mamaroneck review 11-20-2015

November 20, 2015 | Vol. 3, Number 45 | www.mamaroneckreview.com

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The Village of Mamaroneck has been added to a lawsuit for its role in discharging raw sewage into the Long Island Sound.

For story, see page 3. Photo/Andrew Dapolite

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By JAMes PeROStaff Writer

Adding another layer to an ongoing lawsuit with Westches-ter County filed in August over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the environmental nonprofit Save the Sound has widened the scope of its original suit to include 11 Westchester municipalities.

The suit, which includes Sound Shore municipalities like the Village of Mamaroneck and the City of Rye, claims that each of the 11 municipalities involved have been responsible for dis-charging raw sewage into the Long Island Sound.

The other municipalities named in the lawsuit include Rye Brook, New Rochelle, Pelham, Larchmont, the Town of Ma-maroneck, Pelham Manor, Port Chester and White Plains.

Tracy Brown, the director of Save the Sound’s Western pro-grams, said that leaking and de-graded sewer lines are responsi-ble for the alarmingly high levels

of bacterial contamination found throughout the waterways in Westchester County.

“Because of old, leaking and poorly-maintained sewer pipes, Westchester beaches are closed after rain, we’re prohibited from harvesting clams or oysters in our local bays and harbors, and we’re at risk for waterborne ill-nesses,” she said in a released statement.

Sewage runoff resulting from porous pipes which leaks raw sewage into the ground, as well as overflows onto streets fol-lowing heavy rain, has been the root cause of fecal bacteria—the same bacteria found in human waste—entering into the Long Island Sound via storm water drainage, the nonprofit claims.

In Save the Sound’s 2015 re-port of Westchester County’s water quality, which includes 400 samples from 52 different sites, the bacterial contamina-tion failure rate for rivers rose to 79 percent from 34 percent in 2014. Additionally, sites that would have formerly passed in

Save the Sound adds to county lawsuit

dry weather now experience an overwhelming failure rate.

The lawsuit aims at spurring action by both the county and the municipalities to devise and fund a sustainable solution to help fix leaking sewer lines and mitigate ongoing contamination in the Long Island Sound, according to Save the Sound.

“The citizens of Westchester County have waited decades for effective action,” Brown said. “Municipalities must step up efforts to find and eliminate il-legal discharges of raw and par-tially treated sewage into Long Island Sound and its tributaries. Our goal with this lawsuit is to get all the responsible parties to the table to reach a compre-hensive, long-term solution to this decades-old infrastructure problem.”

Rye City Manager Marcus Serrano and Mamaroneck Vil-lage Manager Richard Sling-erland could not be reached for comment as of press time.

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Piggybacking off a lawsuit filed in August, environmental nonprofit Save the Sound has decided to widen the scope of its campaign to clean up the Long Island Sound by involving 11 Westchester municipalities. File photo


What’s going on...and math through both structured and unstructured activity. The next program in the series will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 3:30 p.m. Partici-pants will explore the sense of smell with guess-ing jars and spice paintings. The program is ap-propriate for children ages 3 and 4. A free ticket is required to attend this event, and tickets will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis be-ginning 30 minutes before the program is sched-uled to begin.

Fingers and thumbs art partyThe program, which will take place in two ses-

sions on Friday, Nov. 27, will operate on a drop-in basis from 11 a.m. to noon and again from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Children ages 5 and older will learn about all the different types of artwork they can make with their fingers.

LMCTV‘The Local Live!’

Tune in to LMCTV’s hyper local, interactive news show Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m. on Ca-blevision Channel 75, Verizon Channel 36. During the show, join the discussion. Call 381-0150, email [email protected] or tweet @thelocallive.

information about St. Thomas and its programs, visit saintthomasmmrk.org or call 698-0300.

Larchmont Public Library

road. The class does not involve an exam and upon its completion, participants will be able to save 10 percent on their car insurance and remove up to four points from their license. Class fees are $20 for AARP members and $25 for non-members and payment will only be accepted on the day of the class. Checks should be made payable to AARP. All payment transactions will be handled directly by AARP. Course materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own lunch and a pen. Registration for this program is required and space is very limited. For more infor-mation or to register for the class, call 630-5887.

Community Resource CenterWinter coat drive

The CRC will be holding a winter coat drive for companies or families to drop off gently-used coats, especially those of youth sizes. Coats may be dropped off at 134 Center Ave. in Mamaroneck. For more information about the winter coat drive, call 835-1512.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church

St. Thomas Episcopal Church, located at 168 W. Boston Post Road in Mamaroneck, is hosting an Advent wreath-making party on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. to help families prepare for the holiday season. The church will supply the materials and light refreshments. The event is free, family-friend-ly and open to the public, with a suggested dona-tion of $15 to cover the cost of materials. For more

The library will be closed at 1 p.m. on Wednes-day, Nov. 25 and on Thursday, Nov. 26 for Thanksgiving.

Author eventJuliana Gribbins, author of “Date Expectations:

A Humorous Look at Dating, the Second Time Around,” will come to the library for a reading, discussion and book signing on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Community Room on the lower level. This will be the Connecticut-based, award-winning humor columnist’s first book-related New York appearance.

