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tion nearly led to litigation be-tween the village and the neigh-boring Town of Eastchester.

As the village and Eastches-ter were butting heads over the nearly $200,000 in repair costs, Westchester County, after pledg-ing monetary support, dropped out completely.

Meanwhile, as tension grew between officials, Robert Rab-sey, a resident of Parkway Road, recalls a quieter scene in the sur-rounding area. When the bridge was roped off, he said kids were able to play freely in the street. Moving forward, the resident said it was up to the police to make sure vehicles obeyed traf-fic laws.

“Police will have to be vigi-lant and the kids smart enough

to stay out of the street,” Rabsey said. “But life will go on.”

Still, Rabsey remembers when the bridge was first built by the county, where work began in 1952, as indicated by a plaque placed alongside the structure, and didn’t understand why it couldn’t shoulder all of the cost related to the project.

With the county out, February 2015 saw all three municipali-ties put up their share—$75,000 from Eastchester and $30,000 from Yonkers, with Bronxville paying the remaining $75,000—to fix the bridge’s structural damage.

Though, as the delays were dragging out repair work and pushing back the completion date, officials finally agreed to

work together and tensions qui-eted. Mayor Mary Marvin, a Republican, said the completed effort represented a positive col-laboration and “it was teamwork at its best” between her office, Eastchester Supervisor Anthony Colavita, a Republican, and City of Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, a Democrat.

“We know the repairs clearly took longer than anyone antici-pated,” Marvin said. “But in the long view, the joint funding and attendant responsibilities pro-vided the most prudent path to proceed to protect everyone’s best interests going forward.”

Mary Liz Mulligan, who works on Pondfield Road in

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ra said. “Places like the ice rink in Yonkers have huge signs that alert people about the business. No one can see the one on Mar-bledale.”

No. 2, the chamber president said, is marketing.

“I think a lot of people in the village weren’t aware that there was an ice rink here. Or the brewery,” Okura said, referring to Broken Bow Brewery just up the street from the ice rink on Marbledale Road. “We need to market our local business so our residents know they exist. We need to rally around these new businesses to make sure they are viable because these are the ones that will attract young people into the village.”

The ice rink itself has had its share of challenges since con-struction was completed in No-vember 2014.

In January of this year, one of the founders and public face of Home Ice Advantage, Kevin Wright, resigned. He didn’t go into details about his resigna-tion, but told the Review at the time that he was experiencing disagreements with his part-ner, Abraham, that boiled over to the point where he had to walk away from the business. Wright, a former collegiate hockey player who nearly went pro, had the vision of bring-ing hockey to the area helping to grow the sport in Westches-ter County. Abraham was the financial backer of the project.

Okura said he hopes to see a new owner continue to operate the place as an ice rink.

Wright could not be reached for comment, as of press time.

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After more than two years of funding delays and rising inter-municipal tension, Parkway Road Bridge in Bronxville has been repaired and reopened to traffic.

The bridge was officially closed in June 2013 because of structural damage revealed dur-ing a routine inspection by the New York State Department of Transportation, and has been a source of frustration between three municipalities—Yonkers, Bronxville and Eastchester—and Westchester County, with each claiming the other was responsible for the necessary maintenance costs. That frustra-

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Tuckahoe’s ice rink, Home Ice Advantage LLC, on Mar-bledale Road, closed its doors for business not even a year after its grand opening last De-cember.

Specifics as to why the ice rink closed on Aug. 14 remain unclear.

Tuckahoe Village Admin-istrator David Burke said, “To say anything would just be speculation. At this point we don’t even know if it’s closed permanently or temporarily.”

Paul Okura, who took over as president of the Eastchester-Tuckahoe Chamber of Com-merce in July, said it was a sur-prise to see the business close.

“During the summer we had a concert series [at Lake Isle], and they asked us to give out the flyers about the ice skating. That was in July,” Okura said. “So it came as a big surprise to find out they’re selling.”

Although Okura didn’t know why the ice rink has shut its doors, the Chamber of Com-merce president did offer his own personal theories.

No. 1, Okura said, is the awn and signing language in the vil-lage code that limits what kinds of signs a business can use. The 200 Marbledale Road building, which is currently home to the ice rink, used to be a storage warehouse with little signage alerting passersby about the business.

“If people don’t know about the business or don’t see it when they’re driving through Marbledale [Road], they won’t know the business exists,” Oku-

eagles start strong Eastchester quarterback John Arcidiacono and his teammates celebrate a touchdown against Harrison on Friday, Sept. 4. The Eagles topped the Huskies 23-6 on the road to open up the season with a convincing win. For more, see page 16. Photo/Bobby Begun

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Westchester Guardian publisher pleads guiltySelim Zherka, a 47-year-old

Somers businessman who pub-lishes the Westchester Guard-ian newspaper, pleaded guilty to conspiring to make false state-ments to a bank and filing false tax returns. Zherka entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel at White Plains’ federal court on Aug. 27.

According to the FBI, Zherka made false statements to Sov-ereign Bank, now known as Santander, in order to receive millions of dollars in loans and filed false tax returns with the IRS as well. His plea agreement includes forfeiting $5.23 million. Zherka has been in jail since he was arraigned on Sept. 18, 2014 after being denied bail.

“With his guilty plea, Selim Zherka now has admitted to what we have been alleging all along, that he waged a years-long cam-paign of lies to a bank and the IRS to obtain millions of dollars

in loans and fraudulently reduce his tax liabilities,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. “In addition to admitting his guilt, Zherka has agreed to forfeit over $5 mil-lion in ill-gotten gains. I want to thank the FBI, IRS, and the TARP Special Inspector General for the excellent work in this in-vestigation and prosecution.”

According to court documents and information filed on Aug. 27 in White Plains federal court, from December 2005 to the pres-ent, Zherka and others conspired to obtain $63.5 million in loans from then Sovereign Bank “for the purchase and/or refinancing of apartment house complexes in Tennessee” by lying about the price and the down payment amount of the complexes he was purchasing.

Zherka was also charged with taking part in a five-year long tax fraud scheme. According to the Superseding Information at

his guilty plea and the FBI press release, Zherka allegedly “re-peatedly submitted fraudulent tax returns to the IRS that over-stated depreciation expenses and understated his capital gains for the real estate holding companies in which he was a partner and which, in turn, owned apartment house complexes, thereby reduc-ing their tax liabilities.”

According to the FBI, four others have previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with Zherka on these charges and are current-ly awaiting sentencing.

A controversial figure in Westchester politics, Zherka previously filed lawsuits against the City of Yonkers and also Re-publican County Executive Rob Astorino. Zherka, who also owns two strip clubs and multiple oth-er properties, faces a maximum of five years in federal prison. He awaits sentencing on Dec. 22.-Reporting by Sibylla Chipaziwa

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Artwork of mental health recipient showcased From Sept. 10 through 17,

ArtsWestchester will present an exhibition featuring more than 150 original creations by more than 70 artists who are recipi-ents of mental health services in Westchester County. “Visions 2015: Inspirations, Reflections & Hope,” which coincides with Recovery Month and Wellness Week, demonstrates that recipi-ents of mental health services have embraced the concept of hope and are willing to share their views of recovery.

This exhibition, on display in ArtsWestchester’s Shenkman Gallery at 31 Mamaroneck Ave. in downtown White Plains, is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 10 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The gal-lery is closed on Sundays and Mondays. For exhibition infor-mation, call 428-4220 or visit artsw.org/visions.

