June 17, 2011

USA Network’s hit summer dramedy, “Royal Pains” came to Locust Valley on Monday, June 13th to fi lm scenes for the eighth episode of its third season, en-titled, “An Apple a Day.” The fi lming took place down-town at the corner of Birch Hill Road and Forest Av-

enue where director Don Scardino shot Paige Collins (actress Brooke D’Orsay) and Evan R. Lawson (actor Paulo Costanzo) reminiscing about their fi rst kiss at the photo-booth. The new season of “Royal Pains” premieres Wednesday, June 29th at 9 PM on USA.

By David J. [email protected]

The Bayville Fire Com-pany #1 will host the 2011 5th Battalion Parade & Drill on Saturday, June 18th. The drill will be held at Centre Island Beach at 10 AM while the parade will step off at 7 PM.

The events will feature all eleven depart-ments in the 5th Battalion: Bayville, East Norwich, Glen Cove, Glenwood, Locust Valley, At-lantic Steamer, Oyster Bay, Ros-lyn Rescue, Sea Cliff, Syosset and Roslyn Highlands.

The late Ed Minicozzi, Sr. of Lattingtown will be hon-ored as Grand Marshal of the parade and will be rep-resented by his three sons: Kenny, Edward, Jr. and Steve and his wife Myrt.

Minicozzi has served 43 years in the volunteer fi re department holding various titles including President, Chairman of the Board, Fireman of the Year and Lieutenant and he was

one of Bayville’s fi rst AMTs (Advanced Medical Techni-cian).

“We spoke to Ed about the idea in January and he was very excited,” saidChairman John Doyle. “We are honoring him for his his-tory and service to our fi re

company and his fi re service in general. He was very instrumen-tal in our devel-opment over theyears. Much of the equipment that we have in place today can be directly tied to some type of fi nancial plan or approach that he

put in place.”The parade will begin at

St. Gertrude’s Church and march east down Bayville Avenue to Centre Island Beach where an eveningcelebration will take place with live music from Flash-back and vendors will pro-vide a variety of food.

Town of Oyster Bay Su-pervisor John Venditto will serve as the master of ceremonies at the paradeawards ceremony.


Detective Sergeant Carmine E. Soldano and Police Offi cer Thom-as Wilson are no strangers to ad-versity. Both have won battles with cancer and Offi cer Wilson survived smoke inhalation, a torn ACL and getting hit by a vehicle.

The Theodore Roosevelt Asso-ciation chose to recognize their achievements with its 17th annual TRA Police Awards at a ceremony at Sagamore Hill National Histor-ic Site in Cove Neck on Tuesday, June 14th.

Each year, the awards are given to one police offi cer from Nas-sau County and one from Suffolk County who have overcome a ma-jor physical challenge or handicap and gone back to active duty — just as TR himself triumphed over the illness of his youth.

Detective Sgt. Soldano while working as a patrol offi cer in May 1993 discovered a large swelling on his neck and was diagnosed with cancer of the nasopharynx.

He continued to work through his treatment and lost 75% of his salivary glands, causing life-long dry mouth. All the while he missed only fi ve tours. He remains

on full-time active duty today.“Today’s event brings back

many memories for me and my family, some good and some I’d like to forget,” said Soldano. “Al-though my health problems start-ed a long time ago, I remember it like it was last week. When I look back, I realized that I took every-thing for granted including the two main things: my family and my health. My family has done a lot for me especially during my ill-ness. I’m proud of all of them.”

Soldano recalled fi nding out that he had cancer while his wife was pregnant with their second child. “The fi rst thing that came to my mind was my son Carmine, who was 3 at the time. I wondered how much longer was he going to have a father and if I would ever see my second child born,” he said.

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Voters to decide on trimmed school budgetsBy David J. [email protected]

Most school budgets across Long Island passed on May 17th, but voters in the central school districts of Oyster Bay-East Nor-wich and Locust Valley sent a message when their budgets were defeated by close margins — keep spending in check.

A school budget re-vote will be held in both districts on Tuesday, June 21st.

Oyster Bay-East Norwich

The Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District’s original 2011-12 School Budget, which was set at $51.1 million — a 3.94% increase over last year — narrowly failed with 1,036 voting no and 1,002 voting yes.

The School Board went on to make additional cuts including a custodial position and a BOCES/Staff Development position. And they planned not to replace one

of two retiring teachers — a spe-cial education educator. They also cut non-IEP BOCES programs and non-contingent equipment. If accepted by the voters, these additional cuts bring the revised budget to $50,182,037 — a 2.96% increase over last year.

By state law, if OB-EN’s revised budget doesn’t pass, the school district must automatically resort to a 2% contingency budget and still more cuts would have to be made.

Locust Valley

The Locust Valley Central School District’s original 2011-12 school budget, set at $73,921,062, was voted down with 1,312 no votes over 1,192 yes votes. The failed budget had been set at 2.9% more than last year’s. Now, the adminis-tration has made more cuts, reduc-ing capital improvements, putting off a bus purchase, and scrimping on supplies and equipment to low-er the budget increase by .2% to

2.7%. Residents will now vote on a revised 2011-12 school budget of $73,776,262.

Should the LVCSD budget fail again, the district will then be faced with a state mandated1.53% contingency budget, which will involve further cuts.

The vote for both school bud-gets will be held on Tuesday, June 21st from 7 AM to 9 PM at Oyster Bay High School as well as Bay-ville Intermediate School and Lo-cust Valley Primary School.

‘Bella bambina’ of E. Norwich turns 100By David J. [email protected]

When you meet Belle Santora of East Norwich you are greeted with a wide smile and a warm heart. It’s then that you realize how she’s been able to live to reach 100.

Her spirit, sense of humor and sweetness are her signature quali-ties not to mention her smarts. She will be celebrating her land-mark birthday with a big party at the Life Enrichment Center at Oys-

ter Bay on Saturday, June 18th, which is being thrown by her only child, Joseph Santora, Jr.

“All the streets were dirt roads and transportation was horse and wagon when I was born,” Santora said. “I always say I came with the Indians.”

Santora was born Belle Principe on June 20, 1911 at her home on Anstice Street in Oyster Bay where she was delivered by a neighbor-hood physician, Dr. Barnes to a house full of family.

“They heard this wail from up-stairs,” she said. “My father start-ed walking up the stairs, my aunt started walking down the stairs. They met on the stairway and my aunt yelled out, ‘Che bella bambi-na’ which means, ‘What a beauti-ful baby girl.’ That’s how I got my name.”

Nicknamed “princess,” San-tora was the apple of her father’s eye. “The day after I was born my father went to the village and bought me diamond earrings,” she

said proudly. “He never went any-where without me.”

Her father Luca Principe was an expert gardener who worked on local estates.

“All the people who immigrated to Oyster Bay stayed at our house until they got on their feet. Ourhouse was like the Statue of Lib-erty,” Santora said.

Santora’s father would milkcows every day and deliver fresh milk to the Roosevelts in Cove

Photo by Pat Strassberg

TV brings ‘Royal Pains’ to Locust Valley

Photo by David J. Criblez

Suffolk County Police Offi cer Thomas Wil-son, left, and Nassau County DetectiveSergeant Carmine E. Soldano.

Firefi ghters’ festivities set for Saturday

Like TR, these offi cers overcame health issues

(Continued on page 6)



‘If he was here with us today, Theodore Roosevelt would be proud of these two outstanding cops.’

— Suffolk County Commissioner

Richard Dormer

Ed Minicozzi, Sr.


Belle Santora

St. Gertrude’s Feast hits C.I. Beach

Photo by Quentin Wilson

(From left) Thomas Ruhl, Charles Hollmuller, Andrew Edwins and Bailey Ryan hang out with singer/songwriter Billy Joel of Centre Island at St. Gertrude’s Feast in honor of St. Anthony at Centre Island Beach in Bayville on Friday, June 10th.


Peter Leo, 3, (front) and Lu-ciana Leo, 6, (back) of East Norwich go for a ride.


Local barber Ralph Mirabelli sings on Italian Night.


(From left) Seminarian Joe Scolaro with St. Ger-trude’s Pastor Fr. Stephen J. Brigandi.


John Malatino of Bayville rides the Super Shot for the 20th time.


