september 2, 2011

By David J. [email protected]

The North Shore of Long Island cherishes the sum-mer days as they dwindle toward the end of August, so to have a weekend stolen by a hurricane is a crime.

August 27th and 28th will go down in history as Hurricane Irene smacked the North Shore leaving fl ooded basements, fallen trees and down wires in its wake. However, many consider themselves lucky, despite lengthy power out-ages, because the truth is…it could have been worse.

Red Cross to the rescue

The American Red Cross

of Nassau County opened 20 shelters in Nassau Coun-ty providing a safe haven for over 1,000 residents. The closest shelters to the Guardian coverage area were Locust Valley Middle/High School hosting 55 people and C.W. Post Cam-pus in Brookville hosting 87 people.

Sam Kille, Regional Com-munications Director for the American Red Cross of Nas-sau County, felt the massive amount of planning helped them properly prepare for handling the storm.

“If we hadn’t done so much planning for an event like this it could have been more diffi cult. A lot of peo-

ple paid attention to thisstorm. They took it serious-ly,” he said. “Some people say we dodged a bullet, I say we were just prepared. Preparedness always makes it less of disaster.”

A mandatory evacuation was called for the eastern end of Bayville. The mediastressed the importance of taking evacuations seri-ously. People might not re-alize all the reasons behindthe decision to evacuate and they are hesitant to leave their homes.

“It’s about having acces-sibility to an area for fi rstresponders to get in and provide services,” said Kille. “If someone has a heart at-tack in a mandatory evacu-ation zone there’s going tobe no way for an ambulance to come help them. This is why it’s important to heed any kind of warning from government.”

In 2011 it seems people are paying more attention to hurricane details and uti-lizing the safety tips beingoffered.

“Hurricane Katrina was a huge wake up call for Amer-icans. We started taking ahard look at how preparedwe are. We really enhanced our ability to respond to di-sasters,” said Kille. “We’ve done a lot to make the pub-lic aware plus all the tech-nology with Facebook and

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Oyster Festival fever begins in the hamletBy David J. [email protected]

You won’t fi nd a kitchen sink on display at the Oyster Bay Rotary’s annual Oyster Festival, but you’ll fi nd just about everything else — tall ships, live music, an arts and crafts market, carnival rides and games, oyster eating and shucking contests, pirate encampment and a massive food court.

The festival, now in its 28th year, will be held October 15th and 16th from 11 AM to 6 PM in Theodore Roosevelt Memo-rial Park extending to the Western Waterfront, Firemen’s Field and Audrey and Shore Avenues in the

hamlet of Oyster Bay. “American Idol” top 40 contes-

tant, Jerome Bell — who will per-form at the festival — kicked off an August 25th press conference promoting the event with a rous-ing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

A band of brigands known as the Kings of the Coast jumped in to announce that they will be invading the festival in search of treasures with a little help from children of all ages.

Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who serves as hon-orary co-chair, noted, “When you have an event of this magnitude, the amount of preparation that

goes into it is immeasurable. It’s important that we recognize and thank the organizers and spon-sors. The effort and time that it takes to make the Oyster Fest hap-pen is incredible and it comes off without a snafu every year.”

State Senator Carl Marcellino, also an honorary co-chair, recalled the days when the festival began and it only took up a couple of streets. “The festival has grown in size and popularity. It’s been bet-ter each and every year and the community has benefi tted from the exposure,” he said.

Venditto and Marcellino cer-emonially opened the 2011 Oys-

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Irene leaves behind toppled trees, fl oods, and power outages

Nanny can’t save child in backyard drowning

Three-year-old Ava Goddarddrowned in her family’s backyard swimming pool shortly beforenoon in Brookville on Monday,August 29th.

Her parents were not at homeand her nanny was clearing debris left in the yard of the Beech TreeLane home by Hurricane Irenewith the girl’s six-year-old brother.

When the boy saw his sister in the pool, he alerted the nanny, but she couldn’t swim.

The 57-year-old Russian wom-an entered the pool and nearlydrowned herself as she tried to rescue the child. Then she tried unsuccessfully to grab hold of the girl from outside the pool.

Finally, she then went to the

It was bad, but could have been worse

Jane Morfi s obeys the speed limit as she rows with 12-year-old granddaughter Dayna down Creek Road, which was overtaken by water during high tide in Bayville.

Whipped by Hurricane Irene, Long Island Sound surged over the sea wall and tossed aside barricades on Ransom Beach in Bayville Sunday morning.

Photos by David J. Criblez

Above, on Fieldstone Lane in Oyster Bay Cove a tree sliced through the roof of a home on Sunday, August 28th.

Photos by Pat Strassberg

Crimestoppers in BayvilleOn Tuesday, August 30th CBS shot scenes for “Person of Interest,” a new TV crime drama, at Mohring Bay Court on Merritt Lane in Bayville, above. The show, in which a presumed dead former-CIA agent teams up with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes, stars Jim Caviezel, on left in right photo, and Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson. It premieres on Thursday, Sept. 22nd at 9 PM.


More storm photos, page 6

Arrgh, the Kings of the Coast invaded the press conference announcing the 28th annual Oyster Festival — yes, they’ll be there.

Photo by David J. Criblez

- OYSTER BAY GUARDIAN - Friday, September 2, 2011

By David J. [email protected]

The Town of Oyster Bay Landmarks Preservation Commission held a fi nal hearing on Wednesday, August 24th to consider recommending landmark status for the former Maine Main Inn in Jericho to the Oyster Bay Town Board.

The Maine Maid Inn in Jericho was built in 1789 and is situated in the 22-acre Jericho Preserve. The building and property has historical signifi cance for being a stop on the Un-derground Railroad where Quakers were said to help hide escaped slaves in the 1800s. It was also the home of Valentine and Abigail Hicks, the Quakers who founded Jericho. Valentine, as president of the Long Is-land Rail Road, was instru-mental in bringing the rail service to the area.

Matthew Meng, Presi-dent of the East Norwich Civic Association and mem-ber of Citizens for History, stood before the board to express his feelings on why the Maine Maid Inn has enough historical and ar-chitectural signifi cance to be recommended as a land-mark to the Town Board.

Holding up a map of Old Jericho, Meng stressed, “All of these homes still exist in the Jericho Preserve. Sim-ply put the Maine Maid Inn is the center of all of this. It’s the last key piece to be recognized as a landmark.”

The Maine Maid Inn had a multitude of uses throughout its history. It was a home, restaurant, do-mestic inn, tavern, way sta-tion providing lodging and meals, post offi ce, church and Quaker meeting house. “In total, I think there is all good reason to preserve this building,” said Meng.

Meng also expressed sup-port from the Cedar Swamp Historical Society, Birch-wood Civic Association and Northside Civic Association via letters. He also noted that he has been speaking with the bank that might receive the property in fore-closure in Charlotte, SC as well as the property owner.

“They have not embraced landmarking yet but in time if they see enough com-munity support they might have a change of heart,” said Meng.

Several individuals from various organizations came forward to express their support for the Maine Maid Inn being recommend-ed for landmark status.

