have any questions.

Teen Games: Pictionary at the Library

Teens put their drawing skills to the test during Teen Games: Pictionary, which was held on Monday, July 26 at the Library.

Speaking of Books – Meet Your Next Favorite Book

Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Goodreads.com is a social networking site where you can track what you’ve read or want to read, connect with friends who love to read, and share book recommendations with millions of readers worldwide. With the bookshelves feature, Goodreads helps you organize your reading. Keep track of the books you’ve read, want to read, or are currently reading by adding them to the appropriate shelf. You can also create custom bookshelves for your favorite genres, authors, series, and even include books you currently own. Goodreads uses the data from millions of bookshelves to power its recommendations for you; just add books you’ve enjoyed to your virtual shelves. Goodreads will compare your bookshelves to those of readers like you, and will pinpoint new titles for you to read with similar genres, authors, and styles.

Goodreads is a growing community of readers, reviewers, librarians, publishers, and authors. You can use the Community features to find book groups to participate in, contests, book signings and events, and connect with some of your favorite writers. To get started, visit the Niche Academy in the Virtual Library and watch a short video on Goodreads at my.nicheacademy.com/nassaulibrary/course/175. Then visit www. goodreads.com. You can also use the site without creating an account if you are just looking for book information or to discover new authors to read.

Each week, the Adult Reference Librarians recommend books by popular authors, some were recently published, others may be good reads that you might have missed. Most books recommended are available as eBooks. Ebooks may be requested through the Nassau Digital Doorway at nassau.overdrive.com

for download on the Libby app or overdrive.com. You can also reserve books directly in the online catalog at encore.alisweb.org.

As the Page Turns by Librarian Laura

Flanagan

“ The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear ” by Kate Moore - Bestselling author Moore delivers a riveting chronicle of Elizabeth Packard’s (1816–1897) forced commitment to an Illinois insane asylum and advocacy for women’s equality and the rights of psychiatric patients. In 1860, Packard was committed to an insane asylum by her husband with no evidence of any condition other than she disagreed with him on some issues and spoke her mind. One summer morning her husband, Theophilus, has her committed to an insane asylum. The conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are horrific, and there are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that then you have nothing to lose. Moore deftly presents Packard’s story of her confinement, subsequent trial, and crusade to improve women’s legal standing. “ The Woman They Could Not Silence ” is an unputdownable story of the forgotten woman who courageously fought for her own freedom―and in so doing freed millions more. (Released 6/22/21)

“ Survive the Night ” by Riley Sager - Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe. Charlie’s been through a lot in the last few months, including the

murder of her best friend by the infamous (and at-large) Campus Killer. Charlie desperately wants to get away from campus and go back home so she accepts a ride from Josh, an older stranger she met on the campus ride board. Exactly the wrong thing to do with a serial killer on the loose. Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the middle of term. On the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating the news - the Campus Killer. Travelling the lengthy journey between the university and their final destination, Charlie becomes suspicious of her traveling companion... and before the night is over, Charlie will have reason to believe that she is in the car with a serial killer.

(Released 6/29/21)

“ A Place Like Home: Stories ” by Rosamunde Pilcher - Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world. “ A Place like Home” is a collection of short stories by author Rosamunde Pilcher, never before published in book form. It contains 15 stories, which range from “The Holiday,” in which a wife surprises her husband of 25 years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; “The Eye of Love,” which takes the reader to a village by the sea where old flames meet again; and “A Place Like Home,” where a lonely young woman goes to recuperate in the Scottish countryside after a brief illness. The fruit orchards and fresh sea air offer much-needed respite --- but not as much as the handsome, mysterious farmer she meets. Each unforgettable story is the perfect slice of romance written with warmth and passion featuring wonderfully memorable, smart, and feisty female characters that will transport the reader

to another time and place. (Released 7/27/21)

