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BY JODI WEINBERGER fork over medical for the rest of their lives,” Lucas said. “We had no money in 2011.” EDITOR e town also had a di erent insurance company at the time, called POMCO, and the town’s bill went from around $650,000 a year to $1.2 million in a 12-month Supervisor Warren Lucas said he was in “panic mode” when the Town Board period, Lucas said. passed a resolution in 2011 requiring 20 years of service before an employee could “ e town had to borrow $500,000 in 2009 and 2010 to pay back the additional receive retirement bene ts. monies we owed POMCO,” Lucas said. “All of that is behind us now.” Last week, the Town Board discussed rescinding that resolution to be more in line Switching from POMCO to NYSHIP reduced the town’s expenses and reduced with the New York State Health Insurance Program (NYSHIP). the likelihood of having big swings in cost, like what happened in 2009 and 2010. “What is allowed in New York State with NYSHIP is that after 10 years in the “What I’d like to do, is come back and revisit [the resolution] and put it back the retirement system, when you start getting bona de retirement bene ts; you can get way it was,” Lucas said. “We have some people that would have to work until they NYSHIP medical bene ts when you retire,” Lucas said. were 75 or 80 years old to retire and that just doesn’t seem fair.” e 2011 resolution made it so those 55-and-older retirees must have worked for e move to lower the retirement bene t requirements will also be helpful in at- the town for at least 20 years to receive medical, dental and optical coverage. tracting new employees to North Salem. Right now, the town has about ve vacan- At the time the 2011 resolution was adopted, Lucas said the town had zero cash cies across various departments. ow and several employees were around retirement age. Lucas said he panicked, “It is hard to get certain types of civil service employees if you are not competitive believing that the town would be on the hook for thousands of dollars for these with other municipalities,” Lucas said. “We can x that and set the cap to 65 years employees. old with at least 10 years in the retirement system in North Salem. is allows us to “I was paranoid about the ve people leaving and all of the sudden us here having to get quali ed people and minimize the medical costs to the town.”

Changes are coming to the intersection of Route 116 and June Road. In the next four to six weeks, the Department of Transportation will make the intersection a four- way stop. Right now, there are only stop signs on June Road, but drivers on Route 116 (Titicus Road) do not have to stop. David Parker, of the state DOT, said the signs are ready and the state is waiting to place the pavement markings. Supervisor Warren Lucas said that intersection has seen “too many accidents” and this work has been a long time coming. Expect more details on this story in the coming weeks.

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The Staff North Salem garbage contract concerns EDITORIAL TEAM JODI WEINBERGER Single stream is dead for now EDITOR: 914-302-5830 [email protected] BY WARREN LUCAS I called up the other companies and asked them why they didn’t NORTH SALEM SUPERVISOR provide a bid. Both were forthcoming in our discussion. e pri- ROB DIANTONIO SPORTS EDITOR: 914-302-5236 mary reason is single stream recycling. [email protected] Our garbage recycling contract is up August 31. After several When single stream rst started there was places that would take years of unchanged cost, the new bid price is a whopping 43 percent it. Contractors used to get paid $15 per ton to deliver it to the Bea- ADVERTISING TEAM increase, up from $632,000 to $903,000 per year. is increase will con Plant recycling center, now they are charged $61 per ton, they LISA KAIN 914-351-2424 drive a 4 percent increase in town taxes if we sign it. expect the single stream to be going to $85 per ton. Regular garbage [email protected] Request for prices that we put out stated that we wanted single is only charged $72 per ton at the county plant. PAUL FORHAN stream recycling as part of the price. We have three larger municipal In 2017 the Town collected 726 tons of single stream recyclables. 914-202-2392 contractors in the area; City Carting (the company we use now), City Carting has their own plant with bales of plastic with no place [email protected] AAA and Suburban Carting. All were working on our bid package, to go. It’s gotten bad enough that Greg Kunze from City Carting CORINNE STANTON however only one supplied us with a quote, our current contractor 845-621-4049 City Carting. SEE GARBAGE PAGE 4 [email protected] JENNIFER CONNELLY 914-334-6335 [email protected] NANCY SORBELLA 914-205-4183 [email protected] BRUCE HELLER 914-202-2941 [email protected] PRODUCTION TEAM

