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CB 14 Economic Committee RecapBoardwalk Vendors, Downtown Far Rock & Microgrids

By Katie McFaddenTh e Economic Development

Committee of Community Board 14 convened on Monday, April 25 to discuss items such as beach vendors near Beach 116th Street, the revitalization of Downtown Far Rockaway and a proposal to bring a series of microgrids throughout Rockaway.

A representative from the Rock-away Beach Club, a group repre-senting boardwalk vendors, came to the meeting to get input on the boundaries for boardwalk vendors near Beach 116th Street. Th e RBC proposed a two-block buff er zone, meaning vendors could only go as close as Beach 114th or Beach 118th Street. “We’re conscious about what mobile vendors we place and where we place them. We’re not trying to compete with business on Beach 116th Street. We’re talking about small ideas like the coconut water kids and lemon-ade vendors,” the rep said.

Brian Heff ernan spoke on be-half of the Beach 116th Street Part-

nership. Heff ernan initially said that the merchants weren’t given enough time to discuss the issue. Th e RBC rep said the mobile ven-dor permit process takes several weeks, so she was hoping for an answer, so the vendors could start the application process. Heff er-nan made a motion to expand the buff er zone to three blocks. Other Community Board members like John Cori made a motion to limit the buff er zone to one block. Hef-fernan’s motion passed, so once the boardwalk is up, vendors can only come as close as Beach 113th or Beach 119th Streets.

Representatives from the Eco-nomic Development Corporation were also on hand to discuss the $91 million committed by Mayor Bill de Blasio for the revitalization of Downtown Far Rockaway. Th e representatives explained some background on how the money was funded through the work of Councilman Donovan Richards and the Downtown Far Rocka-way Working Group, created in

October 2015. Th e group has met fi ve times to discuss ways that Downtown Far Rockaway could be improved. Th e recommenda-tions of the group were delivered to the mayor on February 1, who announced that he was commit-ting $91 million toward the goals. Th e city is still gathering input to determine how the money should be used. Th e EDC is planning to hold a public meeting on May 12 so more concrete plans can be established. Some projects that are already being funded include DOT and DEP work, the new Far Rockaway library, SBS Storefront Improvements and Sorrentino Recreation Center improvements.

Th e Economic Development Committee also met representa-tives from the private company, ANBARIC, who came to discuss their proposal that they will be submitting to PSEGLI regarding a system of microgrids and a ca-ble to bring renewable energy to Rockaway and parts of Long Is-land. Th eir proposal is in response

to two RFP’s from PSEGLI, one calling for renewable energy and one calling for resources for West-ern Nassau, which also includes Rockaway. Th e proposals are due soon, so the representatives want-ed to make the community aware of what their plan is. ANBARIC’s original plan only included the use of microgrids but when PSEGLI released their RFP’s, the compa-ny found that much more power was needed than what microgrids could handle, so their new plan incorporates an underground ca-ble that would connect Glenwood and Rockaway to an existing sub-station in New Jersey. Th e micro-grid portion of the plan would call for the installation of several solar panels at eight locations across the peninsula, with the largest installa-tions over the Riis Park Parking lot and Edgemere Landfi ll. Th e plan would make Rockaway’s electric more reliable, greener and easier to bring back in a blackout. It is not known what other companies are submitting proposals at this time.

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Reader alert. Avert your eyes if you can’t stand a little blue lan-guage. I’d never use such language, Mom. I’m just gonna quote be-cause I gotta show some backbone, some nerve, some you know….

Anyway, last week I had one person mad at me. Th is week I’ll have 1,223.

You saw last week’s letters, in the We Get Email section, right? Someone was mad at me because I didn’t have the balls to write about the scourge of underage drinking and if I had any real balls I’d put it on the front page. And they made fun of Boyleing Points. Th at hurt.

The letter writer said I had nothing to say and I quote: Blah, blah, blah.

Nothing to say? Th is is the col-umn of world problems. Th is is the place where I talk about fi ght-

ing over armrests on airplanes. Th is is the column where society’s mental health is threatened by the incessant yakking of some people.

Most of you know this isn’t a pulpit, it’s a playground.

Th ere are no surprises. I’ve got nothing to say and I say it loud. Complaining about Boyleing Points is like complaining about a Sudoku puzzle.

Anyway back to the letter (you can fi nd it on our website). It was an anonymous letter that said I had no balls. It came in the reg-ular mail with no return address. It was typed and the name “Coach K” was the signoff .

Let me get this out of the way. Par-ents, if your underage kids are drink-ing on the beach and leaving their empties, do what you can to stop it.

So, there, I said it. I don’t know if that took balls or not. Coach K also wrote: Perhaps you suff er from fear of missing them. We all wonder.

Yikes. Th e “we all wonder” line shook me. Do you all really won-der that? If so, stop, you’re creep-ing me out.

Coach K said it was not a law enforcement issue. Well, I guess

it shouldn’t be illegal then. In any case, I hope parents, other coach-es, and teachers and clergy have gotten similar letters from Coach K.

Of course, I wondered about the identity of Coach K. I thought it might be Joe Kenel. But he wouldn’t waste a stamp on me and he’d more likely just shout about my lack of balls from the stage at a Grayrider’s gig.

Th en I wondered if it might be the original Coach K, Mike Krzyze-wski, the famous basketball coach from Duke University. As I was dusting the letter for fi ngerprints, a couple of Rockaway Colombos came forth. Joe Courtney, aka Th e Detective, said I was looking at the wrong gender. As did Ed Cashen. Really, a woman? Wow, jeez.

Th ey narrowed it down and even came up with a name or two. I wish I had the balls to say who they guessed.

Ok, now what about the oth-er 1,223 people ready to be an-noyed? Well, that many people signed a petition to name the fer-ry dock after Laura Deckelman. First of all, can we please get the ferry here before we start naming docks after people? Laura should

be quite pleased and amazed that so many people want to honor her eff orts in trying to get the ferry to stay. She logged many a nautical mile as she rode the ferry – I guess every day – and took great pho-tos and urged City Hall to keep Seastreak alive. Laura’s allowed us to use her pictures; some have been been on the front page. She should get a lifetime discount on the future ferry.

But I’m thinking we should hold off on naming things until they actually exist and my second thought is maybe we shouldn’t name things after people who are still alive. Imagine if someone in City Hall said we’re calling it the “de Blasio Boardwalk” because he almost fi nished it on time.

Naming things? Let’s keep it to 9/11 heroes and those who’ve made the ultimate sacrifi ce.

Unoffi cial names are fi ne. Th e Ferry Guy, is quite the honor. Th at’s what people call Joe Harti-gan who’s been the Number One ferry advocate for longer than an-yone.

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By Lou PastinaRAA debuted the Noisy Paint

Box exhibition on Saturday, and it was a blast, and noisy! Th e idea is to combine several sensory ex-periences at once to enhance the entire, holistic gestalt. And guess what, it works. Combining some innovative, avant-garde art works with music in the great sTudio 7 space gave everyone walking around a little beat to their step. And here is the great thing…they served beer and wine for $3! I mean even if you didn’t like art, and you didn’t care for music, you could really enjoy yourself for about $20! For some nights there is a cover charge, for instance the Grayriders are going to perform on May 7th and there is a charge to help these struggling young, musicians and artists. Ok, at least the artists are young! My recom-mendation is to check out RAA’s Noisy Paint Box. It’s running every weekend through 5/22. To the cu-rators of this exhibit, bravo!

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tured down to check on my little mermaid and merman, who were feasting at Whit’s on the Boule-vard. If you haven’t been to Whit’s, you should know this; it’s an ex-perience too. Th ere is artwork on the walls and there are four-foot high speakers pumping out beats. Th e space is small, but amazing-ly people move in and out of both the front and side rooms easily. Th e food is gourmet, really it is. I have a friend who just loves it when Whit has fi sh. And the man is a personality to say the least. He is an entertainer and he has a staff that complements him perfectly. My recommendation is a weekend night to get the full experience!

After Whit’s I followed my two fl ippered progeny into Playland. Rattrap Bumpkin was playing as the headliner at Playland. Th e warm-up band was not my taste, but I give them high marks for creativity and guts. I would nev-er believe that a drummer, a bass player, a guy in his underwear playing a synthesizer, and two

leather-hooded guys dancing would capture the attention of Rockwayites. But rather than be shouted off , they were mildly en-couraged. Luckily, there wasn’t an encore and Rattrap Bumpkin came on. If you have never seen these guys play, there are a few things you need to know about Rattrap Bumpkin. First, they write all their own music, a cover song is a rarity. But the place was packed and everyone knew the words; I was impressed. Second, they came out of the RAA scene and have been playing together for a long time and are very in-sync with each other. Th ird, the band’s name, is pretty original too. Fourth, they wail! Th ey will play all summer long, check them out.