(From left) Matt Kacprzycki, 9, of Hicksville, Chris Dunne, 10, of Bayville, Justin Manzi, 11, of Bayville and Matthew Guerra, 9, of Bayville show off their big prize.


John Burke cooks up the bratwurst at St. Gertrude’s Feast.

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The Town of Oyster Bay held a ceremony on Tues-day, June 14th celebrating the rebirth of the 36-plot Baptist Cemetery, located on Orchard Street in Oyster Bay. The Town with help from parishioners of the North Shore Assembly of God Church and volunteers gave the site a facelift by re-moving shrubs and debris and replaced it with seeded grass, planting of forsythia and lilac bushes as well as adding a new fence, gravel driveway and cement apron.

The Baptist Cemetery is located on a lot laid out to Nicholas Wright in 1653. The lot was deeded to the Baptist Church is 1720 by William Wright. Among the notable fi gures buried in the cemetery is Rev. Mar-maduke Earle, who was the pastor of the Baptist Church, which was the fi rst

Baptist congregation in New York State, and was the fi rst school teacher at Oyster Bay Academy. The cemetery also contains the graves of Mary Cooper, whose diary of her daily life on an Oyster Bay farm between 1769-1773 in the years leading up to the American Revolution was made into a book; Cap-tain Abraham Van Wyck of the Revolutionary War and members of the several ear-ly Town families including Wright, Cooper, Townsend and Underhill.

Reverends Ray and Diane Melograne of North Shore Assembly of God Church brought the cemetery project to the attention of Town Su-pervisor John Venditto last year. “My wife and I instant-ly recognized the historical importance of our ancestors who are buried here,” said Ray Melograne. “Supervisor Venditto showed much inter-est in the project and he en-couraged us to go forward.

He made both staff and funding available for us.”

The Supervisor automati-cally directed all the recog-nition to the Melogranes, “Ray & Diane endured, persevered and voluntarily and unselfi shly did the right thing,” he said. “These are the good things that can happen when residents, who care about their com-munity, step up and come forward. In turn, we have a local government that ad-dresses those cares and con-cerns.”

Venditto also pointed out Boy Scout Travis Orlich, 17, of East Norwich from Troop 299 who has taken on the cemetery as his Eagle Scout project. In addition to clean-ing, Orlich has collected do-nations from businesses to put in a bench, a birdbath and commemorative bronze plaque.

Town Historian John Hammond explained to the crowd that this project has

kicked off the Town’s aban-doned cemetery adoption program. “Some of the cem-eteries are very important. Then there are those that are a little bit more impor-tant than the others and this happens to be one of them,” he said. “There are many signifi cant people buried in this cemetery. If you look at the names on the tomb-stones you’ll see the names Wright, Townsend and Un-derhill so many of the fi rst families that settled here in 1653. When you get to a cemetery and you relate the history to people, history re-ally comes alive.”

Joel Snodgrass served as the restoration expert for the project who expressed the importance of preserva-tion. “We preserve because we have unique history right in our midst. Until recently you could have easily driven right past this cemetery and never know it was here. We have to take care of our his-

toric sites. If we don’t act as stewards for our historic re-sources, they disappear,” he said. “It’s critical that people get involved in these sites. The more involvement you get, the greater interest you get, the greater interest you get, the more stewardship you get, then we have living history rather than history with mothballs on it.”

Skip Earle of Bayport, great-great-great grandson of Marmaduke Earle, was on hand for the event and was thrilled by the transfor-

mation. “I was here 10 years ago when the place was in complete disarray. There were beer cans everywhere and a foot of leaves,” hesaid. “Marmaduke Earle’s stone was under six inches of debris. I actually had to dig it up just to see it.”

Rev. Diane Melograne noted that a fund was set up to do more restoration in the future. “We are just about done,” she said. “We still have some stones that are broken and need to be repaired.”

TOB breathes life into cemetery


The Inc. Village of Upper Brookville has been rather quiet as their hasn’t been a contested election for the past 79 years. However, residents Peter J. Pappas, Jr. and Dr. Bradley Marsh have altered that history as they have teamed up to chal-lenge incumbents Michael F. Schwerin and Barbara Kelston for trustee seats. The election will be held on June 21st at Planting Fields Arbo-retum in Oyster Bay.

Pappas and Dr. Marsh decided to run based on frustration and dissatisfac-tion with the way the village handled police negotiations

with the Old Brookville Po-lice Department and the manner in which an April meeting, at-tended by over 200 residents, was con-ducted. After Mut-tontown went off to form their own police force, the village was looking into using Nassau County. The end result was all six villages (Brookville, Old Brookville, Up-per Brookville, Cove Neck, Mill Neck and Matinecock) signing a one-year agree-ment with OBPD as they examine how they will move forward in

the future.“I think the cur-

rent administration didn’t take the tem-perature of the resi-dents. I believe they have this parochial view that they know what’s best and that they are going to do what’s right,” said Pappas, who serves on the Village Plan-ning Board and pre-viously served on the Village Zoning Board of Appeals. “If people want to pay extra for the Old Brookville Police De-partment renewal

contract then why don’t we

cut something else out of the budget?”

However, Pappas, a con-tractor who has lived in the village since 2003, insists that costs must be taken into consideration. “I want the best police protection for the best value that is in the best interest of the village,” he said. “But people pay a lot of money to live where we live. They don’t want to deal with the Nassau County robbery squad if their house, God for-bid, gets robbed. They don’t want to wait 17 minutes for the police to come, they want them to come in 3 minutes like they usually do. That is what we are paying for.”

Dr. Bradley Marsh, a po-

diatrist who has lived in Up-per Brookville for 12 years, demands that more infor-mation gets shared with the public. “For something that affects everyone directly like fi re and police, the village needs to poll the residents properly before making a de-cision,” he said. “I believe in letting people know what’s going on.”

If elected the team of Pap-pas & Marsh wants to imple-ment some changes such as increasing communication with a mailed and digital newsletter as well as regu-lar website updates plus an annual Town Hall meeting where residents can speak their minds on multiple vil-

lage subjects.They also want to review

the budget line-by-line to check the costs of service and see if they are getting the right price. “I will go out of my way for fi scal gover-nance and fi nancial transpar-ency,” said Pappas. “In fact, I would print the budget in the newsletter.”

Both Pappas and Marsh feel momentum building in the village where residents want to be more involved in their hometown. “People are hot headed and they have a right to be,” said Dr. Marsh. “They are upset and feel things were done behind their back and I think they are looking for change.”

Pappas & Marsh call for change in Upper Brookville

Peter J. Pappas, Jr.

(From left) Town Supervi-sor John Ven-ditto discusses improvements to the Baptist Cemetery in Oyster Bay with Town Historian John Hammond on Tuesday, June 14th.


Dr. Bradley Marsh

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Saturday, June 18th■ The Bayville Fire

Company #1 will host the 2011 5th Battalion Parade & Drill. The drill will be held at Centre Island Beach at 10 AM while the parade down Bayville Avenue will step off at 7 PM. The events will feature all eleven de-partments in the 5th Battal-ion: Bayville, East Norwich, Glen Cove, Glenwood, Locust Valley, Atlantic Steamer, Oyster Bay, Roslyn Rescue, Sea Cliff, Syosset and Roslyn Highlands.

■ Glen Cove Hospital will host the 28th annual Summer Picnic POPS Con-cert featuring the Nassau POPS Symphony Orchestra on the lawn at Old West-bury Gardens. Gates open at 6 PM and the concert begins at 8 PM. Tickets are $30 per person in advance or $35 at the door; chil-dren 12 and under are free. To purchase tickets or for more information, call Beth Behr at 516-465-2553 or 516-674-7669, email her at [email protected], or visit http://support.northshorelij.com/pops. The event will be held rain or shine.

■ Water Chestnut Removal (via Friends of the Bay and National Fish and Wildlife Service) at Mill Pond (just down the street from TR Elementary School) at 9 AM. For more information, call Monica Williams at 631-286-0485.

Tuesday, June 21st■ Oyster Bay-East

Norwich School District Budget Re-Vote at Oyster Bay High School from 7 AM- 9 PM.

■ Locust Valley School District Budget Re-Vote at Bayville Intermediate School and Locust Valley Primary School from 7 AM- 9 PM.

