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By Rick PezzulloState Senator Terrence Murphy (R/
Yorktown) has proposed legislation that would prohibit Level 2 and 3 sex offend-ers from using social media networks.
Murphy, a father of three, made his proposal to update Megan’s Law after a Katonah man was arrested this month for allegedly coercing a 14-year-old girl through social media to engage in sexu-ally explicit activity.
“No child should be victimized in any way,” Murphy said. “I will fight every day to strengthen our laws to make sure we protect children from becoming victims of these reprehensible and disgusting acts.”
In 1996, New York State created Megan’s Law, in honor of seven-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and murdered in 1994 in New Jersey by a neighbor. The law requires convicted sex offenders to register with New York State. Since its original passage, Murphy
said society has seen some major shifts, including the explosion of social media.
“Megan’s Law must be updated to pro-hibit the use of social media networks for Level 2 and 3 offenders as long as they are required to register with New York State.,” Murphy said. “A lot has changed
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Murphy Proposes Bill to Ban Sex Offenders from Using Social Media
By Rick PezzulloThe Village of Ossining Board of Trus-
tees voted last week to table a resolution that would have defunded a controver-sial downtown roundabout.
Instead of opting to no longer finance $500,000 in serial bonds for the project that it authorized earlier this year, trus-tees decided to stand pat while it gauges public opinion on how to proceed with
making improvements in the Main Street business district.
A community meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 6 at 7 p.m. at Ossining Library for trustees to hear from resi-dents about the roundabout and other related issues.
“We have done a lot of studying. How can we get to that next level?” Mayor Vic-toria Gearity remarked during a March
22 work session. “It’s our job to listen to all of you, listen to all the experts and do the best we can for the best interest of Ossining.”
A petition effort spearheaded by the Greater Ossining Chamber of Com-merce to trigger a permissive referen-dum on the roundabout was unsuccess-ful after more than 1,000 signatures out of 2,683 were determined to be invalid
for several reasons, including signature flaws, election districts not listed and sig-natures obtained from unregistered vot-ers. To force a referendum, at least 2,146 valid signatures were required.
Trustee John Codman, who voted to finance the bonds earlier this year de-spite being opposed to the roundabout because “to do nothing was not accept-
104 Years Young Born in 1917, Purdys resident Mildred Rose Politi turned 104 on March 6. She celebrated with 40 relatives and friends at a birthday party earlier this month. Pictured here, three generations, with daughter Gail Marie Delbalzo (left) and granddaughter Daniella Victoria Delbazo.
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able to me,” said the petition drive that created many rifts in the community was a learning experience.
“Unfortunately it became somewhat of a toxic scenario. It became really per-sonal,” he said. “I’m not ready to close the door yet. I am not convinced that the success of our village and downtown will rest on a traffic pattern. I’m not con-vinced that it will make or break our downtown.”
Former Mayor Miguel Hernandez, who publicly backed the chamber, ap-plauded trustees for considering the will of the people.
“I’m grateful that we will take a sec-ond look at this,” he said. “Working to-gether in a non-adversarial way to come to a win-win situation is the way to go here.”
But not everyone shared Hernandez’s point of view. In a letter to the editor this week, Gayle Marchica, president of the
chamber, stated chamber members were “disappointed that the scheduled revoca-tion of Resolution Q did not take place as was promised at the March 15, 2017 Board of Trustees meeting.”
“This was an unexpected and unfor-tunate development, for in our view, “tabling” the revocation, while continu-ing to act toward implementation of Resolution Q, is inapposite of the Village Board’s previously stated intent to press the restart button on the above-men-tioned bond matter. Instead, the result is that Resolution Q remains fully alive and kicking,” Marchica stated.
Marchica also stated the chamber views the April 6 town meeting as “the begin-ning of a conversation and a baby step.”
“What is needed is a series of round-table meetings comprised of representa-tives of the Village Board and of such organizations as the GOCC, the Historic Preservation Commission, Architectural Review Board, Environmental Advisory Board, other “land use” boards, and fac-tions of the community that might wish to participate and so should be properly included,” she stated.
Trustee Quantel Bazemore, who was the lone board member who voted against tabling the resolution last week, also criticized his colleague’s action.
“I thought after the March 8 meeting we were going to start with a clean slate,” he said. “It doesn’t sound like a clean slate to me.”
Trustee Rika Levin, who noted she was personally offended by some of the character assassinations posted on social media against board members over the roundabout, contended tabling the fi-nancing resolution “creates a clean slate so people can calm down.”
“I don’t see any upside now to forcing votes,” she said.
Gearity has said the current intersec-tion is “antiquated” and options have been explored for nearly two years. Vil-lage officials also have maintained the roundabout will save money long-term, be safer for pedestrians, calm traffic while improving flow, be environmental-ly-friendly, and expand sidewalks invit-ing greater seating, greenery and public gathering spaces.
“In the last two weeks, we’ve had a lot of conservations and we’ve heard from a lot of different folks. We’re in that cool-ing off period,” Gearity said last week. “We’re also in a moment where nothing is irreversible. This is a demonstration of our desire to be responsive to what we’re hearing from everyone in the commu-nity.”
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since Megan’s Law was first authored. I intend to hold several round tables with state and local law enforcement, social services and advocates to see what other provisions we need to expand on.”
David Ohnmacht of Katonah spent eight years in prison for sexually assault-ing girls 14 and under, and was found guilty of first degree rape, attempted rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and process-ing pictures of a sexual performance by a child. According to reports, Ohnmacht began communicating with his latest victim the same month that his five-year term of post-release supervision ended.
“Those alleged predators have more
access in this digital age than they’ve ever had before, but as parents we have to be the first line of defense by talking with them and making sure they know the dangers that lurk online,” said FBI Assistant Director William Sweeney, Jr.
“I sincerely hope the court has no mercy, and if found guilty, gives him the maximum sentence of 50 years in pris-on,” Murphy remarked of Ohnmacht.
As a councilman in Yorktown, Murphy was an advocate for child safety zones and victim safety zones. In 2015, legislation sponsored by Murphy, which prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,500 feet of their victim, passed the Senate but never made the floor of the Assembly.
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By David PropperThe Greater Mahopac-Carmel Cham-
ber of Commerce CEO/executive direc-tor was terminated from her position last week after being arrested for allegedly stealing from the business organization.
Erin Meagher, 26, of Brewster, was charged with grand larceny, a felony in the 4th degree. She’s accused of misap-propriating funds from the chamber, ac-cording to the Putnam County Sheriff ’s Office. Sheriff ’s investigators arrested Meagher, also a Village of Brewster trus-tee, and gave her an appearance ticket to answer the charge in Town of Carmel Justice Court on April 11.
Assistant District Attorney Larry Glasser said Meagher is alleged to have stolen more than $1,000 from the non-profit. District Attorney Bob Tendy said he personally recused himself from the case because he knows Meagher well. According to Meagher’s website, she volunteered for Tendy’s district attorney campaign in 2015.
Meagher, in a statement to The Putnam Examiner, said she looks forward to clearing her name.
“I was heartbroken to learn that my reliance for guidance and correction on long standing chamber members proved misplaced,” Meagher said. “I believe that I was targeted because of my youth and
political affiliation with numerous or-ganizations.”
Meagher’s attorney, Kevin Reverri, said Meagher would be vindicated when all the facts are released.