“Visions 2015: Inspirations, Reflections & Hope” is the re-sult of a partnership between ArtsWestchester, the Rockland Psychiatric Center and CHOICE of NY and is made possible by funding from Westchester County Department of Commu-nity Mental Health, Rockland Psychiatric Center, CHOICE of NY and artist Charles Fazzino.

These artists’ varied and di-verse life experiences bring unique perspectives to their cre-ative efforts and subject matters. Their styles range from the real-istic to abstract. This exhibition not only helps promising artists take the next step in their ca-reers, but opens the door for art lovers to experience a wealth of talent in their own community.

“The Shenkman Gallery is a venue where the work of local artists is showcased and appre-ciated by the entire community,” said ArtsWestchester CEO Janet T. Langsam. She added, “We are especially proud of the art-ists participating in the Visions 2015 show and are sure exhibi-tion visitors will be impressed by their work.”

Participating agencies in-clude Rockland Psychiatric Center; CHOICE of NY; Hu-man Development Services of Westchester; Mental Health As-sociation of Westchester; Mohe-gan Park Adult Home; New Ro-chelle Home for Adults; St. Vin-cent’s Westchester, a division of St. Joseph’s Medical Center; and The Guidance Center. Art-ists who are not affiliated with these agencies will also partici-pate in this event.

Celebrating its 50th anniver-sary this year, ArtsWestchester is the community’s connection to the arts. Founded in 1965, it is the largest, private, nonprofit arts council in New York state. Its mission is to provide lead-ership, vision and support, to ensure the availability, accessi-bility and diversity of the arts. ArtsWestchester provides pro-grams and services that enrich the lives of everyone in West-chester. ArtsWestchester helps fund concerts, exhibitions and plays through grants, brings art-ists into schools and community centers, advocates for the arts and builds audiences through diverse marketing initiatives. To celebrate its 50th anniver-sary in 2015, ArtsWestchester has launched several major ini-tiatives, including implement-

ing increased artist residencies in Westchester schools, which will help secure its legacy and impact the cultural life of West-chester for the future. In 1998, ArtsWestchester purchased the nine-story neo-classical bank building at 31 Mamaroneck Ave. which has since been trans-formed into the Arts Exchange, a multi-use resource for artists, cultural organizations, and the community.

Rockland Psychiatric Cen-ter, RPC, provides treatment, rehabilitation and support to adults 18 and older with se-vere and complex mental ill-ness. The focus is on treatment and stabilization, with the goal of assisting recipients to live in their community of choice. RPC emphasizes recovery, symptom management, rehabilitation and support, as well as activities that build social, vocational and edu-cational skills. Aftercare plan-ning and developing networks of support help recipients ac-complish their personal goals.

CHOICE of NY, founded in 1994 and based in Westchester County, is a unique and suc-cessful peer-run nonprofit men-tal health case management and advocacy agency. Its mission is to help, encourage and sup-port people who, like most of the members of the staff, have used mental health services. Programs are offered to people who have traditionally been un-derserved and need assistance to obtain or maintain vital benefits and services. The goal is to en-able consumers to become or remain fully empowered, inde-pendent, and integrated in the community. (Submitted)

Tuckahoe High selected as state Reward SchoolFor the third consecutive year,

Tuckahoe High School has been selected by the New York State Commissioner of Education as a New York State Reward School. This honor is presented to schools that have made the most progress or have the high-est performance with no signifi-cant gaps in student achieve-ment. This year, the state rec-ognized Tuckahoe High School as a High Performing Reward School.

According to the New York

State Education Department, in 2015 the award was present-ed to 365 “achieving and high progress schools” in the state.

This award is in line with the district’s strategic plan and mis-sion: “Preparing every student for excellence.” (Submitted)


What’s going on...

Eastchester 5K run The Eastchester 5K will be run on Sunday,

Sept. 27, starting at 9 a.m. All proceeds from this year’s race will go toward improvements at the Eastchester Public Library. Walkers and runners of all levels are welcome. Entry fee is $25. For more information and to register, visit the East-chester Irish-American Social Club’s website at eastchesterirish.org.

Bronxville Public Library

Regular fall and winter hours are: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30

p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Please be advised that the second floor of the li-brary will be closed for one week starting on Sept. 14.

Family Film FridaysThe library’s weekly film series will continue

with “Home” on Friday, Sept. 11, screening from 3:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. A lovable misfit from anoth-er planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time. Rated PG. Running time: 94 minutes.

Bitty Babies StorytimeSongs, rhymes and activities for pre-walkers up

to age 1 on Monday, Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. for 30 minutes.

Little Steppers StorytimeSongs, rhymes and activities for walkers up

to age 2 on Monday, Sept. 14 at 11 a.m. for 30 minutes.

Teen MovieThe library’s weekly teen movie screenings will

continue with “Insurgent” on Tuesday, Sept. 15 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Second film in the “Diver-gent” series, this movie follows Tris and Four as they search for allies and answers in the ruins of Chicago. Continue their adventure as they unravel secrets of the past and the future of their world.

Rated PG-13. Running time: 119 minutes.

Adult book discussion group

Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 15 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The book to be discussed is “All the Light We Cannot See” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Antho-ny Doerr.

Tots of FunThe library will be hosting a program full of

songs, rhymes, movement and activity for children age 2 on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Register for college seminarLearn the strategies that will help your family

successfully navigate the college admissions pro-cess and the new SAT. Find out what admissions officers are looking for and how to maximize your child’s admission chances. Hear how to determine which schools are the right fit.

Help determine which exams to take—SAT vs. ACT—and how to achieve his/her best score. Learn about the new SAT and the options for soph-omores and juniors.

This free seminar is open to all teens and/or adults. To register, go to applerouth.com/signup and enter the event code M175961. The seminar is taking place on Thursday, Sept. 24 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Presented by Jill Steinberg of Applerouth Tutoring Services and Denise Baylis of Open Door Educational Consultants, a college advisory firm.

Tuckahoe Public Library

For more information on other programs and events, visit tuckahoelibrary.org.

Kids’ MovieLaugh out loud at Disney’s “Aladdin,” screen-

ing on Friday, Sept. 11 at 3:30 p.m. Appropriate for children ages 3 to 10. Rated G, running time: 90 minutes.

Introduction to baby massageBaby massage is simple to learn, fun to do, and

has deep, lasting benefits for babies and parents. Open to adults with babies birth to 2 years only on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m.

Tongue twister contestFor teens. Try your hand with some phrases

known to perplex the tongue on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 4 p.m.

Westchester Italian Cultural Center

Located at 1 Generoso Pope Place in Tucka-hoe. Call 771-8700 or visit wiccny.org for more information.

Italian Wine Notes: Wines of VenetoFeaturing Tenuta Santa Maria alla Pieve. Thurs-

day, Sept. 10 at 6:30 p.m. Be dazzled by one of the oldest Italian wine making families: the Ber-tani family. Centuries of expertise, deep ties to the land, and a passion for innovation which sustains the family philosophy have all been translated into the creation of a series of world-class wines that are highly regarded for their unique personality and character. The event will feature a virtual tour of the estate, a tasting of six wines and a risotto cooking demonstration and tasting by chef Mario Di Chiara. Meeting in the WICC Kitchen. Fee: members $60, member’s guest $75.

