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Vol. VI No. XXI Thursday, May 24, 2012 $1.00 Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly JOHN F. McMULLEN Spreadsheets Greenburgh Mexican Adventure v Page 4 SHERIF AWAD The Traveler Westchester County Page 5

RICH MONETTI Over WestHELP Islamic Center Page 8

EVAN LEVINE, MD Pradaxa Could Kill You Page 9

HEZI ARIS Spying in Yonkers Page 12

J. MATT BARBER Dan Savage ‘Tolerant’ By Nancy King, Page 20 Bully Page 24 BOB BOGEN The Last Republic Party Election Indian Point Page 24

Adversaries and Proponents EDWARD I. KOCH Child Abuse By Abby Luby, Pages 6-8 Hasidic Community Page 25

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Come see what celebrated our 24th wedding flies in! anniversary this past week, Looking for volunteers…Some big and you ask what did I get her musical acts are being lined up for this year’s to honor those great years, I Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson went all out and gave her and they are also lining up the volunteers. an extra copy of this week’s, The music and environmental festival will “News and Notes…” take place in the village on June 16 and 17 Congratulations and three cheers to at Croton Point Park. For festival goers, the Peekskill’s Field Library as they celebrate their Great Hudson River Revival is a wonderful 125th anniversary. music and environmental event. For the Our good friend Steve Horowitz and volunteers, it’s so much more… by volun- the gang at AAA Pro Credit Solutions are teering, you become part of a warm, lively holding a credit repair boot camp on June 7 community that’s connected to the Clearwater – 10. 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Mount Kisco will host its annual Science Showcase. Last year’s their parade at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, May th Showcase featured the work of approxi- 30 starting at the Mount Kisco Elementary mately 200 middle school students. Students School with a new parade route which will go presented exhibits on topics ranging from up Smith Avenue, left onto Main proceed to chocolate and copper pipes to forensics Veterans Memorial in front of Library for a and harmonic oscillators. The exhibits are ceremony. designed to be interactive and provide visitors Our home town parade, the annual an opportunity to learn about a wide range of Bedford Hills Memorial Day parade will topics. In addition, science enrichment and start at 9am at the Bedford Hills Elementary hands-on activities from local organizations School and concludes at the fire department, will be available to students and their families we never miss this great community event, during the event. The Science Showcase will hope to see you there. be open to the public from 7 to 9 pm. A few With Memorial Day here, please take a years ago, one of my daughters experimented moment from your busy schedule to thank with souring milk and how long it took and honor those who protect our wonderful different types to go bad; I still get a bit queasy county… we salute you! just thinking of that experiment! Mark Jeffers successfully spearheaded the launch The Flat Iron Gallery up in Peekskill will of MAR$AR Sports & Entertainment LLC in present “Inscapes,” a new exhibit by Mount rd 2008. As president he has seen rapid growth of Kisco artist Elaine Galen through June 3 . the company with the signing of numerous clients. The White Plains Performing Arts He resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his Center is presenting “The Secret Garden” th wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, though May 27 , at our house when no and Claire. flowers bloom, it’s a secret garden. Well here is something new, Black Lighting for Moths. On Thursday, May 31st at Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining, Charlie Roberto will light up the night to Page 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

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almost a week before, they had been held in Hepatitis-B. Spreadsheets Changed Our Lives, 3 Customs for the intervening period. At that time, Once back in our offices, we thought that there was only one leading (perhaps the only one) much of the craziness was behind us -- actually, OS/2 Brings Down the House! political party in Mexico and the President served it was just getting started. Customs was now for one six year term. In the year before his term prepared for shipments to the Department of by John F. McMullen hardware and software, obtain it, install it in the ended, there was constant jockeying between the Finance and, when the replacement disk drive Department of Finance’s offices in Mexico City, various interested groups to agree on a successor arrived, it put a 25% duty on the drive -- over Technology has allowed US train clerical staff in the use of the system, and -- and the interested groups included government $100 on a drive that listed for $525. Worse, it companies and individual citi- perform general consulting -- the same activities departments and agencies, often backing different would only accept payment in cash! -- this from zens to move beyond our borders that we had been providing for US clients. candidates. It was the luck of this project that the another government agency. To compound the to do business and, in a very We agreed on a business arrangement under Department of Finance (our client) was backing problem, the funding for the project had not yet short time, we moved into the which our client would be the Department a different client than the Customs Department come through and Finance had no cash and could “Global Economy” that we now of Finance, which would pay for our traveling and this political disagreement played over into not get the drive. The latter statement rang true to know – but there were some rough spots along the expenses directly to hotels and airlines and pay our some nastiness when conducting normal busi- me as our consulting bills had not yet been paid; way. normal hourly consulting rates; it would purchase ness -- Customs had tried to extract duty on the when I would call to inquire, I was always told the equipment and software directly from our computers until Finance was able to pull some that funding was “just around the corner.” 1982 – Our Mexican primary vendor, “Jonathan’s Apple” in Marleton, strings and get them released. Soon, there was another problem; there were Adventure NJ, which would ship directly to Mexico City; and We set the computers up, loaded the soft- intermittent problems with the wide carriage we would spend a week training upon its arrival. ware, and were ready when the personnel arrived IDS Paper Tiger printer that made it unusable. I Our consulting business, McMullen & The scenario went off initially as planned for training. Although the training went very well, called IDS (“Integral Data Systems”) in Natick, McMullen, Inc., was in its third full year when -- funds arrived at Jonathan’s Apple; the config- the workday schedule took some getting used to New Hampshire and, from my description of the we had our first opportunity to “take it interna- uration shipped -- two Apple II+s with disk -- the employees worked from 8:30 to 11:30, then problem, it was determined that the system had tional.” At the close of a “Big Apple Users Group” drives, monitors, printers, “VisiCalc” (the first had a lunch break until 2:30 (yes! 2:30) and then a faulty motherboard. IDS suggested that it send (“BAUG”) meeting one evening in New York electronic spreadsheet), “CCA” (a database product, worked until 7:30 pm. We would, therefore, have us a new motherboard and that we swap it out City, we were approached by two economists (one later enhanced and renamed “VisiFile”), and “Magic to be there about 7:30AM to get set up for the in Mexico City. Coincidently, that recommenda- from Cornell University; the other from The New Window” (a word processor); our airline and training and be there in the evening until 8:30 or tion fitted nicely with our schedule as one of our School For Social Research) who explained that hotel reservations were made; and we were off to 9PM, closing things down and winding down. employees, a recent computer science graduate they were performing an econometric study for Mexico City! We would then get to a restaurant and a leisurely named Carl, was about to go down to do some the Mexican government and would need some Things went well when we landed (although I dinner (more leisurely than we would have liked) additional training. We received the motherboard computer expertise, as well as hardware and soft- was a little taken aback when I noted that the police, and then get back to the hotel about 11PM -- and from IDS, turned it over to Carl with instructions ware – would we be interested? We said we would instead of sidearms, carried submachine guns on their start all over in the AM (To be in at 7:30, we had to on the replacement, and sent him on his way. … and began our descent down the rabbit hole! shoulders; I hadn’t thought that banditos were active be in the hotel dining area by about 6:30 -- breakfast Two days after Carl’s departure, we had a Some background -- prior to the launching in downtown Mexico City) and the hotel was was also served on a “leisurely basis” and then we had call from him in Mexico City. His luggage had of our firm, I had held executive positions with a charming -- small rooms but a very nice patio area a 10 block walk to the office). been searched at the airport and, upon finding subsidiary of Control Data and Morgan Stanley where breakfast was served (the hotel was destroyed It turned out that one of the disk drives was the strange looking circuit board, the authorities and travelled throughout the US on business and by earthquake six months later). damaged in shipping so we called Jonathan’s had hustled Carl and luggage off to a room, strip Barbara McMullen, prior to our marriage and Reality began to set in the next morning Apple and arranged to have another one shipped searched him, and left him sitting in his under- consulting firm had travelled throughout the when we headed off to the office. We left the hotel down and we carried the broken one home in our wear for five hours while they determined which world -- Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific. about 6:30 -- the staff started work at 8:30 and we luggage, violations of espionage law under which he might Additionally, in the short time that we had been had to insure that the computers were properly set During our week in Mexico City, we had be tried. Finally, an attorney from the Dept. of in business, we had done business throughout the up. As we approached the office, I noted that, not followed everyone’s instructions “not to drink the Finance had shown up to collect Carl, get him United States -- BUT we had never done busi- only did the patrolmen carry submachine guns, an water” -- this included having no fruit, no soda dressed, and take him and luggage off to the office. ness in a foreign country and, as we would soon officer sat on the roof of the Presidential Palace, bottled in Mexico, and only having hot coffee or Carl did such a good job getting the printer see, there is a big difference! directly across from our office, manning a tripod- tea where the water had been boiled. All of the up and running that the office decided that they The economists were consulting with the mounted machine gun. precautions did little for Barbara because she needed another printer of the same type. The plan Mexican government’s Department of Finance Once in the office, we found that the became very ill from the moment we could take originally had been to have one computer system in an attempt to generate investment dollars for computers and software were still in the boxes the seat belts off on the airplane home -- a condi- equipped with a wide carriage printer and the the northern provinces of Mexico. As part of this -- so we began assembling them and loading tion that lasted for three weeks. Until January of other one with an inexpensive narrow thermal effort, they wanted to enter demographic and software. We got our first understanding of this year, we thought that she had simply had a printer. The thermal printer had recently been business data into a computer system and be able Mexican politics when it was explained later in bad case of “Montezuma’s Revenge;” blood tests giving them trouble and I had them ship it to me to massage it in various ways. Our role would be to the morning that, although the boxes had arrived done for other reasons in January revealed that for repair. They now decided that they should have define the requirements, configure the necessary she most probably had actually had contracted the same printer capabilities on both systems. Here it got really strange! Finance had recently had a very bad time with Customs about the disk drive -- they had finally resolved it by finding a Customs Broker who would pay to get the drive out of Customs -- for which service, the Broker would be paid another 25% of the value of the drive when the project funding finally came through (an event that I was seriously beginning to doubt that I would see in my lifetime). Finance instructed me to ship the new printer not to Mexico City but to an address in Laredo, Texas from which the recipient would smuggle the printer across the border and deliver it to the Dept. of Finance, a government agency (to repeat, a government agency instructing me to put the wheels in motion to have material smuggled across its own border). Continued on page 5 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 5

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Spreadsheets Changed Our Lives, 3 Laredo where he picked up the printer and and the technology I refer to here is now consid- or ethical behavior. We were naïve and considered smuggled it across the border. ered of the Dark Ages. Yet we can hopefully learn that dealing with the Mexican government was Continued from page 4 These folks were hard on printers -- a something from the scenario: tantamount to dealing with the US government. few months later, I had a call that the new wide Gather as much information as possible We were wrong! I obtained the printer, held it until I received carriage had broken so I instructed the caller to about a foreign country before agreeing to do Anyone want to buy a Paper Tiger? payment (it seemed that only the consulting bills send it up to me -- and he did. business there – The CIA World Fact Book required funding), and shipped it via UPS to I got a call about a month later asking where (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/ Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining Laredo. While all this craziness was in progress, the printers were. I countered with another ques- the-world-factbook/index.html) is a wonderful the impact of constantly accelerating technology on the the would-be smuggler apparently got second tion “Where is the payment for my consulting reference about the culture, demographics, and world around us. These changers normally happen thoughts because, about 2 weeks later, I had a call invoices?” When I was told that they still hadn’t statistical information of any country in the world. under our personal radar until we find that the world from the Department of Finance asking what had been funded, I suggested that he call back right Try to get relevant information about busi- as we knew it is no more. happened to the printer as the Laredo person said after he mailed the check. That was the last that ness practices in the country. It has been recently that it had still not been received. I replied that this John F. McMullen has been involved in technology I heard from him and, since then, sitting in the alleged that WalMart has been bribing scores of was “funny indeed as I had a copy of UPS’ delivery for over 40 years and has written about it for major corner of my office has been a narrow thermal Mexican officials to become the leading retailer in notice in front of me with his signature on it.” When publications. He may be found on Facebook and his printer and a wide carriage IDS Paper Tiger. the country. Such practices may be the only way to confronted with his lie, Laredo admitted that he current non-technical writing, a novel, “The Inwood This all happened thirty years ago and much do business in the country but it is also illegal for a had the printer but refused to smuggle it across Book” and “New & Collected Poems by johnmac the has happened since then – Mexico has become US company to act in this fashion. the border. Finance then called the economist bard” are available on Amazon. He is a professor more democratic but also, in the judgment of Know exactly how and when you will be paid from Cornell who was scheduled to drive down at Purchase College and has previously taught at some, the “most dangerous country in the Western – attempt to get money up front as in a retainer to Mexico City and spend six months managing Monroe College, Marist College and the New School Hemisphere;” the “Global Economy” has dramati- agreement. The fact that the client is a foreign the study. His itinerary was re-routed through For Social Research. cally changed the rules and processes of business; government is no guarantee of timely payment CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

surpassing twenty years, he has succeeded making series that would later be picked up by two big Khaled Elnabawy a breakthrough from the regional scene to the name, Egyptian filmmakers Salah Abouseif international cinema stage by appearing in major and Youssef Chahine. Indeed, Elnabawy found The Traveler American productions. When he is not promoting himself directed by Abouseif in the drama An By SHERIF AWAD a new film, Elnabawy is however found as part Egyptian Citizen in 1990 as the son of the Omda of a talk show or engaged as a photojournalists. (Mayor) of a remote village played by interna- Although he has estab- He is also a frequent guest on many regional and tional star Omar Sharif, who was returning to lished himself as character international festivals. Elnabawy’s artistic life also Egyptian cinema after starring in international actor in film, theatre and seems to come full circle with names like Omar films worldwide. Four years later, Chahine gave television, Egyptian actor Sharif, Sean Penn and Cyrine Abdel-Nour, him the leading role in The Immigrant, a historical Khaled Elnabawy still sees appearing alongside him on different occasions. film loosely based on the biblical story of Youssef, himself as a regular person Elnabawy studied acting in the Egyptian the prophet. In 1997, Elnabawy decided to appear working in an unconven- High Theatre Institute, making his debut as in a comedy called Ismailia: Back and Forth, which tional profession. In a career part of the Egyptian National Theatre in a TV Continued on page 6 Kingdom of Heaven. Page 6 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

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on the island of Sicily few years ago, Khaled who is a political activist on and off screen, and Khaled Elnabawy Elnabawy was there too, alongside Egyptian who accepted my invitation last year, to visit Tahri actress Youssra and Egyptian filmmaker Yousrsy Square after the Egyptian revolution. We received Continued from page 5 Nasrallah. as invitees specific to the celebration of a warm welcome from the Egyptian people,” he became a smashing success opening the doorway the centenary of Egyptian cinema. He was about says upon reflection. to a new generation of comic actors to take the to shoot Hassan Tayara, a comedy that followed When he looks back to his colorful biography, lead in Egyptian cinema. He then starred in Lost a romantic role in Feels Like Love. “I try to select Khaled Elnabawy thinks that each of his experi- in America, an Egyptian film shot in Los Angeles, roles in good scripts. The most important rule I ences have accumulated and given rise to his more in which he played a young man who has an follow is not repeating myself! For instance, I proficient acting skills. “Maybe the shooting of accident and loses his memory while visiting his played a journalist in Beirut Open City, a Lebanese Lost in America with a small crew in Los Angeles American relatives. He landed his first interna- political thriller with Cyrine Abdel-Nour, my helped to make a safe passage into the Hollywood tional appearance thereafter; a co-starring role co-star in The Traveler. I accepted the role because system when I started Kingdom of Heaven,” said in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the it was new for me to play an Egyptian photo- Khaled. “I learned a great deal from working with journalist caught in the middle of the Lebanese the likes of Omar Sharif and Youssef Chahine conflict,” he explained. who were very successful because they were Khaled Elnabawy in The Traveler. Hassan, the main protagonist he would come to play, was a common man, a telegraph official who had been assigned to the city of Port Said of the 1940s. Another element was that of the storyline spanning 53 years in Egyptian history starting from 1948 (The year of declaration of the State of Israel), to 1973 (The victory of the October War, and finally in 2001, the year of the 9/11 terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in New York. “We didn’t relive those particular events, instead, we witness their effects on Hassan,” explained Elnabawy. “It is a smartly written script that should open differing interpretive pathways of understanding as it becomes recognizable to each Khaled Elnabawy with Cyrine and respective viewer.” Abdel-Nour in Beirut Open City. Shooting the film was a very good experi- ence for Elnabawy who indulged himself into the great epic that revisited The Crusades. style and vision of Ahmed Maher, an apt pupil of Khaled Elnabawy and Sean Penn in Tahrir Square. Because Khaled Elnabawy tries to be Italian filmmakers. “It was very interesting to visit More international roles followed after the hardworking, adoring their craft, and very down different in every role he tackles, he once the film set even when I didn’t have any scenes 2010 American thriller Fair Game, with Naomi to earth. They attained international prominence contacted an Egyptian filmmaker called Ahmed to perform,” Elnabawy explains. Elbanbawy was Watts playing a CIA agent who is discredited and recognition status because they succeeded in Maher to be his acting coach for Hassan Tayara, unintentionally doing exactly what Omar Sharif after her husband, played by Sean Penn, wrote coping with the others.” a film he was set to star in 2007. “Acting and did 47 years ago when he was cast in Lawrence an article published in The New York Times in Khaled thinks he realized his first dream dialogue coaching is very common in foreign of Arabia. Sharif used to visit the set, just to watch which he asserts the Bush Administration had when he worked in the profession he admired cinema. I don‎’t know why we are still shy about and learn from his great British costars Peter manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass most since childhood. “Sometimes, good things it here in Egypt,” says Khaled, who became accus- O’Toole and Alec Guinness. Elnabawy wanted destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. Doug happen without dreaming. Also, my wishes have tomed to international productions after his role to add greater complexity to his character by Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) changed over the course of time; I dream for my in Kingdom of Heaven. But Maher, who studied finding common points between his approach directed the successful film in which Khaled family and my sons to have good education and visual arts and filmmaking in Italy, started to talk to the character and Omar Sharif ’s interpreta- Elnabawy played an Iraqi scientist who becomes a better life,” he says. to Khaled about his dream project, a script he tion. “I played Omar Sharif ’s son in An Egyptian victim of the bombing of his country. “Regardless has been writing for years to make it his feature Citizen, then the youngest version of his character of my nationality, I think I expanded my acting Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film/video debut after several documentaries and shorts. in The Traveler,” emphasized Khaled. “It is new skills by working with American filmmakers critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt The two artists got along together famously, so to Egyptian cinema to have two actors play the and sharing the scene with international actors. Today Magazine, and the artistic director for both much so, that Ahmed decided to give Khaled same character in the film, lbeit at different stages In Kingdom of Heaven, I view Ridley Scott as a the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the the leading role in the film with the great Omar of their life. On top of that, the movie wasn’t shot maestro conducting a big orchestra in stunts, Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. He Sharif playing the older version of the same in chronological order; Omar’s scenes were shot clothing, and affects, until he finalizes the shot also contributes to Variety, in the United States, and character. When Elnabawy first read the script before mine.” he envisions. I maintain good with Sean Penn, Variety Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). of The Traveler, he was attracted to the fact that When we were in the Taormina Festival ENERGY ISSUES