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BY JODI WEINBERGER “ en I got this random e-mail and it said ‘I de- EDITOR cided to start teaching again’ and my husband said ‘book it, we’ll worry about the details later,’” Cilmi When Amy Cilmi rst walked into Hay elds recounted. nearly two years ago hoping to supply the garden She ew to Islington, London, to be trained with center-café hybrid with fresh cut owers, she had Pryke in oral design and then took a part-time gig no idea the partnership that would bloom. at a orist in Connecticut to see if it would be a It’s hard to imagine Hay elds, the community career she could stick with. With the training under hub co ee destination that emerged from the ashes her belt and experience in the retail side, she ven- of a gas station on Bloomer Road, now without tured into Hay elds. Cilmi’s presence as its resident orist ready to cre- “I had never met (Hay elds owner) Renea (Day- ate behind the ower bar. ton) before and I said, ‘Hi, my name is Amy, would e North Salem resident took up oral design you be interested in selling owers here?’ She said, as a second career, bringing her back to her roots as ‘Sure, when?’” Cilmi said. a graduate student pursuing an arts degree, but she Together, they conceived of the ower bar—a really honed her craft. She listens to what the cus- deviated from the arts when upon graduation she real bar at the opposite end from the co ee—where tomers want, but she teachers the customers too.” was scooped up rst by the corporate world. Cilmi works with customers on whatever their Dayton said Cilmi has the ability to “turn some- “I somehow got a job with Citibank in market- ower needs. thing mediocre into something gorgeous,” and it’s ing,” Cilmi said. “I worked in nancial services and ough Cilmi at rst only envisioned selling that attention to detail and quality that made it a I did that for many, many years. I had three children cut owers, her presence has blossomed with the good t for Hay elds. and after the third was four months old I decided ower bar into providing the owers for special “It’s a customer service level that goes above and to stop working … and then I started doing volun- events, weddings, funerals, home decorations, din- beyond,” Dayton said. teering with the Gardening Club of America.” ner centerpieces, and for the high schoolers during With the ower bar, Hay elds moved away from She took a leadership position with the Rusti- prom season. owers you plant to selling owers and plants ready cus Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club “It just kind of snowballed into every week calls to go in unique vessels. of America, where she served as its president for for cut owers, and that’s when we decided to add “We’ve shifted away from a place to get annu- many years. the ower bar,” Dayton said. “We decided it was als and garden tools to, this is a place to relax, have en, ve years ago, with her kids becoming worthy of making a strong presence at the store and something to eat, get gifts, and easy grab-and-go teens, she mentioned to her husband John that it it’s proven to be really successful.” things,” Cilmi said. might be time to go back to work. Cilmi orders her owers wholesale from Nor- Even the employees have made the transition. “We were on a vacation and I said, maybe I need walk, Conn., where she’s developed relationships e baristas pitched in during prom season to keep to go back to work in nancial services and he said, that have guided her ower choices and how she up with the orders and learn from Cilmi how to ‘Really, I understand what you’re saying, but why conditions her owers to last. prepare a bouquet. don’t you try to nd something you love to do,’ “She has a level of creativity and knowledge and Valentine’s Day marked the one-year anniversary which was really great because it shifted my focus,” uniqueness that I think meshes well with our brand of the shop and Cilmi is happy to now be known as Cilmi said. “Do you go back to what you’re used to and vibe,” Dayton said. “It’s not like she just de- the “ ower girl” in North Salem. or do something that you love?” cided, oh, I like owers, let me do something. She “I would say our vision is to continue having an Cilmi decided to e-mail British oral designer amazing vibe that’s comfortable and community Paula Pryke about taking one of her courses, who focused,” Cilmi said. “We just want to continue to at rst replied she was done teaching. provide a great place to go for the community.”

Amy with Eva Ciano, a participant of the fairy house workshop at Hayﬁ elds.