It got to be a little late for me and I had to get home before the stroke of midnight, because you know what happens then. And because I had shaved my beard, didn’t have a tat-too, stopped drinking, and realized that everyone else was thirty years younger than me, it was time to go.

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Th e next day it was a little hard getting up; apparently I hadn’t stopped drinking as early as I thought. But it was time to prac-tice with the Grayriders, even though the big kahuna, Joe Kenel was off in the Keys getting some sun. AB Studios here in Rockaway is another entrepreneur story. The “Shed” as the band likes to call it, is coming together as a studio, and has a fun feel to it. As we were leav-ing Sunday afternoon, a few guys were hanging outside getting ready to go and run their radio station! I said radio station!?! Yes Rockaway has a radio station and the guys said – “hey man send us some tunes we’ll play them”!! Gotta love it!

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Th is bill would take eff ect on January 1, 2017.

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than 330 bird species have been spotted here in the past 25 years, which is nearly half the species in the Northeast. It is also a haven for 72 species of butterfl ies.

Th e Wildlife Refuge also pro-vides habitat for a wide variety of fl ora and fauna, both marine and terrestrial. It is a prime lo-cation for diamondback turtles and horseshoe crabs (there is an annual Horseshoe Crab Walk on Sunday, May 22nd at 9AM). Th e primary diet of the Diamondback terrapins include fi sh, snails, worms, clams, crabs and marsh plants, many of which are abun-dant in these marshlands.

Th ere are approximately 21 Os-prey platforms in the Jamaica Bay area. A big attraction is the two mating pairs that are visible: one nest off of Cross Bay Blvd and an-other within the refuge that can be viewed from the Visitor Center on a high powered telescope. “Th e male ospreys arrive at the nest fi rst and tidy it up in prepa-ration of the female’s arrival” ex-plained Ranger Chavone.

Th e Refuge used to have two

large freshwater ponds. Like the rest of our area, it was aff ected by Superstorm Sandy. Th e West Pond was breached and was overrun with salt water. Th ere are plans in the works to repair the breach, dredge the pond and re-store It to fresh water. Eventually, the native wildlife and fl ora will be reintroduced. Th e East Pond remains is still fresh water.

Th ere is a wide variety of ranger and partner-led programs off ered year-round at the site, including presentations on seasonal wild-life, sunset tours, hikes, boat trips, family programs and an annual lecture series. Last week, the Ref-uge held a Junior Ranger program and the children built bird feed-ers that they could take home.

Th e Visitor Contact Station wel-comes visitors and is the starting point for many guided programs. It is also home to exhibits that highlight Jamaica Bay’s remarka-ble plant and animal life, history, and the continuing human im-pact on the nature of the bay. Also in the station is a gift shop, where one can buy books, hats, jackets, and a board game called BirdOpo-ly. If you are just curious, the rang-ers welcome visitors who want to come in and ask questions.

Th ere are two trails open year-round circling the West Pond; a short trail lasting 30 minutes and a longer trail that circles the pond that is 90 minutes long. Th e north-ern point of the longer trails boasts a breathtaking view of Th e Free-dom Tower as well as the rest of the Manhattan skyline. Th ere are also a mix of year-round and seasonal trails along the East Pond.

The Refuge is always willing to accept volunteers. Enthusiastic vol-unteers were doing their good deed for Earth Day by going around the area and picking up garbage.

The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is located off on Cross Bay Blvd. just north of Broad Channel, Queens. The

Visitor Center is open daily from 9am to 5pm. Trails are open daily, from sunrise to sunset. The Visitor Contact Station is wheelchair accessible and handicapped parking is available. Pets are not allowed. You can get on their mailing list for upcoming events by calling the Center at 718-318-4340. For more information, visit the fol-lowing websites:

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You hit us with your best shots and now it’s time to choose the top snaps. Th e Rockaway Times received hundreds of entries for the fi rst Oh, Snap! Photo Con-test, which ended on April 15.

Photo contest organizer, John Cori, says there were roughly 400 entries into the contest, which launched in January. Anyone had a chance to submit pho-tos falling under 10 categories, including 1)Sunsets/sunrise 2) jetties 3) surfi ng/ surfers 4) fam-ily/group fun on the beach 5) Dogs 6) Jamaica Bay-Boats, jet-skis, etc. 7) Nature 8) Rockaway Bridges- Marine Parkway/ Cross Bay 9) Rockaway/ Broad Chan-nel Sports 10) Wildcard (doesn’t fi t any of the categories, but it’s a great photo).

Top prize for the contest is $500 and front-page recognition on Th e Rockaway Times. How-ever, all of the photos will get

some time in the spotlight. On Sunday, May 1, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., all of the photos will be on display in 4x6 form, around the back deck of Playland Motel (97-20 Rockaway Beach Boulevard). All are welcome to view the en-tries. During the event, three anonymous judges, who have been pre-selected, will select three of the top photos in each category, resulting in 30 semi-fi -nalists.

Cori received permission from the Parks Department to give the photos even more of a spotlight. Larger prints of the top 30 pho-tos will be framed and put on display along the boardwalk on May 28 and 29 for Memorial Day weekend. Th ey will be on dis-play again on June 4 and 5. And on June 6, the public will have the opportunity to vote on their favorites and pick the big win-ner. More details about the vot-ing process will be announced at a later time.

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Many years ago Grace and I were strolling through Toys R Us looking for the perfect birthday gift for our girls when I happened to spy what I thought was a unique toy guaran-teed to bring hours of playful fun to our (then) small daughters, Amy and Vicky. It was basically a 10-foot section of plastic track, high on one end and ground level on the other, upon which sat a small cart with wheels. I immediately alerted Grace to my fi nd.

“Are you out of your small male mind? It’s a midget roller coaster!

We’ll have to watch them every second! Th e girls will fall out of it and hurt themselves! Besides, it’s too big, where would we put it?” Grace’s spoken words encom-passed the three aspects of house and family most often cited when addressing a father’s apparent insanity when dealing with chil-dren...supervision, physical safety and lack of space. Okay, I thought to myself, maybe this was a “guy” thing on my part so perhaps some female advice in this mat-ter should not be entirely unwel-come. Th us I responded, “Alright, you got any better ideas?”

[Note: Due diligence requires that I caution all fathers from ever using the above phrase to invite al-ternative ideas from their partners in this type situation. To do so is to admit defeat at the outset of the battle. Any ideas forthcoming from your spouse must be accepted as sane, rational and fi nal as they were requested subsequent to her determination that your sugges-tion was utterly chauvinistic, dan-gerous and space constrained.]

Grace pondered for a moment and then responded, “Perhaps a

small playhouse for the girls would be a good idea. Th ey could play in-side and have tea parties.” Now, I may have been born yesterday but I sure as heck have been in town all night and so I immediately re-sponded, “Sounds great to me!”

Th at weekend as we celebrat-ed their birthdays the girls awoke to fi nd a “small” playhouse in our home’s living room. Keep in mind that that my better half’s defi nition of “small” was a huge 5x4-foot, heavy plastic fi ve-sided play house with a domed roof some fi ve-feet above the fl oor, windows, a swing out door, interior play sink, table and chairs. As we watched the girls gleefully explore their new play-house, I could see a look of almost serene happiness on Grace’s face that silently said, “I told you so!” In the back of my mind all I could hear was “Th is was a big mistake!”

Shortly thereafter we found that, instead of “tea parties,” the girl’s were using the play sink in their new house as a potty and climbing out the window onto the dome roof where they would stand and try to dance. Th eir lack of coordination, combined with

the law of gravity, often made their individual returns to fl oor level quite memorable. Th e two most often spoken words in our house back then were “GET DOWN!” If we expected visitors, because the playhouse took up so much space, cleaning the living room required us to pick up everything on the fl oor and toss it inside the play house where it was immedi-ately grabbed by one of the girls and thrown back out the window as soon as our backs were turned.

Even after all these years, I re-frain from telling my honey that perhaps the play house wasn’t such a great idea after all. We had to watch the girls every second so they didn’t fall off the roof and hurt themselves and it took up entire-ly too much room. Additionally, visitors to our home left thinking that our idea of potty training was somewhat strange! After all, as I said previously, I may have been born yesterday but I sure as heck have been in town all night.

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Dear Editor:Can you please publish this

in the next paper? If the per-petrator wants to come for-ward and apologize, I can for-ward them a copy of the bill for the new paint job I will need to get.