Thomas Abby, Clerk of the Jericho Quakers, stated, “We are not a historical soci-ety, we are a religious group but we have a keen interest in this matter. The Quak-ers have stood for religious freedom and the freedom of black slaves. We actively endorse the landmarking of the Maine Maid Inn and we look forward to participat-ing in its resurrection one way or another.”

Robert B. MacKay, Di-rector of Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, hole-heartily endorsed the application. “This is a building that tells so many stories. Its history is extraordinary and I don’t

know why we missed it years ago,” he said. “It real-ly deserves Town of Oyster Bay Landmark status.”

Joseph Lawrence, Presi-dent of Oakwood Princeton Park Civic Association and President of Jericho Board of Education, recalled ac-companying his daughters on a grade school fi eld trip to the Maine Maid Inn.

“My kids were fascinated by its history and the pro-prietors were proud of that history. It was an amazing adventure for them,” he said. “Historical signifi cance is hard to come by. We’d like to see our history preserved. There’s very little of it left. We urge that you strongly

consider landmarking it.”David Huschle, former

proprietor of the Maine Maid Inn, noted, “My heart and soul is in that building. If we can put a man on the moon, we can fi nd a good user for that property. I’d be happy to assist in any way I can.”

Oyster Bay resident Bar-bara Sullivan Parry said, “The Valentine Hicks house became one of the way sta-tions on the Underground Railroad and gave freedom to these innocent people whose parents and grand-parents had been enslaved,” she said. “It is so meaning-ful to me. It’s something that we as a society need to

cherish.”Barbara Meli, a Quaker,

stated, “There was a Quaker village but that is no more.Don’t let us lose anotherpart of our history – it isimportant to us. There’s not much left of Quaker Jeri-cho. Help us retain what is still available,” she said.

After hearing multiple testimonies, the Commis-sion voted unanimously (5-0) to recommend landmarkstatus for the Maine Main Inn. The room was instantlyfi lled with claps and cheers. From here the Town Board will hold an offi cial designa-tion hearing in 90 days fol-lowed by a fi nal vote on the landmark status.

Matthew Meng, President of the East Norwich Civic Asso-ciation and member of Citizens for History, presented the case on behalf of the Maine Maid Inn. Photo by David J. Criblez

Photos by Pat Strassberg

‘Pains’ in GCOn Tuesday, August 30th USA Network’s hit dram-edy, “Royal Pains” took over Morgan Park in Glen Cove turning it into a mu-sic festival featuring the band, Some Pig. (Pictured above from left) Mark Feuerstein as Dr. Hank Lawson treats an injured lead musician in episode 3012 “Some Pig” to air this winter. (Pictured right from left) Mark Feuerstein as Dr. Hank Lawson and Reshma Shetty as Divya Katdare study their script for the next scene.

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi will introduce their new ensemble, Tedeschi Trucks Band, to fans on Long Island when they perform Friday, October 14th at Long Island University’s Tilles Center on C.W. Post campus in Brookville, at 8 PM.

As husband-wife couples go in the world of music, it is a challenge to fi nd a duo as well-fi tted and naturally pro-lifi c as that of singer/guitar-ist Susan Tedeschi and gui-tarist Derek Trucks. They are both heavily steeped in the blues tradition, yet open to far-ranging infl uences in-cluding rock, gospel, jazz and world music. Tedeschi and Trucks have each shared stages with legends includ-ing Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, Herbie Han-cock and Buddy Guy, and they often perform together with the Allman Brothers Band – which Trucks joined full time in 1999. Last year they each received Grammy nominations in the catego-ry of “Best Contemporary Blues Album” for their 2009 albums, Tedeschi for Back To The River and Trucks for Al-ready Free (which he won).

Now the couple has joined forces as a true mu-sical family, writing and re-cording with their new 11 piece band, Tedeschi Trucks

Band. The group just re-leased Revelator, an album Rolling Stone describes as a “masterpiece” that echoes so many great traditions— Delta blues and Memphis soul, Sixties rock and Sev-enties funk—blended with an entirely original, modern sensibility.

Recognized for their leg-endary live performances, Tedeschi Trucks Band has been headlining shows in the U.S., Australia and Eu-rope this year behind the new album.

The group features sing-ers Mike Mattison and Mark

Rivers, bassist Oteil Bur-bridge, keyboardist/fl utist Kofi Burbridge, drummers J. J. Johnson and TylerGreenwell, plus trumpeter Maurice Brown, tenor saxo-phonist Kebbi Williams, and trombonist Saunders Ser-mons.

Tickets for the October 14th show at the Tilles Cen-ter go on sale today Friday, September 2nd at 10 AM.

Tickets are $39.50, $55, $75 (includes $2 facil-ity fee) available online at: www.ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks will bring their new en-semble, Tedeschi Trucks Band, to Tilles Center in Brookvilleon Friday, October 14th.

Sculping without powerDue to the power outage experienced in the hamlet this week from Hurricane Irene, Teaching Studios of Art in Oyster Bay’s instructor Lori Shorin (far left) moved her Écorché Class outdoors to the Derby/Hall Memorial Bandstand on Tuesday, August 30th. The class was focusing on sculpting the muscles and bones of the human anatomy. Last week the class was interrupted by an earthquake. What’s next?

Nassau County Legislator Judy Ja-cobs (D-Woodbury) attended a Build-ing Bridges Charity Event dance re-cital on Thursday, August 25th, held at the Oyster Bay Manor, located at 150 South Street in Oyster Bay. Ales-sandra Martorella, a third grader, de-veloped the program called Building Bridges after losing both her grand-fathers within 3 weeks and never had met her grandmother. She stated that this program focuses on senior with all disabilities and, in particu-lar, those with cancer. Martorella said, “I just want to make people happy and occasionally give them a good laugh.” Legislator Jacobs, who thoroughly enjoyed the dance recital, said, “This was just a delight. Seeing the smiles on both the seniors’ faces and the children’s faces warmed my heart. I felt enriched by having had the opportunity to see this.” Pictured right with Legislator Jacobs (right) is Alessandra Martorella, creator of the “Building Bridges” charitable en-deavor and a resident of Oyster Bay Manor.

Maine Maid Inn recommended for landmark status

The Town of Oyster Bay Landmarks Preservation Commission recommended landmarkstatus for the former Maine Main Inn in Jericho.

Tedeschi Trucks Band coming to Tilles

Jacobs builds bridges in OB

The Nassau County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, opening September 17th, will feature an early fi rst edition of Los Ca-prichos, a set of 80 etchings by Spanish art-ist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes that was published in 1799. It is regarded as one of the most infl uential series of graphic images in the history of Western art. The Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos exhibit was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Ange-les, CA, in association with Denenberg Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA.

“Capricho” can be translated as a whim, a fantasy or an expression of imagination. In Goya’s use of the term, the meaning deepens, binding an ironical layer of humor over one of the most profound indictments of human vice ever set on paper.

