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Karma Beauty’s ‘Super Hairo,’ is Nikki Cestaro August. The names of real people featured in her stories have been changed to preserve privaNikki Cestaro has seen it all. cy. In addition to jokes and Over the course of 19 years, drama, Nikki also shares her Cestaro’s Karma Beauty Studio experience as an entrepreneur. “It’s a little bit of a learning has seen hundreds of clients, dozens of employees, and a few guide for somebody who’s in exceptional events that she our industry,” she said. “I go shares in her new book, “Super into detail about my old school values; you have to start from Hairo.” Nikki is an East Meadow the bottom and be part of a resident whose salon operates team and learn along the way, fail to succeed.” in Merrick. Joey Cestaro, Her book is an Nikki’s husband, autobio g raphy helps maintain the exploring the highs salon. and lows of her hairdressing career “She gave me her with good humor vision for a hair NIkkI CEStARo and sincerity. salon, and I went “I love what I Author, hairdresser with a buddy of do,” she said. mine,” Joey CestaNikki’s work in hair care ro said. “We found a spot, and began at 15 as a shampoo assis- we built a hair salon exactly tant, where she quickly found how she wanted it.” her affinity for working with Joey remembers listening to people. Almost 36 years later, Nikki’s stories each day and Nikki owns her own salon. The encouraging her to share them idea of publishing a book origi- with a larger audience. One of nated from Nikki’s daily journ- the themes that resonated with aling, reflecting on life changes him was her perseverance. and relieving her frustrations. “The restaurant is the num“When I started to journal, it ber one toughest business to be really was just for myself,” she in, and the next is a hair salon said. “My writing would always owner,” he said. “Eighty permake me understand how it cent of these go out of business was really feeling.” Continued on page 16 The book was published in
By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo
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Courtesy Merrick Union Free School District
Chatterton students say: ‘Be our Guest!’ Chatterton School students staged ‘Beauty & the Beast, Jr.’ from March 26 to March 28. Fifth- and sixth-grade cast members prepared for their roles for many months. Shira Voulgarakis, a reading interventionist at Chatteron and the director of Chatterton On Stage with the musical’s cast members behind the scenes.
A presentation on Long Island, and its abandoned places, at the Merrick Library By REI WolFSoHN Correspondent
The Merrick Library’s lecture series “Long Live Long Island” explores the area’s hidden history, and guest speaker Richard Panchyk discussed many of its abandoned places on March 20. An author with several books on the abandoned places of Long Island and Queens, Panchyk studied anthropology with a focus on historic preservation at Adelphi University in Garden City. His lecture told the story of some of these places, how they came to be, why they’re aban-
doned, the state they’re in now and the nature of abandoned places. Panchyk’s inspiration came from a children’s book that he read when he was child — a story about a little house that started out in an expansive country setting. Slowly, houses sprang up around it, and it turned into the suburbs. Highways and skyscrapers then appeared, transforming it into the city. In the meantime, the family abandoned the house, but years later, the great grandchildren returned to it, put it on a trailer and took it out to the country, where it was happy again. “A lot of things have changed, but what I tried Continued on page 4
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