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Vol XXVI Issue 08 Nov 03 2016 Volume XXVI No. 8 Hometown Newspaper for Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Glen Head, Glenwood, Locust Valley and Brookville Week of 11/3/16 75C Sixth Annual Glen Cove Howl’oween Pet Parade Brings Out The Best in Costume Creativity The streets of Glen Cove were filled with the best in canine costume creativity for Glen Cove’s Sixth Annual Howl’oween Pet Parade. Pets dressed for success channeled sharks, spaghetti and meatballs, royalty, ballerinas, Disney characters, super heroes, wild animals and even a fighter pilot. “Over 100 pets participated in this year’s parade and I must admit each year our pets and their owners push the envelope on creativity,” said Mayor Spinello. Created by the Glen Cove Parks and Recreation Department, the event featured costume contest prizes awarded in categories ranging from large and small dogs to most original, best pet/pet owner and best in show, free treats and a raffle. Participants who made a food or financial donation to Cove Animal Rescue received a free plush dog toy from North Coast Subaru. Hosted by former Glen Cove High Howl’oween Pet Parade participants march down Glen Street Photo Credit: Tony Gallego, Gill Associates School teacher, Dale Zurbrick, the event’s sponsors included Petco, North Coast Subaru and Scoopy Doo Department of Public Works, Volunteer the Mayor’s Office. Volunteer contest Judge Joseph McCann, Coleen Spinello with support from the Glen Cove Fire Department, Auxiliary Police and judges included Judge Richard McCord, and Darcy Belyea. more photos on page 2 Glen Cove takes part in Dig Pink For the fifth consecutive year, Glen Matthew Carbone and George Kearns Cove High School’s girls volleyball supply a bagel breakfast for both teams team and Locust Valley High School’s to give the girls an opportunity to bond volleyball programs teamed up for a Dig while eating and planning the work of Pink non-league game in recognition art jerseys they will wear to the game. of National Breast Cancer Awareness Numbers, ribbons, names and other Month. colorful creations usually go on their Prior to the game, the teams held a jersey. bake sale and donated the proceeds to the Side-Out Foundation, a cancer research Photo Caption: Glen Cove High School’s organization. The students are always girls volleyball team and Locust Valley High excited to help out this wonderful cause. School’s volleyball programs teamed up for a Each year the girls design their own Dig Pink non-league game. Photo courtesy of Dig Pink volleyball jerseys. Coaches the Glen Cove City School District Page 2 Gold Coast Gazette Week of November 3, 2016 Sixth Annual Glen Cove Howl’oween Pet Parade Brings Out The Best in Costume Creativity Mayor Spinello and Councilman Nick DiLeo Jr. greet a Doberman Pincher dressed as a tiger along with his beautiful princess and her friends. A fighter pilot and her Top Gun dog are presented with the best in show prize by Mayor Spinello For Gazette advertising information call 671-2360 The Gold Coast Gazette 2 Endo Blvd, Garden City, NY 11530 (USPS008886)(ISSN10651748) Postmaster: Send address changes to The Gold Coast Gazette, 2 Endo Blvd, Garden City, NY 11530. Entered as second class paid postage at the Post Office at Garden City, N.Y. Published weekly on Thursday by Richner Communications, Inc. 2 Endo Blvd, A delicious take on a Halloween costume showed a clever portrayal of spaghetti and Garden City, NY 11530. Phone (516) 569-4000. Price per copy is 75 cents. meatballs Week of November 3, 2016 Gold Coast Gazette Page 3 Celebrity Goes To Bed We are retiring the “Name the Celebrity” or “Oriental” philosophy. column as of this week. We thank all of RKO Pictures used him in its popular the people who participated in calling in to adventures of “The Falcon” with George ’ guess each week. I would also like to thank Sanders and in the “Mexican Spitfire” (1940) and honor the late great Gene Auciello who with Lupe Velez. He also worked at Universal started this popular column. I also want to Pictures, where he played two-fisted valet/ thank Brenda Weck who kept the column chauffeur “Kato” in its “Green Hornet” film and legacy going after Gene’s passing. To series, played by Gordon Jones (“Mike, the follow is last week’s answer, so that we Cop” on the Abbott and Costello Show” don’t keep you in suspense. of the 1950s) and Warren Hull. Combined, by Kevin Horton Enjoy, Kevin both series produced 28 episodes. He had a featured role in “The Chairman” (1969) Last week’s celebrity was Keye Luke. His starring Gregory Peck. Luke provided most memorable role was as “Number One the voice of evil “Mr. Han” in “Enter the Son to Warner Oland’s “Charlie Chan” Dragon” (1973) starring Bruce Lee. He character in the long