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westchesterguardian.com PAGE 2 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 Of Significance FeatureSection Feature Section ...... 2 HUMOR Humor ...... 2 Community Section ...... 3 Books ...... 3 Northern Westchester ...... 4 The Anatomy of Humor—One-Liners Energy Issues ...... 5 By THE WESTCHESTER JOKESTER Life ...... 6 In this segment we explore the One-liners are useful for eliciting quick, cheap family of jokes known as “one-liners.” laughs, although they can become tiresome to Ed Koch Movie Reviews ...... 7 Shakespeare’s observation by Polonius audiences if used to excess by a performer. One Music ...... 8 in Hamlet that “brevity is the soul of exception, stand-up comedian Henny Youngman, The Spoof ...... 9 wit” embodies the basic principle of the one-liner. known as the “King of the One-Liners,” who used Sports ...... 10 One-liners are probably as old as language. Here one-liners exclusively in his comedy routines. He are some classic examples: is best remembered for the stock line he used Eye on Theatre ...... 11 I have nothing to declare except my genius. throughout his career: “Take my wife--please.” Community Worship ...... 12 (Said to U.S. Customs agents by Oscar Wilde, Other famous Henny Youngman one-liners Shifting Gears ...... 13 Anglo-Irish author, upon arriving at New York in include: Government Section ...... 14 1882.) I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave Be good. You will be lonesome. (American up--they have no holidays. Mayor Marvin ...... 14 humorist Mark Twain) I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps Government ...... 15 History is an account, mostly false, of events, finding her way back. Albany Correspondent ...... 16 mostly unimportant, which are brought about by I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. Investigation ...... 17 rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. He told me to stay out of those places. (American satirist Ambrose Bierce) My grandmother is over eighty and still Rye City Council Updates ...... 16 She delivered a striking performance that ran doesn’t need glasses--drinks right out of the bottle. OpEd Section ...... 20 the gamut of emotions--from A to B. (Erroneously When I read about the evils of drinking, I Letters to the Editor ...... 20 attributed to American writer Dorothy Parker, gave up reading. Here are some other one-liners Weir Only Human ...... 22 describing the acting of Katharine Hepburn in of unknown origin: the 1933 Broadway play, The Lake.) Be nice to your kids. They’re the ones who Legal Notices ...... 23 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, will be choosing your nursing home. finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy and applying the wrong remedies. (American beautician. comedian Groucho Marx) As long as there are tests, there will be prayer Politics is made up of two words: “Poli,” which in public schools. is Greek for “many,” and “tics,” which are blood- The trouble with being a leader today is that sucking insects. (American author Gore Vidal) you can’t be sure whether people are following you :HVWFKHVWHU·V0RVW,QIOXHQWLDO:HHNO\ A friend asked me if I slept well. I said, “No, or chasing you. I made a few mistakes.” (American deadpan Continued on page 3 humorist Steven Wright) *XDUGLDQ1HZV&RUS 32%R[ RADIO 1HZ5RFKHOOH1HZ

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Those who live by the The best thing about computers is that they Everyone has a photographic memory. The Anatomy of Humor—One-Liners sword get shot by those who make very fast, accurate mistakes. Some people are just out of film. Continued from page 2 don’t. The trouble with doing something right the Just when I was getting used to yesterday, The reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows Politicians and diapers should be changed first time is that nobody appreciates how diffi- along came today. where all the bad girls live. regularly--and for the same reason. cult it was. Sometimes I think I understand everything- Birth control pills are tax deductible, but only Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. A clear conscience is a sign of a bad memory. -then I regain consciousness. if they don’t work. Sometimes age comes alone. “Incontinence Hotline…Can you hold, please?” A bus station is where a bus stops. A train Did you know that half of all the people in Lead me not into temptation--I can find my I went to buy some camouflage clothing, but station is where a train stops. Now you know the world are below average? way myself. I couldn’t find it. why they call it a work station. Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “Veni, Vidi, Velcro.” Translation: I came, I The difference between capitalism and God grant me the senility to forget the “monosyllabic”? saw, I stuck around. communism is that under communism man people I never liked, the good fortune to run Why is there an expiration date on sour As you grow older, do you miss the inno- exploits man, whereas under capitalism it’s the into the ones I do like and the eyesight to tell cream? cence and idealism of your youth, or do you other way around. the difference. If the black box survives a plane crash, why mostly miss the cherry bombs? Friends help you move. Real friends help you Someday we’ll look back on all this and plow don’t they make the whole plane out of that If you are what you eat, a lot of us are dead move bodies. into a parked car. stuff? meat. For every action there is an equal and oppo- Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo. Why is “brassiere” singular and “panties” If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is defi- site criticism. Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet plural? nitely not for you. He who hesitates is probably right. the sweaty things. Why isn’t “phonetic” spelled the way it The early bird gets the worm, but it’s the I always wanted to be somebody, but I guess What’s the difference between ignorance, sounds? second mouse that gets the cheese. I should have been more specific. apathy, and ambivalence? I don’t know and I Why is it called “tourist season” if you can’t Why is it called a building when it has Middle-age is having a choice of two temp- don’t care one way or the other. shoot them? already been built? tations and choosing the one that will get you Some days you’re the dog; some days you’re Did Roman nurses refer to IVs as 4s? Have you ever imagined a world with no home earlier. the hydrant. Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it hypothetical situations? Seen it all, done it all, can’t remember most The only reason I’d take up jogging is so I because of that song? You go to the ballet where girls are dancing of it. could hear heavy breathing again. What’s another word for “thesaurus”? on their tiptoes. Why don’t they just get taller It’s a hard choice: work or daytime television. If you’re going to try cross-country skiing, An old proverb admonishes us to never say girls? The sooner you fall behind, the more time start with a small country. anything bad about a man until you’ve walked a It’s not the pace of life that bothers me; it’s you have to catch up. Why do they report power outages on TV? The best part about being at the top of the mile in his shoes. But by then he’s a mile away, the sudden stop at the end. The Westchester Jokester mines his voluminous food chain is that you can choose to be a vege- you’ve got his shoes, and you can say anything Always remember you’re unique, just like collection of humor each week in the pages of The tarian or not. you want about him. everyone else. Westchester Guardian. CommunitySection BOOKS

found them. Kenny has received most of the atten- The Retired (Try To) Strike Back Chapter 12 – The Confession tion, because he plays a man who in his By ALLAN LUKS late sixties wants to become a model for the retired to run for political office, and They were four calling themselves “celebrities.” advice to put in the film for retired people might be having an affair. The insur- unknown retired couples, They had received a small grant to on how to deal with such issues as health, ance company—which made the original making a short, educa- make a dating-advice film for the millions money, politics, and sex. grant and is enjoying being mentioned in tional movie that they of retired lonely. But after two years, the Then last year a small newsletter for the new publicity—awards them another were sure would remain film still wasn’t finished. The group—who the retired wrote about the film, empha- thirty thousand dollars. unknown. But now, three years later, wrote their own dialogues—regularly sizing two of the topics covered: sex and Continued on page 4 they’re giving interviews and jokingly argued with each other about the right politics. Since then, more media have PAGE 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

BOOKS The Retired (Try To) Strike Back Chapter 12–The Confession The others joke about the two of you needing Roz waits then reaches out with both so much time when most of us rehearse maybe hands and Kenny holds them. “Are you two Continued from page 3 been an amateur actor for twenty years—and twenty minutes for a scene we’ve developed. still doing this holding?” Then this morning, Kenny receives the finally a maybe. If I got a commercial movie The truth: Did any thing happen between you Kenny shakes his head, “We don’t need last result of his medical tests. part, I’d receive real public attention and could two?” it anymore.” He comes around to her side of He and his wife leave the doctor’s office. attract contributors and really run for City “The others joked about you and Myron the table. Roz tries unsuccessfully to start a conversation Council. See, you always say my imagination doing long rehearsals, too.” Roz stands and they hold each other. until the two retired teachers finally reach their controls me—now it’s out of control. “Except I know nothing happened with “Is this an acting lesson?” she says, and then small apartment. “You’re hearing a retired man’s confes- me.” laughs and cries and Kenny holds his wife Roz gets Kenny to sit at the dining room sion. It’s not about looking back at what I did Kenny watches his wife—“Roz, I love tighter. table, placing coffee and cookies in front of wrong. It’s my frustration at continuing to you. Affairs at our age? Past sixty-five. I’m an “All my rambling before about whether PAGE 20 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN him—THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010 think about all I might still do, except they’re actor, even if an amateur.” to tell the group about my test results,” says “I’m mad at myself,” Kenny suddenly so unlikely to happen.” “What does that mean? We reviewed so Kenny, looking over his wife’s shoulder as he CLASSIFIED says. “I’m nearly seventy, our children are fine, “The doctor said your liver condition many statistics for the movie. We laughed that speaks. “I’m sorry for sounding ridiculous. But (PSOR\PHQW 5HDO(VWDWH they have their own families, we’re grandpar- isn’t understood well. He called it an orphan’s twenty percent of men admit affairs. How you know, what’s ridiculous when you don’t ([S¶GGULYHUVZDQWHG&'/ 7/& INVESTMENT ents. You’re healthy. And you know what I’m disease. Nothing may happen for a long time.” many more don’t? Would you answer me?” have many years left?” /LFQHHGHG PROPERTY UNIMPROVED worried about? If I tell the group, will they “Or big problems could develop very “It’s about an acting exercise. We hold  0RXQW9HUQRQ&RPPHUFLDOEOGJORW Allan Luks is a nationally recognized social  VT IW &RUQHU EOGJ $SWV ZLWK decide to reduce my role in the film, since soon,” Kenny replies. each other tightly at rehearsal. The tight hug )RU5HQW VWRUHV0XVWVHOO.0DNHRIIHU works leader and advocate for volunteerism. I may not be around to help publicize the Roz takes their coffee cups to the kitchen is a traditional exercise on how to feel close to OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT He is the former head of Big Brothers, Big  finished movie? I’m telling you I’m crazy—“ and then returns. “Can I let my imagination 3ULPH2VVLQLQJORF5W someone you’re playing alongside of. So when Sisters of New York and is currently a visiting VTIW VTIW “You’re not,” comforts Roz. control me too? Since you have to confess. Just you’re actually acting together, you’ll do it with professor at Fordham University, where he  “I am. And that agent called and said once answer me and we won’t talk again about it. real feeling. I thought the others wouldn’t teaches several courses in nonprofit leader- the film is finished, if my role gets any publicity, It is all the rehearsal time that you and Mimi understand—even you. That’s why Mimi and ship. You can learn more about Allan Luks at LEGAL NOTICES she could get me a real movie audition. I’ve spent together developing your characters. I said we preferred to rehearse in private.” http://allanluks.com. CALENDAR  the Trump National Golf Club in will be called “Wacky Wednesday Shrub Oak. News & Notes from Northern Westchester Briarcliff Manor. The Foundation’s Story Time,” there will be bingo, I want to rock and roll all mission is to help end the cycle of projects and even ice cream night and party everyday, as the By MARK JEFFERS violence in homes nation wide. making, doesn’t sound so wacky KISS song goes, well, on July 14th This is right up my wife’s alley, to me…call 666-6472 for more at the Field Library in Peekskill Summer is in full swing and so is the northern Westchester a jam and jelly making class is information. you will be able to dance and sing Swim and Dive teams, I want to wish all the squads a great season being offered on July 16th at Hilltop And speaking of Wednesdays along to all your favorite tunes at and with that let’s dive into this week’s “News and Notes…” Hanover Farm in Yorktown from in July, here is something else Library Live 2011, as the teen It sounded like a great time was had by all for a good cause at 10 a.m. to 1p.m. Call 914-962- to do…how about some story band Bakklash performs. the annual Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic at 2368 for details. times at the Bedford Village pool Here’s some sights you may Here’s some more food for with the help of our friends at not have seen…join birder Steve thought…how about learning the Bedford Free Library… take Robbins for a walk through the Mission Statement how to make pasta and mozza- a dip in the pool and then take a Hilltop Hanover Farm for some ! e Westchester Guardian is a weekly newspaper devot- rella from Chef Ed Trottta from break with your kids to listen to a old fashioned bird watching o July ed to the unbiased reporting of events and developments Trotta’s Pasta in Thornwood at good story, sounds like the perfect 16th… that are newsworthy and signi! cant to readers living in, rd and/or employed in, Westchester County. ! e Guardian Hilltop on July 23 . All this talk summer afternoon to me. Our friend Charlie in will strive to report fairly, and objectively, reliable informa- of yummy food is making me very Congratulations to Pastor Yorktown tells us there has been a tion without favor or compromise. Our ! rst duty will be hungry… David Elseroad as he celebrates black bear seen in the area. This is to the PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO KNOW, by the exposure We want to send best wishes his 35th anniversary of leading not Yogi Bear, so do not feed him, of truth, without fear or hesitation, no matter where the and many thanks to coach Bill the Trinity Lutheran Church in call police at 914-962-4141 if you pursuit may lead, in the ! nest tradition of FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Broggy from Fox Lane as he is Hawthorne. spot the bear. ! e Guardian will cover news and events relevant to stepping down as head football Don’t throw that old read Good luck to former residents and businesses all over Westchester County. As a coach after a dozen years to spend book away, donate it to the Pleasantville High School pitcher weekly, rather than focusing on the immediacy of delivery more time with his family. Katonah Village Library for their Ken Ferrer as he was drafted in more associated with daily journals, we will instead seek to th provide the broader, more comprehensive, chronological step-by-step ac- Here’s a great way to spend annual book sale. The library is the 28 round by the Washington counting of events, enlightened with analysis, where appropriate. your lunch hour… Pack up your accepting donations now through Nationals. From amongst journalism’s classic key-words: who, what, when, where, picnic and come hear the ABCs Labor Day for their big fundraiser Did you know that July is why, and how, the why and how will drive our pursuit. 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We must carefully balance the presentation of relevant, hard-hitting, Westchester news and commentary, with features and columns “wacky,” but now thanks to the McClenahan and his Magic and the difference! That wraps it up th useful in daily living and employment in, and around, the county. We must Bedford Hills Free Library, Comedy Show on July 14 at the for this week’s edition of “News & stay trim and # exible if we are to succeed. Wednesdays in July and August John C. Hart Memorial Library in Notes”. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 5