■ Blood Drive held at Oyster Bay Italian-American Club on Summit Street from 3-9 PM. For more information, call Tom

McGee at 732-7220 or Eugene King at 399-9046. Spaghetti dinner served for all donors.

■ Town of Oyster Bay’s Town Hall Meeting (off the parking lot next to Canterbury’s on Audrey Av-enue, Oyster Bay) at 7 PM. The calendar of intended hearings, resolutions can be viewed at www.oysterbay-town.com/

Monday, July 4th■ July 4th Parade &

Ceremony on Audrey Av-enue in Oyster Bay at 10:30 AM.

■ Independence Day Celebration at Sagamore Hill, Cove Neck at 1 PM featuring equestrian dem-onstration by the “Rough Rider” re-enactors, concert with the Sagamore Hill Band, speeches by invited dignitaries, including “The-odore Roosevelt” portrayed by re-enactor Jim Foote, Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest winner and more.

Wednesday, July 6th■ St. Rocco Festival

hosted by the Italian-American Citizens Club of Oyster Bay. Held at Fire-men’s Field, Shore Avenue

in Oyster Bay. For sponsor-ship opportunities, call (516) 922-9744. Through July 10th.

Thursday, July 7th■ Sundown Concert Se-

ries (via Oyster Bay Main Street Association) Scoff-laws playing reggae and rhythm & blues. Renais-sance Plaza, Audrey Avenue (courtyard behind Chrison & Bellina- adjacent to Taby’s)- 7-9 PM. For more information, visit: www.oysterbaymainstreet.org.

Friday, July 8th■ Oyster Flix Film Se-

ries: “The Wind and The Lion” (via OB Main Street Association). Each fi lm will be followed by a live discussion. A $5 donation is suggested. Held at OBMSA offi ce, 17 Audrey Avenue (across from Taby’s) in Oyster Bay at 7:30 PM. For more information, visit: www.oysterbaymainstreet.org.

To have your event listed:Send calendar items to [email protected] by the close of business on the Monday before publication. Items are subject to editing for length and style.

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Introducing: the Father’s Day resolution This week we take a break from opining

on more pressing issues to offer one editor’s ruminations on the joys of fatherhood. The Oyster Bay Guardian wishes all of our read-ers a happy Father’s Day.

Father’s Day marks not only the day the world’s supply of hideous neck-wear is annually renewed,

but also the midpoint of the year, give or take. Father’s Day ambles in just as most of us are packing away our New Year’s resolutions and storing them in the back of our minds for reconsideration next January. I propose that dads around the country take advan-tage of their special day to make a new kind of promise to them-selves: a Father’s Day resolution. A pledge a papa can make relat-ing to the raising of his brood.

Here’s mine: I’m not buying any more toys.

Never again will I lay out my hard-earned money on my two sons’ behalf for any col-orful gadget, gizmo or whizzdoodle unless they submit to me, in writing, a convincing plan citing quantifi able evidence of the im-provements they expect the item will make in their lives.

Since my kids are now 5 and 3, this pret-ty much rules out the purchase of any new toys for at least the next half decade, and, to be honest, that’s the idea.

I’m not saying my sons can’t own toys. If they get jobs they can buy toys. If someone gives them a toy, they’re welcome to keep it. All I’m saying is I’m not shelling out for any new toys until they can prove that they’ll appreciate them.

The idea fi rst occurred to me around this time last year. I was on babysitting duty, stationed at a laptop in the playroom of our house and watching my son Max, then just short of 2, playing on the fl oor. On the car-pet with him was a head-high pile of toys that collectively must have cost $3,000. In addition to the regular-rotation toys were the contents of a large basket that had been pulled off a shelf at some point that morn-ing. The basket contained older toys that had fallen out of favor with the boys and that my wife and I had let lie fallow in the hope that a trial separation might imbue them with new appeal.

With the mingling of old and new toys on the fl oor of the playroom that morning, I’d estimate that 95 percent of the toys we own were heaped around my son. And what was Max playing with in the midst of this magical mound of playthings? A Sharpie and a dryer sheet.

I’m not a betting man, but I’d bet that if you fi lled a child-development laboratory

with every specially designed, award-win-ning, motor-skill-developing, music-playing, phonics-, math- and science-teaching Toy of the Year from the last century, and then you tossed in my kids, a TV remote and a keychain, within three minutes Max would be chewing the keys and Oliver would be using the remote as a pretend cell phone. If

you added a slimy dog’s chew toy to the mix, they’d ignore all the other stuff and fi ght over that.

As it happened, watching Max entertain himself with a dryer sheet while almost literally drowning in toys was only the latest inspiration for the Father’s Day resolution. A couple of years earlier, there had been the Box Box Incident.

On his second birthday, Oli-ver received a set of the most beautiful alphabet nesting boxes I’d ever seen. I don’t know who

made them, and I’m no connoisseur of the toy design arts, but whoever was respon-sible was an unmitigated genius. The boxes were big — when you stacked all 10 they made a tower about four feet high — and while they followed the familiar formula of illustrating each letter with a different ani-mal, they eschewed the tired antelopes and zebras of the animal kingdom in favor of underrepresented creatures like cuttlefi sh, ermines, periwinkles and xanthouses.

With my fi rst glimpse of the boxes, I was enchanted. I thought to myself, Well, that’s the end of that. These are surely the fi nest toys ever made, and Oliver will never play with anything else.

So you can imagine my disbelief as I watched my son leave the impeccably craft-ed boxes untouched and spend the next 30 minutes playing with … yes, the box the boxes came in.

Children, of course, are famous for pre-ferring toy boxes to actual toys, but I fi g-ured there had to be a loophole when the toy itself was boxes. How Oliver, at 2, man-aged to differentiate between the boxes’ box and the boxes themselves I cannot say, but therein lay the foundation for my toy em-bargo resolution.

So if you’re ever lucky, or unlucky, enough to rate an invite to Casa Connolly and you notice that all my kids’ toys seem to come from Offi ce Depot or the recycling bin, don’t be scandalized. We like it that way. The boys will go to better colleges thanks to the money we save, and I’ll be keeping this little promise that I’ve made to myself. Hey, it’s my day, right?

Chris Connolly is the editor of the Baldwin Herald. Comments? [email protected] or (516) 569-4000 ext. 283.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cuts can be madeTo the Editor:

To the best of my knowl-edge, I’m guessing that our school budget vote is the only vote that’s subject to a “Do-Over.” Which means that if the budget is voted down (as it was) the powers that be can demand a second try. This would make a lot more sense if the voters were entitled to the same privilege, namely – if the budget passed, the vot-ers would have a second op-portunity to reject it. No such equality prevails.

That being said, this sec-ond chance budget in the OB-EN school district reduces our property tax increase from the previously proposed 5.4% to 4.34%. For those of us on a fi xed income, or those of us who are still out of work, or those of us who are struggling to make ends meet, 4.34% on top of the out of control taxes with which we’re already burdened, is a lot of money.

A former school board members suggested the cur-rent Board “Do More With Less.” This was just a chance phrase, but it’s rapidly be-coming a mantra throughout our town. A mantra that busi-nesses and households all over have come to live by.

Nobody - absolutely no-body - wants to deny our children the fi nest educa-tion possible. But cuts can be made that simply aren’t being made. In the meantime, go vote on June 21st.

BARRIE CURTIS SPIESOYSTER BAY

Contingency factsTo the Editor:

Parents are rarely happy at the thought of a Contingency Budget. True, it should not be the way to go but in lieu of

the fi rst budget defeat can it happen again?

The Contingency Bud-get would be $49,718,286, which is still $1 million more than the current 2010-2011 budget of $48,738,155. A million dollar increase is certainly feasible and if the School Board allocates $1 million from the projected surplus of $2 million, all pro-grams and services will be maintained. It would be un-wise and fi scally irresponsible if the School Board elects to transfer a large amount from the surplus and put it into reserve accounts. On a Con-tingency Budget, if funds are not initially included as part of the revenue they cannot be included at a later date in the event of an unforeseen oc-currence. The reality at this juncture is that it is not al-ways prudent to keep adding large amounts to the reserves when having funds in an un-designated account is defi -nitely practical knowing they are readily available. When the District went on contin-gency fi ve years ago, within six months all programs were restored and there were no hardships to the students.