I work in midtown, for many years I took the QM16, but due to the fact it kept its own time-table depending on how the driver was feeling on any one day, I eventually gave it up and proceeded to look for an-other way to commute. Next up, the Shuttle or A train from 116th Street, but once again, freezing my butt off on the way home during the winter while waiting for a Rockaway Park train for 30 minutes, I even-tually gave that line of com-muting up also. I still had op-tions, so I also tried the “drive to the B in Sheepshead Bay” route, but again parking there is hell on wheels on a good day but when opposite side of the street parking is in effect, well, forget about getting to the city before noon. Forget about the ferry, that was too good to be true like almost everything in Rockaway.

At this point you might ask, what’s left? Fly? Cycle? Walk? Swim? There was still one decent option left. I would drive to Broad Channel, park as close to the train as I can get and then hop on a choice of A trains that go through the Broad Channel station. Granted, the “Shuttle-To-No-where” still comes through and holds us all up, but what’s 30 minutes or so between a boss and an employee when you are being paid to be at your desk at 9 am and get there at 9:30 or 10 am?

Over the past few years,

while parked in Broad Chan-nel, my vehicle has received its fair share of dings and scratches on the front and back bumpers, which is to be expected, we are in NY after all. Not to mention the vari-ous cones and garbage cans one must navigate on a dai-ly basis in Broad Channel to even get a parking spot (I am talking COMPLETE blocks marked off with garbage cans and cones, WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS? One spot I get, but seriously whole blocks are not necessary). Yup, I can sort of deal with those, too. Howev-er what I can NOT deal with is getting off the damn A train last week after being stuck on it for 3 hours due to another “sick passenger - traffi c” alert, only to fi nally get to my car to see some jackass has scratched the whole complete side of my car. Not a light scratch, but a deep scratch with an intent to cause damage which in turn would cause me to have to get a new paint job on the driver and passenger side of my car.

Yes, I am pissed as all heck. I would also like to point out I was not parked in front of someone’s driveway, or too close to their car or in a way that would infringe on their proper-ty. I did not move a cone or a garbage can to get the spot nor did I park on the corner, where cars have been dinged and the person has driven off … none of these. I innocently parked my car in a valid spot. So, whoever got their cheap thrill damaging my vehicle, that I work hard for, I hope you feel good if you hap-pen to read this.

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Times wins awards is the gov-ernance of Editor Kevin Boyle. Although he is master of the personal putdown, e.g, his own best target, he brings his own inimitable style to this paper.

I’ve been meaning to com-mend him for a job well done, and too, for the staff reporting and good content. Consider it done.

And I dare you to print this, Kevin.

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WE GET EMAILContinued from Page 20

By Emil R. Lucev, Sr. & his daugh-ter Katie Lucev

Slowly…..and one at a time, various settlements on the Marsh Islands in Jamaica Bay faded away. As did many on the bay’s shorelines. Broad Channel is the ONLY Jamaica Bay island community which still survives today, despite the efforts of New York City and the Port Authority to be rid of it.

Today’s Ol’ Times shows the last effort of the Port Au-thority to expand JFK Airport with a HUGE bay landfill for more runways. Broad Chan-nel would have been history if this plan was not SHOUT-ED DOWN in the late 1960’s (Arrow indicates Broad Chan nel).

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EMPATHYBy Helen Kilgallen

Recently, my body had an unexpected injury that seem-ingly came from nowhere. The signs were not there and I felt super strong and flexi-ble. I was searching for lots of challenging yoga poses that would help with raw emo-tions coming from sadness, anger, frustrating situations that life sometimes brings on. The journey of yoga is mov-ing your energy through your body to update yourself, of-

ten liberating mind and body from limiting beliefs. We think we get over things, but we really don’t. The memory is always there and for me it usually takes residency in my body.

The shoulders in Eastern medicine are associated with the lung meridian, the emo-tion being grief. Often, we will hear how some people shoulder everything in life. Stiff shoulders and the cervi-cal spine are often associated with sorrow. This may seem

far-fetched to many but I have witnessed many shoulder in-juries with unhappiness. Our bodies are highly intelligent and they can harbor so many emotions.

We have the potential to move out of suffering and doubt, making a path for a clear, inspired, and centered life. It is through certain prac-tices in yoga that open the energy paths and gives way to this freedom. Sometimes we can hide in our practices by doing the same things over and over. I believe we need to change it up and face our fears, sometimes even with an injury that teaches us em-pathy and compassion.

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what an-other being is experiencing. You need to know exactly how it feels to walk in that oth-er person’s shoes. Empathy leads to compassion. As hu-man beings the ultimate gift is to feel empathy and com-passion towards one anoth-er. Opening the heart chakra awakens us to pure compas-

sion and the desire to be of service. Moving the raw ener-gy of emotion into devotion. Sometimes we must feel the pain to have true empathy to-wards a person.

The human being is a ves-sel. In the yoga world we are made up of five koshas (lay-ers of being): physical, ener-gy, mental, wisdom and bliss. The physical is the most obvi-ous for most of us. But delve deeper and you begin to heal fully from a cellular level. The embodied bliss does not come from our thoughts. Per-ception of life is seen through a different lens as you let go of your anger and resent-ment. Clarity and openness become a way of life for you when you open your body in a gentle and kind way. Mov-ing old, stagnant energy leads to changes in perspective and ultimately complete trans-formation. When grace de-scends you will be liberated from attachment of thoughts, materialistic things, etc. The problem becomes the solu-tion.

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Day Camp, you know you’re in for a treat. With four slides connect-ing to an outdoor pool bigger than most backyards, dozens or color-ful rooms where diff erent activi-ties take place, basketball courts and more, it could make any adult jealous of the kids that get to spend their summer days there.

Located just over the Marine Parkway Bridge and behind El Caribe (5945 Strickland Avenue) in Mill Basin, Mill Basin Day Camp is a hidden gem that is a discovered treasure for the more than 1,600 children that attend each sum-mer. With a place so close to home that off ers more than 50 activities, introduces children to their un-discovered talents, teaches them new things and keeps them ac-tive and entertained, it would be a shame to let a child spend their summer indoors, camped out in front of a television or computer.

“As time passes, we’re asked

to do less as human beings as things are done for us electroni-cally or digitally. Kids need to be active and explore, not only their own creativity, but to try new ex-periences and to not be afraid of trying new experiences,” camp owner Jack Grosbard said. “Par-ents need to look at their kids and decide ‘what do I want for my son or daughter?’ Do I want them to experience the world or do I want them to see the world only from a screen? Super Mario needs to be more than a game on a personal screen. Why can’t they be Super Mario, running, jumping, swim-ming and engaging with other children?”

Mill Basin Day Camp off ers kids the opportunity to be Super Mario and beyond. At the camp, kids can learn how to swim, play games like kickball and wiffl e ball and make arts and crafts. Th ey can discover new skills such as music recording and video editing at the Multime-dia center. Th ey can star in their

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Kids can learn hip-hop, modern or jazz dance in one of two dance studios, learn an instrument in a rock band, practice their singing with karaoke, or show off their acting talents in the drama thea-tre. Th e camp holds talent shows, where campers can show off their newly-discovered or developed talents, without being judged by fellow campers.

“Th ere are so many things for kids to try outside of what they’re usually shown. We really want to show them that it’s okay to try as much as they like to or as little as they want,” Grosbard said. “We promote creativity and imagina-tion and we feed into what the kids like to do, but maybe they don’t know how to do it. No mat-ter how you do it, it’s fi ne. Th e kids are non-judgmental. It’s a nice

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Th e camp makes the day as fun as possible for the kids and as convenient as possible for the parents. Th e camp provides round-trip transportation on air-conditioned buses, to bring them between their homes and camp. Grosbard says there are three buses alone that make trips to pick up children on the Rock-away peninsula and they make trips as far as Long Island.

Th e cost of camp can seem pricey, ranging but $1,800 to $2,900 for the summer depending on the age, number or days and number of weeks a camper regis-ters for, but the costs are a bargain compared to the cost of babysit-ting. “What’s the alternative? Let’s say you work 40 hours a week and travel an hour back and forth. You’re out of the house 50 hours a week, paying a babysitter $10 an hour. You’re paying for childcare that doesn’t come with food, trips, activities and friends. You multi-ply that by eight weeks and you’re

looking at $4,000 in childcare for the summer,” Grosbard said.

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Th ere will be open houses throughout the months of April, May and June, though the camp is just about fi lled up. Private tours can be arranged. To register for an open house, or for more informa-tion about Mill Basin Day Camp, call 718-251-6200 or visit http://www.millbasindaycamp.com/.

