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Caroline DePaul fights for the ball with a Whitney Point player on Nov. 7. Whitney Point topped Bronxville 6-0 in the regional finals to advance to states. For more, see page 16. Photo/Bobby Begun

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Acme store replaces defunct A&PBy sarah varney

Staff Writer

The transition from A&P to Acme Markets for shoppers in Bronxville and Eastchester has been smooth from the standpoint of both customers and employ-ees. And according to United Food and Commercial Work-ers Union for Local 464 Presi-dent John Niccollai, the overall change is proving to be a positive

one for union members moving from the A&P brand to Acme.

Local 464 represents employ-ees at the 12 Cedar St. Acme location in Bronxville as well as the Acme store at 375 White Plains Road in Eastchester. Acme Markets is owned by Al-bertsons, LLC.

The collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the United Food and Commercial Workers, UFCW, and A&P

said the biggest difficulty has been filling jobs.

“The changeover has been a little bit hard. We don’t have enough people. It’s hard to get people to do this work for these salaries,” he said, declining to give his name.

Niccollai also confirmed the employment situation.

“The A&P stores had bare-bones crews. They were sig-nificantly understaffed. We have

postings for 650 jobs that are un-filled at this point,” he said.

The union president said the Bronxville Acme currently has 80 employees. “I would imagine that the number will increase by quite a bit,” he said, but declined to give an estimate.

In terms of employment for UFCW members, the demise of A&P may ultimately be a good thing, Niccollai said. “We really took a tragedy and spun it into an

opportunity,” he added.Niccollai, who has been presi-

dent of Local 464 since 1981, recounted a similar outcome af-ter the bankruptcy of the Grand Union supermarket chain.

He said Grand Union had 1,200 job openings when Stop & Shop took over, but that the num-ber increased to 2,200 after the 2001 transition.

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has been kept in place with no changes, Niccollai said. “For all intents and purposes, every-one is keeping what they have. We’re just doing the housekeep-ing now. Acme has assumed the A&P contract,” he said.

“We like what we see so far,” Niccollai added.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, declared bankruptcy in late July announcing plans to close 25 stores and sell off the remaining 300 stores. On July 1, Albertson officials announced its intention to buy 76 of them and re-open them under the Acme brand.

For one customer at the East-chester location, the changeover has meant no difference except for the labels.

For a woman shopping in the produce department at the Bronxville store, the Acme tran-sition has been a good one. “It’s nice and clean. Cleaner than it was and I’m a stickler for that,” said the customer who declined to give her name.

While several employees ex-pressed relief at the conclusion of the transition, one Acme worker

The former Bronxville A&P, now an Acme Market at 12 Cedar St., will likely increase its employee numbers according to Local 464 President John Niccollai. Currently the store employs 80 workers.

In Eastchester, the Acme Market located at 375 White Plains Road remains similar to when it was under the A&P banner. Photos/Sarah Varney


What’s going on...register, call 337-3252. Checks can be sent to 135 Midland Ave., Bronxville, NY 10708.

DNA testing lectureA lecture about DNA testing given by pharma-

cogentic Dr. Belmont will take be held on Wednes-day, Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Re-freshments will be served after the program. For more information, visit bronxvillewomensclub.org or call 337-3252.

Asbury United Methodists Church

Music at AsburyAsbury United Methodist Church will be hosting

the second season of its series of concerts, Music at Asbury, on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. The concert will feature the West Point Brass performing a pro-gram in honor of Veterans Day titled “Classic Brass, On the Edge!” The program will feature a mix of classical, contemporary, jazz, and patriotic selections by Bernstein, Brubeck, Debussy, Sousa, and more. United Methodist Church is located at 167 Scarsdale Road in Tuckahoe. The concert is free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly recommended. For more information or to make a reservation, visit MusicAtAsbury.com or call 779-3722.

grades five and up. All materials will be provided. Registration is required. Please include any food allergies in the comments section of the registra-tion form. For more information or to register, visit bronxvillelibrary.org/events/teen-make-a-snack/.

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Bronxville Public LibraryZombie Night

Participate in a live zombie survival game on Friday, Nov. 13 from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Gather survival gear scattered around the library while avoiding the ZombieLibrarians. The team that col-lects the most gear with their brains intact will win. Teens in grades six and up are invited to partner with friends and make teams of up to four players. Registration is required with the name and grade of each participant. For more information or to register, call 337-7680 ext. 34. Please register with name of teen and include grade in comment box.