If the budget passes, the community should request the Board to allocate a larger amount from the estimated $2 million surplus towards reducing the tax levy in lieu of transferring to a Reserve Fund. While Reserve Funds are benefi cial this district has taken the role of becoming our banker and has reached the point of having excessive balances with the taxpayers money. It is time for a give back to the community.

The decision is yours – vote Tuesday, June 21st from 7 AM to 9 PM.

GRACE SEARBYOYSTER BAY

Decide June 21stTo the Editor:

As the public re-votes on the Oyster Bay-East Norwich and Locust Valley school bud-gets on Tuesday, June 21st, it is worthwhile to remember that the basic core problem is the spending on “contractual obligations.” Contractual ob-ligations such as: a new hire starting out at $53,278 can get to $80,762 in four years, a 52% “contractual obliga-tion” that was negotiated by the OB-EN Board of Educa-tion only last year, during the “Great Recession” that we are still in.

The revised proposals are: OB-EN, 2.96% budget increase with a correspond-ing 4.34% estimated tax levy increase and Locust Valley, 2.7% budget increase with a corresponding 5.78% esti-mated tax levy increase.

Some historical perspec-tive: in the past decade, the NYS CPI has gone up 25.6%, whereas the OB-EN budgets went up 52.4% and the LV budgets went up 59.8%.

The “special interests,” represented by one of the most powerful unions in the United States, NYSUT, have fueled the increases and are not giving back during the recession. Should the voters give the “special interests” the proposed budget increase? They must decide June 21st.

ANITA MACDOUGALLOYSTER BAY

Vote “No” againTo the Editor:

How many times does the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School Board need to be told “No” before it sinks in? Like a small boy with his hand in the cookie jar, evidently it needs to hear “No” more than once. Keep in mind that the fat in the budget has little to do with the children’s educa-tion: it has to do with the ad-

ministration. It has to do with those who run the school, not those in the classrooms. So again, all those people who are fed up with their tax bill, caused mainly by the infl ated school budget, need to remember to come out on Tuesday, June 21st, and vote “No” again. The previous budget was defeated by only 36 votes, so every vote will be essential.

BARBARA MCINTYREOYSTER BAY

Say enoughTo the Editor:

The fi rst budget vote was 3.94% increase that equated to a 5.4% tax levy increase, which is an in-crease of $1,919,509 from last year’s budget (2010-11 - $48,738,155 and 2011-12 - $50,657,664).

The revote is for a 2.96% increase with a tax levy in-crease of 5.2%. This is an increase of $1,443,882 from last year’s budget. Our ending surplus as of June 30th, 2011 is $2 million.

If our surplus is put into reserve funds and we go into contingency budget these funds are restricted and can-not be touched. On a contin-gency budget the rate would be 2.1% or $1 million over our current budget and that’s not so bad! We were able to survive last year and we will certainly survive this year.

We have 1,650 students from kindergarten through 12th grade, at a cost of $31,000 per child – enough, enough, enough!

This school board has got to come to grips with the fact that the economy is in recession and they cannot continue to tax this commu-nity to death. It’s time for the taxpayers to stand up and say enough. We are not voting for this budget! Make sure to vote Tuesday, June 21st.

CAROLE CAPOZZOLIOYSTER BAY

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St. Dominic High School held its 80th annual com-mencement on the morning of Saturday, June 4th for the Class of 2011. The grad-uates paraded down Anstice Street in Oyster Bay to the church led by Grand Mar-shal Michele O’Brien, Physi-cal Education Chairperson along with Marshals Kevin Shinnick (Class of ’82) and Diane Volberg (Class of ’83).

Rick Garrett, Dean of Schools, addressed the Class of 2011 at the beginning of the ceremony setting the tone for the event. “Do not leave here today thinking you are going out into the new world alone. You have your friends, your family at home and your family here at St. Dominic’s to help you every step of the way. You can reach the heights all of us here know you are ca-pable of achieving,” he said.

Quoting the late writer/anthropologist Margaret Mead, Garrett said, “ ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citi-zens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.’ You are that group Class of 2011. Go out and change this world.”

Salutatorian Malijha Headley told her fellow classmates that she hopes all their dreams become realities but warned them as well. “Don’t be one of those people looking to the future but failing to appre-ciate the present. Learn by doing. Initiate ideas instead of listening to ideas. Be an active voice instead of a pas-sive voice. Make things hap-pen instead of letting things happen. Don’t accept, some-times question. Don’t settle for better when you can achieve the best,” she said. “Life is a combination of the good and not so good. One day we will realize that our

time at St. Dominic High School was among the best in our lives.”

Valedictorian Kristopher Castera described graduat-ing as a “bittersweet experi-ence” because he’s “leaving the familiar” and “journey-ing to the unknown.” How-ever, he holds his time at St. Dominic close to his heart. “St. Dominic has encour-aged us to look for the good in others and more impor-tantly to look for the good in ourselves,” he said. “As a group and individuals, let us promise to leave as good people. Good people are sensitive to the needs of others and responsive to those needs.”

Castera asked his fellow graduates to promise that they are going to like who they are. “Good people are happy with who they are. They recognize their strengths, appreciate their gifts and realize their limi-tations,” he said. “Good people know the value of self-control. Good people control their emotions, their emotions do not control them. Good people know

the value of friendship. True friends make us better people.”

The Valedictorian did note to his classmates that life is going to throw them some curveballs and that they will need to adjust. “Let us make our high school proud by being genuinely good people. Wherever life takes us or whatever career path we choose, make good-ness fi ll our person. Good-ness means having a heart as large as the ocean. Being

happy with the person God made us,” he said. “It’s im-portant that we carry posi-tive behavior wherever life puts us. Self-control, adapt-ability, a willingness to for-give, a need for friendship and the ability to be an ef-fective communicator are the spare change we should always have in our pocket.”

Judge Tim S. Driscoll, former Deputy Nassau County Executive for Law Enforcement and Public Safety, served as the guest speaker for the ceremony. He asked that the graduates keep four thoughts in mind as they move forward to the next step in life: 1.) Learn to laugh at yourself and re-spect yourself, 2.) Appreci-ate different cultures, 3.) Realize what’s important and 4.) Serve your commu-nity.

“You all have gifts and I urge you to use those gifts. You will discover talents you didn’t even know you had,” said Judge Driscoll. “Find something you can do in your lives to make the world a little bit better. This is just the beginning.”

Photos by David J. Criblez

St. Dominic High School’s Class of 2011 paraded down Anstice Street in Oyster Bay on Saturday morning, June 4th.

St. Dominic H.S. graduates Class of 2011

Valedictorian Kristopher Castera.


Lynda Anderson Galler-ies, located at 92 Forest Av-enue in Locust Valley, was packed on Thursday, June 9th for the opening of a new exhibition of oil paintings by local resident Jackie Moore Watson. The 38-piece show displayed numerous nature scenes such as landscapes, coastal shores, ponds, water lilies and gardens with vari-ous shades of light.

Watson, who grew up in Locust Valley, has been painting since she was a child and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has held ex-hibits on Long Island, Man-hattan and in Europe but this was her fi rst hometown show.

“A lot of these paint-ings were created because they were a calming factor for me,” said Watson who pointed to one called “Bud-dha” featuring a Buddha statue in the jungle. “This is one of my favorites. I love the serenity of it.”

Watson has a unique style in that she often starts and stops her paintings. “I usually have four or fi ve paintings going on at any given time. I rarely start a painting and fi nish it right away,” said Watson who noted that she often takes photographs when she trav-els but she typically paints from memory.

While everyone had their favorites at the exhibit, one piece was so compelling it had everybody talking. The oil on canvas painting, “Bridge Over Lilies,” was the largest painting in the show (92” x 82”) and it was impossible not to marvel. “It was painted for a specifi c place in my house. It feels like you could walk into it,” said Watson, who said that

the painting took her a year to complete.

Gallery owner Lynda An-derson was also taken with “Bridge Over Lilies.” Shesaid, “It’s a very deep paint-ing. There’s more than yousee. No matter how long you look at the painting you are always going to see more elements coming out.It starts off dark and heads up towards the light. It’s avery special painting.”

Anderson greatly enjoys Watson’s “faded out ethe-real landscapes” which she simply described as “abso-lutely breathtaking.”