Chapter by Chapter with Kristen Sweeney

“Blush” by Jamie Brenner - For decades, the Hollander Estates winery was the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. For matriarch Vivian, she fears that this summer season could be their last-- and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a secret she harbored for decades. Meanwhile, her daughter, Leah finds her marriage at a crossroads and returns home, and granddaughter Sadie, runs to the vineyard looking for inspiration. When Sadie uncovers journals from Vivian’s old book club dedicated to scandalous novels of decades past, she realizes that this might be the distraction they all need. Reviving the “trashy” book club, the Hollander women find that the stories hold the key to their fight not only for the vineyard, but for the life and love they wanted all along. (Released 7/22/21)

“Mrs. March” by Virginia FeitoGeorge March’s latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning, when the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that her husband’s latest protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself. That one casual remark robs Mrs. March of the belief that she knew everything about her husband --- and herself --- thus sending her on an increasingly paranoid journey that begins within the pages of a book. While snooping in George’s office, Mrs. March finds a newspaper clipping about a missing woman. Did George have anything to do with her disappearance? (Release date 8/10/21)

Mollie’s Fund films two PSAs at Nassau Haven

With the support and endorsement of the Garden City Recreation Department, The GC Centennial Soccer Club, and GCHS health teacher and coach Jen Pomponio Soper, former resident Gerry Sievers produced two ads for Mollie’s Fund focused on encouraging kids to be sun smart.  The first 30 second PSA “Extend the Fun – Cover Up in the Mid-Day Sun!” shows young soccer players adding and applying sunscreen during their practice. Because statistics remind

us that just TWO blistering sunburns in childhood doubles the risk for melanoma later, it is critical that applying sunscreen becomes an important habit when playing outdoors. With these productions, Mollie’s Fund emphasizes the necessity of sun protective behaviors for kids. In addition to the GC Centennials website and social pages, this message will be shared with the Long Island Junior Soccer League thanks to Centennial’s president, Rob Malhame and direc -

IN MEMORIAM

Robert F. O'Donnell

Robert F. O’Donnell, 101, of Rye, New Hampshire, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 25, 2021 at Webster at Rye where he had been living since becoming ill. Born in Portland, ME, on November 18, 1919, he was the son of Philip and Mary (Casey) O’Donnell. He attended Portland High School, graduating in 1937.

During World War II, he rose to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in Naval Intelligence, serving in the Boston Naval District and overseas in England.  He returned to service in the Navy during the Korean War and was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard.

Mr. O’Donnell retired from Amoco Oil Company in 1981 after 40 years of service.  He worked in Claremont, NH, for Cal Oakes and then as an Amoco auditor covering New England, upstate NY and NJ.  Later in his career, he lived in Garden City, and worked as an analyst for Amoco’s NY office.

After retirement, he returned to NH and resided in Rye with his wife Catherine H. (Romard) O’Donnell. For 38 years, he enjoyed spending afternoons and evenings on his back porch

tor, Dom Atteritano.

Thank you to GC resident Jana Nesbitt Gale for her creative and energetic PSA that shows kids that wearing hats, sunglasses and using sunscreen when outdoors is a snap.  Pre-teens learn from each other how easy it is to be sun safe in “Protecting Yourself from the Sun is a SNAP!”

Mollie’s Fund appreciates our local talent that so generously donated their time for both projects:  Millie and Shannon Soper, Audrey Peterson, Georgia, Paul and John Gale, William, Dana and Ryan Sievers, Emilia Parisi, Lily Raia, Aryo and Zoya Zehtabchi, Mary Haggerty, Keleen Hanrahan and Ryan Falvey, Jr.

Both videos can be seen on www. molliesfund.org and are being shared with television, Twitter, FB and Instagram.

IN MEMORIAM

overlooking a serene 1-acre property, which he mowed himself until age 95.

