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Volume 39 Number 5 June 2010 One Dollar Century-Old Clam Digger Yacht Clubs Gear Up For The Season By MARGARET LENZ City Island will soon have a century- old “true clam digger.” Margaret (Larsen) Neumann, of Kirby Street, will celebrate her 100th birthday on June 7, 2010. Margaret was born in 1910 to Nils and Cally Larsen in their house on Hor- ton Street. This makes her one of the few remaining residents who were actually born on the Island. Her parents had immigrated to City Island from Norway, and Margaret grew up here. One of her first jobs was in 1925 Photo by FREDERICK NEUMANN at Mama Horton’s ice cream parlor, which Island resident and clam digger Marga- is where Sammy’s Fish Box Restaurant ret (Larsen) Neumann will celebrate her now stands. Margaret told her family that 100th birthday on June 7, 2010. she lasted there only one day, because she went to work as an executive assistant at told all her friends to come down for ice the Mitsubishi Corporation. cream at the end of her shift. Mama Horton She claims to have lived through “one wasn’t too happy when she found that a lot of the greatest centuries: from World War of ice cream was gone and there was no I to the roaring ‘20s; the great stock mar- money in the cash register. ket crash to World War II; and through the According to her family, Margaret’s Vietnam War and those free living ‘60s.” good looks won her several beauty pag- She has listened to all the music during eants, including “Miss Casino Beach,” the 20th century—from the Big Band era “Mrs. City Island” and “Miss Bronx.” Her to rock ‘n roll to disco and then rap. She relatives told The Current that she also says that over the last century men have went on to win “Miss New York” but relin- gone from “short hair to long hair to no quished the crown because the girl who hair.” came in second went crying to her father, Margaret lives with her daughter on who just happened to own the hotel where Kirby Street, and her son resides in New the pageant was being held. Rochelle. She has seven grandchildren, Margaret finished business school and seven great-grand children and one great- in 1929 she went to work in Jacob’s Boat- great-grandchild on the way. yard on City Island, where Consolidated is Her grandson Frederick says she has a now located. She was Mr. Jacob’s assistant thirst for life and adventure, and she still for about five years. Along with christen- enjoys an occasional martini or two. When ing several new yachts there, she also met asked about her secret for longevity she her future husband, Frederick T. Neumann. says: “Don’t let things eat you up inside.” Once they married, she put her career on She now spends her time retelling old hold and had two children: a daughter, Nila stories, enjoying fine food and watching (Neumann) Hauptner, and a son, Leslie B. “Wheel of Fortune.” Her grandson claims Neumann. that through selective listening, she is She has many stories of this period on always first to guess the puzzle. City Island when the size of your yacht Her family and all her City Island was a reflection of your family’s wealth. friends wish Margaret a very happy 100th She met business moguls and movie stars birthday. This reporter shares June 7 as a who commissioned their yachts from City birthday and sends special congratulations Island shipyards. Margaret and Frederick to the Island’s newest centenarian! stayed married for 25 years. In 1950, she Photos by MARY DANNEGER and ETHEL LOTT The yacht clubs on City Island held their going-into-commission parties on different Pillars of the Community weekends in May. The Harlem Yacht Club started the season on May 1, featuring newly painted walls by Ken Binder in the upstairs ballroom. The Morris Yacht Club, which Steve Lott loves to show to visitors, has made great progress with its new clubhouse, which it plans to open officially by mid-summer. Summer Traffic Control Update By PAUL NANI Now that the summer season is upon motorcycles because of unlicensed driv- us, Islanders are all too familiar with the ers and other violations. This was all the increase in traffic on the Island every result of hard work and a coordinated weekend. Last year, for the first time, effort by the City Island Civic Association the New York City Police Department Traffic Committee, Senator Jeff Klein, deployed police officers every Friday, Sat- and Council Member Jimmy Vacca. urday and Sunday nights along City Island This year members of the Civic Asso- Avenue. They placed cones up and down ciation have been actively following up the entire length of the fire lane and situ- on the promises made last year that the ated officers at various intersections. This deployment of officers for traffic control was very effective in keeping the fire lane would be implemented again from Memo- clear, preventing vehicles from blocking rial Day weekend through Labor Day. intersections, and keeping traffic moving Representatives from the Traffic Commit- as reasonably well as possible. The 45th tee have regularly attended meetings at Photo by BARBARA DOLENSEK Precinct also utilized unmarked cars to the 45th Precinct and received assurances Stonemasons reset and repaired the stone pillars at Pelham Cemetery in May, thanks to ticket violators and implemented an effec- from the captain that they would indeed donations of $7,500 from Islanders and former residents. The funds were raised by John tive program in which they confiscated Devlin, whose Eagle Scout project last year involved repainting the cemetery fence. Continued on page 4 Page Two The Island Current June 2010

briefly... Island Teens Implicated in CLOTHING DRIVE, sponsored by the Bronx Masons, will take place on Saturday, Eastchester Robbery June 5, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the City Island Masonic Temple, 241 City Island Avenue. By BARBARA DOLENSEK All clothing donations will go to St. Athanasius Church in the South Bronx and be distributed An Island resident, Michael Sowa, 17, semiautomatic firearm and a gravity knife to needy recipients. Please, if possible for quicker distribution, separate clothes into individual was arraigned in the Bronx on a weapons in the Honda when they stopped Mr. bags labeled Men, Women and Children. This is a one-day event. charge and for the criminal and unlawful Sowa, who was driving the vehicle. Mari- ANNUAL HEALTH FAIR. Come to the annual City Island Health Fair on Friday, possession of marijuana on April 23, 2010, juana was subsequently found in his pos- June 11, at Grace Church Hall, sponsored by Visiting Nurse Service, JASA, PSS and Council after he was arrested at 1 a.m. on April session, along with the BlackBerry and Member James Vacca from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Healthcare professionals will be on hand for blood- 22, along with Islander Sean Cullen, 19, the gold chain. All three men were held on pressure screening, social-service help, Medicare/Medicaid assistance and massage therapy. Be and William Rico, 22, for exceeding the the weapons charge and, according to the sure not to miss the healthy snacks, free gifts and raffles as you learn about how to take care of speed limit on City Island Avenue at Cross Bronx District Attorney’s office, pleaded your health. For more information, call Patty at 718-885-1891. Street. not guilty at their arraignment on April 23 Officers of the 45th Precinct had alleg- but were indicted by a Bronx grand jury GARDEN CLUB ANNUAL LUNCHEON: This year’s festive luncheon edly been alerted by the police in East- on May 5. Mr. Sowa was also indicted for will be held at the City Island Yacht Club on Pilot Street on Thursday, June 17, at noon. Tickets chester, New York, to look for a 1994 possessing marijuana. All three are due are $35 each, paid in advance. For information, please call Ruth at 718-885-1361. Don’t forget white Honda, which had been the get-away back in court on June 2. to support the Garden Club’s annual Beautification Fund this year; send donations to Susan car for a robbery that had taken place on Strazzera at 108 Ditmars Street, City Island NY 10464. Wednesday, April 21, at about 5:30 p.m., in Eastchester. A 21-year-old man had been robbed at gunpoint there by a young man known arsonist started a fire in the wooded who stole a BlackBerry and a wallet and area behind the school on City Island Avenue. Edward D. Heben 45 BLOTTER ripped a chain from his neck, according to 4/22 – Two Island males and an off-Is- CPA/ABV, CVA, AEP the police, as reported on the Westchester Complaints reported from City Island to the lander were arrested at 1 a.m. after police of- Partner news website Lohud.com. Michael Sowa 45th Precinct during April and May 2010. ficers from the 45th Precinct stopped their car 709 Westchester Avenue was subsequently identified as the robber Unfounded complaints are not included in the for a traffic offense and found a firearm. White Plains, NY 10604 and arraigned before an Eastchester town list. 4/28 – A case of harassment was reported 914-949-2990 • Fax: 914-949-2910 www.citrincooperman.com on Minneford Avenue at 10:30 a.m. judge on a charge of first degree robbery. 1 – ARSON The NYPD officers had found a loaded [email protected] 2 – ASSAULT 5/1 – A case of petit larceny was reported 2 – CRIMINAL MISCHIEF by a customer at a commercial establishment 1 – CRIMINAL TRESPASS on City Island Avenue when a woman’s cell 1 – HARASSMENT phone was allegedly stolen in the restroom at 1 – PETIT LARCENY about 5 p.m. 1 – POSSESION OF FIREARM 5/4 – An assault was reported on Minn- eford Avenue after the victim had left a restau- Police report the following incidents for rant and was punched by an unknown white A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE the period from April 1 to May 15, 2010. male. No arrest was made. SINCE 1973 4/4 – Unknown individual left beer cans 5/5 – A case of criminal mischief was re- and food boxes in a private yard on King Av- ported when unknown individuals threw eggs enue; no arrest was made. at a window of a house on Tier Street. 4/5 – The front window of a vehicle in 5/14 – An off-Islander, 23, was arrested CALL FOR OPEN HOUSE & a parking lot on City Island Avenue was for reckless driving with a suspended license REGISTRATION2007 FOR 2010/2011 smashed by a blunt object. No arrest was and striking a police officer with his car as he made. was leaving a parking lot at 11 p.m. 4/14 – At 3:15 in the afternoon an un- Pelham Bay Home Center, Inc. Kitchens • Bathrooms Major Appliances Plumbing Supplies • Air Conditioners One Stop Personal Service Tel: 718-863-7529 Family Owned & Operated 3073 Westchester Avenue