“Ms. Meagher is stunned that members of the chamber that she served for over a year is launching a smear campaign and deceptive political attack against one of the youngest elected officials in New York State,” Reverri said. “Ms. Meagher has acted in complete good faith and full cooperation; submitting to a recorded interview, giving consent for forensic review of all her computers, and actively
working to assist investigators in sorting out the complaint levied against her.”
Joseph Tock, the counsel of the Maho-pac-Carmel chamber, stated in a release that Meagher used the chamber’s debit card as “her personal slush fund” to pur-chase clothes, jewelry, dresses, and Stich Fix personal styling services. Additional-ly, she bought Kate Spade handbags and Ivanka Trump shoes with the chamber card.
“She even flaunted her ill-gotten ap-parel at chamber and community events,” Tock wrote in an email to chamber mem-bers.
Tock stated Meagher also fabricated invoices from Amazon in an attempt to deceive the Board of Directors. Tock wrote the executive board, made up of volunteers, recently uncovered the al-leged scheme.
“It is disheartening that she stole from the more than 390 chamber members and has shattered trust the trust of our community,” Tock, a local attorney, wrote.
In a follow-up phone call, Tock said he couldn’t delve into further details, in-cluding when exactly the executive board discovered the alleged theft, because the investigation is ongoing.
Tock wrote the executive board con-
tinued to work with the district attor-ney’s office and the sheriff ’s department last Wednesday “to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.”
Glasser said neither the district attor-ney’s office nor sheriff ’s office had any involvement in drafting or releasing the press release sent out by the Mahopac chamber. Glasser also couldn’t reveal when chamber officials contacted law enforcement because the investigation continues.
“If it’s determined that more or differ-ent charges are warranted than they will be brought,” Glasser said.
Meagher has been active in the com-munity and the Putnam political sphere for several years. She was a past chair-woman of Founder’s Day in Brewster and has been involved in several other events and committees concerning the village. The Carmel High School graduate is also on the executive board for the Southeast Republican Committee, serving as secre-tary.
Meagher ran for Brewster trustee in 2013, losing by a slim margin, but won when she ran again two years later, re-ceiving the most votes out of the four candidates running. This is her second year on the village board and her seat is up for election this year.
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By Rick PezzulloIncumbents Duane Jackson and Ce-
sare Pasquale were reelected to two-year terms on the Village of Buchanan Board of Trustees last week.
Jackson, a Vietnam War veteran and New York City street vendor who was credited with thwarting a May 1, 2010 Times Square terrorist scare when he alerted police of a suspicious car that had been strapped with explosives, was elected to a fourth term and was the top vote-getter with 193 votes.
Pasquale, a retired NYPD police officer who has been a trustee for the past three years, finished second with 191 votes.
Challenger Anthony Capicotti, who has served as chairman of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Society Italian Feast in Verplanck for the last 10 years, fared well in his first run for elected office with 160 votes, while his running mate, Robert Lupica, who works with JP McHale Pest Management, came in fourth with 127 votes.
The turnout in the village was light as 1,412 residents were eligible to vote in the election.
All candidates agreed the most press-ing issue facing the village is the pend-ing closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plants, which contributes 46% of Buchanan’s operating budget.
“We all knew Indian Point would close at some point, but no one with the pos-sible exception of Gov. Cuomo knew it would be so soon,” Pasquale said. “Al-though he says he has a plan to save jobs, preserve the tax base, and replace lost electrical power, his plan is vague and unspecific. This is going to be a major challenge for the Village Board moving forward. We need to evaluate the issue on several fronts.”
“I urge all residents to get involved with me and the members of the board
to use this as an opportunity to rebrand the village, continue to work with Enter-gy on the use of the land for future de-velopment,” Jackson said. “Have an open dialogue with federal, state and county officials and the private sector for crea-tive opportunities to develop a stronger Buchanan.”
Capicotti and Lupica maintained vil-lage officials should have been planning for Indian Point’s exit a long time ago instead of being placed in a position of having to react to the news of the closure in four years.
Incumbents Jackson, Pasquale Reelected to Buchanan Board
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“We are so lucky that they wanted to have art by local artists here,” sculptor Jo-Ann Brody said. “For 20 years we’ve been trying to get someone in the city of Peek-skill to let us do this in a vacant space, so it’s extremely gratifying that the mall itself sees the value of this and is giving us this opportunity.”
With at least 30 artists showing within the gallery featured artwork includes, scenic photography, oil paintings, water-
color paintings, still life paintings, acrylic canvas, mixed media, wood work, sculp-tors, stoneware, bead knitting, functional pottery and much more.
All works are available for purchase with artwork ranging from $4 to $1,300.
Brody said that since the gallery opened on March 3, they’ve attracted a lot of foot traffic including new members who are looking to display their work as well.
“People are coming out of the wood-work,” artist Daniel Intriligator said.
While the PAA is enjoying their time at the mall, they hope they can make their temporary stay last as long as pos-sible.
“We originally talked about being here until April 17 and every discussion we’ve had with mall management says we’ll still be here,” Brody said. “What we don’t know is where we’re going next because we don’t know if the space is renting.”
Brody added that while management has been overwhelmingly cooperative, she said there’s nothing worse than see-ing empty space in the mall.
The PAA gallery can currently be found on the lower level of the mall near the elevator on Friday, Saturday and Sun-days from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
PhotoS By AnnA younGRobin Kline created functional pottery. Below, Daniel Intriligator created acrylic on board art.
JV Mall Gives Local Art Alliance Space to Showcase Works
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dent of Peekskill, died March 17. He was 88.
He was born in Ossining on May 20, 1928 and proudly served in the United States Army from 1946 until 1949. He worked as a nursing attendant at both the Montrose VA and Stony Lodge. He was a member of the Croton-on-Hudson Historical Society and the Presbyterian Jazz Society of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Kears-ley was an artist and photographer but
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He is survived by his loving children, Gloria Ann Kearsley, Jon Eric White, and Tanya Die’Dra Kearney, adored grand-children Amber
and Derek Hubbard Jr., Darin Hudson, Sierra White, and Hailey, Brittany, and Kelsey Crooks, caring siblings Joseph and Henry (Betty) Kearsley, Marion Madison, Janet (Arthur) Dansbury, and
Henrietta (David) Hines and many niec-es and nephews.
Antoinette PanosAntoinette Teresa Panos, a longtime
resident of Amawalk, March 22. She was 87.
She was born in New York City. She was a member of the Somers Seniors. She is survived by her loving husband: Andrew G. Panos; and her beloved chil-dren: Laura Thumen, Peter Panos, Nancy Smith and Donald Panos and the late Andrew Panos, Jr. and Thomas Panos. She was the devoted grandmother of six and great-grandmother of two.
Marie FuesyMarie A. Fuesy, of Sarasota, FL, for-
merly of Ossining, died March 18. She was 82.
She was born August 3, 1934 in New York, NY to Ann and Joseph Ferraresi. She graduated from Mt. St. Ursula High School and Katherine Gibbs. She enjoyed her career in several elected positions, but especially her role as the Town Clerk in Ossining, from 1982 until her retire-ment in 2000. She was an active mem-
ber of the community, a member of the Briarcliff/Ossining Rotary Club and the Westchester County Republican Com-mittee, and a past President of the New
York State Town Clerks Associa-tion. She volun-teered for many organizat ions , including St. Theresa Church in Briarcliff, and St. Jude Catholic Church in Sara-sota, FL.