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GARBAGE PHOTO: METRO FROM PAGE 2 CREATIVE CONNECTION said to me in December that if a pizza box has some tomato sauce on it the entire 1,000 pound bale of cardboard/paper is rejected. e recycling used to get shipped back to China but last year that market started to slow up with so many U.S. locations having material to ship back. Both AAA and Suburban Carting went through our bid package but did not bid. In my call with each of them, the main issue after gas prices increasing and union wage increases is that single stream is dead for now. I was told that you have to separate the paper/cardboard from the rest of the recycling or it is too expensive to get rid of. ey can get paid for the paper and cardboard, the rest of the stu might go into land lls or they have to pay to get rid of it. Where do they send the single stream in the area? • e Beacon plant will take single stream at a cost of $61 per ton. ey used to pay $15 per ton for it. town wide garbage pickup, or come up Board this week to discuss if we go out to pal pickup. If the town might consider • Ulster County is throwing all single with our own recycling transfer center bid with regular garbage and non single dropping garbage pickup altogether that stream recycling in the land ll along with where people can drop recyclable items stream recycling. If we are to do that we would drop your town tax by 10 percent. the rest of the garbage. o . is would be a longer-term goal as need to do it very fast. e townspeople Garbage pickup is by far the largest thing • Waste Mgmt. in lower Westchester we don’t own su cient land to do our would need to be on board immediately. we pay for. More than any other budget will not accept it anymore. own recycling center. With the new changes in federal taxes item and to put it in perspective more If signed, the new contract will drive I was told that the refuse companies those of you who included local taxes as than the Ambulance and Police budgets an additional 4 percent increase in town can still get rid of paper and cardboard, deductions on your federal tax forms will put together. tax. With everything else going on that but not the rest of the items in single not be allowed to do that in the future. Whatever we do it will need to be is not doable. So what can we do? ere stream. Going back to the older recy- is removes the added bene t of hav- done rapidly so that we have everything are three obvious options. Drop single cling methods would decrease the bill. ing municipal pickup. None of the other in place by September 1. stream as a requirement, possibly drop We will be having a meeting of the Town local Towns in Westchester have munici-

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Brain stretch Editor’s Note: Last week we mistakenly ran a and play, create, or dance Parenting springboard for musicality: singing your heart out (even o key), and political editorial written by Karen Aronian together. Our participa- Issues for voice, for strings, and dancing with your kids are all part of a within her Parenting Issues and Education tion and uninterrupted Education for percussion. For me, language we pass along. (PIE) column. We regret the error. time and attention make learning an instrument Music is just one way to help your kids’ all the di erence. later in life changed how I (and your own) brain development, but Neuroscience and neuroimaging have One man who knew DR. KAREN appreciated music, much the Suzuki method (train and lead) can ARONIAN a rmed what we already suspected—that this was Shinichi Suzuki more so than my child- work with anything you can do with your music, art, language, spirituality, move- (1898–1998), a Japanese hood lessons had done. children—snowboarding, baking, French, ment, and focused activity can build a violinist, educator, phi- I was also exercising backgammon, the xylophone, prayer, better brain. To reap the bene ts, though, losopher, and humanitarian. He created a my brain, lighting up both hemispheres square dancing, charity, civility, and chores. we have to light up areas of the brain not movement based on the idea that music in my e orts to determine the correct In my next column, I’ll write more frequently activated. is language, that the ear is an instru- notes, nd them on the keys, move my about Suzuki-method brain powerlifting Accounting for just 2 percent of our ment, and that all young children possess hands appropriately, and play the notes through art, languages, movement, and body weight but also 20 percent of our in nite capabilities. e Suzuki method, at the right time. In fact, the dense white spirituality. Until then, keep at it, togeth- body’s oxygen and energy consumption a curriculum and teaching philosophy, matter that connects the two hemispheres er: make dinner, split wood, take a radio (when we’re awake), the brain is the criti- enlists parents and peers as teachers who of the brain, the corpus collosum, is apart, darn socks, garden, walk the dogs. cal control center for keeping our bodies learn together. In this sense, “Suzuki” is a larger in musicians than in nonmusicians, Exercise those brains, together. functioning and our minds active. Brains mindset, like Montessori; he