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A Writer’s RoadFAMED WRITER SPEAKS TO THE ROCKAWAY TIMES

By Pat Morgan

Terence Winter knows how to tell a story. And he’s been rec-ognized for that ability.

Four Emmy Awards, a Gold-en Globe, an Edgar (as in Allan Poe, presented by the Mystery Writers of America), and nu-merous others. Even if his name doesn’t quite ring a bell you know his work. Th ose awards? Th ey come your way when you write stuff like Th e Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire and Th e Wolf of Wall Street. But how he got to Hollywood is a story unto itself.

As the youngest of fi ve chil-dren in a working-class family from Marine Park, Brooklyn, Winter went with the fl ow dur-ing his teen years. He attended Grady High School, a technical school in the Brooklyn, and had no idea what he wanted to do for a career. His dream jobs ranged from rock star to astronaut. But he remembers a teacher, Lainie Gilbert, who saw promise in his writing and encouraged him to continue with short stories.

His fi rst venture into business was after he graduated from high school. Winter went into partnership with his employer and helped turn around a fail-ing deli in Mill Basin. But he had a falling out with the partners, who bought him out at the age of 19.

It was now Christmastime 1980. Winter sat in his small Brooklyn apartment, complete with the sad reality that comes with an orange shag carpet and bad paneling. He had to do something. A Benjamin Frank-lin quote, “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An in-vestment in knowledge always pays the best interest,” steered him to college.

It seemed New York Univer-sity was a popular school and a good place to start. He had not taken the SATs and the only way he fi gured he could enroll was to select an obscure major. So he chose Medieval Religion, which the only thing he knew about from that era was Th e Knights of the Round Table. He eventu-

ally settled on Political Science, History and Journalism classes. Although NYU had a renowned institute of fi lm and television, the idea of working in that fi eld was far off his radar.

Besides attending college full time, Winter worked full time at night to support himself. He held various jobs during that period, including a position as security guard at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn and delivering the New York Times in Mill Basin. During his last two years at NYU, he landed a job as a doorman on the Upper East Side, which allowed him to study and write his papers for school.

He was a doorman but he’d long had dreams of being the guy a doorman held the door for. As a teenager, he would wander around the Kings Plaza mall, specifi cally the upscale furni-ture department in Macy’s. Th is provided motivation to keep pushing forward. He believed the only two professions that would make money involved medical or legal. Since being a doctor was out of the question, he opted for law school. But a seed may have been planted as a journalism professor, Jerry Schwartz, wrote a letter of rec-ommendation for Winter, but it also included a private note encouraging him to become a writer.

Winter enrolled in Saint John’s University Law School,

graduating in 1988, but with an ever-growing pile of student debt. He went on to graduate, and pass the New York State and Connecticut Bar exams.

He landed a job in Merrill Lynch’s legal department in the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. Winter was present for the stock market crash on October 19, 1987, ironically the same day that Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street) was laid off from L.F. Rothschild, down the street.

At that point, Winter was in-terested in an Assistant District Attorney job in Brooklyn. But being $75,000 in debt at this point, he opted for work at an-other law fi rm off ering higher pay but a fairly certain road to boredom.

Th e dreary prospect made him ask himself, “What would you like to do?” Th e answer was screenwriting. So, he sold everything and moved to Los Angeles, sight unseen.

Th e new, unfamiliar Los An-geles sparked creativity and drive. He fi nally had purpose and passion. He consumed every book on screenwriting and read every sitcom script he could fi nd. In order to get in the game, a successful sitcom screenwriter needs to be able to write for a variety of characters. Winter wrote a sample episode, or “spec” of the show Home Im-provement. He watched every episode and deconstructed

them scene by scene in order to write a sample script.

Sharpening his writing skills was one thing, making neces-sary connections another. He found out that a law school classmate from St. John’s, Doug Viviano, was bonded as a Holly-wood agent so he with Doug’s permission, created an agency under his name.

Even with this new connec-tion, Winter continued to feel the pressure of a ticking career clock. He was 30 with nothing to show for it. He started taking his work to every production lot in LA, under the guise of a mes-senger from the Doug Viviano Agency. At least this way the scripts made it into the building and had a chance of being read.

Th en one Friday afternoon, the phone for the Agency rang and an Executive Producer from the television show Fresh Prince of Bel Air was on the other end looking for Doug. Since Doug was in New York and it was after hours, Winter pretended he was Doug and agreed to provide the Producer with another sample script, this one for Th e Wonder Years, working non-stop from Friday night through Tuesday, cranking out an episode. He fortunately received a call back and sold them on an idea.

Th e Fresh Prince opportunity didn’t go anywhere, but two of the show’s producers took no-tice of Winter and later hired him for the series “Sister, Sister,” a 1994 sitcom. Around that time, Warner Brothers held a sitcom writer’s workshop, where only 15 candidates were selected out of a pool of over 2000. Winter was one of the 15 selected for this ten-week program that fea-tured a diff erent speaker every week to broaden the attendees’ scope.

Winter’s fi rst staff job was on the Fox series Th e Great De-fender, which starred Michael Rispoli, who later played the role of Jackie Aprile on the So-pranos. Th ere was also anoth-er Sopranos connection when he met writer Frank Renzulli,

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who would later introduce him to Executive Producer David Chase. Th e Great Defender was a series about lawyers in a stuff y fi rm, which was right up Win-ter’s alley. Th is break supported the adage “write about what you know.”

It felt like his fi rst real job and it ran for eight episodes. Win-ter couldn’t believe that he was getting paid to write scripts and he became an offi cial member of the Writer’s Guild. At this point, he was saying “yes” to every screenwriting opportu-nity. Winter hired a new agent and began writing for the Eddie Murphy series Th e PJs.

In 1997, Winter’s agent pro-vided him with a video for the pilot episode of a new series called Th e Sopranos, a crime drama television series revolv-ing around a fi ctional New Jer-sey-based Italian-American mobster. He was actually trem-bling as he watched, thinking that this was the greatest thing that he had ever seen. Winter petitioned his friend Frank Ren-zulli to get him on the writing staff , but David Chase already had selected his fi rst year writ-ing staff , although Winter re-mained involved with the show by helping Renzulli edit epi-sodes.

After Season One was over, David Chase had fi red the fi rst year writing staff , with the ex-ception of Renzulli. Renzulli in-troduced Winter to Chase, who liked an episode that Winter wrote. Chase had made com-parisons of Th e Sopranos se-ries to the movies Goodfellas and Casino, which was a chal-lenge that Winter was prepared to take on. His time with Chase on Th e Sopranos taught Winter everything about assembling and running a show, almost like an internship. He describes Chase as gracious, funny and one of his dearest friends.

One of the many things Winter enjoyed about working on Th e Sopranos was that they worked eight months and had four months off , during the show’s six successful seasons. Th e four-month layoff allowed him to write features and movie screenplays.

When Th e Sopranos ac-claimed run ended in 2007, Winter continued to devel-

op programs. He was able to schedule his next award-win-ning series, Boardwalk Empire, which had Martin Scorsese at-tached to it. Th e show was an American period crime drama set in Atlantic City, NJ during the Prohibition era. Th e chance to work with Scorsese was hard to fathom. Winter fl ashed back to the summer of 1976 when he and childhood friend, Bobby Canzoneri, saw Scorsese’s mov-ie Taxi Driver 15 times. Little did he realize that 30 years later, he would be doing a show with Scorsese.

As they worked on the script, Winter and Scorsese both came to the same conclusion that the character, Enoch “Nucky” Th ompson, was the epicenter of the show. Scorsese worked into the plot that the Prohibition pe-riod was the birth of organized crime.

Th is was a special time for Win-ter. Besides his writing and pro-ducing success he celebrated the birth of a son. And he was work-ing on the screenplay for Scors-ese’s upcoming fi lm Th e Wolf of Wall Street. Winter actually read the entire book (of what turned out to be a 179-minute movie) in one sitting, which was on a plane ride from Los Angeles to New York. Having worked on Wall Street himself as well as hustling at entrepreneurial opportunities early on, Winter understood this character well and found the pro-tagonist hilariously insane.

Within three months, Winter had completed the Boardwalk Empire pilot as well as Th e Wolf of Wall Street screenplay. Th en Martin Scorsese told Winter that he wanted him to direct the pilot episode of the new HBO show. When the HBO execu-tives found out, the text message response Winter received from them was simply “!!!!!!!!!” Th e show had a successful run of fi ve seasons, winning 20 Emmy awards with 57 nominations.