ENERGY ISSUES Why Americans Are Less Prepared and More >OLU^HZ[OLSHZ[[PTL at Risk than the People of Fukushima `V\KLHS[^P[O By ABBY LUBY 3L_PUN[VU*HWP[HS(ZZVJPH[LZ& If you’re one of the 120 lack of realism of the Indian Point evacu- million Americans living ation plan. There was some outcry about within a 50 mile radius of a nuclear power its vulnerability after the 9-11 attacks, but plant, you’d better have your “Go-Bag” even that did little to change our culture of handy. But then again, if an evacuation is lax nuclear oversight and lack of emergency triggered, you may not be able to carry it preparedness. Even as the 911 commission very far. revealed that Al Qaeda had actively recon- A headliner series on nuclear power noitered and considered attacking Indian and four-part investigative report by the Point, then Homeland Security czar Tom Associated Press, slammed the evacuation Ridge famously said plant security was the plans in place around the 104 nuclear reac- “prerogative” of the private plant owner. tors in the United States for neglecting to The State Emergency Management consider growing populations and aging Office (SEMO) requires all the Executives infrastructure, and for relying on counter- of all counties in the emergency zone factual assumptions. around Indian Point to sign off on its evac- The AP report cites the example of the uation plan, then it rubber-stamps the plan densely populated area around the Indian and sends it to FEMA. But in 2003 and Point nuclear plant in Westchester County, 2004, under pressure from constituents now a thriving New York City suburb. after 9-11, county officials and SEMO When the first of its three reactors was refused to sign. That prompted New built in 1964, Northern Westchester was York Governor Pataki to commission a semi-rural and much more thinly popu- $1 million evaluation of the plan from the lated. Today, it’s a populous commuter consulting firm of former FEMA director zone of winding roads and bottlenecked James Lee Witt. The Witt Report said bridge crossings that jam up at rush hour. what every resident already knew: evacu- About 270,000 residents live in a ten-mile ating people ten miles around Indian Point radius around the plant the report found in a nuclear emergency was impossible. -- more than around other nuclear plant Pataki subsequently buried the report and in the US, and many times the number ignored recommendations for catastrophic that lived near Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi preparation. nuclear power plant. After that, the Indian Point evacuation The meltdown there in March 2011 zone was quietly reduced. from ten miles forced some 70,000-80,000 people living to TWO miles, plus an eight-mile wedge within 12 miles to evacuate. They got out shape in the direction of the wind blowing successfully, but that’s no indication evacu- the radioactive plume around (never mind ation would succeed here. Surrounding what happens to the wedge if the wind populations in the US are often denser: shifts), on the self-serving theory that Fukushima evacuated only about one any radioactivity released in an American >P[OV]LY`LHYZL_WLYPLUJL3L_PUN[VU*HWP[HS(ZZVJPH[LZ quarter of the people that would have to reactor accident would be small. be evacuated in a comparable emergency That’s a flawed theory. Many nuclear WYV]PKLZ SVHUZ MYVT T T H[ ZVTL VM [OL SV^LZ[ around Indian Point. plants around the US contain several times PU[LYLZ[YH[LZH]HPSHISLPU[OLTHYRL[WSHJL And the US falls far, far short of Japan’s the radioactivity of Fukushima, a recent high standard of emergency preparedness. study finds, in addition to much denser ‹-VYJHZOÅV^PUNSVHUZ567,9:65(3.<(9(5;,, Because of its harrowing history of surrounding populations. The fuel pools at destructive earthquakes and tsunamis, Indian Point contain roughly three times ‹`LHYWH`V\[Z Japan is considered one of the world’s best the radioactivity of all the fuel pools in ‹0U[VUS`SVHUZH]HPSHISL prepared countries, mandating yearly evac- the entire six-reactor Fukushima complex uation drills for schoolchildren and more combined. frequent drills throughout the country for In theory, the Nuclear Regulatory the last 50 years. Not so here. We don’t Commission stipulates that an unworkable bother with actual evacuation drills, just and outdated evacuation plan is grounds 3L_PUN[VU*HWP[HS(ZZVJPH[LZ33* theoretical, tabletop ones, possibly because for closing a nuclear power plant. But in we don’t want to prove how impractical practice, the NRC ignores that rule and 5VY[O(]LU\L our evacuation plans are. annually approves the Indian Point plan 5L^9VJOLSSL5@  For years, officials of counties over local objections. 7OVUL MH_   surrounding the plant warned about the Continued on page 6 PAGE 6 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

ENERGY ISSUES LIFE Why Americans Are Less Prepared and More at Risk than the People of Fukushima Ad Libs Continued from page 5 billions in federal subsidies, indemnities By ALISA SINGER and loan guarantees, taxpayers remain Westchester County has become Do you see that short more aggressive about advising residents without viable evacuation plans and are left on our own to prepare for a nuclear emer- middle-aged woman over on DIY emergency preparations. They in aisle three, wandering suggest having a waterproof Go-Bag at gency we’re told won’t happen, because “the US is not Japan.” Indeed, we’re not dazed and bewildered the ready, filled with about 28 items you through the teeming can buy yourself, including potassium in the same position as Japan--ours is worse. Our population density, radioac- shelves of skin care products? That’s me, iodine tablets, medicines, baby supplies, or possibly you. In fact, it’s every woman, clothing, hygiene items, money, identifica- tivity concentrations and cavalier attitude towards nuclear preparedness would make because for as long as the advertising tion papers, sleeping bags, radio, bottled industry has existed, women have been a water, and an emergency planning booklet. a similar accident here far more serious. And unlike Fukushima, American down- favorite mark. The strategy is pretty simple: Headstrong survivor types can always When you need to sell a worthless product Try it yourself. Using a process based purchase radiation suits, protective gear, winders would not be able to get away from it. you start by creating an artificial demand on those classic Mad Libs, you can create Geiger counters or other consumer-type for it. Anti-aging creams and lotions are your very own ads for the latest anti- radiation detectors. Abby Luby is a freelance writer in Westchester a great example. So, ever since we donned aging skin care product. Simply choose a But that’s no substitute for the NRC and the greater New York City area. Her new our first training bras, Madison Avenue customary and accepted word from each taking emergency planning and its novel about nuclear power is expected out in has drilled into our pretty little heads that of paragraphs A,B,C,D,E and F and insert mandate to protect public health and safety eBook format by the end of the summer, 2011. wrinkles and saggy skin are something to the selected word in place of the letter in seriously. While private plant owners get be dreaded and avoided at all costs. And I the sentences below. See how many ads you do mean costs. can create and imagine how many women The result of decades of media brain- will be desperate to buy your product: washing is that we are convinced that it is “Revolutionary, new ___A_____ close to a moral imperative to “do some- ___B_____ with the never before used thing” about those unsightly wrinkles. To special ingredient, __C______, will fail to act means kissing our respective ___D_____ your skin and ___E_____ spouses and significant others goodbye ___F_____. Satisfaction guaranteed or forever and drawing shame upon our your money back.” friends and family. So successful has this A. age-defying; protective; intensive; 

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LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Ad Libs Continued from page 6 But now, using the same instructions Ed Koch Movie Reviews as above, write the advertising copy you’d By Edward I. Koch really like to see: “Same old, same old ___A_____ Movie I ran for the City Council in 1966, my “Passione,” on the ___B_____ with the randomly selected Review: “Passione” (+) campaign chairs were Dina Nolan (married other hand, for which I spent $7 for a senior special ingredient, ___C_____, and a name) and Wally Popolizio (a gifted neigh- citizen ticket, is a movie I will remember for fancy new package to make it appear new borhood lawyer), both of whose parents a very long time. I hope Turturro recognizes and different will ___D_____ your skin came from southern Italy. They, with their that there is room for a half-dozen encores. I and ___E______F_____. Although friends, carried the ten election districts in saw the movie at the Film Forum located at the product is grossly overpriced you’re not the South Village for me, overwhelmingly 209 West Houston Street. The lines are long, likely to bother to come and ask for your inhabited by Italians. After winning that but it is worth the wait. money back and if you do – well, good race, my campaign workers and people from Continued on page 8 luck.” the neighborhood celebrated, pouring out A. ineffective; costly; overpriced; onto the Village streets and stopping traffic. waste of money; useless; futile; Two of my closest and oldest friends ( 6&DU6HUYLFH vain; potentially harmful; weak; with whom I have had lunch almost every 6HUYLQJ:HVWFKHVWHU&RXQW\ powerless; unproductive; impotent; Saturday for the last 30 or more years, John 0DNHXVDSDUWRI\RXUWUDYHOSODQV fruitless; inadequate; extravagant; and Pete, are of Italian descent. Of course we worthless; unavailing; good-fo- are all Americans, but we never forget and      nothing; pointless; slippery; slithery always celebrate our roots. 352)(66,21$/ 5(/,$%/( 3520376(59,&(352)(66,21$/ 5(/,$%/( 3520376(59,&( B. gook; gunk; syrup; sticky stuff; As I left the movie theater, I asked a couple $LUSRUWV&LW\7ULSV2XWRI7RZQ glue; pasty substance; grease; lard; if they enjoyed the film. The man replied  cleaning solvent; lubricant; crap; that he cried with joy. I thought to myself, &RUSRUDWH$FFRXQWV:HOFRPH mud a few days ago I spent $150 on a ticket to  C. soap; vinegar; sand; toejam; see “The Book of Mormon,” which is a good /LQFROQ7RZQ&DUV  legumes; cement; tar; gummy bears; show but not one I have thought about since. ammonia; wax; anti-freeze; cream cheese; elbow grease; silly putty; When I left the theater after seeing this white-out; epoxy; paint superb film, I fondly recalled the streets scenes D. have no effect upon; potentially of Naples, Italy, which I have visited, and the cause irreversible damage to wonderful songs performed throughout the E. enlarge; inflame; exaggerate; movie. John Turturro, director and narrator multiply; magnify; amplify; stretch; of the picture, does a marvelous job of tying embroider; turn bright purple; over- the stories and music together. state; infect; arouse; madden; ignite; The movie consists of popular street excite; spread; heighten; proliferate; songs performed by men and women with breed; deepen good but generally untrained voices. In great F. Wrinkles; lines; crow’s feet; sun fun they act out the lyrics, usually about love spots; liver spots; sun damage; and sometimes betrayal. A performance depigmentation; redness; acne; that reminded me of a flamenco dancer was premature aging; dryness; cellulite; particularly good as was a number by an Arab creases; folds; jowls; furrows; coarse- woman who sang in Italian with an Arabian ness; blotches; pores; blemishes inflection and dance movements. Sounds great - and on sale too! I’ll take I loved the performances of the Italian two please. tenors young and old. Enrico Caruso is shown “Alisa Singer’s humorous essays have performing, and an argument takes place appeared in a variety of print and online about whether his was the best voice. When newspapers and magazines across the I was mayor, I had Luciano Pavarotti, now country and in Canada. She is the author deceased, and Placido Domingo to dinner at of various gift books designed to enter- Gracie Mansion. They didn’t perform, but tain and amuse baby boomers. Her newest it was wonderful to sit and chat with them. book, When a Girl Goes From Bobby Sox to The students who performed were thrilled to Compression Stockings…She Gets a Little do so before these great artists. Cranky, is available at www.Lulu.com. You I am fortunate to have a number of can learn more about her work by visiting friends whose ancestors came from Naples or her website: www.AlisaSinger.com or Sicily. I have found the people of those areas contacting her at ASingerAuthor@gmail. to be especially warm, loyal and generous, com.” and my friends display those qualities. When PAGE 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