She loved her garden and the
beach, and to cook, especially for her family. In retirement, she travelled to many places in Europe and to visit her children and grandchildren, who each held a special place in her heart. Those who were close to her will remember her lively eyes, big smile, and outgoing and friendly personality that enabled her to strike up a conversation with anyone. She is survived by her loving husband, Ralph Fuesy; her children, Helene (Don) Donahue, Robert Fuesy, and Christopher (Kathy) Fuesy; grandchildren, Samantha (Brock), Jessica, Tyler, Cormack, Anal-ise, Ella, and Jon; and her sister, Helene (Phil) DiPuma.
George JulianoGeorge A. Juliano, a resident of Ossin-
ing, died March 22. He was 95. He was born April 14, 1921 in Ossin-
ing to Peter and Lena (Bernardo) Juliano. He served in the USMC during WWII. He worked for Maryknoll Brothers and later for the Ossining Post Office.
He was pre-deceased by his wife Flor-ence and daughter Barbara Stankevich. He is survived by his son Peter (Laura), grandchildren Brian, Christina, Stacey, Nicholas, Kenneth, great-granddaughter Abigail, brother Raymond and sisters Val Masullo, Mary Killian and Katie Ryan.
Antonio D. RodriguesAntonio D. Rodrigues, a resident of
Ossining, died suddenly March 18. He was 52.
He was born December 31, 1964 in Grade, Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal and was the son of the late Joaquim Rod-rigues and Maria C. Brandao. He was a communicant of St. Ann’s Church and an active member of the Ossining Por-tuguese Club.
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To the Editor:The primary mission of the Great-
er Ossining Chamber of Commerce (GOCC) is to strengthen the economic success of local businesses and by exten-sion, that of the Ossining community as a whole. In this regard, the GOCC has an obligation to speak on proposed and actual governmental actions that may af-fect our businesses as well as the general public who interact in various ways with the Ossining business community.
The Ossining Village government and its elected representatives, as well as ap-pointed administrative officers, and the general public are well aware that the GOCC is greatly concerned with the tabling of a proposed resolution to re-scind/revoke the Village Board’s prior resolution (Resolution Q dated Febru-ary 1, 2017) authorizing a $500,000 bond for improvements at the Historic Five Corners intersection of Main and Spring Streets in Downtown Ossining.
First, we are disappointed that the scheduled revocation of Resolution Q did not take place as was promised at the March 15, 2017 Board of Trustees meeting. This was an unexpected and unfortunate development, for in our view, “tabling” the revocation, while con-tinuing to act toward implementation of Resolution Q, is inapposite of the Village
Board’s previously stated intent to press the restart button on the above-men-tioned bond matter. Instead, the result is that Resolution Q remains fully alive and kicking.
Second, while the GOCC appreciates that the Village Board has called for a “town meeting on April 6, 2017 at the Os-sining Public Library” we view this as the beginning of a conversation and a baby step. What is needed is a series of round-table meetings comprised of representa-tives of the Village Board and of such organizations as the GOCC, the Historic Preservation Commission, Architectural Review Board, Environmental Advisory Board, other “land use” boards, and fac-tions of the community that might wish to participate and so should be properly included. Such meetings should be held at neutral locations such as the General Electric, Maryknoll, or Mariandale com-plexes, and under the guidance of a com-petent external facilitator and recorder. It should be noted that this was the way the consensus for the most recent Ossining Master Plan was achieved.
Third, while the GOCC fully under-stands the Village Board’s desire to bid out the proposed intersection street im-provement project such that the work can begin and end during the summer of 2017, we believe that getting a project
that has community consensus is superi-or to one that is rushed through because of an artificial deadline and the exigency of potential construction company bid-ders. Frankly, GOCC’s research suggests that the bids for summer of 2017 con-struction will far exceed the $500,000 bond request if for no other reason than there is insufficient time for responsible bidder companies to line up and commit the necessary resources to timely begin and complete the job. Accordingly, at the least they will have to pay their subcon-tractors more.
Fourth, we maintain that State Envi-ronmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) process is required by law to be in place prior to passage of any resolution for a project of this type and magnitude. The GOCC will shortly provide more defini-tive information on this requirement but until then, anyone interested should con-sult the information on bonding and SE-QRA posted on the internet by the NYS Department of Environmental Conser-vation at http://www.dec.ny.gov.
Finally, the GOCC thanks the 2700+ folks who signed the Roundabout peti-tion - despite allegedly having had some administrative imperfections - which was a resounding response of the peo-ple to an ill-conceived project, of ques-tionable value, facially dangerous, and
indeterminate in cost to far exceed the initial bond amount. On general princi-ple, the taxpayers are entitled to have a better and more realistic fix on the total amount of debt they are expected to pay back for any capital project like this, as well as specific data such as traffic loads and accident counts, etc., as would jus-tify a roundabout at this particular loca-tion. While the GOCC does understand the “general” efficacy of roundabouts, this does not mean that they are suitable in all situations, particularly here at the intersection bifurcating the downtown crescent at Main Street which we believe would likely be disastrous to our busi-nesses, pedestrian safety, and not the most advantageous use of prime prop-erty. Visit http://bettercities.net/article/problems-modern-roundabouts-20946.
In any event, the GOCC intends to continue to work with the Village Board and all concerned stakeholders, to seek a resolution to this and other issues that affect the quality of life for everyone in our Village. Our goal is to work toward making Ossining, the wonderful and dy-namic place that it is, even better.
GaylE Marchica, President
Greater Ossining chamber of commerce
Letters to the EditorTabling of Revocation of Roundabout Bond
in Ossining was Disappointing
To the Editor,Subject: Executive Over Privileged I retired last June. On November 16
I wrote to the Town of Yorktown in re-sponse to an article asking for a volun-teer for the Board of Ethics. Having spare time I was looking to get more involved.
I was asked for my resume which was
followed up with an interview by the Town Board. I understand it’s normal practice for the full Board to interview candidates for volunteer positions.
My experience includes managing large computer projects and staffs, nego-tiating large contracts, serving on corpo-rate job satisfaction committees, being a
Director of Planning and Chief Operat-ing Officer of a start-up. More recently, I owned a dog training company working with families and their pets and belonged to the Chamber of Commerce and Busi-ness Network International.
All that, and I’m ethical!During the Town Board interview I
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Breslin, who died a few days ago, gave me a wonderful gift. It all started when we first met at Sardi’s in 1985 to celebrate Newsday’s new Manhattan office opening. I was invited along with many Newsday executives and reporters. I recall stand-ing around having drinks when all of a sudden Tim Russert, the moderator for NBC’s Meet the Press and who was mas-ter of ceremonies that day, came over to me and said “Jimmy Breslin has invited you over for a drink at the bar and we’d like to take pictures of the two Breslins.”
I had never met Jimmy Breslin, but I certainly knew who he was. When I was introduced to him he said “You’re not Irish!” I said “No. I’m not.” And he said, “What are you?” I said “I’m Jewish.” I was anticipating some kind of anti-Semitic re-mark, but what he said was just the oppo-site. “If you’re Jewish, you must be related to my best friend, Bernard Breslin.” I told him I didn’t know a Bernard Breslin.