AARP Driver Safety programThis program, specifically designed for driv-

ers ages 50 and older, will take place on Monday, Nov. 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Com-munity Room on the lower level. Participants are encouraged to arrive at 10 a.m. The class will teach defensive driving techniques and safety strategies and will explain new traffic laws and rules of the

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Deadline for our What’s Going On section is every Thursday at noon. Though

space is not guaranteed, we will do our best to accommodate your listing. Please send all

items to [email protected].

The library will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 26 for Thanksgiving.

A Cocktail of AuthorsThis program, which will take place on Sunday,

Nov. 22 at 4 p.m., with light refreshments being served at 3:30 p.m., will feature readings by three New York Times columnists from their books about booze. New York Times editor, Larchmont resident Steve Reddcliffe and author of “The Essential New York Times Book of Cocktails” Steve Reddcliffe will lead the panel. He will be joined by Robert Simonson, author of “The Old-Fashioned,” and Rosie Schapp, author of the memoir “Drinking With Men.” This event, presented by the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library, is free, open to the public, and does not require a reservation.

Full Steam Ahead: Follow That ScentThis new program series highlights the princi-

ples behind science, technology, engineering, arts


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Thanksgiving and Native AmericansTo the Editor,Thanksgiving, like most holidays, is marked by a frenetic pace of commercialism.

Indeed, it is a prelude in this country to Black Friday and the insane push by corporate America to buy and consume.

Like Christmas, its original meaning has been lost and perverted with this deluge of consumption and indulgence that was exemplified by the death of someone at a Walmart several years ago who was trampled by other patrons in this rush to purchase. However, little has been said or written about the true origins of this holiday that is predicated on a lie and actually had a genesis of mayhem and murder.

The first Thanksgiving was in 1620 when the Pilgrims, in what is now Groton, Conn., were supposed to be engaged in prayer and celebrating the Native Americans’ period of harvest, which had saved the Pilgrims from starvation during the winter of 1619–1620 when they landed on Plymouth Rock. The Native Americans fed them maize, potatoes and other types of agricultural crops. They were repaid by the Pilgrims when 700 Pequot men, women and children were murdered and burned alive by the Pilgrims and their harvest was destroyed.

This atrocity was replicated over and over by the Pilgrims and the Puritans in their treatment of Native Americans. Thanksgiving was defined by the “Churches of Manhattan” as a “celebration of victory over the heathen Indian savages.” These savage and barbaric acts continued for the next two centuries by the English, Dutch and their progeny, the Americans. It continued when President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving on two days, the first being the anniversary of the victory at Gettysburg in August 1863 and the second being the last Thursday of November.

The Algonquian native tribes who lived throughout New England and resided in what is now Larchmont and Mamaroneck have declared—like their fellow Native American tribes—Thanksgiving as “an official day of mourning.” That was declared in a proclama-tion in 1970.

Unfortunately, today and on Nov. 26, the indulgence of food, alcohol and the ongoing perversion of the meaning of this holiday continues. The celebration of Thanksgiving to Native Americans is like for those who are Jewish: Germans celebrating the Holocaust.

Clifford Jackson,Larchmont

Letters to the Editor

Library workers have right to unionizeTo the Editor,I write as a patron and supporter of the Mamaroneck library. I was proud to have served

on a bipartisan Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees that voted to support a $13.5 mil-lion bond that renovated and expanded our beautiful library. I have always been impressed with the professionalism and commitment of the library’s staff.

I was surprised to read in the Nov. 13 edition of the Review that the library board of trustees doesn’t intend to immediately allow their workers to unionize. My understanding is that more than 80 percent of the library’s staff have signed card checks that request their right to join a union be recognized by their employer. The library can waive the right to a formal election if 50 percent of the workers sign card checks, and the workers have more than exceeded that threshold. The library administration seems to be trying to force a bal-lot, which is an unnecessary step that delays the process and promotes fear and acrimony between the workers and the administration.

I am a lifetime union member, shop steward, and have worked to try to organize non-union workers in my trade. It has been my experience that employers who don’t recognize card checks are actively trying to deny their workers the right to organize. I don’t think that is the case in Mamaroneck, but I am also sure that most people who volunteer for lo-cal boards don’t have enough experience in this area to know what should be the fair and normal course of events.

Income inequality in our country has grown in almost direct proportion to the decrease in union membership. As a community, we should support the rights of workers to receive a fair day’s pay for a fair days work. All other municipal employees in our area have been unionized for decades; our hard-working library workers deserve those same rights. I hope the good people who serve on our library board, whose commitment and hard work I respect, will take a cooperative and collaborative attitude toward their employees. The patrons of the library and the residents of Mamaroneck will support both sides coming quickly to a reasonable agreement.

Tom Murphy,Mamaroneck Town councilman


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Mamaroneck pays tribute to veterans

Sgt. of Arms Dominick Pecora, right, of American Legion Mamaroneck Post 90 welcomes supporters at Mamaroneck’s Veterans Day ceremony. Photos/Bobby Begun

Bill Goodenough of The American Legion Post 90 addresses the crowd on Veterans Day.