At age 99, he moved to an assisted living apartment at Webster at Rye.  Mr. O’Donnell was a communicant of St. Theresa Church, Rye Beach, NH.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 54 years, his five brothers, and several nieces and nephews.  He is survived by his four children and two sons-in-law: Maureen O’Donnell and husband James Lilley of Upton, MA; Terry O’Donnell of Spokane, WA; Cathy (O’Donnell) Fomous and husband John Fomous of Arlington, VA and Margaret O’Donnell of Keene, NH, as well as several nieces.  All who knew him will miss his story-telling and smiling Irish eyes.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at the St. Theresa Church, Rye Beach. Burial followed in Central Cemetery, Rye.  In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Rannie Webster Foundation, 795 Washington Rd., Rye, NH, 03870 https://www.websteratrye. com/donate-volunteer/make-a-gift/. Please visit www.RemickGendron.com to view Mr. O’Donnell’s memorial website, to sign his tribute wall and for additional information.

Eileen Debany, 92, of Garden City, New York and formerly of Nassau Point, Cutchogue, New York, passed away peacefully on July 24, 2021. She is survived by her children, Charlotte Debany Caswell and W. Paul Debany, son-in-law James Caswell, daughter-in-law Jill Debany and her grandchildren, Stephen Deba ny and Kerin Debany, whom she adored. She is also survived by her three goddaughters, Monica Grady, Susan Debany Gregory and Elizabeth Johnson Davis. Eileen was predeceased by her husband Wilfred Paul Debany, Jr., her sister Maureen Delaney and her brother Edward (Buddy) Delaney. Eileen was born in 1929 in Waltham, MA. to Edward and Frances (Shea) Delaney. Eileen and her siblings were

raised in a pure Irish, devout Catholic home. Eileen said her mother was a person of enormous faith and an extraordinary example and her father was a good-living, decent man. One of the most generous people she had ever known.

Eileen graduated from Regis College in Weston, MA in 1950 with a BA in Business and Economics. Her first job after college was teacher and house mother at House in the Pines School for Girls, a private secondary school for girls in Norton, MA. Following a year of teaching, Eileen joined the administrative staff at Arthur D. Little, Inc. At the time, it was the largest consulting organization of its kind in the world.

In 1959, Eileen moved to New York where she was employed by the IBM Corporation as an Educational Representative. She became one of only 24 educational reps in the country! After two years, she met and married Wilfred Debany who was a sales rep for IBM. She took time out of her career to raise her children, Charlotte and Paul, and involve herself in her children’s school activities and demands.

Eileen saw herself as a life-long learner. Eileen finished her requirements for a New York State teaching certificate at Hofstra University and held a number of teaching positions: Adult Education in Garden City School System, Katherine Gibbs School of Business, Adult Retraining Classes at IBM. Eileen was also very active in programs for children with learning disabilities.

Eileen’s friends describe her as smart, quick-witted, beautifully dressed, a dedicated and dependable friend. Eileen will be greatly missed.

The A.T. Stewart Exchange Consignment Shop

Bunnies

and lambies for everyone.

BY MELISSA JAEGER

Many of us, at some point in our childhood, had a favorite stuffed animal that we slept with.  Did you ever wonder who created stuffed animals?  Did you know that they weren’t always used as toys?  Historical records point to the ancient Egyptians as the first ones who depicted and utilized stuffed animals as part of their special worship ceremonies.  In Roman times, children played with wood carvings of animals.  But because they were expensive, only children of wealthy families could afford to buy them.  Poorer families made rag dolls from straw and bits of leftover fabric.  Stuffed animals didn’t become popularized until the 1880s when a felt elephant was originally sold as a pincushion.  This pincushion was created by the German Steiff company.  In 1892, the Ithaca Kitty ( aka “The Tabby Cat”) became one of the first mass-produced stuffed animal toys in the U.S., made out of muslin fabric.

The plush, soft and fuzzy stuffed animal that we come to think of did not come about until the early 20th century with the introduction of a soft stuffed bear made of plush fur-like material designed by Steiff.  However, it was

Morris Michtom who, inspired by a drawing of President “Teddy” Roosevelt with a bear cub, created the first teddy bear that we know and love even today.  During the Great Depression, when money was tight and supplies were limited, people also continued to make their own stuffed toys.  One of the more memorable toys was the sock monkey, fashioned out of old socks.