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Continued from page 7 (Karine Smulders), is meeting her husband believable events. whom she married in Holland. Frank Don’t confuse this film with Movie Review: “Bride Flight” (+) (Waldemar Torenstra), who lost his family another current, popular picture entitled, This is a wonderful film with an inter- during the war, is going to New Zealand “Bridesmaids.” I found that movie to be too esting story and very good actors. where he will open a winery. coarse – a female version of “Animal House.” The movie, which begins after World The interconnecting stories of each indi- “Bride Flight,” on the other hand, a sleeper War II, focuses on three women and a man vidual involve unrequited love, miscarriage, movie that’s not well-known or widely on a flight from Holland to New Zealand. adultery, the attempted rape of a wife by a discussed, is a winner and well worth seeing. Esther (Anna Drijver), a Holocaust survivor, husband, and much more. While a lot that Watch Ed Koch’s Movie Reviews at www. is a dress designer. Marjorie (Elise Schaap) is takes place will have you in tears, the movie MayorKoch.com. flying to meet her husband to be, and Ada is not a soap opera. It is a superb depiction of

MUSIC ;/,:6<5+: The 32nd Montreal Jazz 6-)3<, Fest Legacy Continues… By Bob Putignano

An annual visit to Montreal, Quebec is always a pleasant experience, Montreal offers unique architecture, excellent cuisine, a diverse and hip cultural experience, and if you happen to be there during Jazz Fest, you also get to soak up mass quantities of quality music. That being said this thirty-second Cyrus Chetnut edition of the Montreal Jazz Fest was yet obvious. By the way Peterson was also born another fascinating display of outstanding Blue Rodeo Christian McBride in Montreal, thus with the Daisy Peterson/ performances, some of which are outdoors Boulevard where the ageless Wanda Jackson that at Club Soda, and much more. Montreal association, this festival smartly and free, and others that are not free and paired both Peterson and Jones together in typically held at gorgeous venues, both and her band took to the stage. Prior to Afterwards I moved on over to Theatre Jackson appearance, her crack band of Maisonneuve at the Place des Arts to see performance in 2004. As expected this years historic and some are relatively new. show by Jones was not only emotional, it was My thirteenth consecutive Montreal Nashville musicians delighted the crowd pianist and Montreal native Oliver Jones with three very hot instrumental tunes that who’s still quite sharp at seventy-six years also heart-warming and oh so very swinging! Jazz Fest (and something like twenty-eight On day two I got to see the exceptional of thirty-two overall,) began at Club Soda included a rollicking cover of Chuck Berry’s young. Jones’ performance was a tribute “Carol” and Bo Didley’s “Roadrunner,” this to the great Oscar Peterson who passed a bass player Christian McBride with his within the funky neighborhood that also Inside Straight band at the intimate Gesu borders China Town on Saint-Laurent band rocked and rolled from the get-go, and couple of years ago. Note: This same Jazz it was clear that this was going to be a special Festival dedicated their festival to Peterson theatre on Bluery, Gesu is an old church night. Jackson joined the fray with in full the year of his passing in 2008. The connec- that has since been converted into a great regalia, showing why her latest album “The tion: Jones studied with Peterson’s sister sounding performance venue. McBride Party Ain’t Over,” isn’t over, Jackson proved Daisy, and the hard-swinging influences are just turned thirty-nine, is one of these most sought after bassist on the scene today, has ten albums credited to his own name, the %HIRUHVSHDNLQJWRWKHSROLFHFDOO most recent being “Kind of Brown” his first for the Detroit based Mack Ave. label. This *HRUJH:HLQEDXP version of McBride’s Inside Straight band $77251(<$7/$: was not the exactly band he recorded with, )5((&2168/7$7,21 but it did include Steve Wilson on sax, and &ULPLQDO0HGLFDLG0HGLFDUH 3URIHVVLRQDO'RPLQLFDQ the incredible vibraphonist Warren Wolf Jr. )UDXG :KLWH&ROODU &ULPH +DLUVW\OLVWV 1DLO7HFKQLFLDQV 7 +HDOWK &DUH 3URVHFXWLRQV /HPY*\[Z‹:[`SPUN‹>HZO :L[‹7LYTPUN Playing chops abounded with ease and grace ) 7LKPJ\YL‹(JY`SPJ5HPSZ‹-PSS0UZ‹:PSR>YHWZ‹5HPS(Y[+LZPNUZ /PNOPNO[Z‹*VSVYPUN‹,_[LUZPVUZ‹4HUPJ\YL‹,`LIYV^>H_PUN throughout their mesmerizing set which 0$,16768,7(‡:+,7(3/$,161<

MUSIC THE SOUNDS OF BLUE chops, technically proficient, but very boring for me from end to end, and not only were of Montreal where it was reported that there and uninspiring! their songs well structured; they also jammed was over one hundred thousand people in Continued from page 8 Back to the Gesu venue where pianist out many of their songs with ease, and at times attendance. I did not get close enough to delighted the crowd from beginning to end. Cyrus Chestnut’s trio is performing and with reckless abandon, showed off their keen hear their finale, but based on the crowds McBride’s material is akin to late sixties early

Wanda Jackson Layla Zoe Victor Wooten and Bela Fleck Oliver Jones seventies bebop, with a lot of soulful influ- telling stories’ Chestnut lamented about instrumental prowess, with solid vocals and reaction I can safely report that they were ences, yet they offer contemporary sounds recently deceased fellow keyboardists. Near harmonies. well received. Immediately following was a that exemplify some of the best sounds in the top of Chestnut’s list was the great Ray Canada’s Darling of the Blues Layla Zoe grand gala display of fireworks that appro- today’s modern music and jazz. Bryant, an obvious influence, then Chestnut was fronting a band assembled by Montreal priately signaled an end to the thirty-second Time to head back to the Theatre pays homage by performing Bryant’s “Tonk.” Blues Society President Brian Slack, and Montreal Jazz Fest. Maisonneuve for a reunion of the original It was a moving moment, as was Chestnut’s she sure did deliver the goods! One of her Thanks to the staff and all those connected Bela Fleck and Flecktones band; Howard entire set, which captured many genre styles. highlights was when Layla sung well wishes that allowed me another wonderful year at the Levy on keyboards and harp, Roy “Future Cyrus took us to church with some gospel, to Etta James with a powerful rendition Montreal Jazz Fest, I will be looking forward Man” Wooten on “drumitar” which is an played the blues, hard bopped, yet at every of “I’d Rather Go Blind.” Not hip to Zoe? to their thirty-third! Until that time, keep electronic drum shaped like a guitar, the stop Chestnut performed from within his Checkout: www.layla.ca checking: www.MontrealJazzFest.com amazing Victor Wooten on bass, and Bela soul. This was my first time seeing Cyrus The B-52’s closed out the Montreal Jazz Bob Putignano www.SoundsofBlue.com Fleck on various electrified banjos. Can you perform, and it won’t be my last. Fest with a free outdoor show on the streets say eclectic? It was, but I found the band Blue Rodeo Canada’s most popular roots members did not engage each other, (the rock band became an institution in their home only person who attempted to interact was country, but never fully grabbed traction in the Victor Wooten,) and for the most part this USA. Their sound is a mix of country, folk, and performance lacked any special interplay, I rock, think like a north of the border later day got the impression that this band was just Poco. The strong songwriting team of vocal- there to collect a paycheck. In all fairness, ists/guitarists Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor each and every band-member did solo well, was more than apparent at the Metropolis but it wasn’t spontaneous, and after a few Theatre as those in attendance clearly sang songs their set diminished itself into an all along the lyrics of just about every tune. Blue out egotistical showcase to showoff their Rodeo’s performance was a pleasant surprise

THE SPOOF Commercial Television is 70 Today’s TVs Reflect on the Good Old Days By GAIL FARRELLY Roberta Reporter, on the umbrella. “My grandfather said that in those entertainment beat of a local days TVs were provided fantastic homes -- newspaper, got the surprise beautiful, comfortable wooden cabinets to of her life last night when she happened to live in. Not like today, where most of us just be at an electronics store after closing time. get shoved onto a stand.” It turned out that the TVs awaiting sale were “Or hung on a wall,” a flat-screen TV throwing themselves a big bash to celebrate said. She then added, “What I hate most the 70th birthday of their family. about being a flat-screen model is being so Roberta learned that it was in July of skinny. Having to watch my weight all the 1941 that commercial television was born. “A time. Ridiculous.” To emphasize her point, different world,” opined a small TV sipping a she reached for her third helping of shrimp Mai-Tai adorned with a colorful paper mini Continued on page 10 PAGE 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

THE SPOOF SPORTS Commercial Television is 70 When Roberta Reporter left the store that night, she had a lot to think Continued from page 9 about. There was what Groucho Marx Mr. Rory McIlroy and a generous portion of cheddar cheese once said, “I find television very educating. By ALBERT CAAMANO and crackers. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go “Then there’s that deadly remote into the other room and read a book.” And June 19, 2011, will forever control,” added one of the other TVs who what Ray Bradbury added to the discussion: be emblazoned in sport and had stopped momentarily from sipping beer “The television, that insidious beast, that golf history books with the and chewing pretzels. In a gloomy tone of Medusa which freezes a billion people to name of Rory McIlroy. At the age of 22, voice he added, “It means that our owners stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren the Irishman won the U.S. Open with a get us set up and rarely get up from the couch which called and sang and promised so much score of 16 under par; the lowest score in to touch us again. Kind of sad.” and gave, after all, so little.” the 11-year history of the event. The shock The TV next to him wasn’t so sure he But most of all Roberta was thinking wasn’t the score or the age of the player, agreed, “But in a way it’s worse if they don’t about what she had heard that night straight rather it was the ease with which he played. leave us alone. No privacy. Y’know, you’re just from the horse’s mouth. Yikes! She needed a ISM Media Consultant Martin Hardy of sitting there doing your job, and they have drink. Or two. International Sports Management Ltd. to plug into us all sorts of electronic gizmos. She headed for the nearest pub. One facilitated an interview with Mr McIlroy A VCR or a DVD player, well, okay, not so which advertised it had several of the latest- for The Westchester Guardian. bad. But is that enough for them? No way. model, flat-screen TVs. CAAMANO: How did you get into The owners now insist on also connecting golf and when did you begin? video games, computers, cameras, and just Learn more about The Farrelly Sisters - Authors online. MCILROY: My father introduced about everything else under the sun. It’s all me to the game when I was three years old the various tournaments? If so, how high too much!” and everything grew from there. in the standings would one be required to CAAMANO: Where did you play, attain? what tournaments did you enter, and how MCILROY: The rewards at the top  did you place? of the game are enormous, but not every-