Italian language courses for adultsNew students are encouraged to have a phone or

in-person interview with the professor to better de-termine their proficiency level. From the first day, students are fully immersed in the Italian language and culture. Individual students’ requirements are met in a classroom of free expression and differen-tiated learning. Each class session will be $395 for members and $495 for non-members, with 10 per-cent discounts offered when students register for more than one session simultaneously. For a class session schedule or for more information, call the Westchester Italian Cultural Center.

The Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Did you know that every 67 seconds an Ameri-can is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s? Or that the price tag for this disease, which has no cure, no ef-fective treatment or way in which its course can be slowed, will total $226 billion in the U.S. in 2015 alone? Alzheimer’s affects more people in the U.S. than any of the other top 10 diseases, yet it receives the least financial support.

The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the single greatest source of funding for research, education and treatment. Please join the walk with your spirit and energy. To locate a walk, for information on how to form a team, join a team, contribute time or make a donation, visitalz.org/hudsonvalley. The 2015 walk for Westchester County is taking place on Sunday, Oct. 4, meeting at the White Plains High School, 550 North St., near the Bryant Av-enue entrance. Check-in is at 9 a.m., with a wel-come and the walk starting at 10 a.m. To sign up, visit alz.org/walk or call 800-272-3900. For more information, contact Terry Kean at 253-6860 or [email protected].

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one of the oldest historic struc-tures in Mamaroneck and is also where Cooper was able to produce his first novel “The Spy.”

Akin, who spearheaded an initiative called the Friends of the DeLancey-Cooper House, attempted to raise funds and seek donors in hopes of pur-chasing the building for pres-ervation. While the goal was approximately $2.5 million, Akin said that after more than two years of fundraising, she was only able to garner a little more than $20,000.

“It’s hard to ask people for money,” Akin said. “It just de-pends on where their hearts are and that they understand this is a one-time issue of a building that is the most historic large home left in Mamaroneck.”

Chmelecki said that he of-fered the historical society multiple opportunities to pur-chase the property, but that there wasn’t enough commu-nity support or a donor to raise enough funds.

“There [was] one very tiny thread of a chance left,” Akin

said about the last-ditch efforts to raise the $2.5 million. “That thread [broke], we’re done, and [now] all systems will be going to raising funds to move it.”

Now that the property will be sold off to developers, Akin has shifted her fundraising fo-cus on a more feasible goal of $500,000 to instead relocate the historic building. Akin said the developer would have to agree to relocate the building, but that it would also mean there’s no need for demolition.

If the developer agrees to a relocation plan, Akin said that she would have approxi-mately four or five months to raise funds while the develop-ers move through the village’s various land use boards and commissions for approvals.

“Five hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money, but it’s nothing next to $2.5 mil-lion,” Akin said, adding her estimation should account for renovations and repairs for the physical structure if the reloca-tion pans out, but may also be subject to additional costs.

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The owners of a Village of Mamaroneck house dating back to 1792 are expected to sell the property to develop-ers who will eventually con-vert the lot into waterfront apartments.

The property located at 408-410 W. Boston Post Road was to be sold, according to Ed-die Chmelecki, co-owner of the property. The co-owner added that the deal might get delayed, but said the develop-er had an offer that was “very, very close to the mark of what we’re willing to accept.”

However, the Chmelecki home is also the same histor-ic structure where American author James Fenimore Coo-per—best known for his novel “The Last of the Mohicans”—and his wife Susan DeLancey spent most of their marriage around 1811.

According to Carol Akin, a trustee of the Mama-roneck Historical Society, the DeLancey-Cooper building is

Historic DeLancey house sold to developers

Developers have bought the historic property on 408-410 W. Boston Post Road, known as the DeLancey-Cooper House, to eventually convert into waterfront properties. File photo

Akin said she has plans of moving the building back to the foot of Heathcote Hill, where it was originally lo-cated. The hill is less than a quarter-mile from where the DeLancey-Cooper House sits now.

While Trustee Ilissa Miller, a Democrat, is a member of the Mamaroneck Historical Society’s honorary commit-tee, she said the efforts to save

the DeLancey-Cooper House haven’t been brought to the village officially. Miller added the village hasn’t made any promises, despite her support of the cause for preserving the village’s history.

Ultimately, the plan for the relocated building would be to convert it into a Mamaroneck Historical Society museum, including village artifacts, pictures and other memorabil-

ia of the village’s history.“The most awesome thing

in the world is to have a Ma-maroneck museum in a his-toric house,” Akin said. “We’d have a wonderful historical center that could really be a good attraction and would be a wonderful blessing to the future generations of Mama-roneck residents.”



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In her at-home work space, Helen Rafferty casually clacked away at her laptop keyboard. Humbly settled in an elongated sofa, she was surrounded by stacks of books. Outside of the typing and the occasional hum of air conditioning, her Propsect Av-enue home was mostly quiet.

It was calm for the time being, but Rafferty, 52, is always await-ing another task to complete for the organization she has been in-volved with since its creation in 2002.

As managing director of Proj-ect Rebirth—a small nonprofit with headquarters inside Pace University in New York City that works to rehabilitate people after traumatic experiences like 9/11—Rafferty said she’s in charge of numerous unassigned tasks that get passed down.

“Basically if there’s a job to do and we can’t find somebody to do it,” Rafferty said in a soft, relaxed tone, “it tends to fall on my lap.”

The soft-spoken side of fostering rebirth after 9/11

For what she dubs the Ma-maroneck outpost of Project Re-birth, Rafferty works on anything from fundraising to writing press materials like newsletters and brochures.

While the nonprofit is mostly known for “Rebirth”—a docu-mentary that follows the lives of five victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the recovery process of both the humans and the site—Rafferty said the organization has evolved past its origin.

According to Rafferty, the idea for the nonprofit organization first bloomed when filmmaker Jim Whitaker visited Ground Zero a month after 9/11 while he was in New York for a wedding.

“[Whitaker]…was first devas-tated by what he saw,” Rafferty said. “But then the more time he spent just standing there looking at the site, the more he started to realize that people were already working to clean it up.”

Whitaker, a producer with Hollywood titles under his belt, had the idea to document the construction of what is now One

World Trade Center through time-lapse photography. Rafferty said that Whitaker set up cameras in places with views of Ground Zero, like the 21-story American Express building a few blocks away, the graveyard at St. Paul’s Church on Broadway, and even across the Hudson River in New Jersey.

While Whitaker snapped pho-tos of Ground Zero once every five minutes with 14 cameras for eight years, Project Rebirth wanted to incorporate the recov-ery and rehabilitation process of five impacted people alongside the process of the site’s physical reconstruction.

For nearly 10 years, Whitaker and the Project Rebirth team fol-lowed the lives of five people: Nicholas Chirls, a teenager who lost his mother who worked near Ground Zero; Tim Brown, a fire-fighter who lost colleagues in the line of duty; Tanya Villanueva Tepper, a woman who lost her firefighter fiancé; Ling Young, a woman who survived the impact of the attacks; and Brian Lyons, a construction worker who an-swered the call to help.

Rafferty said the documenta-tion of the five lives was a unique look into how humans cope with tragedy and learn to recover.