State Sen. George Latimer delivers a powerful and motivating speech at Mamaroneck’s Veterans Day ceremony on Nov. 11.

Girl Scout and Brownie Troop 1843 performs “Thank You, Soldiers” to the crowd of supporters.Members of VFW Post 90 listen to speeches by dignitaries.

Mayor Norman Rosenblum during The Pledge of Allegiance.

A large crowd honors Mamaroneck’s war veterans in front of the village’s municipal building.


CPW holds annual fundraising eventOn Monday, Nov. 9, Cere-

bral Palsy of Westchester held its annual Taste of Westchester food and wine tasting event at The Renaissance Hotel in Harri-son. The event showcased more

than 20 of the area’s finest res-taurants and chefs. The evening also included a cooking demon-stration from Hive Living Room + Bar as well as a wine and food pairing by Aries Wines & Spir-

its. All of the proceeds benefit CPW’s mission to ensure that children and adults with disabil-ities receive needed services and enjoy activities regardless of the level of their abilities.

Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont, left, with Richard Osterer, CPW board president, and Linda Kuck, CPW executive director.

It was a girls’ night out with a cause on Monday in Harrison. Photos/Bobby BegunA demonstration by Jean Claude Lanchais, executive director of the Hive Living Room + Bar restaurant at The Renaissance Hotel.

A community tradition for nearly 90 years, the St. John’s Christmas Bazaar will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. John’s Episco-pal Church located at 4 Fountain Square in Larchmont.

St. John’s Christmas Bazaar offers a variety of items for sale including antiques, jew-elry, gently-used toys, sports equipment, bikes, books and houseware. Delicious food and homemade treats will be avail-

able for purchase and there will be a holiday craft-making workshop for kids.

The Christmas Bazaar is or-ganized by St. John’s Episcopal Church Women, which raises funds to support local nonprofit organizations in Westchester County, especially those that provide help to women and chil-dren in need. Past recipients have included the Hispanic Resource Center, Family Services of West-chester-Sharing Shelf, Furniture

Sharehouse, the Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle, Caritas of Port Chester Inc., and Provi-dence House.

Get an early start on holi-day shopping, experience a fes-tive community gathering and feel good knowing that you are helping others. Admission to the event is free. For more informa-tion, contact St. John’s at 834-2981, [email protected] or visit stjohnslarchmont.org. (Submitted)

St. John’s Christmas Bazaar offers items for sale

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John Stossel offers other side at Purchase College By JAMes PeRO

Staff Writer

At this point in his career, John Stossel is accustomed to speaking to diverse audiences. Having transitioned from a lengthy stint as a correspondent

on ABC’s “20/20” with Barba-ra Walters to a career in politi-cal punditry at Fox News Busi-ness, Stossel, 68, has catered to a wide swath of people on the political spectrum.

And on Friday, Oct. 30, when Stossel took the stage at

Safety and Environmental Asso-ciation regulations, which have been touted by many as a major step toward important work-place safety standards, Stossel showed an unattributed graph depicting decreasing workplace fatalities following the creation of OSEA.

Then in the next unattributed graph, which depicted a trend of decreasing workplace fatalities decades preceding OSEA’s cre-ation, Stossel argued that OSEA has had little impact.

“Government is like some-body who jumps in front of a pa-rade and says ‘I lead the parade,” Stossel said. “But they didn’t.”

Not all of his graphs were well received, however; par-ticularly one that depicted the growth of government over time. In the middle of his point, a student interjected, adding that the bulk of government spend-ing can likely be attributed to

military growth.“Do you believe in the

army?... Because a lot of that is military spending,” the student said.

Though much of the night centered on political ideology, Stossel—who is originally from Chicago—would touch briefly on a few of the more personal aspects of his career, namely his transition from “20/20” with Barbara Walters where he won an impressive 19 Emmy Awards, to his recent tenure at Fox News.

“I started to criticize the cor-rosive government and suddenly my life in television changed,” Stossel said. “I’m no longer so popular; I’m no longer win-ning Emmy Awards. Someone came up to me on the street in New York and said ‘Are you John Stossel?’ Yes. ‘I hope you die soon.’”

Stossel chalks the reaction up

to a perception of him that has been formulated after taking his current role at Fox News.

“It’s because he’s considering me a conservative,” he said. “In Manhattan where I live it’s like being a child molester.”

While Stossel’s lecture was contentious at times, particu-larly during an engaging ques-tion and answer which allowed the traditionally liberal student body to broach topics of corpo-rate greed, the sentiments from the audience members were pri-marily positive.

“I thought this was positive,” said Mitchell Kutin, a senior philosophy major at Purchase College. “I think it’s an impor-tant thing to hear the other side. We know what we think; we don’t need more people to af-firm our thoughts. We need to hear the other side.”


Deviating from their usual breed of speaker, Purchase College invited Fox News pundit John Stossel, who offered students and faculty a different take on politics and the economy. Contributed photo

Purchase College’s freshly-opened Humanities Theatre to espouse his libertarian take on modern-day America, his lec-ture again found an audience disparate from the norm.