At the Exchange, we have a number of plush animals.  Check out the Kincade Bear, in its original box.  We have adorable Raggedy Ann dolls and adorable plush animals, made by Bearington Bear.  Ask about Roy Rooster, Pig E Sue, Hunter Fox, and, one of our most popular with young girls, Peace Dog.  My favorite is probably Powderpuff, as it is just so soft and cuddly.  These make wonderful new baby gifts, or birthday and holiday gifts for young children.

If you are not vaccinated, we ask that you wear a mask when you come into the store.  Even though all the volunteers have been vaccinated, you will see that many of us continue to wear our masks, out of an abundance of caution.  We offer hand-sanitizer when you enter the shop, and, to keep you feeling safe, we are running the air purifier which cleans the air in the Shop every hour.

I want to mention our summer hours.  Our Wednesday late night shopping hours have been suspended, and will resume in September.  Also, for the month of August only, we will be closed on Saturdays (Aug. 7, 14, 21, and 28).  We get newly consigned merchandise almost every day!   If you can’t make it in right away, please shop online at www.atstewartexchange.org and come to the Exchange to pick up.  We also post photos on the AT Stewart Exchange Facebook and Instagram pages, as well as the TGCHS website (www.tgchs.org).

Unfamiliar with the Exchange Consignment Shop?  We are housed in The Garden City Historical Society (TGCHS) Museum on 109 Eleventh Street (in the basement of the building). All the proceeds from the Shop sales directly benefit TGCHS.  In addition to our best sellers – jewelry (costume and fine), lamps, mirrors, and crystal (Waterford, Baccarat, Tiffany) -- we take/accept silver, pocketbooks, china, furniture, artwork, and collectibles.  All items are in new or nearly new condition.

Up until a year ago, we did consign-

ments by walk-in.  With the virus, we have had to take measures to safeguard our customers, consignors, and volunteers.  Having appointments helps to keep down the numbers of people in the Shop at any point in time and reduces wait-times to consign.  Consignments are now done Wednesday through Friday, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. by appointment ONLY, so please call (516)746-8900.  Unsure if your items are appropriate to consign?  Email photos to store@ atstewartexchange.org and be sure to include sizing info.  Please be sure items are cleaned and polished, ready for sale. All the profits from the Consignment Shop support the maintenance and upkeep of TGCHS Museum.  Thanks to your generous support, work on the outside of the Museum continues.

The museum is located at 109 Eleventh Street.

Summer Shop Hours: Tues–Fri: 10:00–4:00 p.m., Sat: Noon–4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays during August. For more information, please call (516) 746-8900.

Village considers putting Cathedral Ave. on a ‘road diet’

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up to the year 2032. First we assumed that -- if the money is available, and this would be desirable to the Village Board and the county -- this Road Diet project could go in within one year. Then, we looked at 10 years beyond that and that is 2032. In doing so we increased the traffic modeling by 0.5% for every year up to 2032. This gave us an adjustment for COVID plus an additional 5% to 6% to look at a 2032 condition, conservatively. That presumes that things will normalize back to the pre-COVID traffic conditions and we think the jury is out on that, because there is a lot of telecommuting and working from home happening as well as peak-hour traffic disruption as a result -- volume is down during those peak hours on the local roads. Also, traffic would have to continue to grow further,” Filiciotto explained.

He cited the reasons for the village to consider a Road Diet plan would include “fewer conflicting points; fewer travel lanes to cross for side-street traffic; reducing the exposure to moving vehicles for non-motorized roadway users, and, a point that seemed to resonate, achieving an overall reduction in speed for cars.

Filiciotto noted that Nassau County has approved a traffic light for the intersection of 4th Street and Cathedral Avenue, and he said though it’s not constructed yet it would likely “go in over the next 10 years” for the purposes of analysis to 2032 conditions. Also the study took into account the federal-level road guidelines “that are important and relevant here” he told the Board.

The intersection of St. Paul’s Place became a topic of focus for Mayor Cosmo Veneziale as he asked about Creighton Manning’s reviews at the location. A key part of the proposal for a Road Diet on Cathedral is to create one-lane of travel in each direction from St. Paul’s Place to 6th Street, plus a two-way left turn lane that involves an exclusively left-turn lane at the intersections, plus related traffic signal coordination all along Cathedral Avenue.