Mock SAT examApplerouth Tutoring Services is hosting a free

mock SAT exam on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Taking a practice SAT exam will help students become more comfortable with the test environment. Each exam comes with a free individual, detailed score report that highlights each participant’s strengths and weaknesses. For more information or to register to take the practice exam, visit applerouth.com/services/test-prep/sat/mock-test/new-york-city/.

Make a snackThis program, held on Monday, Nov. 16 from

3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., will show teens how to make a delicious snack, with barely any baking involved, that is perfect for the upcoming holiday season. This program is appropriate for children

Reading Buddies Book ClubReading Buddies will discuss Jules Feiffer’s “A

Room with a Zoo” on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The book club will be a roundtable discussion where participants will discuss why they liked or didn’t like the book and how it com-pares to other books they have read. There will be a trivia contest with prizes, and refreshments will be served. Online pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, contact Jonathan Heifetz at 721-8105 or [email protected].

International Game DayInternational Game Day will be celebrated dur-

ing an afternoon-long program on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Participants can come for the whole day or stop by at any time. Participants are welcome to bring their own games or use the library’s, which include several board games and a Wii. The library’s Minecraft tributes will also be competing in an international tournament during the day. Online pre-registration is suggested but not required. For more information, contact Eliza-beth at 721-8102 or [email protected].

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Spanish language storytimeJoin Miss Myrna for storytime on Monday, Nov.

16 at 11:30 a.m. This program is open to children from birth to 5 years old.

Kids’ turkey craftCraft a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving on

Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. This program isopen to children ages 5 to 10.

Bronxville Women’s ClubBook and Author Luncheon

The Bronxville Women’s Club’s annual Book and Author Luncheon will be on Friday, Nov. 13 at noon. Following lunch, author Gerda Roze will talk about her book “To Peel an Onion.” Books will be available for purchase. The program is open to the public and the fee is $20 per person. Advanced registration is required. For more information or to


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Gramatan Village and The Community FundTo the Editor,With the holiday season quickly approaching, our thoughts turn to family, friends and giving thanks

for all we have. It is also the time when we consider the needs of others and how we can help.The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe has been meeting the community’s

needs for more than 95 years. Gramatan Village is a grateful beneficiary of the fund’s support. Gramatan supports aging in the community with a network of volunteers, experts, professional referrals and peer connections that enable our members to remain in the community they love.

Nearly half of our services are provided to individuals of moderate means. Our experience has shown that these members often live alone and have little or no support or family members nearby. The Com-munity Fund ensures that Gramatan Village helps our elderly neighbors access the services they need.

I encourage members of the community to contribute generously to The Community Fund’s Annual Appeal. Contributions can be made on The Community Fund website, thecommunityfund.org, or by phone at 337-8808.

Julie Dalton,Executive Director of Gramatan Village, Bronxville

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sigma alpha Mu unwelcome at Purchase

By JaMes PerOStaff Writer

Purchase College has never been known for its Greek life; primarily because—unlike most other universities—it’s never had any.

But for the first time in the SUNY school’s history, a group of students is actively sowing the seeds of what they hope could be the college’s first-ever school -recognized fraternity: Sigma Alpha Mu, otherwise known as “Sammies.”

Ari Vizzo, 19, a sophomore studio composition major at Pur-chase, as well as the currently un-recognized fraternity’s treasurer, is—with his 14 fraternity broth-ers—intent on bringing Greek life to the school in an official capacity; even if most members of the student body don’t want them there.

“A lot of kids aren’t in support of us being here,” Vizzo said.

Since its inception, Purchase College has never been espe-cially welcoming to fraternities and sororities. Founded in 1967

as a bastion for the visual, per-forming and liberal arts, its goal was to foster an environment in which all cultural identities could flourish.

According to Ernie Palmieri, vice president of student affairs at Purchase, neither fraternities nor sororities were a part of that vision.

“Since the inception of the college in the late 1960s, the founding administration at the time did not want fraternities or sororities to be part of Purchase College’s campus culture,” he said. “This in part was due to the problems experienced at other college campuses around the country with Greek organiza-tions during this time period.”

Now, he said, keeping in tra-dition with the original found-ers of the school, Purchase Col-lege plans to continue the same policy.

“The following administra-tions since the college’s found-ing have maintained this policy to the present day,” he said in a prepared statement.

In addition to Purchase’s long

tradition of eschewing fraterni-ties and sororities, official school policy states that no group or organization can discriminate based on gender, religion, or any other variety of factors, making fraternities like Sigma Alpha Mu—which requires that its members identify as male—much more difficult to gain rec-ognition at Purchase compared to other universities.

