Weekly 10.14.16

Upcoming Meetings and Events: Fri, 10/14 - Pre-Holiday Cocktail Party Charity Fundraiser at the Glen Head American Legion Post 366; SC Museum Exhibition Opening, "Uncommon Collections, 6:30-8:30 pm; Sat. 10/15 - Friends Academy Fall Fair, 10am-4pm; Sun. 10/16 - Sea Cliff Civic Association's Starry Night, Clifton Park, 7-8 pm;

Mon. 10/17- Sea Cliff Village Board Meeting, Village Hall, 7 pm; Wed. 10/19 - Gold Coast Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 7 pm; Glen Head Glenwood Business Association Meeting, Glen Head American Legion Hall, 6:30 pm; Thurs. 10/20 - North Shore School Board Meeting, High School Library, 7:30 pm;

(click for complete calendar, including Gold Coast and Sea Cliff Library Events)

October 14, 2016

UNCOMMON COLLECTIONS AT THE SEA CLIFF VILLAGE MUSEUM

by Sara Reres, Museum Director

The Sea Cliff Village Museum opens on Friday night, October 14 from 6:30 to 8:30, with a new exhibit that honors collectors and their collections. Every corner of the museum is packed with treasures in Uncommon Collections . The new exhibit is overflowing with beautiful, odd, offbeat and thought provoking artifacts. Enjoy wine, cheese and appetizers from Metropolitan Bistro as you wander through the collector’s collections. READ MORE

SCV BOARD CONSIDERS SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO TRASH COLLECTION

October 7, 2016 -- At the Tuesday October 4 Sea Cliff Village Board Conference, Mayor Bruce Kennedy and the Village trustees discussed the possibility of making significant changes to garbage and recycling collection with a few different proposals being floated. Mayor Kennedy opened the discussion offering two suggestions for consideration. The first - to flip the collection schedule so that recyclables would be picked up twice a week, and regular garbage once a week . . . READ MORE

STATE SENATE CANDIDATE JIM GAUGHRAN TALKS EDUCATION, CORRUPTION, AND ENVIRONMENT AT LOCAL MEET AND GREET

September 29, 2016 -- "My opponent doesn’t think there’s a problem, but I do,” said Jim Gaughran, the Democratic Party’s nominee for the New York’s 5th Senate district seat, describing Albany at a “meet and greet” hosted by Glen Head resident Veronica Rock at her home on Friday, September 23. Mr. Gaughran, a Northport attorney and chairman of the Suffolk County Water Authority, who last held elective office during the early 1990’s when he served as Suffolk County Legislator after four years on the Huntington Town Board, is challenging 22-year incumbent Republican Carl Marcellino (Oyster Bay) in this November’s election to represent the Senate district that encompasses the North Shore of Long Island from Hempstead Harbor to Northport. READ MORE

EDITORIAL

BOE PUNTS ON ATHLETICS ABOVE ALL ELSE ATTENDANCE POLICY

Despite its charge to “concern itself with questions of policy,” the North Shore School Board has sidestepped that responsibility with its unwillingness to publicly discuss and consider the appropriateness of the Athletics Department interscholastic sports team attendance policy. . . . The policy is inflexible and, in many cases, the penalty draconian, and it is very questionable as to whether it is representative of the values of the community and the district as a whole. READ MORE

LETTERS

CHICKENS DO NOT MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS

Received from
Linda & Helge Langerud, Glen Cove
September 28, 2016

To the Editor:

This is a letter to the editor responding to several inaccuracies in the recent article written in Northwordnews.com about chickens on Hammond Rd.

Our neighbor on Hammond Rd (approximately 2/3 Glen Cove and 1/3 Sea Cliff) had a chicken coop constructed and housed chickens in 2015 and 2016 on the Glen Cove portion of her property with failure to adhere to existing laws. READ MORE

BLOGS

THE GREAT BOOK GURU

ANN DIPIETRO

COMMONWEALTH

Dear Great Book Guru,
Sad to say I am headed out of Sea Cliff this weekend. We are headed to Vermont for a fall foliage trip. Please recommend a good book to help me through the weekend.
Reluctant Fan of Fall Foliage
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THE GARDEN'S EDGE

BAT HOUSES AND BATS AND YOU

Summer and mosquitos and more summer and even more mosquitos. All the time… 24/7..day and night. Yes, the mosquitos have become unbearable. So what to do? Solutions that do not include soaking the planet in chemicals. Well, the answer lies in BATS! Native to Long Island but mostly disliked due to the fear of rabies, their creepy habit of sleeping upside down and those rather formidable black wings. Of course there are always vampires and Dracula who have unfortunately given these mammals a bad name. But what are they really? READ MORE