“In early interviews, she’s dev-astated, physically you can see it, you can hear it in her voice,” Rafferty said of Tanya Villan-ueva Tepper, who lost her fiancé on 9/11. “She talks about how bad she feels when she gets an invitation to someone’s wedding. As the film goes on, we go to her wedding in Hawaii and we’re in the delivery room when her chil-dren are born.”

The managing director said that halfway through the decade-long filming process, the Rebirth team showed the raw footage to academics at Columbia and Georgetown universities who said there was nothing else like it.

“Over time, it developed into the longest and the most complete video record of human beings go-ing through the process of recov-ery from grief and trauma,” Raf-ferty said, adding that this real-ization spawned grand ambitions to push the nonprofit into being

In her Prospect Avenue home in the Village of Mamaroneck, Project Rebirth’s Managing Director Helen Rafferty works on the various tasks she takes on. Photo/Jackson Chen

Project Rebirth’s first accomplishment, the documentary “Rebirth,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. Shortly after, producer/director Jim Whitaker won a Peabody award for public service through film. Photo courtesy Project Rebirth

more than just a one-trick pony organization.

“When the film was completed then premiered at Sundance [Film Festival] in January of 2011, that was, in many ways, the start of the real mission.”

Rafferty took over the reins of the organization from 2013 to 2014 as the interim executive di-rector, and said she was simply keeping the ship afloat while the current executive director, Aaron Leonard, finished his run of 30 years as a U.S. Army colonel be-fore retiring to take over the non-profit full time.

With insight into the difficul-ties that veterans faced, Leonard served as a perfect person to lead Project Rebirth’s growth into an organization dedicated to help-ing people form resilience after trauma. Rafferty, who retained her role as managing director, said that outside the “Rebirth” docu-mentary and other various short films following four other 9/11 victims, the organization now hosts several different programs spawned from the ideology of Project Rebirth.

Project Rebirth’s programs range from addressing the men-tal health of veterans through community forums and helping female veterans overcome abuse with cycling to organizing work-shops for widows of any type of disaster.

“It’s everything from young veterans coming home and find-ing it hard to adjust from the traumas of war,” Rafferty said, “to at-risk youth that are grow-ing up in communities that are likened to a war zone.”

While it may seem like an in-comprehensible amount of work, Rafferty is no stranger to the vol-unteer lifestyle. After moving to the Village of Mamaroneck 24 years ago, Rafferty worked with the Larchmont Newcomer’s Club, served as the president of the PTA at Mamaroneck Avenue School, and played a crucial role in the renovations of the Mama-roneck Public Library.

Working with a dedicated team, Rafferty was able to raise $6.5 million in donations and worked to generate support for a $13 million village bond to cre-ate a modern library that renovat-ed the 1926 building. Her efforts awarded her a Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design designation from the U.S. Green Building Council, which surprised her since she was aiming for a silver certifica-tion. Continuing her volunteer efforts at the library, Rafferty will be showing one of Project Rebirth’s shorter-length films on Oct. 18.

After tackling such an ambi-tious project on top of her contin-ued volunteer efforts with Project Rebirth, Rafferty was expecting to take a break from her 15-year-long stretch of volunteer work. However, as soon as she finished fundraising for the Mamaroneck library, Project Rebirth asked her to serve as its interim executive director.

“I think it’s karma or fate,” Rafferty said. “I’m also not good at saying no when people ask for that kind of help.”



Online registration for the Westchester Heart Walk is open at westchesterheartwalk.org. The event will take place on Sunday, Oct. 4 at Kensico Dam in Valhalla and is the American Heart Association’s biggest an-nual event, raising more than $319,000 for AHA programs and research at last year’s event. Local residents are encouraged to form teams of family mem-bers, co-workers and commu-nity groups to raise funds, and awareness for heart disease, the leading killer in our community.

Adam Kintish, vice president and Westchester Retail Mar-ket manager for TD Bank, will serve as executive champion during the Westchester Heart Walk event. Kintish will appeal to local businesses and commu-nity leaders to sponsor and form teams for the event.

Employee teams from local organizations and many hospi-tals have already signed up and include FujiFilm, MeritDirect and Westchester County em-ployees.

Many community members form teams to honor loved ones who are affected or whose lives have been lost to heart disease or stroke.

“So many corporate and com-munity teams rally to support the American Heart Association’s mission every year. These teams lead the way in supporting life-saving research. It’s amazing to see them all in matching T-shirts, walking for a worthwhile cause,” said Jennifer Gelick, Heart Walk director. “The Heart Walk is re-ally a celebration of year-round efforts by local organizations to create a ‘culture of health’ in the workplace.”

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in the U.S., and physical inactiv-ity doubles the risk. Companies can find the AHA’s workplace wellness resources online at heart.org/workplacewellness, including the free Healthy Workplace Food and Beverage Toolkit which helps organizations make healthier food choices for meetings, vending machines and cafeterias.

Donations raised help fund

lifesaving programs and re-search. The American Heart As-sociation has funded 13 Nobel Prize winners, nine of whom won for work funded by the as-sociation. Researchers at New York Medical College in Valhal-la receive more than $1.2 million in AHA research grants.

Companies interested in sup-porting the Heart Walk with sponsorship or teams should call Jennifer Gelick at 640-3274 or by email to [email protected]. To register online, vis-it westchesterhearheartwalk.org.

The Heart Walk is sponsored nationally by Subway, and lo-cally by Signature and Region-al Chain of Survival Sponsor, Westchester Medical Center, National Walking Day spon-sor New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, Maria Fe-rari Children’s Hospital, White Plains Hospital, Fuji Film, Mer-it Direct and Stop & Shop, and media sponsors Examiner Me-dia and The Peak radio station.

The American Heart Asso-ciation was founded in 1924

Registration open for annual Heart Walk

Students from New York Medical College in Valhalla participating in last year’s Heart Walk. Contributed photo

and is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health orga-nization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of heart disease and stroke. To help

prevent, treat and defeat these diseases—America’s No. 1 and No. 5 killers—the AHA funds cutting-edge research, conduct lifesaving public and profes-

sional educational programs, and advocate to protect public health. To learn more or to help, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit heart.org. (Submitted)


Concordia College announc-es the inaugural season of a brand new cinema event se-ries featuring a wide range of groundbreaking films and noted filmmakers. More than a just a movie screening, the Sluberski Film Series events will offer the opportunity to experience cinema from Hollywood to Bol-lywood, independent films to blockbusters and engage with the artists who created them.

The Sluberski Film Series will kick off on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. with a free screening of “Girl Rising,” a 2013 documen-tary that highlights international stories of young women striv-ing to overcome cultural and economic barriers to education. Conversation will follow with the film’s executive producer Holly Gordon, named by News-week and the Daily Beast as one of 125 Women of Impact.

Inspired by this moving work

Bronxville, said the worst part about the bridge being closed was when 18-wheel trucks would come barreling through residential neighborhoods look-ing for alternative paths to reach their destination. She said she welcomes the bridge’s use again.

“I don’t agree with the peo-ple who are making noise that live there and want it to remain closed for safety reasons,” Mul-ligan said. “They knew when they bought [a home] there what

the deal was.” For now, the bridge is open

but with increased police super-vision. Bronxville Police Chief Christopher Satriale said police officers would monitor the area around the bridge for 30 days, in conjunction with stop sign en-forcement and radar detail to de-ter those who are speeding.

“We’ll analyze the results [at 30 days] to see if it’s necessary to continue there,” Satriale said.