According to Vizzo, despite the obvious appeal to being recognized by the university—school funding and resources chief among them—he said he would like the non-discrimina-tion provision of recognized or-ganizations to stay.

“While [school recognition] would be amazing…I don’t want that discrimination policy to be changed,” he said, noting that changing such a rule could open the door for gender-based and other forms of discrimination.

Still, such obstacles haven’t stopped the group of 14 students from pushing forward to legiti-mize their fraternity’s colony at the school. According to Vizzo, the brothers hope that soon, their fraternity will become chartered with Sigma Alpha Mu’s national organization.

“We’re a colony,” Vizzo ex-plained, noting that such a dis-tinction is the official first step toward becoming a legitimate fraternity. “They let you run things as if you are a chapter until we prove we can handle things on our own.”

Since word of Sigma Alpha Mu’s presence on campus has spread, a significant portion of Purchase’s student body has ral-lied to prevent the fraternity’s foray into campus life. Accord-ing to Cassidy Hammond, a ju-nior anthropology major at the college and president of Femi-nists Organizing Real Trans-formation Here, FORTH, the school-sanctioned feminist club, the sentiments from students have been far from welcoming.

“There’s a large group of the population that says ‘No, we don’t want [a fraternity],’” Hammond said. “A lot of people come up to me and are like…‘I

think it’s really dangerous.’”According to Hammond,

much of the student body’s con-cern has centered around the issue of safety, which critics of the fraternity say could be jeop-ardized by bringing an institu-tion like Sigma Alpha Mu to the campus.

While rattling off disconcert-ing statistics about sexual as-sault, hazing, in addition to drug and alcohol abuse, Hammond explained that fraternities can bring a myriad of problems to campus life.

“I don’t think of them as in-herently dangerous people,” said Hammond, referring to the members of Sigma Alpha Mu. “I think the institution [of fraterni-ties] is really dangerous.”

Though the unrecognized fra-ternity is still somewhat new to the campus, Hammond said that discussions between members of FORTH and Sigma Alpha Mu have already occasionally turned into full-blown confrontations.

During a meeting held by FORTH in which members were invited to discuss their senti-ments about a fraternity coming to the college’s campus, Ham-

mond said members of Sigma Alpha Mu made an unexpected appearance that turned conten-tious quickly.

“It got pretty intense,” she said, adding that the meeting digressed into an argument be-tween about 10 fraternity mem-bers and 15 FORTH members after concerns over the fraternity were voiced.

Vizzo stated that similar con-frontations have erupted when members of the fraternity were approached by students while playing music on campus.

Whether or not Sigma Alpha Mu will go on to become of-ficially recognized is still very much in the air according to Vizzo, who cites the student body’s backlash and many ad-ministrative boundaries as major obstacles.

This, however, won’t stop him and his brothers from pushing forward with the idea.

“The end goal is not really official university recognition,” said Vizzo. “It would be more the student body wanting to work with us and join us.”


For the first time in school history, Purchase College is getting an injection of Greek Life as a group of students is actively trying to legitimize a chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu on the school’s campus. File photo


The level of activity in the vil-lage—construction, paving, strip-ing, and beautification—is current-ly at an unprecedented level. The stars all seemed to have aligned, creating a great deal of simulta-neous activity. Ideally, we would have orderly staggered the projects to minimize congestion, but most of the work is determined by the schedule of the providers.

Con Edison is the most repre-sentative example. As you may recall, this summer we waited a considerably long time to have the gas line installed on Kraft Avenue so the proposed diner could begin remodeling. When Con Ed returned to repair a gas line on Tanglewylde Avenue near Midland Gardens and repave the work they had done on Ridge Road, we had no choice but to make the necessary accommoda-tions. As point of fact, Con Ed no longer has an in-house construc-tion division, so projects to return streets back to pre-excavation conditions are bundled and then subbed out to independent con-tractors. Hence the often long-term presence and proliferation of metal road plates throughout Westchester County.

Continuing on the Con Ed front, many of you kindly re-port lamp post outages only to become frustrated when the lights stay dark. If it is a bulb is-sue, we do replace immediately. Our night police patrols actually have a formalized procedure for reporting the outages to our De-partment of Public Works, DPW. If the outage continues, it is a Con Ed issue that often relates to conduit connections that have been reported.

After quite literally request-ing new fiber optic cabling in

Mayor, what’s going on?our downtown for years now, Cablevision has sought to un-dertake the project. The needed trenching extends all along Kraft Avenue and Park Place, from Ce-dar Street to the People’s Bank. The new service will make sec-ond floor offices more attractive to rent to professionals, and as an added benefit, if anyone is an Op-timum/Cablevision customer, the Wi-Fi signal will extend to the train platforms.