During Stossel’s hour-long lecture, which was attended primarily by political science students and faculty at the col-lege, he wove through various topics relating to regulation and big government as they pertain to his libertarian ideology, and more importantly how they af-fect today’s political and eco-nomic environment.

“Unemployment has stayed high after this last recession be-cause we have so many rules,” Stossel said to the audience. “Because we can’t do anything unless you first ask permis-sion—it’s the ‘mother, may I’ economy.”

To bolster his libertarian ar-guments, Stossel used a series of PowerPoint graphs depict-ing various trends, particularly ones which he believed showed the inefficiency of the American government.

On the topic of Occupational


Business BriefsI am thrilled to be part of this effort and look for-ward to kicking off our campaign.”

Other appointments for the 2015-16 year in-clude Neal Denning, who will be taking on a dual role as president-elect and Eastchester /Tuckahoe Campaign co-chair along with Mike Calano; Kim Powell, secretary; Dana Arrighi, treasurer; Donna Ruhanen, marketing chair; Jennifer Lescott and Joella Lykouretzos, investment co-chairs; Annette Healey Dowling and Bill Rizzo, campaign co-chairs for Bronxville; and Andrea Bates and Jim Rotenberg, evaluation co-chairs. Robert Castano and David Scalzo will also be co-chairs of The Community Fund’s annual Golf Outing.

New to the board this year are Ashleigh Don-ovan, Amy Korb, Kevin McNeil, Thomas Sipple and Albert Van Ness. They will be joining return-ing board members Stephen Arcano, Robert Cas-tano, Jennifer Colao, Kristen Evans, Judy Foley, Philippa Freeman, Fran Harris, William Knox, Ron Mager, Rosetta McArdle, David McBride, Cathy Needham, Katharine Outcalt, John Reyn-olds, Lauren Toal and Mark Welshimer.

“I am truly excited about the upcoming year,” noted Melinda Burge, executive director of the fund. “We have an impressive range of talent across our new and returning board members, and with Doug’s leadership skills and expertise I’m confident that we can achieve our goals of serv-ing the diverse needs of our community better than ever before.”

The Community Fund is a nonprofit corpora-tion founded in 1919 to enhance the quality of life and provide assistance to all residents living in Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe. For 95 years, it has provided funding and support to social service agencies and community programs serving the health, education and welfare needs of local residents. For more information, contact Melinda Burge at 337-8808 or visit thecommunityfund.org.

County nonprofit appoints new COO 4,500 children and families each year from the New York metropolitan area. ANDRUS also oper-ates the Andrus Center for Learning and Innova-tion and The ANDRUS Sanctuary Institute, which has provided training and consultation to more than 300 organizations worldwide in the use of a trauma-sensitive model for treatment and organi-zational change. For more information, visit An-drus1928.org.

Andrew Katell appointed to ArtsWestchester board

White Plains resident Andrew Katell has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of Arts-Westchester, the largest, pri-vate nonprofit arts council in New York state, provid-ing cultural programs and services that enrich the lives of residents and visitors to Westchester County.

Katell is the vice president of communications of Entergy, leading internal and external commu-nications for the division of Entergy that owns five nuclear power plants in the northern United States, including Indian Point. Previously, Katell served 10 years as a senior vice president at GE Energy Financial Services, GE’s energy investing busi-ness, where among other duties, he led communi-cations for its equity investments in power projects with a capacity to produce 30 gigawatts of power.

Janet T. Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester, said, “Andrew will play a key leadership role in ArtsWestchester’s marketing efforts as a member of our board and its Marketing Committee. En-tergy is one of ArtsWestchester’s largest corpo-rate donors providing support for arts programs and services throughout Westchester County. With Andrew’s expertise in communications, marketing and media relations, he will help us raise aware-ness of the value of the arts in Westchester and help build arts audiences for the future of our cul-tural industry.”

Originally from Westchester, Katell graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in broad-cast journalism and Russian language and culture with additional coursework in Russian language studies from Leningrad State University and Mid-dlebury College. He is a member of the Oversees Press Club, an avid long-distance road bicyclist and jazz aficionado.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Arts-Westchester is the community’s connection to the arts. Founded in 1965, it is the largest, private, nonprofit arts council in New York state; its mis-sion is to provide leadership, vision, and support, to ensure the availability, accessibility, and diver-sity of the arts.

Weichert, Realtors hosts 37th annual toy drive

The Weichert Family of Companies recently announced the start of the 37th Annual Weichert Toy Drive. Members of the community are invited to drop off new, unwrapped toys at the company’s sales offices through Dec. 11. The toys will be delivered throughout the holidays in conjunction with local charities that assist financially and phys-ically disadvantaged children.

“As we get into the holiday spirit, it’s important

ANDRUS President and CEO Bryan R. Murphy is pleased to announce that Audrey Erazo-Trivino has been appointed as vice pres-ident and chief operating officer. In this role, Erazo-Trivino will be overseeing the day-to-day operations of ANDRUS, building cross-program supports and idea exchanges and enhancing staff stewardship.