The enforcement comes just

in time for kids to return to school and fall shopping to be-gin in the business district.

The Parkway Road Bridge was a source of frustration in the village for years before the state DOT officially closed it down. It was intermittently closed to traf-fic several times in 2012, includ-ing when a nearby water main broke and flooded the area, dam-aging the road surface.


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Parkway Road Bridge, closed for more than two years for structural repairs, has finally been reopened to mixed reactions from those who live and work in Bronxville. Photo/James Pero

Film and TV industry helps county’s economyCounty Executive Rob Astori-

no announced on July 31 that the film and television industry boost-ed Westchester’s economy by $18 million in 2014, up from $13.8 million in the previous year. The increase is attributable in large measure to a 32 percent increase in on-location production days, which totaled 318 last year.

The numbers are part of an economic report compiled by Westchester County’s Office of Tourism and Film. The report includes a 2014 survey of local municipalities which showed that 90 percent of the county’s cities, towns and villages re-ceived revenue from the film and television industry; 66 percent of film productions patronized local businesses and 25 percent hired local vendors.

“The film industry in West-chester has never been bigger,” Astorino said. “We are enjoying a starring role in Hollywood’s featured films and successful television programs because of our incredible and diverse lo-cations—from beautiful parks and shorelines, to historic Main

Streets, charming neighbor-hoods and bustling urban sites. In addition, our team from Tour-ism and Film has the knowledge to provide expert service to facil-itate production in film-friendly Westchester County.”

Productions filmed in West-chester earned 29 Emmy nomi-nations in 2014, and 28 nomi-nations in 2015. Shows filmed in Westchester also earned nine Golden Globe nominations in 2014. The film and television industry’s interest in Westches-ter is expected to continue this year, fueled by repeat television series and the release of upcom-ing featured films, including “Ricki and The Flash,” starring Meryl Streep. Recent films and television series that have filmed in Westchester include “Board-walk Empire” (HBO), “The Fol-lowing” (FOX), “Girls” (HBO), “The Good Wife” (CBS) and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” A full filmography can be found at vis-itwestchesterny.com/index.php/film/filmed-in-westchester.

“The number of productions filmed is proof that Westchester

is ready, able and open for busi-ness,” Astorino said.

For Westchester’s municipali-ties, filming can provide a wel-come revenue boost. “We’ve col-lected $60,000 in fees over the past two years, and $34,000 so far in 2015,” said Bedford Town Clerk Lisbeth “Boo” Fumagalli. “When they are here, film crews patronize our downtown shops and restaurants as well.”

The productions filming in Bedford over the past two years include “Orange Is the New Black” and “Girls,” according to Fumagalli. The City of Rye re-ports that film has been a bless-ing for them as well, citing more than $100,000 in permit revenue generated over the past two years. “Filming is good for our town,” said Diane Moore, depu-ty clerk. “Merchants see benefits and the town collects revenue. It’s also good exposure for Rye to the outside world.”

The county’s economic im-pact estimates are based on a formula used by the Association of Film Commissioners Interna-tional, AFCI. (Submitted)

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of art, the Girl Rising movement was named by Forbes magazine as the No. 1 Most Dynamic So-cial Initiative of 2012, and its influence has only grown since.

People can reserve their free ticket for an emotional cinemat-ic journey, a stimulating intel-lectual conversation with this groundbreaking filmmaker, and the opportunity to be part of a powerful social movement.

Funded by a generous dona-tion from Dr. Thomas Sluberski, a former Concordia professor and a recent recipient of the col-lege’s Servant of Christ Award, the Sluberski Film Series joins Concordia’s successful Books

and Coffee program and Jacobson Global Lecture Series as a unique cultural event for Concordia Col-lege and the greater New York area. When asked what inspired him to support the series, Dr. Sluberski referred to his lifelong fascination with cinema. “Movies help us to be inspired, to discern the times, to be challenged, to be educated, and to rethink, retool, and redirect,” he said. “So it was natural to make a longer term fi-nancial contribution to Concordia to focus on film.”

For more information, email Dr. Matthew Bolton at [email protected].(Submitted)


ArtsWestchester is now ac-cepting applications from West-chester artists and arts organi-zations for its Arts Alive grants, with a goal to help support com-munity-based arts and cultural programs, new artwork and part-nerships between local schools and arts organizations. Awarded annually, these grants are specifi-cally designed to bring the arts to residents and communities where access is limited through-out the county. ArtsWestchester will be accepting applications through Oct. 9. For guidelines and application, visit artsw.org/artsalive.

In the past, Arts Alive grants have supported programs in a variety of artistic genres, includ-ing the performing arts, fine arts and music. Funding has been awarded to cultural heritage fes-tivals, community murals, cre-ative movement workshops for people with mental and physical disabilities, and affordable theat-rical performances.

ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam said, “At the heart of ArtsWestchester’s mission is its belief that the arts should be available to all of Westchester’s economically, geographically and ethnically diverse commu-nities. The Arts Alive grants are

one of our most effective means for making this possible.”

Arts Alive provides three dif-ferent types of funding grants available. One type of funding is the Arts Alive project grants, which provide support and as-sistance to community-based cultural programs that engage a broad and diverse audience. An-other type of funding is the Arts Alive artist grants, which provide direct support to artists for the creation of an original, new work that incorporates the community as context. The last type of fund-ing is the Arts Alive education grants, which provide support for the partnership between an artist or organization with the West-chester public school district for projects that offer students rich artistic learning experiences.

Applications for Arts Alive grants must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 via ArtsWestchester’s elec-tronic portal at artswestchester.culturegrants.org.

A series of free workshops are available in September through-out the county to assist people interested in applying for a grant. An ArtsWestchester representa-tive will be available to review the guidelines and applica-tions and to answer any related

questions.The workshop dates, times

and locations are:

• Sept. 8 at 5:30 p.m.: New Rochelle Library, 1 Library Pla-za, New Rochelle, N.Y., 10801

• Sept. 9 at 6 p.m.: YOHO Art-ist Studios, 578 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, N.Y., 10701

• Sept. 10 at 6 p.m.: ArtsWest-chester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, N.Y., 10601

• Sept. 16 at 5:30 p.m.: Miran-da Arts Project Space, 6 N. Pearl St., Port Chester, N.Y., 10573

• Sept. 17 at 6 p.m.: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, 1701 Main St., Peekskill, N.Y., 10566

RSVP for pre-application workshops by contacting Jaclyn Wing at 428-4220 ext. 316 or [email protected]. If you are unable to attend a ses-sion, one-on-one assistance is available by appointment.

Arts Alive Project Grants are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuo-mo and the NYS Legislature, and administered by ArtsWest-chester. (Submitted)

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A look at Purchase College’s Performing Arts Centerby MArA rupNers

Contributor

They say that everyone’s do-ing it.

The Bolshoi Ballet. The Met-ropolitan Opera. The Royal Shakespeare Company. Europe’s finest opera houses and the Na-tional Theatre.

No longer content to play to audiences limited by the size of the house and their proximity to the theater, performing arts venues of all shapes and sizes are utilizing technology to reach audiences throughout the world via live and captured live broad-casts that are digitally projected through spectacular, larger-than-life high definition screenings.

