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August 18, 2016

North Salem’s only weekly newspaper mailed to every home and business.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Vol. 2 No. 19
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For the love of horses
Our Farm Equine Rescue, North Salem’s haven for rescued horses
BY SUE GUZMAN
EDITOR
An encounter with the gritty
reality of horse auctions has led
Sharon Kress down a new life
path.
The lifelong lover of horses has
set up North Salem’s first and
only equine rescue called “Our
Farm Equine Rescue.” She has
made it her mission to let people
know that rescued horses are
something to be valued. Kress
said the horses brought into her
rescue are often loving companions and former race horses who
have simply been discarded by
people who don’t realize their
true value.
“This is a cause near and dear
to my heart,” said Kress, a Wilton, Conn. resident, who is planning to move to North Salem
to be closer to the rescue horses
in the upcoming weeks. “I like
going for the underdog, she explained. “When my life and career changed, I realized that this
was what I would want to do if I
won the lottery.”
Our Farm’s primary mission is
to rescue, rehabilitate and retrain
at-risk horses and give them the
best opportunity for a permanent
From left: Chloe Sheth, Mickey the horse , Lily Kress and Sharon Kress.
home with a lifetime of love and
safety.
Kress said a second mission is
to help horses and humans heal
together by partnering with local organizations that align with
the rescue’s mission, such as
therapeutic riding programs. and
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programs that enable at-risk children and adults to connect with
horses. She selected North Salem
because of the community’s deep
love of all things equine.
After making the decision to
move ahead and start the rescue
in March 2015, she took the nec-
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essary steps and obtained a 501
(c)(3) status on behalf of the rescue, and arranged to lease stalls
and paddocks at 261 Hardscrabble Road in North Salem from
Robert Tompkins, who lives on
the property.
Kress admits it’s a perfect lo-
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cation and space for her rescue
horses, adding, “This is the place
I’d wanted to be in five years!”
Over the past year and a half,
the rescue has taken in a total of
eight horses, including several
thoroughbreds. Some had lived
in deplorable conditions, others
were emaciated, still others abandoned when their owners—with
kids out of the house and no one
to ride or care for them—simply
got rid of them.
Our Farm took in the horses,
and provided them with proper
veterinary care, food, training and
TLC, so that the horses could be
put up for adoption. For those
who are unable to adopt a horse,
there is a sponsorship program.
People can choose a particular horse to sponsor and pledge
monthly support to help care for
the horse’s veterinary bills, feed,
farrier, hay and supplies.
Kress, whose background is in
marketing, has announced the
creation of a variety of fall programs, to enable children, teenagers and adults to get hands-on
experience with horses, while at
the same time supporting those
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Associated Bridle Trails kicks
off its 2016 Fall Pace Series beginning on Sun. Sept. 11, with
the Bedford Riding Lanes Association Fall Pace at the beautiful
John Homestead historic site in
Katonah, NY.
The Series is presented by six
area trail associations and gives
riders the opportunity to compete for Associated Bridle Trails
series trophies by scoring the
most points across the six paces,
in addition to earning ribbons
and prizes at each individual
event.
The series continues on Sun.
Sept. 18 with the Middleberry
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Farm-to-Table meets farm-to-keg at North Salem orchard
round out his meal.
“The eggs,” exclaimed MaryAnn
Gandolfo, a regular customer who
When the Covino family pours
does her produce shopping at Hara glass of hard cider, customers
vest Moon. “If you ever want to
know exactly where the ingredients
taste delicious eggs you have to get
come from. They just have to look
a dozen eggs here. There’s nothing
out the window.
like it.”
The hard cider is made from
Gandolfo, of Brewster, is one of
apples on-site, which grow in an
140 Community Supported Agriorchard just 200 feet from the cider
culture (CSA) members who shop
tasting room within their family
at Harvest Moon.
business, Harvest Moon Farm and
“Customers sign up with us in
Orchard in North Salem, mainly
the early spring,” Christine said.
known as a pick-your-own-apple
“They pay in full for a share of
orchard.
what we’re growing that season.”
The peaches, nectarines, strawThose funds help pay the costs of
berries and other ingredients that
planting, seeding and the labor inflavor their Fruit of the Farm cider,
volved after the slow winter. Then
one of several farm-to-keg concocin July when everything is growing,
tions on sale, are also grown just
CSA members start picking up a
behind the tasting room, which
box of produce once-a-week for
features up to eight beers on tap
either 13 or 18 weeks.
and a well-vetted collection of local Marisa Tartaglia serves a customer Fruit of the Farm, one of Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard’s farm-toA favorite of the staff, Gandolfo
wines and spirits.
was excited about the addition of
keg hard ciders.