Enigmatic and controversial, Los Ca-prichos was created in a time of social re-pression and economic crisis in Spain. In-fl uenced by Enlightenment thinking, Goya set out to analyze the human condition and denounce social abuses and superstitions. Los Caprichos was his passionate declara-tion that the chains of social backward-ness had to be broken if humanity was to advance. The series attests to the artist’s political liberalism and to his revulsion at ignorance and intellectual oppression, mir-roring his ambivalence toward authority and the church. Los Caprichos deals with personages populate a world on the mar-gins of reason, where no clear boundaries distinguish reality from fantasy.

In his essay accompanying the exhibition, Robert Flynn Johnson, curator in charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, states: “Francisco Goya should be seen as the fi rst modern artist--he chose to go beyond de-pictions of religion, mythology, and history, and even beyond observation of the visible world, turning instead toward the psycho-logical demons that have always inhabited men’s souls. Until Goya, these demons had rarely been made artistically visible--Goya had the courage and the genius to depict them. Los Caprichos stands as the greatest single work of art created in Spain since the writings of Cervantes and the paintings of Velázquez over one hundred fi fty years ear-

lier.”Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos opens at

Nassau County Museum of Art on Satur-day, September 17th and remains on view through Sunday, November 27th. The mu-seum is offering several programs that will serve to enhance the viewer’s appreciation of the exhibition. Among these are daily screenings of “Goya: Crazy Like a Genius,” a fi lm written by the prominent art com-mentator Robert Hughes, and lunchtime lectures followed by tours of the exhibition on October 13th and November 17th. For details, visit the museum’s website, nassau-museum.org/events.

Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffi c lights west of Glen Cove Road) in Roslyn Harbor. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For more information, call (516) 484-9337 or log onto: www.nassau-museum.org.

Renowned contemporary American artist Barbara Ernst Prey of Oyster Bay and curator Charles A. Riley II will discuss Prey’s 9/11 paintings, “A Response Re-visited: Remembering 9/11 Through Art” on Wednes-day, September 7th at The Princeton Club in New York City.

Prey and arts journal-ist, curator, and professor Charles Riley originally collaborated on the 2002 exhibition, “A Trace in the Mind: An Artist’s Response to 9/11.” Now, they revisit that body of work, looking through art on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Both Riley and Prey, who grew up on Long Island in the same town that lost 45 in the attacks, had friends and acquaintances who were killed.

As one of the key fi gures in 21st century landscape painting, Prey was recently appointed by the President of the United States to serve on the National Council on

the Arts, the advisory board to the National Endowment for the Arts. Members are chosen for their established record of distinguished ser-vice and achievement in the arts. Previous members in-clude noted artists Leonard Bernstein, John Steinbeck, Richard Diebenkorn and Isaac Stern.

Prey is currently featured in “The Artist’s Role in the Community: Six Perspec-tives,” a fi lm by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her paintings are in promi-nent collections around the world including The White House, The Brooklyn Muse-um, The Smithsonian Amer-ican Art Museum, Williams College Museum of Art and the Kennedy Space Center. She was invited to paint the offi cial White House Christ-mas card by the President and First Lady, which is now part of the White House permanent collection. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. invited Prey to lecture on “The Wa-

tercolors of Winslow Hom-er” for the Museum’s Homer exhibit and at the Corco-ran Gallery of Art for their John Singer Sargent exhibit, which testifi es to the central position her work plays in the continuing history of American Art.

Prey was recently hon-ored with a major retrospec-tive exhibit in Paris. Her painting of “Patriot” from her 9/11 series is on exhibit in over 100 U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. In addition, Prey’s NASA commissioned painting of the x-43, the fastest aircraft in the world, is included in NASA’s traveling exhibit, “NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration,” which cel-ebrates NASA’s 50th anni-versary. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Air and Space Museum, this national trav-eling exhibit is currently on exhibit at the Smithson-ian National Air and Space Museum through October 2011. Prey was recently fea-

tured on The CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning and BBC Worldwide.

Prey graduated from Wil-liams College where she studied with Lane Faison and has a masters from Harvard University where she was able to continue her art history studies. She was awarded a Fulbright Schol-arship and a Henry Luce Foundation grant for her work, which enabled her to travel, study and exhibit extensively in Europe and Asia. She is an art blogger for The Huffi ngton Post and will be the Heckscher Muse-um 2011 Gala Honoree this fall. The event is sponsored by The Williams Club and takes place at The Princeton Club.

Additional information regarding Barbara Ernst Prey, visit: www.barbara-prey.com. For additional in-formation about the lecture and reservations, call (212) 697-5300 ext. 226 or email: [email protected] for reservations.

“Patriot” by Barbara Ernst Prey, 21” x 27”, watercolor, ispart of her 9/11 series.

Francisco José de Goya’s etching, “You Will Not Escape” (Caprichos No. 72: No te escaparas), 1796-97.

Locust Valley Fire De-partment will host a pasta dinner benefi t on Saturday, October 1st from 4 to 8 PM at the fi rehouse, located at 228 Buckram Road, with the proceeds going toward Operation Wounded Warrior (OWW).

OWW is a non-profi t orga-nization formed by members of Nassau County Fire Depart-ments to raise money to pur-

chase therapeutic equipment for injured troops at the Wal-ter Reed Army and Bethesda Naval hospitals in Wash-ington, DC as well as Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg.

Special guests this year will include Purple Heart recipients visiting from vari-ous states and from through-out New York. Come out and thank them for their service and the sacrifi ces they made

for our country.Admission to dinner is

$10 for adults and children (under 12) are free. The fee includes entry into drawing for door prizes including a large fl at screen TV.

For more information on the OWW fundraiser, call (516) 676-5104 or e-mail: [email protected]. To fi nd out more about OWW, visit: www.ncff-oww.com.

On August 8th, an Inven-tory and Monitoring Pro-gram team led by Northeast Coastal and Barrier Net-work Biologist Erika Paten-aude was at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Cove Neck to continue col-lection of long-term moni-toring data.

The team, which fi rst came to Sagamore Hill in 2009, is composed of Na-tional Park Service employ-ees specializing in biol-ogy. The goal of long-term monitoring is to provide resource managers with information on the status of park resources so that management decisions can be made. This salt marsh monitoring program has been implemented at sev-eral other coastal parks in

addition to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, in-cluding Fire Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Cape Cod National Seashore, Co-lonial National Historical Park, George Washington Birthplace National Monu-ment, and Sandy Hook, a unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.

The biologists use GPS and GIS technology to lo-cate sampling points within the marsh. For vegetation, they identify and estimate the percent cover of each species within a 1m2 plot. Vegetation data is collected once in late summer. The team also monitors nekton, which are free swimming fi sh and crustaceans. Nek-ton captured in Eel Creek

are counted, measured, and identifi ed to species. Nek-ton data collection occurs twice during the summer.

Monitoring data will continue to be collected at Sagamore Hill on a biennial basis. Data are summarized in a brief report at the end of each monitoring year. A more detailed report look-ing at long-term trends in the vegetation and nekton communities will be pro-duced after several years of data have been collected. For more information about the program, visit: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/ncbn/monitoring.aspx

For further information about Sagamore Hill Na-tional Historic Site, visit:www.nps.gov/sahi or call (516) 922-4788.