Four days later I got a call from Bernard Breslin who introduced himself and said he was with James Felt Realty in Manhat-tan. “Jimmy Breslin suggested I call you, and by the way, a lot of people ask me if
I’m related to you, Willie Breslin from Long Island, and I always say ‘no.’” I know we are not related because my family’s name was not Breslin it was Bezozi be-fore it was changed. He mentioned some of his relatives but none of their names sounded familiar. Determined to find out if we were related, he continued to call me over the next few months, offering a new bunch of names of his relatives. But still, nothing clicked. Finally he mentioned his cousin, Nat Sherman, known for his line of handmade cigars. It was then that
I remembered my father, Harry Breslin, talking about his distant relative who was a cigar maker. “That’s it! That’s the guy!” Bernard said. “We have something in common.” The name Bezozi resounded loud and clear. My father, who was two years old when he came to this country, had an uncle living in New Jersey who had changed his name from Bezozi to Breslin. Years later, as an adult, my father changed his name from Bezozi to Breslin as well.
That prompted us to set up a meeting a few months later at the Plaza Hotel. When
I saw him I knew instantly that we were related. He had the Breslin face.
Nat Sherman was the first inkling that Bernard and I shared the same lineage. But what really clinched it was when he called a few weeks later and asked me “did your grandfather, Jacob Bezozi, have a missing toe?”
I called my Uncle Manny and asked if his father had a missing toe and Manny said he did. That cemented our connec-tion, and years later Jimmy Breslin wrote a big article about how he put me and Ber-nard together and how we found out we were cousins. Bernard would come to the Island and visit my Uncle Manny and we would spend time together and for years we kept in touch.
Even though Jimmy Breslin wasn’t re-lated to me, his gift to me was connecting me with my roots. He was dogged in get-ting to the bottom of every story, whether it was of national interest or tracking the lineage of a single family over generations. Because he did that for me, we became good friends, as did his son Patrick, who is to this day, a good friend.
Wilbur Breslin is a developer and owner of the property where Lowe’s will be built on Route 202 in Yorktown
Guest CommentaryJimmy Breslin and My Family Roots
Wilbur Breslin (center) in 1985 with the late Jimmy Breslin (right).
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By Daniel LefkowitzOne would think that predicting the
future extinction rates of the human spe-cies and plant life on Earth would be a very difficult task. Not to Captain D. C. Anderson, who confidently said, “We will be going extinct, not centuries or decades, but in a number of years.”
Those were some of the words spo-ken at last Friday night’s lecture “Global Warming, Local Action” at the John C. Hart Library in Shrub Oak. Before an au-dience of 25 people, the two guest speak-ers on this subject were Dr. Jerome Thal-er and Anderson. Thaler’s talk focused on the history of measuring weather, while Anderson’s presentation was on global climate change and an urgent call for action.
Thaler, a retired optometrist and Shrub Oak resident, is an expert on our local weather system. Though he has authored five books on the climate of different parts of the Hudson Valley watershed and ran a government weather station as a volunteer for 50 years, Thaler does not call himself a meteorologist, but a Hud-son Valley climate historian.
“I was always a weather nut when I was living in New York City,” Thaler said, “and I was interested in extremes of weather, hot temperature and cold tem-peratures. When I came up here, I set up my own weather station.”
With the persona and demeanor of a college professor, Thaler started with a brief history on measuring weather. “Until the early part of the 1700s, he said, “there was no real way of knowing what true temperatures were.”
According to Thaler, the invention of the thermometer took place in Europe in the early 1700s, but did not arrive in America until the late 1700s. Decades later, during the Civil War period, was when America started a systematic net-work of weather observers.
It was in the late 1800s when weather stations at Albany, West Point, and other service areas were set up. Once these sta-tions were up and running, local con-tinuous records of observations of the Hudson Valley were obtained.
It was years later, in the early part of the 1900s, when a nationwide network of organized weather stations was estab-lished by what is now called the Weather Service. “This network was manned by volunteers,” he said. “These people did not get any pay. They did it out of love.”
In the 1960s, Thaler became involved and decided to set up his own weather station without knowing anything about the National Weather Service network. Once his weather station became certi-fied as a national cooperative station, the data he collected was published with the rest of the New York State cooperative weather stations. After a half century of running his weather station, Thaler de-
cide to retire. “Fortunately,” he said, “my son Dan,
who lives in Shrub Oak, took over. I didn’t twist his arm or do anything. He volunteered to do the daily readings.”
Thaler pointed out that our local tem-peratures have increased. “The records show,” he said, “a significant steady warming pretty much all through the last 30 to 40 years.” He noted that the 10 warmest years in our area, based on data from the combined Carmel and York-town Heights records, have all occurred since 1990.
According to Thaler, the hottest year locally, from 1888 to the present time, was 2012. “The next hottest,” he said, “was 2006, and the third hottest was 1998.” He also added that this past Feb-ruary was one of the five warmest Feb-ruaries in the Westchester and Putnam area since 1888. The hottest temperature worldwide was 2016.
Speaking with the aid of a slide pres-entation, Anderson delivered an engag-ing and thought provoking talk about the impending doom we as a species are about to face unless we tackle climate change immediately.
“I am the Michael Lewis of climate change,” said Anderson. Comparing himself to Michael Lewis, the author of “The Big Short” who was an outlier look-ing in during the financial crisis in 2008, Anderson claims he knows what is go-ing on inside when it comes to climate change and believes we are in a lot of trouble.
A retired sea captain with a degree in economics, Anderson was way ahead of his time when he was the first person to design a wind powered cargo ship. Thinking outside the box, he is now at-tempting a new paradigm for combating climate change.
Concurring with Thaler that 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, An-derson stated that the temperature will go up exponentially due to rapid climate change. “If 2016 was the hottest year on record,” he said, “the next 10 years are
going to be progressively hotter as well.” He emphasized that the temperature spikes will kill our crops at an astronomi-cal rate.
“What happens when the U.S, China or India loses 50% of its corn?” asked Anderson. ”It’s going to cause bloody chaos. I guarantee you, it is going to hap-pen. It could actually happen this year.”
To prevent any further damage to our climate, Anderson emphasized the need to leave the remaining fossil fuels in the ground. “Not an easy task,” he pointed out. “It is without a doubt the toughest thing the human race has ever had to do. But we have to do it, or we are going to die.”
He believes government has misman-aged the fight against climate change and has been dishonest with the public. ‘Money,” he said, “has crept into our gov-ernment and has ruined the decision-making process.”
Anderson is calling for revamping gov-ernment back to the way it was originally intended and having more women in the decision-making process. He believes it is not the election process that needs to be changed, but the way candidates are selected. In Anderson’s opinion, by lim-iting the amount of money necessary to run for political office, there will be a larger selection of capable, smarter and dedicated people to draw from. To get his idea off the ground, he needs signatures for his petition on his website: www.fixy-ourcongress.org/.
To fight climate change on a world-wide basis, Anderson is calling for eve-ryone to unify and speak as one. To ac-complish this, he would create what he calls the “EARTH-SHIP” program. His EARTH-SHIP program would be based on many ships that would float to dif-ferent countries around the world and educate the populace about the dangers of climate change. His concept is to em-power the people to take the necessary steps to fight climate change.
“When the people lead, the leaders will follow,” said Anderson. “We got to do
something. You can’t just sit there any-more, and think it is going to work out.”
Not everyone in the audience was onboard with Anderson and things got a bit heated when a women in the au-dience spoke up in support of Native Americans. “It is very offensive to Native American people,” she said, “who have been here forever. Taking care of this continent, keeping it in balance for
thousands and tens of thousands of years, and then the Europeans come over, and in less than 500 years have de-stroyed everything.”
In response, Anderson said, “I couldn’t agree with you more. That’s my point.”