A key difference the mayor inquired about is the single lanes of travel for Cathedral in the Village of Hempstead, where there is on-street parking instead of a right lane and there are no left-turning lanes. Filiciotto said the consultants understood that the on-street parking for Cathedral was not a desirable configuration.

Keith Hochheiser, a Central POA director, presented some photos of Cathedral Avenue’s many accidents and discussed a root cause that officials should consider.

“I appreciate Police Commissioner Jackson’s efforts to employ the traffic control tools that he has. But the reality is that I think this issue goes beyond enforcement. [The village] has systemic,

excessive speeding that’s 50% over the definition of excessive speeding. That’s why we see the bulk and severity of these accidents with cars flipping over, very serious stuff. Eighty-five percent of the people are doing 45 miles per hour or over that. I think all of the residents would very much appreciate the board moving this road diet concept forward as quickly as possible,” Hochheiser said.

He added that from the beginning, the goal was “to develop a tool that could be used in other parts of the village -- and a truly transformative one.”

According to Hochheiser, the input the board and administration receives about other key roads in Garden City informs them that the study could be used for, with Washington Avenue being one example.

“The opportunity exists to have these roads learn from this example and gain momentum, possibly developing solutions, without the village and residents having to depend upon the enforcement aspect. Frankly I live in the village and this (enforcement) isn’t working so well,” Hochheiser said before thanking all village staff and officials who helped to develop this study.

Cathedral dean sees frequent crashes

The Very Reverend Michael T. Sniffen, Dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, also spoke at the July 15 meeting. He added his thanks to Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi, to Frank Filiciotto, as well as the trustees and several Central section neighbors who have been active with presenting this concern.

“My wife and I live on the corner of 5th and Cathedral; my office is at the corner of 4th and Cathedral, and the Cathedral of the Incarnation owns four blocks of the stretch along Cathedral Avenue that we are discussing. It’s really hard to put into words how traumatic some of these high-speed accidents have been -- I have been the first person on the scene for at least 10 accidents. While it may help to have a priest on-scene for the people who have been in one of the traffic accidents, it’s an especially scary thing for a lot of the accidents here to have involved a lot of young people from the village,” Sniffen told the board.

Dean Sniffen noted how the Cathedral of the Incarnation is in the process of implementing its 10-year master plan with campus and capital improvements, including much increased walkability.

“We’re significantly improving our campus for pedestrians, for children, for people to be outside with their pets, and our largest program run at the Cathedral is called ‘Cathedral for Kids’ where we have dozens of toddlers present on-campus all the time. What we don’t want to have to do is to ‘wall-off’ the Cathedral property in order to make it a safe zone in its part of the village. What we DO want to do is help make the streets of this village safe for pedes-

trians and people travelling in vehicles. We thank you for your work and we know that ALL the corporations allied to the Cathedral support this safety project,” he said.

Central resident Bryan Maher, who has seen many Cathedral Avenue crashes firsthand, restated the alarming statistics presented by Creighton Manning of 163 accidents in a three-year span, 2017 through 2019, in which 56% of them required hospitalizations of vehicle occupants.

“That is 91 hospitalized persons with an average of one every two weeks. I have helped Garden City kids get out of minivans and family vehicles that were hit in accidents on their way back from lacrosse practices at St. Paul’s. I have helped teenagers crying on the scenes. I have also helped a kid who had a bone coming out from his leg who was in a car that had gone 180 feet onto the sidewalk. I do not think they were able to save his leg. It’s really, really tough out there and I appreciate how this is so important to me and people from every section of Garden City that have asked me to represent their concerns. I would remind this Board that this does not cover just a Central section issue because it will impact people who attend or go to Garden City Middle School and other schools as well as Cathedral of the Incarnation, and the Garden City Pool and Community Park, the school busses are in this area. People are walking their dogs and walking with children in strollers. Seconds matter,” Maher said.