across the road from Entergy property. The two and three. Unit one was mothballed in the Federal Judges Tour Indian Point (Part 1) group moved, choosing a vantage point that 1974. The application saw an unprecedented squarely faced the judicial entourage. number of contentions, the largest number By ABBY LUBY group wanted to insure the three Atomic Safety “We are standing here today to show the filed in the history of the NRC (Nuclear BUCHANAN, NY -- It was and Licensing Board (ASLB) judges about to ASLB judges that the community cares about Regulatory Commission). Among the spate Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in the tour Entergy’s nuclear complex would know that re-licensing Indian Point,” said Gary Shaw of of contentions were those filed by New York early morning, a small group part of the local community objects to renewing IPSEC (Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition). State, the NY Attorney General’s office, and the carrying large yellow and black the plant’s operating license for another 20 years. “The licensing process is limited and ignores Town of Cortlandt. The administrative judges signs stood their ground in front At about 7:30 am, the judges arrived in an SUV common sense.” included Lawrence G. McDade, Dr. Richard of the main gates of the Indian that pulled up to the gates. Those holding signs Entergy submitted their license renewal E. Wardwell, and Michael F. Kennedy. The application in 2007 for the twin reactors, units Point nuclear power plant. The were asked by armed security guards to stand Continued on page 7 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 7

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Federal Judges Tour Indian Point but we couldn’t ask ‘why?’” Overall, Greene said the judges were Continued from page 6 impressed with the facility. “It was very clean tour was led by Fred Dacimo. Entergy’s Vice and there was a high level of security. The judges President of License Renewal. were very pleased and appreciative and they said According to NRC spokesperson Neil all their questions had been addressed.” Sheehan, the tour for the ASLB judges and There have been 154 contentions filed with groups opposing the relicensing are common. the NRC by 15 governmental agencies and “The judges handling each respective hearing locally concerned groups. The ASLB judges, decide whether a visit to the site in question denied most of the contentions and whittled would further their understanding of the issues. the number down to about 20. Remaining In this case, they decided a visit would be benefi- contentions cite the ecological impacts of the cial, especially given the number of contentions 2.5 billion gallons of Hudson River water Indian being considered and their complexity.” Sheehan Point uses every day for cooling water that kills added that the judges would not issue any report billions of fish, many which are already in serious based on their visit. Sites on the tour included decline. One contention filed concerns radioac- the reactor building, the plant’s water intakes and tive material from the ground water under the discharges on the Hudson River, unit 2 spent plant leaching into the Hudson River that would fuel pool, the location of safety-related buried seemingly threaten the proposed desalination pipes and tanks external to plant buildings, plant United Water wants to build directly across external access vaults for viewing inaccessible the river. The desalination plant would supply cables, groundwater monitoring and external water to Rockland and Haverstraw. Another transformers, among others. unique contention has been filed concerning “The spent fuel pool seemed really murky environmental justice issues where people with to me,” said environmentalist Manna Jo Greene. disabilities, those in hospitals, nursing homes “We were three feet away from the pool and and prisons, may have difficulty accessing trans- you couldn’t even see the racks or the assemblies portation in the event of evacuation. holding the spent fuel.” Abby Luby is a Westchester based, freelance journalist Initial ground rules made it clear that certain who writes local news, about environmental issues, questions could not be asked, said Greene. “We art, entertainment and food. Her debut novel, “Nuclear It was Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in the early morning, a small group carrying large were constrained and we were supposed to ask Romance” was recently published. Visit the book’s yellow and black signs stood their ground in front of the main gates of the Indian Point questions only through the judges. It was part of nuclear power plant. Photo by Abby Luby, courtesy of Abby Luby Photo. the legal process. We could ask for clarification website, http://nuclearromance.word- press.com/.

Commercial • Industrial Indian Point Hearing Draws Adversaries & Residential Services Roll-Off Containers 1-30 Yards and Proponents (Part 2) Home Clean-up Containers

By ABBY LUBY Turn-key Demolition Services Tarrytown, NY - Last Friday’s Indian Point Annual Assess- DEC Licensed Transfer Station ment (May 11, 2012) was hosted by the Nuclear DEP Licensed Rail Serve Regulatory Commission who Transfer & Recycling Services seemed considerably toned down. Unlike last year, when the Licensed Demolition Contractor public hearing was held just after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, the NRC found it Locally Owned & Operated was unprepared for a volatile and angry crowd who ceaselessly shouted down the NRC’s safety (L-R) NRC panel: Mel Gray, Regional Director, Radio Dispatched evaluation presentation. NRC’s regional administrator, Bill Dean, This year the NRC was on the defense. and John P. Boska, Senior Resident Inspector. Fully Insured - Free Estimates What took over 20 minutes last year to person- omitted the usual presentation because “it was On Site Document Destruction ally explain the “green” safety rating was, this year, shouted down last year.” This year the time reduced to a two minute slide projection posted allotted was devoted exclusively to the public. Same Day Roll Off Service at the end of the hall outside the conference And the public was heard. Over 300 space, mutely tumbling through charts, graphs people crowded into the main room after If You Call By Noon and pictures. NRC agents loosely roamed the passing through a security / search check- corridor and were hard to pin down. Their basic point, a new enforcement never before used www.citycarting.net message: after several thousand hours of on-site at NRC annual assessment hearings. Safety inspections in 2011, Indian Point a safe plant. issues were secondary to the impending license City Carting of Westchester • Somers Sanitation NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan was at renewal application by Indian Point’s owner B & S Carting • AAA Paper Recycling • Bria Carting • CRP Sanitation Thursday’s public hearing at the Tarrytown Entergy, an application with an unprecedented Double Tree Hotel. He indicated to The number of contentions against the 40 year old 800.872.7405 • 8 VIADUCT RD., STAMFORD, CT • 203.324.4090 Westchester Guardian that the NRC purposely Continued on page 8 Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

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Continued from page 7 11,000 jobs in the Lower Hudson Valley... and has reliable, affordable power, jobs, economic plant. Entergy would have to cease operating development, and continued prosperity.” by 2013 and 2015 if the two reactors’ licenses Anti nuclear groups carefully orchestrated were not renewed. To date, the NRC has never several chants between speakers, often inter- turned down a license renewal application by a rupting with shouts of “Lies!”, and “Close it commercial nuclear power plant. A day before down. Now!”. State Assemblyman Thomas Friday’s hearing, a headline from another local Peekskill Mayor Mary Foster, who supports news source erroneous cited that the green Abinanti (D-Tarrytown) addressing the NRC. the continued operation of Indian Point, focused Peter Rugh of Occupy Wall Street’s ratings would allow Indian Point to operate past on safety. “We are several hundred yards from service workers for their Geiger Counters.” Environmental Solidarity Work Group. the plant and even if it were to close tomorrow, In a fiery attack on the NRC, Mariliyn there was a fire. Entergy is also exempt from we will be dealing forever with the spent fuel. Elie, co-founder of the Westchester Citizens rusty reactor dome inspection for design basis My request is for FEMA, the NRC and elected Awareness Network (WestCAN) charged the and from inspecting 60 percent of the radioac- officials to look more carefully at [the role of ] tive spent fuel pool. our first responders.” Elie lambasted the panel over a new evacu- ation ruling. “This is a watered down plan with fewer evacuation drills. What does that make you but whores to the industry.” Westchester Legislator Michael Smith, who favors relicensing, said he was representing himself supporting the “long term viability of Westchester County.” “I toured the Indian Point facility and I saw the control they had in place. I got the sense they’re looking to do the right thing.” An impassioned Mark Jacobs criticized the Susan Hito holding a geiger counter. NRC for holding back important information. “You no longer tell us about the back log [of 2013, clearly a misunderstanding of the differ- Westchester County Legislator Michael repairs at Indian Point]. Who is overlooking the ence between safety ratings and license renewal. Smith addressing the NRC at the owner’s paper work? Are you monitoring the Facing many vehement arguments on both safety assessment for Indian Point. radiated lakes under the plant that are the size of sides of this hotly contested issue were NRC’s Mark Jacobs speaking out against the the Central Park reservoir?” regional administrator, Bill Dean, John P. Boska, continued operation of Indian Point. Lack of information was a reoccurring theme. When the Westchester Guardian Senior Resident Inspector and Mel Gray, federal agency with granting excessive exemp- Regional Director. requested a hard copy of the slide projection About 50 Entergy workers and union tions to Entergy since they purchased Indian information, an NRC representative failed to State Assemblyman Thomas members were present. “The operators at Indian Point in 2001. Abinanti (D-Tarrytown) pointed out the produce one. NRC Emergency Preparedness Point are well trained and I know that the plant “Those exemptions need to be looked at Inspector Steve Barr was asked for the new proposed new Tappan Zee Bridge. “It is feared is safe,” said Dominic Marzullo, of the Utility because they are keeping Indian Point from that the bridge can’t withstand seismic activity, evacuation ruling change but his only copy was Workers of America Local 1-2, and who has operating at a design basis. Why can’t we get a one he couldn’t relinquish. and yet, this power plant, which is not built worked at the plant since 1972. list of those exemptions?” to spec for the predicted seismic activity in Holding a small Geiger Counter in her Last year Entergy sought NRC approval for Photos by Abby Luby, courtesy of Abby Luby Photo. the area, is allowed to run while endangering hand, Susan Hito-Shapiro, a Goshen more than 100 exemptions from regulations. In millions in the area.” Abinanti also reminded based lawyer and Clearwater board member, 2007, the NRC exempted Indian Point from the Abby Luby is a Westchester based, freelance journalist the NRC that the state was opposed to the criticized the NRC for not holding Entergy required insulation protecting electrical cables who writes local news, about environmental issues, continued operation of Indian Point. accountable. “The fire departments rely on against fire for at least one hour. Today Entergy art, entertainment and food. Her debut novel, “Nuclear Dr. Marsha Gordon, Business Council Entergy to tell them if there is a release in their uses insulation lasting only 24 minutes for cables Romance” was recently published. Visit the book’s of Westchester president, advocated for Indian town. The NRC needs to require Entergy to pay that could prevent a catastrophic meltdown if website, http://nuclearromance.word- press.com/. Point. “Indian Point is responsible for generating HOUSES OF WORSHIP

Muslim women the whole body except face, Islamic Center of Peekskill Blends in on North Division Street hands and feet. Otherwise, Peekskill will not likely notice By RICH MONETTI “We’re not going to be here forever so we’re if you come in, he’ll multiply it by 25 - that’s the much different about members of his congrega- When our political discussions here to focus more on spirituality,” he says. difference,” he said. tion if seen on the street. Men must cover the turn to foreign policy, the Middle The center or Mosque begins with offering He hopes his Friday sermon can return a body below the knee, while women the whole East almost instinctively moves its 25-member congregation the opportunity to similar payoff. Certainly using the goings on of body including head wear but there’s no restric- to the forefront of contention. come in and fulfill the requirement of praying daily life, the half-hour oratory is intended to tions on the type of attire. “You can dress in “That’s the reality of our times,” five times a day. Of course, not every Muslim help members rise above what ultimately must regular clothes,” he says, “so we blend into the says Papa Sall, Imam of the has the chance to drop everything and face be considered mundane. Reminding people of community.” Islamic Center of Peekskill. But seismic shifts Mecca from a mosque everyday, but Imam Sall God’s will and their duty to him, he says, “It’s a That said, the larger Muslim movement in today’s human events do not take precedence pointed out the advantage gained by an in-house spiritual awakening of the soul.” recently issued a call for centers and mosques to over a permanence found in the message the engagement. “If your boss told you if you work Muslim men are required to cover the body reach out to their communities. As a result, an Senegalese born holy man has for his flock. from home he’ll pay you ten dollars an hour, but except below the knee. Continued on page 9 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 9

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Islamic Center of Peekskill Blends in on North Division Street No place in between can he or his members wouldn’t like it,” he said. find basis for the media driven assertion that As for those of any group involved in wrong Continued from page 8 among children - Papa Sall has remained ready 72 virgins await so-called suicidal, homicidal doing, he leaves law enforcement and the justice to redirect since taking over in 1995. There are open house was held on March 17th. warriors. But voicing dissatisfaction over the system to carry out their obligations. In turn, he challenges in this society that we The idea was to help to introduce commu- facts in order to put to rest various misconcep- believes the typical Muslim has little correlation didn’t have growing up,” he says, “but we nities to their Muslim neighbors and diminish tions isn’t the way in which the narrative can to the over exposure directed toward the actions strive to raise our children as good Muslims.” misconceptions borne out of the fear of the be changed, he believes. “Our feeling is actions of a few. “It’s not a great percentage of what This might leave credence to the old adage unknown. With the mayor, two members of speak louder than words,” he says, “and going Muslims are about,” he says. that the Koran provides a spark to varied the city council and several local reverends, forth in a peaceful, positive manner gets the real Blending in, it can be said, speaks directly to interpretations but not really from where his says Imam Sall, “We showed people what we message out,” he adds. that here in Peekskill. congregation sits. “If we need to consult an do, how we pray and let them know if they see Still, what of the possibility of profiling and The Center can be reached at 914-734-8143. expert above our level we do so, but we’re not something they don’t understand - they are more law enforcement infiltration in Peekskill? “We’re here to argue A to Z - that’s not the intent. It’s Rich Monetti lives in Somers. He’s been a freelance than welcome to ask.” here for peace and we’re not involved in anything more about reading the text and going back and writer in Westchester since 2003. Peruse his work at As for the diversion American culture that would subject us to it, but like anyone else, forth with what is learned,” he says. www. rmonetti.blogspot.com. might place on the Muslim path - especially if we were generally blanketed as Muslims, we MEDICINE

that he was taking a very dangerous drug. Since significantly reduce the risk of stroke in patients What Your Doctor Won’t (or Can’t) Tell You many patients with atrial fibrillation are elderly, who have an arrhythmia known as atrial fibril- and perhaps may be more easily convinced by lation. In very large, unbiased, and randomized Pradaxa Could Kill You! Call Your Lawyer Now! these slick ads, this is perhaps the most heinous trials, when compared to warfarin, the standard By Dr. EVAN LEVINE Pradaxa is causing people to bleed to death and act yet by a few duplicitous animals, with oppos- therapy to thin a patient’s blood who has atrial A patient anxiously waited to I stopped it. I don’t think I should be taking a able thumbs, and a legal degree to get rich fibrillation, Pradaxa was shown to significantly see me today. He was concerned drug that can make you bleed like that. People quick. It took me an entire visit to educate him, reduce stokes and life threatening and intracranial that I had prescribed a medica- are suing too.” again, about the risks and benefits of Pradaxa bleeding. And the patients who took Coumadin tion, to prevent a stroke, as a He had mistakenly placed himself at risk of compared to Coumadin, and after our visit the in this study, which is often not the case in clinical result of his irregular rhythm, a stroke by stopping the drug, spent his time and, patient decided to continue his Pradaxa. Lucky practice, were very closely monitored; something that could cause him to hemor- much needed money (cost of a cab and the visit), for him he did not have a stroke during the few that is quite difficult in clinical practice. rhage to death. “It’s all over the to come to my office, because he was convinced, weeks he was not anticoagulated with Pradaxa. The fact is that Pradaxa does reduce the TV,” he told me. “I saw it on the commercials. from a very convincing Madison Avenue ad, Pradaxa is a relatively new drug used to Continued on page 10 Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