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Typeset by Marguerite Chadwick-Juner, Witworks Studio Graphic Design, 33 Earley Street, City Island, N.Y. 10464 Printed by Hi-Speed Printing Co., 560 South Third Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550 The Island Current (USPS 114-590) is published monthly except for January and August by the Island Current Inc., a not-for-profit organization. Subscription rate, $12.00 per year. Single copies, $1.00. All subscriptions, editorial, advertis- ing and other correspondence must be mailed to: The Island Current, P.O. Box 6, City Island, Bronx, NY 10464. Display advertising deadline is the 10th of the month preceding publication, call 885-0984 or 885-0760. Copyright 2010 by The Island Current, Inc., 724 King Ave., City Island, Bronx, NY 10464. All rights reserved. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT BRONX, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Island Current, P.O. Box 6, City Island, NY 10464. June 2010 The Island Current Page Three CI Library at Risk BUSY GIRL SCOUTS By BARBARA DOLENSEK The budget cuts that are being pro- This cut, the harshest in the library’s posed by New York City, as it awaits the history, would force neighborhood state’s approval of its own budget, are branches to close just when New likely to affect everyone on City Island Yorkers need them the most. Job but none so much as that threatening the seekers would lose resources to help City Island branch of the New York Public them get back on their feet. Programs Library. for children, literacy training, com- The city proposes cutting $37 mil- puter classes and so many other ser- lion from the library budget, which may vices that people depend on in hard mean closing a number of the smaller times would all be eliminated. library branches and drastically reducing One in three people now relies on services. the library for computer use and free Island residents are being asked to internet access. Please, restore the stop by the library and sign their names on funding so that our libraries can stay prepared letters pleading with the powers- open. that-be to leave the City Island library Sincerely (Your Name and full branch open. address) Here is a sample letter for those who wish to write on their own. Send the letter to Mayor Michael Dear Mayor Michael Bloomberg (or R. Bloomberg, City Hall, Office of the Council Member James Vacca) Photo by RICK DEWITT Mayor, New York, NY 10007, and a copy Girl Scouts who worked at the Mother’s Day Plant Sale on May 8 were (l. to r.): Maya As one of millions of users of the to Council Member James Vacca, Coun- Librandi, Catherine Ficke, Emma Ramos, Meghan McConaghy, Chloe Librani, Dusty Pro- New York Public Library, I urge you cil District 13, 3040 East Tremont Ave, haska; behind them stand leaders Kristen McConaghy and Brenda Prohaska. to restore the $37 million cut that has Bronx, NY 10461 and Borough President been proposed for the library’s bud- Ruben Diaz Jr., 851 Grand Concourse, 3rd get. Floor, Bronx, NY 10451.

Photo by RICK DEWITT D.J. Ray leads a group of enthusiastic girls at the father-daughter dance held at the Harlem Yacht Club on May 14. Ladder Company 53 Saved for Now By BARBARA DOLENSEK

May 17, 2010 was the date by which exceed six minutes, as is expected on Mayor Michael Bloomberg should have City Island, the reports would also have posted the names of the 20 fire compa- to include a detailed plan for how FDNY nies in the city that were threatened with intends to reduce times. closure as of July 1, 2010, the beginning “This is a matter not only of personal of the city’s fiscal year. He failed to do property but of human life,” Mr. Vacca said. so. Because notice of such cuts must be “Fires don’t wait for help to arrive, and the given 45 days in advance, this was good longer it takes to get water on a fire, the news—at least temporarily—for the City higher the chance for a tragedy. I am com- Island fire house, which was rumored to mitted to making sure all fire companies have been on the list, as it was in 2009, are kept open, but as a last resort, this bill when it was saved by funding provided at would at least arm communities with infor- the last minute by the City Council. mation they’ll need to stay safe.” Facing a serious budget crisis with Last year, when Mr. Vacca was chair a shortfall of $1.5 billion, the Mayor is of the Fire and Criminal Justice Services waiting for the state government in Albany Committee, the FDNY had plans to close to pass its own budget before he makes 16 fire companies citywide, including Lad- drastic cuts in New York City. He told the der 53. Thanks to a $14 million budget Daily News that he wants to wait and see restoration by the City Council, however, what tax revenues are likely to be and what all companies were kept open for the cash will be provided for the city. remainder of Fiscal Year 2010, which ends In the meantime, Council Member on June 30. James Vacca has introduced a bill that Mr. Vacca told The Current: “I am seeks to blunt the impact of potential encouraged by the Mayor’s decision not firehouse closures by pressuring the Fire to proceed with firehouse closure recom- Department to keep response times under mendations. His deferral of action, I think, six minutes in areas affected by a closure. is in large part due to the mobilization of The bill (Intro 202) would require the Fire communities throughout our city, including Commissioner to provide quarterly reports here on City Island. While we still await a to relevant Council Members, Community state budget, which was due on April 1, I Boards and Borough Presidents, indicating will continue to fight against the firehouse the new response times for fire and medi- closures as a member of the budget nego- cal emergencies within coverage areas tiation team for the City Council, as we did affected by a closure. If response times successfully last year.” Page Four The Island Current June 2010

