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THE LEADER IN PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, LLC • 483 Chestnut Street, Cedarhurst, NY 11516 HERALD________________ GLEN COVE _______________ Gazette Your Health From screenplay Elvis has left living Well to novel the Senior Center Page 13 Page 24 Page 3 Vol. 27 No. 37 SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2018 $1.00 EPA scientist: Additional tests needed at Crescent Beach By ZACH GoTTEHRER-CoHEN back in Glen Cove in the coming [email protected] weeks to take additional wet- weather samples. The preliminary results of a It’s not impossible, he said, for DNA study of possible sources of a wet-weather sample to indicate the contamination that has kept human sources, even though the Crescent Beach closed to swim- dry sample did not. mers for almost 10 years may not After another round of testing, have been as conclusive as was Ferretti said, it would be helpful previously reported, according to to determine the source animal. one of the scientists who conduct- “If it’s geese,” he said, the ques- ed the study. Jim Ferretti, an tion is, “how do you keep the expert on bacterial contaminants, geese away?” Different species said that wet-weather samples, require different interventions. taken after significant rains, The single sample that showed would likely offer more bacterial extremely high levels of fecal coli- Tab Hauser/Herald Gazette clues than the existing samples, form — a bacterium found in the MAYoR TIM TENKE and Michelle Puckett-Formolo, daughter of one of the four 9/11 victims from which were taken in dry weather. excrement of warm-blooded ani- Glen Cove, laid a wreath at the memorial. Ferretti, who keeps a stuffed mals — was taken from a storm excrement emoji named Smelldon drain off Jackson Lane, just west in the Environmental Protection of the North Shore Day Camp ten- Agency lab that conducted the nis courts. According to Ferretti, Enshrining the legacy of 9/11 tests, was careful to note that who led the team at the EPA lab “these bacteria change from hour that undertook the study and who to hour,” and added that a little was on hand when the samples G.C. remembers the day that shook the nation rain could have a big impact. were collected, the Jackson Lane That’s why he was expecting to be CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 By ZACH GoTTEHRER-CoHEN do,” Jimenez recalled. Daffodil Project, and millions [email protected] At a somber ceremony at of bright yellow flowers are Glen Cove’s Heritage Garden planted each year. Where flowers bloom, so does honoring those who died in The memorial ceremony hope. the terrorist attacks 17 years focused on the four Glen Cov- –Lady Bird Johnson ago — and to recognize those ers who died in the attack: who, like Jimenez, took part Edward Lehman, Matthew Tony Jimenez remembers in the cleanup effort — Mayor McDermott, John Puckett and what Glen Cove was like on Tim Tenke quoted the former Joseph Zuccala. Their names Sept. 11, 2001, after two com- first lady to introduce what he mercial jetliners struck the hoped would become a new were enshrined on paving twin towers of the World city tradition: the Daffodil stones that line the city’s Her- Trade Center. “Every member Project, wherein each Sept. itage Garden — itself a sym- of EMS [and the Fire Depart- 11, residents plant daffodil bol of Glen Cove’s history — ment] showed up at headquar- bulbs in Glen Cove’s Heritage “so that generations to come CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 ters to see what they could Garden. New York City has a Zach Gottehrer-Cohen/Herald Gazette CRESCENT BEACH HAS been closed due to contaminants for nine years. 2 Fishermen rescued from high tide on jetty By ZACH GOTTEHRER-COHEN In an effort to avoid being thrown [email protected] off balance by the wakes, or slipping and falling, Dillon said that several Thanks to a new moon on Sept. 9, of the fishermen were sitting down the tides in Hempstead Harbor were on the jetty. Testa added that some within inches of its peak height. had jumped into the water and swam High tide occurred just before noon the nearly quarter-mile toward the that day, which is approximately shore. when Tom Dillon, the launch manag- “We do rescues all the time,” Testa er of the Glen Cove Yacht Club, said, “but not of this magnitude.” noticed some fishermen out on the Several other rescue agencies had jetty at Morgan Park. responded to Dillon’s call too, includ- “The tide was getting high,” Dil- ing Glen Cove Fire Department and lon said in a video posted on Face- EMS, Nassau County Police and a book, “and the jetty was awash.” New York City Fire Department That’s when he saw one of the fisher- patrol boat that had been exploring men — of which there were about the waters around the prison com- September 13, 2018 — GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE 2018 — GLEN COVE September 13, two dozen — slip on the rocks and plex on Riker’s Island almost 15 Photos courtesy Mitch Schlimer fall into the water. “Somebody tried miles away. to pass a fishing rod to him to try to Testa added that in the five years THE WATER BEGAN to pull him in,” Dillon said, but the that he had been the Harbor Patrol climb up the Morgan would-be rescuer lost his balance chief, the agency hadn’t been part of Park jetty just before and fell in too. a rescue involving so many agencies. noon on Sunday, cre- Dillon sprung into action. He This isn’t the first time jetty flood- ating a dangerous sit- launched his vessel, he said in the ing has led to rescue efforts. “[Fish- uation for these fisher- video, and “came as close as I could ermen] probably get stranded out men. get without hitting the rocks.” After there a couple of times year,” Dillon getting the two safely onto the dock said, adding that other instances, as at the club, Dillon radioed for the far as he could remember, were “not THE NASSAU COUNTY Glen Cove Harbor Patrol. as bad as yesterday was.” Police Department, According to Harbor Patrol Chief According to the Nassau County among several other John Testa, the call came through Police Department, no injuries were agencies, responded around noon. “Our guys were going reported. to a call to aid about out through the creek,” Testa said, 24 fishermen who “and they heard a call come over [the Mitch Schlimer contributed to this were stuck on the jetty radio] from the yacht club.” story. due to the rising tide. 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As she and her crew of 22 climbers continued manjaro, Glen Cove native Donna Brady left something on down past the cloud line, it became foggy, “like you were its slopes. She didn’t know what it was, but, she said, in its somewhere in Ireland.” Eventually, they passed the tree absence, the 54-year-old was left with a profound sense of line, and by the end of the day, she was immersed in a lush freedom. tropical scene, “waterfalls, and birds and monkeys and Her training partner Diane Dobler struggled to vines.” describe the change she saw in her friend after her 6-day After almost a week on the mountain, Brady said, “My trek. “We all experience these ups and downs,” Dobler body kind of did some weird things.” She said, “and she just seems more level now. described it as a reset, adding that other More at peace; more content; happy.” than the three toenails she lost, “It kind of Brady decided to embark on the journey rewound the clock a little bit.” She attribut- on what some might consider, a whim.