understood suggesting greater development from have plasticity, and we continue to create that children rely on modeling from par- repeated sensory-motor cross-hemisphere At your library: new brain cells and neural pathways as ents, siblings, and peers to make meaning. information transfer—just part of what’s we age. But that old adage of “use it or He understood that joy is the catalyst for required to master the coordinated activ- By Shinichi Suzuki: “Nurtured by lose it” absolutely applies to brains, too. In learning and teaching and that rapt atten- ity of the left and right hands. Love: The Classic Approach short, we have to exercise our brains. tion and togetherness are the bonds. Music is bene cial for babies and to Talent Education, Ability Children’s brains are especially receptive adults alike. It soothes, lulls, and instills Development from Age Zero.” to learning. I’ll set aside the technical rea- MUSIC, SUZUKI STYLE musicality. Evidence-based research Local music offerings: sons here (cortical maturation as a prereq- Parents begin learning instruments with shows that music is an all-around cogni- uisite for executive function, for example) their children, in partnership. I Suzuki(ed) tive, social, emotional, and mental brain Musikgarten, Music Together, and keep it simple: kids’ brains are made piano with my kids. We couldn’t nd a boost. Children’s temperaments also Kindermusik, Mommy & Me, for learning, and for learning how to learn. veri ed Suzuki school nearby, but did nd shift when they are distracted by music. Croton Falls Playhouse, e word “education” comes from two a local piano teacher who aligned. My John’s piano rendition of “New York State Caramoor, Lasdon, CHIRP di erent Latin roots: educare, meaning kids and I struggled through, practicing of Mind” or his strumming of “Yellow Ridgeﬁ eld, Croton Falls Playhouse to train or mold, and educere, meaning together. I ubbed up the annual recital Submarine” were an instant distraction Ridgeﬁ eld Suzuki School, Choirs, to lead out. Both are critical components. in front of my kids’ peers, their parents, for toddler meltdowns. Music really Curiosity Concerts, Keeler Library Sure, kids can learn on their own, but they and our relatives. e risk was worth the does makes you smarter, and it has been really learn when we lead: when we make reward. Although piano wasn’t our destina- cited as a study aid for focused attention. Concerts, and NSOLF Concerts. music together, learn language(s) together, tion instrument, it was the foundation and Tapping out a rhythm on your baby’s leg,

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Thursday, July 19, 2018 OPINION North Salem News – Page 9 Empire Pass is e things we keep “ e sweetest things become the shelf life that expires naturally. most bitter by excess.” -Democritus ORGANIZING at which seemed charming ticket to discovery ten years ago now looks like and clean and organized; totally e last time my mother WISDOM junk. e question which can DIVERSIONS & worth an overnight stay. visited, she left behind her glow- ANDRÉA help you make the decision is: EXCURSIONS Ogden Mills & Ruth Livings- in-the-dark rosary beads. e DEINSTADT “Does it have archival quality?” ton Mills Memorial State Park appearance of these was puzzling. Photos are only relevant within a NANCY Mills Mansion 1 Road, Mom left the Catholic Church generation or two. My kids have SORBELLA Staatsburgh 40 years ago due to a disagree- no connection to my grandpar- Bordering the Margaret Lewis ment on divorce, so why was she did the stairs twenty years ago ents and do not care about their Norrie State Park, on 1000 still carrying around the remnants and my grandmother’s trunk that old photos. at lack of interest acres including Dinsmore Golf of her religion? When I asked her, can go to the dump. It would also would also apply to my father’s I’m still at it; still loving New Course, which, built in 1893 is Mom told me that she uses them include those oh-so-fashionable yearbooks, except the few photos York. While I have traveled a lot, one of the oldest in the coun- as a meditation at night to slow platform sandals from 1975 and in which he may be featured. I have only ever lived in New try and yes, a New York State down her brain and fall asleep. the prom dress I will never wear At that point, you could rip York and I can’t imagine living treasure. Included in this park is at is so my mom—a combina- again. those out and include them in a anywhere else. e Empire State; also the Mills Mansion his- tion of old-school upbringing and If you are hesitant to let some- family photo album or zip-lock what exactly does that mean toric site, designed by Stanford contemporary self-care. Of course thing go, then take a picture of bag with a name and date on again? I think I’ve ruminated on White. Clearly, a lot to do here I found that charming and when it for your photo album. If you the back. Please date and name this de nition in past columns. It and is probably worth making I o¦ ered to return the beads, she already have a picture of your your photos; if someone cannot is supposed to re ect the state’s a weekend out of this park. e declined and told me to keep fabulous self in that special dress, identify the people in