but it is nonetheless unsatisfactory. The Summer Traffic Civic Association will continue to work Continued from page 1 with our elected officials and the Police repeat the program from last summer with Department to remedy this problem. some enhancements. (It is hoped that one In the meantime, residents can help by of these enhancements is the ability to reporting any problems, including exces- keep officers on the island past midnight, sive noise, speeding, using the fire lane, which they did not do last summer. This illegal parking, littering, and so on, to New issue is still under discussion.) Islanders York City by calling 311, reporting the should also know that both Senator Klein problem, getting a complaint number and We welcome letters and opinions. Letters longer than 250 words will be edited, with every effort made to and Council Member Vacca have each met forwarding the complaint number to the preserve their substance. We reserve the right not to with the Police Department’s new Bronx Civic Association for following up. Despite print letters that are copies, libelous, inaccurate or in bad taste, or those that cannot be verified. Include your Borough Commander, who supports the the inconvenience and annoyance of traffic, phone number. Anonymous letters will not be printed, plan again for this summer. but names will be withheld upon request. visitors to City Island do support our local The presence of police officers during economy and provide revenue to our many the summer is possible because the Police businesses. Farewell to Morris Department plans and redeploys their staff To the Editor: to address this issue. Unfortunately, as we Living as long as he did (1986-April all know too well, City Island often experi- 2010), even after the passing of his owner ences traffic on weekends before Memorial Roger, Morris the Cat came to seem like Day and after Labor Day if the weather is part of the natural landscape of City Island. nice. Although the Police Department plans He was always there, like a lighthouse, his traffic control on days where they know friendly presence warming the walk to the there will be traffic problems on the island bank or post office for countless Islanders (Valentine’s Day, Easter Sunday, Mother’s over an entire generation. Now that light has Day, Memorial Day parade, Halloween gone out, and a part of the soul of City Is- parade), despite our requests they have told land is gone forever. Morris will be greatly us that they cannot reassign police officers missed. to City Island on short notice if it turns out Mark Grant to be a nice day and people flock to the island. This is not an unexpected response, June 2010 The Island Current Page Five A Current Review “Blithe Spirit” By BRUCE A. WEIS “Blithe Spirit” is a classic English ing him so that he can join her in the spirit farce with an ethereal twist, authored for world but Ruth, instead of Charles, drives an age when words such as “didactic” and off and is killed, leaving Charles with two “supercilious” were in common usage. ghosts on his hands. Written by Noël Coward shortly after the Charles calls Madame Arcati back, beginning of World War II, “Blithe Spirit” hoping to exorcise both spirits, with only was first presented in Manchester, Eng- limited success. With both his dead wives land, in June of 1941. The play caught on, present, and disagreeable, Charles and made it to Broadway that November, and Madame Arcati, go through séance after was produced in a series of New York the- séance, trying to exorcise them. In the aters in the years that followed. The play end, Charles appears to be left in peace, has been revived repeatedly, in England, but Madame Arcati hints the ghosts may on Broadway, and in regional theaters still be around, so . . . across America. It has been produced on Matt Regney, as Charles Condomine, radio and television, made into a movie, the central role of “Blithe Spirit,” anchors adapted into a musical (“High Spirits”); the play. He strives to keep up appear- it even appeared on television’s Hallmark ances in a perplexing situation, juggling Hall of Fame. Glen Cove High School’s two wives in various states of life, and 2007 interpretation can be viewed on You- their competing demands. Susan Rauh, Tube. as Charles’s second wife, Ruth, plays off On April 30, “Blithe Spirit” finally of Charles’s confusion perfectly as she made it to City Island, when the City Island struggles to find an appropriate way to fit Theater group donned British accents and a deceased former wife into the structure hit it out of the park with six performances of their life, all the while projecting just a from April 30 through May 8, 2010. hint of the barely controlled hysteria that Charles Condomine (Matthieu Reg- she can do so well. ney), hoping to learn about the occult for Emily McSpadden, as the departed a novel he is writing, arranges a séance at Elvira, comes close to stealing the show his home, together with another couple. At in her role of vamp from beyond the grave the séance, the medium, Madame Arcati as she strolls through fogs of dry ice and (Camille Kaiser), inadvertently returns twirls her long gown, seemingly oblivi- Charles’s deceased first wife, Elvira (Emily ous to the chaos she causes around her. McSpadden), to life. Elvira promptly takes Camille Kaiser, in the role of Madame up residence in the Condomine home, Arcati, projects the tone of English-tinged much to the chagrin of Charles’s second 1970s hippie, an ideal counterpoint to the wife, Ruth (Susan Rauh). At first, only staid society folk surrounding her in the Photos by RICK DEWITT Charles can see or hear Elvira, so Ruth play. Nicolas Perugini and Carol Dooner, The City Island Theater Group brought Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” to life with six daz- spends much of the second act assum- as Dr. and Mrs. Bradman, the other couple zling performances in April and May. Matt Regney stars as John Condomine (top photo, ing that Charles has gone insane, as she at the séance, serve as the play’s counter- center), whose life is complicated by the sudden appearance of his deceased first struggles to understand the conversations point to Charles and Ruth Condomine. wife (Emily McSpadden as Elvira, far right), who has been summoned by the eccentric Charles is having with thin air. Elvira, They are both sensible, grounded in what Madame Arcati (Camille Kaiser, bottom photo). Unfortunately for Mr. Condomine, Elvira meanwhile, makes determined efforts to is appropriate and what isn’t possible, cannot be seen or heard by his present wife, Ruth (Susan Rauh, on the sofa) or by his undermine Charles’s current marriage. She and they each do a fine job of projecting friends (Carol Dooner and Nicolas Perugini as Dr. and Mrs. Bradman), which serves to finally sabotages his car in the hope of kill- a sense of acceptable standards for the make matters worse for himself but highly entertaining for the audience. Condomines and Elvira to violate. Michelle play’s lighting, in a word, was haunting. Gonzalez, as the Condomines” hyperactive Christopher McGowan bore responsibility maid, opens the play, provides a glimpse of for make-up and special effects, a daunt- another facet of their society and ultimately ing task he carried off well, especially provides the key to the mystery of “Blithe considering the number of spirits he had to Spirit.” contend with. Barbara Dolensek managed The set, designed by Dorothy Muccio to put together a suitable English manor and Sam Santiago and assembled by Con household using items from thrift shops Grondahl and John Byrne, was simply and the basement of Grace Church. Justine beautiful. Rumor has it that Grace Epis- Costanza and Hannah Glick, who starred in copal Church is considering making the the City Island Theater Group’s recent pro- play’s set, minus its supernatural features, duction of “Wait Until Dark,” went behind a permanent piece of its Parish Hall (Okay, the scenes for “Blithe Spirit” as production I’m making this up, but it’s really not a and assistant stage managers, respectively. bad idea). The costumes assembled by The production’s smooth flow attested to Carol McCabe and Norma Kerner, some- their work. how managed to cover all the existing The whole thing was brilliantly pulled bases, from English society to fashion together by the director, Maria Provenzano, from beyond the grave, and covered them whose attention to tiny details was as effec- elegantly. Denis Zepada’s handling of the tive as her command of the larger issues of blocking and such. Nick Sala handled his usual 10,000 details as production manager. “Blithe Spirit” psychic advisor was City Island’s own Sophia, and I’m able to say that she does a great palm reading. I’m told I have a long life line, for which I’ll be eternally grateful. Every production of the City Island Theater Group seems to be better than the one before. “Blithe Spirit” carries on this tradition of improvement, and in a very big way.

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June 4, from 7 to 10 p.m. If you are an art- www.nyc.gov/parks. ist and would like to take part in the above Pelham Bay Park “Forever Wild! Explore Twin Island”: exhibition, call 718-885-1403 to make an Saturday, June 19, 1 p.m. Comb the beaches, appointment to bring in your work. All Events Ranger Walks and Workshops scour the salt marshes and hike the wood- work has to be framed ready to hang. There lands of these former Islands, which are is a $20 hanging fee for each framed piece “Shore Birds”: Sunday, June 6, 11 a.m. now connected to Orchard Beach. Meet at and a 30 percent commission taken from From the common to unusual, Orchard the Orchard Beach Nature Center, Section If you have a new business, or if your old business is Beach abounds with shore birds; come join offering a new service, write to The Current, P.O. Box 6, the asking price. 2. Call 718-378-2061 for information. City Island, NY 10464 by the 10th of the month. The Starving Artist Cafe & Gal- us and see how many you can spot. Bring “Seining the Shores”: Sunday, June 20, lery (249 City Island Avenue) offers a your binoculars if you have them. Meet at Bob Carmody and Atlantic Emeritus 11 a.m. There’s more than one way to catch June filled with art and a musical choice the Orchard Beach Nature Center, Section Realty, Inc. will celebrate their 20th anni- a fish! For this slightly different take on for everyone. An exhibition of the pho- 2. Call 718-378-2061 for information. versary on Sunday, June 6, starting at 3 fishing, you cast in a net instead of a line. tography of Patrick Durante opens with “Moses Builds a Beach”: Saturday, p.m. in front of the real estate office at 300 Who knows what you’ll come up with! a reception on Saturday, June 12, from 4 June 12, 1 p.m. Robert Moses, NYC’s City Island Avenue, with refreshments and Meet at the Orchard Beach Nature Center, to 6 p.m. Saturday music-artist highlights famous Parks Commissioner, left a lasting fun for kids; then they will continue across Section 2. Call 718-378-2061 for informa- include Bennett Harris, Saturday, June 12, imprint on the Bronx. Learn about him and the street at Hawkins Park with live music tion. 8 p.m.; Port o’ Monkeys, with City Island’s the building of Orchard Beach. Meet at the at 5 p.m., compliments of the office staff “Family Camping”: Friday, June 25, Chris Wertenbaker, Saturday, June 19, 8 Orchard Beach Nature Center, Section 2. (see their monthly ad in this issue). from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Pitch a tent, go on a p.m.; John Guth, Saturday, June 26, 8 p.m. Call 718-378-2061 for information. “Here Comes the Sun” at the Focal night hike to meet the nocturnal residents Songwriter and Starving Artist “sweet- Join NYC Media and the Parks Depart- Point Gallery, 321 City Island Avenue, of Pelham Bay Park and sleep under the heart” Theresa Sareo returns to the Artist ment for a free screening of “Blueprint / from June 4 through June 27. The exhibi- stars near the Orchard Beach Nature Cen- on Sunday, June 20, at 3 p.m. Music is on New York City / Parks” on Saturday, June tion will consist of paintings, drawings ter. Bring a flashlight and sleeping bag. the menu Thursdays through Sunday at 12, at 7 p.m. at the St. James Recreation and photographs celebrating light. There Space is limited. To register, visit www. Starving Artist; see a complete line-up at Center. This hour-long special takes view- will be an opening reception on Friday, nyc.gov/parks/rangers/register on June 16. www.starvingartistonline.com. ers on a tour of five iconic parks—Central “Island Hopping”: Sunday, June 27, Park, Prospect Park, Pelham Bay Park, 11 a.m. Orchard Beach is surrounded by Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and the tor Michael Raymond on Thursday, June islands – some big, some small, and some Staten Island Greenbelt. Using lush visu- 10, at 5:30 p.m. that only show at low tide, but most have als from the present day, vintage photos, names and some have stories. Explore Young Adult Programs archival footage, and expert interviews, these islands by canoe. Space is limited. To Graphic Novel Rewrite: Mondays their history comes to life in an exploration register, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/rangers/ from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. of how the design of urban parks trans- register on June 16. Manga Overdrive: Tuesdays from formed the city’s landscape. The outdoor “Into the Depths”: Saturday, July 3, 2 Hours: Mondays and Thursdays 11 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. screening will also feature “It’s My Park,” p.m. Pull on some waders and use seining a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednes- Yu-Gi-Oh: Wednesdays from 3:30 an NYC life series that offers overviews, nets to find out who’s living below the sur- days 1 to 6 p.m. Fridays 12 noon to 5 to 4:30 p.m. Tournament will be held on activities and behind-the-scenes glimpses face of the water at Orchard Beach. Meet at p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 26, from 12 noon to 4:30 of many of the city’s most beautiful green the Orchard Beach Nature Center, Section Children’s Programs p.m. spaces throughout the five boroughs. For 2. Call 718-378-2061 for information. Teen Time Game On: Thursdays information, visit the Parks website at Baby Lapsit Program: Wednesdays, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. June 2 and 16, 10:30 a.m. Birth to 18 Special Program: Game Strike. Fri- months. All welcome for story time and day, June 25, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. music. Toddler Program: Thursdays, June Adult Programs 3, 10, 17 and 24, 10:30 a.m. Pre-registra- Basic Computer Instruction: Tues- tion is required. Ages 18 to 36 months. day mornings at 10:30 a.m. Given in Picture Book Program: Thursdays English, Spanish and Albanian. Pre-regis- at 3:30 p.m. Ages 4 to 11. tration is required. Father’s Day Arts and Crafts: Tues- Resume Writing Workshop: Need day, June 1, at 3:30 p.m. help in writing or updating your resume? Special Program: “Forgotten Math” Come to our workshop. Wednesdays from for Parents. When was the last time you 10 a.m. to noon. Please pre-register. had to add fractions or do a percentage Special Program: Frank Sinatra Trib- problem? Does the word “algebra” strike ute in Song. Tom Smith will perform this fear in your heart? This free, fun, interac- concert. Saturday, June 5, at 2 p.m. tive seminar will help you overcome your Special Program: “The overview on math fears, so homework time with your the Second World War.” Jerry McCue, child isn’t quite so scary. You’ll travel who previously lectured on the Civil War, from station to station revisiting some of will give a lecture on World War II. Satur- the math skills you may have forgotten. day, June 12, at 2 p.m. It’s a fun way to freshen up on fractions We are located at 320 City Island and other skills. Your children will be Avenue at Bay Street. For information impressed when you start helping them about any of the programs above, call the with their homework again. This will be City Island branch at 718-885-1703. taught by Sylvan Learning Center instruc-