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would be wondering how I would cope play golf. It’s been a fantastic experience so I would advise anybody looking for a Mr. Rory McIlroy with a big lead after what happened at The though, and long may it continue. career in golf to find a good PGA coach. Continued from page 10 Masters so I was just happy to get the job CAAMANO: Can you give some I’ve been with the same one since I was a MCILORY: I was really excited about done this time. advice to kids who are interested, or are kid. the Congressional Country Club because CAMANO: How did everyone you playing now, on what they can work on and CAAMANO: What is your plan for I loved the course as soon as I saw it. I know take to your winning the U.S. Open? the steps they need to follow to get to rich the future? felt I was going to have a good week, but MCILROY: I believe all my family a higher level of accomplishment? MCILROY: I want to win as many I didn’t know just how good it would be. and friends were as delighted as I was. The MCILROY: It’s important to work majors as I can because ultimately that’s Thankfully I got off to a good start and response since has been unbelievable and very hard in practice… and no greater how you are judged. I also want to have a things went from there. I knew a lot people if I said, “Yes,” to everything I have been aspect than in the short game department. good time doing it. asked to do, I would not have any time to It’s also important to get a good grounding;

EYE ON THEATRE wonderfully offhand manner, and there are enough to give him her Godspeed. Finally three very different students. there is Sharon Graham, who intends to Callas, A Bit Callous Sophie De Palma is a shy enthu- sing an aria of Verdi’s Lady Macbeth, By John Simon siast, whose attempts to sing Callas keeps but gets censure both for her walk (not interrupting in the most irritating ways, forceful enough) and her elaborate gown An earlier work by sometimes at the initial “O” of an aria with (not the sort to be worn before midnight). the playwright-librettist which she finds much to cavil. She reduces Sharon runs off in a huff, but returns later, Terrence McNally, “The Sophie to tears, but then also encourages and gallantly weathers the storm. Sierra Lisbon Traviata,“ revolved her—students are there to be toyed with Boggess is enchantingly defiant in the role. around a famous recording and repeatedly humbled—all of which All three of these performers sing as by Maria Callas. Later came “Master Alexandra Silber conveys admirably. impressively as they act, and their inter- Class,” with Callas herself as the heroine, Then there is Anthony Candelino, action with Callas is absorbing, Jeremy portrayed by Zoe Caldwell. Now revived, outwardly the typical tenor, somewhat Cohen (Manny) and Clinton Brandhagen Tyne Daly assumes the lead role. inflated in physique and mentality, but (Stagehand) complete a tiptop cast. It is not easy to embody a famous historic eager to learn, who finally impresses Callas Continued on page 12 character. The performer must be true to the role, to the real-life diva, and to herself—a bit of a balancing act. Ms. Caldwell was about After being waitlisted for nursing school, I turned to IAA and they helped me realize my dream to become a pronunciation of the name of the site of one of Callas’s triumphs, La Scala, which Registered Nurse. she keeps calling La Scalla, I assume to have been one of the singer’s quirks. 
  
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EYE ON THEATRE Callas, A Bit Callous actual dialogues with her two husbands, at home on the operatic and the nonmu- Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Meneghini and Onassis, respectively, sical stage, are impeccable in every detail. A Bloomberg News. Mr. Simon holds a PhD Continued from page 11 voicing both herself and the men. Daly play and production that could easily have from Harvard University in Comparative Thomas Lynch has designed a believ- accomplishes this somewhat awkward lapsed into camp, emerge instead as high Literature and has taught at MIT, Harvard able studio with a back wall of almost business as best she can, aided by Lynch’s comedy, a masterly evocation of a masterful University, Bard College and Marymount too stunning wood. McNally having helpfully supplying a bit of the Scala star and teacher at full tilt. Manhattan College. written also two fantasy scenes in which proscenium and a fraction of the red velvet John Simon has written for over 50 To learn more, visit the JohnSimon- the set empties out, expands in all direc- curtain. years on theatre, film, literature, music Uncensored.com website. tions, and darkens into a recalled La Scala Martin Pakledinaz’s costumes, David and fine arts for the Hudson Review, stage on which Callas reenacts apparently Lander’s lighting, and, above all, the skilful New Leader, New Criterion, National Photography by and courtesy of Joan Marcus. direction of Stephen Wadsworth, equally Review,New York Magazine, Opera News, COMMUNITY WORSHIP

pray on a regular basis will pray when they A Higher Power—To Pray or Not to Pray, That Is the Absurdity get into trouble. They may not pray to God. They pray to somebody or something, which Rev. JAMES L. SNYDER is the absurdity of it all. Occasionally, I hear from high school this year, I would want all Someone recently said to me, “I don’t I find it rather amusing, but sad, that about somebody objecting the help I could get, including prayer. Most believe in religion.” I am not quite sure what most people do not know whom they are to prayer. Usually, it is of them do not have a prayer of a chance of he meant by that statement, and I am quite praying to. Everybody, if they have a sober somebody who has no idea getting a job upon graduation. sure he did not know what he meant. All and honest moment, recognizes that there is what he or she is talking Certain people banter this notion of I can think of is somebody used that word a power beyond them. If they do not recog- about. It must be a slow news day when the separation of church and state, which had in his presence and, like an infant hearing a nize such a power, they assume they are that media highlights this as one of their news never entered the freedom loving minds of word for the first time, goes around saying it, power. stories. I guess nothing else is going on in the our forefathers. If anybody would take the usually out of context. Some pontificate the Those who do not recognize God have world demanding our attention. However, time to read it carefully, our forefathers did idea that they are absolutely nonreligious. Of become a god unto themselves. I have often when someone suggests praying in public not want the government to weld any influ- course, no such creature has ever walked on wondered how these people pray to them- somebody always rises in open protest. After ence over any church in this country. Unlike the face of God’s earth. selves. So, to help them out as much as all, everybody knows how dangerous prayer Europe from which they fled, there was to be Those who boast of being nonreligious possible, I have come up with a prayer for really is. no state church in America. Now, we have are absolutely religious in propagating their those who believe they are in fact God. Recently, a high school graduate wanted it backwards and the government is trying non-religiousness. You will not find a more “I am my own father, hallowed be my to include in her baccalaureate speech a to influence religion in our country. They faithful congregation of people than those name. My kingdom come, my will be done, prayer for her fellow graduates. I thought can’t even balance a budget, yet they want to who claim to be nonreligious. If Christians on earth as it is in my dreams. I give myself it was a rather nice gesture on her part. But balance my spiritual life. were as religious as some of these nonreli- this day my daily bread, and I foreclose on all certain people got wind of this and a nasty If you ask me, the biggest religion in our gious people, the church would be exploding my debts, as I have eluded my debtors. And roar rose to the highest heavens. Certainly, country is politics. If you do not think it is today. I go right into temptation, because I really public prayer is a violation of our consti- a religion, then carefully think again. Politics Every person born of woman worships enjoy evil. For mine is the kingdom, and the tutional rights, or so the objection went. has all the accoutrements of religion right something or someone. If we do not worship power, and the glory, for as long as I say so. Freedom of speech, obviously, covers every- down to kissing someone’s ring for some God, we are going to worship something else Amen.” thing but prayer, particularly prayer to the blessing. I think they call that lobbying. and some even go as far as to worship them- It must be nice to pray to yourself. I Christian God. Every politician has a list of do’s and don’ts, selves. I think God Himself chuckles at this would not know, because I have never tried If I know anything about high school which, of course, changes depending on what last category. Imagine, somebody actually it. I have given myself a good talking to, but graduates, they need all the prayer they can audience he is talking to at the time. Then worshiping himself. that sure is not prayer. get. After all, our government is not doing there is that St. Francis of Assisi smile that all Prayer is one of those things that come The Bible says a lot about prayer. Some them any favors lately. If I were graduating politicians have perfected. natural to a person. Even those who do not of my favorite quotes are, “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV), “Is any among you afflicted? let him pray” (James 5:13a KJV), “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplica- tion for all saints” (Ephesians 6:18 KJV). For me, the question is never to pray or not to pray. I enjoy my daily time of prayer with my Father which art in heaven. The Rev. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, 1471 Pine Road, Ocala, FL 34472. He lives with his wife, Martha, in Silver Springs Shores. Call him at 352-687-4240 or e-mail [email protected]. The church web site is www.whatafellowship.com. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 13

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left wheels crunched New Kid on the Block: Cruising in a Chevy Cruze gravel then rose slightly on a grassy By ROGER WITHERSPOON mound while the traction control To say it was Hudson River Valley Highlands had a steady strained to even pouring rain would be cross flow of a half inch or more of water and out the spin rates an understatement. the going was, at best treacherous. And to between those off- It was the kind of heavy, continuous, make matters worse, one of Bambi’s cousins road wheels and the seamless torrent of water flowing ceaselessly under a tree in the wide center median two still on water- from above that made the air just slightly decided the shelter was better on the other covered pavement. less damp than the swollen creeks and, a few side of the roadway, and began splashing I expected the sharp millenniums back, probably prompted fish to across. week. I tapped the brakes to avoid a skid maneuver to trigger move topside and evolve into amphibians. There wasn’t a lot of time to avoid and sharply turned the wheel left to cross a skid – this was, after all, a $20,000 Chevy It was definitely not made for driving, becoming one of the 1,200 motorists who the shoulder behind the bolting Bambi. The Cruze, not a high priced performance car. since the winding highway through the lower hit a deer on New York State roadways each Continued on page 14 PAGE 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

SHIFTING GEARS New Kid on the Block: Cruising in a Chevy Cruze the driver and passenger and demonstrating marketplace. But it is likely to give the leaders that a car does not have to be plain to be in the segment a good run for the front of the Continued from page 13 the Cruze forms more of a smile welcoming inexpensive. road-running pack. But the engineers in Detroit apparently family motorists, than the dark, aggressive There is enough leg and head room in --Roger Witherspoon writes Shifting Gears know what they are doing these days, and the grimace gracing the sports car. the rear for two passengers who dwell well at ZZZ5RJHU:LWKHUVSRRQFRP Cruze handled the rain dance with aplomb. Under the hood, the Cruze sports a north of six feet to travel comfortably over Even Keiko Matsui, whose delicate jazz 1.4-liter, four-cylinder engine cranking out long distances. In addition, the rear seats fold 2011 Chevrolet Cruze piano was wafting softly from the Cruze’s just 138 horsepower. 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The arrest will the Village including police activities and secure, always activate your alarm system Security undoubtedly resolve numerous larcenies weather alerts. and provide adequate exterior lighting. A By MARY C. MARVIN from parked cars in neighboring commu- The following are tips from our Chief motion-sensitive light is recommended for nities as well. of Police to make your home appear occu- backyards. Our officers continue to respond very pied and thus less likely to be targeted: Trim trees and shrubs to avoid creating Our police department quickly to critical calls with very successful Lock all outside doors and windows a hiding place or screen for intruders and has seen an uptick in the incidences of outcomes. This speaks to the hard work before you leave the house or go to bed. make sure door hinges are on the inside. attempted home burglaries and larcenies and frankly terrific job our police officers Even if it is for a short dog walk around If you do return home and find an from unlocked cars in recent months. are doing, ensuring a high quality of life for the block, lock the doors. unexplained open or broken window Thanks to terrific detective work, our our residents and merchants. Leave lights on when you go out. If or door, do not enter your home. The department has identified the career crim- Now that summer is here, keeping you are away for a length of time, connect perpetrator could still be inside. Go to a inal who committed a spate of burglaries your periodically vacant home safe is of some lamps to automatic timers to go on neighbor’s home to use a phone or use a in the Ridgecroft Road area and is working paramount importance. during the day as well as at night. cell phone away from the house. Do not with multiple area police departments to We ask that you take advantage of our Keep the garage door closed and locked touch anything or attempt to clean up until locate and apprehend him. “vacant house list” service. Prior to your and store lawn mowers, snow blowers, the police have inspected for evidence. In the case of the more than twenty vacation departure, contact our police barbeques and bicycles out of plain sight. Never leave keys under door mats, thefts from cars in recent months, none department with your plans and when Arrange for your mail and newspapers flower pots, mailboxes, etc. or other secret were the result of forced entry, rather a manpower permits, our officers will make to be stopped and the lawn mowed. Have hiding places. Burglars know where to look crime of opportunity when approaching an physical checks of your home. a neighbor pick up the Pennysaver papers for hidden keys. unlocked car. Go to www.bronxvillepd.com and left on the driveway which are a giveaway And finally, be a good neighbor. If Even though many area police depart- follow the e-alert link to add your family to your absence. you notice anything suspicious in your ments with far more resources were looking to our alert system. You will then be able Change locks immediately if keys are neighborhood, call the police immediately. for the same suspect in the car larce- to receive updates from our Chief of Police lost or stolen and always change locks While you are waiting for their arrival, nies, including those with plain clothes about any criminal activity and close to real when moving into a new home. Continued on page 15 details and anti-crime units, it was our THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 15