And maybe, just maybe, Rock-away had something to do with that success. Boardwalk Empire was a period piece with 1920s Atlantic City as its setting. But the New Jersey town now has little to show from that peri-od and the logistics of getting cast and crew back and forth to south Jersey was daunting. En-ter Rockaway and Fort Tilden.

Th e show’s production com-pany was based in Brooklyn, which allowed access to the city’s talent pool. Eventually more than 20 episodes were fi lmed on the peninsula. Th e show used the bungalows in Far Rockaway for the early sea-sons where the character, Irish immigrant Margaret Schroed-er (played by Kelly Macdon-ald) lived. Th e post production crew was able to use computer generated imagery to erase the modern buildings in the back-ground as well as recreate the old streets. Th e Belle Harbor Yacht club was used to refabri-cate the Temple University dor-mitory of Nucky’s nephew, Wil-lie. A large billboard advertising Atlantic City Real Estate could be seen in the dunes of Arv-erne east and the boardwalk in the Beach 40s was used for old storefront scenes.

Winter noted that besides the authenticity of Rockaway, there is a lot of unspoiled architecture throughout New York City that can be used for period pieces like Boardwalk Empire. He said it is easier to recreate the 1920’s versus the 1970s because very few rundown areas exist in New York City anymore. As a matter of fact, in the most recent series he’s involved with, Vinyl with Ray Romano, they needed to dump garbage on the set to rec-reate what the city looked like in the 70’s.

Vinyl was a long time in the making. In 2008, Scorsese and Rolling Stone front man Mick Jagger were discussing a fi lm depicting the Rock and Roll roller coaster ride which would cover the main character, 1970s Record Executive Richie Fine-stra, over a 40-year career. Due to the 2008 stock market crash, funding for the movie stalled. Winter’s wife and fi lm producer, Rachel, suggested that the script be done as a television series, though that would have to wait until after Boardwalk Empire ended its run.

And again, Rockaway would make its way into a Winter production. When a Hamp-tons-style mansion was needed, the Vinyl team made its way to the beachfront houses of Belle Harbor and Neponsit. Its style goes beyond what New York looked like. Scorsese and Win-

ter went about recreating the grittiness of the 70s by emu-lating cinematographic eff ects from fi lms of that era. Besides fi lming techniques, the musical soundtrack adds to that overall eff ect.

Winter loved working with the actors on the three HBO series, Th e Sopranos, Boardwalk Em-pire and Vinyl. All of the actors and crew got along in a friend-ly and relaxed working envi-ronment. Th ey had instituted a “no-asshole” policy to ensure checks and balances.

At the time of this article, Vi-nyl’s fi rst season just complet-ed. However, Winter has left the show due to creative diff erences.

Winter is excited about his upcoming project, which is a movie about the boxer Mike Ty-son, and will be played by actor Jamie Foxx. No release date has been set since movies can have up to a fi ve-year cycle from in-ception to release.

Winter’s partnerships with David Chase and Martin Scors-ese aren’t the only ones he can boast about. Winter and his wife, Rachel, have each been nominated by the Academy Awards. Rachel and her fellow producers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 fi lm Dal-las Buyers Club. Winter was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Th e Wolf of Wall Street.

Besides being a family man and his writing and produc-ing duties, Winter fi nds time to support a number of char-ities. Among them are Th e Brotherhood-SisterSol, which provides comprehensive, ho-listic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to 22 and Arts Connection, which provides in-novative arts programming to millions of students in the New York City public school system.

Terence Winter surprised his friends and family by leaving it all behind to try his hand at screenwriting in Los Angeles. But he didn’t leave it all behind, of course. Th ere are signs of the kid from East 37th Street, who summered at the Breezy Point Surf Club, in every script he writes. And another good thing, there’s one less lawyer. Ba-da-bing!

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By Kathy Louis The last parent-teacher

conferences of the year for public school children are scheduled for the week of May 10. This can be a stress-ful time for both teachers and parents, especially if a child is struggling and in danger of failing. It is at this conference that parents will be advised if their child’s promotion to the next grade is doubtful.

It is very important for a parent to know their rights and the rights of their child. Each child who resides in NYC, whether a student at a public or non-public school, has the same rights. One of the most important of these is the right of a parent to be ac-tively involved in their child’s education. Regularly sched-uled parent-teacher confer-

ences are the opportunity for parents to not only learn more about their child’s ac-ademic progress, but also to communicate with teachers any concerns they have.

When getting ready for the conference, be prepared to listen as well as question the teacher. A parent knows their child better than anyone else. However, for a huge portion of each school day, the teach-er is in a position to observe children in an environment that parents rarely see.

In the accompanying chart there is a sampling of possible questions a parent might ask to gain a better understand-ing of their child’s education-al and social progress. This is published by Advocates



REMEMBERING DAVID GREENSPANBy Joan Diehl

David Greenspan was a pied-piper of sorts, a peda-gogical magician, and if you attended his funeral last week, you’d swear you were pay-ing homage to a celebrity or a prince.

Hundreds of mourners packed West End Temple and, in addition to the rabbi’s praise and the beautiful words of his sisters, he was eulogized in one way or another by family members, former classmates, colleagues and friends who commented informally on Da-vid’s goodness, in and out of the classroom.

David Greenspan began teaching teaching at PS 114 in September of 2015, and in a few months magically trans-formed the lives of the stu-dents in his self-contained bridge class. David Greenspan knew how to teach in the same way that birds know how to fl y. He could assess the po-tential of every student like

a loving sculptor appraises a slab of marble. He knew that if he worked hard enough, each child would approach the de-gree of perfection that their in-dividuality allowed. His great love was the chisel that shaped the academic lives of these children into something new and wonderful. David believed in them and so they came to believe in themselves. Th ey were nurtured by his love, ig-nited by his passion, and cap-tivated by his music, and so they learned to the tune of this “pied-piper’s” loving guitar. Mr. Greenspan was their hero, their Prince Charming, and their beloved teacher.

Unobserved I watched him work his magic in the class-room. I was so proud of David. We shared a philosophy and a past. You see, I was one of his teachers way back when he at-tended PS 114.

We were all so proud of Da-vid who fi t so perfectly into a school staff ed by teachers and para-professionals who care

so much, inspire so unforget-tably, and love so selfl essly. And, I want to thank Mr. Grill for being the kind of principal who acknowledges this kind of love and dedication. He ap-preciated David and helped to make the last days of his life happy and rewarding.

“David had a clear passion for what he did and ultimately, each child’s needs were met. He made an everlasting diff er-ence in the lives he touched. His students reached for the stars because their teach-er said they could,” Principal Grill remarked.

Visibly moved, Assistant- Principal Barbara Poggioli-Es-posito, also shared her feel-ings, “David Greenspan has aptly been referred to as ‘the Child Whisperer’, and in the brief time that I knew him, I found this to be so true. He had the unique ability to see a hint of light in a child’s eyes and then stoke the embers to ignite the fl ame, gently guiding the child to a place few believed

was possible. His presence in our school and in our lives will be truly missed.”

My dear friend and col-league Judith Davidson had this to say, “Most people run after riches or fame, but few acquire either. Fewer still run from both and instead engage in daily acts of loving kind-ness. Th at was David. Th us, he acquired for himself, the highest accolade in Judaism, a “Kesser Shem Tov,” which is Hebrew for “Th e Crown Of A Good Name.”

Mel and Sherry, you can be so proud of the good son you created. Most people live much longer and do much less. I pray there’s some comfort when you consider that some of the most beautiful and won-derful things are short-lived like butterfl ies, sunsets and shooting stars. Fireworks burst in the sky and blossom just for glorious moments. Like David, “Nothing gold can stay.”

(Joan Diehl is a writing teacher at PS 114)


Women of the Peninsula: DIANE LIELLO AND GERRI STANSKY OF STRANDS HAIR SALON

Who runs the peninsula? Women. A large number of local businesses and organizations are owned and operated by females. And they deserve recognition. As part of an ongoing series, the Rockaway Times is profi ling lo-cal female entrepreneurs each week. Th is week is Diane Liel-lo and Gerri Stansky, owners of Strands Hair Salon in Rockaway Park.

In need of a special look for communion, prom or wedding season, or maybe just a spring spruce up? Th e ladies of Strands invite you to let your hair down and let them fi x it up. Both Di-ane Liello and Gerri Stansky bring about three decades of ex-perience with hair to the chair, twenty years of working together and 12 years of serving the men and women of peninsula with Strands. Whether you need a simple haircut, coloring, a new style, a makeover, a special kera-tin treatment, a look for a special occasion, makeup or you need to pick up some jewelry, acces-sories or hair products, Strands has it all. Liello and Stansky pro-vide these services along with a large staff that includes Sal, Julia, Faye, Kristina, Katie, Roz, Lauren, Bella, Jill, Sam, Nia, Ker-ry and Alicia.