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Photos by Miriam Benitez-Nixon Photo courtesy of BRENDA PROHASKA Fitness classes for seniors take place in several settings on City Island. Zumba classes Islander Ginger Kotoff-Hanford calls this photograph “Mickey’s Big Win” because Mickey (above) can be attended at the Community Center. took second place in the tail-wagging contest at American Cancer Society’s Bark for Life Dog Walk fund-raiser, which took place this year on May 2 at Bear Mountain State Park. Where can you take four exercise At 10:30 a.m., Patty Grondahl’s Arthritis But even without the ribbon, Mickey was certainly a big winner this year. Ginger and classes, two dance classes and a group Exercise class provides a gentle exercise her husband, Steve, recently lost their last beagle, Kacy, at the age of 13. They weren’t walk to Orchard Beach each week for the routine that focuses on range of motion, planning on another dog, but when Ginger saw Mickey’s face on the ny-petrescue.org price of $6 a week or $20 a month? At the endurance and strength for people with website, she fell in love and Mickey found a new home. Ginger has participated in many Community Center (190 Fordham Street) arthritis. However, having arthritis is fund-raisers for cancer since losing her sister to lung cancer seven years ago, and she and Grace Hall (116 City Island Avenue), not a requirement; one of the exercises knows how important it is to fight for a cure. She raises funds as a Pampered Chef consultant, often pairing that effort with her own fund-raiser cruises on the Riptide; this that’s where. These 45-minute classes are included bouncing a ball, which was a lot year on May 22 and 23 she participated in the Relay for Life fund-raiser at Glovers Field funded by Presbyterian Senior Services, of fun. in Pelham. She takes part in the Orchard Beach Breast Cancer Walk every October, and the NYC Department for the Aging and Friday, May 7 was the first class this year she was delighted to have Mickey join her in the Bark for Life walk. NYC Arthritis Foundation and take place of Masala Bhangra with Adelaide. The at the Community Center on Mondays Masala Bhangra Workout® is derived per person; members $3 per person. and Grace Church Hall on Tuesdays, from two Indian words: Masala, which Bartow-Pell Take Me out to the Ball Game 1864 Thursdays and Fridays. Classes may also means “spicy” in Hindi, and Bhangra, on Saturday, June 19, at 1 p.m. Pack a pic- be paid for on an individual basis, ($4 for which is a traditional folk dance from the Mansion Museum nic lunch and celebrate Dad all weekend dance classes and $2 for exercise classes). northern state of Punjab. The workout Events long with a Saturday afternoon “baseball The catch? You have to be 50 years young is designed for people of all ages and Discover traditional music of the match.” The New York Mutuals play by to participate! fitness levels. Although this dance was Bronx’s many cultures with the kick-off 1864 rules using replica balls, bats and To find out what the classes were like, totally new to me, it was easy to keep up. of Bronx Beat at BPMM on Friday, June uniforms—but no helmets or gloves! After I attended them all. On Mondays at 10:30 For more information, go to http://www. 4, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The evening the game, kids get to join in the fun with a a.m., there’s zumba at the Community masaladance.com/. features Afro-Caribbean percussion and game of rounders with team members. Plus Center, with Adelaide Kontras (filling The final component of the pro- dance with ¡Retumba!—a local music and there will be a raffle for the game ball and in for Stephanie, who returns in June). gram is the Orchard Beach Walk which, dance ensemble. The free Bronx Seaside free house tours. Registration requested. Zumba fuses Latin rhythms and easy-to- when scheduled, leaves Pilot Street on Trolley does a continuous loop from the Cost $15 adults, $5 children 6-17; members follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. A van is avail- #6 Pelham Bay Park subway station to the $10 adults, $3 children. Call 718-885-1461 fitness program; it is so much fun that you able if a ride to any of these activities Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and on to or e-mail [email protected]. forget you are exercising. To get more is needed. The suggested contribution City Island. Registration requested. Cost Why spend those hot summer days in information about zumba, go to http:// for van transportation to programs is 50 $8 adults, $5 seniors & children 6–17; your house when you could spend it in www.zumba.cm/us/. cents round trip. members free. ours? Solve mansion mysteries and gather On Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., there’s Car- Let’s face it, we are living longer Celebrate Flag Day at BPMM at 3:30 around our wigwam for a week-long pro- dio Fitness with Mary Immediato, which and exercise is vital to a better quality of p.m. on Monday, June 14. Learn how the gram full of creative crafts, fun games, and is based on the popular Silver Sneakers living. Some classes are more vigorous, American flag has changed over time, more. The program runs from Monday, program. At 10:30 a.m. there’s Sittercise, and others can be taken sitting down. We drawing from the history of Bartow- June 28, to Friday, July 2, from 9 a.m. to with Norma Kerner, who focuses on have to keep our bodies moving—use it Pell Mansion. Explore patriotic symbols 2 p.m. Recommended for children entering movement for arthritic joints. The first or lose it—if we are to enjoy our golden throughout the Greek Revival interior of grades 1 through 4. Scholarships are avail- class was a great workout, and Sittercise years. I, for one, want to keep up with the mansion and create a flag of your own. able; registration is required. Cost per child was a combination of simple movements the grandkids, and the dance classes (my Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Space is $125; members $100. with great stretching. favorites) sure kept me on my toes! This limited, so registration is required. Cost $5 Thursdays at 9:30 a.m., there’s Yoga program is open to men and women, and Stretch with Michael, who talks you scholarships are available. Call Patty “the n through the class, making the yoga moves Grondahl at 718-885-1891 for further atur al w easy to follow. It’s a relaxing, stress-re- information on any activity in this article. ay” ducing class that leaves you feeling good. ADVANCED CHIROPRACTIC OF PELHAM BAY Dr. Hal Rosenfeld Tel: 718-792-0710 • 3233 Westchester Ave. Minutes from City Island

Photo by RICK DEWITT On Sunday, May 23, 2010, the City Island Nautical Museum (190 Fordham Street) held an artists’ reception at the opening of the new summer exhibition, “City Island: Through the Artist’s Eye,” which will be on display through the summer. Page Eight The Island Current June 2010