Deputy Mayor Tom O’Brien asked Filiciotto about a timeframe if the Board of Trustees grants its approval for moving the Road Diet ahead, because the Nassau County review and application process would be next. Filiciotto said the County would need approximately a month to really digest the proposal for Cathedral Avenue. He expects dialogues to continue past Labor Day and the process would be at the minimum an eightweek period from July 15.

“Then, they will probably comment on this because they are not just going to rubber stamp it. They would critique a little bit of the details and then they could have questions for us. Possibly it involves a process where we address their comments and send the answers back with the Road Diet initiative. In doing so that could hopefully help us gain the approval,” Filiciotto said.

At the meeting, Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi explained that Garden City administration has consistently been in touch with Nassau County about Cathedral Avenue and several other traffic conditions since the fall of 2020, and that Garden City has the support of County Legislator Laura Schaefer as well. He noted how she has been truly helpful with fostering communication and relaying details with all Nassau County projects within the village.

Mayor Veneziale said it’s important that Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson is involved in future studies, noting that Jackson has tremendous knowledge of traffic regulations as well as the existing issues Garden City faces with accidents and vehicular patterns “in every part of the village.”

Village-wide solutions?

Trustee Mary Carter Flanagan added that other parts of Garden City such as on Hampton Road in the Estates and along Rockaway Avenue and Merillon Avenue near Garden City High School must be considered for traffic configuration changes, especially as some students, schools’ staff and parents are often pedestrians around there.

“We understand it may not be practical to say it’s a villagewide review or study, but as a village we need to examine what the spots are. From reading the proposal there may be more locations where we have to work towards implementing solutions, and the cost would likely be better to have a larger study area than a series of smaller locational studies,” she said, noting that the strategies from a local streets’ study would be good information to examine for multiple areas of Garden City.

Trustee Louis Minuto disagreed that a blanket, all-encompassing approach to traffic solutions should be part of the Board’s and the consultant’s reviews in the months ahead. He said places such as Tanners Pond Road and New Hyde Park Road have obvious geographical issues that impact them with much higher percentages of speeding. “And it will only get worse,” he commented.

“The things impacting those areas with their localized changes are completely different than pass-through traffic which is being observed in the numbered streets. In order to propose and pass the studies properly, as I am hearing (Filicotto) say the same thing, you would want a study for the numbered streets (Central section) and the study for New Hyde Park Road down to Tanners Pond Road,and we should identify the forces that are creating issues within different zones. I agree that there are different hotspots but they do not all have to be completed with one study, because that would slow down any progress. While I don’t want to sound too dramatic, in the Central section many of us have young kids and something bad is going to happen,” Trustee Minuto said.

Trustee Carter Flanagan replied that she did not intend to suggest delays or to minimize the safety issues of the Central section, but several other parents in other areas of Garden City have also relayed concerns on safety and speeding traffic.

“I think we need to have the conversations about the safety concerns with a group of areas,” she said.

Garden City Pool News

Senior Citizen Day

Senior Citizen Day returns this Monday, August 2 as the Pool opens 10 a.m. for senior members and noon for senior resident non-members.  Admission for resident non-members is $11. Music will be provided by George Salem at 11 a.m. In addition, the Snack Bar will have ½-price specials on selected items between 11 a.m.–noon.

Mini Golf Glow Night

Join us this Friday, July 30 for the annual Mini Golf Glow Night at the Mini Golf Course.  The fun starts at 7 p.m. with glow balls, glow bracelets, music and lots of fun. The cost is $2.00 per golfer and open to all residents and guest.

The Snack Bar will have ice cream sundae specials beginning at 6 p.m.!

Tuesday Movie Night Returns!

We are thrilled to announce the return of Movie Nights! Our second movie of the season will take place Tuesday, August 10 at 8:30 p.m. in the in the Picnic Area.

Come enjoy the movie “Trolls World Tour”: The Queen of the Hard Rock Trolls tries to take over all the Troll kingdoms, and Queen Poppy and her friends try different ways to save all the Trolls.