The Con Ed and Cablevision projects are two of the biggest in scope, but something is happen-ing in virtually every quadrant of the village.

This is just a sampling:• New trees are being planted

in the pits in the business district and grates are being repaired or re-moved to provide easier passage.

• Bids were received at the end of October for the purchase of new street lights and are cur-rently being evaluated and we are now requesting bids for their installation.

• Leaf season is in full swing for our DPW staff. We asked that you keep the leaves out of the roadways as they further narrow our streets as well as clog the storm drains.

• Our outside contractor is cur-rently televising and cleaning the sewer pipes in the business district. Much of the work will be done at night to minimize dis-ruption. We are finding tree root obstructions, crumbling pipes, dozens of water bottles and, even hard to imagine, a bowling ball. We will be investing in sewer grates that block the ability to toss refuse into our water system because the labor intensive work to remove the volume of debris is time-consuming and expensive.

• The front walk at Village Hall is in a redesign stage as the synthetic materials used several decades ago did not stand up to the test of time and weather.

• After months of searching for proper bricks to resurface the yel-low brick road after almost 100 years of use, compatible bricks have now been delivered and are being installed as I write.

• Our historical decorative street signs, which have been damaged by weather and ac-cidents over the years, are also being recast. Since so many are missing, we will be replac-ing them in stages. The village owes a great debt of thanks to the Bronxville Historical Conser-vancy for their generous funding of both the yellow bricks and the template to fabricate the replace-ment street signs.

• Striping of crosswalks and lane lines is in progress through-out the village, with the largest expanse covering the length of Kensington Road. Also on Kens-ington Road, the tattered con-struction fence will be replaced with a more attractive alternative.

• The village has made a com-mitment to rejuvenate the paddle tennis program and has hired Jessica Watts, a seasoned profes-sional, to oversee the operation. She comes to Bronxville with more than a decade of sports management experience, having served most recently as director of recreational programs for Park City, Utah. New programs are al-ready in place for players of all ages and skill sets. By going to the village’s Paddle Tennis page under the Recreation Department heading on the village website, a resident can purchase a permit, sign up for a court, receive infor-mation about upcoming events or email Jessica at [email protected] with individual inquiries. We are so hoping to see our stu-dents and new residents embrace the program.

We at Village Hall genuinely appreciate your patience as we make progress on these many fronts throughout the village.

BRONXVILLE TODAY

MayorMary Marvin


Westchester County Ex-ecutive Rob Astorino recently joined with New York Rangers alumni Dave Maloney and Ron Greschner, New York Knicks legend Allan Houston, Friends of Westchester County Parks and the Westchester County Parks Department at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla to announce a celebration for Westchester’s Winter Wonderland.

The event will include new features including all-inclusive pricing for admission, an ex-panded ice rink sponsored by the New York Rangers, additional rides and new entertainment, shopping and food attractions.

Doubling its size from last year, the 70-foot by 90-foot rink, which is the same size as the rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City, will be called “Rang-ersTown” as a nod to the Rang-ersTown Hockey House in front of Madison Square Garden.

“We are thrilled to announce this new partnership with the New York Rangers for Winter Wonderland, which we know will grow to become an iconic event in Westchester,” Astorino

said. “In addition to the expand-ed rink, the New York Rangers will bring an exciting fan ex-perience to our festive event by incorporating exciting fan expe-rience attractions for the entire family, including photo-ops with alumni, hockey sessions and fun prizes and giveaways.”

Westchester’s Winter Won-derland will take place at Ken-sico Dam Plaza in Valhalla, will open the Friday after Thanks-giving, Nov. 27, and will run through Sunday, Jan. 3. From Nov. 27 through Dec. 20, the event will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on Sundays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Starting on Dec. 21, the program will be open weekdays and Sundays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

To add to the fan experience, the New York Rangers will pro-vide special perks each Friday, Saturday and Sunday night for guests to enjoy, including:

• Try Hockey for Free ses-sion: The Rangers will help open Westchester’s Winter Won-derland on Friday, Nov. 27, with

a special Try Hockey for Free session, which will include ac-cess to free loaner equipment. Kids will receive a free Rangers hockey stick in addition to skat-ing with and meeting New York Rangers alumni.