NORTH SHORE SCHOOLS ATHLETICS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS CLICK HERE

CONGRARULATIONS NORTH SHORE COMMENDED STUDENTS IN THE 2017 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

Principal, Albert Cousins of North Shore High School recently announced that Joseph Doyle, Jacqueline Thoet, and Sang Muk Yun were named National Merit Commended Students in the 2017 National Merit ® Scholarship Program. READ MORE

VIKINGS FOOTBALL 9/11 MEMORIAL GAME

The Seaford & North Shore School Districts participated in a memorial home football game on Saturday, September 11th, commencing the 15thanniversary of the tragic events that took place in multiple cities around the nation in 2001. READ MORE

NORTH SHORE ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY HOMECOMING SATURDAY OCTOBER 29

Please join us! The North Shore Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Saturday, October 29th, 2016 at 5 PM in the North Shore High School Gym. Homecoming 2016 for the North Shore School District will take place earlier in the day with the parade beginning at Glenwood Landing School at 10 AM, a Carnival for K-12 students at 10:45 AM -1:15 PM, the Pre-Game Show at 1:15 PM, Vikings Football vs. Cold Spring Harbor at 2 PM, and much more! There is something for everyone! All community members, faculty, students, and alumni are invited!
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TIPI TED TEACHES GWL ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN LIFE ON LONG ISLAND

"Tipi Ted," head of the Traveling Wilderness Museum and king of the longhouse, visited Glenwood Landing School in September 2016 to help teach students about Native American life on Long Island. This tradition is an introduction to the Native American unit of the fourth grade curriculum. READ MORE

C.R.E.W. BEGINS AT GLENWOOD LANDING

Laugh into Literacy
On October 4th, Glenwood Landing began its month long C.R.E.W. (Curious Readers Enthusiastic Writers) festival with an exciting school-wide assembly celebrating 28 years of C.R.E.W. This year, the CREW committee proudly stated that the theme was “Laugh into Literacy” inspired by guest author Darren Sardelli. READ MORE

SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES RAISES $446,000 AT ANNUAL GOLF OPEN HONORING THOMAS FANNING, DENNIS HACKETT AND CRAIG TREIBER

September 22, 2016 - More than 170 golfers teed off on September 12 for the SCO Treiber Memorial Golf Open, raising nearly $450,000 to support the work of SCO Family of Services, a provider of human services for over 100 years. The funds will be used to help SCO Family of Services provide vital services to more than 55,000 vulnerable children, teens, families, and adults with special needs each year across Long Island and New York City. READ MORE

SUPERINTENDENT EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF AUTHENTIC EDUCATION IN ANNUAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REPORT

NORTH SHORE LIKES TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT -- Athletics Director Don Lange and Superintendent Dr. Edward Melnick, standing with the district's five building principals, announce that their schools are recipients of the "Let's Move Award," the nation's top physical education and physical activity distinction for K-12 schools. North Shore's five schools were among the five hundred and forty-four across the country, and only six on Long Island, recognized for their outstanding efforts in creating an Active School environment. The award, part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Initiative, celebrates a school’s commitment to providing students with at least 60 minutes of physical activity before, during and after school each day. CLICK HERE FOR OTHER STORIES FROM OCTOBER 6 BOE MEETING

ANOTHER PARENT QUESTIONS FAIRNESS OF ATHLETICS ATTENDANCE POLICY

October 10, 2016 -- During the public comment period at this past Thursday evening’s BOE meeting, a district parent appealed to the board to change a North Shore High School Athletic Department policy that mandates that a JV or Varsity student athlete who has three unexcused absences from practices be expelled from the team. It's the third time in the past few months that a parent has expressed concerns about the inflexibility of the policy and severity of the punishment. READ MORE

SEA CLIFF CELEBRATES SEA CLIFF WITH ANNUAL MINIMART

The morning overcast sky and spritz of rain eventually gave way to a spectacular early autumn day on October 2 as thousands from near and far turned out for this year's Sea Cliff Mini Mart. And keeping with tradition, politicians schmoozed, bands performed, and the pumpkin draught flowed, as residents and visitors strolled down Sea Cliff Avenue browsing and buying the wares of more than 200 vendors selling everything from hand-crafted jewelry and Sea Cliff T-shirts, to colorful autumn wreaths and jars of honey to toys and Halloween costumes. The street fair, sponsored by the North Shore Kiwanis Club and held annually for 47 years, featured live music in front of the Fire House and local businesses as well as on some porches, driveways, backyards, and even in a barn, while local restaurants and bars offered fine food and autumn-themed thirst quenchers. And the two greatest Presidents from the once Grand Ol' Party's glorious past, as well as current candidates for state and federal office, both Democrat and Republican, in the dash to election day, only a month a way, worked the crowds, as election workers distributed bags emblazoned with bumper stickers and held signs in proud support.