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Current Calendar St. Mary, Star of the Sea JUNE On Friday, June 4, we will have our Sat. and Sun., June 5 and 6, Arts and monthly Holy Hour from 4 to 5 p.m. This Crafts Fair, sponsored by the Chamber of will be our last scheduled Holy Hour before Commerce, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. City Island the summer months. Come and join us for Avenue. this period of adoration. Thurs., June 17, Community Board 10 On Friday, June 11, the graduates of meets, Providence Rest, 3304 Waterbury St. Mary’s school will have their gradu- Avenue, 7:30 p.m. Call 718-892-1161 for ation Mass at 7 p.m. and will follow this details. with a party in the school gym. Gradua- tion exercises will take place the following Thurs., June 17, Garden Club Spring week, June 18, at 7 p.m. in the church. We Luncheon, City Island Yacht Club, west congratulate all our graduates, both those end of Pilot Street. Call 718-885-1361 for in St. Mary’s school and those in our reli- Photo by RICK DEWITT reservations. gious education program who attend other “Duh Best Fairy Tale Mix Ever: Hoodies, The Next Generation,” otherwise known as “The Magic Kiss,” was performed by the City Island Community Center Drama Class directed Sat., June 26, POTS Program, St. Mary’s schools, and we wish them all well in their high school careers. by Laury Hopkins. The cast included Olivia Albertelli, Carlo Fine, Dusty Rose Prohaska, School Yard, Minneford Avenue and Kil- Ella Banham, Jessica Lachman, Samantha Kucerak, Harry Banham, Everett Sanderson, On Father’s Day, June 20, we will honor roe Street, drop-off between 4:30 and 5 Lydia McElroy, John Cebollero, Phoebe McElroy and Serena Balassi. p.m. Menu: Chef’s salad (lettuce, toma- our fathers with a special blessing at all the toes, cucumbers, cubes of ham, turkey, masses. Tuesday, June 29, 7 p.m.: Bible Study etc.). St. Mary’s Thrift Shop will be open dur- Grace Episcopal Church ing the month of June. It will close on June and “Hearts and Hands” ministry. Sun., June 27, Blessing of the Fleet, 1 26 for the summer months. Weekly worship schedule: Grace Tuesday, July 6—Friday, July 9, 9 a.m. p.m. off Fenton’s Marine Dock, VHF Our Parish Council will bring the year’s Church celebrates Holy Communion every to 12 noon: Sixth Annual Ecumenical Va- Channel 71 beginning 12:30 p.m. activities to a close by gathering for a cel- Sunday at 10 a.m., with child care available cation Bible School (at Trinity Methodist Tues., June 29, City Island Civic Associa- ebration dinner on Monday evening June on the first Sunday of the month. We also Church). Please call the Grace Parish Office tion meets, 7:30 p.m., Community Center, 28. offer Evening Prayer in the church every to register your child or to volunteer to help 190 Fordham Street. At the end of the month, we will once Monday at 7 p.m., and Morning Prayer on with our program. Wednesdays at 10 a.m. For more information about services JULY again welcome Fr. Alexander Iheonunekwu, who will be returning to us from Nigeria for Here is an overview of special events at and programs at Grace, please call 718-885- Thurs., July 1, “The Bronx Salutes the summer months. Grace Church during June and early July: 1080, or visit our website, www.gracecity- America” Fireworks, sponsored by State Have a happy, healthy and safe summer. Sunday, June 6, 10 a.m.: Holy Eucha- island.org. Senator Jeff Klein (rain date July 2), 9 Sr. Bernadette, osu rist, with “Lambs” child care. Rev. Patricia Alexander p.m., Orchard Beach. Thursday, June 10, 7 p.m.: Card-mak- PSS Healthy Senior ing for service men and women (Parish Trinity United Methodist Church Exercise Program Hall) Please see separate article in this is- Regular Meetings sue or call Joanne Brogan at 718-885-2713 Weekly Twelve-Step Meetings Our weekly worship service and Sunday This exercise program began over two for more information about this exciting on City Island school are at 10 a.m. Holy Communion is years ago with the goal of providing inex- new ministry! celebrated on the first Sunday of each month. pensive, high-quality exercise classes for Sunday, June 13, 10 a.m.: Holy Bap- Narcotics Anonymous: Prayer service is held every weekday at 9:15 older adults on City Island. We are happy tism, Holy Eucharist, and the Laying on of Sundays at 2 p.m., St. Mary, Star of the a.m. We encourage you to bring your children to say that the program has grown, and we Hands for Healing. Sea Church, City Island Avenue near to Sunday school to further their knowledge of are now offering seven exercise programs a Tuesday, June 15, 7 p.m.: Bible Study the Bridge. the teachings of Jesus Christ. Sunday school week. Beginning in June, we will offer all on the Gospel of Luke and “Hearts and Thursdays at 8 p.m., Trinity United will end for the summer on June 6. Trinity classes for $20 per month or on a weekly Hands” knitting ministry (both in Parish Methodist Church hall, 113 Bay Street. often has a coffee hour after the service; come basis for $6 a week. We want to provide Hall). Saturdays at 12:30 p.m., Grace Episco- and join us for worship and fellowship. whatever works best for you, so, as always, Thursday, June 17, 7 p.m.: Card-mak- pal Church hall, 116 City Island Avenue Don’t forget to register your youngsters you can contribute to one or more classes on ing for service men and women (Parish (at Pilot Street). for Vacation Bible School before June 20. an individual basis. Hall) Grace Episcopal, Trinity United Methodist Here is the schedule for June: Zumba Sunday, June 20, 11:30 a.m.: Father’s Alcoholics Anonymous: and St. Mary’s will run the Vacation Bible with Stephanie: Monday at 10:30 at the Day Picnic, sponsored by the Children’s Mondays at 8 p.m., Trinity United Meth- School at Trinity the week of July 6. Community Center; Cardio Fitness with Church School. This year we also are de- odist Church hall. Anchor House will be present at our July Mary: Tuesday at 9:30 at Grace Church lighted to welcome our new Assisting Tuesdays at 8 p.m., St. Mary, Star of the 18 service for a praise and witness worship Hall; Sittercise with Norma: Tuesday at Priest, The Reverend Curtis Hart, and his Sea Church. service. 10:30 at Grace Church Hall; Orchard Beach wife, Ms. Stephanie St. Pierre, who are Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., Grace Epis- The Budget Corner will be open June Walk: Wednesday leave Pilot Street at 9:30; new to the Island and will be living in the copal Church. 1, 5, 8, 12, and 15. Budget Corner will be Yoga Stretch with Michael: Thursday at Grace Church Rectory. Please come cel- closed for the summer but will reopen mid- 9:30 at Grace Church Hall; Arthritis Exer- ebrate with us! St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church: 718- September. Will someone out there please cise with Patty: Thursday at 10:30 at Grace Tuesday, June 22, 7 p.m.: Bible Study 885-1440 volunteer to lead Budget behind the scenes? Church Hall; Dance/Exercise with Adelaide: and “Hearts and Hands” ministry. Trinity United Methodist Church: 718- Myra Martin will work right along with you Friday at 10:00 at Grace Church Hall. Thursday, June 24, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: 885-1218 to help and train you for this responsibility. Call Tony at 347-834-6466 for trans- Zumba fund-raiser for Grace Church (Par- Grace Episcopal Church: 718-885-1080 It is basically contacting the established portation to programs and for a schedule ish Hall). crew for work dates and help with the glean- of afternoon shopping trips to Shore Road, ing and pricing. We need your help; call Shop Rite, Fairway, Target, Key Food, Bay Myra at 718-885-1049. Plaza, Stop and Shop and Empire City and Trinity wishes everyone a blessed, happy more. and safe summer. Remember that June 11 is the date for our Ellen G. Hebard annual Health Fair at Grace Church Hall. For further information call Patty at 718- 885-1891. Programs are funded by Presby- terian Senior Services, the NYC Department for the Aging and the NYC Arthritis Founda- tion. Pat Grondahl