“Audrey brings a remarkable blend of pas-sion, experience and understanding to this posi-tion,” said Murphy. “After conducting a six-month search, we found the ideal person who not only understands how to help lead and grow a nonprofit such as ANDRUS, but also has the heart to un-derstand the challenges confronting children with emotional disorders, the opportunities they have for promising futures and how everything we do is in an effort to pave the way to their dreams and aspirations.”

Erazo-Trivino is a highly-skilled nonprofit ex-ecutive leader with 20 years of experience in the child welfare, education and mental health fields. Her previous areas of programmatic oversight in-clude managing medical, mental health, educa-tional, staff development and training services, as well as services that enhance children’s residential programs. Prior to joining ANDRUS, she worked at Cardinal McCloskey Community Services, a multi-service nonprofit agency where she served as the vice president for health and clinical servic-es for 16 years. During her last two years there, Erazo-Trivino provided executive leadership in all program areas and acted on behalf of management in the absence of the COO.

“I am so impressed with the work at ANDRUS, the level of the dedicated professionals here, the overall effectiveness of the programs and the over-all high commitment by the Board of Directors. One of my deepest passions is nurturing hope in children and families; that is in step with AN-DRUS’ mission and the agency’s long term goals. While I am a clinician at heart, I also have exten-sive experience in executive leadership, strategic planning and budgeting,” said Erazo-Trivino.

Erazo-Trivino has centered her career around working in communities with significant needs, both in New York City and Westchester County. Her primary professional focus has been on ad-dressing the mental health needs of Latino and African-American children and families in foster care.

Erazo-Trivino obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, a master’s degree in clinical psychology through Long Island University and a certification in school psychology from Marist College.

ANDRUS nurtures the social and emotional wellbeing of children and their families by deliver-ing a broad range of vital services and by providing research, training and innovative program models that promote standards of excellence for profes-sional performance in and beyond their service community. With programs on campus, in schools and within community-based settings throughout Westchester County, the nonprofit reaches almost

to remember those children who are less fortunate, and to do our part to help brighten their holiday season,” said Jim Weichert, president and founder of Weichert, Realtors. “As a company, Weichert makes it a priority to assist in all of the commu-nities where we do business, and our annual toy drive allows us to extend our efforts even further.”

Weichert employees at the company’s corporate headquarters, as well as in other company loca-tions throughout the United States, will also par-ticipate in the yearly community service event. To date, the annual toy drive has yielded hundreds of thousands of items for underprivileged children in the communities Weichert serves. Last year, more than 13,000 toys were distributed to charitable and service organizations.

To make a donation, find and visit your local Weichert, Realtors sales office at weichert.com/offices.

The Community Fund appoints new president, board members

The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe recently named Doug Meyer as its new presi-dent for the 2015-16 fiscal year. He succeeds outgoing president Katharine Outcalt.

Meyer has been a member of the Board of The Commu-nity Fund since June 2012. He previously served one year as an evaluations team captain and two years as Bronxville Campaign co-chair. Meyer is also a member of the investment committee of the Reformed Church of Bronxville and is an active alumni volunteer at Middlebury College. A gradu-ate of Kellogg School of Management, Meyer has spent his career in the financial services industry and has spent the last seven years as senior vice president and head of institutional at First Eagle Investment Management.

“The Community Fund is a unique organiza-tion,” noted Meyer, adding, “it epitomizes our res-idents’ commitment to giving back and to ensur-ing that the Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe remain close knit communities that support one another and make this such a special place to live.

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By JAMes PeROStaff Writer

As a part of the Long Island Sound Futures Fund and the EPA’s series of 22 grants total-ing $1.3 million, the Town of Mamaroneck has been award-ed $149,876 toward improv-ing water quality in the Long Island Sound, making them the only municipality in Westches-ter County to receive funding.

The other grants will be given to various communi-ties throughout the Long Is-land Sound area, including some on Long Island and in Connecticut.

The Town of Mamaroneck’s grants, according to a state-ment by the town, will go to-ward developing green infra-structure at the Mamaroneck Town Center parking lot, where renovations are set to take place.

The projects will consist of developing 8,400 square feet of green infrastructure, install-ing catch basin filters, adding permeable pavement and rain-

EPA awards grant to clean harbor, soundwater harvesters. The goal is to help prevent the introduc-tion of contaminated storm water runoff which has been entering the harbor‘s nearby West Basin.

“Mamaroneck Town Center is across the Boston Post Road from Harbor Island Park and just 800 feet from West Basin of Mamaroneck Harbor,” ac-cording to a statement from town officials. “As such, all of the storm water runoff from the site travels directly to the harbor untreated.”

And with the introduction of a new layer to the environmen-tal nonprofit Save the Sound’s lawsuit against Westchester County—which alleges that Westchester County and 11 of its municipalities, including the Village of Mamaroneck, are in violation of the Clean Water Act—the grant is aptly timed.

According to the suit, West-chester County, in addition to many of its municipalities, has neglected to improve degrad-ing sewage infrastructure that

continues to leak raw sewage into the Long Island Sound through sewage overflows and contaminated groundwater.