Prey to discuss 9/11 themed paintings

LV Fire Department to host benefi t for OWW

Salt marsh monitoring to reveal changes in fi sh, vegetation at Sagamore Hill

(From left) Erica Brown and Erika Pat-enaude in the fi elds at Sagamore Hill.

Francisco Goya exhibit to open at NCMA

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Giving citizen of L.I.

To the Editor:As a Long Islander for 80-

plus years, resident of north Oyster Bay for nearly 40 years, business manager for three major companies and neighbor of Charles Wang since 1999, it upsets me that a resident of Nassau County paid for a full page ad in the Guardian to insult one of the most giving citizens of Long Island.

I suggest that this in-dividual write a check to the “Smile Train,” founded by Charles Wang in 1999, and which has provided 650,000 free cleft surgeries to mostly children since that time. Mr. Wang founded CA Technologies, which has been recognized as one of the “Best of the Best” em-ployers to work for on Long Island, provided free trans-portation to CA’s offi ce in Islandia for those employ-ees retained as part of the purchase of Cheyenne Soft-ware in Roslyn, and was one of the fi rst major employers to provide childcare facili-ties for his employees so that parents can work with peace of mind regarding the welfare of their children.

Mr. Wang has previously funded new ballfi elds in

Muttontown for St. Domi-nic schools in Oyster Bay and has donated millions to fund the East/West Pavilion Communications Center at business district by con-tributing to a variety of lo-cal organizations. And, he previously purchased the NY Islanders for $180 mil-lion with an operating loss believed to be nearly $200 million since that time.

In my opinion, if Mr. Wang gave anyone the team (as was suggested in the ad), neither the person tak-ing out the ad nor anyone else could support it, result-ing in the loss of still more jobs.

As a Long Islander, by his actions, and his business ex-pertise, Charles Wang will continue to do the right thing for Long Island.

BOB MARTINOYSTER BAY

Bring it to Bayville

To the Editor:Regarding the cell an-

tenna in East Norwich, may I suggest putting it on top of the water tower in Bayville. We still have space between the 50 odd cell antennas that are already located

there. You will have noproblems with the villageadministration that thinks that there is never too manycell towers in the village.

As far as being a dangerto the children being ex-posed for “3 hours”; that will not be a problem, since our towers are 50 ft awayfrom a full time school insession for 7 hours and theschool administrators arenot concerned with the pos-sible dangers, despite thecancer cases among somestaff and the many parentswho are opting to send theirchildren to St Dominic’s.

As far as the real estate values being affected, thevillage of Bayville couldcare less as long as the tow-ers are not affecting thevalues of their homes. Sodon’t try to fi ght Verizon,(we tried) you don’t haveenough money.

TOM HOYBAYVILLE

A.K.A “CELLVILLE”

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OPINIONEDITORIAL

Albany: reconvene now on redistricting

Back in July, we praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker

Sheldon Silver for completing so much important work in the last legislative ses-sion. In a civics-lesson-worthy show of lead-ership, these men — and most members of the Legislature — acted boldly on contro-versial matters and achieved resolutions that were in the interests of the people of the state.

Examples of their accom-plishments (though some remain controversial) in-clude an early passage of a balanced budget; marriage-equality legislation; a 2 per-cent limit on school districts’ and municipalities’ tax levy increases; an expansion of rent-control laws; ethics re-form; mandate relief; the NYSUNY 2020 plan and the Power NY Act.

No one can deny that — unlike other years — the leaders took action and the legislative process functioned effectively.

With one exception: redistricting.Every 10 years, the boundaries of state

legislative and congressional districts must be redrawn to refl ect population changes that occurred during the last decade as re-vealed by the census, so that each district has about the same number of people. At-tention is paid to the one-person-one-vote Constitutional mandate and to the Voting Rights Act so that the rights of minorities are protected. The process is called reapportion-ment, or redistricting.

Under the current system, the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment provides the Legislature with a redistricting plan. The task force con-sists of six members, four of whom are leg-islators and two who are not. It is now hold-ing hearings around the state — in Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Westchester, the fi ve boroughs of New York City and, in October, Long Island — so the public can hear how the new maps are being developed and offer its input.

But the remapping system was long ago manipulated into an incumbent-protection system. Instead of changing the district lines to refl ect population shifts, lines are redrawn to help keep politicians in their jobs in spite of population changes.

Since 1999, incumbents in the State Leg-islature have enjoyed a 96 percent re-elec-tion rate. Except for two years, the Senate has had a Republican majority since 1965. The Assembly has been in Democratic hands since 1974. Waves of immigrants have come to neighborhoods in New York, left for other neighborhoods, been replaced by others, but incumbents remain. Sons and daughters of Long Island homeowners have left the state in search of affordable living, but incumbents remain. Retirees who have lived in New York

for decades have moved to Southern states, replaced by new homeowners from the city and from nearby states and other countries, but incumbents remain.

Gerrymandering — the reconfi guration of district boundaries for partisan gain, no mat-ter how twisted and tentacled the new dis-trict’s shape — reigns, so incumbent remain.

All parties in Albany proclaimed enthusi-astic support for redistricting reform during the last election. To get it done, Cuomo in-

troduced legislation in Feb-ruary that would create a bipartisan commission to en-sure “independence, trans-parency and a commitment to fair representation and equality,” he said. His bill has gone nowhere.

Time is of the essence. The state has 45 days after the September 2012 primaries, when the general-election ballot is created, to mail out absentee ballots to members of the armed services and others. Primaries can’t be

contested until candidates know their district lines, and whom they’re seeking to represent.

Republicans, who signed former New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s NY Uprising pledge to vote in favor of reforming the reapportion-ment system, rejected the independent com-mission plan and sought a state constitution-al amendment instead, saying their solution would offer a permanent fi x. But the con-stitutional amendment process requires ap-proval from two consecutive legislatures as well as by the electorate. That couldn’t hap-pen until at least 2013, meaning no change for the 2012 election and no change until at least the next remapping after the 2020 cen-sus. So incumbents remain.

Democracy’s purists, and some sincere elected public servants, say there’s nothing wrong with having the redistricting process infl uenced by political horse-trading, and that real democracy is all about deals and quid pro quos that end up serving the inter-ests of constituents. They say that removing politics from what is a political process and creating a system that ignores the essentially political nature of representation denies the electorate the power to have the people they voted for continue to represent their inter-ests, including in the reapportionment pro-cess. Maybe people keep getting re-elected because they’re doing a good job.

That sounds fi ne, except that a 96 percent re-election rate defi es common sense. The point of democracy is to make sovereign the people’s will, not to make sure incumbents keep their jobs.

For Fortress Incumbent to be stormed, we urge all citizens to demand that the Assem-bly and Senate return to Albany and create that independent commission now, even if some want to simultaneously work toward an amendment. There’s no good reason we can’t do both.

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Hempstead man caught in Oyster Bay

The Second Squad re-ports the arrest of a Hemp-stead man on Monday, Au-gust 29th at 1 AM in Oyster Bay.