• Photo opportunities: Guests will be able to take photographs on the New York Rangers Player Bench, framed by the six-foot “RangersTown” letters sign. Blueshirts United brand ambas-sadors will be on-site to greet at-tendees and help them take and share photos on their social me-dia pages. As skaters make their way to the rink, they will be able to stop and take a picture with their favorite Rangers’ life-size cutouts, which will flank the en-try to the ice.

• Appearances by current and former New York Rangers: For-mer Ranger greats will make weekly appearances to ice skate, take photos and sign autographs with guests, and current Rangers will appear on a select date to surprise attendees.

• Road Tour NYRv: The New York Rangers’ field market-ing vehicle and mobile brand

Winter Wonderland preps for season

experience will be on-site to provide fans with even more in-teractive attractions.

“We are delighted to be part-nering with the Friends of West-chester Parks to help put togeth-er this remarkable initiative for the community of Westchester,” said Janet Duch, senior vice president of marketing at MSG Sports. “The Rangers, Knicks, Liberty and of course the West-chester Knicks have strong ties to Westchester County and we look forward to continuing our growing relationship with the community through events such as Westchester’s Winter Won-derland.”

Other new features to West-

chester’s Winter Wonderland include the Santa experience, The Wonderland Express, Win-ter Hay Rides, a 24-foot Christ-mas tree with lights and a new candy cane forest lights at the entrance.

“Westchester’s Winter Won-derland helps families cre-ate a holiday tradition close to home,” said Joanne Fernandez, board chair for Friends of West-chester County Parks. “We are thrilled to be hosting our sec-ond annual winter event. This one-of-a-kind experience cel-ebrates the spirit of the season with holiday lights, amusement rides, a shopping village, food, an ice skating rink and a memo-

rable holiday experience for the entire family.”

The festive event will elec-trify the holiday season with hundreds of thousands of LED lights set to a one-hour-long con-tinuous show choreographed to holiday music, an outdoor recre-ational ice skating rink, boutique vendors, amusement rides and a heated indoor dining tent offer-ing a variety of local food trucks and a full bar.

Tickets for the event can be purchased by visiting winter-wonderland.com. Adult and child tickets cost $15 and are all-inclusive, except for food and vendor shopping, and children 5 and under are free. (Submitted)


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aspects of remodeling. Websites like Houzz and Pinterest allow you to save examples of what you like and share them with others.

The style and color of the cabinets create the main focal point of the kitchen so this is the probably your most important aesthetic choice. However, don’t rely on the colors in a printed piece or on a computer moni-tor because they tend to be less than accurate due to the medium. There is no substitute to seeing the material in person.

The same advice applies to countertops as well. The coun-ter, and its counterpart, the backsplash, establish the second major focal point of the room. Contrasting the color of the counter with that of the cabinets is very popular today; however, you may want a monochromat-ic look, which can be stunning. Granite, marble, quartz, soap-stone, concrete, wood, and stain-less steel are just some of the materials available for coun-tertops. Once the counter is se-lected, the backsplash should be next. The same materials for countertops are available for backsplashes; however, tile is probably the most beautiful and by far the most popular.

The next big part of your fu-ture kitchen is the color and style of the appliances. Do you want them to stand out or fade into the background? Should they be

stainless steel, a solid color, or should they match the cabinets? And, while we’re making deci-sions, let’s not forget some other aspects of the space, including the floor, the walls and the mold-ing. For each component of the project there is an abundance of materials and finishes to select from. Oh, and don’t leave out the hardware. Beautiful knobs can make or break the whole proj-ect. Unless you want handles, instead of knobs.

With all these decisions, if you’re not sure what you want, it pays to work with an experi-enced designer that will assist you with all these choices. Like the “don’t try this at home” dis-claimer you see on TV, I suggest you don’t try this alone unless you are confident in your own ability to put together all the var-ied aspects of your remodeling project.

And now, the day is almost over, and soon I’ll be going home to settle down and watch a little TV. I know that I’ll commit too much time to deciding what to watch, even though it will probably just be another re-run of “Law and Order.”

Kitchen remodeling: don’t try this aloneBy Paul BOOkBinder

Contributor

After returning home from my usual long day at work, I made myself comfortable in my favorite chair and settled down to watch a little TV. After 15 minutes or so, my wife Liz passed by and asked me what I was watching, at which point I realized that I was still going through the channel guides. In fact, lately, I find myself spend-ing more time looking to see what’s on, rather than watch-ing what’s on, because there are too many choices, even though there’s never anything on.

This phenomenon is not lim-ited to TV programming. In the remodeling world, the choices are voluminous. Hundreds of styles, colors, shapes and sizes of cabinets, countertops, appli-ances and tiles have made deci-sion making very time consum-ing for consumers, unless you’re one of the lucky few who knows exactly what you want. So what can you do to narrow down the choices without losing too much sleep?