According to Save the Sound’s Peter Linderoth, al-though added green infrastruc-ture can’t fix the root cause of the pollution, it can help mitigate pollution by reduc-ing the amount of impervious surfaces which contribute to harmful storm runoff entering the sound.

“Instead of just being washed unaltered into the sound…the water will go through the soil and it will break down [the pollutants],” he said.

Additionally, according to Linderoth, a lack of green in-frastructure in the area has exacerbated the levels of pol-lution experienced in the Long Island Sound.

Furthermore, the develop-ment of Mamaroneck’s coastal areas, which has led to the re-moval of vast swaths of marsh-lands, has been the impetus be-hind the town’s waning green

infrastructure, he explained. “If you have unchecked de-

velopment coming in, you get more storm water coming in by increasing the amount of impervious surfaces,” he said.

According to Mamaroneck

Town Administrator Steve Al-tieri, the town is hopeful that the addition of the EPA-funded green infrastructure will help clean up their deteriorating waterfront.

“The goal is to improve the

water quality in the Long Is-land Sound,” Altieri said. “You need to improve the quality of the flow which improves the quality of the water.”


New EPA grants will help the Town of Mamaroneck clean up its harbor as well as the Long Island Sound. File photo


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Welcome, ladies and germs!

It’s time for a microbes’ rights movement.

Too long have we reviled the misunderstood microbe as an evil that needs to be sprayed, slathered or scrubbed away. Too long have we demeaned this vast and variegated group with hateful terms like “bug” and “germ.” Too long have we ig-nored the contributions made by this mighty if microscopic clan, subjecting it to the horrors of microbicide.

It is time to say we’re sorry.That is basically what the

fascinating new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is doing. “The Secret World Inside You” is a paean to literally trillions of microbes that live on and in each of us, from the depths of our belly buttons to the moist and teeming twists of our intestines, where they are busily digesting our food and, quite possibly, determining our mood. More on that later.

Until just recently, says ge-nomic scientist Robert DeSalle, co-curator of the exhibit, most people thought of microbes only in terms of illness. “I don’t like the word ‘germ,’ because it har-kens back to the old way of look-ing at health: ‘Let’s kill them to make us healthy,’” he said.

Today, researchers are realiz-ing we let a few bad apples in-fluence our outlook. “There are so few bad bacteria in our bodies relative to the good ones that it gives all microbes a bad rap,” De-

Salle said. “I think, actually, they should be patted on the back, be-cause without them, [one] would be a very sick organism.”

Sick because of a lack of germs? Yes indeed. Mice bred to have guts completely bereft of bacteria—sterile—“are much happier when you put some mi-crobes into them,” DeSalle said. It is normal for us all to be crawl-ing with microscopic critters.

Many of those critters are on display at the museum, magni-fied a zillion times, and just be glad they’re normally micro-scopic. But here’s the latest: scientists are starting to think of them sort of like genes. We each have our own “microbiome”—set of microbes—that lives on and in us. No two people’s mi-crobiomes are the same, and our microbiomes change depending on what we eat, where we live, and even our age.

Most significantly, they change when we take antibiot-ics. These kill off a whole lot of microbes; some bad, but many good. It can take a long time for them to grow back, and not all of them will. It’s sort of like re-planting a garden after a nuclear attack. That’s why doctors are trying to prescribe antibiotics more sparingly these days.

We’re not sure what all the different microbes do yet—there can be 100 to 200 different mi-crobial species in just your mouth—but more and more, scientists are beginning to sus-pect that they play a big role in not just sickness, body odor and tooth decay, but also in fighting off disease.

You have probably heard

by now (if only because it’s so weird) of “fecal transplants.” That is, taking the fecal matter from someone healthy and trans-planting it into the gut of some-one sick. People suffering from a C. difficile infection, an illness of the GI tract, have been cured when they received someone else’s stool.

How come? Apparently, some of those germs that we’re so grossed out by actually conquer the illness. Score one for the germs!

What could be stranger than a fecal transplant? How about the idea that some microbes—or some constellation of them—could actually be responsible for how we behave?

The exhibit discusses an ex-periment involving two breeds of mice. The “anxious” breed lingered several minutes before leaping off a platform to ex-plore a new space. The impul-sive breed lingered just a few seconds. When scientists ex-changed their gut microbes—just the stuff swishing around in their intestines—guess what? The anxious group jumped off a minute earlier, and the impulsive mice waited a minute longer. The mice did not receive new or-gans or new genes or new train-ing; just some new germs.

So next time you’re squea-mish about holding the subway pole or you’re about to reach for antibacterial goop, remember: most germs are our friends.

Most microbes are our friends, I mean.

Old habits die hard.


Food bank raises $250K at fundraiser

Small Business Saturday takes on another season

The Food Bank for Westches-ter hosted a new expanded selec-tion of top chefs and restaurants for its 25th annual “An Evening in Good Taste” event on Oct. 22, held in White Plains. The fund-raiser, which spread the mes-sage to end childhood hunger in Westchester County, raised near-ly $250,000 for the Food Bank for Westchester.