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Pradaxa Could Kill You! part to educate its community on the impor- Mount Vernon to “Make a Splash” tance of water safety. “We are encouraging Call Your Lawyer Now! Mount Vernon and surrounding community- Continued from page 9 MOUNT VERNON, clinic at the Mount area families to attend “Make a Splash: Mount NY—Mayor Ernest Vernon YMCA on Vernon,” said Mayor Davis. blood from clotting (some might say it does thin D. Davis has advised Saturday, May 26. “Events like ‘Make a Splash: Mount Vernon’ the blood) and like any blood thinner, whether Maritza Correia’s “We are extremely further the primary goals of USA Swimming it is Coumadin, or even Aspirin, or Pradaxa, it appearance to help happy that the can increase the risk of bleeding. This is some- and the USA Swimming Foundation, which is Mount Vernon “Make USA Swimming thing that will happen anytime you take any to grow the base of the sport and support water A Splash,” timed for Foundation took blood thinner. Fall down and bang yourself on safety,” said Talia Mark, USA Swimming’s pools and beaches to Coumadin or Pradaxa and you will bleed more an interest in our Multicultural Marketing Manager. “African than if you weren’t on it, and so and so. There open on Memorial community,” said American and Hispanic kids are vastly under- are going to be patients who have horrible Day. Maritza Correia Mayor Davis. “Very represented in swimming and events like this bleeds on Pradaxa , as there are on Coumadin is the first African- often our young help to open doors to healthy and beneficial , but Pradaxa, it appears, is a better drug than American woman to people don’t think about water safety when activities.” Coumadin. As you see, it works better, it is safer, make the U.S. Olympic Swim Team and the they’re having fun. Programs like this can help “Make A Splash Mount Vernon will be you don’t have the same dietary restrictions you first African American swimmer to set an save lives and maybe even encourage more held on Saturday, May 26th at the YMCA, 20 must adhere to if you take Coumadin (can’t eat American and World swimming record. young people to see swimming as an opportu- South Second Avenue in Mount Vernon from foods with Vitamin K) and you don’t have to run The USA Swimming Foundation, the nity to achieve greater things in life.” 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. A street festival is also sched- to the doctor’s office to have your blood checked, Mount Vernon YMCA, and the Department Ten people drown every day in the U.S. uled and a number of interactive displays for like those on Coumadin do, at least every month. of Recreation will be conducting a water safety The City of Mount Vernon wants to do its children of all ages. But the slime, the John Edwards on Steroids types, are out there putting millions into MOVIE REVIEW commercials, fishing for people who had a bleed while taking the drug (even though it is a known risk for any drug that thins the blood) and wish to be compensated with cash. What is defi- nitely dangerous, however, is that these ads are sees to be causing some patients to stop taking the drug! And if you stop Pradaxa, because you were frightened by some commercial, you will Ed Koch Movie Reviews increase your risk of having a stroke. By Edward I. Koch Many of the ads would scare me, if I did not know the drug to be an important agent to Movie Review: “The Best invested their retirement funds in their daugh- reduce the risk of stroke. Here is a line from one Exotic Marigold Hotel” (+) ter’s startup company. It has not yet produced any of them: returns, and they too are considering India as an If you or a loved one took Pradaxa and then This is a cheesy film, but it adds up to an evening inexpensive place to live. suffered serious internal bleeding, a stroke, or of good entertainment. Madge (Celia Imrie) is a single woman even died, you may be entitled to compensation! The story centers on seven English individ- looking for love, and Norman (Ronald Pickup) is Call 1 800…… uals entering their retirement years. a single man looking for romantic liaisons. Here is another one: The most attractive character is Evelyn The plot reminded me of “A Chorus Line” Praaxa Lawsuit ( Judi Dench). Forced to sell her home after her without the music, each character having a turn It has been reported to 1-800-xxx-xxxx that husband’s death, she searches the Internet for in the spotlight. Relationships grow among the Boehringer Ingelheim Inc, the manufacturer of an inexpensive place to live and decides on the seven people as they interact with one another on Pradaxa is aware of numerous deaths related to Marigold Hotel in India. a daily basis. Pradaxa and Hemorrhaging yet we are not aware Six other individuals who also travel to India Indian actors include Sonny (Dev Patel), his of any move on the part of Boehringer Ingelheim on the same day for stays at the hotel include: girlfriend, Sunaina (Tena Desae), and his mother, Inc. to remove Pradaxa from the market. Graham (Tom Wilkinson), a gay man and (Lillete Dubey). These roles were all caricatures, Perhaps the good lawyers out there should former judge who once lived in India. He hopes but the actors performed them so well that I counter this commercial with their own: to reunite with a former lover. found myself interested in the outcome of their If you or your loved one stopped taking Muriel (Maggie Smith) plans on having a problems. Pradaxa, because of a commercial on TV, which hip operation. Under the English system, she Although the film lacks gravitas and is occa- inappropriately judged Pradaxa as a drug that would be required to wait six months to have the sionally maudlin, overall it is a fun, enlightening is likely to harm someone, and then suffered a surgery in her country. film with superb acting and interesting scenes of devastating stroke because of this, then call the A married couple, Douglas (Bill Nighy) and India. law offices of 1-800-xxx-xxxx. Jean (Penelope Wilton), who constantly bicker, You may be entitled to compensation from the law firm who falsely convinced your loved Movie Review: because there were so few to choose from and Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), one to stop it. “The Avengers” (-) because the Daily News gave it five stars in its the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and Thor (Chris Evan S. Levine, MD FACC is the author of capsule review. I won’t do that again. I couldn’t Hemsworth). “What Your Doctor Won’t (or Can’t) Tell You” This is probably one of the biggest money- wait for it to end. I had never seen any of these superheroes and a practicing cardiologist in Westchester and making films in recent history. I don’t judge Marvel comics brings all of its superhe- in films before so I really knew nothing of their The Bronx. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor movies on the basis of economic success, roes together to fight the efforts of the evil personalities. I came to like the Hulk best of all. of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. however, but rather on whether or not I enjoyed Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to acquire the ball He was a cartoon version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Levine can be reached at 914-237-1332 or direct it. I did not enjoy this flick. of energy that will give him and other aliens Hyde, totally unpredictable in terms of being mailto:[email protected]. To be fair, I don’t like movies based on seeking world conquest the power to do so. good or evil. cartoon figures. I decided to see this one Those superheroes include Iron Man (Robert Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 11

MOVIE REVIEW MUSIC Ed Koch Movie THE SOUNDS Albert King “I’ll Play the Blues Reviews OFBLUE For You” Stax Remasters Continued from page 10 “Classic King Albert album adds 4 bonus tracks, By Bob Putignano and gets the re-mastering treatment”

“I’ll Play The Blues For You” is part of and interesting addition, that alone makes Stax’ ongoing Remasters series. Originally for owning this expanded edition of this released in 1972, this album has received Joe recording. “Don’t Burn Down the Bridge” Tarantino’s 24-bit re-mastering treatment, is also offered in a more up-tempo mode plus brand new liners from Bill Dahal, Tom with different arrangements, and it’s another Wheeler’s original liners, and four previously keeper. Though not credited it sure sounds unreleased bonus tracks. Hear King working like Booker T. Jones’ B3 on “I Need a Love,” with the remaining members of the Bar-Kays don’t know why this burner sat un-issued for who also doubled as members of Isaac Hayes so long? Last but not least “Albert’s Stomp” is Movement band, and for extra depth and exactly what you’d expect, a driving (yet short) excitement; The Memphis Horns were added. instrumental that closes this fine disc out if Tarantino’s re-mastering techniques add first class and high-flying style, sound like so much detail and bass to this (and other) Booker T’s B3 again here too. Stax Remasters series, but man it’s chilling to These Stax re-master series sound like hear the full bodied sound on the title track high-end audiophile recordings, they sound that still makes my hair stand on end. In like that good, and remember that this album is mannered fashion “Breaking Up Somebody’s forty years old! My only complaint is that I about this collaboration; it shows how adap- Home” simmers and smokes, Albert’s on fire, had hoped for better musician credits, song by tive, versatile and open minded Albert King was, he fit into the Stax groove like a glove, Page 26 The WesTchesandTer the Guardian horns, man the horns really raise theThursda songY, F eidentificationsBruarY 23, 2012 would have been appreci- bar on this classic tune where the interplay ated especially on the four bonus tracks. Other that’s why Albert is still one of the king’s of (especially bassist James Alexander) is stun- than that; “I’ll Play the Blues For You” still the blues, and during his years at Stax he sure ning. The hokey crowd noise added to “I’ll Be sounds contemporary, the pairing of Albert crafted plenty of classic and funky good blues! Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is the CLASSIFIED ADS LEGAL NOTICES www.SoundsofBlue.com government figure in charge, and he handles Doggone,” make this funky tune sound gener- King with the Stax crew was and still stands as Bob Putignano ational Officeand dated, Space I guessAvailable- Stax was trying to aFAMILY brilliant COURT concept OF THE STATEthat reallyOF NEW worked. YORK Thinking the four superheroes like a circus ring master. Prime Location, Yorktown Heights COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER The world is saved by Natasha Romanoff make1,000 Sq. this Ft.: $1800.sound Contact like aWilca live: 914.632.1230performance, but In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE it’s weird, yet King soars on guitar near the SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE (Scarlett Johansson) whom you won’t recog- Prime Retail - Westchester County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), end. “Don’tBest Location Burn in DownYorktown the Heights Bridge (‘Cause nize. She does her part demonstrating that she A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. 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people Actress Mary Roberts Joins Charitable NYC Theater Festival This June When she isn’t attending film screenings, On the heels of the “Know at the Lucy’s Open Mic in disabilities. Fox states that the playwrights have taking business workshops, or updating her Your Neighbor” article in the Pleasantville on occasional a history of working with the population served social media, Mary Roberts spends her time Northern Westchester Examiner Monday evenings. by the Westchester Arc, so the choice was an performing in projects that are, simply put, fun- featuring her last October, Roberts’ Her latest booking easy one. In addition, a portion of the proceeds -despite the absence of a paycheck. side projects have included work will be performing in will go directly to Westchester Arc. The play After graduating from college three years with SUNY Purchase film student Manhattan in Acts of Love, will be directed by Westchester theater veteran ago, Roberts ditched the search for a 9 to 5 plus Jeff Hoyt, her own YouTube series a series of plays written by Anthony Valbiro. benefits and made a commitment to work as of cooking videos featuring easy Gabrielle Fox and Mark As she readies herself for another year of an actor. Since then, she started taking actors’ vegetarian recipes, and public Jason Williams. Acts of Love auditioning, networking, and pounding the business classes in New York and has learned to readings of original plays at is part of the month-long pavement to make a living as an NYC actor, represent herself (finding representation can be the Westchester Collaborative Planet Connections Theater Roberts is excited to take this opportunity to a catch-22 when an actor doesn’t already have Theater in Ossining. The simi- Festivity, an eco-friendly use her talents for such a special cause. Acts of television credits). Her goal is to book her first larity between all of these projects? theater festival which also Love will run at the Bleecker Street Theatre in television role by the end of 2012. In the mean- “I REFUSE PAYMENT!” invites each writer to raise New York from May 31 to June 22, 2012. time, Roberts works on small projects to hone Roberts jokingly declares. She awareness for an organiza- Details can be found at www.planetcon- her craft, collaborate with filmmaker friends, acts in unpaid projects because tion of their choice. Fox nections.org/acts-of-love. and in the case of her upcoming involvement she can’t make it through the month without and Williams have chosen the Westchester with the Planet Connections Theater Festivity, performing in some capacity--which is why you Arc, an organization dedicated to empow- raise awareness about non-profit organizations. may also find her strumming early 60s ballads ering children and adults with developmental PROTEST

fifteen minute press conference and stated he Law Enforcement Groups Join Chamberlain Protest did feel hopeful his letter to Attorney General By NANCY KING called for County Executive Rob Astorino to position, where are our elected officials feeling Holder would result in an independent investi- A dozen or so African- form a citizen’s committee to independently our pain”. Jones also called on County Board gation by The Department of Justice. American Law Enforcement review each case where a complaint is made of Legislators Chair Ken Jenkins to put on Today’s press conference followed a rally members surrounded Kenneth against a police officer. Jones suggests the inde- his “grown up pants” and to make a statement organized by the NAACP last Saturday in Chamberlain Jr. outside pendent commission would review alleged concerning this case. While lauding Mr. Jenkins White Plains. Attended by about 200 people, the Westchester County complaints not only against county police offi- for his role as an African-American lawmaker, it the mantra for those who attended was “Justice Courthouse in White Plains, cers but in all 42 police departments throughout was clear Jones wants a statement from Jenkins for White Plains”. May 14, 2012. Today’s press the county. Jones declared he was “putting it in concerning the Chamberlain case. Nancy King is a freelance, investigative reporter; a conference, organized by Damon K. Jones, exec- the hands of Rob Astorino. If Barack Obama Chamberlain family attorney Randolph resident of White Plains, New York. utive director of Blacks in Law Enforcement, can put himself in Trayvon Martin’s family’s McLaughlin did speak to reporters after the SECURITY Yonkers M.I.S. Director Manny Innamorato Believed Spying on Mayor Mike Spano’s eMail By HEZI ARIS of Yonkers was one among every employee Avenue and directing the personnel who YONKERS, NY – The that worked out of 87 Nepperhan Avenue worked that day to abide by their directive; Yonkers Tribune / The advised to depart the building at approxi- and abide they did. Westchester Guardian mately 4:30 p.m., Friday, May 11, 2012, but The allegations gleaned against Mr have learned that Manny to do so without taking their cell phone or any Innamorato are so egregious, and so blatant Innamorato, Director of other computer device out of the building. Mr that an investigation must henceforth be Management Information Innamorato is the only person in M.I.S. who undertaken to decipher his allegedly unau- Systems (M.I.S.) at the City seemingly has access to Mayor Spano’s eMail thorized conduct by his own volition or by account. directive from a third party. Mr Innamorato Mr Innamorato has must also be fired; immediately. What must be Before speaking to the police... call been afforded ever-greater recognized is that whether he permitted access employment opportuni- to Mayor Spano’s eMail account, whether George Weinbaum ties, stations, and salary he was the only person allegedly engaged in ATTORNEY AT LAW within the City of Yonkers. spying on the eMail account and thereby the FREE CONSULTATION: Most recently, he was conduct of the mayor, or whether M.I.S. was Criminal, Medicaid, Medicare promoted at the behest hacked, the buck stops at his desk and the Fraud, White-Collar Crime & of former Yonkers Mayor definition of spying or ineptitude have been Health Care Prosecutions. T. 914.948.0044 is uncertain whether the Yonkers Police F. 914.686.4873 Phil Amicone at the insis- allegedly revealed to have transpired under his tence of John Fleming. Department or another police force was watch. Fire him NOW! 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 At this point, it engaged in surrounding 87 Nepperhan THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 13