MAYOR MARVIN’S COLUMN GOVERNMENT Mayor Marvin—Security remain anonymous. to decrease both noise and emissions a first time ticket as a warning. The In a related police/enforcement pollution. second violation would trigger the $250 Continued from page 14 issue, the trustees have scheduled a The new legislation, as proposed, fine. Our action is in response to the write down any license plate numbers or public hearing on July 11th at 6:30PM will authorize a first time fine of $250, joint concern of our police department descriptions of suspicious persons. to discuss increasing the fines for the a second violation will cost $500, and and many Village residents. Thankfully, we have very little crime illegal use of gas powered leaf blowers. a third $1,000 if occurring in the same Wishing all residents a safe and in the Village, but even one incident is Currently, the fine being levied is just calendar year. restful summer. one too many. Please be the eyes and $25 which is being absorbed by many To be fair and catch no one unaware, ears of your neighborhood and call Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village gardeners as a cost of doing business, we have mailed notices to all landscape of Bronxville. our police. Remember, you can always clearly defeating the intent of the law companies on file and will be issuing GOVERNMENT race. behalf. The two sent Corwin’s longtime Party loyalists left voicemails offering Assembly legislative aide Rebecca Reville to Anti-Veteran Erie GOP Losing Support Bellavia bribes and sent emails to his wife’s collect the paperwork from state offices. By MICHAEL CAPUTO workplace alleging the same fictitious foibles. As if that wasn’t incautious enough, Worse, they sent agents to urge Bellavia’s Reville then noted that she signed out the Two weeks after Erie Langworthy’s lack of respect for veterans employer to fire him. petitions for Ralph Mohr, the GOP commis- County Republican Chair became clear to me last year, when he told As Jane Corwin’s spokesman announced sioner on the Erie County elections board. Nick Langworthy lost a me the state Republican Party designee for “We respect and value David Bellavia’s service And somehow, within one day an apolitical Republican Congressional US Senate Gary Berntsen was crazy, hyper- to our country and have not filed any objec- occasional voter filed a 50-page, ultra-detailed seat to Democrat Kathy aggressive and likely to snap under political tions to his petitions,” Langworthy and Grant expert objection to Bellavia’s paperwork. Of Hochul, a bellicose text message was sent from pressure. Gubernatorial candidate Carl organized a quiet plot to do just that on her Continued on page 16 an anonymous cellphone to Army veteran Paladino and I had grown close to Berntsen, David Bellavia of Batavia. a military and CIA veteran decorated for “You want to bury the hatchet, we’ll end combat heroism in Afghanistan. Paladino it,” said the message. “If you want war, so be it.” backed Berntsen in the race. That message from the embattled Despite his friendship with Paladino, chairman’s camp threatened the most deco- Langworthy quietly conspired with Chris rated combat veteran of the Iraq War. But Grant - the twenty-something chief of staff Langworthy should have checked his calendar: to County Executive Chris Collins who later the battle started on February 9th, 2011. managed the Jane Corwin campaign - to That day, the thirty-year old Langworthy spend Paladino’s campaign cash on a Primary successfully engineered the selection of Day flyer promoting Berntsen’s opponent. Assemblywoman Jane Corwin for Congress When the Buffalo businessman learned tens just two hours after the resignation of Rep. of thousands of handbills had been printed Chris Lee. Working the phones through implying his support for Berntsen’s opponent, dinnertime, he told key Republicans his rapid he was hopping mad. It was a mistake, we reaction to Lee’s resignation was necessary were told, a printing error. Still, the flyers were decisiveness. distributed across the state and Berntsen lost In the weeks after his cajoling, it became his race. clear New York’s youngest GOP County Months later, I learned it wasn’t a mistake Chairman wasn’t decisive at all – he was at all: Langworthy and Grant had ordered the reneging on a pledge and paving the road for flyer to defeat Berntsen. I discovered an email a Corwin defeat. exchange revealing this conspiracy that read An even younger Langworthy was a key more like a schoolyard prank: “Wow eat that player in a gambit to urge Bellavia out of Gary!” the smoking gun exclaimed. the 2008 Republican Primary for the 26th Langworthy and Grant later italicized Congressional District. Lee was the local their disdain for war hero candidates with Party’s favorite, chiefly because he could self- their brazen work to defame Bellavia when fund the race. Bellavia, who had just returned he stepped forward to remind them of the from Iraq as the most decorated combat Party’s 2008 commitment. When I called veteran of his generation, was told if he Langworthy on Bellavia’s behalf, he said the dropped out to support Lee, he would be next combat veteran was crazy, hyper-aggressive in line for the seat. and likely to snap. He told me the Medal of Ever the good soldier, Bellavia followed Honor nominee committed war crimes in the orders. Former Congressman and GOP Battle of Fallujah. The young chairman who power broker Tom Reynolds embraced him never served his country even said Bellavia was for it and instructed Langworthy, then a disloyal to his wife and woefully in debt. Reynolds acolyte, to set up and run a political Of course, as in the Berntsen case, none action committee to position Bellavia for a of this is true. But this did not stop the run. Langworthy never did - the first evidence Langworthy-Grant dirty tricks machine from of the future GOP chairman’s anti-veteran tilt. shoving a bona fide war hero out of another PAGE 16 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

GOVERNMENT THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT Anti-Veteran Erie GOP Losing Support The Cohen, Shafran, Proulx Shuffle Continued from page 15 busy posting tricked-up YouTube videos, course, the Albion man can be traced right they missed the Medicare issue completely, By CARLOS GONZALEZ back to the Erie GOP leadership. left her vulnerable on the issue and opened a troublesome can of worms for the national Albany - Not too many with Developmental Disabilities. The Lewis Shortly thereafter, Rochester radio talk show people leave Albany on a high County native has some serious work in host Bob Lonsberry announced that he was Republican Party. And by managing the campaign of a point. Usually, news of Albany front of him. The New York Times has been told that all the veterans who collected signa- departures relate to members shedding light on abuses at homes for people tures for Bellavia were going to be investigated rising star like she was running for Student Assembly, the thinly experienced duo sealed seeking a new office position, or are charged with developmental disabilities. for criminal fraud. Bellavia folded. with some type of impropriety. Nevertheless, Two solid Senate Democratic spokes- The Langworthy Party’s low regard her fate. The GOP is lousy with young men who to a Westchester County Assemblyman who person departures does not bode well for for veterans reared its ugly head again when I will leave nameless for this article, you are Senate Democrats. he and Grant sent Jane Corwin’s Assembly never deigned to serve their country. They beat the drums for war, leave the fighting to correct. Albany may have a few bad apples, OPWDD OVERSIGHT: staff chief to disrupt a veterans event, call US but the vast majority of them are solid citi- Marine Jack Davis a coward and then posted better men and then screw them when they And Proulx is already getting things return from battle. Langworthy and Grant zens totally committed to public service. the whole charade on YouTube. Just like their Thank you Assemblyman for your email. done. Look what popped into my inbox, not Berntsen ruse, the video splashed back and are the chief purveyors of this sentiment in by Proulx, but I’d bet he had something to do Western New York Republican Party orga- Now, speaking of leaving Albany on soaked them to the bone. Unfortunately, it a high point, I’m going to mention Steve with this release. also drowned Jane Corwin. nizations. Now, County Executive Chris The Office for People with Disabilities Collins has them leading his re-election effort Cohen, a virtually unknown to most The same naïveté and hubris that punc- taxpayers, but someone who’s done a terrific is moving to increase the oversight of “volun- tuates their work to hurt veterans set up like nothing ever happened. tary” centers, or private providers of services That’s a terrible mistake: Veterans, job serving as secretary to Governor Andrew Corwin for defeat. Jack Davis made it clear Cuomo. and residences for the disabled. he would not have run if Bellavia were the Tea Party activists and more experienced In a significant change for the benefit of campaign hands won’t jump on the Collins Cohen has been with Governor Cuomo GOP candidate. And, without a Tea Party since his AG days. Many Albany insiders individuals with developmental disabilities and candidate splitting the Republican base, bandwagon as long as Langworthy and Grant their family members, Commissioner Courtney are driving it. viewed Cohen as a placeholder. I didn’t. Congresswoman Kathy Hochul could not Cohen gets credit for spearheading Burke of OPWDD has announced the launch have won and may not have run. Michael Caputo was Carl Paladino’s campaign Cuomo’s push to legalize same-sex marriage. of the agency’s retooled “Early Alert” system, Langworthy and Grant lost Corwin manager during his GOP campaign for New He’s what’s known in Albany as the “inside designed to track the program quality and fiscal thousands of vital votes by offending area York State Governor and served on dozens of guy.” He got the work done, period. Cohen sustainability of nonprofit providers. veterans with their playground antics. Too campaigns worldwide. will be replaced by Larry Schwartz, a Paterson “Inadequate and inconsistent oversight administration holdover who has been serving and accountability in the past failed indi- as a senior advisor on the second floor. viduals and families with the care of this agency and created a culture that is unaccept- SENATE STAFF DEPARTURES: able to this administration. While almost On another high note departure, Austin all nonprofit providers consistently meet our Shafran, who has served as a major voice regulatory standards, revitalizing and refo- of the Senate Democrats for the past three cusing the Early Alert program and publicly years, has landed a job with the Cuomo disclosing those nonprofit providers not administration. His new title will be vice meeting the quality standards or maintaining president of public affairs at Empire State fiscal sustainability is a critical step forward as Development. we reform this agency,” said Commissioner “I am honored to join the ESD team to Burke. get the message out that New York is open Here’s our take on this matter. We see for business,” said Shafran. “It’s a privilege excellent leadership by Commissioner Burke, to work with one of New York’s premier a totally different approach compared to the business experts, ESD President & CEO prior administration. Burke is not in denial, Kenneth Adams, to help promote and there has been inadequate and inconsis- implement Governor Cuomo’s dynamic job tent oversight. No matter how grave, it’s creation strategy to recharge the economy.” hopeful when a commissioner takes account- Prior to working for the Senate Dems, ability and seeks to remedy a variety of issues Shafran worked for a year with Democratic compounding an agency. That’s why the consultant Hank Sheinkopf. He also worked Westchester Guardian supports Burke who for Councilman-turned-Assemblyman- indicated that she “will not hesitate to issue turned congressional candidate David fines and take other adverse actions when an Weprin. agency’s action - or inaction - poses a signifi- Keep an eye on Shafran. The 30-year- cant risk to one or more individuals.” old Queens native is ready for an official run Go get ‘em Commissioner Burke. at public office. And when he does, he won’t FISCAL TRAIN-WRECK REVERSAL need any talking points. Travis Proulx leaves the Senate Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is Democratic press office, as well. Proulx, out with a letter to contributors celebrating former deputy press secretary, is now working the legislative session as a positive in communications at the Office for People Continued on page 17 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 17

THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT The Cohen, Shafran, Proulx Shuffle of the same-sex marriage bill. Nevertheless, I gladly give credit Continued from page 16 where credit is due. Oh, and Skelos, and productive six months for the state. It about that signed pledge for an independent included an on-time budget, a 2% property-tax redistricting commission… cap and a tuition and economic program for SUNY. HEZI EATS HIS VEGGIES Skelos said, “During last year’s campaign, Not necessarily Albany-related, but certainly Senate Republicans heard the call from taxpayers Albany-noticed. In the spirit of full disclosure loud and clear: cut state spending, lower our tax and transparency, our editor Hezi Aris orders burden and allow the private sector to create jobs. his burger medium and skips the standard fries We promised to stop and reverse the fiscal train- on the side. He opts for veggies instead. I wreck created by Senate Democrats during their witnessed his lunch selection at a New Rochelle disastrous two-year stint in the Senate Majority. diner for myself. I am happy to report that we kept our promise.” Hezi, until we see each other again, I’m Missing from the letter was mention going to keep eating my fries. GOVERNMENT Greenburgh’s Clerk’s Office to Accept Same Sex Marriage Licenses on First Day—Sunday, July 24th By PAUL FEINER The Greenburgh Town officiate at marriage ceremonies on the same Clerk’s office will be open day. on Sunday, July 24th from Town Clerk Judith Beville is requesting 12-2 PM to accommodate that couples who intend to obtain their applicants seeking same sex license on the 24th contact her in advance marriage licenses. This is the first day that by e mailing her at jbeville@greenburghny. same sex couples can obtain legal licenses. com or to call her at 914-993-1504. If there Town Clerk Judith Beville is joining North are many people seeking licenses on that Hempstead and NYC in making her office date we will try to schedule appointments available on this historic day. The office will to reduce waiting time and inconveniences. also be open for anyone who would like to In the event that the demand is great for apply for a license on the 24th. licenses to be issued on the 24th the hours Many couples may want to take advan- will be extended till 4 PM. tage of the opportunity to get a license The Town Clerk is planning to offer on Sunday, July 24th so they may marry this service to the taxpayers WITHOUT the following day. In the event that NYS any overtime. approves a waiver of the 24 hour waiting Paul Feiner is the Greenburgh Town period the clerks office will also be happy to Supervisor. Disorganized Criminals Running City of Mount Vernon Taxpayers / Residents Doomed By SAM ZHERKA In the April 1st issue, The One of Mayor Clinton Young’s proudest Westchester Guardian exposed appointments was Antoine Lowe as the Mount Vernon Mayor Clinton Director of Mount Vernon’s Civil Defense. Young, who has surrounded According to City records received by The himself with criminals, Westchester Guardian, Antoine Lowe is including his close friend, Craig Jones, twice listed as a Deputy Commissioner of Auxiliary accused of raping two young girls thirteen and Police, along with Terrence Horton, Yolanda fourteen years of age. Mayor Clinton Young Robinson, and others. Insiders have confirmed and his government posers, such as Antoine to The Westchester Guardian that Lowe, who was Lowe, Terrence Horton, Yolanda Robinson, mandated to complete a Police Academy course Brian Bochow, among others, are pilfering the to maintain peace officer status, has not done so. city taxpayers without remorse over the plight Lowe, with no prior experience and with a of ordinary hard-working citizens. Continued on page 18 PAGE 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

INVESTIGATION Disorganized Criminals Running City of Mount Vernon perpetrated by Mayor Continued from page 17 Lowe, parked in front of his residence during Clinton criminal record, was hired as Director of Civil official work hours; in some cases, upwards of Young and Defense with a starting budget of $82,099. four hours at a time. his cohorts, In 2008, despite poor economic condi- The Westchester Guardian also confirmed cost Mount tions, his office received a $10,000 increase that in 2008, Antoine Lowe used roughly Vernon for his 2009annual budget. to $92,123.00. 1,700 gallons of gasoline that he billed to City taxpayers His job is to coordinate and work hand- taxpayers. According to the Ford Motor Co., who are by in-hand with various departments; such the Ford Taurus gets 17 city miles per gallon. far the most as Police, Fire, Ambulance services, Social In order for Antoine Lowe to use 1,700 over-burdened Services, the American Red Cross, FEMA, gallons of gasoline, he would have needed to taxpayers in the and the City’s churches, during times of drive 111.16 miles per day. In a city of 4.4 sq. country. natural or manmade disaster . The Westchester miles, such as is Mount Vernon, New York, Avenue, and Intercounty Paving, would get Two weeks Guardian’s investigation of Director of Civil it seems highly improbable to clock so much jobs illegally by orchestrating phony high ago, The Westchester Guardian reported the Defense Antoine Lowe brought to light mileage. Detractors have told The Westchester bids from non-existent contractors, back- winning fraudulent bid orchestrated by Police Incident # 97-38672, in which Mr Guardian Lowe was seen filling up his black dating bids, and alerting contractors when Terrence Horton and Magna Dry, d/b/a the Lowe is described as having been arrested SUV Cadillac Escalade on many occasions; their company had been outbid by competi- Carpet Emporium, for 29 windows installed on the corner of Vista Place and West and on several occasions while in the pres- tors. In this way, the politically connected at the fire house located at 470 E. Lincoln First Street, in Mount Vernon, New York, ence of Mayor Clinton Young. It would contractor could lower the bid and ensure Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York, cost for soliciting what he thought was a crack- appear that Antoine Lowe, Mayor Clinton taxpayers’ funds lined their pockets. taxpayers $14,000. It would appear that addicted prostitute he later learned was an Young’s friend and appointee has been joy In July 2009, Mayor Clinton Young gave Magna Dry, a carpet cleaning company who undercover Police Officer. According to the riding on the taxpayers dime. the go ahead for Rossignuolo to demolish admitted to The Westchester Guardian that Incident Report, Antoine Lowe offered the The Westchester Guardian obtained docu- 406 South 1st Street, a three-family, privately they do not install windows, or sell windows, undercover-Police Officer money to perform mentation proving that former Buildings owned property that had collapsed. The was directly involved in the kickback scheme. sexual Commissioner Ralph Tedesco, a personal owner, Mozzelle Warner, had insurance that The Westchester Guardian obtained copies of acts. Mr Lowe was placed under arrest friend of the Mayor Clinton Young also covered the cost of demolishing the structure the Board of Election Financial disclosures by Detectives Palma and Terrence Raynor , engaged in bid rigging for and carting it away. Warner entered into a for Mayor Young and confirmed that just who were working with the New York State demolition projects throughout the contract with Bazooka to procure the job at over two months prior to the phony bid, Police. City of Mount Vernon. The Westchester the expense of her insurance company and Magna Dry made a $2,500 contribution to Despite not having a full-carry pistol Guardian interviewed Bobby Brown, owner not Mount Vernon taxpayers. Ordinarily, the Mayor’s campaign effort. permit, Antoine Lowe has been known to of Bazooka Inc., a demolition contractor who that would be the end of it. In this case, the Mike Skylar, a Mount Vernon resident, carry a fully loaded handgun at all times. The did business with Mount Vernon.” Young’s Mount Vernon Building Commissioner, told The Westchester Guardian he is paying Westchester Guardian contacted an insider at administration has been a complete night- under Mayor Young’s orders, refused to let $15,000 per year in taxes. “Some of my neigh- the Westchester County Clerk’s office and mare,” said Brown. the project go forward. As required by New bors are paying $20,000, and others, even was able to confirm that Mr Lowe does not Brown told The Westchester Guardian York State General Municipal Law and the more,” he said. “Some of my neighbors pay possess a full-carry pistol license. that city officials were always losing files and Mount Vernon City Charter, the city fraud- $30,000 and $40,000 per year. Skylar added, On suspicion of stealing from the City of cutting deals behind closed doors. I want the ulently put this job out for competitive bid. “What do we get for it? NOTHING,” Mount Vernon, The Westchester Guardian entire world to know,” said Brown .“Former Rossignuolo bid $49,500 to complete the job, proclaimed Skylar, “Nothing!” surveilled Lowe, his residence, an attached Commissioner Ralph Tedesco who resigned underbidding AG & Sons Carting of New Skylar suggested that a wing in two-family home at 213 Prospect Avenue, is a criminal.” Rochelle, New York, which bid $57,500, and Allenwood Federal Penitentiary be built in Mount Vernon, New York, on a number Members of Clinton Young’s adminis- B.N.C Demolition of Yonkers, New York, to house all the criminals operating out of of occasions. On many occasions The tration insured that contractors with political which bid $51,550 for the job. The problem Mount Vernon City Hall under Mayor Westchester Guardian found the Mount ties to Mayor Young, such as Rossingnuolo is AG & Sons and B.N.C Demolition Clinton Young. “They all belong in jail; that’s Vernon-owned, black Ford Taurus, with offi- Contracting, located at 318 East 3rd Street, were fraudulent bids from companies that where they belong.” cial license plates, that was driven by Antoine and Magna Dry, located on Mount Vernon never existed. This fraud, as well as others, GOVERNMENT their legislation passed or any of their cronies’ what about the Republican legislators? pet projects moved forward then it would As written over and over and over again, The Final Word on Playland be best vote with the chairman. (Just wait the Republicans are in the minority up By NANCY KING and see July 11th’s meeting; the Westchester there on the eighth floor and they naturally Children’s Museum at Playland will get voted against the fee proposal for the park. On July 6, 2011 the Westchester County of Playland a part of the decision making approved as well). The Democratic legisla- The Republicans legislators it seems are Board of Legislators voted to rescind the process? We may never know the answer to tors, all of whom are up for re-election in worried that there will be a projected loss entrance fee for Westchester County resi- that question but even the barest of literate November, are also making an attempt to of $300,000.00 if those entrance fees aren’t dents who want to visit the park at Rye individuals know that this vote had nothing answer to their constituents who will ulti- restored. Whoa, I call bull pockey on that Playland but do not want to go on any of to do with the park, or its fees; it has to do mately have the final say in November. It also one. $300,000.00 isn’t going to determine the rides. Of course it was the Democratic with the fact that this is a big legislative elec- appears to the average person that this mostly the fate of Playland. Playland’s fate has been majority who voted to keep the “spectator fee” tion year. Democratic County Board of Legislators sealed and it ain’t comin’ back next season in free, and the Republicans who were the “nay” Of course the Democrats on the board will do whatever it takes to stick it to Rob its present form. All we can do is wait to see votes, but how come the citizen committee have to answer to two masters. Ken Jenkins Astorino and his administration. But hey… Continued on page 19 that has been so diligently studying the fate is their chairman and if they want any of THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 19

GOVERNMENT The Final Word on Playland these candidates do to recoup that 300K that this is going to be the number one campaign your four, fire them. Voila! You’ve got your they’re so worried about? I guess nothing topic for those who for whatever reason are 300K plus an extra 100K to make a profit. Continued from page 18 since instead of offering any form of solution, running for a legislative seat. But I do have a It’s a win, win solution. Playland makes its which developer actually gets the property. it’s easier to wag a finger at your would be solution for them to debate for the next few entrance fee and we get to see four members But in the meantime this has created constituents and tell us that we are going to months and to be bi-partisan; we’ll offer it to of the friends and family network kicked to a great deal of fodder to those who are have to make up that 300K. We get it… we’ll both sides of the aisle. Take four individuals the curb and we get to see two branches of campaigning against those incumbents on be taxed further to pay for it. who respectively work for Mr. Jenkins and government doing more with less. Isn’t that the eighth floor and they don’t have any Playland has turned out to be a topic of Mr. Astorino who obtained their employ- what the rest of us have been doing all along? problem voicing their opinions via social conversation, which much like religion and ment purely as a token of patronage. Make Nancy King resides in Greenburgh, New York. media. That’s all good and social media is politics is to be avoided at all cost. But also sure that in being fair, each official will sacri- She is an investigative reporter. indeed the way to go when campaigning like the above mentioned topics, everybody fice two staff members. In order to make this but what exactly is their opinion about has an opinion about the park and its seeming solution “work,” each staff member must be Playland? What exactly would any one of inability to turn a profit. And it looks like that making 100K or more. Once you’ve picked