time series, before Oland played the mysterious old Chinatown shop died. In 1948, Luke returned to the “Chan” owner “Mr. Wing” in two 1980s “Gremlins” mysteries, which were now being produced movies and had a significant role in Woody by Monogram and starred Roland Winters Allen’s “Alice” (1990). as “Chan”. “Number One Son” appeared In 1972, “Number One Son” ascended to in the last two “Chan” features, “The the role of “Charlie Chan” himself, thus Feathered Serpent” along with “Number becoming the first actor of Chinese descent Two Son Tommy Chan” (Victor Sen Yeng) to play the role. He also supplied the voice of in their only appearance together, and “Sky “Mr. Chan” in the animated TV series “The Dragon”. In both of these films, Luke was Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan”. He was older than the actor playing his father. also known for his role of “Master Po” in the Unlike some performers, who had failed to TV series “Kung Fu” (1972-75). In 1985, he establish themselves beyond a single role, played the “Ancient One” on the afternoon Keye Luke continued to work prolifically soap opera “General Hospital”. There were in Hollywood, at several studios. Metro- several voice overs on such popular animated Goldwyn-Mayer cast him in a recurring role shows as “Space Ghost” and “Battle of in its “Dr. Kildare” film series in the 1930s the Planets”. There was a reference made and ‘40s, and Monogram Pictures features of him that brought a chuckle to this now him in its “Frankie Darro” comedies and aging actor, which was, in the “Fractured also starred him as “Mr. Wong” in “Phantom Fairy Tales” episode “The Enchanted Fly”, of Chinatown” (1940). Unlike Boris Karloff, one of the rewards offered to the man who Celebrating 80 who had preceded him in the “Mr. Wong” would rescue and marry the princess is, “an Assemblymember Charles D. Lavine (D- role, Luke played the detective without any autographed picture of Keye Luke”. Luke North Shore LI) is pleased to announce exotic touches. Though his “Mr. Wong” was died of a stroke on January 12, 1991, at the Dear friends former Mayor Don DeRiggi that his assembly office is now a drop off Chinese descent and able to speak Chinese, age of 86. and Sal Bencivenni recently celebrated a location for the 3rd Annual Thanksgiving he was otherwise an ordinary American lifetime of friendship, and their respective Food Drive sponsored by the Glen Cove gumshoe, with no trace of a foreign accent 80th birthdays. Close friends for, well, Child Day Care Center. forever, the two celebrated with dinner and laughs and their wives, Dr. Millie Non-perishable foods or $15.00 gift Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazon DeRiggi and Sal's wife, Domenica. cards toward the purchase of a turkey can (photo by Anthony Gallego) be dropped off at Assemblyman Lavine’s Adventure Comes To Cedarmere office located at 1 School Street, Suite In 1914, former president Theodore on PBS,” says Stroppel, who felt it 303, Monday through Friday between Roosevelt headed an expedition to would make a gripping stage play. He Assemblyman Lavine: Drop the hours of 9am-5pm. explore an uncharted river in the researched the story, reading various Amazon wilderness, the Rio Da Duvida biographies as well as the best-selling Off Location for 3rd Annual The food drive will continue through – the River of Doubt. He expected a book The River of Doubt by Candace Thanksgiving Food Drive Wednesday, November 16, 2016. grand adventure, “my last chance to be Millard, and developed his own theater a boy!” It turned out to be the most piece over the last year. “I originally harrowing episode in his storied career, envisioned it as a two-character play for an epic three-month-long struggle with Teddy and his son Kermit, but then the the natural world that almost cost him character of Colonel Rondon emerged so his life. He and the members of his strongly that I had to make room for him.” expedition, which included his own son The play will be performed at Cedarmere Kermit, endured deprivations, malaria, by actors Lee Kurfist (Teddy Roosevelt), Indian attacks, dangerous rapids, and Lucas Iverson (Kermit Roosevelt), and every form of suffering that the Amazon Roger Hernandez (Colonel Rondon). rainforest could inflict. In the end, a What is remarkable to the playwright grand and noble enterprise became a is that this story, so full of adventure and desperate race for survival. personal drama, is virtually unknown On Sunday November 6, a reading to all but the most ardent Roosevelt of River of Doubt, an historical play enthusiasts. “In any another life for three actors, written by Glen Cove this would be the central episode, the playwright Frederick Stroppel, will be defining life-and-death struggle.
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