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brings happiness. Unfortunately neither of these overextended musical is that it is a genuine family A Mixed Bag productions could afford to make the eponymous show, which not excessively finicky parents can secret garden look as good as Heidi Landesman put up with if their children take them to it. By JOHN SMON did for the 1991 Broadway production. As you may know, the Encores! series at Once again a show whose Most performances in both Astoria and New York’s City Center are semi-staged revivals visuals outshine the text—but White Plains were at least adequate. In the of old musicals, some famous, some undeserv- then, they are quite memo- former, I liked best the Neville of Benjamin J. edly neglected. The latest of these was the 1949 rable. The author of “Lonely, McHugh and the Dickon of Michael Jennings “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” which, starring I’m Not,” Paul Weitz, has had Mahoney, both, like more than half the 26-char- Megan Hilty, was, like most of them, perfectly successes on stage and screen, acter cast, members of Actors’ Equity. At White charming. Some of these revivals have trans- and his director of choice, Trip Plains, best were the only two Equity cast ferred to Broadway and done well; this one, Cullman, is as canny as they come. What you get Topher Grace as Porter and Mark members, Stephen Tewksbury and Kristoffer evidently, will not be moved. Pity. But be on the in 90 minutes will not bore you, but it does more Blum in “Lonely, I’m Not”. Lowe (Archibald and Neville), and the as yet lookout for future Encores!, and happily catch them. tickle than thrill. here. Read. Whatever. Sometimes I just sit here non-Equity Caitlin Fischer (Lily). The heroine, Heather, is blind, which does The most I can say for this somewhat and think about reading or about watching TV.” Photos courtesy of www.Broadway.com. not stop her from being a topnotch market Or take Heather’s response to Porter’s crying analyst, but one inadequately rewarded. Her during sex: “I am not not into this.” To which, he: John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre, love life has been a fiasco, her last boyfriend “Why? Why are you not not into this?” Or take film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson having proved a lying swine. Porter, the hero, Carlotta, now again divorced, saying to Porter, “I Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National has divorced Carlotta four years ago, and lost just love how dead you are.” Review,New York Magazine, Opera News, a lucrative job also four years ago in a nervous Each scene has its title, spelled out in lights Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg breakdown that began by his publicly pissing on the back wall. But the way set designer Mark News. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard himself, and leaving him unemployed for (you Wendland, lighting designer Matt Frey, and University in Comparative Literature and has director Cullman handle this, is by each time taught at MIT, Harvard University, Bard College very different-looking letters of light popping up and Marymount Manhattan College. in unexpected places. You begin to look forward To learn more, visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored. to them, trying to guess where they will appear Lisa Emery and Topher Grace as com as a luminous surprise. Porter in “Lonely, I’m Not”. Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby are fine in the leads, as are Mark Blum in two parts, and Chritopher Jackson and Lisa Emery in three. Only Maureen Sebastian exaggerates one of her three roles—that of Heather’s overeager room- mate—rather badly. Emily Rebholz’s costumes are likewise apt. But I wonder whether the char- Olivia Thirlby as Heather and Topher acters’ roles aren’t also uniforms of sorts with Grace as Porter in “Lonely, I’m Not”. actors not not into prototypes. I have now sat through two separate produc- guessed it) four years. tions of the Lucy Simon-Marsha Norman Porter and Heather begin dating, and click, musical, “The Secret Garden.” There was the perhaps because they are--as another character, more modest one by Tom Wojtunik at Astoria Little Dog, remarks--fellow misfits. There are Performing Arts Center, and the more elabo- problems: Grace, Heather’s mother, doesn’t rate one by Brian Swasey at the White Plains approve of Porter, and Rick, Porter’s father, is an Performing Arts Center. It is a show based on emotional and financial drain on him. Porter has Frances Hodgson Burnett’s celebrated children’s given him money for a pet-shop scheme that feelgood novel, which, despite some early deaths Rick defrauded, landing him in jail. And now, in India and some later gloom in a widower’s even comically seeking humble employment, Yorkshire mansion, yields happy endings galore. Porter is rejected. It tells how little orphan Mary brings Heather’s blindness is hardly an obstacle. At happiness to Archibald, her hunchbacked uncle, worst, the young woman trips over her room- seemingly irreconcilable to the death in child- mate’s carelessly dropped backpack. And Porter birth of his beloved wife Lily, mother of their THE ROMA BUILDING seems to come to grief only by fighting over a hapless son Colin, bed-ridden and seemingly latte with a barista before the café’s legal opening doomed. There are happy endings for Archie 2022 Saw Mill River Rd., Yorktown Heights, NY time, and ending up with the coffee all over and Colin, and, apparently, for the ghosts of Lily his shirtfront. Subsequently, a similar disaster and Mary’s parents, plus several other ghosts Office & Store Space for Rent occurs when, very late for dinner with Grace and dead of the cholera in India, and now surfacing Prime Yorktown Location Heather, he collides with the chicken cacciatore all over the place in Yorkshire. But perhaps not she is about to serve him. quite for Archibald’s draconian brother, Dr. Office Space 965 sq ft.: Rent $ 1650/mo. But plot is not the main thing here. Rather, Neville Craven, who keeps trying to send Mary Store Karl Ehmers: 1100 sq ft- $3100/mo. it is the mentality of these young ones as reflected off to uninviting schools. Store in back: 1300 sq ft. $2650/mo. in their dialogue. For example, when Porter Mary finds happiness by finding the key guides Heather through his modest apartment: to Lily’s garden that Archibald tries to keep “This is my sofa. I like to sit here sometimes. I locked, and which is serviced by an old gardener 914.632.1230 watch TV sometimes here. Sometimes I just sit and Dickon, a young one, for whom Mary also Page 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012

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He blogs on Venture Galleries better person, to bring you lunch, to have a less. Only, I was. It was over twenty years ten, and do you know what? Magdalena resides in NYC. (http://venturegalleries.com/author/stephenwoodfin conversation with you . . . to help. ) ago, but strangely, my memories are as fresh He was there!

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Bob Weir When I see you again, my eyes fill no secret that my first marriage collapsed those months of hopelessness. That’s not

Bob Weir is retired from the New York City Police Department with tears, my heart squeezes in written five legal my chest. after nineteen years. We don’t have to go a spelling error, by the way. Without God, Bob Weir is retired from after 20 years of patrol, plainclothes into the whys and wherefores here, but hopelessness or homelessness can be inter- and seminar training. Bob is the author of 7 published books: I forgot about Jack Durish was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943. He is a syou yesterday, forgot to bring oldier and a the New York City Police Stephen Woodfin is an attorney/author who has you a sandwich, forgot to offer you a short I’ll see if I can summarize it in a phrase changeable words. They mean the same thrillers. He blogs on Venture Galleries City to Die For; sailor, a decorated veteran of Vietnam, a husband, father, and grandfather. Department after 20 years Powers That Be; Deadly to Love; Short Stories of Life and or two. As they say, there are two sides to thing. Frank Matheis is a writer who resides in Pawling, New story . . . forgot Murder in Black and White; Ruthie’s Kids; Jack is the author of Rebels on the Mountain, available at all to be a good person. eBook retailers, (http://venturegalleries.com/author/stephenwoodfinand Out of Sight. His books can be purchased at Amazon.com assignments, supervision ) York. He has published more than four of patrol, plainclothes When I see you, I imagine the life you every story. For me, it is no coincidence that and political newspaper articles, and six short stories. and other Internet booksellers.and a assignments and seminar At 30, I had a massive stroke. 18 months later, I returned to w must have lived, blogghow you came to stakeork a the marriage collapsed after a younger man HomelessHe was three times short listed for the Fish Short VentureGalleries.com.er at JackDurish.com, TheWritersCollection.com, and Story prize in Ireland. Besides his day j training. Bob is the policeman. My career ended after a 2nd stroke so I took up painauthor of 7 published claim on this small corner right outside theting. Now, got involved with my family. Allegations By BOB WEIR international marketing director for a green- technology written five legal hundred music books: City to Die For;after a 3rd stroke, I write! Murder in Black the other way are somewhat different, so company, Curtis Instruments, he is active in radio shelter in Washington, D.C. Death; Are we helping the homeless? When and White: Ruthie’s Kids; Powers That Be; you have the choice as to what you want producing and Roots & Blues musicology, including as When I see you, I wonder if you have I was growingpublisher up on ofthe Lower East Side ob as Deadly to Love; Short Stories of Life and to believe; the outcome would be the same. www.thecountryblues.com Death; and Out of Sight. His books can Caleb Pirtle III is the author of more than 55 published books, the be purchased at Amazon.com and other screenwriter for three made s a Internet booksellers At 30, I had a massive stroke. 18 months later, I returned to work a policeman. My career ended after a 2nd stroke so I took up painSouthern Living Magazine.Frank Matheis ting. Now, Bibiana Huang Matheis Dennis Sheehan after a 3rd stroke, I write! ‐for Frank Matheis is a writer who resides in Pawling, New Frank Matheis is a writer ‐TV movies, and a former travel editor of York. He has publishedBibiana more than Huang four Matheis Bibiana HuangDennis Matheis Sheehan is a professional resides who resides in Pawling, and political newspaper articles, and six short stories. fine art photographer with a studio in He was three times shortis listed a professional for the Fish Short fine art Pawling, New inYork. Westchester Her work has with been his Krystal Wade New York. He has published Story prize in Ireland. Besidesphotographer his day j with a published internationallywife, four and children she regularly and more than four-hundred international marketing director for a green-hundred technology music exhibits nationwide. She studied at the company, Curtis Instruments,studio he is inactive Pawling, in radio New Corcoran Schoolfour of Art grandchildren. and the Maryland A mother of three who producing and Roots & Blues musicology, including as music and political news- s a College of Art & A mother of three who works fifty miles from home and writes inpublisher of York. Her her "spare workob as has He has traveled works fifty miles from home paper articles, and six short stories. Design. time". www.thecountryblues.combeen published internationally extensively and has worked and writes in her ”spare He was three times short listed for the Fish www.bibiphoto.com and she regularly exhibits nationwide. in China, Russia and South America and time” Krystal’s debut Short Story prize in Ireland. Besides his She studied at the Corcoran School of Art Africa. His first novel Purchased Power novel “Wilde’s Fire” has day job as international marketing director and the Maryland College of Art & Design. has been a huge success and his second been accepted for publication for a green technology company, Curtis Instruments, he is active in radio producing www.bibiphoto.com S. Martin Friedman has been a photographerthriller; andGreen to Red will be out soon. He and should be available in 2012 Bibiana Huang Matheis is a professional and Roots & Blues musicology, including fine art photographer with a studio in printmaker for more than 50 years. Duringis a regular that time guest he on Westchester on the as publisher of www.thecountryblues.com Pawling, New York. Her work has been has earned three degrees in art, includingLevel a Master’s with Hezi Aris. published internationally and she regularly Degree in Photography and a exhibits nationwide. She studied at the Graphics. He has also taught art on the secondary and Corcoran School of Art and the Maryland college levels, and operated his own Gallery and College of Art & Post Graduate Degree in Design. Framing operation in Westchester County, New York. www.bibiphoto.com His artwork has sold in Galleries throughout the and has been seen in nu Museums and private collections.merous shows and

world S. Martin Friedman has been a photographer and When, in the 70’s he printmaker for more than 50 years. During that time he has earned three degrees in art, including a Master’s Degree in Photography and a Graphics. He has also taught art on the secondary and college levels, and operated his own Gallery and Framing operation in WestchesterPost County, Graduate New Degree York. in His artwork has sold in Galleries throughout the and has been seen in nu Museums and private collections.merous shows and world When, in the 70’s he

Dennis Sheehan resides in Westchester with his wife, four children and four grandchildren. He has traveled extensively and has worked in China, Russia and South America and Africa. His first novel Purchased Power has been a huge success and his second Dennis Sheehan resides in Westchester with his wife, four children and four guest on Westchester on the Level with Hezi Aris. grandchildren. He has traveled extensively and has worked in China, Russia and

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Nancy B. Brewer is an award winning author, storyteller and poe tess. She is known for her soft southern style and passion for weaving histothriller; Green to Red will be out soon. He is a regular rica stories, such as: "Carolina Rain" and "Beyond Sandy Ridge" Nancy B. Brewer is an award winning author, storyteller and poetess. She is known for her soft southern style and passion for weaving histo rica stories, such as: "Carolina Rain" and "Beyond Sandy Ridge" As a detective, in the UK, Paul Anthony served with Cumbria CID , the Regional Crime Squad in Manchester, the Special Branch, the anti lly accurate other national agencies experiences to write fiction regarding crime thrillers, murder As a detective, in the UK, Paul Anthony served with Cumbria CIDmystery, , the Regional espionage, terrorism, political intrigue and the interplay of human Crime Squad in Manchester, the Special Branch, the antiin London and elsewhere. He uses his personal lly accurate relationships.other national agencies THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 15 experiences to write fiction regarding crime thrillers, murder ‐terrorist branch and mystery, espionage, terrorism, political intrigue and the interplay of human in London and elsewhere. He uses his personal relationships. Magdalena Capurso is an Art representative for international portraitist

Kenneth Hari. Influenced by Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Blake, Rilke, she is ‐terrorist branch and working on a collection of poems that reflect upon nature and s pirituality. Magdalena resides in NYC.Magdalena Capurso is an Art representative for international po rtraitist http://www.TheWritersCollection.com The Wr ters Collection Kenneth Hari. Influenced by Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Blake, Rilke, she is working on a collection of poems that reflect upon nature and spirituality. Magdalena resides in NYC. Stephen Woodfin Stephen Woodfin is an attorney/author who has obvious failings? Or, would we angrily chas- what we need is a return to the days when of Manhattan, there was an area, about half Stephen Woodfin is an thrillers. He blogs on Venture Galleries a mile downtown from me, known as “The tise them and use whatever methods would we didn’t put ourselves on the defensive attorney/author who has (http://venturegalleries.com/author/stephenwoodfin ) Bowery.” One of the most elegant areas reverse their perilous conduct? Even if it just because we were critical of those who written five legal thrillers. Stephen Woodfin is an attorney/author who has included calling them bums! In my opinion, violated societal norms. of the city during the 1800s, by 1900, the He blogs on Venture thrillers. He blogs on Venture Galleries the proliferation of homeless people has Civilization didn’t occur by accident. written five legal Bowery devolved into low-rent concert Galleries (http://venturegalleries. (http://venturegalleries.com/author/stephenwoodfin ) halls, flop houses, beer gardens, brothels and a direct correlation to the acceptance of It was arrived at when people organized to com/author/stephenwoodfin ) streets that became the living quarters for sloth by a large segment of our society. fight against the barbarism of those who hundreds of people with no visible means of Our unwillingness to condemn this vulgar, refused to conform to a system that had written five legal support. These days, people in those circum- in-your-face display of filth and indolence rules and morality as its foundation. Thanks

stances are called “homeless” or “temporarily sends a message to the participants that they to the courage and tenacity of our ancestors, At 30, I had a massive stroke. 18 months later, I returned to w ork a unsheltered.” In those days they were known are socially acceptable as long as they stay that struggle for decency became a standard Philip Catshill policeman. My career ended after a 2nd stroke so I took up painting. Now, as Bowery Bums. The word, bum, simply on the street. In other words, you’ll be kind of behavior that shielded the majority from after a 3rd stroke, I write! refers to someone who refuses to work and and creative in the terms you use to describe the raucous excesses of the few. However, At 30, I had a massive stroke. At 30, I had a massive stroke. 18 months later, I returned to work a tries to live off of others. Those who either them, but you won’t do anything to alter with the onset of political correctness, 18 months later, I returned to work as a policeman. policeman. My career ended after a 2nd stroke so I took up painting. Now, chose, or were thrust into such penury, their style of living. being judgmental became a character flaw after a 3rd stroke, I write! were also called beggars and tramps. Such Oh, you might toss them some coin or in the person who criticized odd behavior. My career ended after s a references were made during a time in our a greenback when you’re accosted on the Soon, any critique of even the most bizarre a 2nd stroke so I took up

history when euphemisms were rare. Today, street or you’re at a stoplight when one of antics reflected poorly on the critic, rather painting. Now, after a 3rd stroke, I

there are euphemisms for just about every them starts “cleaning” your windshield with than on the oddball. Public indignation is a write!

activity that, if given the specific title, would a grimy rag that’s unfit to mop a toilet. powerful tool if used correctly. Conversely, s a

be deemed offensive to civil discourse, also Maybe your small “donation” makes you public acceptance of odious conduct will Frank Matheis is a writer who resides in Pawling, New York. He has published more than four known as polite conversation. Hence, in a feel like a decent human being with a heart only exacerbate a deplorable situation and and political newspaper articles, and six short stories. continuing effort to soften our language and of gold. But, it’s also possible that you may continue to dismantle a civilization that Jack Durish He was three times short listed for the Fish Short Story prize in Ireland. Besides his day j distort reality, we find words that make us be rewarding bad behavior by making it took thousands of years to build. Hence, we Jack Durish was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943. He is a sinternational marketing director for a green-hundred technology music oldier and a feel better about who we are and how non- easier to panhandle and live on the street, don’t help the homeless by feeling sorry for Jack Durish was born in company, Curtis Instruments, he is active in radio Baltimore, Maryland, in sailor, a decorated veteran of Vietnam, a husband, father, and producing and Roots & Blues musicology, including as grandfather. judgmental we can be. than it is to get a job and become a produc- them; we only feed into their hopelessness, Jack is the author of Rebels on the Mountain, available at all publisher of ob as eBook retailers, 1943. He is a soldier and a www.thecountryblues.com Which brings up the question: Is being tive member of the human race. There’s no making the ridiculous appear sublime. and a sailor, a decorated veteran non-judgmental merely a way for society to dignity in being a beggar, but, when sweet- blogg A different topic is addressed weekly on www. VentureGalleries.com.er at JackDurish.com, TheWritersCollection.com, and ease their collective conscience by accepting sounding titles are used to describe the of Vietnam, a husband, TheWritersCollection.com. Each participant bad behavior and thereby, unwittingly, humiliating demeanor, it becomes increas- father, and grandfather. Jack is the author, as well, as guest bloggers, are encour- author of Rebels on the Mountain, available encourage it? Although we can all sympa- ingly more acceptable and more difficult to aged to write on the chosen topic. The intriguing at all eBook retailers, and a blogger at Bibiana Huang Matheis is a professional thize with the plight of the homeless, do we end. How many of the homeless have been fine art photographer with a studio in aspect of each of their efforts is that by infusing Pawling, New York. Her work has been help them by neglecting to criticize such enriched by those well-meaning phrases JackDurish.com, TheWritersCollection.com, their specific mood and / or genre, we can better and VentureGalleries.com. Caleb Pirtle III is the author of more than 55 published books,published internationally and she regularly the waste of human life? If our children plopped and carefully worded comments referring screenwriter for three madeexhibits nationwide. She studied at the appreciate the complexity, frivolity, or serious- Corcoran School of Art and the Maryland their lazy bones on a street corner, drank to their precarious condition? Isn’t it just College of Art & ness of the issue they are challenged to distill for Southern Living Magazine.Design. from a whiskey bottle and solicited money possible that if we, as a society, took on a www.bibiphoto.com Jack Durish was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943. He is a sall our readers to celebrate, critique, or be cajoled oldier and a from pedestrians; would we simply wring different posture toward these malodorous ‐for sailor, a decorated veteran of Vietnam, a husband, father, and to delve in the joy of writing. grandfather. ‐TV movies, and a former travel editor of our hands woefully and pass by? Would we misfits that they would be less likely to Jack is the author of Rebels on the Mountain, available at all S. Martin FriedmaneBook retailers, operated his own Atelier he did master printing for artists such as LeRoy conjure up soft-sounding names for their continue in their pursuit of nothing? Maybe and a Neiman and Salvador Dali. blogg He now specializes in landscape,S. nature Martin and panoramic Friedman images. has S. Martin Friedman has been a photographer and VentureGalleries.com.er at JackDurish.com, TheWritersCollection.com, and been a photographer and printmaker for more than 50 years. During that time he