Liello, of Rockaway Park, and Stansky, of Breezy Point, have long been in the beauty busi-ness. “I always had an interest in hair, so I went to beauty school and started working in salons right out of school,” Liello said. She obtained her license in 1987. “I had two older cousins that were hairdressers and as a kid I’d go to their house and watch them do hair and I was always drawn to it. I grew up in Long Island and they off ered BOCES classes where you could take free classes to learn a skill. I had my license by the time I graduated high school in 1980,” Stanksy said. Both women spent time working at various salons around the peninsula and Stan-sky had previous experience as a salon owner when she co-owned Hair We Are on Beach

116th Street with Jill in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Liello and Stansky fi rst started working to-gether in 1996.

Stansky and Liello say they didn’t have intentions of open-ing their own salon, but working under other salons became in-creasingly frustrating. “It’s tough owning your own business with the way things are going in the world today, but it came down to working in other salons and seeing them go under and not directly seeing what isn’t being taken care of or done directly. Th ere would be times when we ran out of supplies. A lot of the time, the owners of salons aren’t hairdressers and they don’t know what needs to be done to keep the shop running the right way and it got annoying. Th e only way you know things are getting done the right way is by doing it yourself,” Stansky said. “At the time, we were moving around a lot. We decided to open our own place for security, just to know that we’d be in one place. We had a certain work ethic and we wanted to share that in one sa-lon as opposed to just in a chair as individuals,” Liello added.

On April 1, 2004, Liello, Stan-sky and Sal Araimo opened Strands on Beach 115th and Beach Channel Drive. Th e salon operated at the bayside location

until Hurricane Sandy. “We lost everything in Sandy,” Liello said. Having to start over from scratch, the ladies decided to move to a brand new location. Liello and Stansky opened the brand new Strands at 104-06 Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Th e ladies say the move resulted in them los-ing some foot traffi c, but they gained use of a large parking lot, something they hadn’t had pre-viously. “Having parking is a big plus in Rockaway, especially in the summer,” Liello said.

Despite losing everything and having to start anew, the ladies have never given up on giving back. Every July, Strands is closed to regular custom-ers on one day to give back to the Wounded Warrior Project. When the warriors come to town, Strands off ers the sol-diers and their wives any ser-vice of their choice, whether it be a haircut, coloring, blowouts or keratin treatments. “It’s one of Strands’ proudest annual events. We wanted a way to give back to those who sacrifi ced so much and it gives us such a good feeling to be able to give back to them,” Liello said. Strands has also off ered their services to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, in which people cut their hair to raise money for children’s can-cer research.

As both ladies have children, they say running a hair salon and balancing family life can be a challenge. “Your weekends aren’t your own. I’ve missed things that I would do with my kids on a Saturday. We’re es-pecially busy around the hol-idays. It’s like any customer service profession. You work when everyone else is taking off . When you’re a hair styl-ist, you need to be dependable because people are relying on you,” Stansky said. “Th e client is always fi rst. We always try to ac-commodate them,” Liello said. However, serving their clients is also the most rewarding aspect. “You can really see someone come to life just by changing their color or style. People can look younger and trendier and can change their whole look and it feels good to make people feel good about themselves,” Stansky said.

Despite having such a large staff , the ladies say there is a team atmosphere among them. “When I worked at other salons, it always seemed very cutthroat and people fought over customers. We ensure that everyone works together. If someone is having trouble, no one has a problem jumping in with a curling iron. If someone needs a certain color, everyone brainstorms and fi gures out the best way to do it. Everyone works as a team because it’s all about making the custom-er happy and comfortable,” Stansky said. Th e staff is also constantly learning and grow-ing. “We always go to diff erent classes to keep up with the new products, colors and styles. Th e young girls that start here are very eager and excited to learn new things, which makes us feel inspired, too,” Stansky added.

Strands, located at 104-06 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, is open six days a week and closed on Mondays. Late night hours (until 9 p.m.) are off ered Wednesdays through Fridays. Appointments can be made by calling 718-318-1080.

Diane and Gerri


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In March of 2014, New York State enacted legislation, Chap-ter 59, which resulted in signifi -cant changes to the state’s estate and gift tax laws. Th ese changes were important because they had a potential eff ect on estate plans already in place and estate plan-ning moving forward. Eff ective April 1, 2016 the New York State estate tax fi ling threshold will be $4,187,500 for New York State residents passing on or after that date.

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On Th e Road With Rover And RosaPART 2 – HONEYMOON LAO-STYLE (ADVENTURE TALE)

By Wild Rover

In Part 1 I mentioned some of the great day trips you can take in Laos, so let me tell you about the adventure that I got us into. We wanted to do something au-thentic and maybe challenging after spending the fi rst 4 days in the mellow Luang Prabang bub-ble, so I signed us up for a 2-day tour that included an overnight homestay in a local village. We signed up for a trek at one of the storefront agencies that dot the main strip walking home from dinner, and just like that we had plans to set off the next morning. Th e itinerary included an inter-mediate 5 hour trek to the village on day 1, homestay in the village, 90 minute trek down the moun-tain to the Mekong and beginner kayak down the Mekong home. Easy enough, right?

After about a bumpy hour drive on a tuk tuk that was like a minia-ture semi-enclosed pick-up truck we began the trek into the moun-tains. We realized two things almost right away. First, wow is this going to be a beautiful hike. We passed through rolling green hills of rice paddies, streams, and pasture, dotted with the oc-casional bamboo enclosure to protect the local farmers from the sun, all without seeing barely another soul beyond a few farm-ers. Th e second thing we realized was good God this trek is going to be a helluva lot harder than in-termediate. Th e trek lasted for 6 miles, fi nishing on top of a mini mountain, which is where the village sat. Although a gradual incline for most of the trek, it still ended on the top of a mountain and would have been plenty hard in the best of conditions. Th en, throw in the fact that it was literal-ly 100 degrees and we hiked from 11-4, with 7 liters of water in our packs along with our other sup-plies, and it became the Bataan Death March. I think Lao peo-ple are so nice they don’t want to brag so they say things are easier than they are, but it wasn’t just the Western sissies, our guides were toast as well. After 3-4 MUCH needed breaks, includ-ing eating lunch under one of the

open bamboo enclosures next to a Hmong farmer, we made it to the village. Arriving at dusk to the mountaintop village shared by Hmong and Khmu peoples (we stayed on the Khmu side) was quite the experience despite our exhaustion. And of course the night was only beginning.

Th e village consisted of about 30 families/bamboo huts. No plumbing, no electricity. Th is guy really knows how to pick a honey-moon spot, huh? First things fi rst is our “shower”, which involved going down to the spring with the other villagers while Irish Rosa dumped a bucket of ice cold wa-ter on my head with me in a bath-ing suit. Very Shantaram-esque. IR used some woman tricks and somehow got cleaner than I did using only baby wipes. We have our own hut on one of the high-er hills in the village, so we have dinner as we overlook the village winding down for the day before settling in for the night at 7 pm when it gets pitch black. Only the village was settling in for the night like a block party settles down in the South Bronx. We are huddled in our mosquito net in the pitch black of our hut (thank God for iPads) while music blasts, dogs bark/wrestle, hogs roam around the elevated hut, and roosters call out to each other. All. Night. Long.

Not to mention we are already jumpy sleeping in the jungle next to all kinds of critters and crea-tures. Nothing but the best for my wife on our honeymoon. Th ank-fully we carved out 4-5 hours of sleep out of sheer exhaustion. Sunrise over the village during breakfast was a nice way to cele-brate making it through the night. It defi nitely gave us a strong in-sight into village life and an even greater appreciation for city life.

