July 2012 Volume 25 Number 9 Keeping You up to Date on SALES, HAPPENINGS Our Town & PEOPLE • • • • • • in Our Town - St
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PRSRT STD ********************************** ECRWSS US Postage PAID St. James NY POSTAL CUSTOMER Permit No. 10 JUly 2012 Volume 25 Number 9 Keeping you up to date on SALES, HAPPENINGS Our Town & PEOPLE • • • • • • In Our Town - St. James S T J A M E S PUBLISHED MONTHLY Fun in the Sun – 2– St. James Chamber of Commerce Invites You To Summer Family Movie Night Thursday, August 2 • 8:00 p.m. RAIN DATE AUGUST 9 On the lawn at Deepwells County Park (Moriches & Rte. 25A) Free Free Come early with your blankets & food for a picnic dinner on the lawn... Then enjoy the movie at dusk. PLEASE NO Pets NO Alcoholic Beverages This program is partially funded by the Suffolk County Executive’s Office. OUR TOWN • JULY 2012 – 3– IN THIS ISSUE MERCHANT SPOTLIGHT Best Pool Service ........................................4 O•u•r •T•ow• •n AROUND TOWN S T J A M E S Movie Night at Deepwells ..................2 & 8 Parenting Course ........................................6 Benefit Concert at St. James Lutheran Church ............................ 8 STAFF Olivia and Harlan Fischer Arts Scholarship ....................................10 Ruth Garthe . Editor Thank You, St. James ........................................................................12 Acoustic Long Island Summer Concert ........................................14 Robin Clark . Associate Editor SCOUT NEWS ......................................................................................16 Elizabeth Isabelle . Feature Writer IN THE NEWS William Garthe . Advertising Summer Fishing Trips for Kids ............................................................18 Sales Temple Beth Chai Calendar .......................................................... 20 Empire College Information Session for Adults ............................ 24 National Grid Warns of Nationwide Utility Scam ..........................25 OUR TOWN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT – ST. JAMES – Dennis Cannataro Free Family Summer Concert Series ............ 26 4 Views Landscape Exhibition at Mills Pond House .................... 28 is a monthly publication produced On Stage at Smithtown Performing Arts Center ..........................32 exclusively for the people of Gateway Playhouse & Patchogue Theater Season ....................34 St. James, Nissequogue and Head of the Harbor, L.I., N.Y. EDUCATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Programs at the Library ..............................................................38-45 Call 862-9849 for HOME & GARDEN Advertising & Copy Deadline Design Ideas .................................................................................... 46 Naturally Speaking .......................................................................... 48 OUR TOWN is mailed directly to every residence & business in the POSTAL CORNER .............................................................................. 50 11780 zip code area FINANCIAL SAVVY (6459 total copies mailed) Finding a Method That Suits Your Personality .............................. 52 St. James Post Office Permit #10 Don’t Fall Victim to Investment “Biases” ...................................... 56 St. James, NY 11780 How Life Insurance Can Protect Your Home ................................ 60 A Few More Reasons to Save ........................................................ 62 Published by LEGAL-EASE ........................................................................................ 64 Graphics du jour, Ltd. 359 Lake Ave., St. James, NY 11780 YOU CAN HELP 631-862-9849 / Fax: 631-862-9839 Adopt or Sponsor a Pet at Little Shelter ........................................ 66 email: [email protected] IN THE SCHOOLS ........................................................................ 68-69 website: www.ourtownstjames.com SPORTS ........................................................................................ 70--72 Not responsible for typographical errors. HEALTH NOTES We reserve the right at our sole discretion to edit or refuse to print editorial or advertising material What is Tennis Elbow? .................................................................... 74 deemed detrimental to Our Town’s public image Your Neck Was Created With a Built-In Shock Absorber ............ 76 or unsuitable for its readers. Advertising is offered only Eat Your Fruits and Veggies – Grow Your Own, Too! .................. 77 to those who live in, or have a business in, St. James, Nissequogue or Head of the Harbor, or any business POET’S CORNER ................................................................................ 79 offering services not available in said area. CELEBRATIONS .................................................................................. 