According to detectives, a Second Precinct police offi cer observed the defen-dant, Brandon Pasker, 21, of Hempstead operating a 2010 Chevy Equinox northbound in the southbound lanes of Rte 106/107 in Hicksville. The police offi cer attempted to stop the vehicle when the defendant’s vehicle struck a 2001 Acura in the vicin-ity of North Broadway and Jericho Turnpike Jericho. The defendant exited his vehicle and aggressively ap-proached the offi cer while disobeying his commands.

A violent physical alter-cation ensued and the de-fendant attempted to gain control of the police vehicle. The altercation continued as an additional Second Precinct offi cer arrived. Both offi cers struggled with the defendant however he was able to fl ee the scene in a marked police vehicle northbound on Rte 106.

The vehicle was then ob-served by two responding Second Precinct offi cers as well as a Muttontown po-lice offi cer who then pur-sued the vehicle to Theo-dore Roosevelt Park on Bay Avenue in Oyster Bay. The offi cers were able to stop the vehicle and as they ap-proached, it reversed at a high rate of speed. The de-fendant then placed the ve-hicle into drive and attempt-ed to run down the offi cers who were forced to dis-charge their weapons. The vehicle continued but even-tually came to a stop and the defendant was placed into custody. Three police offi cers were removed to a local hospital, treated and released. Two persons in the Acura were removed to a local hospital for minor injuries. The defendant was also removed to a local hos-pital where he was admitted with non-life threatening gunshot wounds.

The defendant Brandon Pasker is being charged with Attempted Murder 1st Degree (2 Counts), Robbery 2nd Degree, At-tempted Robbery 2nd De-gree, Assault 2nd Degree (2 Counts), Criminal Mischief 2nd Degree, VTL: Leaving the Scene of an Accident with Personal Injury, Driv-

ing While Intoxicated and Leaving the Scene of An In-cident Without Reporting. Pasker will be arraigned as soon as practical.

Wednesday, September 7th

■ Nassau County will host a Remembrance Cer-emony honoring the 10th anniversary of the Sep-tember 11, 2001 at Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park at 7 PM.

Friday, September 9th

■ Teaching Studios of Art inaugural Plein Air Competition at Sagamore Hill 10 AM-5 PM. Entry is by application only and is limited to a selection of 35 artists. For more informa-tion, visit: http://www.teachingstudios.com/php/events/tsa-sagamore.php. Also Saturday, Sept. 10th.

■ The Town of Oyster Bay will hold its annual 9-11 Memorial Ceremony to honor the memory of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001 at TOBAY Beach at 7 PM.

■ “Long Island Fringe Festival: Fringe Force 3” at C.W. Post Campus in Brookville featuring art, dance, music, poetry, theater, fi lm and more. Also Sept. 10th & 11th. Tickets: $25 for the entire weekend. Discounted tickets of $20 are available for Arts Coun-cil Friends and Affi liates (tickets must be purchased through the Arts Council). To purchase tickets, call (516) 223-2522, ext. 11 or email: [email protected]. For a complete sched-ule of events, visit www.longislandfringefestival.weebly.com.

Saturday, September 10th

■ State Senator Carl L. Marcellino will commemo-rate the 10th Anniversary of September 11th with a ceremony at the Western Waterfront 9/11 Memo-rial, located at West End Avenue in Oyster Bay at 10 AM. For more information, visit: www.senatormarcel-lino.com.

■ The Mill River Rod & Gun Club will hold its 12th annual Pat & Jimmy Carroll Children’s Snapper Derby at the West Harbor docks at West Harbor Beach in Bayville from 10:30 AM- Noon. Fishing poles and bait will be provided or participants can bring their own. Prizes and lunch will follow at the Mill River Rod & Gun Club, located on West Harbor Drive in Bayville. For more information, call (516) 628-9643.

■ Family Bike-A-Thon at West Harbor Beach in Bayville (over the bridge and make a right) at 10 AM. For more information, or register, call Donna at Bayville Village Hall at 628-1439, ext. 16.

■ The 53rd annual Frank Russo Memorial Chicken BBQ, sponsored by the Community United Methodist Church of East Norwich, will be held on the church grounds, located at located at 1300 Jericho-Oyster Bay Road, from 4 to 7 PM. Dinners are $12 per adult and $7 per child. Take-out, baked goods and White

Elephant sale will be avail-able. For more information, call (516) 922-0133.

■ The Oak Neck Ath-letic Council will hold its annual Old Fashioned Clambake on the bay side of Centre Island Beach in Bayville from 7-11 PM. The event will include a lobster dinner, live music and more. Tickets are $75 per person and can be obtained by calling Nancy Staab at (516) 628-0301. For info., visit: www.oakneckfalcons.org.

Saturday, September 17th

■ Beach/Bay Clean-Up (via Town of Oyster Bay, Friends of the Bay and the Power Squadron). TR Park boat ramps at 8:30 AM.

■ The 59th annual St John’s of Lattingtown’s Fall Fair from10 AM-4 PM. This year’s event will have a Pirates of the Caribbean theme. Rain or shine. $5 for regular admission at 10 AM, $20 for 9:15 AM preview and free for children under 12. St John’s of Lattingtown is located on the corner of Lattingtown, Old Tappan and Overlook Roads in Locust Valley. For further informa-tion, call (516) 671-3226.

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Bayville escapes excessive damage

The Incorporated Village of

Bayville has a long history for get-ting hit hard in hurricanes and nor’easters. While Bayville expe-rienced fl ooding, power outages, several fallen trees and down wires, the village pulled through without excessive damage.

“The rain and the wind was a lot less than we feared. The Sat-urday night tide was lower than problematic so that was good. Sunday morning’s tide was not a problem but because there was a south wind it pushed the tide in the bay and that cause the water to come up in the president streets and the water on Bayville Avenue,” said Bayville Mayor Doug Watson.

Flooding occurred on Bayville Avenue from the president streets to the numbered streets during high tide on Sunday, August 28th.

The Creek overfl owed onto Creek Road just prior to the high tide. Winds got up to 67 mph late Sunday afternoon and early eve-ning during the aftermath of the storm. And a tree came down on a house on Duane Lane.

Village employees were out on the scene with pumps. “The First Avenue drainage system was ac-tively pumped on Sunday to keep the water from building up in that system,” said Mayor Watson. “The tide went out slowly. By 3 PM the water was gone from the street and Bayville Avenue was passable again.”

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano put out a mandatory evacuation order for parts of Bay-ville from the numbered streets to Valley Road.

The village applied the Man-gano message with village emer-gency phone service describing the height level at which everyone should evacuate.

“The residents cooperated very well. They put their cars up at St. Gertrude’s, people moved their boats and really took precautions,” said the Mayor. “It was amazing.”

The Bayville Fire Company #1 had standbys at the fi rehouse for a 24-hour period as 40 members were going from call to call. BFC

used their ambulance, fi ve-ton army truck, four engines plus a tanker. They provided additional manpower on Centre Island and an engine with a crew at the Bayville Community Center. “It worked out well because we were divided up into zones,” said Second Assistant Chief Ed Orski.