Magazines are a good place to find ideas and begin your se-lection process. Here you can see the best of the biggest proj-ects and what is available and popular today. Then, you can scale it down to fit your needs. The Internet has really become the most valuable place to see all

Are you really going to eat that?

“Where’s the milk?” I asked my best friend from high school, Gigi, as I peered into her fridge.

“It’s right there!”“Where?”“There!” But, as Gertrude Stein would

have said—if she were still alive and needed something to pour in her coffee—”There’s no ‘there’ there, only almond milk.”

Gigi shrugged. “That’s what we drink.”

And therein lies a tale. There was no cow’s milk in

Gigi’s fridge, no white bread in her bread box, and no peanut butter in her cabinets, only al-mond butter. Without even real-izing it, Gigi had become what we used to call a health nut, but now apparently is just a health mainstreamer, leaving good ole milk-drinking, Wonder Bread-loving, candy-gobblers like me behind. Folks who still eat hot dogs, if you can believe that, de-spite WNYC reporting recently: “The World Health Organiza-tion Says Processed Meat is Bad for You. BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD! Donate now, be-fore you drop dead.” Simply by standing in place, I’d become ab-normal, like a gal still wild about Earth Shoes. Or Jeb Bush.

Everyone else today is eating or juicing something they never thought they’d eat—or even con-sider food. A guy I know—who was briefly a pro football play-

er—just mentioned he is into hemp hearts.

Hemp has a heart? It’s legal to eat? He says he mixes the hearts into cheesy eggs, which sounds somewhere between revolting and felonious.

But hemp is just one of those things that people say, “I’m into now,” like kombucha—the stuff in bottles that looks like pond water. And chia! If chia can go from pet to food, what hope is there for puppies? Another high school friend of mine (they’re all turning!) now “cheats” by eating chia pudding.

Cheats on what? Gently-sautéed pine needles? Liver smoothies? How is it cheating to eat something so healthy that it still grosses at least a portion of the population out? “MARCY!” I typed at her. “You were the one who introduced me to the food that is totally worth cheating with: Hostess Fruit Pies. What happened?”

She typed back (where would we be, friendship-wise, without Facebook?): “Chia pudding is made with chia seeds, almond milk, cacao (or, for those that still speak English, cocoa), ma-ple syrup and vanilla extract. As the seeds soak, they become tap-ioca-like. Makes a yummy pud-ding. Hostess Fruit Pies! I forgot about those.”

FORGOT?I know, I know—people’s

tastes change, and change is good. My friend Sue is eating beets now. She used to spit them out back when beets were on everyone’s shelf in a can. Then

recently, someone convinced her to eat them for good luck and she gave them an open-minded nibble. Now Sue’s a beet-fiend. A beet-nik. I worry that it’s the gateway to hemp hearts! And others are opening up to celery root. All those ancient grains are taking over, too. Not for nothing do they call it Faro.

The problem is not that peo-ple’s tastes are shifting—tastes always shift. It’s that they seem to be lurching. “I got all into try-ing to go vegan, then I got into paleo—huge shift, I know,” I read a mom confess online.

The soy milk folks are get-ting into butter. The pescatarians are trying pork. The NutraSweet crowd is swearing by Stevia. And I wasn’t going to mention kale, but it’s the elephant in the kitchen.

“It’s an aspirational vegeta-ble,” explains Nancy McDer-mott, an independent research-er and advisor for the website Park Slope Parents. “It’s also very pretty. I saw a nice kale tattoo on Facebook the other day. But eating it, preparing it, is difficult. I hate having to cut out the stalks, and rolling the leaves and cutting them. And as for bruising it, I think you’d have to sleep with it under the mattress to make it tender enough to eat.”

By the time we are sleeping with our kale, all bets are off. It’s driving me to drink.

But not kombucha with al-mond milk.


Paul Bookbinder is president of DreamWork

Kitchens, Inc. located in Mamaroneck. He can be

reached for questions at 777-0437 or

dreamworkkitchens.com.

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14 • The easTchesTer review • November 13, 2015 SPORTS

LIVE MIKEMike Smith

One of my favorite postgame celebration moments ever came in 2013 after the Detroit Tigers clinched a playoff berth. The Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland, a notoriously prickly customer, was speaking with a few report-ers outside of the clubhouse when the enormity of the situa-tion seemed to sneak up on him. While discussing his team’s achievements that year, the base-ball lifer began to stumble over his words, his eyes welling up, until he was rescued by veter-an outfielder Torii Hunter, who hoisted up the 67-year-old skip-per and carried him out of the room and into the midst of the players’ celebration. Leyland was then doused in champagne and beer, and performed a nifty moonwalk to the raucous cheers of his ballclub.