printmaker for more than A mother of three who works fifty miles from home and writes inhas earned three degrees in art, including a Master’s her "spare Degree in Photography and a 50 years. During that time time". Graphics. He has also taught art on the secondary and Dennis Sheehan he has earned three degrees college levels, and operated his own Gallery and Caleb Pirtle, III C.C. Cole Framing operation in WestchesterPost County, Graduate New Degree York. in in art, including a Master’s Degree in His artwork has sold in Galleries throughout the Dennis Sheehan resides Dennis Sheehan resides in Westchester with his wife, four childCaleb Pirtle III is the author C.C.Coleren and four is a Dark Fantasy Photography and a Post Graduate Degreeand has been seen in nu Caleb Pirtle III is the author of more than 55 published books, the Museums in Westchester with his C.C.Cole is a Dark Fa grandchildren. He has traveled extensively and has worked in Chof more than 55 published writerina, Russia and from rural Mississippi in Graphics. He has also taught art on the and private collections.merous shows and screenwriter for three made rural Mississippi who lives in the suburbs wife, four children and secondary and college levels, and operated South America and Africa. His first novel Purchased Power has bbooks, the screenwriter for whoeen a huge lives in the suburbs with with her ntasy writer from world Southern Living Magazine. When, in the 70’s he four grandchildren. success and his second interestshis includefamily. own medievalGallery and and 20th Framing operation in three made for TV movies, her family. Besides writing, Besides writing, other He has traveled centuryWestchester history, martial arts, County, and adopted New York. His artwork guest on Westchester on the Level with Hezi Aris.and a former travel editor other interests include ‐for greyhounds. extensively and has worked ‐TV movies, and a former travel editor of has sold in Galleries throughout the world of Southern thriller;Living Magazine Green to Red will be out soon. He is a regular medieval and 20th century history, in China, Russia and South America and and has been seen in numerous shows and martial arts, and adopted greyhounds. Africa. His first novelPurchased Power Museums and private collections. When, has been a huge success and his second in the 70’s he operated his own Atelier Nancy B. Brewer is an award winning author, storyteller and poe A mother of three who works fifty miles from home and writes intess. She is he did master her "spare printing for artists such thriller; Green to Red will be out soon. He known for her soft southern style and passion for weaving histotime". rica as LeRoy Neiman and Salvador Dali. He is a regular guest on Westchester on the stories, such as: "Carolina Rain" and "Beyond Sandy Ridge" now specializes in landscape, nature and Level with Hezi Aris. panoramic images.

As a detective, in the UK, Paul Anthony served with Cumbria CID , the Regional Crime Squad in Manchester, the Special Branch, the anti lly accurate other national agencies experiences to write fiction regarding crime thrillers, murder mystery, espionage, terrorism, political intrigue and the interplay of hin London and elsewhere. He uses his personal uman relationships. ‐terrorist branch and

Magdalena Capurso is an Art representative for international portraitist Kenneth Hari. Influenced by Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Blake, Rilke, she is working on a collection of poems that reflect upon nature and spirituality. Magdalena resides in NYC.

Stephen Woodfin is an attorney/author who has thrillers. He blogs on Venture Galleries (http://venturegalleries.com/author/stephenwoodfin )

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you worked to pay for it, and you agreed to run for of our friends gone, I have a need to help our ever- The Retired (Try To) Strike Back political office when Kenny got sick. These aren’t smaller group with their many concerns. And secrets to people who know you.” that’s led me to want to help with other problems Chapter 51 – Last Secrets “I’ve always seen myself as this short actuary, around us.” By ALLAN LUKS a not very interesting guy. I hear what you say, but “I’m sure that’s why many seniors have joined wonderful.” I keep telling myself that I still need to be more. what we started—the marches, going to Talk Myron kisses Roz on her Roz smiles. “Thank you.” Even being past seventy, I still think this way.” Centers,” Myron says. cheek and hugs her tightly, as “I came today to have a private goodbye but “I’ve told everyone, you heard, that I’ll join the They sit still, and then both smile slightly. he enters her home. They sit also, yes, because we share this secret,” says Myron. marches in California when I’m there. . . . Kenny “Good luck in California,” Myron says. across from each other in the “I’ll still think about it while you’re in California used to say one reason he kept acting in all his “You can think of me thinking of you thinking living room, and Roz has coffee and want to know if you’ll think of it once in awhile. amateur productions was because his performance of our secret,” Roz replies. and cake waiting on a table. I don’t believe that’s wrong. Having good secrets at helped people in the audience get in touch with She waits: “Myron, you have to run for City “I’m glad you came to see our age, to know we’re more than the way people their hearts and minds. To think and feel because Council again. Yes, yes, we can change so much, me before my move next week see us.” of him. That’s why, he said, he wanted to act now and for our children, and we have our personal to live near my son and his family in California,” Roz just answers, “Will you definitely run forever—wanted to.” need pushing us, so if we just keep being reminded says Roz. Framed photos of her late husband again for City Council? “ Myron remembers Kenny also telling friends that we can.” Kenny stand close together on a small table next “I hope so. Everything I said in the campaign that acting let him release his own fears into the Myron smiles. “Well, I’m on this new senior to her chair— about how seniors can make a special difference as dramatic character he was playing, but the audience train now. And I keep telling myself: I can’t get off.” “What happened, the two of us,” Roz suddenly elected officials. I still definitely believe it.” didn’t know that.” says, “it was during the making of our little advice He pauses. “I also need the campaign, the Roz cries, wiping at her eyes, “I miss Kenny so Send me your experiences: This column tells the story of film to help seniors. We were acting in the film. planning each day, all the meetings. Otherwise I much. No secret.” She gets up and brings back one four retired couples, who want to show that seniors are We weren’t ourselves when we rehearsed at your might be thinking too much about pains and blood of the framed photos from the crowded table and vital and discover that they also can offer new leadership apartment. I mean, at our ages. I know I’ve told tests and other health worries that can catch us now. shows it to Myron, and then she sits. to society. Each column is based on conversations I’ve had you this before. That could never happen again, you What if something happens and I’m suddenly “A high school graduation photo with Kenny with seniors and non-seniors. I’ve heard from many of understand?” forgotten? I can actually think that way. I’m being and me and the other teachers and the students. I you, and encourage other readers to contact me with their Roz wipes at her eyes with a tissue from a honest. It’s not something I like or talk about.” used to get annoyed at students always running in related experiences so I can include them in the remaining small box balanced on one of her chair’s arms. “But you had the film idea, you found the a group, afraid to be different. Now, with so many columns about the retired’s story as they (try to) strike back. “Myron waits. “I can still say you look grant money from the insurance company where Direct email to [email protected]. BOOKS No Guarantees: One Man’s Road Through the Darkness of Depression Chapter 37 – Denial and Devastation

By BOB MARRONE aged teenager. Like most next store neighbors in was a dangerous haven for drug dealers, prosti- separated my backyard from hers, or in the front Marianne Monahan was the love the inner city during the early seventies, our families tutes and their pimps. She was self possessed and gate by the steps…we used to call them stoops.. of my life. were close and we all knew one another well. Even mature, yet inside she hurt for the obvious reasons The first thing I would do when I got home Exactly when I began to fall in love though I was five years older, she and I were the of familial separation and rejection. was to go out in the back yard to see if she was there with this teenager-come-woman I youngest in the group and related to each other in As the years past, there came a point in time so I could talk with her or just be with her. At night, do not know. Nor have I ever come that way, as I watched her grow from a high school when our relationship grew deeper and different. I would stay out as late as possible, living on four to grips with exactly when she student into a college wiz. In time, especially later when Marianne was no hours of sleep, just to talk with her and be with her. blossomed into the most attrac- We had much in common. She was living longer just the girl next store, I began to realize I We talked about our similar childhoods and what tive female I had ever seen. She was my next door with her aunt and uncle because she was not was drawn to her. She was still in school and I had we wanted out of life. And we would constantly neighbor at 24th Street. comfortable being at home with her mother and just started working when I realized it. Marianne tease one another. It fascinates me, still today, how We had come of age together and had bonded step-father. She was also more at ease living in the was there each and every day, when I got home people will express the energy of romantic and long before there was any male/female tension. Park Slop / Sunset Park section of Brooklyn than from work, or came home from whatever I was sexual attraction in this way. I find it remarkable I knew Marianne since she was a middle school on Dean Street, downtown, which, at that time, doing later on. She was either at the fence which Continued on page 17

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Chapter 37 – Denial and Devastation York Mets and Charley Finley’s Oakland A’ on change I would have had to make. that windy fall night in 1973, stands as one of the I retreated. I stopped spending time on the Continued from page 16 As the next two summers passed Marianne and happiest days of my life. stoop, and went ahead with my marriage plans. that I did not recognize it in myself back then. I would spend massive amounts of time together, with Over the next several months I was hopelessly Nothing was said between Marianne and I about I know it sounds sappy, like some love song, me never admitting what I felt, and me also convincing in love with her, and I realized that she had feelings that week, nor would it be for over thirty years. but I remember the very day that it hit me. Several myself that these feelings should go nowhere. When for me to; but we did not speak of it. Yet, one night, Over the months leading up to my wedding, of us just come from having Chinese food in you are twenty-three and the other person is eighteen, during one of our long stoop sessions I told her that I became sad and angry over what I had done. I Manhattan and were sitting on beach chairs in her difference is huge. Also, I was on and off again with I was going to cancel my wedding. I did not say was going to marry someone while I was deeply front gate. She went into her house to freshen up; my wife to be heading inexorably toward the altar with why, but there was an understanding. in love with another. The sadness and anger inside when she came out there were no empty chairs a momentum I did not know how to stop. What I The next day, her aunt was in the front gate me grew and added to my convictions of self-hate. and she walked over to mine which was the lounge also did not know was that everyone around could see when I came home from work and mentioned Worse still, I was building horrible guilt knowing type and sat down caddy corner by my legs. As she what was between us and hoped we would act on it. what I had told Marianne the night before. I felt that I had hurt Marianne by not moving forward, settled, she looked up, her long brown hair, shin- Her guardian parents even went so far as to naked and afraid, as if I had lost control of the situa- and not ever telling her that I loved her. On the ning in the early evening sunlight, swept across her fake a family emergency and give us their tickets tion. I did not expect Marianne to tell anyone. Later night of my wedding, she did not come, nor did her face as she raised her head, passing over her hazel/ to a 1973 World Series game, along with their car, that night I went to my brother’s house to ask his aunt who stayed home to be with her. I heard that brown eyes looking directly into mine. It was the hoping that we would move forward in a romantic advice. I told him about changing my plans, and my she was devastated. first time in my life that I experienced such a deep way. They also asked the two of us to baby sit their concern over Marianne telling her aunt. He told me Of all the lies I had told myself this was the emotion not related to fear or family love. I had no younger daughter together in the further hope that I was out of line; that Marianne was too young and biggest. Once again, I was headed to a life I did not choice in the matter. It was one of the most beau- we would take advantage of the privacy. I did not. I was acting irresponsibly. I panicked. My brother’ s want while pretending I did. tiful moments I have ever known. I was in love in a I could not get my head around the age difference comments and the aunt’s statement made me feel or my pending engagement. And what is more, I that I was a bad person doing something wrong, Bob Marrone is the host of the Good Morning way that would never change, and that would serve Westchester with Bob Marrone, heard from Monday to bring us still closer together. was not sure that she felt as I did. Suffice it to say Plus, and I can only say this in hindsight, I am sure I that going to that baseball game, between the New was looking for an easy way out of the momentous to Friday, from 6 – 8:30 a.m., on WVOX-1460 AM. THE SPOOF conference in NYC’s Grand Central Station to wearing nothing but a large fig leaf -- a leaf that The Apple Inc. Logo - Who Bit into the Apple? defend himself and lay out the case against Eve. apparently wasn’t quite large enough, as he was By GAIL FARRELLY Addressing astonished commuters, he said, “If you’re arrested for indecent exposure. first residents of the Garden of Eden. But neither talking about something like a half-empty bag of Sources say that Eve went to visit Adam in jail. It’s one of the most famous logos one will own up to the deed. pretzels or even a Budweiser missing a few slurps, She came bearing gifts: a box of freshly-baked apple in the world -- a nice plump Eve claims that Adam is the guilty party, saying, I’d step up to the plate as your perp. But an apple? tarts and a jug of apple cider. apple. A perfect logo, except for “He’s a pig. Just like any barnyard pig, when he’s Fugheddaboudit!” Meanwhile an ancient serpent slithers along one thing. Someone’s taken a big hungry he’ll eat anything in sight.” He went on to report that it’s Eve who’s into silently in the Garden of Eden. He’s smiling, because bite out of it. Yikes! On the other hand, Adam points the finger all that healthy-eating stuff, saying, “Sadly, the little he has a secret. He loves apples. When he sees one, And so begins one of the of blame squarely at Eve, reminding the world, “In woman just can’t get enough of apples. She even uses he can’t resist taking a bite out of it. greatest mysteries of the digital ancient times she took a bite of the apple and got us apple-scented soap and apple-based face cream. It’s Case closed. age. Whodunnit? all into trouble. And then she went and did it again an obsession with her. Go figure.” Most agree that the two when Apple was founded. She’s a repeat offender. Unfortunately Adam had to cut the press Learn more about The Farrelly Sisters - Authors: likeliest suspects are the first couple. No, not Barack That’s that.” conference short, since the police arrived to cart http://www.farrellysistersonline.com/ on the Internet. and Michelle. The real first couple -- Adam and Eve, Adam is so sure he’s right he held a press him off to jail. Not for theft. It was because he was Books Government THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT Section Without Borders was still serving in the state senate. He Federal Court indicated it will continue th Saturday, June 9 2012 Espada Guilty! had been defeated that September in deliberations on the remaining charges. 10am to 4pm By CARLOS GONZALEZ the Democratic Primary for his Bronx Those discussions have already stretched seat. Prosecutors have said the Espadas on for more than two weeks. The joy of reading will be celebrated Parents will be able to find books ALBANY, NY -- May engaged in several illegal schemes from In a sign that the jury was still strug- at the first FREE for their children and the public January 2005 to February 2010. gling with the case, it announced no “Books Without Borders” Event, will have a chance to meet some 14, 2012 -- Former New being held at three locations: of their favorite authors and York State Sen. Pedro The Espadas were tried on eight decision so far on Mr. Espada’s son, who Yonkers Riverfront Library at discover new ones as well. 1 Larkin Plaza, Espada, Jr. was found counts. Five charged them with stealing was tried at the same time and faces the Tobin Plaza on Buena Vista Avenue Books Without Borders will also guilty Monday, May 14, from Soundview, one count for each year identical charges. and the Waterfront Esplanade. be a festive event, offering live from 2005 through 2009. They were also music, and children’s 2012, on four counts of Share your thoughts with Carlos Gonzalez, This Free Event will include entertainment. theft from The Bronx charged with conspiring to steal from Seminars, Workshops, Panel Discounts at local eateries will The Albany Correspondent, by directing Discussions with Authors, and also be available that day. medical clinic he founded. Soundview, to defraud the U.S. Internal Entertainment for the email to [email protected]. entire family. Additional counts against the Revenue Service and to commit wire Presented by Yonkers lawmaker and his son are unresolved. fraud. The theft counts carry maximum This event will put the spotlight on Downtown/Waterfront BID, Yonkers every aspect of the book publishing Riverfront Library, The Westchester U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch prison sentences of 10 years each. world and offer something Guardian, Yonkers Tribune and for everyone. author Dennis Sheenan. accused the Espadas of stealing more The elder Espada, who sat than $500,000 from the Soundview expressionless during the reading “Celebrating the Literary Arts” Healthcare Center, which the elder of the verdict, faces a maximum Espada started in 1978 and which gets of 10 years in prison on each of more than $1 million a year in federal the theft charges for which he has www.YonkersDowntown.com funding. been convicted so far. The Espadas were charged in In returning its partial verdict December 2010 when the elder Espada Monday, the jury in Brooklyn Page 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 19

MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT

staff, based on a long standing policy, receive 17 agreement. their process. paid holidays per year, something that would The parties have met approximately eight However, if our Police union ends up in Labor Relations never be negotiated in the backdrop of 2012 to ten times since. The Police union is repre- arbitration, the arbitrators’ final award will not By MARY C. MARVIN economic realities. sented by a committee of officers led by PBA have precedential value, as the decision will have Labor relations with our three The union representative and the Library President Detective Richard Anderson as well been made by someone who is not a steward of unions in the Village are unset- negotiating team met with the team approved as Labor Counsel. The Village’s team consists of our taxpayer dollars. tled. Labor contracts expired by the Library Board, which includes Village Village Administrator Porr and Labor Counsel. The current situation is not ideal for any with both the Police union and Administrator Harold Porr and a Labor Trustees do not sit at the bargaining table, the of the parties; Library staff, Police officers, the Teamsters representing Counsel. By law, all decisions will be made by procedure adopted by most communities as it Department of Public Works employees and our Public Works employees. the Library Board. The Village Board of Trustees helps to inherently separate politics from the Village government. Our Library staff decided to has no role in these negotiations. process. Lack of agreements cause a feeling of unionize under the auspices The parties have met 25 times since 2008. The Police union just recently declared uncertainty and it is clearly not a recipe for high of the Civil Service Employees Association The Library team recently declared “impasse” impasse and sought arbitration per State morale. It is difficult for everyone. (CSEA), the largest union in New York State, and filed with New York State’s Public procedure. From the perspective of a Village Trustee, so their eventual contract will be an original Employees Relations Board (PERB). Per New Municipal unions are not allowed to strike. we need to strike a balance between offering our agreement. York State law, a mediator will be assigned and Police and fire unions have mandatory arbitra- hard working employees a fair wage that demon- Based on New York State law, all three three negotiating dates will be set. tion. As a result, police compulsory arbitration strates the respect we have for their work while at unions operate under very different sets of rules. If an agreement cannot be reached “fact takes the form of a three person panel populated the same time being stewards of your dollars as The Library CSEA contract is particularly finding” will ensue, whereby both parties draw up by the labor lawyers representing each party and taxpayers and not setting in motion agreements important because it will serve as the template reports representing their positions and the fact an agreed upon “neutral.” that will detrimentally affect Village finances for every agreement for years to come. There finder will share them with the Library Board of Though no date is set as of press time, what long term. We are in a time of crippling contri- are currently eight full time employees in the Trustees. If both parties continue at a standstill, will follow is essentially a bench trial. Evidence butions to the New York State pension system Library union. Part-timers were allowed to “super conciliation” is imposed allowing a “super will be presented, including witnesses such as and the $1.2 million we just sent off to Albany vote to certify a union but the CSEA has yet to conciliator” to do additional fact finding and economists and comparable data vis-à-vis other certainly has to be viewed as part of the overall require the part-time employees to pay dues. mediation. communities. financial package of every Village employee. The period between petitioning to unionize If at the end of this process there is still no Prior to the actual arbitration, the parties I will keep you abreast of any agreements but by Library staffers and the actual vote that chose agreement, by law the Library Board of Trustees will mutually agree upon three or four main there will be no conversation from the Village union affiliation by a very small margin was must legislatively impose a first contract. Though issues to debate as every provision of a contract while negotiations are in progress. We believe all extremely short. Upon reflection, I think the lasting for only one year, it would serve as the is not tackled in compulsory arbitration. Quite negotiating should take place at the bargaining abbreviated timeframe proved to be a disservice template for all contracts in perpetuity. obviously, salary and health provisions usually table, as public airing during such time is unpro- to both parties, limiting the time for everyone It is important to note that all during this top the list. Whatever the arbitrators decide is fessional and most importantly unproductive. to do the cost/benefit analysis of union, non- prescribed process, the parties can continue to automatically valid for just one year. Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of union affiliation. Also, writing a contract from meet and talk and/or the union membership Again, parties can decide to negotiate right Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion or scratch during these very challenging economic have the option to decertify union affiliation. up until the arbitrators’ final decision. comment, consider directing your perspective by times presents a completely altered stage for The Village’s contract with the Police union Our Public Works employees have tradi- email to: [email protected]. negotiation. expired on May 31, 2011 and the two parties tionally waited until a Police contract was As example, the non-union Village Hall began meeting early in 2012 to craft a new negotiated with the Village before beginning ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Benefitting from Hiring an Economic Development Consultant in New Rochelle By PEGGY GODFREY city can avail itself. They train staff in the latest in the Eastern division of NDC, said there were the New Rochelle Industrial Development The New Rochelle City tools, programs and industry patterns and bring two other divisions, in Kentucky and Seattle. Agency (NRIDA) and was told NDC Council (NRCC) is resources to the small business community in the Problem solving for communities is their goal incorporates the benefits available afforded embarking on a creative way of special loans.” and he cited a parking deck that they assisted in by an industrial development agency, but way of evaluating, enticing, At the May 15, 2012, meeting of the planning for Ithaca University. Commissioner Freimuth said it was a “complex and enabling develop- NRCC, Daniel Marsh, Senior Director of the Mayor Noam Bramson asked when is a resource.” ment. Propelled by a NDC, spoke of how his company could make subsidy to a developer justified and the answer After the meeting, Lorraine Pierce asked resolution proposed by former better use of the time needed for development was that a subsidy changes the nature of the deal why the City had to hire and pay outside consul- Councilman Richard St. Paul, by identifying resources available; such as tax and would have to be evaluated using that criteria. tants to plan for development, thereby replicating the NRCC authorized the hiring of a consultant subsidies or grants. The NDC staff consists of Councilman Barry Fertel after asking the work and alleged expertise of New Rochelle’s to help sort out the possible benefits and costs former bankers, municipal planners and related whether Forest City Residential, a project already commissioners whose efforts would be neutered of development proposals. A one-year contract development personnel so when they come into in progress would be subject to additional evalua- or duplicate. Why would New Rochelle want to costing $95,000 with a 30 day cancellation fee was a community that has requests for proposals tion by NDC to ascertain its viability was advised pay for the same work from two separate sources? given to a firm, National Development Council (RFPs) such as the Armory or Garden Street, that it too would be analyzed. “They are our think tanks and should be doing (NDC), that had been previously engaged by they would provide an analysis of the financial Councilman Jared Rice expressed interest this job,” Ms Pierce said. their present Commissioner of Development, feasibility. Their objective is to decide whether in transit oriented development, specifically Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer and a former Michael Freimuth. Freimuth said, “National a city needs “to do it.” The firm has established mentioning the Garden Street area, and was told educator. Development Council (NDC) is a national non relationships with enabling financial institutions, several comparable projects might be proposed. profit community and economic development such as GE Capital, and work in partnership But it was stressed that “distressed” areas are a organization specializing in representing cities. with communities to find appropriate businesses. very different circumstance. It is important for They are well experienced in negotiating highly Special note was made that in the last decade municipalities’ supervisors and planners to agree complex deals on behalf of cities, ensuring that evolving permutations of federal tax credits have a project would work. an appropriate subsidy is applied, and deter- been used to fill financial gaps. The consultants Rice’s inquiry continued when he asked mining if even one is necessary. 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HOUSING The Town of Greenburgh at Odds with Westchester County Over WestHelp

By NANCY KING payment from the town. For nearly 20 years, the facility sits empty and in disrepair. Though and the Town of Greenburgh, the clock is ticking Nearly eight months ago, Town of Greenburgh paid the Valhalla Schools still technically owned by the county, the keys for them and the 56 residential students for whom the WestHelp Transitional foundation nearly $1.8 million to enhance to this sad little kingdom have been returned they care. Should they be unable to stay at their Housing facility, located on the lives of homeless children who would be to Greenburgh. Greenburgh has in turn given current location, the parents and school districts the grounds of the Westchester attending the district. But, the kids never came; custody of the facility to the Greenburgh Housing of these hard to place students will face a daunting Community College was most of the youngsters who did reside in that Authority who have been lax in the upkeep of the task of finding a safe environment where they can closed. Opened nearly 21 years transitional housing were infants or toddlers. The facility. According to the Town of Greenburgh, receive appropriate cared. It isn’t clear as to what ago, the site which became a money went into an account that was overseen by the Housing Authority has been issued a series of the timeline would be if WestHelp would be national model for transitional housing, consists school board member Mike Smith, and Mayfair three month leases by the town although there are razed and a new facility for Ferncliff constructed of 108 small efficiency type apartments. The Civic Association officer Ned McCormick. The no tenants on site. but it certainly seems like they would be given a property also boasts administrative offices and money accrued was subsequently used to fund Town of Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner stay of eviction if there were a plan in place for classrooms that were presumably to be used to the “University of Lifelong Learning” and those has floated alternate plans for the decaying site. them. After all, even under the best circumstances provide vocational training to the single homeless who were “in the know” took trips to the Grand He has proposed to Westchester County that it would take over a year to raze one set of build- mothers who were the site’s primary residents. Canyon, saw operas, shows, ate luxury meals and WestHelp would be a good location for Special ings while constructing another. When opened in 1991, WestHelp touted paid for college prep classes for “their” young. Act School Ferncliff Manor, a school that special- Greenburgh residents who don’t live in itself as being the very model of how a home- While this was going on, Greenburgh was izes in hard to place disabled children. Ferncliff is the Mayfair section of the town are left shaking less shelter could be placed on the perimeter of receiving a modest tax payment for the site. being evicted from their current site in Yonkers, their heads in wonder if this whole conundrum an upscale white neighborhood and be the very Astute community members began to look New York, as the building which houses it is no wasn’t set in motion by the Mayfair Acres Civic model of perfect neighborliness. With its cedar further and saw that Valhalla was getting money longer meets code. Supervisor Feiner proposed Association in the first place. They begrudgingly shake shingles, and quaint New England style for nothing; money which could have certainly having WestHelp razed, and Ferncliff would then accepted a temporary housing facility in their architecture, it was tucked away on the far western been funneled back into Greenburgh. It wasn’t be able to build a new school on the site. Under neighborhood as long as there was a cash incentive corner of Westchester Community College long before this matter ended up in court and his proposal, Feiner believes that Ferncliff would and a large chainlink fence separating them from bordering a neighborhood known as Mayfair what do you know… Valhalla was ordered to pay generate more income annually for the town the less fortunate whose main role was to live Acres. Mayfair, as it is known by its residents, is a back that money to Greenburgh. instead of the affordable housing option. Feiner there in invisibility. With Marie Smith, wife of few block area of expansive ranch homes on large In the meantime, the WestHelp family also believes that many of Ferncliff ’s students are Republican County Legislator Michael J. Smith, pieces of property. Though the neighborhood is center was scheduled to close even though former from a lower income bracket and would benefit chair of the Mayfair Acres Civic Association, within the Town of Greenburgh, children in the Westchester County Executive Andy Spano from having a better quality of life in a new she has intimate knowledge that Greenburgh is Mayfair neighborhood attend Valhalla schools. twice offered to extend the lease to the property; facility. It is unclear how many students fall into exempt from the HUD mess that we’re presently Michael Smith, the current county legislator lives and his offer came after a judge found that the this lower income bracket and how they are to be immersed. The Fairview section of Greenburgh in Mayfair acres and was a former school board Town of Greenburgh had been illegally paying referred to the school but normally students are is chock full of low-income housing and thus member. Ned McCormick, Westchester Count the Valhalla School District for years. It would referred to a special education program or out removes Greenburgh the housing equation. Was y’s Director of Communication also lives in have been a win / win situation for all. The town of district placement through their local districts’ this whole thing just a smokescreen for getting Mayfair Acres. Smith and McCormick, as offi- would get their payments to keep the tax burden CSE (Committee on Special Education). It this site demolished to make everybody living in cers of the Mayfair Acres Civic Association, were low, and homeless families would have had a also remains unclear as to what sort of taxes, Mayfair Acres happy? We’ll probably never know instrumental in brokering the deal for having this continued safety net. This time around however, Ferncliff would be required to pay the Town of for sure. In the meantime the good ole’ taxpayers “model” built on the edge of their neighborhood. the Mayfair Acres Civic Association wasn’t so Greenburgh. The reader should note it is not in Westchester County will keep footing the bill The “model” of neighborliness came with keen on having a shelter. The fact is that they uncommon for special act schools to be largely while those in dire need of housing are as usual a price tag. Brokered by Smith, McCormick, never wanted it in the first place but they suddenly non-profit and tax exempt. left out in the cold. Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner and agreed when the school and their civic association Ferncliff Manor finds itself caught between a Nancy King is a freelance, investigative reporter; a the Westchester County Board of Legislators, were the recipients of a tidy sum of money. rock and a hard place on this matter. Caught in a resident of White Plains, New York. the Valhalla Schools would receive an annual So the WestHelp Transitional Housing political tug of war between Westchester County LEGISLATION

since 2008, the EPF appropriation has been source. This bill would not amend the mecha- Latimer Environmental Bill Passes Assembly reduced from $255 million to $134 million. New nism that collects the unclaimed deposits in the revenues are needed support the many impor- current bottle bill law. Latimer indicated that the ALBANY, NY -- The bill adding funding to through the Returnable Beverage tant projects that protect New revenues generated by bottle deposit law, which New York State’s Environmental Protection Container Law from the General York’s families and our shared keeps communities cleaner and encourages recy- Fund sponsored by Assemblyman George Fund into the EPF over four years. environment. Some of those cling, should be used to benefit state programs to Latimer (D-Rye), A.7137, passed the State Assemblyman Latimer programs include protecting protect our air, land, and water. Assembly today by a vote of 111-0 - a unanimous, co-sponsors the bill with natural resources and commu- The bill awaits Senate passage before submis- bi-partisan endorsement of Latimer’s legislation Republican Senator Mark Grisanti nity character, eliminating solid sion to the Governor’s office. that ensures a separate funding stream for essen- (R-Erie County), and credited waste, keeping family farms Latimer has long been a staunch supporter tial environmental projects statewide, including environmental activist and lawyer working, and preventing pollu- of the environment, and has often received top flood mitigation projects for ravaged areas. J. Henry Neale of Scarsdale for tion and invasive species. scores from Environmental Advocates for his Environmental Advocates of New York - the bringing the concept into consid- New York State collects positions and votes. Naming this bill a “Super Bill” top statewide environmental group that monitors eration. “This proves once again the about $115 million from helped make it a top priority for environmental state legislation identified the bill as a “Super Bill”, value of citizen advocacy in taking unclaimed bottle deposits on an groups - and more likely to pass the legislature and one of the highest priority among all proposed a good idea, and giving it the atten- annual basis. become law. legislation. The bill would provide a net increase tion it deserves,” Latimer said. These revenues would be phased in over four years, starting in State Fiscal Year 2013–14. Also, To view the bill on-line, click: www.assembly.state. in resources allocated to the Environmental In describing the bill, Environmental ny.us/leg/?bn=A7137 Protection Fund (EPF) used to fund major Advocates noted that since 2003, approximately the bill specifies that this new revenue would not environmental projects statewide. It would $500 million in New York State funds has been replace the traditional source of funding for the phase unclaimed deposits collected by the state swept from the EPF for General Fund relief; EPF but would supplement the current funding THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 21

MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR Upcoming Events and Initiatives By PETER SWIDERSKI recycling as well. If you need new blue curbside Hastings has a proud reputa- recycling bin, contact the Commission. The tion for leading-edge awareness Village has a few left for sale. on conservation, environmental · Networking with other groups and sustainability issues. We The Commission has members active in have a vibrant Conservation SWEAC (Southern Westchester Energy Action Commission that is active on a Consortium: http://www.sweac.org) and ICLEI, broad range of fronts, offering an international initiative. many activities, programs and · Transportation projects you can engage on a number of levels. The The Commission is working to promote a Village itself is also committed to do everything program called “Complete Streets”, which seeks it can to push forward a range of sustainability standards for street design that incorporates all initiatives. This weekend, we have a couple of users: bikes, pedestrians and motor vehicles. events you can attend, and the (long) list below · Village initiatives is just a partial description of the many initia- The Village government has pursued a tives underway. Read on and marvel at what your number of initiatives, most recently the LED neighbor-volunteers are up to and what you can street bulb replacement effort where savings on do as well. the 10% of bulbs we’ve already replaced will fuel Upcoming events: the purchase of more LED bulbs. · Riversweep: Scour the shores of the There are other initiatives and always some- Hudson for trash on Saturday, June 2, 1-3pm. thing to do. Becoming involved is as easy as Meet at Kinnally Cove. Email the Conservation sending an email to conservationcommission@ Commission for more info. hastingsgov.org. · E-waste recycling event: morning As our climate becomes more stressed and of Saturday, June 16th, near the library. The environmental issues become more paramount, Commission has engaged WeRecycle to take our transformation as a society needs to accelerate your electronic waste. You will be able to drop off to meet the challenges ahead. Acting actively, electronics and small electric devices and know locally and immediately is a start –albeit small, but they will be responsibly recycled by one of the real. Get involved and take some control over that most reputable services available. transformation. There’s a lot to do. Initiatives underway: Next weekend, Memorial Day, we have · Trail maintenance two very special events here in Hastings worth attending. All Hastings residents are invited to help Next Saturday, at 11:30, we unveil a sculp- maintain our remarkable trail system and remove ture marker at Maceachron Park in honor of invasive vines. It’s great way to keep fit and to the Hudson River School of painters, America’s work with others toward a common good. Trail first native style of painting, one of several created season lasts all year, while our Vine Squad effort for sites up the Hudson valley. Hastings played by necessity winds down during poison ivy season. a central role in the development of that school: The Vine Squad will start up again in earnest the Jasper Cropsey, one of the central figures in the fall; meanwhile, we hope to establish sub-squads artistic movement, had his home and studio in various neighborhoods to prepare for fall in Hastings, where a number of his works were removal. Email conservationcommission@hast- painted. The Hudson River School was noted ingsgov.org to let us know of your interest and to for its romantic, pastoral visions, often set in learn what to do. · Greening the Building Code the Catskills or along the Hudson River. They frequently juxtaposed Roman or Greek ruins set A volunteer group assembled by the against the rugged Catskill streams or Hudson Conservation Commission toiled for 18 months River cliffs – a romantic idyll that spoke to the and have just completed and submitted for fascination of the time with the ancient era as well comment a greener version of our Building Code. as a romantic ideal popular too at the time. The It’s a major accomplishment that is now before sculpture to be unveiled depicts such a ruin, and the Planning Board for comment. is meant to be viewed against the dramatic cliffs · Catalog Choice across the river, evoking the painterly scenes once Over 20 billion catalogs are mailed in the composed on our very own shores. The unveiling United States every year. You can remove yourself will be relatively short, heavy with local politicians from mailing lists by signing onto https://hoh. and village residents, and will mark a moment catalogchoice.org. Select which catalogs, phone where we connect with our past. books, and even junk mail you wish to prevent The next day, Sunday, May 27, we will have from entering from your mailbox. Stop waste our annual Memorial Day parade at 2PM, one before it happens! of my favorite annual events. This year, however, · Love ’Em and Leave ’Em/ will be extra-special. Hastings will be hosting a Composting/Recycling Promotion contingent of 61 Marines and sailors from one The Commission actively promoted a of the ships stopping for Fleet Week, as well as successful new campaign called LELE to compost 20 cadets. They will be led in the parade by Rear leaves in place (rather than bagging them). The Admiral Townsend Alexander, who is in charge of commission promotes composting and increasing Continued on page 22 Page 22 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

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Upcoming Events and Initiatives the presence of the sailors and marines, serving in on Washington Avenue in one of the cottages Parking lot now is. (It was moved in 1931 to its a time of war, as well as cadets training to serve, located on the Draper Estate (where he frequently current location at Five Corners.) Continued from page 21 remind us that this service continues, unabated, visited the observatory which is now the home of This upcoming weekend offers two ways to naval activity on the entire Eastern seaboard. (The and we owe them our thanks. Come on out and, the Historical Society). Admiral Farragut served connect to the Village’s past while enjoying the Fire Department requested a naval contingent especially, bring the kids (the 9 gun salute always a distinguished career in the Union Navy during best a small village can offer. So please come on and the Defense Department was kind enough to impresses those who stay long enough to hear it) the Civil War – and is best remembered for his out, enjoy the weather and your neighbors, and oblige.) This is a first in decades (if ever) that such and enjoy a slice of America in your own commu- quote “Damn the torpedoes… full speed ahead” help make Sunday a success for the visiting sailors a contingent has shown up here in town. It’s now nity. It’s always a nice time. during his triumph at the Battle of Mobile Bay. and marines. up to us to provide a warm welcome. Finally, having mentioned the presence of He donated $600 of prize money awarded him Rear Admiral Alexander, I can’t help but remind at the end of the war to building Grace Episcopal Peter Swiderski is the mayor of the Village of Hastings- The parade will start by Reynolds Field and on-Hudson. Direct email to: [email protected]. wend down through Five Corners, down Main people that America’s first admiral was a Hastings Church, originally located where the Boulanger Street and then right on Warburton and through resident – Admiral David Farragut. Farrugut, who town. We have extra fire engines joining, a float began his naval career at the age of 12 during the from a NYC parade, and the usual array of bands, war of 1812 (yes, you read that correctly), was LEGAL NOTICE firemen, clubs and others marching. This is actually wounded and captured in combat during going to be a memorable moment. These parades the battle of Valparaiso near Chile. He moved to At the Compliance Part_____ of the Supreme Hastings-on-Hudson later in his career, shortly Court, State of New York held in and for the honor our fallen residents who died in service to County ______of Westchester, at the our country. The presence of the vets reminds before the Civil War, in part to prove his Union Courthouse located at 111 Grove Street, White us that history stretches to touch us today – and loyalty. He lived first on Main Street and then Plains, New York 10601 on the 15th day of May, 2012. THE COUNCILMAN’S PERSPECTIVE P R E S E N T: Joan B. Lefkowitz J.S.C. upon taxpayers in the Town of Ossining. The ------x I Stood Alone outrageous amounts of money spent, despite Index No.: 12143/10 my warnings and public outcry, only got worse. MELANIE KEENE, By PETER J. TRIPODI III Plaintiff, AMENDED In 2011 alone the Town of Ossining paid its ORDER TO Two years ago I stood alone, part-time engineer consultant $319,000. This is -against- SHOW CAUSE exposing the pandemic waste nearly three times as much as the town of Mount 60-64 ELLIOTT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND Refer to: Compliance Part and abuse of taxpayer dollars in Pleasant paid that same individual for his full- CORPORATION and WESTHAB, INC., Motion Clerk the Ossining Town government, time job there that same year. In just five years Defendants. and for two years the former this individual was paid a cumulative $1,064,700 ------x Supervisor ignored my concerns, for part-time work. The previous Supervisor and going so far as to describe them Town Board criticized me for raising the issue. S I R S: as unwarranted attacks or meaningless issues. I They left the problem unresolved and continued Upon the reading and filing of the annexed Affirmation of ARGIRO DRAKOS, ESQ. dated the 16th didn’t raise “Republican” ideas; I offered common to overpay hundreds of thousands of dollars a day of April 2012, and all exhibits annexed hereto and upon all pleadings and proceedings heretofore had sense solutions to clear and obvious problems. I year for part-time engineering services. herein, and sufficient cause having been shown; called for less waste on expensive consultants, This consultant was also in charge of two The Order to Show Cause issued by this court on April 23, 2012 directed service upon non-party, stronger financial procurement policies, and main sewer projects. On May 24, 2011 I emailed Marc Jones, by personal service, but movants have informed the court they were unable to personally serve more oversight and accountability in order to the former Town Supervisor and former Town the nonparty. properly represent the struggling and hard- Budget Officer, inquiring as to whether the proj- LET the plaintiff, MELANIE KEENE, and/or her attorneys, show cause before this Court, at the working taxpayers of Ossining and Briarcliff ects would go over budget. They assured me that Compliance Conference Part of the Supreme Court, State of New York, County of Westchester, located Manor. The partisan former Supervisor and at 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, White Plains, New York on the 9th day of July 2012, at 2:00 in the it would not. Before that, I had presented the afternoon of that day or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, former Board ignored me and ignored reason. Town Board with an article detailing a similar Today, I am not the sole voice speaking sewer project in a neighboring municipality WHY, an Order should not be entered, pursuant to CPLR §3103, granting the defendant a pro- tective Order precluding the plaintiff from calling on Marc Jones as a witness at the time of trial, or in the about issues of wasteful government spending. that went over budget. The Town Board was alternative, an Order of the Court pursuant to CPLR §2308(a) holding Marc Jones in contempt of Court and I applaud Supervisor Donnelly for finding not concerned. My concerns were ignored. Sure compelling his deposition as a non-party witness in this matter, along with such other and further relief as common ground between the Democratic enough, the Ossining sewer project went over this Court deems just, proper and equitable. majority and the one Republican councilman, budget. The defendant has not previously sought the relief requested herein. myself, on the Town Board. Together we’ve The Town Board has since relieved this taken steps to reduce the waste and abuse of consultant of his job for the Town of Ossining. ORDERED, that sufficient cause appearing therefore, taxpayer dollars. Today, our local government has We will enter into an Inter Municipal LET service of a copy of this Order to Show Cause, together with the papers in support thereof addressed many of these problems, proving that Agreement to use the Village of Ossining’s engi- be served upon plaintiff’s counsel, by regular mail on or before May 16, 2012, and on nonparty Marc Jones no political party has a monopoly over common neer for day-to-day engineering services. Under by publication, pursuant to CPLR 316, in the Journal News and the Western Guardian which are circulated in Yonkers, New York, the nonparty’s last known city of residence, at least once in each newspaper for four sense. this plan, taxpayers will benefit and the Town successive weeks commencing on May 23, 2012, be deemed good and sufficient service. In the coming weeks, I will trace the impact will save money without having to cut services. I have had on the Town Board’s recent move to It took two years, but slowly the Town Board has ORDERED that answering papers shall be served, and filed with the court, so as to be received on or before June 27, 2012 at 12 P.M. No reply papers shall be accepted. Proof of service shall be filed wwith take a series of common sense actions that will come to recognize, or at the very least to respect, the court on or before June 27, 2012. All papers shall be filed with the civil calendar clerk located in the 9th strengthen the finances of your local govern- all good ideas, regardless of whether they come floor of the Westchester County Courtho9use. ment while easing your tax burden. I will analyze, from the Democratic majority or from the lone ORAL ARGUMENT WILL BE HEARD. APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL AND NONPARTY, MARC factually record, and interpret the issues, my Republican and Conservative on the Board. JONES, IS REQUIRED. struggle to raise them, and their ultimate, favor- able resolution by the new Town Board. Peter J. Tripodi III is Ossining Town Councilman. Dated: White Plains, NY Direct email to [email protected], call May 15, 2012 Even before my campaign as Town ENTER: HON. JOAN B, LEFKOWITZ, J.S.C. Supervisor my board and the public knew how 914-774-0373, and learn more on the Internet: I felt about the waste specific consultants placed www.PeterTripodi.com. 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Yudi’s Salon 610 Main St, New Rochelle, NY 10801 914.633.7600 Page 24 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 OP EDSection the receiving end of beatings that are justified by last name, Santorum, using language so vile and the Bible how pansya–ed people react when you repulsive that I won’t repeat it. When Christian Dan Savage: ‘Tolerant’ Bully push back,” he mocked. Some of the young girls advocate and Americans for Truth founder Peter By J. MATT BARBER tryst and any other disease-spreading sexual were seen leaving in tears. LaBarbera asked Savage to take down the website, “It took a real dark, hostile turn, certainly, as I Savage responded, “I’m asking Peter LaBarbera to They used to arrest middle-aged impulse that might cross their impressionable, saw it,” teacher Rick Tuttle told CNN. “It became go f–k himself.” perverts who get their jollies hormone-charged young minds (and many they very hostile toward Christianity, to the point that Savage also once bragged that he licked the from talking dirty to children. can’t yet imagine). many students did walk out, including some of doorknobs at former Republican presidential Today, they get a television show, Well, recently, rather than just shocking my students. candidate Gary Bauer’s campaign office in hopes a nationally syndicated column, a his teenaged audience with vulgar, sophomoric “They felt that they were attacked … a of giving Mr. Bauer the flu. lecture circuit and multiple visits psychobabble as usual, Savage apparently thought very pointed, direct attack on one particular Savage told the Daily Pennsylvanian in 2006 to the Obama White House. it’d be fun to bully the kids with whom he group of students. It’s amazing that we go to an that Carl Romanelli, a U.S. senate candidate he You know: “Forward.” disagreed. anti-bullying speech and one group of students didn’t like, “should be dragged behind a pickup The irony is palpable. Dan Savage, sex colum- While addressing a crowd of hundreds of is picked on in particular, with harsh, profane truck until there’s nothing left but the rope.” In the nist and founder of the LGBT anti-bullying “It high schoolers at the National High School language.” same interview, he opined: “Mr. Romanelli should Gets Better” campaign, has been outed. Not as a Journalism Convention, Savage launched into But the only thing surprising is that anyone go f–k himself.” He also once said on HBO that homosexual. He’s out and proud in that regard. an unhinged anti-Christian diatribe. He advised is surprised. Dan Savage is known in Christian he “wished all Republicans were f–king dead.” In fact, Savage pushes his “anything goes” brand the teens to “ignore the bulls–t in the Bible” about circles as “the gay Fred Phelps.” Phelps, of course, Yep, this deviant troglodyte is the face of the of sexual anarchy on kids worldwide. MTV has sexual morality. “We ignore bulls–t in the Bible is the similarly cartoonish Westboro Baptist left’s anti-bullying efforts. I’ve often said that those even given the sex-obsessed radical his own show, about all sorts of things,” he barked. “preacher” who gained notoriety by protesting wonderfully “tolerant” liberals – the self-styled “Savage U” – a moral-relativist platform from He then walked through a list of the same military funerals with his incestuous brood of opponents of “hate” and “bigotry” – are the most which to corrupt the kiddos. tired left-wing talking points about the Bible – pseudo-Christian haters. Savage is Phelps’ photo intolerant, hateful bigots among us. Creepy stuff. long ago discredited – covering shellfish, virginity, etc. “The Bible is a radically pro-slavery docu- negative. Whereas Phelps’ hateful mantra is “God Thanks for proving my point, Dan. No, Savage has finally managed to publicly hates fags,” Savage’s central message is “I hate discredit himself as the anti-Christian bigot and ment,” he said (anti-Christian trash we’ve come to Matt Barber ([email protected]) is an expect from the secular left). God and anyone who loves Him.” bully he’s always been. Never again will this guy be Savage’s primary claim to fame is that he attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He taken seriously as an anti-bullying crusader. But when a hundred or more kids got up and serves as Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty began to walk out on Savage’s anti-Christian rant, formed the website “Santorum.com,” to create a Savage lectures teens in high schools and “Google bomb” that would smear the good name Counsel. Facebook/jmattbarber / Twitter @jmatt- colleges around the country on the benefits of the 47-year-old tough guy turned his hostility barber (This information is provided for identification toward them. “It’s funny to someone who is on of former senator and presidential candidate Rick “non-monogamy,” the occasional “three-way” Santorum. On the site he redefined the senator’s purposes only.) “Coming Soon, the Last Election With the So-Called Republican Party” By BOB BOGEN Of course the fantasy of the magical frog than most I sadly feel the societal disaster of the grotesque Republican deceptions, despite the Well, I have a dream too: that turned out to be just a few Trogs, the same trog- current Court’s majority decisions headlined in pathetic grotesqueries of their presidential the no-nothings who still claim lodytes [ugly critters who crawl from under rocks the so-called Citizens United case. This breaking candidates and the ugly hired troglodytes, the the brand of the political party or out of the woodwork from time to time] who through the constitutional dam, flooding our Limbaughs and the Hannities of corporate mass Abraham Lincoln built in the mid- led us unto the catastrophic wastes of our national weakening legitimacy of representative democracy media. nineteenth century, the Republican solvency, the blood of our sons, husbands, and with mind-boggling wealth must be corrected if Are there really thoughtful voters who will Party, have finally blown their cover, fathers, as well as our jobs, unequaled industrial our nation and democracy is to survive. vote for members of that party even for dog lost their legitimacy and viability. might, and destroying our historic, centuries old, The millions of MoveOn members and other catcher? Embarrassing in a nation that prides itself When they handily lost the 2006 national good worldwide reputation through the wars with national organizations are planning efforts to as living in a representative democracy. Plutocracy election, these so-called Republicans mumbled Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, and others with the build national understanding and at least eventual by wealth is not a substitute for democracy in our about their need to re-brand. They suspected continuing rape of our nation, the environment, correction through Constitutional amendment. dangerously corrupted era of the hyper-rich. that the feared 99% of the American voters were and the world. They are wrong. The problem is far too urgent And of course a convenient and broadly finally waking up to GOP old monarchist objec- But their foul policies were most effec- for us to concentrate on efforts for unlikely correc- significant unspoken issue in the presidential elec- tives and tactics. And even Grand Old Party, tive, in generating obscene wealth for the tion many years ahead. The simple correction is tion, and by coat-tail effect on other November GOP, no longer seems appropriate! One-Percenters, [or as the Nobel economist in just to by-pass the Court in its “giving away the elections, is widespread racism, not only in For a year of so they had a glimpse of reality, the New York Times, Paul Krugman, corrected store” by legal naming billionaire corporations as southern states…. the apparent, “unacceptable” that the 99% of the nation finally, at long last, us, they are not even one-tenth of one percent of “individuals.” color of the president. could no longer swallow their old con. If they our citizens.] We must somehow build public outrage There are several related very serious election recognize their need for a more accurate name Republicans in Congress with their poli- and demand a limit to all private OR corpo- problems which corrupt our vital representa- or brand, why not just call them the “Monarchist cies of national destruction in taxation, economic rate election campaign contributions, even by tive elections, but we will have to deal with them Party” or “Royalist Party. “ There are even more and other polices, did what they were told by rich candidates for office from their own wealth in more detail with later articles: including the vigorous, as well as accurate brand names, but their sponsors, who effectively hire them in [e.g. NYC Mayor Blomberg and the many universality of disastrous Gerrymandering of these might do. Congress, with their untold millions in political multi-millionaires in Congress and other elected election districts in Congress [as well as other Perhaps too many average citizens thought contributions, in order to mislead voters. With offices]. Of course this would also require multi-member elected bodies]; and the long- that if they just went along with the hyper-rich, mind-blowing acceleration in the concentration demands for public broadcast time from media standing un-American Republican actions to in a version of the old fairy tale, a frog would kiss of wealth, our democracy can no longer survive that need public licenses to use the public airways, restrict both voter registration and even ballot them and they too would also be a member of the the cosmic level of private and corporate power as well as public financing for other appropriate box entrance, as well as the pathetic failure to use Royal family, an unbelievably rich prince, perhaps used in political contributions and their election campaign costs, as is done in some states. Limits ballots systems that avoid spoiler candidate possi- like Arab, oil rich princes, win the ultimate real campaign spending. on campaign contributions of $25 or $250 by bilities and other balloting grotesqueries . These lottery, and they too could be like the Hannities As one who has even had some family individuals OR corporations would by-pass the destroy effective action on taxation, foreign policy, and the Limbaughs, sneering at the masses, the connections with the formerly-supreme Court Court’s Citizens United atrocity against represen- job, health, education, environmental health thinking, watching, and reading public, the “non- over decades through my father’s constitutional tative government, soon - if not this year. and survivability, as well as inhuman, disastrous working” 99.9 percent of America, and the world. cases in the Supreme Court, perhaps more Perhaps the people can finally recognize Continued on page 25 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 25