Injuries were minimal in the storm but the few that occurred were signifi cant. “One child was brought to the fi rehouse who had fallen in his home. We took our fi ve-ton truck out to meet the Lo-cust Valley ambulance because ours couldn’t get out,” said Orski. “We also had a call where branch went through the windshield of a truck on Sunday evening in front of IGA. Nassau County police air-lifted the driver out of Ransom Beach.”

Along the president streets fl ood water came up quite high, and the pressure of the water lifted manhole covers and three people fell into open manholes.

“One guy was up to his shoul-ders in water. One young girl fell in as well. That’s a pretty danger-ous situation. We tried our best to keep people from walking through the water but they still did,” said Orski.

The most diffi cult situation the Mayor faced was that cell phone systems got completely jammed.

“For two hours we were out of business. It was a village wide problem,” he said. “We are going to have to work on not relying on the cell phones. If it had been re-ally serious as they predicted and we would have had no communi-cation. Perhaps we will purchase some satellite phones.”

The Mayor praised his village workers for keeping things fl ow-ing. “Our village workers really know how to get stuff done. These guys have a mindset like once they start they can go the long haul,” he said. “Believe me, they’ve had a lot of practice.”

The LVM/HS gym was lined with cots hosting 55 people over-night on Saturday, August 27th - 30 of them were from Bayville. The Mayor visited the shelter on Sunday and gave them a briefi ng. “Many were from the numbered streets on the east end,” he said. “I told them to hold off from going home. Good thing I did because Bayville Avenue was underwater.”

While this was just another

storm for Bayville, it was also an-other learning experience. “The nor’easter in 1992 killed us but it also taught us. Now there’s emer-gency preparedness, there’s train-ing, shelter management courses – it’s a whole different world now,” said Mayor Watson. “With this storm I learned that the Nassau County Offi ce of Emergency Man-agement is a very good source to have.”

Widespread power outage in OB hamlet

Oyster Bay hamlet suffered

from wide spread power outages, impassible roads with trees down and some fl ooded areas through-out Saturday and Sunday. Flooded areas included Berry Hill Road, which became was almost impas-sible at some point as well as Cove Neck Road which fl ooded at high tide. Additionally, Theodore Roos-evelt Memorial Park was over-wrought with several feet of water.

Oyster Bay experienced a big inconvenience of not having pow-er from early Sunday morning all throughout the week. Meanwhile there were some areas that never lost power or cable. Traffi c lights were out all through Oyster Bay to Woodbury Road making the roads diffi cult to travel amidst dodging fallen trees and down wires.

As usual Oyster Bay Fire Com-pany #1 and Atlantic Steamer Fire Company worked cooperatively splitting up the calls. “No one will dispute the team work we have when emergencies happen,” said ASFC Chief Ty Jimenez. “Any type of dysfunction is thrown by the wayside and there’s a tremendous amount of team playing.”

Many calls the fi remen went on involved alarms that were activat-ed through power outages. “Sev-eral homes fi lled with dangerous levels of carbon monoxide due to improper use of generators,” said OBFC #1 Chief Anthony DeCaro-lis. Although there was a large vol-ume of calls luckily there were no injuries.

The home that suffered the most destruction occurred on Sun-day morning on Fieldstone Lane in Oyster Bay Cove where the tree crashed through the roof causing substantial damages and trapping a husband and wife inside.

“Luckily we got the people out

of the house and no one was hurt. We contacted the building depart-ment and made sure the house was structurally sound,” said Chief DeCarolis.

“They were very fortunate to not be sleeping on that side of the house,” said Chief Jimenez. “The house is totaled. It needs to be re-built.”

OBFC #1 deployed an engine at Sagamore Hill to protect the historic site and the eastern end of Cove Neck due to the diffi culty of getting equipment into the area.

The excessive tree damage took down several wires knocking out power in various pockets of the Oyster Bay community. “We had a lot of diffi cultly getting LIPA to respond in a timely fashion due to the magnitude of the situation,” said Chief DeCarolis. “We had many down powerlines that we had to secure. There was just so many of them.”

One surprise Chief Jimenez found was there were few requests for residential pump-outs. “Maybe people were prepared leading up to the storm,” he said.

Chief Jimenez was pleased with the assistance from Nassau County’s OEM. “We were able to phone in down wires and trees. They coordinated the information to the electric companies. By the end of the afternoon on Sunday the problems were either fi xed or in the process of being fi xed,” he said.

OBFC #1 had 40 members ac-tively working through the 24 hour storm period using 2 ambulance, 2 engines, 1 ladder, 1 support unit and an all-terrain vehicle. Atlantic Steamer had 17 fi remen working around the clock and utilized all their equipment as well.

“Our guys know what to do and how to handle things. We have great communication and there was no duplication of equipment,” said Chief Jimenez. “We are here to protect life and property and it was a nice coordinated effort. Overall, it was a very busy week-end.”

More hurricanes may be on the way

While people are probably sick

of hearing the word “hurricane” Kille warns that the hurricane sea-son has just begun. “Traditionally

September is the busiest and mostactive month for hurricanes espe-cially those that impact the north-east of the United States,” he said. “People must continue to be pre-pared and realize that althoughwe have experienced long power outages, people in upstate NewYork are suffering from massive inland fl ooding taking place.”

Kille reminds everyone that justbecause a hurricane already hit us doesn’t mean another one won’tcome. “After Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita affected the same area. People need to keep their guard up,” he said.

Very often Long Island gets the tail end of a storm or bad weather as a result of the storm but it hasbeen along time since we’ve takena direct hit from a storm.

“Last summer we dodged a bullet with Hurricane Earl. A lot of the hurricanes in recent years have had minimal impact to our area,” said Kille. “The biggest was 1985 with Hurricane Gloria. I’m sure many people’s memories arebeing refreshed right now because of the extended power outages. Ifanyone wasn’t prepared for this storm, I hope this taught them to be prepared for the next one.”

The American Red Cross is ask-ing Long Islanders to considerhelping them continue to provideaid to those in need by sendingin fi nancial contributions. To do-nate, visit: www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

house next door for help and neighbors called 911.

A responding Old Brookville police offi cer entered the pool, recovered the child and adminis-tered Cardio Pulmonary Resusci-tation with the assistance of two other responding offi cers.

She was taken to a Syosset Hospital by the East Norwich FireDepartment. She was pronounced dead at 1:52 PM by an attending physician.

ter Festival Raffl e, featuring a pre-paid 3-year lease on an Audi A4 or $15,000, by buying tickets. Tickets are $20 or 6 for $100 and only 3,000 tickets are being sold.

“The money made at the festival stays in the com-munity helping people and various non-profi t organiza-tions,” said Senator Marcel-lino.

OB Rotary President Chris Gallagher explained that for many charities the money raised during the festival is their largest single source of annual revenue.