Phil Amicone would come to inculcate overtime to excess. the totalitarian concepts of “my way or the The only relief for Yonkers, and others Recognizing Modern Day Serfdom in Yonkers highway,” coupled with vindictive conse- who suffer likewise, is to comprehend that By HEZI ARIS quences by his orders for added measure. economic options will deliver political Amicone’s dominion over Yonkers and liberty to those with a full belly and whose Yonkersites have leaders to guide us beyond the dangers of its people allowed Amicone to dole out quality of life is determined to be safe. bartered away their polit- the forces captivating the nation over racial “benefits” among the “Friends and Family These tenets will beget the freedom and ical freedoms for economic equality, education, and economic develop- Network.” change for which many yearn. This is an protection for genera- ment, among other concerns. Subsidies and economic redistribu- equation that may not be imposed by fiat. tions. The waning days We voted those who were our friends tion in return for quiescence has begun to Among those who yearn to serve the of Yonkers Mayor Phil into office. Too often they proved them- unravel. Financial concerns have made it City of Yonkers, does any one of them have Amicone’s administration have afforded selves incapable of delivering on their almost impossible to guarantee jobs. Even a plan to contend with the financial reality The People to recognize the bargain has promise of benevolence. Fiscally, most so, civil service tests are permitted friends that has consumed Yonkersites? not worked. Equality among our ethni- were inept. Our “friends” became totali- the opportunity to take home to assure the The People want to know! The People cally diverse neighborhoods, living wage tarian in thought and conduct; Yonkersites best grades possible. Future in-laws are have the right to know! employment opportunities, the promise kept choosing the worst candidates to given jobs; friends are given contract exten- of education for our progeny, and the reach the top. sion and those soon to retire are permitted conjured visions that have escaped our In the 1944 masterpiece, “The Road to grasp, have collectively defined our locally Serfdom,” Austrian economist F.A. Hayek’s  failed governance. words came to describe the Europe of his 5' The paymasters of big business were time but which also captures Yonkersites’ 23(1+286(-8/< OPEN HOUSE losing their grip over the rapidly trans- contemporary condition when he wrote: RD JULY 23 formed landscape of America in the 1950s “To be a useful assistant in the running of 9 AM – 4 PM and ‘60s. Yonkersites elected titular heads a totalitarian state, it is not enough that a 5,9(59,(:&2857 that promised to level the economic order. man should be prepared to accept specious $3$570(176 47 RIVERDALE AVE., YONKERS, NY The changing economic environment justification of vile deeds; he must himself facilitated the flight of big business whose be prepared actively to break every moral corporate need to transition to survive was rule he has ever known if this seems neces- anathema to the undereducated, ethnic sary to achieve the end set to him. Since and/or religiously persecuted popula- it is the supreme leader who alone deter- tions. Their collective reference points mines the ends, his instruments must have had no regard for free market economy no moral convictions of their own.” burgeoning in some parts of the nation. This fully describes the lowly paid Yonkersites understood little of wealth and engineer Phil Amicone, plucked from 1 & 2 BR APARTMENTS AT A GREAT PRICE! property. Our status as the fourth largest obscurity from White Plains and desig- 1 BR STARTING AT $1070 • 2 BRS STARTING AT $1279 city in New York State belied our small nated then Yonkers Deputy Mayor under town demeanor. We yearned for strong Mayor John Spencer’s administration.  ‹/PNO9PZL)\PSKPUNHUK=PL^ZVM[OL/\KZVUHUK/PZ[VYPJHS@VURLYZ ‹5LHYI`7\ISPJ;YHUZWVY[H[PVU:OVWWPUN9LZ[H\YHU[Z[OL/\KZVU9P]LY HUKVUS`TPUH^H`MYVT5@* ;;@   ‹-P[ULZZ*LU[LY6U:P[L 9P]LY]PL^*V\Y[ ‹/V\YZ(JJLZZ*VU[YVS7H[YVS +VLZ5V[ ‹3HYNL:[H[LVM[OL(Y[3H\UKY`9VVT +PZJYPTPUH[L ‹/Y4HPU[LUHUJL 6U;OL)HZPZ Be Seen ‹6U:P[L4HUHNLTLU[ 6M+PZHIPSP[` Advertise in The Westchester ‹9LHZVUHIS`7YPJLK0UKVVY7HYRPUN6U:P[L^P[O*VU[YVSSLK(JJLZZ ‹9LZPKLU[3V\UNL 15 MIN. GuardianCall 914-562-0834 ‹)\ZPULZZ*LU[LY FROM NYC ‹)LH\[PM\S*V\Y[`HYKPU[OLJLU[LYVM[OLJVTWSL_ VIA [email protected] ^P[O^LSSHWWVPU[LKSHUKZJHWLHYLHZ METRO NORTH! PAGE 20 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

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Ossining and Village properly to its constituents in an attempt of Briarcliff Manor, to avoid a serious situation. Relations must An Opinion on the Annexation Movement in Ossining with no consultants. be repaired with the Village of Briarcliff By Peter J. Tripodi IV There should be no Manor and the larger issue of them bias, just a study of becoming a Town Village must also be The movement of In my opinion, the main problem the impact of the loss studied. The Village of Briarcliff Manor is annexing two voting districts with this situation is that the majority of of these two districts. 16% of the Town’s population yet pays 40% in the Unincorporated the Town Board believes that, after all is In addition, certain officials in the of the Town General budget and receives Town of Ossining into the said and done; the last step in this process Town of Ossining have stated to the media minimal services from the Town. Village of Briarcliff Manor will be that the petition will go to a judge. that the Town of Ossining will be sitting Decisions must be made and the by Ossining Town residents should It is assumed that the judge would rule down with the Village of Briarcliff Manor serious outcomes of those decisions should be a wakeup call for the Town Board. in favor of the Town. However, there are to go over the annexation presentation be studied and considered. An open mind Unfortunately it is not. many holes to this theory…How will the made by the Village of Briarcliff Manor. must always be kept with situations that Many of the residents involved in the judge rule in our favor? While it is believed These kinds of statements are far from will reduce the size of government and annexation movement have had, in some that losing election districts 17 & 20 will the reality of the situation, which is this: possibly decrease taxes for all. It seems that way, a bad experience with the Town result in the Town Outside not being The Village of Briarcliff Manor pulled out none of the questions stated previously will Board, going back from this present board able to sustain itself financially, how will a of talks with the Town of Ossining and ever be answered because there is no real to many previous boards. The one main judge know this? What background docu- Village of Ossining a long time ago. The analysis of this situation. There is just the underlying theme was that the Town Board ments, what numbers, and what proof of Village of Briarcliff Manor has publicly thought that a judge will rule in favor of did not listen, nor did it handle, whatever lost revenue projections will be provided to denounced the Town of Ossining and has the town, a simple thought, a simple dream problem residents brought before them. a judge? How many employees would be also publicly stated their desire to become that everything will magically be OK. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately laid off, what services would be cut, would their own Town/Village if districts 17 & Peter J.Tripodi IV is presently an Ossining for the Town Board, their democratic the multi-million dollar police building be 20 go with them or not. These actions Town Councilman. He is also a candidate recourse is to separate themselves from sold, would the county lower its policing alone should be a sign to the media and for mayor of Ossining. Learn more at www. the Town of Ossining. Whatever one feels costs, etc..? These questions remain and the public, that the comments made, PeterTripodi.com, direct email to: elect- about this situation is quite immaterial, the Town should conduct its own analysis which indicate the Town of Ossining and [email protected], or call (914) 774-0373. as petitioning fellow residents and local to answer some of them. There should the Village of Briarcliff Manor sitting government is a right in this country that be a public committee comprised of two down together, are clear indications that no one can prevent. board members, residents of the Town of the Town Board is once again not listening OpEdSection LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Marriage Guardian article “Marriage Equality in consider a sacred vow between a man and property taxes in the country. That is what New York,” Nancy King asserts, “It’s nice to woman is cause for great apprehension and drove them to impose Proposition 2½ which Equality see so many people in New York in agree- dissention. capped property taxes in that state at 2.5% Some will ment.” Perhaps, but for those who objected Bob Pascarella over the prior year’s levy. Massachusetts decry, others will and stood in defiance, there was condem- The Bronx, New York continues to be a top education state, lauded celebrate, what nation and harsh contentious criticism by for its superior schools almost 30 years after the late Senator those who consider themselves paragons of In Support of Tax Cap the tax cap was imposed, and it is now about Daniel Patrick tolerance. Guilty of homophobia, bigotry, 43rd in the country for property taxes. Moynihan referred to in describing the Legislation the opposition was accused of denying this To the Editor: Over the past three-plus years, I have devolution of a society, as “Defining devi- select group its civil rights. The egregious I am writing to share why I supported invited many different interest groups to ancy down.” Call it a radical redefinition of and highly disrespectful treatment of the the Tax Cap legislation that was signed speak at town hall-style meetings in my marriage or social engineering, the recent Catholic Church, and especially Archbishop into law by Governor Cuomo. Property district and with me in my office about ruling legitimizing “same- sex marriage” was Dolan of the New York Archdiocese who Taxes in our state, and more specifically strategies to address our skyrocketing and not through the will of the people, but by was criticized and vilified, was offensive and in Westchester and Putnam Counties, are unsustainable property taxes. Tom Suozzi, governmental fiat. Elected officials decided un-American. among the highest in the United States. It who led the NYS Commission on Property to redefine traditional marriage, the union of And to portray this issue as a matter of is truly disheartening when I receive so many Tax Relief, came to my district a couple of one man; one woman, for all of society. With civil rights as analogous is not apropos. It calls, letters and emails from life-long New times. His Commission favored a phased help from a broad spectrum of proponents: has nothing at all to do with a redefinition of Yorkers who love this state but can no longer in plan which would start with a tax cap the media, press, the entertainment industry, marriage. The private and personal lifestyle afford to live here, or from businesses that followed by a circuit breaker, as a balanced Wall Street, and a governor with an agenda preferences of a select and small group cannot cannot remain in the black. approach to offset property taxes when they geared toward someday seeking higher office, be compared with the systematic oppression We had to do something. I spent a lot far exceed income, and then would address the end game was assured and New York is and enslavement of a race of people. of time studying our high taxes by reading mandate relief. One of the key points he now one of six states to recognize same sex Let’s be clear, this is not to deny the reports from New York State Commissions, made was that the first step had to be a cap, marriage. In all the states that placed this dignity, and right of any person to live in other states’ reports, and bringing in experts because without it, nothing would sufficiently issue on a ballot as a referendum; same sex freedom and attain happiness. But to do to speak on the subject. In the 1980s, drive us to take other corrective actions. In marriage was defeated by the people. so at the expense of what many Americans Massachusetts also had some of the highest Continued on page 21 In the June 30th [The]Westchester THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 21