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tesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control Fit for Life with Sarah: Hi-Lo impact Post 620, 1530 Hutchinson River Park- and indomitable spirit. Tuesdays at 5 p.m. aerobics, strength training/toning, kickbox- way. We encourage all delegates to attend and Saturdays at 11 a.m. $10 per class, ing and more. Tuesdays and Thursdays and cast your votes as we have the leading twice weekly. from 4 to 5 p.m. For more information, call candidate, the “Chief,” Joe Goonan. Colla- Sally’s Playground: Where children Sarah Persteins at 718-885-9122. tion to follow the convention at Legion Post ages 1–5 enjoy indoor play. Wednesdays Rhythmic Movement Exercise Class: 156. from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Call Sally at A fun way to combine exercise with vari- The outgoing Commander’s Dinner 718-885-0349 with questions. $7 per child ous styles of dance. Mondays from 6 to will be held at the Lobster House on Thurs- ($4 for each additional sibling). Come and 7:15 p.m. $15 per person. If you have ques- day, June 3. A sign-up sheet will be at the join the fun! tions, please call Judy Farnum, Group Fit- Legion Post. For additional information about the Community Cen- Mommy and Me Fitness: Tuesdays ness Instructor, at 914-548-4184 or e-mail All candidates for office were re-elect- ter, or if you are interested in conducting classes here please call 718-885-1145. and Thursdays, 9 to 10 a.m. A high-energy [email protected]. ed to serve another year at the recently held aerobics class that allows you to bring Yoga With Emily: Yoga class now elections. Open Monthly Meetings of the your children along up to the age of 6. For being offered on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. All The Memorial Day Parade will be on are held on the first Tuesday of Board more information, call Sarah Persteins at levels are welcome. Call Emily Wilson at Monday, May 31. The official starting time each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Community 347-886-4546 with any questions. will be at 2:30 p.m. with assembly at 2 p.m. Center Main Room at 190 Fordham Street. 718-885-9122. All members are encouraged to attend. For Vilma’s Music Together. Music and Belly Dancing: Shimmy by the Sea. All are invited to participate in viewing the up to date information visit www.cityis- movement for children ages birth through Theresa Mahon (a.k.a. Salacia) teaches the parade and the gathering afterwards at the landcommunitycenter.com. 5 and adults who love them! Saturdays oldest documented dance in the history of Post. This year’s parade will feature a Navy from 10 to 10:45 a.m. For more informa- mankind—Egyptian belly dancing. It is a marching band as well as contingents of NEW CLASSES tion, call 718-882-2223, visit www.fun- low-impact way to get in shape and tone U.S. Navy sailors and U. S. Marines. Come Summer Art: July 5–Aug. 26, Mon- timemusictogether.com or e-mail info your body while having lots of fun. Terry and support our troops. day through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to @ vilmasmusictogether.com. has been a professional belly dancer for 23 Congratulations to the Ladies Auxiliary 12:30 p.m., $5 per day. Drawing, painting, Call years and a teacher of the art for 15 years. on a successful Bingo. sculpture, building toys, crafts and more! Art Classes by Laury Hopkins: 718-885-3202; please leave a message. Classes are held every Monday evening at Until next month, at ease. Preschoolers must be accompanied by Private and semiprivate lessons available. 7:30 p.m. The fee for each one-hour class Russ Schaller, Sgt. Emeritus adults, but all caregivers are welcome to is $15. Call 845-358-0260. stay and participate. ADULT PROGRAM Aerobics with Mary: Monday, Weekly Schedule Gentle Yoga-Qi Gong Class with Wednesday, Friday: Half-hour low impact Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Get into YOUTH PROGRAM Norma: at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Monday, Wednesday shape, relax the body and mind and have Irish Dance: The Deirdre O’Mara and Friday from 9 to 10 a.m. Call Mary School of Irish Dance teaches step danc- some fun doing it! This class is a com- Immediato at 718-885-0793. New class ing in a fun, competitive environment bination of low-impact Hatha Yoga and added: Saturday 9 a.m. City Island Republicans for all ages. A confidence-building and Qi-Gong (free form Tai Chi) and mild Yoga: A beginner to intermediate class June 8 is the first day for petitions to be cultural experience for all who participate. stretches. Although this class is geared to that includes Hatha and Namaste yoga with signed. You will see us around the Island Wednesdays after school. Call Deirdre at those who have not exercised in a while, some Saroope (restorative yoga). Also tai- collecting signatures of registered Repub- all levels are welcome. Price per class is 201-679-1450 or visit www.deirdreomara. chi, which will help balance immune sys- licans in order to place candidates on the $7. Please bring a yoga mat, yoga strap com. tem and reduce pain. Please e-mail Marc ballot. Signing a petition does not mean and yoga blocks. Most of these items are Tae Kwon Do: Traditional classes to Kaplan for inquiries at marc@ohm-chi. that one has to vote for that person. The benefit you physically, mentally and spiri- available at Barnes & Noble, Modell’s, com or call 718-885-2445. candidates are required by New York State tually. Some benefits include improved Target or K-Mart. Straps and blocks will City Island Civic Association: Meets election law to collect a certain number of cardiovascular health, better focus and be available for purchase on the day of the at 7:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of every signatures before they can be placed on the concentration, increased flexibility and class. For more information, please call month (except December). ballot. lean body mass. Children will learn cour- 718-730-3442. Namaste. Amy Gottlieb It has been reported to me that we may be having a Republican primary this Septem- Legion News ber. The last time City Island had a Republi- can primary was in 2006. More information Post 156 lost another comrade in May. will follow in a future issue of The Current. Joseph Goulden will join his comrades at Our next meeting will be held on Wednes- Post Everlasting at a ceremony on Monday, day, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Legion Post, June 7, at the 7:30 meeting at the Legion. A 550 City Island Avenue. Petitions will be memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. at handed out at the meeting. Trinity United Methodist Church on Sun- Fred Ramftl Jr. day, May 30. The Bronx County convention will be held on Friday, June 4, at the Sam Young Sons of the American Legion Squadron # 156 DR. STEVE’S Our Texas hold ‘em tournament was a APPLIANCE SERVICE great success. All of the players had a great time. We will be proudly marching in the 1 Year guarantee on parts. Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 31. 25 Years of Experience on All Brands As of press time, the parade will start at 2:30 p.m. Because of red tape from the city, the starting point of the parade is not yet known, 718-671-0700 but it will most likely start at the ball field next to P.S. 175 and will end at the Post for some much-needed beer, soda, and award- winning gourmet hotdogs made fresh right in the basement of the Post. We would also like to commend Ed Shipp, Nick Batista and Russ Garcea, who worked tirelessly to install new flag holders on all the poles along City Island Avenue for our upcoming parade. Job well done! Longtime regular member Joseph Goul- den died. As some members have reported, he was an SAL member prior to entering the service during World War II. Our Post had a squadron prior to World War II. The Squad- ron was reestablished in 1990. Currently, regular member Bill Walsh is on sick call recuperating from major surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Regular member Jack “POP” Sullivan is also in the hospital at Einstein recuperating from pneu- monia. We hope to see them back at the Post real soon. Just a reminder, dues are past due. They are $30 and can be dropped off at the Post. Anyone more than two years behind will be removed from our rolls. Fred Ramftl Jr. Vice Commander, Membership