“Jackie really has the ability to change her style depending on her feelings. She paints what she likesand paints what she feels. You can feel a lot of emo-tion in her paintings plussensitivity to the environ-ment,” said Anderson. “Inthis day and age everybody has some sort of gimmick but with Jackie’s paintings,there’s no gimmick. Her work is just beautiful. You’ll be hearing her name outthere for a long time.”

The exhibit will run thru July 7th. For more info., call516-802-3552 or visit: lyn-daandersongalleries.com.

Watson opens new exhibit at Anderson Galleries


(From left) Gallery owner Lynda Anderson and artist Jackie Moore Watson stand in front of Watson’s paint-ing, “Bridge Over Lilies.”


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He went to Sloan Ketter-ing where they discovered the cancer in his nasophar-ynx. Since the area was at the base of the brain, sur-gery wasn’t an option there-fore he received eight weeks of radiation.

The birth of his second son motivated him to push on. Today he is cancer free.

Soldano closed with a fi tting quote from TR: “I have never in my life envied a hu-man being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who have led diffi cult lives and led them well.”

Offi cer Wilson, who is in his 9th year in the Suffolk Police Department, served as a sergeant in the NYPD spending 350 hours at the World Trade Center after 9/11.

He’s an active offi cer with multiple arrests while suf-fering from several injuries. He suffered from smoke in-halation, a torn ACL, a knee injury and was struck by a car on top of being diag-nosed with oral cancer.

Offi cer Wilson under-went extensive surgery, which involved reconstruct-ing his tongue and arteries. Despite all injuries Offi cer Wilson returned to work in the fi eld and continued to be effective with multiple felony arrests.

Wilson was humbled by the award and simply stated, “The real hero is my wife. Unfortunately she gets those phone calls at all hours like ‘Tom’s in the hos-pital again.’ I salute her, she deserves it.”

Calling him-self a “street guy,” Wilson lives by a sim-ple code. He said, “As long as you have peace of mind and a strong heart, nothing is go-ing to take you down.”

Looking at his fi ve young children in front of him, Wilson explained why he does what he does.

“There was a lot of un-savory stuff going on at the Port Jeff Station Texaco Park Playground. I went in there and took care of busi-ness,” he said. “A couple of weeks ago I went back to that park and realized that I don’t have to do that any-more. Now I see people like my wife with their young kids playing in that park. That’s why I do what I do.”

Addressing both men, Suffolk County Commis-sioner Richard Dormer expressed how he was completely moved by their stories.

“I’m proud and honored to be here with two heroes. Many times, in this soci-ety we honor false heroes. These are the real heroes,”

said the Commissioner. “Ifhe was here was here with us today, Theodore Roos-evelt would be proud of these two outstanding cops. He loved the police businessand love police offi cers. I’msure the Colonel is lookingdown on us today. I con-gratulate both of you on your will to succeed, your dedication to duty and over-all perseverance is certainly worthy of this award.”

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Neck. Because her father was on a fi rst name basis with President Theodore Roosevelt, Santora met the Colonel several times.

“I remember the day Teddy died like it was yes-terday,” she said. “I was standing at the entrance of where the Storrs estate is now watching the funeral procession go by. My father was standing beside me as tears rolled down his face.”

Growing up in the early 1900s, Santora endured many hardships. “The pond would freeze over in the win-ter at what’s now the Storrs’ estate. My father would cut great blocks of ice and take them to the icehouse be-cause that was our refrigera-tion for the summer. There was no such thing as a re-frigerator,” she said.

There was no heat or double windows in her house either. “We had a coal stove in the kitchen. We’d go to bed wearing as much clothes as we could just to keep warm. I don’t know how we survived it,” Santora said.

Indoor plumbing? “We used chamber pots,” Santora said. “My father was one of the fi rst to get indoor plumb-ing then everybody wanted to come in to take a bath.”

Unlike her friends who went off to get married after high school, Santora went to college at Pratt Institute where she studied fashion design.

“I actually wanted to be a nurse and I would have been a good one. But my mother talked me out of it,” said Santora. “She said that I get too upset when I see blood.”

She graduated at the height of the depression. Af-ter pounding the pavement,

she fi nally landed a job as a clothing inspector at Saks 5th Avenue for $18 per week. She commuted via the Long Island Rail Road where her monthly ticket cost $13.04.

Santora was a bit of a reb-el — she didn’t want to get married. She met her hus-band by accident on Stehli’s Beach at her 22nd birthday party where she tripped and fell into Joe Santora’s arms.

On their fi rst date the couple went to Henry’s in Glen Cove. By the second, Joe asked her to marry him. She told him that he was crazy, but that didn’t stop Joe. He courted her for three years.

“He persisted. I’d go to work and he’d be at my em-ployer’s entrance waiting to see me in the morning just to say hello,” she said.

The couple was married at St. Dominic’s Church in 1936 and honeymooned in Towanda, PA. They moved to Astoria and in 1939 they had their fi rst and only child, Joseph, Jr.

The Santoras moved back home to Oyster Bay to take care of her elderly mother, Celeste, after Belle’s father died.

Back in Oyster Bay, Belle did ladies’ fi ttings and alter-ations out of her home. “Mr. Hanson, a local tailor on South St. used to send me customers. Word of mouth spread, people liked my work and before I knew it I couldn’t even get through all the work,” said Belle.

When her mother passed on, the Santoras bought one of the fi rst homes at a new development in East Nor-wich on the site of the Horan farm, Radcliff Manor.

“I never wanted to live in a development,” admitted Belle, who still lives there

today, “but this is a great neighborhood.”

Her son, Joseph, Jr. stud-ied journalism, but because he was so good at debating his parents talked him into studying law at Harvard where he became a litigator.

Belle beams when she talks about her son. “He’s the most honest person in the world and he’s fi lled with integrity,” she said.

Belle continued working this time at B. Altman’s in Manhasset where she stayed until the store closed in 1989. “I ran the housewares department,” she said. “It was like my own little store. I loved it.”

In 1980, Belle’s hus-band passed away at the age of 73 and even though he’s gone 31 years she still misses him to this day. “Joe was a patient and wonder-ful man,” she said. “Not to mention, brilliantly smart like my son.”

These days Belle keeps busy with the Life Enrich-ment Center at Oyster Bay where she lights up the room when she comes in.

When asked the secret to her longevity, Belle said, “Garlic, olive oil, red wine and a good sense of humor!”

Her health is good, but she has some trouble walk-ing and requires some as-sistance. “From my knees up, I’m great. But from my knees down, I’m not worth a damn,” said Belle. “I never thought about age until I couldn’t walk. When my legs went, I said, ‘Oh my God, I’m an old lady!’ Turning 100 makes me very humble.”

Offering some words of wisdom to the younger generations, Belle said, “Re-member, if you give love, you get it back. These days I’m getting a lot of love back.”

The Nassau County FireRiders Motorcycle Club willlead the parade and the American Legion Robert H.Spittel Post 1285 serve as the Color Guard.

Fifth Battalion District Chairman Tom Gaffney ofSyosset, Vice Chair Jim Aja-mian of Sea Cliff and Sec-retary/Treasurer Bill Ferris of Oyster Bay will be rid-ing in the parade behind the Minicozzi family. Each department will have their own band. The Commanche Raiders will perform for the Bayville Fire Company.

The Bayville Fire Com-pany last hosted the 5th Battalion Parade & Drill in 1998 and the next time they will host is 2022 for BFC’s100th anniversary.

Like TR, these offi cers overcame health issues

‘Bella bambina’ turns 100


Mass Al FrescoSt. Dominic R.C. Church held its annual Outdoor Mass at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay on Sunday morning, June 5th. The weather cooperated as Pastor Fr. Kevin Smith conducted the mass with the assistance of Associate Pastor Gerry Gordon. Hundreds of parishioners came out for the event, which concluded with a barbecue picnic lunch sponsored by the Knights of Columbus 1206. “This is just beautiful to see,” said Fr. Smith in his homily while looking out at the massive turnout. “It’s rather moving. It speaks so much about who we are. Let us smile, laugh and reach out to say hello to someone you don’t even know. That’s the reason for getting together.”