The event, which attracted hundreds of people from the re-gion, was an exclusive gathering of Westchester’s philanthropic community, featuring fine food by top chefs and world-class wines. All proceeds from the

event went directly to support the Food Bank for Westchester’s children’s programs.

“We thank everyone who at-tended this year’s ‘An Evening in Good Taste.’ Our guests en-joyed fine food, drinks and company while raising money to fight hunger in Westchester,” said Ellen Lynch, president and CEO of Food Bank for West-chester. “Through the generosity of our supporters, we were able to raise nearly $250,000 to sup-port our programs that directly feed and impact the hungry chil-dren in our county.”

The event included food sam-

For the second year, The Afri-can American Chamber of Com-merce of Westchester and Rock-land counties, in partnership with the US Black Chamber Inc. and the City of Mount Vernon, are encouraging local holiday shop-ping during American Express’s Shop Small Business Saturday campaign. Annually, American Express encourages individuals to shop locally the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This year, Shop Small Business Saturday will take place on Saturday, Nov. 28.

Participating businesses can

be identified by the “Shop Small Business” mat in front of their establishment. They will be handing out gifts including cloth shopping bags and buttons to those who shop at their business.

The AACCWR Inc. was es-tablished on June 28, 1996 as an independent nonprofit agency to aid, counsel and protect the in-terest of African-American busi-nesses. The mission is to pre-serve competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of Westchester and Rockland counties.

As a volunteer organization, the chamber’s members are indi-viduals and businesses who work together to advance the commer-cial, financial, industrial and civ-ic interests of a diverse commu-nity. The chamber sponsors small business seminars, networking events and procurement diversity workshops. Topics range from fi-nancial planning, marketing and business management. To learn more about the African Ameri-can Chamber of Commerce and membership information, visit AACCNYS.org. (Submitted)

plings, along with live and si-lent auctions with donated gifts, and surprise lunch bag raffles provided guests with exciting prizes.

The generous sponsors of the event were RPW Group, Enter-gy, All Star Products Group, Per-nod Ricard USA, Webster Bank, Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP, PepsiCo and Grapes The Wine Company. Christopher and Sean Murphy of Murphy Brothers Contracting in Mamaroneck were the co-chairs of the event.

For more than 25 years, the Food Bank for Westchester has led the fight against hunger in Westchester County, serving 265 frontline programs that pro-vide food directly to the 200,000 county residents who are hungry or food-insecure. One in five residents of the county is hun-gry or at-risk of being hungry; of those almost 200,000 people, one-third are children. For infor-mation about the organization, visit foodbankforwestchester.org. (Submitted)

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Newman sets swim markBy MiKe sMiThSports Editor

On Nov. 7, Mamaroneck’s Steve Newman helped set a mas-ter’s world swimming record.

Newman and his Sarasota YMCA Sharks teammates, Jack Groselle, Kevin McCormack

and Rick Walker, set a new benchmark in the 240-279 Short Course Meter 800-meter free-style relay with a blistering time of 8:52.73. The Sharks’ pace was more than eight seconds quicker than the previous record.

“This was the first time the four of us ever swam together on the

same relay team,” Newman said. “But everyone was swimming their best, and I personally had been doing some hard training for most of the summer and fall.”

Newman, 53, is a Rye native who resides in Mamaroneck and teaches math at New Rochelle High School. Five years ago, he joined up with the Florida-based swim program that competes in several large meets each year.

According to Newman, the decision to put the record-break-ing team into competition at the Shark Tank meet on Nov. 7 came about as a result of a burgeoning rivalry between the Sharks and a master’s team from Ventura County, Calif.

The Ventura County Mas-ters team posted a then-record time of 9:00.30 at a meet last December.

“Because of the nature of the short-course meters, that pool length is only conducted from September to the end of Decem-ber,” Newman said. “So we had to wait a while to get our chance to break it.”

When he’s not making waves

with his Sharks teammates, Newman competes in a num-ber of local and regional meets in the northeast. He generally trains five days a week, usually before school but said traveling to Sharks’ meets presents some logistical challenges.

“Being a teacher, there are only certain times I can take off, like school vacations,” he said.

“There are times [when] I’m done with the teaching day on Friday, leave, swim the weekend meet and I’m back by Sunday.”

Newman said he will be un-able to travel to California for the Sharks’ next meet on Dec. 11, but will likely be back in ac-tion later this winter at the New England Championships.

He remains confident that

once the relay team gets back together, more records will fall.

“I plan to keep swimming as long as I physically can,” he said. “There are a number of records out there, some in the long-course season that we’re going to try and break in June and July.”


Mamaroneck resident Steve Newman was a part of a Sarasota Sharks master’s relay team that broke the world record in the short-course 800-meter freestyle relay on Nov. 7. Contributed photos

Steve Newman, second from right, and his 800-meter freestyle relay teammates pose after breaking the world record on Nov. 7.

I’ll be honest. As much as I love managing my pretend foot-ball teams, I’ve never delved into the world of daily fantasy sports, and given the last few weeks that daily fantasy has had in the press—and the courts—I don’t really feel like I’m missing out.