Simply put, it was an almost-perfect celebration.

I was reminded of Leyland and the Tigers on Saturday, as I found myself on the sidelines at Yorktown High School for the Class AA football championship.

With a 44-25 win over John Jay on Nov. 7, the New Rochelle Huguenots won their first section title since 2012. But out of ev-erything about New Rochelle’s play—the big defensive stops, the offensive explosion—it was

Tears of joy

how they celebrated their win that is going to stick with me.

New Rochelle’s players were hardly uniform in their reactions, and with more than 50 players suited up on the sidelines, how could they be? Sophomore run-ning back Jared Baron, a young-ster who has emerged as one of the section’s top players quite early on in his short varsity ca-reer, had a delirious ear-to-ear grin as he bounded across the field to hug his teammates. Se-nior lineman Justin Cossifos, who helped anchor the Hugue-nots’ defense all year, got his hands on the Section I cham-pionship plaque and stared at

it in disbelief, almost like he couldn’t quite comprehend what he and his teammates had just accomplished.

And then there was quarter-back Greg Powell.

For a team as deep as New Rochelle, one that has succeeded not because of one player’s ef-forts but a collective team play, Powell’s spot as the starting quarterback has made him the de facto face of the program, some-thing that was certainly not lost on him as he broke down in the arms of teammates and coaches after the final whistle blew.

All the pressure of leading the Huguenots back to the promised

Kevin Singletary flashes a big grin after the final whistle on Nov. 7. The Huguenots will be back in action on Nov. 14 in the Class AA regional finals against Newburgh.

land was lifted from his shoul-ders on Saturday, and his rec-ognition of that was a beautiful thing to watch.

Of course, New Rochelle’s story isn’t over yet.

With their regional final matchup with Newburgh loom-ing on Nov. 14, the Huguenots were back at work on Monday, getting ready to tackle their lat-est challenge.

But on Saturday, none of that mattered. The only thing on the minds of New Rochelle’s play-ers and fans was letting the pro-gram’s biggest win in three years sink in.

They’ll have all week to come down from their win over John Jay, but at least they got the chance to enjoy the ride for a few minutes.

And isn’t that why we all love sports?

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New Rochelle quarterback Greg Powell breaks down after the Huguenots’ 44-25 win over John Jay in the Class AA finals on Nov. 7. The Huguenots’ emotional win was especially poignant for the senior signal caller.

Miles Harvey and Justin Cossifos look at the Section I championship plaque. For the first time since 2012, the Huguenots are Class AA champions.

New Rochelle head coach Lou DiRienzo leads his team in a postgame celebration. Photos/Mike Smith

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Tigers gear up for regionalsBy Mike sMiThSports Editor

With regionals on the hori-zon, Tuckahoe’s football team has spent the better part of the last two weeks gearing up for its biggest game of the season. With Section IX Roscoe-Downsville’s one-sided victory over Eldred on Nov. 6, the Tigers officially have an opponent for their Nov. 14 contest, although according to head coach Tom Itri, the Tigers fully expected to be taking on the Eagles all along.

Last Friday, Roscoe-Downs-ville won the Section IX title with a 40-8 romp over the win-less Yellow Jackets, setting up a showdown with Section I champ Tuckahoe this weekend. As Itri and the Tuckahoe coaching staff continue to pore through footage of their next opponent, they are beginning to gameplan against the 6-3 Eagles.

According to Itri, the one-sided nature of many of Roscoe-

Downsville’s wins initially made it tough to pinpoint the strengths of the Eagles team.

“We’ve been starting to watch more tapes, but it’s difficult be-cause a lot of the teams they beat were a little bit down this year,” Itri said. “But we were able to see a little more in the games they lost to teams like Liberty (10-0).”

The Tigers and the Eagles have a common opponent in Chester, which topped Tucka-hoe 40-6 and bested the Eagles 62-13. But even in that regard, Itri said it wasn’t easy to draw definite conclusions. Tuckahoe sat many of its starters, includ-ing Chris Corrado and Christian Pinto, against the Hambleton-ians in order to preserve them for Tuckahoe’s section champi-onship game against Haldane, which was played the following week.

“We didn’t have a lot of suc-cess [against Chester], but we rested a lot of two-way starters,” Itri said. “So those tapes weren’t too telling.”