the photo, wealth and resources. I’ll take that Mills Mansion was the elegant them. She said “I have six more then kiss it goodbye and send then the inherent value is lost. and agree. ere is so much physi- country home of Ogden and sets at home!” So my mother’s it packing. Do not leave this Memorabilia connects you to cal, geographic, demographic, Ruth and the grounds and tour glow-in-the-dark rosary beads for your kids or nephew to deal the past. If you have no direct economic, creative and intellec- of the home give you a glimpse will stay in my drawer for now, with when you have gone to the connection to the object in ques- tual diversity in New York. Call of vintage New York society maybe to be found by my own pearly gates. ese are decisions tion, then it becomes meaning- yourself a native New Yorker? wealth and beauty. kids who will think they are mine. you can make now or at least less. Keep that in mind the next Tell me where you’ve been and Why I love it: Many families have ‘meaningful” before you get too creaky to get time you want to save something what you’ve done. I’m all in. I’ve Because the Mills Mansion treasures like this oating around up the attic stairs, as admonished for the kids. Is it meaningful to decided that this year I will try Gift Shop is regularly voted one the house or stu¦ ed in closets but by a recent client of mine. them or just you? Do the work to use my Empire Pass to visit as of Dutchess County’s Top 10 there comes a time when they Most people keep memora- now so that they can miss you many spots in the state that I can. Gift Shops; you can’t beat that need to go. bilia from their parents, their when you go and not curse the If you don’t have an Empire endorsement. So, in addition to is is a good topic for this childhood, and their children. work you left behind and un- Pass, get one. 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But if I was OVERBOARD nounce the song, “hit the post,” people? Plus the whole thing jazz in Pierson Park for the in a jazz band I’d be so far ahead visit the restroom, rush back to was in German, and it sounded Friday Evening Concert Series. of my time that I wasn’t even RICK my chair, drop my headphones like a meeting of the Gestapo If you’re in the mood for it, a born yet. I just want to take the MELÉN on the oor, kick them across the put to an impossible-to-sing little jazz can be just the thing. opportunity to tell those guys room and still have four seconds melody, and that was just the Much of it is instrumental, right now that in a few years, left to cue up. love scene. so you don’t even have to sing perhaps they’ll understand the My mom wasn’t a big jazz fan. With jazz you just absorb it by along. Every time I see a rock signi cance of the wrong notes I they reminded me that I was the She would scrunch up her nose osmosis, and it’s like wallpaper band these days, they start the played two years ago. drummer. “Do you know how to if she heard me playing some you can tap your toe to. Anyway, song, get to the chorus and Even if you’re a singer in a use brushes?” ey asked. “Take Miles Davis. “I don’t like that down by the train station in Tar- then stick the mic out into the jazz ensemble and don’t know a look at my hair and decide for ‘cool jazz,’” she would say. “Or rytown on a Friday evening is a audience and expect us to sing the words, you can fake it. Ella yourself.” End of conversation. is it the ‘hot jazz’ I don’t like?” great place to plop a couple lawn it. NEWSFLASH: that’s what Fitzgerald was the best at that. I’m a rock and roll guy from I never knew what the hell she chairs, open up a little wine and we pay YOU for. With jazz, the She would sing, “A tisket, a way back, most of us Baby was talking about, but I told her cheese and take in some great band handles all the details by tasket, a brown and yellow bas- Boomers are. Jazz wasn’t re- not to get out that thermometer views of the Hudson. e music themselves, and nobody sticks a ket...” Lose her train of thought, ally on my radar until my rst and check. She was famous for will just make all those things saxophone out into the audience then start singing, “Scoodly-bip year at college, which I spent taking your temperature in an seem a little better. And if anyone expecting me to solo. bop bap bip doo-WAAAAA!” at the University of Hartford. impolite place when you had plays a few wrong notes, start Jazz is pretty free-form, so And everyone thought she was My roommate Mike was a sax your back turned. clapping like crazy and everyone you don’t really have to obsess a genius. If she ever got back to player on scholarship at one of She thought that every jazz will think you are an aesthete of about playing the right notes nish the tisket and the tasket the premier music schools in the musician looked like they were the highest dimension. all the time. If you play a real story, it didn’t make a whole lot country, and rooming with him “on something.” Yes, Mom, it’s clunker, the best thing to do is more sense than “scoodly-bip taught me the rst and most called unemployment. She was e Jazz Forum Arts Summer stop abruptly, take the horn away bop,” anyway. valuable lesson I learned at col- an opera nut. Every time I came Concert Series is sponsored in part from your mouth, stare into the I was actually in a jazz band lege, which was that I had better into the room she had it playing by the Westchester Community crowd, then play the same wrong with some guys from Katonah open up my eyes and my ears on the radio, and she would wave Foundation. 