Another audience member disagreed with Anderson’s initiative to change Washington. “The idea of using a lottery to get people elected nationally, I think is not the place to start,” said Mohegan Lake resident Mel Tanzman. “I think the place to start is locally because the cultural shift that we need, has to come from the ground up. It can’t come from Washington down.”
Anderson ended his talk with a pas-sionate plea to join his grassroots move-ment. If his EARTH-SHIP does not get off the ground, he has an escape plan in place - sail to the Southern Hemisphere. “In 10 years,” he said, “I don’t believe the North-ern Hemisphere is going to be livable.”
Experts Stress Local Action Needed to Combat Global Warming
Photo By DAnIEL LEFKoWItzShrub oak resident Jerome thaler and retired sea captain D.C. Anderson.
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By Neal RentzThe sports training facility Be First
received its name for many reasons.The non-for-profit in Peekskill has
been stressing those many positive ideals since it opened about eight years ago.
Cortlandt resident Westley Artope, Be First’s executive director, said last week the facility’s name was coined by the late boxer Freddie Spry, whose poster is in Be First. Spry’s father, Frederick J. Spry, was one of the first boxing coaches in Peekskill in 1968.
“Be first in line. Be first to actually work out. Be first in everything,” Artope said, adding Be First has its own boxing team.
“It’s actually a boxing saying,” Mohegan Lake resident Michael Kulp, Be First’s director of promotions and marketing, noted. “You’ll always hear coaches in the corners yelling at the fighters, ‘be first’ so that the other guy reacts.”
Artope was an amateur boxer and practitioner of the martial arts. “I’ve grew up around a lot of fighters,” he said, adding both of his brothers were professional fighters.
Artope said his responsibilities as
Be First’s executive director include maintaining the gym and working with youths. “When I was younger, nobody had a place such as this to be able to come to, that was not that expensive,” he said. Be First allows participants to form bonds with coaches as well as developing themselves both physically and mentally, he said.
A variety of programs are offered
at Be First for individuals from the ages of five to 75. “We did that purposefully because wanted to be able to bring together the families so that a father, a mother and their children can actually work out in this gym. So it’s very family-orientated, very community-orientated,” Artope explained.
Youth and adult boxing, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, karate and conditioning for young athletes after their seasons are over are among the programs offered by Be First. A Boot Camp program is also offered. “Boot Camp is actually more intense conditioning and cardo
workouts for people who want to increase their level of workout,” Artope said. “We consider it a boot camp because it’s really challenging. It’s for those people who are weekend warriors.” Many individuals volunteer their time to oversee Be First’s programs, he said, adding autistic children also participate in programs at Be First.
Yorktown resident Gino Zorluoglu, a Be First investor, and his company, Tri-State Construction Equipment, has donated many pieces of equipment for Be First. “Even my son (Kerin) comes here,” he said “And I’ve seen the difference in him since he started coming here. That’s why it made me invest more time.”
Be First provides much more than just sports training, Artope said. “Our mission is to actually teach kids (and adults) diversity, conflict resolution, teaching kids the beauty of being able to work out and carrying it from here to throughout their lives,” he said. “To teach them to understand the importance of health and keeping themselves together, not only mentally, but physically, which will certainly touch the spiritual aspect of themselves and being able to take whatever lessons they learn here and being able to apply them in society.”
“When someone joins this gym they’re not just joining a gym, they’re joining a second family,” Kulp said.
“Be First Boxing is located at 200 N. Water St. in Peekskill. For more information, call 914-737-3178 or visit befirstboxingpeekskill.com.
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Tuesday, march 28healthy happy hour: Healthy Hap-
py Hours are held on Tuesday nights in Mahopac and another location may be added. Take a 10-day vacation from processed foods. Are sugary, fatty, easy-to-prepare, addictive junk foods making you feel sick and tired? Then reset your metabolism and break your addictions to unhealthy foods. For more information contact Diane at 914-843-8745.
hygeia Programs: Two ongoing pro-grams are being held on Tuesdays at Hy-geia Integrated Health LLC, 3505 Hill Blvd., Suite K, Yorktown. Community Acupuncture is being held from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. The cost is $30. Come experi-ence the beneficial effects of acupuncture in a group setting. Register: [email protected] On the last Tuesday of the month from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eating Dis-order Support Group, led by LCSW and clinical nutritionist will be held. Discuss and resolve issues around relationships with food. Info/register: [email protected] or www.hyinhealth.com.
wednesday, march 29hVcca Programs: A series of pro-
grams are being held at the Hudson Val-ley Center for Contemporary Art, 1701 Main St., Peekskill. Currently on view is “Between I & Thou” including artists from around the globe. It explores inter-connections between the personal, cul-tural, religious and national. The works reflect the human need to tell the story of self and society, offering a rich conversa-tion about the sameness and differentness among us. “0Between I & Thou” features the use of materials ranging from fiber to multimedia, painting, drawing, technol-ogy, performance and installation. There is an emphasis on the inclusion of senior artists whose works cogently reflect lives lived across significant changes in his-tory. Also on view is an installation of illuminated paintings by Peter Bynum, with a multi-media component of video projections--Illumination of the Sacred Forma: Divine Light Mission and Sanctu-ary now thru Dec 17, 2017. As part of his exhibition at HVCCA Mark Berghash will be photographing subjects, especially first and second- generation immigrants from the Peekskill community, on April 1– 2. Photographs taken will be included with the exhibition. Info:
914-788-0100, www.hvcca.org or on Facebook.
Seniors’ Fitness classes: Free fitness classes are being offered to seniors who reside in Peekskill. The schedule is: Mon-day, Tuesday, Wednesday – The WorkOut – 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday – Fall Preven-tion Class – 10 to 11 a.m. Friday – Zumba
Gold – 11 a.m. to noon. Call Terri Dean at 914-734-4250 Ext.1 for more informa-tion. Classes are conducted at 4 Nelson Ave., downstairs from the library. Senior Exercise: We offer the Workout M-W from 10-11 a.m. and Zumba Gold on Fri-day 11 a.m. to noon. Free to all seniors in Peekskill. Call Terri Dean to register at 914-734-4250 Ext. 5.
POUnD Program: POUNDTM Fit-ness Program, a 45-minute full-body cardio and stress relief jam session, fus-ing Pilates, cardio, plyometrics isometric movements and poses is offered at Thea-tre and Dance Arts 131 Bedford Rd. Ka-tonah. Drop in or weekly discount rates available. The program is being provided on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Sat-urdays at 11:45 a.m. Call Peggy for more information at 914 960-4097.
anime club: An Anime Club meets every Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. at the Somers Library. Join us for a chance to watch anime from Crunchyroll with your friends. Info: 914 232 5717 or www.somerslibrary.org.
bingo Wednesdays: Come to First Hebrew for $2,000 in total guaranteed bingo prizes, plus an average of $1,000 awarded in specialty games. Doors open 5 p.m. and games begin 7:15 p.m. every Wednesday (except holidays – check First Hebrew’s website calendar). First Hebrew is just west of the Beach Shopping Center at 1821 Main St., Peekskill. Info: 914 -739-0500 of www.firsthebrew.org.
Torah Studies: Chabad of Yorktown, 2629 Old Yorktown Rd., is proud to an-nounce Season one (11 classes) of the To-rah studies course. The program brings you a series of stimulating text and dis-cussion based classes that take place on a weekly basis. Our lessons will engage you in a multidimensional way by chal-lenging you intellectually, spiritually and emotionally. They explore contemporary issues through a Torah perspective as well as tackling timeless questions in the Jew-ish tradition. The classes are open to all, whatever your level of learning may be. The fee for the full season is $36, which includes textbook. Each class is inde-pendent. For more information, to view the topics of the classes, or to register call 914-962-1111.