Among the organizations who benefi t fi nancial are: Oyster Bay High School In-teract Club, St. Dominic’s Thomas Reardon Memorial Interact Club, Oyster Bay Cooperative Pre-School, the Mill River Rod & Gun Club, North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association, Hispanic Cul-tural Center of Oyster Bay, Italian-American Citizens Club, Oyster Bay-East Nor-wich Soccer Club, VFW Post

8033, Italian-American La-dies Auxiliary, St. Dominic’s CYO Club, St. Dominic’s Parents Club, Boys Scouts Troop 253, Oyster Bay Fire Company #1, Kiwanis Club, American Legion – Quentin Roosevelt Post No. 4, the Hermansky-Pudlak Syn-drome Network, Youth & Family Counseling Agency, Oyster Bay Lions Club, Oys-ter Bay Chamber of Com-merce and the Life Enrich-ment Center at Oyster Bay.

Promoting the “larg-est family friendly festival in the Northeast,” Event Manager Len Rothberg de-scribed a new festival lay-out intended to spread out crowds more evenly. “The Food Court will have a fresh design and a lot of other room that we will be mov-ing into,” he said. “This is going to make the fl ow in the park easier.”

Rothberg announced that the 9/11 fi reboat the John J. Harvey and the Tall Ship Lynx America’s priva-teer will be on the pier this

year for tours. Whole Foods will again

sponsor the “Best of the Food Court” contest while Frank M. Flower & Sons shellfi shing co. will put on the annual Oyster Eating and Shucking Contest.

Commerford & Sons Zoo brought a coatimundi to the press conference. They will offer a petting zoo and there will be demonstrations from the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary.

For music lovers, blues bands, country bands and local favorite Charlie Dane will all perform.

Kids will enjoy watch-ing Island Xtreme All-Star Cheerleaders from Plain-view perform stunts and the Kings of the Coast will set up a pirate encampment.

Newton Shows will bring its thrill rides and games to Fireman’s Field and 150 booths will offer arts and crafts plus new Oyster Festi-val merchandise for sale.

Joe Orlich of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Oyster Bay

Flotilla 2205, said his orga-nization will offer a Search and Rescue demonstration in Oyster Bay Harbor. The Coast Guard’s Auxiliary Band will perform on Satur-day, Oct. 15th. Additionally, “Coastie the Tug Boat” will be on hand for the kids.

“I don’t think there is an-other event that puts a face

on the entire township like this one. The Oyster Festival is our signature event and it is a signifi cant one for the hamlet,” said Venditto. “Ev-ery Oyster Fest brings some-thing new.”

For more info., visit: www.theoysterfestival.org or fi nd the Oyster Festival on Facebook.

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Oyster Festival fever begins in the hamlet

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State Senator Carl Marcellino (left) and Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto (right) purchase the fi rst two raffl e tickets from OB Rotary President Chris Gallagher.

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Hurricane Irene rips up the North Shore

Photo by Jamie Scott

Bayville Avenue, above, fl ooded on Sunday, August

28th at high tide after Hurricane Irene passed

through Bayville.

The playground at Theodore Roosevelt

Memorial Park in Oyster Bay turned into a water

park, photo center.

Nassau County Police closed off West Shore

Road, photo far right, in Mill Neck when a big tree

blocked off the road.

Photo by Pat Strassberg

Photo center left, Bayville Mayor Doug Watson (center) confers with Bayville Village Unit Chief Joe Noto (right) and Highway Forman Chris Montell (left) about where to pump the deep water on Arlington Road.

Above, Jeep splashes through the fl oodwater on Bay Ave. in Oyster Bay by Commander Oil.


Center right photo, Bayville Fire Company #1 to the rescue!

A large tree came down on Oyster Bay-Glen Cove Road on the Mill Neck side of Mill Hill.

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SPORTSOUT IN RIGHT FIELDBy Jeff Davis

Games played in adverse conditions

It’s Thursday afternoon and as Nassau County prepares for the advent of Hurricane Irene, I am forced to get this column written quickly because I may not have electricity and therefore might not be able to get it in on time. I hope everyone is safe and that the storm does no real damage. I do know that the sports schedule for the weekend has been great-ly reduced. The NY Giants and the NY Jets will play earlier and the U.S. Open has cancelled all matches for Saturday and Sunday. College football as well as Major League Baseball have altered game times and baseball has scheduled many double headers. Yet in sports history many games, usually football, have been played in the most adverse conditions. With the assistance of the “Bleacher Report” from the internet it is fun to learn of college games that have been played in adverse weather.

December 6, 1961 – The Toledo Rockets hosting the Tulsa Hurricanes in Toledo. The temperature was 5 degrees and there was 10 inches of snow on the fi eld that Toledo did not remove prior to the game. The Hurricanes were ranked third in the country behind the throwing arm of Jerry Rome and catching of Howard Tweety. Toledo was 2-6 and just trying to hold the Tulsa to under 60 points, their average to that point. They succeeded losing 40-16 to the Hurricanes.

November 8, 2008 – Unbeaten Penn State faced the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City. There was a gale wind but the Nittany Lions were ahead 31-10 with 10 minutes left in the game. With one second left and with the assistance of a 45 mph wind Iowa kicked a fi eld goal and won 24-23 ending Penn State’s quest for the undefeated season.

October 25, 2007 – Boston College faced Virgin-ia Tech in a game that saw 5 inches of rainfall dur-ing the contest. Through this monsoon BC quar-terback Matt Ryan throw two touchdowns and BC won 14-10.

November 25, 1972 – To quote the “Bleacher Re-port” on this game. “If BC – VT game was a mon-soon this game was Noah’s Flood.” South Carolina lost to Clemson 7-6 in a game played at 33 degrees during 7 inches of rainfall. The fi eld was so wet that the puddles were described, as “playing in a kiddies pool.”

November 14, 1992 – “Rudy” was being fi lmed at Notre Dame and they were playing Penn State during a bad Indiana snowstorm. In the closing seconds, under white out conditions, Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mier hit fullback Jerome Bettis for a two-point conversion and a 17-16 Irish vic-tory. It caused a “Rudy” like moment for the Irish faithful.

I also remember the very fi rst Oak Neck foot-ball Nassau Suffolk Football Leagues Super Bowl win with their 8 year-old Pee Wee team back in 2000. The game was played at the Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Clubs football fi eld. The score is long forgotten but the weather was particularly awful. The conditions were similar to the South Caro-lina vs. Clemson game, 33 degrees and a driving rain throughout the game. As the game concluded most of the 8 year-old players were crying as they headed into the Boys’ Club where a Thanksgiving lunch was to follow. Both teams were so cold and miserable. So weather has played havoc with many contests in the past and let’s hope that as you read this, Hurricane Irene hasn’t played havoc with you.

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Along with many, many activities over the August 27th-28th weekend, the wrath of Hurricane Irene forced the cancellation of the 2011 Runner’s Edge-Town of Oyster Bay Triathlon, as well as the accompanying Junior Tri-athlon.

“Sometimes you make hard deci-sions, but sometimes the decisions are made for you, observed Event Co-Di-rector Ray Farrell of the Greater Long Island Running Club. “It is especially diffi cult when you spend six months and more working on a labor of love, and that labor doesn’t come to fruition because of events beyond your con-trol.”