SEA CLIFF CIVIC ASSOCIATION WELCOMES NEWCOMERS

The Sea Cliff Civic Association held its annual Newcomer's Party on Sunday September 25, welcoming more than three dozen of new residents to the village. Once again hosted by Association President Ann DiPietro and her husband Dan at their home on Main Avenue, guests were treated to wine, pastries, a generous array of hors d'oeuvres donated by the Metropolitan Bistro, and of course a round of the Civic Association's Sea Cliff Trivia Challenge. READ MORE

FAREWELL TO A SEA CLIFF VOLUNTEER

By Cecilia Wheeler
Barbara Murray, the Managing Editor of the Sea Cliff Bulletin since 2009, has handed in her red pen and retired from the volunteer position of producing the quarterly publication that we have all come to depend on for updates from the Mayor to photos of the Little League. The key word in that sentence is volunteer! Yes, unbeknownst to most of us, she did that unpaid job out of her love for the Village of Sea Cliff and her desire to do more than her paid part-time job as Deputy Court Clerk. READ MORE

SEA CLIFF K-KIDS CELEBRATE NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS MONTH AT ANNUAL BUDDY WALK

The Sea Cliff School K-Kids, a student organization devoted to serving the community through charitable works and other initiatives participated in this past Saturday's National Down Syndome Society's annual Buddy Walk held at Tanner Park in Copaigue. "Every year our group gets bigger and bigger," said Sea Cliff Teacher and K-Kids Adviser Mark Mihopulos. "It shows so well our community's selflessness and committment to inclusiveness." About two dozen students parents and teachers attended (most not pictured above). Mr. Mihopulos has been organizing teams for the event for the last several years now to help show support for people with Down Syndrome and raise funds for programs and servcies as well as national advocacy initiatives. The Buddy Walk was established in 1995 by the National Down Syndrome Society to celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Month in October and promote acceptance and inclusion of people with Down Syndrome.

ART AND MUSEUM EXHIBITS

ART OF JOANNE GRAY AT THE SEA CLIFF PUBLIC LIBRARY

Sea Cliff Arts Council presents it’s latest exhibit by Sea Cliff artist JoAnne Gray. JoAnne’s work can be seen during library hours at The Sea Cliff Village library from September thru the end of October. Opening for this show is on Sunday, September 18th, from 3-5pm. Joanne begins most of her collages and assemblages with an original print, which she creates from a printing plate on a small press in her Sea Cliff studio. Often on hand-made paper, her prints have limited runs. READ MORE

CHASING SHADOWS: PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS BY ROBERT ARMETTA AT HERSH FINE ART, GLEN COVE

Glen Cove, NY--Hersh Fine Art, of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, is pleased to present an exhibition of plein air paintings by Robert Armetta. The exhibition will be on view from October 8 through November 1, 2016. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Saturday, October 8, from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public. READ MORE

BEN SCHONZEIT: ABSTRACT FIGURATION ON VIEW AT THE NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART THROUGH NOVEMBER 6

On View through November 6 in
Nassau County Museum of Art’s Contemporary Gallery

Ben Schonzeit: Abstract Figuration, on view in Nassau County Museum of Art’s Contemporary Gallery through November 6, 2016 (the exhibition opened on July 30), reveals an entirely different aspect of the work of an artist who is best known as a key figure in the Photorealist movement’s first generation of artists. Ben Schonzeit: Abstract Figurationshowcases Schonzeit’s collage and sculptural work -- abstract figurations of human forms or portraits that give new life to his materials. READ MORE

THE NORTH SHORE VOTES AT NORTH SHORE HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Exhibit will run through February 18 with regular museum hours: Wednesday 2:00-6:00 and Saturdays 11:00-3:00.
The North Shore Votes!
The exhibit showcases a variety of political memorabilia and historic photographs that illustrate the many ways North Shore residents have participated in local, state and national politics. Political brochures, election guides and a garden of lawn signs complement the historical passages in this exhibit that extends beyond the political campaign to the citizen groups that work behind the scenes, and it also highlights the accomplishments of the many people who have answered the call to serve the community.