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SPORTSOUT IN RIGHT FIELDBy Jeff Davis

Campward boundAs the school year quickly comes to a

conclusion parents are preparing to fi nd summer activities that will keep their chil-dren occupied and fi t. Our communities are very fortunate for some of the best ath-letic camps for children are right on our doorstep. Friends Academy, Lutheran High School and St. Dominic’s, all offer summer programs of the highest quality. Friends Academy in Locust Valley offers 27 pro-grams for children aged 2 to 15 years. The Friends program has a diverse assortment of activities including the arts and athletics. Over at Lutheran High School the summer camp, like Friends Academy, utilizes the amazing facilities of its campus. Sports and other activities for boys and girls from Kin-dergarten through grade 8 are affordable and the staff is of the highest quality. There is also the famous St. Dominic’s Summer Basketball program. The program teaches basketball from the basics to advanced with games played on the highest high school level. For the boy or girl serious about bas-ketball, St. Dominic’s will meet that need.

B&G Clubs meet diverse needs

Oyster Bay and Locust Valley are also the homes of two of the best Boys & Girls Clubs on Long Island. The Boys & Girls Club of Oyster Bay-East Norwich and the Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club in Locust Valley uti-lize facilities that are basically new and have professionals who truly know how to meet the diverse needs of young people today. I have always been most impressed with the pre-teen and young teen social programs. As children grow toward the teen years and the early teen years, it is often a diffi cult time to get these young people involved in programs. The Boys & Girls clubs under-stand how to give this group “supervised independence.” The time period between early adulthood and childhood is fi lled with pitfalls and occupying this group with things they want to do prevents potential problems. Utilizing these programs is im-portant for parents who often are working

and children need this supervision. If you want more information, just call the pro-grams and fi nd out what they can offer for your child.

Watch the kidsSummer heat also means children go-

ing to beaches. Many times lifeguards must make saves because children, often very young, who venture too far out into the water without a parent’s supervision. It is true that lifeguards are watching but it doesn’t take very long for a small child to drown and water can be very danger-ous. Each summer we read about children drowning at the beach, extra caution can never be wrong. Also many parents are also pool owners. The single largest cause of childhood drowning is toddlers and young children wandering outside and falling into the pool. Every pool should have a warning devise so that if a child falls into the pool an adult can be summoned. You here this all the time, you read this all the time, but drowning doesn’t give you a second chance.

Be safe on the FourthFinally it is nearly the Fourth of July.

Many children and many adults too, will be setting off various fi reworks. Local hospitals prepare for this day with extra emergency staff. They know that burns, and many times lost fi ngers and eyes occur when fi re-works are used by children and adults who neither take proper safety precautions, nor understand how dangerous this can be. One M-80 is equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite and can cause maiming inju-ries. Children should be cautioned and pre-vented from shooting off fi reworks. Aside from being illegal playing with gunpowder is foolhardy.

Fish are bitin’The fl uke have begun their fi rst real sum-

mer bite. Reports of keepers have been com-ing in via email with the most consistency from Eaton’s Neck toward the Sand hole. Strippers off Rocky Point and Cooper’s Bluff are being taken with some nice keepers in the mix with smaller bass. There is plenty of bait in the water with bunker schools, sand eels and even reports of schools of squid be-ing seen. If you have a picture of a child and fi sh or a report, please email the informa-tion.

Comments, ideas, stories or suggestions, email: [email protected].


Tilles Center for the Per-forming Arts held its annual “Swing For Kids” golf & ten-nis tournament at The Creek in Locust Valley on Monday, June 13th. The beautiful weather and picture per-fect scenery at The Creek made the event enjoyable for all who attended. Pro-ceeds from the tournament went to the Arts Education Program offered by Tilles Center.

Mill Neck resident Thom-as R. Cangemi, Senior Execu-tive Vice President and Chief Financial Offi cer of New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Bank, served as this year’s honoree. He is a member of the Tilles Center Council of Overseers, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. He also serves on the Board of the Children’s Autism Hope Project.

“I’m happy to be involved with ‘Swing For Kids.’ This event is great for children and whenever children are involved I’m always there to support charitable organi-zations,” said Cangemi, who is the father of two teenage boys. “I’m a big fan of the arts as well.”

Pleased with the results of the day, Cangemi added, “The event went spectacu-lar. The weather was great and most importantly we had a tremendous turnout. We raised a lot of money for a great cause.”

Jack Bransfi eld, Chairman of Tilles Center’s Council of Overseers, was excited as he looked around the crowded room of Tilles supporters. “This is either the best if not

one of the best fi nancially successful golf outings we’ve ever had,” he said.

The fundraising contin-ued with seven live auction items and 41 silent auction items for guests to bid on. The cocktail hour and buf-fet dinner was held in a tent next to the clubhouse as the Creek is currently renovat-ing their beach club where the event is usually held.

The Creek Club golf win-ners were: Individual Low Gross – Male: Jack Brans-fi eld (score 71) and Female: Joanne Martone (score 86); Team Low Gross – Glen Al-bert, David Azus, Ira Warren and Cliff Saffron (score 67); Best Ball Foursome – Nick Bruno, Chris Davis, Mike DiConza and David Gus-tin (score 52); Second Low Net – Michael Martone, Bill Bouza, JoAnn Bouza and Joanne Martone (score 54), Third Low Net – Steve Klar, Rich O’Rourke, Bob Wald-baum and John Holtz (score 56), Longest Drive – Chris Davis (male) and Carol Tin-tle (female); Closest to the Line – Anthony Ruggiero (male) and Elaine Shellard (female) and Closest to the

Pin – John Jedlicka (9’ 9”) male and Joanne Martone (29’ 6”) female.

The Creek Club ten-nis winners: Round Robin Tournament – Jason Wilen-sky (male), Runner Up Male: Robert Brown andCarol Spielberger (female),Runner Up Female: Gerta Anderson, Most Accurate Serve – Jason Wilensky,Most Accurate Volley – Rob-ert Brown, Fastest Serve: Jason Wilensky (male) and Diana Plotnitzky (female).

Tilles Center’s Arts Edu-cation program enablesthousands of Long Island schoolchildren and educa-tors to participate in mas-ter classes, in-school work-shops and performances byworld-class artists in varied fi elds, including classical music, jazz, dance and the-ater. Through the Tilles Scholars program, young musicians gain support for participation in the C.W.Post Summer Chamber Mu-sic Festival.

For more information about Tilles Center’s Arts Education program, visit: www.tillescenter.org or call(516) 299-2752.


(From left) LIU President Dr. David J. Steinberg, Tilles Cen-ter Executive Director Elliott Sroka, “Swing For Kids” Hon-oree Tom Cangemi and Jack Bransfi eld, Chairman of Tilles Center’s Council of Overseers, at Tilles Center for the Per-forming Arts’ “Swing For Kids” golf & tennis tournament on Monday, June 13th at The Creek Club in Locust Valley.

Tilles Center scores with successful ‘Swing For Kids’


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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCECongratulations to the Saint Dominic High School Class of 2011

for their many accomplishments.

The Saint Dominic High School Community and Parishare proud of the accomplishments of the class of 2011

in Academics, Arts, Athletics and Community Service Activities.The Class of 2011 received over $7.5 million dollars in Merit Scholarships

Lisette Amanda AcostaDaniel Paul Ahern

Christopher AuddinoNael Johnatan AugustinNathanael Jo AugustinDavid A. Bartkowski

Nickolas Anthony BatasDale Beckmann

Spencer Joseph BilelloGaetano Saverio Bruscino

Nicole CacioppoKyle Cascio

Kristopher CasteraLutchy Prince Charles

Sheila M. ChiusaMaria-Theodora Coluccio

Nicholas ComitinoCarl Francis Cooper, Jr.

Daniel CorderoDominick D’Alonzo

John Michael D’AmicoConnor Michael Donovan

Djeena S. DubucheChristopher Richard Dunlop

Amanda ExlerRobert Galligan

Michael A. GaspariSandra Gicas

Nicholas GirardiSean Goetz

Steven GoldsteinPatricia D. GonzalezDaniel GrabowskiThomas M. GrilloMalijha Headley

Jennifer Nicole HeinPatrick Brendan Heneghan, Jr.