Thursday, march 30religion classes: A class on Talmud
and the Ethics of our Sages ae being held at the Yorktown Jewish Center, 2966 Crompond Rd. Feel free to come - and to bring a friend - even if you cannot com-mit to coming to class weekly. We always welcome new participants. We meet (al-most) every Thursday in the social hall on Thursday mornings from 10:30 a.m.
to noon. No knowledge of Hebrew is ex-pected, and no particular depth of Jewish knowledge is assumed. Info: 914-245-2324 or yorktownjewishcenter.org.
ibM retirees club: The Tri-State IBM Retirees Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting hall of United Methodist Church, 1176 E Main St, Shrub Oak. The speaker is Jean Potter, writer and author of “By the Grace of God - A 9/11 Survi-vor’s Story.” There is a special request for membership dues. Sign in/light refresh-ments at 1 p.m. Info: 914-528-5916.
Swim lessons: Swimming lessons are being offered by Society Hill II, 2 Campus Rd., Peekskill. Weekly classes are held on Thursdays and Saturdays. The session dates are; March 17 through May 14 and May 19 through July 9. Info: 914-737-4909.
Marching On: Marching On Leonard Freed and the March on Washington will be held from Feb. 23 through April 2 at the Field Library, 4 Nelson Ave., Peekskill. The Field Gallery is honored to present the iconic civil rights photographs of Leonard Freed. The 22 works on display capture timeless American images: the 1963 and 1983 Marches on Washington, the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, and intimate moments of black history. Marching On is carefully curated from the personal collection of his widow and printer Brigitte Freed, who will also be at the opening reception to share memo-ries of the now-famous portraits and how they were created. Info: 014-737-1212 or peekskill.org.
Purchase college Events: A series of programs have been scheduled for the next few days at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, 735 Ander-son Hill Rd. Joanna Gleason From Camp-fire to Cabaret will be presented on March 30 at 8 p.m. Join Tony Award-winning ac-tress Joanna Gleason for an evening that is part master class, part multi-disciplinary theater performance. The Orchestra Now will be presented on April 1 at 8 p.m. TON is an innovative orchestra in residence at Bard College that is preparing a new gen-eration of musicians to break down barri-ers between modern audiences and great orchestral music of the past and present.
The hypnotic brass Ensemble will perform on April 2 at 3 p.m. “Trafficking in a free-flowing blend of jazz, hip-hop and Afrobeat, the group can resemble the world’s funkiest marching band one minute, an unhinged New Orleans fu-neral procession the next.“ — Los Ange-les Times.. Info: box office: 914-251-6200; box office fax: 914-251-6171; administra-tion: 914-251-6222 or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, march 31coloring For adults: It’s not just for
kids, and it’s the latest craze. Join our adult coloring book club at the Somers Library Meetings will be held in the con-ference room every Friday from 10:30 am to noon. Relax, color, and socialize for free. Materials are provided or you may bring your own color pencils and coloring books. Registration is not required. Info: 914 232 5717.
attention Moms: A free presentation of a discussion of issues and solutions about pre-teen issues will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Lakeview Room at the Mahopac Library, second floor. A “Coming of Age” workshop will be held on April 23 for pre-teen girls, ages 12 to 15, raising self-awareness via a whimsical story. There will be a nominal fee. Register for the moms program by visiting www.spiritscript. [email protected].
Temple beth am Shabbat: Temple Beth Am will “opens its doors to all who enter” for Shabbat on Fridays at 8 p.m. Our modern Sabbath service has a spir-itually engaging and warm feeling while following traditional modes. All are wel-come to our friendly sacred space. Tem-ple Beth Am is located at 203 Church Pl. Yorktown. For more information, please call our Rabbi at 914-962-7500 or e-mail him at [email protected]
Jewish center Services: At the York-town Jewish Center, 2966 Crompond Rd. Friday night Sabbath services at 6:30 p.m. and a dinner will be served, at a cost of $20 per person, following the service. And Sabbath services on Saturdays will be held at 9:15 a.m. on most Saturdays, after the services Rabbi Sternstein conducts a learning session based on the Torah por-tion of the week. During the month of February, Rabbi Sternstein will introduce a siddur called Siddur Eit Ratzon, which is filled with modern translation, transliter-ation, meditation and commentaries. It is designed to work for the traditional “dav-ener” who is familiar with Hebrew text and for those who want to join in commu-nally sung parts. Siddur Sim Shalom will also be available for those who prefer to use the regular siddur. Light refreshments are served and everyone is invited to join us as we share in the warmth, knowledge and friendship within our congregation. Info: 914-245-2324 or yorktownjewish-center.org.
Saturday, april 1]]Looking for a modern Shabbat serv-
ice steeped in Jewish tradition? Come to Temple Israel of Putnam Valley, a Con-servative Egalitarian Synagogue situated on beautiful Lake Peekskill. Our inclusive, community-lead services start at 9:30 a.m.
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yorktown Shabbat Morning Services: Chabad of Yorktown, 2926 Old Yorktown Rd., holds services on Saturday mornings. They are easy-to-follow services with He-brew/English prayer books, a friendly en-vironment and no affiliation is necessary. Kiddush luncheon follows the services. Services begin at 10 a.m. For more infor-mation visit www.ChabadYorktown.com.
Ossining Farmers Market: The Os-sining Down to Earth Farmers Market is being held indoors through April 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 34 S. Highland Ave. Customers old and new will find delicious produce, pasture-raised meat, poultry, and eggs, breads, baked goods, and much more. For a full list of our markets and vendors, visit DowntoEarthMarkets.com.
Teddy bear Fair: A Teddy Bear Fair and Health Clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Northern Westchester Hospital.
The last tour will be held at 11:15 a.m. The hospital’s doctors and nurses will provide stuff animals with checkups and medical care. There will be games, health snacks, ambulance tours, bike safety information with local police and health and safety les-sons. Registration is required for the free event. Register on line at nwhconnect.org/2017teddbybear.
Torah Study: Study Torah at Temple Beth Am will be held at 9 a.m. All are in-vited to study Torah with our engaging Rabbi Robbie Weiner. Bagels and coffee are provided for all. No previous knowl-edge is required and all backgrounds are welcome. Temple Beth Am is located at 203 Church Pl. Yorktown. For informa-tion please call our Rabbi at 962-7500 or e-mail him at [email protected].
yoga Program: Support Connection announces a free program Yoga: A Path toward Wellness will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Club Fit in Jefferson Valley. The program is open to people living with breast, ovarian and gynecological cancers. To learn more or to pre-register, which is required, call Support Connection at 914-962-6402 or 800-532-4290.
Spring Concert: At 7:30 p.m. “Juilliard in the Heights Spring Concert” will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown,
2880 Crompond Rd. The final concert in the 2016-2017 concert season will feature three classical musicians from The Juilliard School including Simona Frenkel on piano, Emilie-Anne Gendron on violin and Caleb van der Swaagh on cello. For more infor-mation see www.fpcyorktown.org.