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Continued from page 20 excellent schools and municipal services, and salaries of a large number of our employees Of course, if we choose not to do that, we addition, in multiple surveys sent home to ensuring that New Yorkers can remain here - public safety employees. New York State must first clean the mess that Henry left behind my constituents, an overwhelming majority and continue to be proud to call the Empire should provide local officials with the ability and acknowledge that society has long run past supported a property tax cap. State their home. to control all salaries under our jurisdiction. the standard set by the Catholic Church. With I joined Governor Cuomo in his Sincerely, The buck should stop with elected officials 50% of marriages ending in divorce, the prac- commitment to getting this cap passed, and Sandy Galef who approve budgets, not with unelected tice is obviously accepted as the norm today. to addressing mandate relief, so New York Sandra Galef is the Assemblywoman repre- arbitrators. And leading the way, right behind the cafeteria can get its property taxes in line with other senting the 90th A.D.Letter to the Editor Arbitration panels were created in Catholics with their annulment indulgences are states and once again become competitive in New York as part of the Taylor Law in the the Christian Churches that rolled out of the the housing and jobs market. The governor Eliminating Arbitration Panels 1960s with the objective of creating harmo- Defender of The Faith’s sharpened sense of has already introduced a Tier 6 pension It would be easier for local governments nious and cooperative relationships between succession issues. plan which I think has many commendable to implement the property cap approved by government and its employees. The law is The slippery slope has long been in place. attributes and will go a long way to reducing the Governor and NYS Legislature if our outdated and should be repealed. It’s called polygamy and all those who have some of the cost drivers that lead to high tax state lawmakers eliminate police/firefighter Sincerely, remarried will stand behind Henry with their increases. I fully support him in his mission. arbitration panels. Just this week, as an Paul J. Feiner excommunications papers at the gates of Some mandate relief was included in example, a NYS arbitration panel awarded Paul Feiner is the Greenburgh Town Supervisor Hell. Whether you adhere to such fairy tales, it doesn’t apply among the living because we the legislation, although I do wish we could the police in the town of Clarkstown a Gay Marriage have included more relief for schools and 3.4% retroactive increase for 2008 and 2010. don’t live in a theocracy. But for those who The town wanted to impose a zero percent Just Because Marriage Has Been wished we did, why does the sin of homo- municipalities simultaneously with the tax Defined, Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Be cap bill’s passage. However, I believe that increase. These panels of unelected arbitra- sexuality take precedence when polygamy tors set salaries for police / firefighters and Redefined puts so many more souls at risk. this bill will force us as a legislature to enact It Wouldn’t Be the First Time further mandate relief. In fact, the combined have the power to impose excessive salary You just have to ask yourself, what hikes on local governments around the state. Going back thousands of years, marriage Jesus would spend the majority of his time Legislative and Executive Mandate Relief is defined as one man, one woman. It Council established by this tax cap legislation In years past the salary hikes imposed by preaching to. Nonetheless, it can only be arbitration panels for police and firefighters would seem then that Henry VIII missed concluded that these religious figures who has been created with that goal in mind. We that memo. And heads had to come off for must get a handle on the cost drivers. Now exceeded inflation. claim to hate the sin but love the sinner are Elected officials are being asked to marriage to be redefined. As silly as this much more about hate than love --especially that this bill has passed, we will continue current debate is, we shouldn’t have to go so to spend time tweaking it to make sure it is control property tax hikes. We’re being told on this particular one. that we can’t raise taxes over a certain amount. far to allow the new definition to catch up to Rich Monetti effective and successful at controlling long the movement of society. term property tax growth, maintaining our Yet, we currently have no control over the Somers, New York OPED Music, Dance, Movies, fun & free events Yoga & more! Murdoch Delivers, And We Despise Him It For It
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OPED Murdoch Delivers, And We Despise Him It For It News Corp. is already positioning was indicted following the collapse of Enron. itself to try to reclaim those Sunday Though the Supreme Court later threw out Continued from page 21 accounts associated with Britain’s royal family. readers by launching a Sunday edition of the case, the damage was long since done. here, including establishing the Fox network, A variety of politicians, sports stars and other NOTW’s tabloid stablemate, The Sun. More charges are going to follow in he got that too. public figures were identified two summers The Mirror reported that News Corp. the News of the World case. Journalist Andy Murdoch is back in the global spot- ago as probable victims of the hack attacks. Yet reserved several appropriate domain names, Coulson, who departed as the paper’s editor light today not because of his activities the slowly building outrage over the affair did including TheSunonSunday.com and and became Cameron’s chief spokesman in the United States, but because of the not reach a crescendo that forced News Corp. TheSunonSunday.co.uk, earlier this week. before resigning earlier this year, reportedly phone-hacking scandal that engulfed, and to act until this week’s revelations. This was several days before James Murdoch turned himself in earlier today, and other ultimately destroyed, Britain’s News of the It might be fair to conclude that if British announced the shutdown of News of the World. individual participants may be charged as World. Murdoch’s son James, the chief execu- readers were bothered by the earlier disclo- Cynicism about News Corp.’s move well. Maybe convictions will result, or maybe tive of News Corp.’s European operations, sures that people deemed gossip-worthy were is further fueled by the news that, while not. Either way, the rapid unraveling of the announced yesterday that the 168-year- hacked, they were not so bothered that they some 200 journalists will lose jobs at News paper is a reminder of how the actions of a old title will cease publishing after Sunday’s would give up their guilty pleasure of reading of the World, one person not immedi- few can bring down a large enterprise. forthcoming edition. News of the World. The paper remained ately headed to the unemployment line is All of the outrage and all of the charges The British scandal has taken give-‘em- Britain’s largest seller, at around 2.6 million Rebekah Brooks. 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Minister David Cameron, claims that it was Dowler and interfering with police investiga- Killing News of the World is a simple and “inconceivable” that she “knew, or worse tion of the crime. On Tuesday, The Telegraph effective business decision for News Corp. sanctioned” the activity. Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, president reported that police believed the paper also At one stroke, the company can appear to That Murdoch would kill the paper of Palisades Hudson Financial Group a fee- broke into voice mail accounts of victims be responding with appropriate vigor to the without firing the executive who was in only financial planning firm headquartered in of the London transit bombings on July 7, scandal without actually giving up much in charge of it speaks volumes about his priori- Scarsdale, NY. The firm offers estate planning, 2005, as well as family members of troops the way of profit. Like most newspapers, ties. is now more trouble News of the World insurance consulting, trust planning, cross-border killed in Afghanistan. the tabloid was not generating much, if any, than it is worth, so it has to go. But Brooks planning, business valuation, family office and All of Britain seems to be in an uproar income or cash flow these days. By making it is an executive who knows what the public business management, executive financial plan- over these assaults on the privacy and dignity look as though it takes the matter seriously, wants and is prepared to give it to them. That ning, and tax services. Its sister firm, Palisades of private citizens. This is somewhat odd, News Corp. no doubt hopes to defuse oppo- makes her a keeper. Hudson Asset Management, is an indepen- because it is not exactly news that News of the sition in Britain’s Parliament to its planned Sometimes a brand becomes so damaged dent investment advisor with about $950 World hacked into voice mails. The paper’s takeover of British Sky Broadcasting, which that it can no longer survive. It happened million under management. Branch offices are royal editor and two associates were charged is worth far more to the company than News to Arthur Andersen, where I started my in Atlanta and Ft. Lauderdale. Website:www. nearly five years ago with hacking into phone of the World. finance career, when the accounting firm palisadeshudson.com. WEIR ONLY HUMAN disadvantage, while Mitt Romney, who is Utah city’s Olympics were scandal-ridden currently in the lead for the GOP nomina- and in complete disarray until Romney took Are Mormons Second-Class Citizens? tion next year, has merely 22% to overcome. over and brought some excellent manage- By BOB WEIR The fact that this is even a problem for one ment skills to the effort. Making the rescue of our leaders at the top of the political food job seem simple, he came in with a positive During the presidential of Americans were relegated to second-class chain, especially when we’re facing so many attitude, hired competent, committed people, campaign of 1960, Senator citizenship just because they were Catholic. serious challenges to our future, is very trou- and the result was a successful Olympics that John F. Kennedy had several The future president, who had served with bling. Have we not learned anything about few had thought possible. To paraphrase issues to confront, not the distinction in the U.S. Navy, added; “No one discrimination and bigotry since 1960? JFK: no one asked Romney about his reli- least of which was his religion. Although asked me my religion in the South Pacific.” Romney is not my first choice to lead gion when he was saving the reputation of a there were numerous elected officials across A recent Gallup Poll indicated 22% of us in a victory over President Obama in world-renowned sporting competition. the country who were members of the Americans would not be willing to for vote 2012, but his choice of religion has abso- If unemployment is over 8% next year Catholic faith, no Catholic had ever risen to for a Mormon. The poll also showed that lutely nothing to do with my predilections. and the economy is still struggling along with the level of Chief Executive. JFK decided to 7% would refuse to vote for a Catholic and He has a record of reversing himself on gas prices near $4 a gallon, along with other face it head-on. In his famous address to the 9% would not vote for a Jew. Just about half, issues whenever it appears to suit his polit- disastrous omens in the financial markets, it’s Greater Houston Ministerial Association on 49%, said they wouldn’t vote for an atheist. ical aspirations, and the healthcare bill he my guess that any Republican candidate will September 12, 1960, he made it clear that We can only imagine what the numbers signed into law when he was Governor of beat Obama. Furthermore, if that candidate his religion would not impact his decision- would be if they were asked about a Muslim Massachusetts is uncomfortably similar to is someone with a clear vision for reviving the making as president. “I am not the Catholic for president. Just to provide some historical Obamacare. However, I do believe he has economy, backed up by a sterling reputation candidate for President,” he said. “I am the perspective, in 1959, the year before JFK won shown enormous business acumen in his for achieving success with superior manage- Democratic Party candidate for President election as the nation’s first Catholic presi- very successful career as an entrepreneur. He ment, organizing and entrepreneurial skills, who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not dent, 25% of Americans polled, including took a leave of absence about ten years ago, I have a feeling that the voters will overlook speak for my Church on public matters, and 22% of Democrats, 33% of Republicans and when he took over as President and CEO what church the candidate attends. If you’ve the Church does not speak for me.” Kennedy 18% of independents, said they would not of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee of lost your steady job in the last year and you’ve questioned rhetorically whether one-quarter vote for a Catholic. Okay, so JFK had a 25% the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the time, that Continued on page 23 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 PAGE 23

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Registered Agent: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden LN, shall mail copy of process to The LLC 100 Hickory Lane 5 working man or woman didn’t cause this reces- Resumes to Deer Management Co LLC., 5th Fl NY, NY 10038. Bedford, NY 10506 Purpose: Any lawful activity. sion; it was caused by elected officials who spent ATTN: JAmbrosino, 1865 Palmer Avenue, Amkai LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) MAK & GER LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY more time dabbling in ideology than in pragmatic Larchmont, NY 10538, Ref. job code: LAD- on 5/10/11. Office location: Westchester Co. LLC formed in (SSNY) on 1/31/11. Office location: Westchester Co. LLC Delaware (DE) on 3/26/07 SSNY designated as agent of LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/18/11 SSNY designated as governing. On his way to the GOP nomination, I 029. No calls/emails/faxes EOE. upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. don’t doubt that his opponents will try to use his mail process to The LLC 200 Business Park DR Ste 208 Ar- SSNY shall mail process to The LLC 50 Manhattan Ave – 2H Mormonism against him, albeit with subtle refer- Prime Retail - Westchester County monk, NY 10504. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St Wilm- NY, NY 10025. DE address of LLC: 800 Delaware Ave PO Box Best Location in Yorktown Heights ington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 8702 Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. ences, but I think primary voters next year will be PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful more interested in getting jobs and feeding their 1100 Sq. Ft. Store $3100; 1266 Sq. Ft. store activity. $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. Store $1200. TMRC, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) families than in the ecclesiastical affiliation of the Suitable for any type of business. Contact 5/24/2011. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent Notice of formation of R. Jaundoo Realty LLC. Filed with leader who can make that happen. of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall the Secy. Of State of NY(SSNY) On 02/09/11. Office loca- Jaime: 914.632.1230 mail copy of process to The LLC C/O Rose Chin PO Box 956 tion: Westchester County. SSNYdesignated as agent of LLC Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the New York Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: Any lawful activity. upon Whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 4021 Paulding Ave Bronx NY 10466. Salinaro Vistas Consulting LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY Police Dept. (NYPD), ten of which were performed Purpose: Any lawful activity. Pastor- Conduct worship service to 6/17/2011. Off. Loc.: Westchester Cnty. SSNY designated as in plainclothes undercover assignments. He retired congregation; Prepare and deliver agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail as a sergeant after supervising patrol in Midtown sermons; Be available for personal process to: c/o The LLC, 1 Burnside Avenue, Hastings-On- Manhattan, the busiest precinct in the country. He discipleship and counseling. Req. MA Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: all lawful activities. eventually retired to Flower Mound, Texas, where in Divinity, Resume to: New York Great Wellness by the Sea Retreats,LLC Articles of Org. filed NY he began a writing career that started 12 years ago Faith Church 261E. Lincoln Avenue, Mt. Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/1/2011. Office in Westchester Co. Vernon, NY 10552 SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be with his first book published in 1999. Ruthie’s Kids, served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Sandra Ramos Murder in Black and White, Deadly to Love, are just 333 Bronx River Road #502 Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any a few of the titles available from Barnes & Noble, and lawful activity. Amazon.com, among other major online book sellers. PAGE 24 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011

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