Samuel K. IassoRomine Jean BaptisteEdward J. Jensen, IV

Ryan A. KalanNicholas M. Kelty

Mohammed M. KhalfanBrianna Rose Kilkenny

So Won KimNicholas A. Labellarte

Louis T. LambrosVictoria Jean Lane

Jong Chan LeeBrandon Tyler LubranoWilliam Joseph Luca

Sean LynchThomas John MacDonald

Giselle MalenchekJohn K. Malinka

Jonathan C. ManginiAlexander Thomas Marano

Justin M. MayrOlivia R. Montalbano

Conor MooreAram Movaseghi

Ariel NelsonJames F. O’BrienVincent OrlandoYonah L. Perline

Florentz-Gabrielle PierreMarissa Pietrafesa

Scott D. PipiaVictoria RazzanoJulian D. Reefer

Matthew Christopher ReidMichelle Lauren Reid

Michael RiccioJuan Pablo Rivas-Velasquez

Amanda J. RizzoRaymond Andrew Rogers

Bridget RossNicholas R. SalernoHamilton Sanford

Joseph Angelo SantigatePeter J. Schellhorn

Ryan ShinnickKaitlin E. SillettiOlivia F. SmithRachel Smith

Lauren Petrina StainkampCassandra Stubbe

Patrick John TarantoJames A. Tetta

Camilla ThomasPatrick A. TinariJoseph M. Tracz

Brittney L. VixamaThomas Volberg

Cody James WilsonMark J. Zubrovich

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Kristopher CasteraValedictorian

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Sunrise Day Camp, the only dedicated day camp in the nation for children with cancer and their siblings, held its sixth an-nual Walk to Help the Sun Rise on June 5 at the 300-acre Henry Kaufmann Camp-grounds, in Wheatley Heights where Sun-rise is located.

Sunrise Day Camp provides a place where children with cancer and their siblings can come, free of charge, and enjoy a worry-free summer full of laughter and enjoy-ment. The walk-athon is a great way to showcase the campgrounds as well as the in-credible support from the commu-nity.

Walkers had the choice of three different courses, ranging from an easy stroll to a challenging 5K hike. As they fi n-ished, each participant was greeted warmly by volunteers and given a goody bag fi lled with donated toys, videos, calendars and other fun items. The fi nish line also served as a carnival, with games, prizes and enter-tainment for the whole family.

Attendance at the event, which was spon-sored by Nikon Inc., has grown signifi cantly

over the years. This year more than 1,000 people took part, the largest turnout to date. Thanks to the contributions of spon-sors, walkers, and an outreach to schools and youth organizations throughout the year, the Walk was a record breaker, raising over $317,000 for Sunrise Day Camp.

“This year’s Walk to Help the Sun Rise almost doubled attendance from years past, and brought in more money than we have ever seen at the event before,” said Amy Pilott, the walkathon’s director. “We’re thrilled with its success and can’t wait to start planning for next year!”

Successful Walk to Help the Sun Rise

Richner Communications’ program REACT — Richner Employees Assisting Com-munities Together — has chosen Sunrise Day Camp as its 2011 beneficiary. Through-out the year, through stories and photos, the Herald will focus on this wonderful orga-nization. For more information about Sunrise Day Camp, its summer and year-round pro-grams and upcoming fundraisers, visit www.liherald.com.

Richner Employees Assisting Communities Together

YOU CAN STILL CONTRIBUTE!

Sunrise Day Camp staff and supporters are always looking for volunteers and donations. Call (516) 766-4341 for more information or visit www.sunrisedayc-amp.org to see how you can help.

Jacob Wertling, Gregory Flax, and Ross Taylor from the Chazak LI EBOY Chapter stop by the Herald table looking for their home town paper. Sadly all the Oceanside papers had been taken before they got there.

Charlie Cipriano rides a pony led by Zach Richards from Sweet Hills Riding Academy.

Photos by Christina Daly

Over 1,000 people signed up to walk one of the courses at the Henry Kaufmann Camp-grounds


Saturday, June 18, 2011

Summer PicnicPOPS Concert

The 29th Annual

Tickets are $30 per person($35 at the door. Children under 12 free)

For more information please contactBeth Behr at 516-674-7669

Denise Emigholz at 516-465-2585Visit our website at

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FeaturingThe Nassau Pops

Symphony Orchestra

With Special GuestBob Merrill

HonoringClare and Sterling Brinkley

BenefitingGlen Cove Hospital

Old Westbury GardensGates open at 6:00 pm • Concert begins at 8:00 pm

Picnic Baskets can be purchased at theGlen Cove Bagel Cafe • (516) 671-3354

and picked up at the concert15% of all sales will be donated to

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The Old Brookville Police Benevolent

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election on June 21, 2011:

Upper Brookville Trustees

Peter PappasBradley Marsh

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These candidates are concerned with the safety

of the village residents and with the future of the

Old Brookville Police Department.

YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT.

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A recent landmark study* by HealthGrades®, the leading independent health care ratings organization, of over 5 million Medicare patient records reveals some alarming facts. Following a heart attack, for example, women receive far fewer surgical interventions than men. And when they do, women suffer a 30% higher death rate. Other disturbing disparities were found across 16 of the most common procedures among women.

But women are not powerless. The study made it clear that a small percentage of hospitals is doing a far superior job for women. And saving thousands of lives. Only one of these elite institutions is located in Nassau and Suffolk counties – Winthrop-University Hospital.

Your health means everything. To you and to your family. Educate yourself about this critical study at winthrop.org. And call 1.866.WINTHROP for a physician referral.

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If all hospitals treated women as well as Winthrop,

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Winthrop is the only hospital in Nassau and Suffolk to receive the HealthGrades® 2011 Excellence Award for Women’s Health.

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LEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING AND SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETINGAND VOTE OF THE OYSTER BAY-EAST NOR-WICH CENTRALSCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE HELD ON JUNE 21, 2011NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Dis-trict Meeting and Vote of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District will be held in the lobby of the gymnasium of the Oyster Bay High School, located at East Main Street, Oyster Bay, New York, on Tues-day, June 21, 2011 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM to vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the Dis-trict for the school year beginning July 1, 2011.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that a pub-lic budget hearing for the purpose of dis-cussing the proposed budget and expendi-ture of funds for the school year 2011-2012 will be held on June 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM at the Oyster Bay High School Library.The condensed form of the budget proposi-tion and the text of all other propositions to appear on the voting machine and a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the school year 2011-2012 for school purposes, specifying the purposes and the amount for each, will be prepared and copies thereof will be made available, upon request, to any resident in the district at each school house in the District between the hours of 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon and from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM during the period of the 14 days imme-diately preceding said Special District Meet-ing and Vote of June 21, 2011, excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the voting shall be on voting machines as pro-vided by the Education Law and the polls will remain open from 7:00 AM until 9:00 PM and as much longer as may be neces-sary to enable the voters then present to cast their ballots. The District Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have the neces-sary ballot labels printed for said voting machines in the form corresponding as near-ly as may be with the requirements of the Education Law.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the reg-istration of the qualified voters of this Dis-trict for said Special District Meeting and Vote is permitted in the District Clerk’s Office, located in the Administration Build-ing, McCouns Lane, Oyster Bay, New York, during the hours of 8:00AM and 1:00 PM and from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday, up to and including June 17, 2011. Registration shall also take place at the James H. Vernon School, 880 Oyster Bay Road, East Norwich New York, and the Theo-dore Roosevelt School, 150 West Main Street, Oyster Bay, New York, between the hours of 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM and from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Fri-day, up to and including June 17, 2011. A register will be prepared and will be filed in the District Clerk’s Office and such register will be open for inspection by any qualified voter between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM on each of the five days prior to the day set for the vote, except Sunday, and by appointment only on Saturday, June 18, 2011; and at each polling place on voting day.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the reg-ister shall include: (1) all qualified voters of the District who shall personally present themselves for registration; (2) all previously qualified voters of the District who shall have been previously registered for any annual or special District meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special District meeting or election held or conducted at any time within four calendar years (2006-2010) prior to preparation of the said register; and (3) voters permanently registered with the Board of Elections of the County of Nassau.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Registration will further meet dur-ing the hours of voting at the Special District Meeting on June 21, 2011 for the purpose of preparing a register for District meetings or elections to be held subsequent to June 21, 2011.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that applica-tions for absentee ballots for the Special District Meeting and Vote may be applied for at the District Clerk’s Office. Such appli-cations must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the elec-tion if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the District Clerk’s Office on each of the five days prior to the said Special District Meet-ing and Vote except Sunday. Eligibility to vote by absentee ballot will be determined in accordance with the provisions of New York State Education Law §2018-a.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within 24 hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot, at the lobby of the gymnasium of Oyster Bay High School for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballotspursuant to Education Law §2019-a(2b) at said special meeting of the Board.Dated: May 31, 2011 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, OYSTER BAY-EAST NORWICH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT,COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORKMARGARET NOLANDistrict Clerk#22344E