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Ledesma Jr., Aeson Purse, Dakota Red- who is working to establish the free state wood, Darin Smith; Salesian: Vincent For- of Israel, and his son, Reuven (Barry man; Xavier High School: Daniel Green. Miller). The teenage boys become friends, Sandra Barrow is relocating to Florida. and the conflicts within the Jewish culture Good luck to all! and their relationships with their fathers are fascinating to behold. Public School 175 A Broadway play was the basis for Best wishes to all the eighth-graders, the movie Da (1988), the story of Charlie, who, pending successful completion of a successful playwright (Martin Sheen), promotion requirements, will be attending who returns to Ireland for his father’s St. Mary, Star of the Sea School the following high schools in Septem- funeral (Barnard Hughes). Much of the Best wishes to all the eighth-grade ber: A. Philip Randolph Campus High film is about an ongoing dialogue between graduates, who will attend the follow- School: Nakami Hope-Felix; Archbishop Fathers and Sons son and father, who though dead haunts ing high schools in September: Academy Stepinac: Charles Flemen; Astor Colle- his son with advice and reminiscences that of Mount St. Ursula: Hillary Fajardo, giate Academy: Ardita Rugova, Andrew Father’s Day gives us the opportu- drive Charlie crazy. Maci Gumbs, Genesis Rodriguez; Aqui- Simoncek; Aviation High School: Jon- nity to consider complex father and son Dad (1989) stars Jack Lemmon as nas High School: Lauryn Hill, Amber athon Langkamp; Blessed Sacrament: relationships that have been studied over Jake Tremont, who gives a magnificent King, Christina Ortega, Brianna Saun- Nicholas Cambria, Joseph Fusco, Joseph the years in a wide variety of movies. performance as an old codger whose mind ders; Cardinal Spellman: Alanis Lopez , Giocondo, Anna Manfredonia, Daniel Pir- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) is a classic is slowly going, and Olympia Dukakis as Jadica Marrero, Lucinda Ocasio, Kadeem raglia, Gerard Pirraglia, Samantha Rivera; film that stars Dustin Hoffman as Ted Annie, his painfully doting wife. When ill- Pitkin; Elizabeth High School (New Bronx Aerospace Academy: Joseph Kramer, whose seriously depressed wife, ness strikes, it is up to their son, John (Ted Jersey): Xavier Pizarro; Fordham High Ceraolo; Bronx High School for Law Joanna (Meryl Streep), leaves him and Danson), to keep things together. A young School for the Arts: Briana Mitchell; and Community Service: Nicole Faicco; their son, Billy (Justin Henry), to fend Ethan Hawke appears as John’s son, Billy, Fordham Preparatory School: Jonathan Bronx High School for Visual Arts: Greg- for themselves. It is wonderful to watch and Kevin Spacey has a scene-stealing role Ward; High School of Fashion: Akilah ory Garcia; Bronx High School of Science: Ted transform from a workaholic into a as Mario, John’s brother-in-law. Branch; Manhattan Village Academy: Jonathan Dyal; Bronx Leadership Acad- devoted dad. The cinematography steals the show in Kevin Bowles, Teyonna Brown; Monsi- emy: Tylik Richards; Brooklyn Techni- Harry & Son (1984) stars Paul New- A River Runs Through It (1992), set in gnor Scanlan: Brittany Phillips; Mount cal High School: Samia Ali; Brunswick man (who also directed) as Harry, a Montana in the years leading up to the First St. Michael Academy: Justin Alejandro; Prep: Michael Faulkner; Cardinal Spell- widowed blue-collar worker trying to World War. Robert Redford (who directed St. Catharine Academy: Connie Lovera; man: Michael Candelaria, Jillian Cea, communicate with his teenage son, How- the film) narrates this memoir of Norman St. Raymond Academy: Barbara Epps; Justin Cruz, Jane Hayes, Richard Legnini, ard (Robby Benson). A young Ellen Bar- Maclean (Craig Sheffer), the elder son of St. Raymond High School for Boys: Des- Victoria Lombardo, Justin Ninivaggi, Julia kin is on hand as Howard’s girlfriend a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerrit) and mond Albright, Nathaniel Correa, Rene Texidor, Annalise Vivolo, Isabel Werkoven; Katie, and Joanne Woodward (Paul’s real- his wife (Brenda Blethyn), and the brother Eastchester High School: Alyssa Grillo; life wife) as next-door neighbor Lilly. of Paul (Brad Pitt) a wild, free-spirited In the comedy drama Nothing in Richard B. Chernaik, M.D. Fiorello LaGuardia: Gwynellen Hopkins, newspaperman. This is the story of how Sarah Stinson-Hurwitz; Gateway School Common (1986), a young Tom Hanks fundamental principles of life are passed An Alternative to for Environmental Research and Tech- plays David Basner, a top-notch adver- down from father to son, through the min- Supermarket Medicine nology; Marc Calcano; Herbert Leh- tising executive who has to pick up the istry but more often through fly fishing for man: Alyssa Albert, Yiliang Chen, Alberto pieces when his parents (Jackie Gleason trout. It is a gentle, poignant and nostalgic Board Certified Internist Melo, Brendan Patterson; High School and Eva Marie Saint) decide to divorce. film of days gone by. of American Studies: Jenna Desgroseil- The supporting cast includes the gor- In Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Tom Associate Clinical Professor at liers, Kristin Lockwood, Benjamin Stin- geous Sela Ward as Cheryl Ann, a client Hanks is the widowed father of Jonah Albert Einstein College of Medicine son-Hurwitz, Aron Weber; High School he lusts after; Bess Armstrong as Donna, (Ross Malinger) and has moved to Seattle Active in teaching medical students of Economics and Finance: Samantha one of his best friends; and the delight- to start a new life. When Jonah calls a at Montefiore Medical Center Yew; Iona Prep: Cian Byrne; Manhattan ful Hector Elizondo as Charlie Gargas, radio talk-show host and tells him his ]] Center for Science and Math: Saul Soto; his understanding boss. When David’s father needs a new wife, the program I don’t belong to any HMO. I don’t Monsignor Scanlan: Jacob Toledo; Mott dad becomes ill, both father and son are is heard by Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a believe medicine can be practiced on Hall V High School: Ken Ogura. Pablo surprised by how David handles the situa- reporter from Baltimore who is smitten by the run. Good care requires a compre- Neruda Academy: Salvador Cornejo, tion. the story and won’t let mere geography get hensive history, a complete physical Shareef Walker; Pelham Prep: Toni Jade In Memories of Me (1988), Billy in her way. examination and, above all, meticulous Riley; Preston: Alana Pecorelli; Renais- Crystal plays Abbie, a high-powered NYC The Sum of Us (1995) is set in Syd- attention to detail. sance High School for Musical Theater: surgeon. After undergoing a humbling ney, Australia, where Jeff (Russell Crowe), RICHARD B. 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Set in 1940s Brooklyn, the drama The adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play Chosen (1981) stars Rod Steiger as Reb based on the 1910 trial of a 13-year-old Saunders, the leader of a sect of Jewish British naval cadet (Guy Edwards), who Hassidim that is very orthodox and fol- is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal HARDWARE lows the teachings of a rabbi from 17th- order. His father (Nigel Hawthorne) is HOUSEHOLD GOODS century Poland. His brilliant son, Danny, convinced of his innocence and puts the MARINE GOODS played by Robby Benson, is being raised family through tremendous financial hard- PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES in silence. 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Imagine the a handmade card is a special treasure. The baked goods at the office. You will speed wouldn’t. You’ve seen that the river spells joy of a child receiving a birthday card members of Hearts and Hands, a creative past that fast-food place at lunch. You will disaster. that also includes the voice of a parent group of members of Grace Episcopal turn a blind eye to the vending machine in You now have a negative association serving so far away! Church, are creating cards to send to the mid-afternoon. And you’ll pass on the (watery death) with the river rather than Also, if you are aware of a City service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan ice cream after dinner. your initial positive association (relaxing Island resident who is serving in Iraq or for them to use to stay in touch with loved But you hadn’t counted on the fact that fun). Afghanistan, please send their address so ones at home. a box of your favorite doughnuts would be Overcoming temptation is all about they can send them some cards. The cards will be created at Grace sitting in the break room. Or that cowork- building negative associations in place of They hope to keep this program Parish Hall on Thursday, June 10, and ers would invite you to join them for fast existing positive ones. Use the two steps be- operating periodically during the year Thursday, June 17. They will meet at 7 food place at lunch. Or that the Girl Scouts low to harness the power of your mind to with seasonal cards for future holidays p.m. to complete birthday, wedding, baby, would come through the office after school become stronger than any temptation. such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, thank-you and sympathy cards. Members Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Please with boxes of thin mints. Or that your spe- Step One: Create a Strong Negative of the City Island community are encour- cial someone would come home with a pint Association with all the Bad Stuff join them and perhaps learn a new skill aged to join them in this effort. Experi- of Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. If cookies and chips and burgers are put while creating a special gift for those enced paper crafters, as well as novices, And, as you get into bed each night, on a pedestal in your mind as your favorite who give us so much. will be given instruction and all the tools you tell yourself that tomorrow will be dif- things to eat, then you will always eat un- For further information, please con- necessary to create these greetings for ferent. Tomorrow you will conquer tempta- healthy and will continue to gain weight. tact Joanne Brogan at 718-885-2713 or those who are giving us so much—our tion. But tomorrow comes with its own set What do you dislike about tempting [email protected]. freedom. They promise a warm welcome of special circumstances, and temptation food? It makes you unhealthy. It causes to all who attend, and coffee and cookies gets the best of you once again. weight gain. It drains your energy. It kills as well. your confidence. It degrades your quality of Why Does Temptation Always Win? The final products will be sent to life. It hurts your love life. We live in a society where food tempta- members of the community who are on Every time that you encounter tempt- tions are everywhere. Walk through a store active duty in our two war zones for them ing food items, focus on your list of nega- and you’ll see the unhealthy food items dis- to share with their fellow soldiers. If you tives. It’s time to kick those cookies off the played front and center. Turn on the televi- cannot join them on those two evenings, pedestal and to put something healthy in its sion and you’ll be assaulted with commer- you can support the effort in other ways. place. cials for fattening foods. Open a magazine They would like to be able to enclose Step Two: Create a Strong Positive and you’ll notice glossy pin-ups of sugary some recording devices in our cards so Association with all the Good Stuff snacks. Go down the street and you’ll have that a voice recording can be attached to Now that your mental pedestal has been restaurant signs clamoring for your atten- some of our cards. Unfortunately, these cleared, put healthy food items on it. Juicy tion. In addition to the abundance of tempt- items cost $7 each, so they need dona- fresh fruit, crispy vegetables and savory lean ing edibles, you also have deeply ingrained tions to cover the cost. Please send checks meats are a great place to start. positive associations with indulging. You to Grace Episcopal Church, 116 City What do you love about healthy food? treat tempting food as a reward. You turn Island Avenue, Bronx, NY 10464, if you It makes you healthy. It causes weight loss. to tempting food for comfort. You rely on wish to help them with this part of the tempting food as stress relief. You allow It boosts your energy. It builds your confi- tempting food to become a habit. dence. It improves your quality of life. It enhances your love life. It’s Your Turn to Win Immerse yourself into the world of Temptation doesn’t need to have the healthy food. Browse the aisles of a natural upper hand on you anymore. It’s time to food store. Walk through a farmer’s market. fight back using your most powerful asset: Bring healthy snacks to work. Clear your your brain. Your mind is an amazing thing. kitchen of anything unhealthy. Once it is made up about something it is Using the technique above, you will nearly impossible to change it. soon find that healthy food is your favorite Imagine for a moment that you are food. And temptation will become a thing of peacefully floating down a river in an inner your past. tube. The sun is out, the birds are chirping, Regular exercise makes it easier to eat and you are having a wonderful time. You healthy. Just as healthy eating makes you feel great about the river because it is mak- more likely to exercise. It’s the domino ef- ing you feel good. fect. When you begin to make a positive Now imagine that you are in a plane change in one area of your life, other areas flying over the river. Your eye is immediate- will soon follow. ly drawn to an enormous rocky waterfall. Remember, while nutrition is vitally You look up the river and just around the important for weight loss, true results are bend is a person floating in an inner tube, achieved through a combination of both having a wonderful time, headed straight nutrition and challenging, progressive ex- ercise.