But although he couldn’t use the Chester game as a true mea-suring stick, Itri said he has be-gun to see what the Eagles will bring to the table on Saturday. Roscoe-Downsville has size on the line, and although they aren’t quite as big as some of the teams Tuckahoe has faced this year, Itri said it’s something his team needs to be ready for. Itri feels

that Tuckahoe has the advantage in the skill positions, with play-ers like Corrado and Pinto able to create plays in space against the larger Eagles’ front.

“They have a little beef up front, but it doesn’t scare us,” he said. “We have an edge in speed and athleticism, and we run a lot of misdirection which should help us get to the outside.”

Itri also believes that the con-tinued maturation of sophomore quarterback Matt Annunziata is a definite plus for the Tigers. Annunziata shined in Tucka-hoe’s Class D championship win against Haldane and has shown great poise under pressure in the last few weeks.

“I think he’s got all the bugs out,” Itri said. “He was a bit tim-id earlier in the season, but he’s been playing very well lately and should be successful this week.”

Lastly, Itri points to conve-nient scheduling as another plus for his Tigers this week. Roscoe-Downsville and Tuckahoe will square off at 10:30 a.m. at Sleepy Hollow High School, which means the Eagles will need to be up early to make the nearly two-hour drive down south.

“Not only is it close for us, but we know how far they have to travel,” Itri said. “That’s a def-inite advantage.”


Chris Corrado carries the ball against Woodlands. Corrado’s speed should come in handy when the Tigers take on the Eagles on Nov. 14.

A Tuckahoe receiver hauls in a pass against Woodlands. Photos/Mike Smith

Sophomore Matt Annunziata takes a snap during an early season game against Woodlands. Annunziata has looked sharp in recent weeks and could be in line for a big game against Roscoe-Downsville.

Tuckahoe defenders drag down a Woodlands ball carrier.

16 • The easTchesTer review • November 13, 2015 SPORTSBroncos dropped in regionals

By Mike sMiThSports Editor

On Nov. 7, Bronxville’s field hockey season came to an end with a 6-0 loss to Section IV Whitney Point in the regional fi-nals. But despite the disappoint-ing end to the year, the Broncos’ young, talented roster appears to be poised for big things in the years to come.

Whitney Point came out fir-ing on Saturday, building up a 4-0 first half lead before the Broncos even managed a shot on goal. The Eagles got huge performances from a pair of un-derclassmen, sophomore Elaina Burchell and freshman captain Leanna Bough, to best the Bron-cos. Burchell had four goals on the afternoon, and Bough notched a goal and three assists in the win. Both girls were key members of last year’s team, which beat the Broncos 2-0 in the state semifinals.

“As far as our team goes, I

think we had as much talent, skill-wise, as we did last year,” Bronxville coach Jacquelyn Frawley said. “But Section IV is a powerhouse section, and [Whitney Point] is basically fielding 11 all-stars out there, so we knew it would be tough.”

Bronxville goalie Katie Gor-don made 10 stops on the day, but the Eagles dominated the time of possession, allowing just three Bronxville shots. Despite the disparity in shots, however, Frawley was happy with the way her squad battled.

With the win, Whitney Point will be back in action on Nov. 14 when they play in the state semi-finals at Maine-Endwell High School.

“They left everything on the field and they played hard,” the coach said. “Basically, we have no regrets.”

Even though this year’s cam-paign ended short of a state title, Frawley is confident that the Broncos will be contenders for the next few years. Bronx-ville graduates just four seniors from this year’s squad, three of whom, Brennan O’Toole, Lilly Grass and Caroline DePaul, are starters. Frawley saw plenty of improvement in her younger players, especially sophomore defenders Hadley Barr and Clair

Kreamer, and believes that the team will come back stronger in 2016.

“Even the younger players, the sophomores and freshmen on the bench, will be moving right on up,” she said. “With players like Kreamer and Barr, you could see them start to peak as the year went on.”

For now, though, Frawley is content to let her squad reflect on another tremendous season.

“Basically every season, our goal is to be the section champs,” she said. “We did that, and everything afterwards is just icing on the cake.”


Caroline DePaul chases down a loose ball against Whitney Point. Photos/Bobby Begun

Hadley Barr controls the ball. Barr is one of several young Broncos who will lead the team in 2016.

Caroline Brashear takes a shot against Whitney Point. Bronxville managed only three shots on goal against the Eagles.

Caroline DePaul makes a play on the ball on Nov. 7 against Whitney Point. Bronxville fell 6-0 in the Class C regionals.

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