The various technologies re-quired to make this possible—satellites, hard drives, DVDs, digital recorders and projec-tors—have existed for some time. It was in the late ‘90s and early 2000s when filmmakers, distributors and consumer elec-tronics developers started putting it all together as a way to provide high-quality live and pre-record-ed alternative programming to mass audiences.

While there were many inno-vators working in the field, one particularly interesting charac-ter during these early days was Dr. Giovanni Cozzi. He founded Emerging Cinemas, and later Rising Alternative, which both quickly became leading inter-national distributors of digital content. Well ahead of his time, Cozzi was among the first to grasp the potential of utilizing digital technologies to create alternative experiences. One of his claims to fame is his 2003 live transmission of a total solar eclipse from Antarctica.

As with any new technology, quality and ease of use improve dramatically with each year. So is the case with digital record-ing and projection. We’ve come a long way in the relatively short time since the experiments by Cozzi and others, and it is no wonder the popularity of these HD broadcasts continues to rise.

We here at The Performing Arts Center know a good thing when we see it, and so we are jumping on the bandwagon to bring you “Cinema at The Cen-ter,” a season-long series featur-ing HD screenings of opera from Europe’s greatest concert halls brought to us by Rising Alterna-tives and theater’s hottest tickets recorded in London by National Theatre Live.

The series kicks off this month, and we hope you will come see for yourself how impressive this technology is. Here’s more about what you need to know.

We start with a National The-atre Live presentation. On Sept. 20 at 2 p.m., you can experience “Skylight,” Stephen Daldry’s acclaimed production of David Hare’s play, with Bill Nighy and Cary Mulligan reprising their Broadway and London West End roles as former lovers who at-

tempt to rekindle their once-pas-sionate relationship. Recorded live in July of this year, The Sun-day Mail hailed it as “scorching, a brilliant play.”

On Sept. 27 at 2 p.m., Bell-ini’s most famous opera, “Nor-ma,” fills the big screen for your enjoyment. It features a power-ful and vengeful classical hero-ine in a production directed by American stage director Kevin Newbury with conducting by Renato Palumbo. Soprano Son-dra Radvanovsky, singing in Italian (with English subtitles), plays the high priestess who breaks her vow of chastity. The opera was recorded at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in February 2015.

Tickets are $20, seating is general admission. Discounts are available for seniors, stu-dents, and for those who pur-chase tickets to three or more events. For more information, call the box office at 251-6200.

And sometime before this month’s screenings, I urge you to Google Dr. Cozzi to read more about him the other cutting-edge technologists who contributed mightily to making your upcom-ing experience at The Center something to remember.

See you in this same space next month for an insider’s look at our October performances.

Mara Rupners is the director of marketing at The

Performing Arts Center. The Performing Arts Center,

Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y.

10577 Box Office: 251-6200

Hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon to 6 p.m. and on weekends

before performances Website: artscenter.org

Mara Rupners


On Sept. 1, the Food Bank for Westchester joined with its partner agencies, govern-ment officials, supporters and staff to announce its “Go Or-ange to End Hunger” cam-paign, a major component of the food bank’s month-long calendar of activities designed to encourage people to take ac-tion against hunger during the month of September, Hunger Action Month.

During the campaign launch, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino announced that the county will help promote Hunger Action Month via West-chester County Center’s digital board to encourage people to text-to-donate to end hunger. Yonkers City Hall will also join the movement by turning its ex-terior lights orange and Empire City Casino will take action by turning its entrance canopy orange to raise awareness for the campaign. Additionally, students and staff from Clare-mont Elementary School will wear orange T-shirts during the

month to raise awareness. “Westchester County is proud

to support this great initiative,” Astorino said. “Hunger is not an issue that is always easily detected, which is why raising awareness is so critical. Contri-butions to the Food Bank will make a difference in the lives of so many, and will lead us one step closer to ensuring that no one in this county ever goes hungry. I encourage everyone to donate and to help spread the word via social media.”

The Food Bank, which is one of eight regional food banks in New York state in the Feeding America network, es-timates that one in five West-chester County residents—ap-proximately 200,000 people—are hungry or at-risk of being hungry.

“Hunger Action Month is dedicated to heightening awareness, rallying volunteers, rais-ing funds and driving solu-tions to end hunger across the country and here in Westches-ter. We are asking residents and

community leaders to join us in fighting hunger in our com-munity. We can all find a way to make a difference,” said Ellen Lynch, president and CEO of the Food Bank for Westchester.

Community members who would like to contribute to the campaign can participate in any of these initiatives:

• Donate to the cause by tex-ting FB4W to 88500.

• Post photos wearing or-ange clothing on the food bank Facebook page at facebook.com/foodbankforwestchester or tweet photos @FoodBank-forWest using hashtags #hun-geraction, #feedingamerica, #FB4W or #goorange.

• Change social media pro-files to orange for the month of September.

• Organize a food drive to benefit the Food Bank for West-chester

• Volunteer at the food bank’s warehouse

To learn more about Hunger Action Month, visit foodbank-forwestchester.org. (Submitted)

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Rosh Hashanah serviceThe Westchester Commu-

nity for Humanistic Judaism in-vites the community to a Jewish Humanist-inspired Rosh Hasha-nah service on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 6:45 p.m. at the Community Unitarian Church at 468 Rose-dale Ave. in White Plains. Rabbi Frank Tamburello will explore the theme “Letting go of judgments.”

The service will also feature mu-sic with professor Ruth Levy-Schudroff, the WCHJ choir and singer Michael Iannucci.

Admission is free, but dona-tions are welcome. Childcare is available for preschool-age children.

Contact Charlotte Klein at [email protected] or

218-8535 to make reservations. For more information, visit wchj.org or email [email protected].

The WCHJ usually meets at the Community Unitarian Church for holiday celebrations, Jewish events, educational programs, so-cial fellowship and Jewish educa-tion classes for children ages 6 to Bar/Bat mitzvah. (Submitted)

See Kevin James at SUNY PurchaseKevin James, producer, co-

writer and star of the hit com-edies “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Zookeeper” and the recently released “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” can also be seen in the up-coming ensemble sci-fi comedy “Pixels.”

James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being dis-covered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.

“The King of Queens,” which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James star-ring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Out-standing Lead Actor in a Com-edy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and worldwide.

In 2001, James brought his stand-up act to TV with “Sweat the Small Stuff,” a one-hour special for Comedy Central. In 2005, Kevin James and Ray Ro-mano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Spe-

cial “Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach,” a documen-tary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy.

James made his feature film debut in 2005 in Columbia Pic-tures’ “Hitch” starring oppo-site Will Smith. Since, James headlined “Here Comes The Boom,” and starred alongside Adam Sandler in “Grown Ups,” “Grown Ups 2” and “I Now Pro-nounce You Chuck and Larry.”

In addition to his on-camera work, James’ voice has been featured in the animated films “Barnyard” for Nick Movies,

as well as “Monster House,” “Hotel Transylvania” and its up-coming sequel for Sony Pictures Animation.

Presented by AM Produc-tions, Kevin James. will per-form on Friday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase.

Tickets are on sale now. To buy tickets, visit the Purchase Box Office at the PAC Tuesdays to Fridays from noon to 6 p.m. Visit artscenter.org for more in-formation by going to “Events” then “View All” or call 251-6200. (Submitted)


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Your outfit, thanks to fashion’s history

You get up in the morning and walk out the door clad in history. Every item you’re wearing owes a debt to the genius of yesteryear, just as surely as Elvis owes a debt to Muddy Waters, and vegans owe a debt to vegetarians.