City Island Physical Therapy Janine Mantzaris, P.T. 340 City Island Avenue • Bronx, NY 10464 Phone: 917-577-1752 • Fax: 718-885-1191 www.cityislandphysicaltherapy.vpweb.com Modalities include: Therapeutic exercise, balance training, manual therapy including soft tissue massage and myofascial release, mechanical tractions, ultrasound, electrical stimulation and FCEs (Functional Capacity Evaluations) June 2010 The Island Current Page Thirteen

By JOHN SHERIDAN and MARIA SUTHERLAND

was apparent. Maybe they weren’t hunt- ing. Maybe two parents were teaching their young to hunt, or to fly in a stiff breeze, in which case there may have been trouble, after all. Anyone who may be able to shed a little light on this subject (or any other) is invited to do so at [email protected]. The geese in our area are notorious for the trouble they have been causing, particu- larly to pilots flying in and out of the New York area. We may have been witness to the latest incident. On May 20, at about 4 in the afternoon, some of the largest flocks of Canada geese were spotted flying high Photo by PETER GUSTAS Turkey vulture. over head City Island, heading north. They were so high that we probably wouldn’t Follow That Horseshoe Crab have noticed them at all if not for the sound In last month’s column, we wrote of their collective honking. As we watched about the turkey vultures, or buzzards, cir- one plane pass above the migrating flock, cling overhead in search of road kill. They another, much lower, plane, suddenly came are rather large raptors for this area and into view in a part of the sky that was un- hard to mistake, even from afar. Up close usual for landing aircraft. and personal, though, they are impossible Something else to be on the lookout for to mistake. See the accompanying photo- are the horseshoe crabs. If we have our cal- graph, which comes to us, again, courtesy endars right, they are scheduled to swarm of Pete Gustas. Thanks, Pete! our shores to lay their eggs the last week of This month’s raptor has to be the os- May through the first week of June. They prey. There are at least three nesting in do it under the full moon, you see, and have our area. If their messy black and white done so since the days of the dinosaurs. If appearance doesn’t give them away, their you miss them, look out instead for their sound will. They are the ones whose call light blue-green eggs, buried a few inch- is easily mistaken for a distress signal. We es below the sand nearest the high water watched three over the bay, hunting, we mark. There will be hundreds of thousands supposed, but calling back and forth in a of them, more than enough for birds and way that suggested trouble, although none beachcombers. Happy summer!

The 2010 Bronx Ball, held at Orchard Beach on May 22, was attended by 800 Bronx sup- porters. Islander Marguerite Chadwick-Juner (r.) is pictured with inductee to the Bronx Walk of Fame Joanie Madden (middle). She and Mary Coogan are from the Grammy Award winning Celtic group Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies. Other inductees for 2010 are: Herman Badillo, politician; Ed Lewis, founder of Essence magazine; and legendary singer Jerry Vale. Page Fourteen The Island Current June 2010 June 2010 The Island Current Page Fifteen

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Patrick and Elizabeth Woods at their wed- ding in June 2009. Happy birthday, Mom! Love from Susan- nah, Frank, Liz and all the grandkids. Happy June birthdays to Judy Rauh Marion Rosenfeld, with love from Lucy and John Wright, and their mother, Vera (woof) and the gang at Atlantic Emeritus Thompson, who will celebrate her 90th Realty. birthday! Judy was thrilled to spend Moth- Congratulations to Travis and the entire er’s Day with her mother this year. P.S. 175 kindergarten class of 2010 on their A great big THANK YOU to the four graduation. With love from the Prohaska new members of the Garden Club for family. participating in the “It’s My Park Day” on Happy June birthdays to Island Cur- May 15. Paula, Linda, Francine and Judy rent staffers Virginia Dannegger and Rose helped groom Hawkins Park, added flow- Kolb. ers to the planters on the Avenue and even Happy belated birthday to J! Love A and Photo courtesy of the Carmody Family painted the dolphin, seals, flagpole stand, the Little C. Pilot Cove’s Terry Carmody celebrated her trash cans and railings. Great job, John Michael. We all enjoyed 80th birthday on May 8 with family and Happy sixth birthday greetings to our the show. friends at the Lobster House. niece and granddaughter, Julia Z., with love Happy first birthday to Fordham Street’s from Grandma, Pop Pop and Aunt Jenni- Niccoali Perruzza, with love always from Happy 100th birthday wishes to a true fer. Uncle Mick, Aunt Lorraine and cousin clam digger, Margaret (Larsen) Neumann, Happy birthday on June 6 to Tina Maeve. Photos courtesy of the Sadler Family who will celebrate her big day on June Schaefer with love from “all of us.” It’s a Happy birthday on June 17 to James On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Captain Ed 7. The centenarian, who enjoys a martini Sadler celebrated his 94th birthday along BIG ONE! Thomas Heffernan, who will turn two. every now and then, loves spending time with his family aboard Firefighter, the Birthday greetings on June 30 to Marine With love from Mommy. with her family, reminiscing about the “old Fire Department vessel he captained for Street’s Ann Butterworth, with love from Congratulations JM on Dribble. days” and watching her favorite TV show: 20 of his 35 years with the FDNY, which Chuck and your boys. Happy May 8 birthday wishes to Pilot “Wheel of Fortune.” treated him to a cruise through New York To “Tiz” on her 25th with love from Cove’s Terry Carmody, who celebrated her Harbor, a splendid lunch and a delicious Also sharing a June 7 birthday are Island “D-Day.” 80th with family and friends at the Lobster cake. They also took a close look at 343, Current staffers Karen Rauhauser Nani Happy June 1 birthday to Tier Street’s House. Thanks to Jo Jo and Dominique for one of two new fireboats that will be and Margaret Lenz. Happy birthday(s) to making it so special. soon going into commission (343 is the all! Hearty congratulations to Sebastian number of firefighters killed on 9/11). Not Happy birthday on June 23 to the Sail- Whitcombe-Wiley on his graduation and surprisingly, Captain Sadler and his son maker’s John Iovieno, with love from the for making it into the Repertory The- Dick have been awarded the contract to Iovieno and Swieciki families. ater Company High School! What a huge adjust the compasses on both of the new boats. Congratulations to Alyssa Grillo and achievement! You exceeded our high expec- the class of 2010. We are very proud of tations, as usual! We are all so proud of you achieve it! We all love you so much, Mom, you. Good luck in high school. With love and know you will just keep on knocking Charles, NaNa, and Pop-Pop. from Mom, Anthony, Frank and Jake. them dead and making us proud. Always Happy Father’s Day to all our dads and Happy birthday to Jill Doyle on June 6 remember that if you can dream it, you can grandpas! with love from your family. Maria Swieciki Happy Father’s Day to Jack Doyle and Chuck Butterworth with love from your 134 Years and 4 Generations of Community Service family. Happy June 5 birthday and congratula- tions to Jenna, who received the Sacrament of Confirmation in April. Jenna will be graduating from P.S. 175 this month and will be celebrating with family and friends at her party. We love you and are so proud of you - Mom, Dad, Jake, Jessica and Buddy. XOXOXO. Welcome to Christopher Cusmano, the 726 Morris Park Avenue 732 Yonkers Avenue new manager of our local Chase branch Bronx, New York 10462-3620 Yonkers, New York 10704-2029 bank. Stop in to meet him! 1 (718) 828-1800 1 (914) 375-1400 Toll free 1 (888) 828-1800 1 (888) 375- 1400 Toll free PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND RETURN TO: MOVING? ISLAND CURRENT, P.O. 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