Admission: $2 - Members; $4 - Guests of Members

Jobs Available

Our college students are heading off to school soon. If you have a child 16 or older and can commit to the Pool through Labor Day, please stop in the Pool Office for more details. We are looking for Nassau County Certified Lifeguards, attendants and a pump house helper.

Wacky Inflatable Night

New to the 2021 season is Wacky Inflatable Night! On Saturday, August 7, members will be allowed to bring inflatable floats to enjoy in our main pool. Bring in your inflatable floats, lounges “donuts” and enjoy a unique night. We are ONLY allowing the inflatables in the pool beginning at 5 p.m.!

In honor of the night, the Snack Bar will have specials on ice cream floats, and also have a make your own ice cream sundae bar.

Birthday Party Packages

We are pleased to announce our birthday party packages at the Pool this year. Packages include food, refreshments, a reserved indoor area, host/hostess and much more. You must be a pool member to book a party. All you need to do is bring the cake, goodie bags and kids! For more information or to book your party, please call the Snack Bar at 385-4920.

Stay Connected with the #GCPool

For the latest news, pictures and information please Follow Us on our Twitter account @ GCSWIMMINGPOOL and Facebook. com/gardencityswimmingpool.  We are also happy to announce that we are now on INSTAGRAM.  We invite everyone to follow us: GCSWIMMINGPOOL

Field hockey clinics for grades 1–8

The Garden City Varsity Field Hockey Team will be hosting instructional clinics for girls grades 1 through 8.

The clinics will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. at Garden City High School Turf Field on the following dates:

Sunday, September 12

Sunday, September 19

Sunday, September 26

Sunday, October 3

Sunday October 17

Cost is $60 for 5 sessions

Girls will need to bring a field hockey stick, mouth guard, protective eyewear, and shin guards Register: https://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url-gcaa

GARDEN CITY RECREATION AND PARK NEWS

Summer Concerts at the Gazebo

Recreation and Parks Summer Concerts at the Gazebo have begun.  Concerts are held at the gazebo on the corner of Hilton and Stewart Avenues and begin at 7:15 p.m. Bring a chair, wear a mask and please practice social distancing while attending the concert.

In the case of less than “better than perfect” weather, the concert will be moved to St. Paul’s Cluett Hall.

Our performers are as follows:

August 5 - Hour Glass – The Music of James Taylor

August 12 - Stan Zizka and the Del-Satins  - Doo Wop and More From This Legendary Group

August 19  - Radio Flashback – 70s Radio Hits

US Sports Institute's Summer Programs

Garden City Recreation and Parks is working in conjunction with US Sports Institute to again offer a variety of summer camps for Garden City residents ages 2 (Parent and Me) and up!

Each camp offered runs Monday through Thursday for one week in sports such as soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, golf, and multi sports

To see a list of their offerings, please visit their website at www.ussportsinstitute.com.

Mad Science Summer Experience

Garden City Recreation and Parks has partnered with Mad Science of Long Island to provide a wonderful learning experience in a camp setting.  Residents of the Village of Garden City entering grades 1 – 5 are encouraged to attend.  The topics and details for each camp are listed below. To register for any of these classes, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

All checks should be made payable to LI Steam Group.

For all weeks (These camps run Monday through Friday unless noted):

Where: St. Paul’s Center

Time:   9 a.m. to 12 p.m. OR 1 to 4 p.m.

Fee:   $360, checks only made payable to LI Steam Group

August 2–6

MOTION MADNESS

Entering Grades 1–5

Science and Engineering go hand in hand as we explore what machines and nature have in common.  Campers will build various structures as they

learn the FUN-damental forces that affect motion.

August 9–13

ROBOTS: Code Red

(Additional $30 supply fee to be paid at the first class) Explore the fields of Robotics in the hands on camp!  In addition to daily science projects, participants will complete their own robot to keep.

August 16–20

Topic: FLIGHT ACADEMY

Entering Grades 1–5

Birds, kites, planes and rockets! If it flies Mad Science Camp covers it! Investigate the science of aerodynamics. All week long, campers will build various flying machines, explore space and apply Newton’s Laws of motion as we take daily flights of discovery!