The problem is that it’s hard to see how the flappers of the 1920s influenced the hippies of the ‘60s, who bequeathed us the skinny jeans of today, until you take a look at the sweep of fash-ion history. That’s exactly what Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl do in their new book “The History of Modern Fashion.”

“Fashion always interlocks with culture,” says Deihl, direc-tor of the MA program in cos-tume studies at New York Uni-versity. For instance, adds Cole, who also teaches fashion history at both NYU and the Fashion In-stitute of Technology, just look at the jeans you’re probably wear-ing right now. (I am!)

Denim is a uniform for many of us today, but was most likely first used in Europe as a boat covering, says Cole. The word denim comes from “de Nîmes” French for “from the town of Nîmes.”

It was those classy Italians in Genoa who turned the boat cloth into pants. The word “jeans” sounds like “Genes,” the French word for Genoa.

While Levi Strauss is often given credit for inventing the iconic pants—which it seems he didn’t—“He was still a ge-nius,” says Cole. That’s because Strauss realized jeans were the perfect thing to make and market in 1849 San Francisco, the epi-

center of the Gold Rush.The miners there spent a lot of

their time knee-deep in the river, panning for gold nuggets. The woolen pants they were wearing rotted when wet. Denim, a strong cotton weave, did not. It could handle mud, water and a lot of wear.

It still can. That’s one of the reasons jeans are still around. “You can buy Levis today that are essentially the same design as the 1850s,” says Cole. You can also buy jeans that are very different.

For their book, six years in the making, Cole and Deihl pored over images from every era. In a 1920s magazine they found an ad for denim gardening overalls in pastel colors for women. Bingo! That’s when denim leapt the gen-der barrier.

By the 1950s, movies starring brooding young men showed those men brooding in blue jeans. Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar named Desire” and James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause” wore jeans tighter than you’d want to wear if, say, you were panning for gold. But they were perfect for making audiences swoon.

Pretty soon if you wanted to look young and sexy, you were wearing jeans, rebelling against the establishment by refusing to wear neatly pressed pants or dresses. The first Gap store opened in 1969, its name a salute to the chasm between the gen-erations. Jeans were the Gap’s specialty.

By the disco era, the design-er world caught on and gave us jeans by Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt and Yves St. Laurent. Now jeans could be fancy.

Those who think deeper about fashion than the rest of us have realized clothes provide three

things: utility, status and seduc-tion. Jeans do all three. No won-der they’re still so popular.

But of course they’re not the only fashion item out there. The book takes readers on a beauti-fully documented romp from the 1850s through today, with stops at every decade, from the Gibson Girl to Kim Kardashian.

Each era introduced some new idea of beauty. In the early 1900s, says Deihl, the perfect figure was the hourglass, with a bust and butt almost cartoonishly “pil-lowy.” Garments were lined with padding and ruffles to make slim figures look full. As for legs, who cared? No one saw them.

Screeeeeeech! By the 1920s, the female ideal was the ex-act opposite: Flat flappers were dancing in knee-baring skirts. “Suddenly your legs were on dis-play,” says Deihl. “That was kind of traumatic for people.” Maybe not for the guys, but gals had to figure out how to display a body part they’d never bothered with.

It hasn’t gotten any easier. The ‘30s demanded curves again, and World War II give us broad-shouldered broads as they took on the jobs men left behind. The ‘50s saw a lot of matchy-matchy perfection and then came the ‘60s, as almost an echo of the ‘20s: another rebellion against the old guard, complete with even shorter skirts (and more leg for ladies to worry about presenting).

The hip-hop revolution of the ‘80s gave us track suits as fashion, major jewelry for men and our current obsession with sneakers.

Today, says Deihl, fashion is busy mining the past for the next big thing. Seems like it always has.


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just her. Although she may not be overweight, she sees herself as being heavier than she actu-ally is. Typically, women com-pare themselves to other wom-en who are younger or thinner, leaving them feeling insecure or inferior. She either hasn’t made peace with the natural changes of her body as she aged or has lost touch with how to dress to flatter her figure. Many women continue doing what used to work for them even though it no longer works.

She’s probably buying a lot on sale but not necessarily buying the right things. It sounds as if she could use a closet audit, which would be a great gift from you, and will benefit you both. You can contact me directly to arrange it, as I’d be happy to help.

Dear Tonia:How do I correctly choose the

right shoes for an outfit?M.R., Scarsdale

Dear M.R.:Anyone who knows me can

attest to the fact that I am shoe crazy and feel woman cannot own enough shoes. Selecting shoes for an outfit depends completely on the task at hand. A heel perfect for a lunch date could be entirely out of place in the office, so think about whom you want to impress. For work, strappy stilettos, sneakers and sandals must stay in the closet. The round toe, pointed toe, and peep toe are wonderful work options. Look

at the current trends with a timeless perspective. A heel is important but the height is not. Add a little punch by choosing a fun color or pattern. Unusu-al shades like emerald green, royal, or mustard will stand out and look great with floral, ani-mal prints, and color blocking. If you are a person who needs or loves height, platforms are a good option, but save them for the weekend.

Going out for the evening is a good time to splurge on fashion or a higher heel. Designers are putting chic platforms on stilet-tos to reach heights you desire without killing your arch. Foot problems are never in style and an awkward strut is worse.

For casual wear, skip the athletic shoes, unless you are actually going to exercise and opt for modern Keds or a bal-let shoe. Orthopedic ballet flats are a comfortable option for those who prioritize healthy feet. Ballet or flats will work with shorter skirts and dress-es. Straight leg jeans can work with heels, flats or boots. From work to play, step out of your style comfort zone and express your personality. Shoes should complement your clothing and your lifestyle.

Tonia Tagliaferro is a fashion stylist. For questions and advice, you can contact her at [email protected].

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Dear Tonia:Is it appropriate to wear jeans

to a 60th birthday party?S.K., Rye

Dear S.K.:While dress codes have

changed dramatically, jeans are the choice of dress today. What you wear depends on where it is, the time of day, and if it’s your birthday. Usually a formal invi-tation states the dress code. If it’s a house party, jeans are usually fine. Wear a nice shirt and shoes rather than sneakers, unless it’s a backyard party. If it’s your birthday, then do whatever you please, but be sure to tell your guests what to expect.

Dear Tonia:My girlfriend is a shopaholic

and has tons of clothes yet she always tells me she has noth-ing to wear. How is that pos-sible? When she finally decides on an outfit, she complains the entire night about not looking good and that she needs to lose weight. I don’t agree, as she is not overweight. What’s your take on it? I would like us both to enjoy our evening.

R.V., Larchmont

Dear R.V.:Your girlfriend shares the

same issues as countless women, so rest assured knowing it’s not

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Aside from the beginning of the sectional playoffs, there are few weekends on the scholastic football calendar that are as ea-gerly anticipated as Week 1. On Sept. 4, the 2015 Section I foot-ball season kicked off in earnest and after taking in a full slate of intriguing games, I simply can-not wait to see what happens this year.

Opening day is exciting in any sport, be it field hockey, soc-cer or lacrosse, but football, by virtue of condensing a section’s worth of games into just two days, is a unique beast. There are no staggered openings in football season, just wall-to-wall gridiron action for about 48 hours each weekend.

