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S.C. explores composting program idea homes.” Composting is the natural process of recycling organic Sea Cliff residents will have matter, such as food scraps and the opportunity to weigh in on yard waste, into a nutrient-rich the future of composting in the soil amendment known as comvillage at a public meeting post. Fellow ECC co-chair Laura scheduled for Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at Russo argued that the benefits Sea Cliff Village Hall. of the practice include decreasThe village meeting the “amount of ing will feature a pregarbage that’s going sentation from a repto the incinerator resentative from the and ultimately creatState Department of ing more ash and Environmental Congoing to the landfill,” servation followed by as well as creating a chance for residents compost “that enrichto share their es the garden and thoughts and ask makes the soil much questions. It is orgabetter.” nized by the Village While the DEC Board of Trustees representative will laUra rUSSo and the Sea Clif f provide information Environmental Con- co-chair Sea Cliff on individual comservation Committee, Environmental posting, the main a village commission Conservation focus will be to dedicated to protect- Committee explore a potential ing and improving the village-wide compostenvironmental quality of Sea ing program — a concept in Cliff. which residents’ organic waste Its purpose, according to is collected and processed at a Dina Epstein co-chair of the Sea central location for reuse in the Cliff ECC, is “to gauge resident community. interest in composting, and then “We all think that compostto explore whether composting ing is a very positive thing,” can be done on a community Epstein said, “a lot of people do level, or if it’s something that’s in Sea Cliff.” Individual combetter served by people individually doing it in their own ConTinued on page 11

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The Sea Cliff Village Museum’s last exhibit focuses on the history of film in Sea Cliff. There will be a red carpet-themed fundraiser for the museum on Friday.

A history of L.I.’s Hollywood

Village museum debuts new exhibit with fundraiser By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com

The Sea Cliff Village Museum is rolling out the red carpet this Friday for the opening of its newest exhibit, Lights, Camera, Sea Cliff !, a celebration of the village’s history as a backdrop for movies, television shows and commercials spanning more than a century. The exhibit will debut with a Hollywoodstyle fundraiser complete with spotlights, music, movie candy, popcor n and even “paparazzi.” The evening will feature raffles, including a poster from the Barbie movie and a “Weird Barbie” doll signed by Sea Cliff native and Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon.

Kristine Janusas, president of the Friends of the Sea Cliff Village Museum, said the project has been in the works for more than two years. Courtney Chambers, the museum’s director, said Sea Cliff ’s film history stretches back to the silent era. “Sea Cliff has actually been a filming location since 1918 when the silent film star Mabel Normand shot a scene from ‘A Perfect 36’ here in Sea Cliff,” Chambers said. “So that movie, ‘A Perfect 36,’ is actually considered lost. The way that those films were made, they just have deteriorated over time, and there are no known copies remaining.” Over the decades, Sea Cliff has appeared in productions ranging from the 1960 gangster film “Pretty Boy Floyd,” which turned ConTinued on page 17

e just have to see how much interest the community shows