“We do wish to thank Town Su-pervisor John Venditto and the Town Parks Department for working so closely with us throughout,” Farrell continued. “As always, they made our job just that much easier.”

Any “savings” resulting from the cancellation of the event – e.g. fenc-ing and carpeting not rented and re-freshments not purchased – will be returned to the registrants in the form of a discount for 2012 to all those who were registered for 2011.

“We also felt it to be essential to as-sure that the charitable benefi ciaries

of the event – the Life Enrichment Cen-ter at Oyster Bay and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – not suffer at all fi nancially because we had to cancel the event, and we will be making the same donation to each of those fi ne or-ganizations that we would have made had the event proceeded as planned,” Farrell concluded.

Muttontown resident Mi-chael Schumer, 14, helped to raise nearly $15,000 in a round-robin tennis tourna-ment and silent auction he organized, titled, “Points for Patriots,” to benefi t Ameri-ca’s military heroes through the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

The event, held at Le Club Tennis on Riverhead Road in Westhampton Beach, New York, took place on Saturday, August 20th.

“We were successful be-yond our wildest expecta-

tions,” said Schumer. “Wecouldn’t have done it with-out the support of LegislatorRicardo Montano, as well asLe Club, the local businesses on Long Island who donat-ed supplies, and the peoplewho came out to support this important cause.”

Schumer lives in Mut-tontown and attends Jeri-cho High School; he and his family live in Westhamptonduring the summer months. He is a ranked junior mem-ber of the United States Ten-nis Association (USTA).

Grenville Baker Boys and Girls Club’s Summer Boys Basketball Camp in Locust Valley taught a total of 60 members with instructor Jay Hernandez from Pro Hoops.

“Jay Hernandez is one of the best individual skills in-structors in the New York metropolitan area and it was a great opportunity for our kids to learn the game from one of the best,” said Darren Pittman, GBBGC Director of Sports and Fitness.

In addition to the kids learning the basics of basket-ball such as dribbling, passing and shooting and good sportsmanship, the campers also worked on improving their own individual skills.

They were then able to showcase their talents during controlled scrimmage games. Campers were also able to meet recent draft pick Charles Jenkins and Tobias Harris who spoke to them about their love of the game and what it takes to be a professional player. Many kids proclaimed they had the best time of their lives.

Hurricane Irene forces cancellation of triathlons

Event offi cials were on hand at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park on Satur-day morning, August 27th to distribute race packets and shirts to those whoshowed up for them. (Pictured above) Race Director Ray Farrell (right) and Co-ordinator of Volunteers Mindy Davidson (left) are joined at TR Park by NassauCounty Legislator Rose Marie Walker and her grandson Aiden.

(From left) Michael Schumer shakes hands with Suffolk County Legislator Ricardo Montano at the event.

Schumer raises $15K for American troops & families

Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club’s Summer Boys BasketballCamp in Locust Valley put a smile on kids’ faces this summer.

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20 Audrey Avenue • Oyster Bay (516) 819-3691

Massage Therapy

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Kathryn A. Prinz, LMT, NBCR53 East Main St., 2nd Floor, Oyster Bay, NY

(516) 318-5909

Reflexology & Massage Therapy

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72 West Main Street • Oyster Bay • (516) 922-4606

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Microsoft Word, Excel. Reliable, Polite Phone Manners, Team Player, Experience A Plus.

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JOHN F. DELILLO, CPA123 South Street • Suite 112 Oyster Bay • (516) 922-2102

Chiropractors

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Free Consultation and Portfolio ReviewWeekend Appts

50 Audrey Ave • Oyster Bay (516) 624-2702

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SHANGRI-LA SPASpecializing in Problem Skin & Aging Management

63 Audrey Avenue • Oyster Bay (516) 922-2025

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(516) 922-2150

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10 Lake Avenue • Oyster Bay • (516) 922-5058

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Amicale872 E. Jericho TurnpikeHuntington Station(631) 351-1727amicalerestaurant.com

By John C. O’Connell

Ingredients is a word of-ten used in restaurant re-views, mostly in connection with the meats, poultry or fi sh, spices, stocks, sauces and content-extras that get creatively combined to produce each item on the menu, from starters to des-serts, from cocktails to spe-cial coffees.

At Amicale — an Amer-ican-Continental restaurant located where Panama Hat-tie’s used to be on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington

Station — the ingredients that come to form the chef’s amazingly varied and fl a-vorful courses are the epito-me of fresh and wonderfully joined.

As important as the in-gredients that magically gather on each plate, there is another meaning to in-gredients in any fi ne restau-rant. For as critical as the right spice or cut of lamb might be, the people who select, prepare, plate and serve the products of their imagination and skills are the true tests of high quality. The staff we met, gracious and knowledgeable Patrick Ortega, who lives in Frank-lin Square, and Betty Offi t-to, our friendly, professional and effi cient waitress, set the tone for a fi ne evening.

We dined at the Zagat-rated Amicale in August and thoroughly enjoyed the ex-perience. It has a comfort-able, crisp elegance without being stuffy. We found it relaxed but not casual, and we appreciated the unique décor; there weren’t any cookie-cutter restaurant supplies one could see in any other restaurant. Ami-cale has class without being pretentious.

To begin, we tried and loved the tender, tasty voulavent of French escar-got, we savored the duck confi t and wild mushroom quesadilla (perfectly done with shaves of fried onions, tomato pieces and a dol-lop of sour cream), and we thought the grilled octopus and jumbo lump crabmeat was just delicious. These, plus the cozy basket of sev-en kinds of warm bread on

the table, put our palates in the mood for the magic to come. (The fi nely made raspberry Mohito was also stage-setting.)

For entrees, we chose two of the specials, thought there are several regu-lar dinner menu items we would have gladly enjoyed.

The wild boar, one of the specials we selected, was pan-seared with Port wine reduction, served with crisp-topped mashed po-tatoes and tender, choice, almost sweet asparagus. I’d get this again! The meat slices were moist and tender and — in spite of the name — not gamey. The potatoes were some of the best I’ve had.

Congratulations to exec-utive chef George Echeverra and business partner Gon-zalo Moreno on their best creation: Amicale.

This Gold Coast contemporary jewel offers a luxuri-ous lifestyle in this 6 bedroom, 4 bathroom home in Oyster Bay. It is set on a beautiful tree-lined street at the end of a cul-de-sac on 1.45 acres.

The spacious, elegant 6,000 square foot home features walls of glass, with well proportioned rooms with soaring ceilings, and a great fl ow for year-round entertaining. This residence boasts all the beauty of a sunny contemporary yet remains grounded.

The listing price is $1,875,00. For more information, contact Donnamarie Chaimanis at (516) 922-9800.

Note: Each week’s featured home is chosen at random from among properties offered by area realtors. The opinions

expressed are those of the realtor and not The Oyster Bay Guardian news department. For further information, write

to [email protected].

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Photos by John C. O’Connell


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