Last week, New York Attor-ney General Eric Schneiderman launched an assault against Draft-Kings and FanDuel, the two pre-eminent daily fantasy sports sites that seem to run major TV spots every 30 seconds, on the grounds that both sites traffic in illegal sports betting. Now, I don’t hold a law degree, so I can’t really offer an informed opinion on the legality of daily fantasy sports as it pertains to New York’s gambling statute, but I will say this: daily fantasy goes against everything that I think fantasy sports should be.

For me, it’s never been about the money. Don’t get me wrong;

Fantasy warswinning money is great. It would be even better if I could manage a top three finish in my yearly fan-tasy league—something I haven’t been able to do in about six years.

My goal is for fantasy to sim-ply augment my football-watching experience. Sometimes, you need a reason to watch the Bucs play the Jaguars on a random Thursday night. Having Doug Martin in your starting lineup seems like as good a reason as any to tune in.

But, at least for me, it doesn’t matter if Martin rushes for 130 yards and a touchdown if I can’t talk a little smack to the guy I’m playing who decided to roll the dice with Toby Gerhart.

Playing against your friends—and letting them know about all their shortcomings, both as a per-son and a general manager—is the true allure of fantasy sports. One of the highlights of my week is, without fail, the Tues-day morning leaguewide email we get from the GM of the first-place “Magnum TY” squad, which points out, in great detail, all the ways that his opponent

failed to put the best team possi-ble on the field. People get mad, sure, but that’s part of the fun.

But for daily fantasy, playing against a nameless, faceless horde, it just doesn’t seem to do it for me.

Just look at the people who “win big” playing DraftKings and FanDuel; the people who win consistently aren’t your gar-den variety football fans. They’re more akin to day-traders, with multiple computers running complicated algorithms to deter-mine, down to the nearest deci-mal point, how many yards-after-catch James White will accrue against a 3-4 defense.

That’s not fun; that’s a job. Ultimately, I don’t care what

decision the courts make on the daily fantasy front. Whether or not these sites continue to oper-ate will have very little bearing on how I choose to take in my football on the weekend.

I just wish they’d do something about those darn commercials.

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Sports Editor Mike Smith enjoys playing fantasy football. He’s just not sure about the allure of daily fantasy. Contributed photo

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By MiKe sMiThSports Editor

Brigid Knowles might not be the biggest name on the Mama-roneck field hockey team, but on Nov. 15, the freshman came up with the biggest play of the Ti-gers’ season. Burying a rebound chance against Ward Melville, Knowles broke a scoreless tie in double overtime, giving Ma-maroneck its second straight state title.

Not too bad for an underclass-men who started the season on the junior varsity team.

“I don’t know if I expected her to end the game,” Mamaroneck coach John Savage said. “But I knew she was going to put us in a position where she could help us win it. It’s what she’s done every day this year.”

Knowles’ goal came with 2:46 left in the second overtime period on Sunday, in a game that was as tough as the Tigers had been involved in all sea-son. Ward Melville came into the contest with just one loss on the season and topped

Tigers claim state crown

a strong Shenendehowa team 1-0 in the state semis.

“It was a war,” Savage said. “They were fast, they had good stick skills and we knew it was going to be a good game.”

The Patriots proved to be light-ing quick, in fact, but tremendous effort from Mamaroneck’s junior goalie Charlotte Mackie kept them off the stat sheet. Mackie made 10 saves on the day, in-cluding six saves on corners and a game-saving stop on a break-away by Kerri Thornton in the second over-time period.

“That was Charlotte’s best performance, even going back to last season,” Savage said. “That was an All-Section performance and she stopped just about every type of shot you can think of.”

The state finals win was Ma-maroneck’s 20th of the season, but that wasn’t the only number of note. It also marked Savage’s 300th career victory, a milestone he was proud to share with this particular group.

“I didn’t tell them anything before the game, I just wanted them to go out and play,” he said.

“But once we won, I told them, and I told them I was so glad that it was this team that got me that honor.”

Early in the season, Savage felt that there were some internal confidence issues on the team; however, seeing them overcome that trepidation was quite re-warding for the longtime coach.

“In the beginning of the year, I think some of the kids were hear-ing about how much we’d lost and they doubted themselves,” he said. “But to watch them reach this pinnacle, this was a special group.”

With 10 seniors graduating this spring, Savage expects to have a much younger team in 2016. But with the experience this group attained during their 20-1 campaign this year, Savage said he expects big things.

“I think they’ll be ready to do whatever it takes to get back here,” he said. “That mindset, it’s something you can’t buy, it comes from the kids, and they’ll be ready to do battle next year.”


Mamaroneck celebrates its Section I title win on Nov. 3. On Nov. 15, the Tigers won their second straight state championship.

Lizzie Clarke takes the ball toward the net during an Oct. 29 playoff game. Clarke is one of 10 Mamaroneck seniors who went out with a second state title.

Mamaroneck players celebrate after a goal in the state regional game on Nov. 7. Photo/Bobby BegunGracie Fitzgerald makes a play for the ball against Arlington. Photos/Mike Smith

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