Sunday, april 2Soundview information Session: An
information session will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Soundview Preparatory School, 370 Underhill Ave., Yorktown. Info: 914 962-2780 or soundviewprep.org
Dare To believe: Karen Newman will speak about “Dare to Believe” at 2:30 p.m. as part of the spring edition of the Maryknoll Speakers Series. Newman’s presentation will be held at the Maryknoll Society Center at 55 Ryder Rd. in Ossin-ing. Presented by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the series is free and open to the public. Reservations are requested and can be made by e-mail ([email protected]) or by calling 914-941-7636 Ext. 2445. Additional in-formation about the Maryknoll Speakers Series and directions can be found at ht-tps://maryknollsociety.org/what-we-do/speaker-series/ .
Healing Yoga: Yoga classes for women with breast cancer are held at 5 p.m. on Sundays at Hudson Yoga, 5 Old Post Rd. South, Croton-on-Hudson. Weekly classes are being conducted by rotating instructors. The suggestion is $15. Info:
Ellisha Simpson at 914-319-4010.bingo: Bingo will be played tonight
at the Yorktown Jewish Center, 2966 Crompond Rd. The doors will open at 5 p.m. and play begins at 6:30 p.m. There will be $3,000 in prizes awarded during each Sunday session. Food will be avail-able. Info: 914-245-2324 or yorktownjew-ishcenter.org.
a new comedy: “Like Cats and Dogs,” a new comedy written by Jeannie Zusy, will be performed at 7 p.m. at the Croton Acad-emy of the Arts, 8 Old Post Rd. S. , behind the Black Cos. The performance is a fund-raiser for Americans for the Arts. The re-quested donation of $15 will include wine and snacks. To make reservations e-mail [email protected].
monday, april 3need a Job: I Need a Job...Now What?
Is being held every Monday through May 8 at the Somers Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Janet Garber’s career in human resources has spanned 30 years in industries as diverse as continuing legal education, healthcare, banking, manufacturing and wine and spirits. In 2001 Silver Lining Press published I Need a Job, Now What? on the fine art of finding and keeping a job. She will work closely with a small group of ten on overall job presentation, resumes, interviewing and how to make the recruiter fall in love with you. Register online at www.somerslibrary.org or call 914-232-5717.
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By Rick PezzulloYoung athletes looking for an indoor
environment locally to enhance their skills can find it at Sports Courts, lo-cated in the Cortlandt Town Center near Barnes and Noble.
The 8,000-square-foot facility is con-nected with Children of America edu-cational daycare and serves youth two years to 16 years old with an emphasis on boosting the confidence, self-esteem and performance of sports participants.
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of Sports Courts. “Let them play. I enjoy working with every age group.”
Madison has an extensive athletic background. The Carmel High School graduate was a quarterback who played professional football in Europe and had a short stint in the Arena Football League. He has worked for more than 20 years in the health club industry.
“I understand the age groups from my education and my playing experience,” Madison said. “I have a lot of good con-nections.”
In April, Sports Courts will be kicking
off eight-week instructional programs for youngsters interested in football, baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, vol-leyball and t-ball. In the summer, Sports Courts Summer CampFIT provides a full day of activities and trips guaranteed to keep kids busy.
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Sports Courts is open seven days a week 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends. For more information, call (914) 528-7121 or send an email to [email protected].
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Basketball Team Wins TCBL Championshipthe Cortlandt 8th grade girls travel basketball team completed its second consecutive undefeated season and defended their A Division tri County Basketball League title by beating new Rochelle in the championship game at horace Greeley high School. During their impressive two-year run the team was 32-0 and beat the top travel teams from
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L ike thousands of other Americans, Andrea Garbarini’s life was forever scarred on Sept. 11. She lost her husband, Charley, a New York City
Fire Department lieutenant, at the World Trade Center, who perished with 342 other firefighters and well over 2,000 civilians.
But Garbarini, a Pleasantville resident with two sons, has also seen how the tragedy has spawned astounding stories of charity, kindness and purpose among many of the victims’ families.
“Many families did amazing things,” Garbarini said. “Large and small acts of kindness for their fellow human beings. I felt these stories hadn’t come out the way I would have liked to have seen it come out.”
More than two years ago, Garbarini first thought about producing a documentary relating the stories of how a few of her fel-low fire department widows not only coped with their losses but have displayed a resil-iency some never thought they had, turning the event for into a calling that has reshaped their lives. After more than a year of plan-ning, filming for “From the Ground Up,” concluded on Feb. 17.
Working with friends Beth and George Gage, a husband-and wife filmmaking team from Telluride, Colo., Garbarini had many stories to chose from but decided to go with some of those of the people that she knew best. Families of Sept. 11 victims, in many ways, have become a family.
“It’s the family you never wanted but you have it and you’re thankful for it,” she said.
Just weeks before 9/11, Maureen Fanning, who realized her husband’s dream of estab-lishing a group home for autistic children, and her husband, Jack, the parents of two autistic sons, discussed how if they won the lottery they would build a home on Long Is-land for other families; Una McHugh, whose husband, Dennis, loved taking their young daughter to the library, established a founda-tion to build a library in his name near their Rockland County home; and the family of Stephen Siller, who created a race retracing the firefighter’s last steps to help contribute to the Stephen Sill Foundation. After finish-ing an overnight shift that morning, Siller, a father of five, was on his way home to Staten Island when he heard the Twin Towers were on fire and ran through the Brooklyn Bat-
tery Tunnel with 70 pounds of equipment after traffic was stopped. The foundation has raised more than $7 million to date.
Garbarini will take all money raised by the documentary and contribute to the foundations created by the families as well as other charities.
“I felt it’s extremely important with the 10th anniversary coming that our stories be told in a fair and dignified manner by us, and that’s really what drove me to do this,” said Garbarini, who also appears in the film.
The Gages have begun the editing process and are aiming to have the project complete for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist at-tacks. They hope to condense the story to fit into a half-hour time slot and pitch it to cable networks.
The filmmakers, who befriended Garbar-ini when she came to Colorado during the summer of 2002 with other 9/11 families, said they were intrigued by the concept, fo-cusing on firefighters’ widows and how they have tried to overcome their losses.
“They certainly had their grief, and in working through their grief they’re doing incredible things,” George Gage said.
While time helps heal some wounds, for many families, there are the constant re-minders of 9/11, Beth Gage said. Despite the
outpouring of generosity from the public following the attacks, some felt guilt about accepting money.
For Garbarini, with the major hurdle of filming have been cleared, the other chal-lenge is financial. Through the close of film-ing, she has raised about half of the film’s $100,000 budget she needs.
A nonprofit organization, Sparky Pro-ductions, has been created to help raise the funds. It can be found on the Gage Produc-tion’s website as well as the site created for the film. Garbarini said she is also searching for corporate and private donations to assist with the financing.
“Hopefully, this will all come together,” she said. “I never knew what it meant to be an executive producer. I don’t know if I’d ever do one again.”
Garbarini credits the Pleasantville com-munity for helping her able to stay in her home. Her sons are now teenagers. She smiled when asked how her husband would have thought of the project.
“I think Charley would probably think, ‘Here she goes again,’” Garbarini laughed.
To read more about the project, view a trailer of “From the Ground Up” or to do-nate, visit.www.911filmproject.com.
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The family of Stephen Siller, featured in Andrea Garbarini’s documentary “From the Ground Up,” created a foundation that has raised more than $7 million for children in the firefighter’s name. An annual race through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, above, is one of the major fundraising events for the organization.
Andrea Garbarini, pictured here with her husband, Charley, and two sons, is the executive producer of a documentary film “From the Ground Up” telling the story of widows of firefighters killed on 9/11. Charley Garbarini, a New York City Fire Department lieutenant, died at the World Trade Center.