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Both on and o the eld about the friendships. at’s what the same, three strikes you’re out. with that team, I will remember it 2014 North Salem graduate Jes- It’s just cool to see how other cul- forever.” sica Dubbioso took out of her tures approach the sport.” Dubbioso graduated college wonderful experience of playing Dubbioso played rst base, out- this past May and currently works in the Czech Republic during e eld and pitched on a team that as an EMT for Meadow Ridge in Prague Softball Tour for the Unit- only had one natural pitcher. It Redding, Conn. She plans to at- ed States team June 26-July 5. was her rst time on the mound tend graduate school to become In a tournament made up of since her junior year of college. a physician’s assistant within the mostly post-college players, Dub- At the plate, she hit the ball next year or so. bioso played multiple positions hard and racked up three triples in During her nal season at Sa- for the sole team that the United the last game. cred Heart, Dubbioso guided her States brought to the tournament. “My sole goal with hitting is to team to its second-straight con- Her newly formed team com- hit the ball down and hard some- ference tournament appearance peted in a total of ve games where and poke it through a hole,” before falling early on. against two teams from the Czech Dubbioso said. “Getting on base Nonetheless, the main thing is Republic, one from Germany, one is more important, because when that the aspiring graduate student from Spain and one from Austria. you try to go for the big hit, you made lifelong friends and memo- Joyfully accustomed to the normally don’t get the big hit.” ries through many travels and mo- sport of softball, Dubbioso played In terms of European culture, ments alongside her teammates. four years of varsity softball at she noted how people interact “One thing that my coaches al- North Salem under long-time with each other dierently than in ways stressed to me in college is head coach Bob Mittelstadt. the United States and how some- that, ‘Once you hang up the cleats, She began playing travel soft- times it was hard for some team- it’s over,’” Dubbioso said. “You’re ball leagues from age nine and mates to return home. not going to remember your stats continued through high school. “Part of the fun was getting lost or the wins and losses. You’re go- Taking the next step upon gradu- with your teammates,” Dubbioso ing to remember the teammates ation, Dubbioso attended Sacred Jessica Dubbioso gets set to step into the box. chuckled. “ ere were times that you had and the memories that Heart University and played four some of us hopped on the wrong you made with them and your more years of Divison 1 softball in subway to get back to the hotel. coaches. All those life lessons that college, preparing her for the op- “ e rst day when we all got played three pool play games for It’s just fun little memories like you’ve learned through softball, portunity of a lifetime to play in to the airport, everyone was quiet seeding before two elimination that. Of course, I had so many you’ll remember forever.” Europe for a week. and trying to gure each other matches. ey lost the rst Dubbioso served her high out,” Dubbioso said. “What made pool game to the Czech school team as a top pitcher and it even crazier was that the second Republic’s Olympic train- hard-hitting third baseman. She we got o the plane in Prague, we ing team before winning was recruited to college as a sec- had to head to the eld and play a the following two pool ond baseman, but ended up play- game. We barely knew each oth- matches over Austria and a ing in nearly every position on the ers’ names at that point.” club team from the Czech eld as that trend continued in the On top of the competitive Republic. international week of play a few games, the United States’ team of e next day brought weeks ago. new friends enjoyed the unique tournament play, and the Pam London, a co-coach at Sa- city of Prague together after United States were elimi- cred Heart, received an email re- warming up to each other. nated by Germany in the garding the tournament and sent “Honestly, by day two, it was rst round before winning it over to Dubbioso, who could like we were best friends,” Dub- a consolation match against not pass the chance up. bioso said. “I’m still talking to Spain the day after to close Upon arriving at the airport, some of these girls now. We got out. PHOTOS COURTESY OF LORI DUBBIOSO she met athletes from places like so close in that week. It was like “It was pretty cool,” Jessica Dubbioso, third from left, played with athletes from Maryland, Maryland, Las Vegas, California, we’ve known each other for years.” Dubbioso said. “Seeing California, Nevada, North Dakota and more while representing the United North Dakota and Oklahoma. On the eld, America’s team how it all was in another States during The Prague Softball Tour.

ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT - LUKE DEVEY Two-year captain leads Tigers by example

North Salem rising senior Luke Devey is a started? a part of the boys soccer team at North How do you see your role on the team, team captain and mid elder on the varsity boys I was 3 years old when I started playing Salem? and how much do you value being a soccer team. He is also a member of the ski team. soccer. I am the youngest of four so I had It’s my favorite part of the school year. senior captain? always played with my siblings in the yard I love the bond that forms throughout Being a leader on the team is very BY DOMINICK DEPOLE and my parents were constantly at the the team. I make new friends that I never important to me and a job that I do not CONTRIBUTING WRITER eld for their games so they thought why would have known about and I become take lightly. I try to lead by example and not put me on a team as well. better friends with people I have been keep everyone positive and having fun How old were you when you started playing with since preschool. It’s tons of playing soccer and how did you get What is your favorite part about being fun and very rewarding. SEE ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT PAGE 16 Page 16 – North Salem News SPORTS Thursday, July 19, 2018

ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT me for hours to get there, all with a smile vacation that you’ve never been to, where FROM PAGE 15 on their face. ey have constantly sup- would you go and why? ported me and done everything they can I would go to the Grand Canyon while working hard at the same time. It to help me succeed. One important lesson because my parents rafted down it a couple is cool to see athletes grow and help my they have taught me is to never quit. of years ago and the pictures they came peers reach their full potential. back with were breathtaking so I would Tell us one thing about yourself that love to see that in person. How much progress have you made as not a lot of people know? a player since you rst started? I can juggle while riding a unicycle. What is your favorite food to eat before My tness and stamina have improved or after a game? greatly throughout my career. rough Do you know what you want to study Before a game, I like to eat a banana to training in the o season by running and in college? If yes, what and why? help prevent cramps and after a game I eat doing triathlons I have improved my speed I am not positive yet but I think I would a power bar and drink a glass of chocolate and endurance. is has translated to more like to study some sort of engineering milk with a little bit of salt for speedy time on the eld because as a freshman on because I like to challenge myself in school muscle recovery. the team I would play maybe 20 minutes and I enjoy math and science classes. My but now I am seeing much more time on brothers and I used to make Rube Gold- Best place to eat in North Salem and the eld. berg machines in my basement and I have why? a knack for building things so I think My kitchen because my mom is an What is your favorite team activity, engineering could be something that I amazing cook. She bakes delicious choco- pregame or postgame ritual that you would enjoy. late chip cookies that I could eat all day. shared with your teammates? FILE PHOTO Luke Devey throws it in during a summer My favorite pregame ritual is the chant league game. Who is your favorite professional ath- For a young athlete growing up in that we do. It is a great way to get hyped lete and pro or college sports team? North Salem, what would you tell them up for games and is very fun to be a part Red Gerard. He is a professional about the experience of being part of the of. My favorite postgame ritual is singing season at North Salem? snowboarder and he won the gold in boys soccer program and why should they “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey on the I am looking forward to another fun men’s slope style this year at the Winter go out for the team? bus ride home. season and hope that the team can make Olympics. He is 18, so it is inspiring to see Absolutely try out for the team. If you it as far as we can. Whether that is the someone like him excelling at such a high don’t make it, work hard in the o season What was the most memorable part league, sectionals, or states, I just want level. and try again next year. Being on the team about this past season? everyone to give it their best e ort so we you will have the most fun you have ever e most memorable part of last season can walk away with no regrets. If you could have one superpower, had in your life. You get 20 best friends was the night of the champions. We played what would it be and why? and memories that you will be talking 2016s Class B state champions, Hastings, Who has been your biggest role model Time travel because I am curious about about for 50 years. Mr. (Ron) Hendrie is under the lights at Somers and won 3-0. over the years and what have you learned the future and would like to see what is a great coach and will help you grow not Being the defending Class C state champs, from them? going to happen. I also would like to go only as an athlete but will help you become it was a big upset and a great game for us. My biggest role models over the years back in time to see dinosaurs. a better person. Keep practicing everyday. have been my mom and dad. ey come to Whenever you can get a ball and go to the Do you have any goals for your nal every game and race that I have and drive If you could pick one place to visit on eld or your backyard and don’t give up. This Summer, Saturday and late Get a Simply Stunning Smile! afternoon appts available

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