80 Copyright © 2012 OBITUARIES ..................................................................................82-87 Graphics du jour, Ltd. F.Y.I. .............................................................................................. 88-89 All Rights Reserved CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING .............................................................. 90 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS .................................................. 94-95 PLEASE NOTE: Advertising & Editorial Deadline for the AUGUST edition of OUR TOWN • ST. JAMES is THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012 - 12 NOON. Distribution takes place on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. OUR TOWN • JULY 2012 –4– MERCHANT SPOTLIGHT Best Pool Service 543 Lake Avenue St. James, NY 11780 631-686-6715 by Elizabeth Isabelle Welcome to Best Pool Service of St. James, providing their clients with quality pool mainte - nance and repair service since 2000. Owner Jim Best has been in the pool service industry since 1993, with the 10 years prior to 1993 in the construction indus - try. Best Pool Service is now proudly servicing their clients from their new location at 543 Lake Avenue in St. James. For solar powered thermal products crystal clear, Best Pool Service is over 10 years, Long Island resi - designed to heat household hot pleased to offer their clients the dents have trusted Jim Best to get water and swimming pools. Jet BioGuard difference. For over the job done quickly, efficiently Solar offers options to fit your four decades, BioGuard has and right – the first time! budget as well as individual earned its reputation through Jim, along with his profes - needs. constant technological improve - sional staff, offers clients expert Best Pool Service offers a large ments, research and innovation. pool openings and closings, leak selection of Energy Star pool BioGuard today is recognized as detection, filter system repair as pumps which can cut your en - one of the nation’s premier sup - well as weekly maintenance. ergy costs by at least 30%. For a pliers of pool and spa care prod - Best Pool Service professionally product to qualify for the energy ucts in the industry. Jim and staff installs salt chlorine generators, star program, it must be able to can offer you dependable, accu - heaters, safety covers and fenc - deliver enough energy savings rate and helpful advice for your ing, aluminum and stone coping over time to allow the consumer pool and spa needs, helping you and liner replacements. Jim is to recoup any upfront costs. Best maintain beautiful pool water proud to offer his clients Jet Solar Pool Service’s Energy Star pool throughout the season. The Bio - Products – the most comprehen - pumps will meet your needs and Guard system offers the fastest sive line of clean, efficient and your budget. They will complete and most accurate water testing energy smart products on the Energy Star rebate forms for their in the pool and spa industry. market, utilizing the resources of customers. Best Pool Service is a member the sun. Jet Solar specializes in Experts at keeping your pool of the North East Swimming Pool Association (NESPA) – a source of product and safety informa - tion for the ultimate consumer, as well as a member of the Asso - ciation of Pool and Spa Profes - sionals (APSP). Open 7 days a week, Jim can be reached at 631-686-6715. Be sure to stop into the Best Pool Service showroom at 543 Lake Avenue to see their display of Health Mate Saunas as well as their large variety of pool sup - plies. Check out their website www.bestpoolservice.com. Jim Best and the entire staff at Best Pool Service look forward to meeting you! OUR TOWN • JULY 2012 – 5– OUR TOWN • JULY 2012 –6– AROUND TOWN St. James Lutheran Church to Hold Parenting Course Do you ever wish you could clude: Build - be a better, more patient parent? ing Strong Do you have a vision of what Foundations, you would like to see your child Meeting Our become? Children’s Why not take time out of your Needs, Setting busy schedule to learn some key Boundaries, skills that could help you be - Teaching come the best parent you can Healthy Rela - be? The time is now, while your tionships and children are still young. Our Long St. James Lutheran Church will Term Aim. be holding a PArENTING THE COurSE from August 6-10 from PArENTING 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Gather with COurSE - other parents for coffee, tea, and open to all donuts. Enjoy in a relaxed, infor - parents mal setting and discuss various whether you are a single parent, tonline.net or call the church of - parenting topics and concerns. expecting your first child, or just fice at 584-5212. St James Course format includes DVD feeling the parenting pressures of Lutheran Church is located at the clips of interviews, parents shar - today, covers ages 0-10. There is corner of Woodlawn and Second ing their experiences and parent - a $20 fee for materials. Avenues in St.