No rest for the weary though, so we trek down the mountain on a shorter but steeper route that takes an hour and a half to the kayaks. Th e kayaks were in-credible and much welcomed after the scorching trek. In true Lao fashion though the beginner kayaks include 3 decent size rap-ids with some serious rocks. Our guides are in one kayak and af-ter they make it through the fi rst rapid, they look back to see how we are doing and immediately capsize. “Beginner”. Luckily my Rockaway kayak days are stored in my muscle memory and we make it through all rapids no problem. Th at is until our guides try to dou-ble back over the tail end of the last rapid onto a spot on the banks for lunch, which puts us perpen-dicular to the current, so of course Irish Rosa and I fl ip. Up the Me-kong without a paddle. Luckily I’m

able to fl ip the boat right side up and get us back up on the kayak in calmer water. Th is is IR’s 2nd time in a kayak. Wife MVP. We actual-ly couldn’t stop laughing despite our peril and it was a welcomed cool down, so we were glad it hap-pened once back on the boat. Also in true Lao fashion the kayak trip is 4 hours long! More than half of which is through still water re-quiring serious shoulder power. Luckily it was through some of the most beautiful scenery, if not the most beautiful, we have ever seen. At one of the slow points we pass through a section of dark green jade water, framed by limestone cliff s covered in jungle rising right from the riverbanks, with no one on the river for as far as the eye could see other than a few solitary wooden canoes and fi sherman in conical hats standing in the shal-lows. It could have been the fi lm-ing location for a Jurassic Park movie. Out of this world and if it was in Costa Rica, let alone the US, it would have been packed with other tourists.

Like all great travel adventures, it had the perfect mix of beauty, mishaps, and laughs, and most importantly made for a richer understanding of the great peo-ple who had allowed us to be guests in their country and in their homes.


STOP DOT!By Allan Rosen

Th e NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) is out of control. Since Mayor de Blasio gave Commissioner Trotten-berg permission last year to ig-nore communities when Vision Zero is involved, DOT has been steamrolling their proposals without community partici-pation. Examples are traffi c changes necessitating the re-routing of the Q54 in Woodhav-en and the B36 in Sheepshead Bay. Rockaway may be next. Th e Sheepshead Bay commu-nity overwhelmingly rejected DOT’s proposals last June, and today, they are reality.

DOT is once again asking us just to trust them that their pro-posals will make streets safer when many believe the opposite is true. Not only will the streets become more dangerous, but bus commuters will also be in-convenienced. I won’t bore you with the details. If you want to read more about what is hap-pening in Sheepshead Bay just go to Change.org and search for B36 to add your voice.

Th e MTA is an innocent vic-tim here because the street traffi c changes forced by DOT is requiring the bus reroute changes. However, unlike in the past when the MTA was able to express its disagree-ments with DOT, for example when the Times Square pedes-trian plaza was built, the MTA is no longer able to disagree because the DOT Commission-er is now on the MTA Board.

Th e MTA had complained that the Times Square pedes-trian plaza added 20 minutes to bus running times costing them more money, but is not objecting to the Sheepshead Bay proposal which forces pas-sengers to walk an additional block to access the subway and places taxicabs directly in front of the subway entrance where the buses used to stop. We need to make travel easier for

bus passengers, not more diffi -cult. Having the DOT Commis-sioner on the MTA Board is a confl ict of interests. Th is needs to change.

Something else that needs to change is that we need more transparency from the MTA. Its Operations Planning Divisions (NYCT and MTA Bus) decide how much service bus routes receive. Th eir decisions are made in secret. Last Labor Day passengers waited up to one hour and three quarters for the Q35 when returning home to Brooklyn. Green Lines, the for-mer operator of the bus route, had added extra buses on the Brooklyn - Riis Park portion of the route on summer weekends which has the overwhelming majority of bus passenger traf-fi c. Th e MTA, since they took over operations in 2004, elim-inated that. Th ey also added stops increasing demand. Yet the Planning Units believe ser-vice is adequate on summer and holiday weekends. How can that be?

Could they be averaging passenger loads on rainy days when the buses are nearly empty with overfl owing loads on hot summer beach days to conclude the service is ade-quate? I can’t think of another explanation. If the MTA shared their methodology with us forthrightly, we might obtain the answer. However, like DOT, their motif operandi is - Trust us because we are the profes-sionals and we know what is best for you because you do not have the ability to think for yourselves.

Yet they make mistakes in their analyses all the time because of just plain sloppi-ness and being lazy. DOT did not even bother to run a spell check in one of their SBS doc-uments misspelling the word “Glossary” as “Glossery” not only in the text of a report, but in a big bold heading. Th ey also inaccurately measured the

width of Woodhaven Boule-vard, exaggerating its width to add justifi cation to their erro-neous conclusions.

The MTA, when justifying their 2010 bus service cut-backs, measured walking dis-tances as the crow flies as if bus passengers were able to walk through buildings and cross highways to seek alter-natives so a walk of ¾ mile was shown as a ¼ mile walk. They also ignored topogra-phy in their analyses. Another time they confused customers making a round trip with pas-sengers making a one-way trip leading to erroneous conclu-sions.

However, there is a bright spot. Unlike the planners at DOT and the MTA who are not willing to listen, the MTA’s

bus road operations unit is and really wants to do a good job. I have had discussions with them about the Q35 and I was assured that 30 addition-al bus trips will be added to the Q35 this summer as need-ed. I am not exactly sure what that means since the summer budget the MTA recently made public does not show planned changes to Q35 service. We will have and wait and see what happens.

Allan Rosen is a former Di-rector of Bus Planning for MTA NYCT and a member of the Queens Public Transit Com-mittee

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Th at said, you don’t need a spe-cial event to make an arrange-ment. A few fl owers in a bud vase

near the kitchen sink will bright-en your mood. A casual arrange-ment on the dining table will add simple beauty and enjoyment during meals. A singular rose on a side table or bathroom sink is eff ortlessly elegant. Flowers ele-vate our moods so spread them around!

Th e following are some of the fl owers that I recommend for cuttings that can be easily grown in our Rockaway soil:

Seed Form: Bells of Ireland, Snapdragon, Zinnias, Celosia, Cosmos, and branching Sun-fl owers.

Bulbs Form: Oriental Lilies, Gladiolas, Dahlias and Elephant Ears.

Herbs: Lavender, Mint, Basil and Rosemary.

Perennials: Echinacea, Black Eyed Susan, Salvia, Delphinium, Phlox and Ornamental Grasses.

Woodies: Hydrangeas, Crape Myrtle and Peonies.

Th e threat of frost seems to be over (everything is blooming two weeks ahead of schedule!), so we can start planting our seeds and fl ower bulbs in the ground. Peo-nies also need to be planted very soon as they bloom in June. Per-ennials can be planted all sum-mer long and bloom until frost. Herbs like lavender and basil like the hot weather, so I would recommend holding off plant-ing them until May 15th. When planting annuals, you may fi nd some in the markets that grow taller, like coleus. Experiment with diff erent styles and tex-tures of plants and you won’t go wrong. When you’re cutting your fl owers, make sure to cut in the morning before the heat of the sun. Place the stems in water im-mediately to avoid wilt.

When choosing your fl owers to grow and designing arrange-ments, remember there are no wrong choices or styles. Have fun and let your personality shine!

Alex is the Founder and Land-scape Designer for Sungold Design Group, LLC a landscape design and installation fi rm in Rocka-way Beach & NYC. Her website is www.sungolddesign.com and can be reached at 718-551-6333.

By Artie WallaceNo matter if it is a couple of glass

panes on a door, a vase you want to decorate or some other glass item you want to give that personal touch, adding a stained glass look can be just the project you’re looking for.

Stained glass in itself is an art, but you don’t have to master the art to get the same look.

Just follow these easy steps. Most items needed can be found at any craft store.

First: Decide on a design. You can either sketch your design on paper or recreate a design (or im-age). Your design should be big enough to cover your glass (or fi t onto the glass as desired).

Second: Clean your glass thor-oughly using alcohol and allow to dry fully. Any moisture remaining on your glass could aff ect the way your creation turns out.

Third: For windows, tape your design to the side of the glass you’re not going to paint. For vases and non-fl at surfaces you will need

to sketch your design on the glass using a permanent marker (on the side of your painting).

Fourth: Using Liquid Lead (it comes in a squeeze bottle), carefully trace the outline of your design. Using a hair dryer, partially dry the Liquid Lead then allow to fully dry over night.

Fifth: Using Acrylic Enamel Paint, paint between the lead lines to create your design. Using a translucent color paint will allow light to show through. Remember Acrylic paint holds tex-ture, so to get a deeper color apply in layers and keep brush strokes in the pattern you’re looking to create.

Sixth: After the original painting is complete and fully dried, apply addi-tional layering as needed/desired.

Seventh: Apply a clear coat (comes in a spray can) to pre-serve your creation.

Eighth: This is the most important step… Take a photo of your creation and email it to the address below.

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Lacrosse Club of Rockaway Hosts First-Ever Games

Sunday was an impressive opening day for the Lacrosse Club of Rockaway (LCR) Natives lacrosse teams as they suited up for their fi rst competition against Doc’s NYC at Fort Tilden. Both the boys and girls teams were able to experience playing in their fi rst game, and they already looked like a team after only a handful of practices. Whether it was passing the ball up and down the fi eld, cradling, scooping up ground balls, playing defense or

shooting, the determined players improved each step of the way.