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“Coming Soon, the Last Election With the So-Called Republican Party” a great number of those reading these pages, the insanity of much that is said. Marches, vigils, we are each obligated to make some modest and demonstrations are good, but letters to editors Continued from page 24 each week. What they clearly mean is that we to major contribution to the education and and related messages don’t even require us to leave should concentrate our national wealth on giving conviction of our neighbors locally and our work, our homes or even come up with a 45 national housing policies, immoral refusal to deal to the hyper-rich. “And to hell with those who nationally in the weeks ahead. For months cent stamp if we use E-mail and related electronic with catastrophic job losses. All this is aggravated need jobs.” It always seemed appropriate for ahead we should not be complaining if only systems. by misuse of national and local public debt. Republicans who claim they are for small govern- we had realized the depth of urgency for citizen For example, it is almost laughable to hear Bob K. Bogen served as comprehensive long-range ment, to remind them we have a large country action as well as voting this year. Republicans’ whining use of national debt to planning director for the New York Metropolitan and that perhaps they should go to a smaller Anyone who can read this publication can justify cutting essential governmental restrictions Regional Planning Commission; as planning director nation, perhaps give them a “free ride,” a one-way very likely write a letter to the editor in local and on corporate greedy errors and cutting other social for the New England Regional Commission; author ticket to Somalia. national papers and other publications as well as programs. They essentially invented the federal of the Citizens’ Workbook on the Federal Budget; as In conclusion, for all who are paying use any social media or other means of commu- debt, starting with the billions of federal debt a major United Nations official in Pakistan; Board attention and value decency, justice, and the nication. One line, one sentence or a paragraph caused by their favorite, President Ronald Reagan, Chairman of the Communications future of our nation, presumably including will be read by many, probably very many voters not to mention the peculiar wars that cost billions and folks who can help others in turn to recognize ED KOCH COMMENTARY Last week I was asked by Azi Paybarah of Capital New York for my views on this aspect of Child Abuse in the Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Community Hynes’ official acts. My response, quoted on the What Isn’t Being Done About It By The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Capital New York blog published on May 11, was By EDWARD I. KOCH as follows: “This community does not deserve to outraged when one of their members reported denouncing him. One depicted a coiled snake, with have any preferential treatment” and “he should The crime of sexually abusing a to civil authorities that his son had been sexually Mr. Rosenberg’s face superimposed on its head. treat them exactly as he would anyone else.” Koch, child, including adolescents and molested in a ritual bathhouse. As reported in a ‘Nuchem Snake Rosenberg: Leave Tainted One!’ it who is Jewish, said Hynes should prosecute the teens, is so heinous that the public May 11 New York Times article authored by Sharon said in Hebrew. The local Satmar Hasidic authori- rabbis who interfered with victims reporting accu- is immediately shocked and Otterman and Ray Rivera: “The first shock came ties banned him from their synagogues, and a wider sations of abuse. ‘We’re all equal under the law and angered. For a number of years, when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally group of 32 prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis and they have to subscribe to the law without getting we have read of sex acts involving disabled teenage son was being molested in a religious judges signed an order, published in a preferential treatment,‘ Koch said. ‘It’s just dead Catholic clergy with adolescents Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second community newspaper, formally ostracizing him.” wrong. And there’s no explanation to make it right and seminarians taking place in a number of coun- came after Mr. Jungreis complained, and the man New York Times writers Ray Rivera and in any way.’” tries, including the U.S. The New York Times, to its accused of the abuse was arrested. Old friends Sharon Otterman reported in their article of May At this point, unless District Attorney Hynes credit, has been relentless in keeping this situation started walking stonily past him and his family on 10, “An influential rabbi came last summer to the announces that he will release the names of all under examination by its reporters over the years the streets of Williamsburg. Their landlord kicked Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, with defendants, including those of ultra orthodox with front page stories devoted to exposing the them out of their apartment. Anonymous messages a message: his ultra-Orthodox advocacy group was Jews charged with child abuse, sexual or otherwise, abuses. filled their answering machine, cursing Mr. Jungreis instructing adherent Jews that they could report and will pursue criminally anyone who engages The New York Times is now examining the sexual for turning in a fellow Jew. And, he said, the mother allegations of child sexual abuse to district attorneys in obstruction of justice, advising someone not to abuses taking place in the Jewish ultra-orthodox of a child in a wheelchair confronted Mr. Jungreis’s or the police only if a rabbi first determined that the assist the police in their investigation of a child Hasidic community, primarily in Brooklyn, and mother-in-law, saying the same man had molested suspicions were credible. The pronouncement was abuse incident, the Governor should supersede the response of the Brooklyn District Attorney, Joe her son, and she ‘did not report this crime, so why a blunt challenge to Mr. Hynes’s authority. But the him in these cases and appoint a special prosecutor Hynes. The Hasidism started in eastern Europe did your son-in-law have to?’” district attorney ‘expressed no opposition or objec- to handle them. several hundred years ago. Each Hasidic sect often The New York Times article of May 11 also tion,’ the rabbi, Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, recalled.” takes the name of the village where their rabbi reported the statement of one of the most influ- If in fact, Hynes assented to this procedure, The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served as a once lived. The Hasidic community is close knit, ential of all of the ultra-orthodox Agudath Israel, in my opinion, he was blessing the obstruction member of member of Congress from New York State stating, “‘You can destroy a person’s life with a of justice. The law requires certain categories of from 1969 through 1977, and New York City as its somewhat like the Amish. It maintains a lot of th control over its members, with its rabbis and reli- false report,’ said Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, employees, e.g., teachers, social workers, etc., to 105 Mayor from 1978 to 1989. gious courts often being the arbiters of disputes. the executive vice president of Agudath Israel of immediately report to the government any infor- The Hasidim, as they are known, prefer not to use America, a powerful ultra-Orthodox organization, mation they gain concerning a case of child abuse. secular governmental institutions, such as the police which last year said that observant Jews should not For a rabbi to counsel otherwise, I believe, is a and courts. Those not abiding by community rules report allegations to the police unless permitted to criminal act to be pursued by the District Attorney are often shunned and sometimes even assaulted. do so by a rabbi. Rabbinic authorities ‘recommend rather than countenanced. In Brooklyn, the major communities where you speak it over with a rabbi before coming to any To the credit of the Lubavitch community, Hasidic groups live—the largest being Satmar and definitive conclusion in your own mind,’ Rabbi the article reports, “In Crown Heights, where Lubavitch—are Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Zwiebel said.” the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement has Flatbush and Borough Park. Different Hasidic The New York Times article cites a number of its headquarters, there has been more significant groups contend with one another and other ethnic cases of sexual abuse of children and the threats change. In July 2011, a religious court declared that communities for space – their housing needs are parents received from rabbis and others in the the traditional prohibition against mesirah [being enormous because they typically have very large community if they alerted the police. The article an informer against a fellow Jew] did not apply families of eight or more children – and occasion- reported on the shunning by the community in cases with evidence of abuse. ‘One is forbidden ally philosophical differences have led to physical of a rabbi who urged victims of sexual molesta- to remain silent in such situations,’ said the ruling, attacks. In Brooklyn, many Hasidic groups have tion to call the police, reporting, “Rabbi Nuchem signed by two of the court’s three judges.” been very supportive of the Brooklyn District Rosenberg of Williamsburg, for example, has District Attorney Hynes is also accused of, and Attorney Joe Hynes, who is Irish and Catholic. The been shunned by communal authorities because admits to, the charge that he has “taken the highly New York Times articles provide us with one major he maintains a telephone number that features unusual step of declining to publicize the names reason why the support. He apparently has treated his impassioned lectures in Yiddish, Hebrew and of defendants prosecuted under the program them preferentially, particularly in child abuse cases. English imploring victims to call 911 and accusing [protecting ultra-orthodox Jews for engaging in The ultra-orthodox Jewish community, like rabbis of silencing cases. He also shows up at court sexual abuse of children]— even those convicted. all other communities, is ashamed of the fact that hearings and provides victims’ families with advice. At the same time, he continues to publicize allega- child sexual molestation exists in their community. His call-in line gets nearly 3,000 listeners a day. tions of child sexual abuse against defendants who However, the Hasidic community was apparently In 2008, fliers were posted around Williamsburg are not ultra-Orthodox Jews.” Page 26 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Excluding Fortunately, in America, we have people Commentary on leave Mr. George alone, and let Commissioner Mentally who care more about right and wrong than “Investigation” Lighty use his time on more important political gamesmanship. We have newspapers matters, and stop further instigating this inci- Retarded Is and freedom of speech. We have compassionate, At best, the “investigation” noted in The dent, that you obviously do not understand Attack On moral voters, who might read a letter from the Westchester Guardian’s May 10th edition was an correctly. Greenburgh brother of a mentally retarded man… someone ill-advised prank, a relaxed revelation of “our” I don’t find your attempt to parodize like myself, putting it plainly: nation’s history, now seemingly instigated the racial climate of this fine community Concerning the proposed lease by the town of Imagine our economy is an ocean liner in into something monumental, when common any more amusing than Jack Benny would! Greenburgh of the WestHELP property to danger of sinking and there is one lifeboat left. sense should prevail. You, my fellow citizen, Just ask someone who lives here, before you Ferncliff, an organization that provides services On that last lifeboat is an old sign reading, “This publisher, and reporter, Mr. Hezi Aris, have start slinging political mud, trying to smear to the developmentally disabled: boat is for poor swimmers only.” Well then, neither the cultural sensibility, or compassion the reputation of a firefighter like Mr. Henry I speak as the brother of a severely mentally where shall we put the people (like my brother) to view this incident correctly. George Thomas. retarded human being. He is on the level of a who can’t swim at all? Technically, I guess he’ll To even suggest that Mr. George should Please use your publication to help solve two-year-old, even though he is 49. He cannot have to drown. be, “brought up on charges and dismissed more important “crimes” in our community. understand politics, or clever ways for one When Paul Feiner is attacked on a techni- from duty”, echoes many horrors in my mind, You can start by being more critical, and less person to hurt another. He cannot read legal fine cality for standing up for the mentally disabled that have historically gone unpunished, and “biased” about that joke of a Grand Jury, and print excluding him from benefiting from the (who can’t swim at all), and is also saving our tax never been even printed in the media. Henry Janet DiFiore. WestHELP site. My brother will never learn to dollars, the good people of Greenburgh should George’s joke has unfortunately been viewed, Kevin O. Grier, Mount Vernon, NY vote, yet he is an American Citizen with rights – know that both our town, and our disabled people, “out of the box”, when it was meant to be even if they are denied by immoral Westchester are under attack. appreciated, all along, among friends of the County Legislators. Terry Pavone, Greenburgh, NY same cultural and racial background. Please OP-ED

are Pakistani members of the Pashtun tribe. human rights--their work, visibility, opportunity Should the U.S. Negotiate with the Taliban? Nevertheless, these men now claim Afghanistan for education, voice, healthcare, and mobility. By FRANK V. VERNUCCIO, JR. as their own, and seek to impose their interpreta- This bizarre and inhumane treatment of Taliban officials have expressed reluctance to tion of Islamic law upon its people.” females was a rejection of the progress that had After long years of combat and include representatives of the current Afghani The reasons the U.S. previously refused been made in Afghanistan, starting as far back sacrifice, Americans are tired of government in discussions. Without any real to negotiate with the Taliban included more as 1919. In 1977, women comprised over 15% the Afghan war. Noting this, sign of moderation, observers have worried that than its support of al Qaeda and terrorism. Its of that nation’s highest legislative body. Before President Obama has opened a Taliban-governed Afghanistan would return tenure in power, which spanned the period from the Taliban took over, 70% of teachers, 40% of negotiations with the Taliban. to its role as a leading sponsor of attacks on the 1996—2001, imposed a nightmare epic upon doctors, and 50% of government workers in the Is this a practical or moral homelands of the U.S. and other non-Muslim the people of Afghanistan. Political freedom capitol of Kabul were women. After their ascen- solution? nations. was wholly eliminated. Summary trials and sion to power, women were barred from the There is little to indicate that the Taliban, The most vulnerable target of the executions replaced any semblance of justice. An workplace, prohibited from attending school, which provided support and a home base for al Taliban, however, continues to be the people extreme and harsh brand of Islam was imposed, and forbidden to travel without a close male Qaeda to conduct its worldwide campaign of of Afghanistan. In addition to their extreme wholly ending all religious freedom, including relative. Forced marriage, rape, and abductions terror, has changed. Its leadership council, Quetta interpretation of Islam, the reasons may well be differing views of how to practice the Muslim became commonplace. Shura, has mourned the death of Osama bin rooted in their lack of affinity for that nation’s religion. After sacrificing so much for so long, the Laden. It continues its deep involvement in the people. As noted by Shannon Wiley in the Women were a particular target. The United American people, and the Afghani people as international drug trade. Recently, it was impli- William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Nations Special Rapporteur for Violence Against well, deserve true peace. There is no evidence that cated in the assassination of former president “Although the Taliban is comprised of men Women declared the Taliban regime to be “the negotiating with the Taliban will provide that. Burhanuddin Rabbani. Vice President Biden, who claim Afghan nationality, their origins most misogynist entity in the world.” As noted Contact Frank Vernuccio by directing email while still a senator, noted that the Taliban kept are not pure: many are Afghan refugees who by the Campaign for Afghan Women & Girls, to: [email protected]. much of Afghanistan “ungovernable.” In fact, grew up in camps in Pakistan, while others “Under Taliban rule women were stripped of all NEW YORK CIVIC who may be accused of misconduct, which resentment when the mob is not on the side of well regarded in family law, may be using the Unorthodox Justice may or may not have taken place. In some cases justice. This is often an especially troubling issue only method that will result in the conviction Sex Abuse Charges Will Be Probed complainants are shunned by their neighbors as for elected officials to handle because their elec- of sexual offenders. He claims that without the the group rallies around its members, who may tion may depend on the support of people whose exceptions he gives to those accused in particular By HENRY J. STERN be the guilty parties. principal interest is not the pursuit of justice but communities, disclosure to his office would never Religion and politics are two This problem has affected religious denomi- the protection of “the good name of the commu- happen because if the names of the accused were subjects that should, preferably, be nations worldwide for centuries and one could nity” through the defense of individuals who made public, the names of the accusers would discussed separately. The topics are, ask if the issue is endemic in self-selecting may be accused of serious acts of misbehavior. inevitably be revealed causing the victims to be however, hopelessly and inevitably communities. These issues are difficult to resolve. Our ridiculed and shunned. jumbled with regard to allegations To protect complainants from reprisals, instinct is to support disclosure and exposure of It is too easy, however, to fall into a pattern of the sexual abuse of children by the Kings County District Attorney, Charles misconduct, especially by people in positions of where sexual abuse is tolerated because prosecu- rabbis and priests. J. Hynes, will not release the names of the authority. We are intuitively skeptical of private tors defer to the mob. individuals his office prosecutes from these systems of justice which serve particular interests Unfortunately, there appears in some Henry J. Stern is the founder and president of New communities. Mayor Koch argues that this or classes of people, whether they are favored or communities a state of affairs where this is toler- York Civic (www.NYCivic.org). ated. In these instances the abuse is concealed, policy may protect wrongdoers from expo- disfavored. allegedly to protect the reputations of those sure. The problem is how to deal with mass On the other hand, Mr. Hynes, who is THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 24 2012 Page 27

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