Incrediflix Filmaking Camps for Ages 7-13

Garden City Recreation and Parks is bringing Incrediflix back!  This very popular film making camp guides children through the aspects of this great hobby.  Children will work in age appropriate groups to create and make their own short film.  Topics are listed below.  Lunch supervision is included for any child who would like to stay for both sessions of that week’s camp. All flix will be professionally edited and will be downloadable within a month after camp ends.

Where:   Community Park Tennis Hut

Cost: $169 for each morning session, $159 for each afternoon session, or $300 if you register for both sessions in the same week, bring your lunch, stay for two classes

Checks only, made payable to Incrediflix.

Our topics are:

WEEK OF AUGUST 2–5 ANIMATION FLIX

1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

In this fast paced class students will be creating up to 4 stop motion movies that will include dinosaurs, paper cartoons, white board, and a free choice day where students get to choose from playdoh, jewels or items brought from home. It’s the ultimate arts and crafts camp where you create, direct, and film your movies in age-appropriate groups.

To register for any of these sessions, please visit Recreation and Parks at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

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Are you a professional?

Enter our “World’s Most Beautiful Grandchildren” contest! Just send in your grandchildren’s photos and a brief description of the child (or children) along with your name and address to editor@gcnews.com

OPEN HOUSE OPEN HOUSE

774 Edgewood Dr, Westbury, NY Sunday, August 1st I 11:30 – 1:30pm 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3328902. $809,000.

112 Holland Ave, Floral Park, NY Saturday, July 31st I 2:30 – 4:30pm 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath. MLS# 3324713. $775,000.

Patricia Costello, Patricia Dickson, Alfred Kohart, Mary Krener and Linda

111 Cherry Valley Avenue, M18 Garden City, NY

2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3316468. $999,999.

111

1-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

3-bedroom, 1-bath.

3330004. $569,000.

Rockville Centre, NY

0-bedroom, 1-bath. MLS# 3300819. $159,000.

111 Cherry Valley Ave, #506 Garden City, NY 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3327156. $929,000.

100 Hilton Ave, PH6

20 Marshall Ave, Floral Park, NY Saturday, July 31st I 12:00 – 1:30pm Sunday, August 1st I 2:30 – 4:00pm 3-bedroom, 2-bath. MLS# 3332868. $729,000.

100 Hilton Ave, #519

City, NY

2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3316009. $975,000.

1817 Gormley Ave, Merrick, NY Sunday, August 1st I 10:30 – 12:00pm 3-bedroom, 2-bath. MLS# 3321954. $678,000.

100 Hilton Avenue, #406 Garden City, NY 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3326485. $998,000.

City, NY 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3307569. $2,099,999. 100 Hilton Avenue, #419

100 Hilton Ave, M23

City, NY 1-bedroom, 1.5-bath. MLS# 3314419. $3,600/month

Floral Park, NY 5-bedroom, 3-bath. MLS# 3321200. $749,500.

bath. MLS# 3281947. $7,500/month

Out of Town Listings

Stewart Manor, NY 4-bedroom, 1.5-bath. MLS# 3312366. $774,000.

City, NY

2.5-bath.

3309995. $5,999/month

Hempstead, NY 3-bedroom, 1-bath. MLS# 3325650. $469,000.

Riverhead, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. MLS# 3325629. $1,825,000.

Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 1-bath. MLS# 3313590. $355,000.

3512 Bayfield Blvd, Oceanside, NY Saturday, July 31st I 10:30 – 12:00pm 3-bedroom, 2-bath. MLS# 3310973. $579,000.

Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 1-bath. MLS# 3331740. $389,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3329336. $885,000.

Garden City, NY

4-bedroom, 4-bath. MLS# 3322191. $1,699,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath. MLS# 3327762. $975,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath. MLS# 3331681. $1,699,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3330384. $1,249,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3-bath. MLS# 3311495. $1,750,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3327270. $1,299,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath. MLS#3324174. $1,799,000.

4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. MLS# 3327338. $1,399,000.

City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath. MLS# 3325947. $2,449,000.