The fact that I can’t be every-where, I think, is what makes football season so much fun for

Hooray for opening dayme from a professional stand-point. While I stand on the side-lines, furiously tweeting updates from one game, I’m also check-ing social media for updates on the contests I can’t attend, and scouring the newsfeeds of stu-dents, parents and fellow jour-nalists just to find out what the heck is going on around Westchester.

And there’s always a lot going on during football season.

This past weekend was no dif-ferent. The opening game of the year saw an injury to an official delay the game for 25 minutes and a fourth quarter comeback in which the visiting team scored 21 points in just four minutes.

Rye traveled to Somers later that night, only to have an electri-cal malfunction darken the field in the third quarter, prompting a postponement until the follow-ing morning. New Rochelle and John Jay—perhaps the top two teams in Class AA—squared off in a knockdown drag-out fight

that ultimately went the Hugue-nots’ way after senior quarter-back Greg Powell found the rela-tively unknown wideout Rashon McNeil for a 51-yard score late in the fourth quarter.

Obviously that’s a lot to un-pack in just three games.

More important than last weekend’s results, however, are the storylines they have put in play for the rest of the year.

Can Rye’s T.J. Lavelle lead his team back to the Class A finals?

Can Eastchester continue to punish teams with its running attack?

Will the Huguenots once again be the team to beat in Class AA?

The wonderful thing about opening weekend is that it sim-ply poses these important ques-tions, setting the stage for the season to come. Now it’s up to each team to answer the call.

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Mamaroneck’s Peter Matt looks upfield against Mahopac on Sept. 4. The high school football season opened up last weekend with some intriguing matchups. Photo/Mike Smith

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Tigers clipped by Falconsby MiKe sMiTHSports Editor

The Tuckahoe Tigers faced a stiff test on Sept. 5 when they hosted the reigning Class C champion Woodlands in their season opener. Although Wood-lands triumphed 23-6, Tuckahoe coach Tom Itri saw enough posi-tives in his team’s performance to make him confident moving forward.

Woodlands made the most of their chances on Saturday, turn-ing two Tigers’ turnovers into points and widening the margin in what Itri felt was otherwise a competitive game. Although Falcons’ quarterback Amiri Bilal had an impressive outing, rack-ing up 185 yards in the air and on the ground, Tuckahoe’s de-fense stayed with the Falcons, allowing just two touchdowns when they weren’t defending a short field.

“We absolutely expected them to be explosive. Not only are they the defending Class C champs, but they’ve also been in the championship game the last three years,” Itri said. “But over-all, I think we matched up pretty well with them, closer than the

score would indicate.”Woodlands’ size and ath-

leticism on defense did present problems for the Tigers on the offensive end, however, because Tuckahoe struggled to move the chains for much of the game. Tuckahoe was able to gain some

momentum late in the first half when senior Chris Corrado took over quarterbacking duties from Matt Annunziata and marched the Tigers down the field cap-ping off the drive with an 18-yard touchdown pass to junior Jordan Lewis.

According to Itri, the Tigers have experimented with Corrado under center in certain packages during the preseason.

“We use Chris as a change-of-pace guy and we used him as the game dictated on Saturday,” Itri said. “Matt is great, but he’s a sophomore and he’s still learn-ing and I think the speed of the game got to him a little bit early on.”

With opening day behind them, the Tigers will look to bounce back against Haldane on Sept. 12. Like Tuckahoe, the Blue Devils are coming off a loss to a Class C powerhouse, having dropped their season opener to Dobbs Ferry 40-0. Haldane is the only Section I Class D oppo-nent Tuckahoe will face during the regular season and the two teams will meet in November for the Class D championship game.

“We have no easy games on the schedule,” Itri said. “But when you play for Tuckahoe you want to play in those big games. You don’t play in those games without playing the big teams.

“I expect us to bounce back this week, and have a great week of practice,” the coach added. “Right now, it’s all about Haldane.”


Chris Corrado scrambles behind the line on Sept. 5 against Woodlands. Corrado’s first-half touchdown pass to Jordan Lewis was Tuckahoe’s only score on the day.

Cameron Lee prepares to lay a hit on a Woodlands ballcarrier. Head coach Tom Itri said that Tuckahoe’s defense fared well against the explosive Falcons.

Justin Walker and Joshua Sanz team up for a hit. Photos/Mike Smith

Peter Gerken breaks up a pass attempt. On Sept. 5, Tuckahoe fell to Woodlands 23-6.

16 • THe eAsTCHesTer review • September 11, 2015 SPORTSEagles sack Huskies

by MiKe sMiTHSports Editor

On Sept. 4, Eastchester and Harrison kicked off the 2015 campaign, with both teams hop-ing to start the season on a posi-tive note. Thanks to a devastat-ing running game and a suffo-cating defense, however, it was the Eagles who emerged victo-rious with a 23-6 road win over the Huskies.

Week one victories have been hard to come by for Eastches-ter in recent years, explained head coach Fred DiCarlo, so the chance to take a game from the vaunted Huskies was a huge boost to Eagles.

“The last four years we haven’t won our first game, we’ve always been playing from behind,” DiCarlo said. “Harrison is Harrison, they’re a great program, so we wanted to

come out aggressively, and we did, and I think that set the tone for the game.”

Eastchester held a 13-6 ad-vantage over Harrison heading into the second half, but their ability to move the chains helped them to extend the lead in the third quarter.

Eastchester’s ground attack carved up the Harrison defense, as the Eagles rushed for 335 yards on 48 attempts. Quarter-back John Arcidiacono led the way with 212 yards and a score, while fullback John Guido con-tributed 98 yards and two scores in the winning effort.

“Our offensive line was out-standing tonight,” Arcidiacono said. “Every play, they came and fired off the ball and they gave us great holes to run through so we just did our job.”

The Eagles’ defensive unit also came up big, and did not allow a Harrison first down in the second half. Harrison’s lone score came on a long first-half pass from Mi-chael Nannariello to Zach Evans, but Eastchester was able to make some adjustments during halftime that paid off in spades.

“I think we settled in in the second half and I think we had our legs under us,” DiCarlo said about his defense. “We were spending a lot of energy on both sides of the ball. We have a lot of two-way players, so I was very happy with our effort today.”

The Huskies will look to re-bound from the loss on Sept. 11 when they host Ossining at 7 p.m. Ossining won their sea-son-opener, downing Horace

Greeley 40-23 thanks to an 82-yard, two-touchdown perfor-mance by senior running back Kyle Cristello.

Meanwhile, the Eagles will

tangle with Brewster, who scored a one-sided 45-20 victory over Hendrick Hudson last week.

“To come out and get this win was really big for us,” Arcidi-

acono said. “Now we just want to carry that momentum into our next game against Brewster.”


Eastchester quarterback John Arcidiacono dives ahead for an extra yard against Harrison on Sept. 4. Arcidiacono rushed for 212 yards and a touchdown in an Eagles’ win.

Harrison’s Antonio Correia takes on an Eastchester tackler. Photos/Bobby Begun

Eastchester fullback John Guido finds the end zone on Sept. 4 for his second score of the game. Eastchester tallied 335 yards on the ground against Harrison.

Huskies’ quarterback Michael Nannariello finds some daylight against Eastchester at Harrison High School. Nannariello’s first-half touchdown pass to Zach Evans was Harrison’s lone score of the game.

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