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If you’re like me, every day you pull into and out of your garage, assuming that you’re lucky enough to have one, without thinking much about it. Usually there is a fumbling for the garage door opener which I never have assigned to a particu-lar place in my car, but the rest is as automatic as driving.
But there have been prob-lems with that, such as the oc-casional times I’ve mindlessly detached my side view mirrors and streaked my car with paint by sideswiping the door jambs, or better yet, when I attempted to back out of my garage with the door closed, crashing halfway through the door and removing an entire corner of the structure.
When the carpenter arrived to repair the considerable damage, he said, “Your wife did this, right?” And shamelessly I lied, “Yeah, right.” All these years later, I still suffer guilt about that.
Today, living in a large condo build-ing with a broad sweep of a garage door opening, I’m given much more leeway, more than two cars wide, to avoid the side jambs.
Just as automobiles changed the way we travel, more than any other element, the garage has changed the way our homes look, rendering them at least 25
percent larger, and more than that if you consider the “bonus” room that can be built above.
Readers of this column know how I tend to fixate more on the history of things than how they operate, and so it is
with the garage. Where exactly did it come from? The very word didn’t even exist until the beginning of the 20th century when it was coined from the French word garer meaning to shelter.
At that time, the early auto-mobile had to share the carriage house or stable where buggies and horses were still kept, resulting in a weird transitional phenomenon in which the cars smelled of horse manure when they were taken out for a spin. Eventually, the au-
tomobile claimed its own exclusive space and, by 1925, real estate industry sources were saying that houses without garages were slower to sell.
It’s still the case today. Most people want a garage when they buy.
For protection from the elements, sep-arate outbuildings used as garages were first attached by breezeway to the main house but eventually incorporated into the footprint of the house itself. Along the way, a couple of neat inventions sped
the modern garage’s development, name-ly the folding overhead garage door, in-vented by C. G. Johnson in 1921, and in 1926, Johnson also invented the electric door opener to help those who had trou-ble lifting the doors.
Garage doors were originally made of wood, and some still are, but by the 1970s they were constructed of galva-nized steel, then fiberglass, followed by composites like resin-filled wood and eventually vinyl covered aluminum. And for ultimate convenience, the au-tomatic garage door opener appeared prominently in the early 60s, although it had been invented back in the 1930s.
Today, garages can serve many func-tions other than housing cars. One friend uses a three-bay garage as a mu-seum of vintage cars, each with a crystal chandelier above it. Another in a house I listed serves as a combination office and workshop which is impeccably clean and more organized from its painted floor to its stacks of glistening shelves than any professional office.
Many garages are used as workshops, work-out rooms and even business start-ups. Where do you think Apple, Google, Dell, Nike and Mattel got their starts? But mostly, we all harbor any items there that don’t fit anywhere else in our homes. In my case, it was always the repository
for all my garden tools, since I never had a shed and for all my real estate para-phernalia, recyclables, and a variety of discarded items waiting for bulk pick-up.
Some consider the garage as part of the house a boon and others an eyesore, es-pecially when it becomes the major focus of its facade, all but obscuring the front entrance. In my town, the architectural review board on which I serve prefers that garage doors face out from the side of the house rather than the front.
And most architects with whom I’ve discussed garages would prefer that they be separated from the main house once again, perhaps connected by a breezeway for convenience, but homebuyers always prefer that they be incorporated into the footprint of the house, either in front, to the side or underneath.
I have no preferences about how or where to construct a garage or how to use it, but I would always advise car owners to buckle up before backing out and, oh yes, make sure the garage door is open.
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Have you walked into wine shops across the county and noticed how many similar wine labels adorn shelves and dis-plays? Especially for wines produced in the United States.
How is it that the selections are so homogenous? Where is the di-versity from the 9,091 wineries currently operating across all 50 states?
Retail shops are handcuffed in their choices of wines. Federal regulations have created a three-tier system of wine sales. Winer-ies must sell to distributors. Retail shops must purchase their wines from these distributors. There are very few exceptions. This has been the structure since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Distributors are the fulcrum for sales of domestic wines. Large wineries, with plentiful product to sell into the retail markets, are the darlings of distributors, whose business models are built on scale. By definition, small wineries suffer the most.
For consumers, large-scale monolithic distributor channels deny a willing retail purchaser the opportunity to discover excellent wines that may not fit the large distributors’ business model. It’s economy of scale at work in a free market.
Allow me to present a framework
around this consumer dilemma. Here are facts I’ve gleaned from several wine industry reports, notably the “2017 Di-rectory & Buyer’s Guide” from Wines & Vines magazine.
- Over 81% of wine produced in the United States is centered in 65 domestic wineries. Do the math: less than 1% of the 9,091 winer-ies produce the overwhelming amount of wine on retail shelves today.
- At the other end of the spec-trum, 94% of wineries produce less than 50,000 cases (typically much less) annually.
- The distribution channel of the three-tier system has experi-enced similar contraction. There are only 675 distributors serving
wineries. Four of these companies control 60% of all domestic wine sold in the Unit-ed States. Further, one company, Southern Glazer, accounts for over 50% of the sales of these four companies.
This imbalance has been creeping into the marketplace through roll-ups and consolidations. Today’s market channels are inverted from traditional demograph-ic relationships. Twenty years ago, there were 3,000 distributors serving 1,800 do-mestic wineries. That is 78% fewer distrib-utors serving a 505% increase in wineries.
So how is a small winery to survive, let alone flourish? Many small wineries are owned by entrepreneurial, and pas-sionate, winemakers. They are constantly seeking ways to (legally) contravene the existing system. Twenty-first century technology has given a number of them the necessary tools.
Here are business models progressive wineries have adopted:
1) Sell to brokers. These intermediaries have greater scale to influence distribu-tors. This approach produces the low-est profit margin but greater capacity for higher sales volume.
2) Sell in their tasting room. This is more lucrative, as the winemaker sells wine directly to consumers at full retail price, producing the greatest margin. In-creased costs include the capital invest-ment of building a tasting room and staff-ing it.
3) Sell via the internet. This is the most lucrative: full retail price and the least in-cremental investment. Start-up wineries may resort to crowdfunding until they establish a solid customer base.
4) Sell via wine clubs. Another avenue to garner full retail pricing with an added benefit: a semi-captive, repeat customer base.
Selling directly to consumers is increas-ing in popularity among small wineries. A
number of wineries have adopted the sec-ond, third and/or fourth business models. To better understand the value of selling directly to consumers, it is necessary to understand the pricing structure of the three-tier system.
Consider a bottle of wine on a retailer’s shelf selling for $15. A winery typically sells the wine to a distributor for $6, as-suming one is willing to purchase the wine. By culling a direct-to-consumer fol-lowing, the winery eliminates the other two components of the three-tier system, enjoying an additional profit of $9, signifi-cantly greater than the profit generated in the traditional channels.
Just as technology has disrupted and transformed so many industries, so too the wine industry. Unlike other indus-tries, however, wine consumers may be the beneficiaries of these changes. The choices are yours.
Nick Antonaccio is a 40-year Pleas-antville resident. For over 20 years he has conducted numerous wine tastings and lectures. Nick is a member of the Wine Media Guild of wine writers. He also of-fers personalized wine tastings and wine travel services. Nick’s credo: continuous experimenting results in instinctive be-havior. You can reach him at [email protected] or on Twitter @sharingwine
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