FEAST FOR THE EYES AT THE NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

July 30-November 6, 2016
Feast for the Eyes, guest curated by Franklin Hill Perrell, explores how cuisine has always inspired artists. The exhibition remains on view through November 6, 2016. Feast for the Eyes, a sweeping two-floor exhibition focused on food and dining in art, features works by a sweeping array of artists, including Audrey Flack, Red Grooms, George Grosz, Henri Matisse, Claes Oldenberg, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, among many others.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW CHILD CARE CENTER TO OPEN IN ROSLYN; OPEN HOUSE ON OCT. 15

ROSLYN, NY – A new child care center for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old is coming to Roslyn. To learn more about the center, all are invited to the Open House at Trinity Episcopal Church Roslyn Child Care Center on Sat., October 15, from 11 am- 2 pm. READ MORE

THE NORTH SHORE AUDUBON SOCIETY PRESENTS "EAGLES ON LONG ISLAND" BY MICHAEL SCHEIBEL

Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 7 PM
Manhasset Public Library
30 Onderdonk Avenue, Manhasset NY 11030
www.northshoreaudubon.org
Open to the general public.
Admission is Free.
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“DANSE MACABRE” AT CEDARMERE

The Friends of Cedarmere will host Dance Visions NY in an exciting ‘Eve of Halloween’ celebration at Cedarmere, the Historic Home of poet, journalist and civic leader, William Cullen Bryant. With both classical and contemporary dance as well as live music, narration and visual art projections, this special program is an immersion in worlds of the imagination and of the divine: of spirits and conjurers, of mythic characters and apparitions. READ MORE

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AT GLEN COVE'S CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL OCTOBER 30

Bring your dancing slippers when the six-piece rock band, Spontaneous Combustion, presents a rock “n” roll dance concert featuring top hits of the 50s, 60s and 70s on Sunday, October 30 at 7 p.m. at Congregation Tifereth Israel (CTI) in Glen Cove. READ MORE

ST. LUKES FALL BAZAAR ON NOVEMBER 5

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sea Cliff will have their annual Fall Bazaar, Saturday, November 5, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall on Glenlawn Avenue.
The Bazaar’s renowned Country Kitchen will be selling their delicious homemade array of jams, jellies, sauces, herb infused oils, BBQ sauce, fudge, peanut brittle, pies, cake and cookies. Also featured is a wheel of Vermont Made Aged Cheddar Cheese custom cut to your order.
There will be a crafts table featuring handmade items, advent calendars and French milled soaps. Our raffle table has many great prizes not to be missed, try your luck. Also there is a fantastic Unique Boutique table featuring many exquisite items for purchase. The Sunday School will be having a raffle of their own, always a lot of fun. READ MORE

LOCAL MUSIC

STILL PARTNERS
Sea Cliff, 8 PM

Thurs 10/13 - Dave Diamond - Home Before Midnight - 4 night Residency
Sat 10/15 - XXXWolf!XXX CD Release Party
Thurs 10/20 - Dave Diamond - Home Before Midnight - 4 night Residency
Thurs 10/27 - Dave Diamond

THE OAK ROOM TAVERN Sea Cliff, 8 PM

Thurs 10/13 - Rose Gunter
Fri 10/14 - Live Music - Matt Grabowski - Acoustic and Vocals
Fri 10/21 - Live Music - Kris Rice and Joe Ciampa
Wed 10/26 - Live Music - Acoustic Guitar

METROPOLITAN BISTRO, Sea Cliff

Thur. 10/13 - Josh and Craig - Classical Cellist
Fri. l0/14 - Cojunta Gringos - Cuban Music

NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART THIS OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER

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The Nassau County Museum of Art Website

NORTH SHORE HISTORICAL MUSEUM

The Election of 1924
Presented by Dr. Millie DeRiggiIn the steamy heat of July in New York, before air-conditioning, Democratic delegates met in 1924 to nominate the Party's presidential candidate. Divisions within the Party became apparent. Finally on the record-breaking 103rd ballot, they selected John W. Davis. Considered a "dark horse", Davis was an attorney living In Lattingtown near the border with Glen Cove. The North Shore of Long Island, the "Gold Coast", was a topic in the campaign. John W. Davis lost to Republican Calvin Coolidge.
Admission $10 ($5 for Museum Members)
Light Refreshments will be Served

​NEW CHILD CARE CENTER TO OPEN IN ROSLYN; OPEN HOUSE ON OCT. 15

LOCAL MUSIC

NEW CHILD CARE CENTER TO OPEN IN ROSLYN; OPEN HOUSE ON OCT. 15