During the Girl’s 5th/6th grade competition, the girls’ apprehen-sion turned to excitement as the defensive players began forcing turnovers, which allowed the of-fense to gain possession and score the fi rst goal in LCR history!

Th e 7th/8th grade girls team competed hard against a well-coached and seasoned Doc’s NYC team. Both girls teams lost hard-fought battles, but showed great

improvement and encouraged one another along the way.

Th e boys 5th/6th grade team fi nished on top after a nail-biting 1 goal game. Team members chal-lenged every ground ball and im-proved on their cradling and dodg-ing skills. From tough goaltending play, riding and clearing, and im-pressive off ense and defense, the boys put forth a full team eff ort to secure the fi rst win for the Natives.

LCR had an amazing turnout, and they are very thankful for all of their supporters- ranging from volunteer assistant coaches, dedi-cated parent-helpers, and positive enthusiasm from fans and parents on the sidelines. Th e organization is comprised of 200 boys and girls, as well as coaches native to the area including: Colleen Hickey, Ralph and Liz Bianco, Andrew Sheridan, Pat Lane, and Rob Luhrs.

With six teams total, ranging from 3rd to 8th graders, as well as two clinics for 1st and 2nd grad-

ers, each coach is focused on cre-ating a positive and fun atmos-phere, while teaching all players the fundamentals of the fastest game on two feet. “I am extreme-ly impressed with the eff ort put forth from all players, coaches, and volunteers, and I am thank-ful for all the positive feedback and support for LCR. Th e future looks bright for the Natives,” said director Mickey Blum.

Come out to see the Natives face off against their next opponent Sunday, May 1st at Fort Tilden and Beach Channel High School. For more information, please visit www.La-crosseClubOfRockaway.com.

Monaghan To Be Honored AT BUCKLEY’S – KENNEDY’SOn Sunday, May 15th, the

36th Annual Buckley’s-Ken-nedy’s 5K Charity Run will honor the memory of a member of our community who recently passed away, as well as benefit the pro-grams and services of Heart-Share Human Services of New York. The 2016 Run is dedicated to the memory of “witty, charming and kind” Brian Monaghan, a retired NYPD officer and vibrant musician who, much too soon at the age of 50, sud-denly and tragically died last year, ironically, on the same day as the Buckley’s-Kenne-dy’s Run. Brian had a gen-erosity of spirit matched by few, especially when it came to helping young mu-sicians break into the busi-ness. He and his young fam-ily brought vitality, laughter, music and hope to our com-munity, especially for those diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabil-ities. He is missed terribly. The Buckley’s-Kennedy’s 5K Charity Run is a respectful

way to pay tribute to his life, and, at the same time, help support a great cause.

As in the past, the Run will focus on raising funds to as-sist HeartShare. HeartShare continues to respond to the families in our community through its many programs, including foster care, adop-tion, youth services, low-in-come energy support, and an array of developmental disability services for chil-dren and adults – including those on the autistic spec-trum. Through its programs, HeartShare provides essen-tial services to nearly 35,000 New York children, adults and families. The Buckley family has a long and proud relationship with Heart-Share, and knows first-hand about the great services it provides to so very many at-risk children, adults and families and how those ser-vices greatly benefit our community.

To learn more about this event or to register, visit www.heartshare.org/run.

Rockaway RugbyFishheads In Final

By Ciaran O’HaraRockaway Rugby Club has

advanced to the Empire GU Championship after a huge come-from-behind win over Buff alo RFC at their lakeside lair in western New York. After driv-ing 428 miles with only 17 players (15 on the field at a time), stopping at 3am for five hours of sleep at ho-tel in Rochester before complet-ing the last leg of their journey, the Fishheads arrived at the field and prepared to do battle.

Rockaway found themselves in trouble early on in the match. A flat performance, and a couple of cost-ly penalties saw Rockaway fall to a 19-0 defi cit within 15 minutes. Th e Fishheads, however, refused to throw in the towel. Scores by out-side-center Joe Wolfer, wing Matt Perrone, and inside-center Pete Amabile, with conversion kicks by New Zealander scrum-half Jarrod Mongston, saw Rockaway wrestle the lead back from Buff alo, ending the half with 20-19 lead.

After a violent back-and-forth slug-fest between the two teams, that saw multiple goal-line stands, New Zealander 8-man, Rhys Hi-kuora, helped seal Buffalo’s fate

with a break-out, 30 meter try-scor-ing run in the middle of the second half. Buffalo, however, struck back quickly. After a long march down the field, they scored their final try, bringing the score back to within a single point at 27-26. On the final kick-off of the match, flanker Ci-aran O’Hara laid a hit on the Buffalo ball-carrier causing him to drop the ball forward- a turn-over penalty in rugby. Rockaway retained posses-sion of the ball, spending the final minutes battling their way toward the Buffalo try-line, finding them-selves within 5 meters of the Buffalo try-line when the final whistle blew. Victory was theirs.

Rockaway will face Fairfield Rug-by Club at their home field this Saturday at 1 pm in the Empire GU final. The winner will face the New England regional champion in the next round of nationals.


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Rockaway Little League RoundupBETTER WEATHER MEANS ACTION

While the weather gave a mixed bag of goods, here’s hoping Mother Nature con-tinues to shine her good weather on Rockaway Little League.

Now that we are enjoy-ing better weather, RLL is in full swing with our youngest player clinic programs. For the next few weeks, our Pee Wee Girls, (players as young as 3 years old) are learn-ing the basic mechanics of the game in a fun modu-lated environment. In just a few weeks, our little girls will be showcasing their big new skills in their upcoming games.

In other news, an excit-ing nail biter of a game was played this week by the Pee Wee Seniors as the Rock-ies won over the Pirates by a score of 11-9. The Rock-ies scored 8 runs in their last at bat to complete the big comeback. Big hits were delivered by Dylan Keegan, Matt McDonald, Danny De-Grechie and Christian Cook. Excellent fielding was han-dled by Gerardo DeBenedet-to and Owen Maloney. Sean

Byrne came in to pitch the last inning to secure the win.

Tremendous team spirit on display from both dugouts in the Minor Girls division this week as the Blue Devils shut out the Huskies in a score of 6-0. Maeve Grace did a wonderful job starting up the game with her reading of RLL’s ”We Will” team pledge. Noteworthy on the defensive were pitchers Ellen Zwer-ling and Nora Tubridy, with strong plays by Cassie Mc-Dade at shortstop and Carly Intrabartolo at third base. On the offensive, lots of de-veloping hitting talent on the BlueDevils including up-and-coming second grader Maeve Grace...what a little firecracker!!!!!! Mary Doyle continues to crack the ball and it was an inspiring team effort by all the girls!

Major Boys Rockies - Reid Hyman and Chris McElhin-ney combined for a 3 hit shutout. Game highlights include Nicholas Rodgers, 5 RBI’s, Catcher Nicholas Donohue firing a powerful throw out at second when the runner was caught steal-ing and a thrilling hit by Michael Light who just fell short of the ball going over the fence for a homerun! Great team work was on dis-play as Brendan Daugherty threw from centerfield to Nicholas Donohue at home plate to get the man out. We also want to congratulate Jake Kase on amazing game with a single, and a steal to second. Terrific hitting and fielding from the entire team!

Last but certainly not least in Minor Boys, Pirates won on over the A’s in a score of 16 to 5. Ben Gressel scored a triple and a double for the A’s while Timothy Foley had his 1st hit of the season.

We would like to thank families for their exuberance with our fundraiser efforts in conjunction with the New York Mets. Tickets were sold

out in just one day for the June 17th Mets-Braves game. All ticket-holders to receive a free Mets T-Shirt, and our little leaguers will get to go out on the field prior to the game. Stay tuned for more Rockaway Little League fundraiser events.

As part of RLL’s posi-tive coaching initiative, we shared ways to build motiva-tion in our players by quot-ing professional athletes, coaches, business leaders, authors and philosophers.

Here are a few from our collection: •“I can accept failure. Every-

one fails at something. I can’t accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan

•“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win

and not run away when you lose.” – Nancy Kerrigan

•“I played as hard as I could. That’s all I wanted to be remembered for.” – Larry Bird

•“I won’t get upset at you about a mistake. I’ll get upset at you for the next mistake that comes from still thinking about the last mistake.” – Doc Rivers

•“You are never a loser un-til you quit trying.” – Mike Ditka

•“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

•“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” –Yogi Berra

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