LEGAL NOTICEVILLAGE OF COVE NECKBOARD OF ZONING APPEALSPUBLIC NOTICEA public hearing will be held by and beforethe Board of Zoning Appeals of the Incorpo-rated Village of Cove Neck, Nassau County, New York, at the Old Orchard Museum atSagamore Hill on Sagamore Hill Road in theVillage, on June 30, 2011 at 7:00 P.M.The hearing will be on the appeal of Nancyand Charles B. Wang, owners of a 4.387 acreparcel of land located at 129 Cove NeckRoad in the Village, designated as Section26, Block A, Lot 11 on the Land and Tax Mapof Nassau County and located in the Vil-lage’s R-4A (4 acre) Zoning District.The Appellants seek a variance to permit theconstruction of a wood deck to the rear ofthe existing dwelling, which deck wouldhave a front yard setback of 30’ 2” feetrather than the required 75 feet, and a sideyard setback of 14 feet rather than therequired 40 feet.This above appeal and supporting docu-ments are on file at the offices of Humes &Wagner, LLP, Attorneys for the Village, 147Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, NY where theymay be seen Monday through Friday,between the hours of 9:00 a.m 5:00 p.m.until the time of the hearing.All individuals will be given an opportunity to be heard. If any individual requires spe-cial assistance to attend, please notify theVillage Attorney at least 48 hours inadvance of the hearing.Byam K. StevensChairmanJune 17, 2011Z-104#22381E

LEGAL & PUBLIC NOTICESLEGAL NOTICE

PROBATE CITATIONFile No. 359330SURROGATE’S COURT - NASSAU COUNTYSUPPLEMENTAL CITATIONTHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,By the Grace of God Free and IndependentTO: ISABELLA DIETZ, MARGARETH DIETZ, VIOLA LANE and their heirs at law and any and allunknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of resi-dence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs at law, and next of kin of John A. Dietz, whose names and places of residence are unknown and ifthey died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees,devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose name and places of residence areunknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of John A. Dietz, the dece-dent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligentinquiry be ascertained.A petition having been duly filed by THOMAS GEWERT, who is domiciled at 282 KensingtonRoad South, Garden City, NY 11530YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, NASSAU County, atMineola, New York, on July 27th 2011, at 9:00 o’clock in the noon of that day,why a decree should not be made in the estate of JOHN A. DIETZlately domiciled at 378 Woodbury Road, Woodbury, NY 11797admitting to probate a Will dated April 3, 2006,(a Codicil dated __________________________________ ) (a Codicil dated____________________________________ , a copy of which is attached, as the Will of JOHN A. DIETZdeceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that[ X ] Letters Testamentary issue to: THOMAS GEWERT[ ] Letters of Trusteeship issue to:__________________________________________[ ] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to ___________________________________HON. JOHN B. RIORDANDated, Attested and Sealed SurrogateMay 25, , 2011Andrew L. Martin(Seal)Chief ClerkMatthew A. Tedone, Esq., (516) 294-3555Attorney for PetitionerTelephone Number983 Willis Avenue, Albertson, New York 11507 Address of Attorney[NOTE: This citation is served upon you are required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have aright to have an attorney appear for you.]P-5 (10/96)#22338E

HAROLD W. HAWKEY

Harold W. Hawkey of Brookville died on June 10th at the age of 89.

Hawkey entered the Navy and served in the Pacifi c during World War II. He survived the sinking of his ship by a Japanese torpedo and later was assigned to Admiral Halsey’s staff. Fol-lowing the war, he earned his bachelor-of-arts degree at the University of Virgin-ia (class of 1950). He then worked for United Fruit in Honduras for a short while and subsequently moved to New York City to work for the Mobil Oil Company.

He married Joan Har-ris of Brookville in 1958 and in 1960 Hawkey began working for Texaco in for-eign sales. They then spent the next eight years living in locations such as San Juan, Puerto Rico; Monro-via, Liberia; Kingston, Ja-maica and Christianstead, St. Croix before returning to Brookville in 1968 with their two young children.

During his remaining years with Texaco, Hawkey oversaw many of Texaco’s public relations programs including the company’s relationships with the Met-ropolitan Opera, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore and other prominent artists of the time.

Husband of the late Joan Harris Hawkey, he is sur-vived by children Harold W. Hawkey, Jr. (Jackie) and Elizabeth Hawkey and his two grandchildren, Sarah and Grace Hawkey.

In lieu of sending fl ow-ers, the family requests that donations be sent to: the

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research or the Alzheimer’s Association (www.ALZ.org).

A Funeral Service will be held at St. John’s of Latting-town, today, Friday, June 17th at 11 AM, under the direction of Dodge-Thomas Funeral Home. For more information, visit: www.DodgeThomas.com.

MICHAEL J. SANGERMANO, JR.

Michael J. Sangermano, Jr., 64, of Oyster Bay died on June 8th.

Father of Paul, he was the brother of Vincent (Jeanne), Elizabeth Bishop (David), Maria Sant’Angelo (John), Tina Scadin (David), and late Paul. He was also the grandfather of Mariah and is survived by several niec-es, nephews, relatives and friends.

A Funeral Mass was held St. Dominic R.C. Chapel in Oyster Bay, under the direc-tion of Oyster Bay Funeral Home, followed by inter-ment at Holy Rood cemetery. For more information, visit: ww.oysterbayfuneralhome.com.

BARTHOLOMEW M. DITURO

Bartholomew M. Dituro, 86, of Locust Valley died on June 10th. He was a World War II Navy Veteran.

Husband of the late Dorothy, he was the father of Michael (Cindy), David (Mary Ann) & Maria Fanelli (Dan), brother of Thomas (Lena), the late Anthony, Anna, Catherine, & Vita and grandfather of Tricia, Mat-

thew & Caitlin. A Funeral Mass was held

at St. Gertrude R.C. Church in Bayville, under the direc-tion of Dodge-Thomas Fu-neral Home in Glen Cove, followed by interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. For more information, visit: www.DodgeThomas.com.

JANET HELEN GAGLIONE

Janet Helen Gaglione, 79, died peacefully at home in Bayville on June 9th after a long struggle with emphy-sema.

Wife of Bob, she was the mother of Bob Jr., Carole and Ken, grandmother Bob III, Gregory, Paul, Charles and Jenna and sister of Ray-mond.

A Funeral Mass was held at St. Gertrude’s Church in Bayville, under the direc-tion of Dodge-Thomas Fu-neral Home in Glen Cove, followed by burial services at Mount Saint Mary Cem-etery in Flushing, Queens. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be sent to: St Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Re-search Center.

For more information, visit: www.DodgeThomas.com.

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Greek Fest rocks Brookville

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(From left) Donnamarie and Vasilis Chaimanis prepare the souvlaki meat.

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection held its annual Greek Village Festival, on the corner 25A & Rt. 107 in Brookville, June 10th-12th. Patrons enjoyed homemade Greek food and desserts, amusement rides, a fl ea market, live Greek music and (pictured above) special performances of Greek Folkloric dancing.

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Les Parcs de Saint Tropez, France An elegant villa with wonderful sea views.

EAST NORWICH 6326 Northern Blvd 516.624.9000

GREAT NECK 11 Bond Street 516.466.2100

HUNTINGTON 156 E. Main Street 631.549.4400

LOCUST VALLEY 71 Forest Avenue 516.759.0400

MANHASSET 154 Plandome Road 516.627.2800

PORT WASHINGTON 475 Port Washington Blvd 516.883.5200

ROSLYN 1528 Old Northern Blvd 516.621.3555

SYOSSET 317 Jackson Avenue 516.921.2262

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