“Everything is done right here,”
the tasting room.
said Alex Covino, who owns Har“This year it’s full blown, it’s all
vest Moon with his parents, Robert and Ursula Covino. Chiera, Hardscrabble Cider is in full swing.
done and the patio is beautiful,” she said, her energy as crisp
“We’re not outsourcing anything. Every bottle is filled by
Right now their bottled hard ciders include an original and fresh as the produce in her wicker basket. “Just to come
hand. Every label is put on by hand. Every cap is sealed by blend called The Standard, a dry, a cranberry and a citra, here and get a cup of coffee, or cider, or whatever. You sit
hand. It’s just nice knowing every step of the way we’re put- which is made with citra hops.
outside and it’s just so great, and it’s right around the corner.”
ting our hard work into it.”
The patio right outside of the tasting room is also a new
“I don’t like hoppy beers, but I like that one,” Christine
Robert and Ursula bought the property at 130 Hard- said.
addition, opening in June.
scrabble Road about 11 years ago from the Outhouse family,
“We’re a tasting room,” Chiera said, “so, we don’t want
They just released bottled Fruit of the Farm last week.
who had also run it as an orchard for decades.
Of their seven taps, six are beers from local breweries or people hanging out at the bar all night… It’s a nice spot to
“Harvest Moon is my father-in-law’s dream,” said Alex’s cideries, and they rotate one of their “experimental” Hard- grab a panini, grab a beer, sit outside, relax.”
wife, Christine Covino, who manages the store.
And with the pick-your-own apple orchard’s peak season
scrabble ciders. This week, they are rotating in an “experiRobert, who also owns Hardscrabble Nursery just the mental” beet cider flavored with local beets.
in the fall just around the corner, the patio, along with the
down the street, has worked in landscaping and horticulture
“And the coolest thing about the beet is when it soaks in orchards will see a lot more traffic. They hold festivals every
his entire life. But, learning about healthy eating and organic the cider it turns the cider into a magenta color,” Alex said. weekend starting Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 through October.30.
food in recent years got him thinking about how he could “It almost looks like someone soaked a highlighter in it. It’s
“There’s thousands of people that come here and we literbolster this movement in his community in North Salem.
really cool looking.”If an “experimental” is a hit they may put ally can’t accommodate all the people that come,” Christine
The Covinos re-opened the orchard as Harvest Moon in it into production to be bottled the following winter, Alex said, citing the first three weekends in October as the “crazi2011.
said. They produce all of their hard cider for the year in the est.” “People take the train and walk two miles on Hard“Ever since then we’ve just been expanding and growing winter because it’s their slowest time.
scrabble road to get to us.”
more produce and growing more animals, expanding our
The Covinos attribute the success of their tasting room to
Harvest Moon was able to get a license to sell alcohol
chicken coops so we can keep up with the egg demand,” more easily thanks to the farm winery law passed by New word of mouth generated during last year’s highly attended
Christine said, adding that they have cows, pigs and chick- York State in 2012. It allows farms to produce and sell wine, fall festivals.
ens right now. “So, that is my father-in-law’s whole vision beer and spirits all in one place, provided it is produced using
“We got just great feedback from people,” he said. “A
for this farm, is supporting the local community.”
products grown in New York State. After Harvest Moon young family comes with their kid and they can grab a glass
Producing hard-cider is the latest addition to their menu. got their license in 2014, Alex and Kevin took an intensive of cider and head out to the orchard. People like that, it adds
Alex and his brother Kevin, who also manages Harvest cider making course, which Alex said brought their cider to a new dimension to apple picking.”
Moon’s farm operations, head up the Hardscrabble Cider a professional level.
Harvest Moon is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week,
portion of the business. With about 17,000 bottles made
“Cider is more like making wine than making beer,” except in the winter, when it is open only Saturdays and
so far this year, according to the tasting room manager Paul Chiera said. “You’re pressing your fruit; you’re getting your Sundays.
juice; adding it to a fermentation tank; adding the yeast; letting it kind of do its job; and you’re decanting it later on like
you would a wine.”
The tasting room has been open for one full year and the
entire Covino clan is clamoring about its potential.
“Making our own alcohol out of our own apples and
selling it on the premises, it’s like, what’s cooler than that?”
Christine asked.
Alex says that “cool factor” is drawing in a different crowd.
“It’s bringing in younger people,” he said. “People that
wouldn’t normally just stop by the farm to grab vegetables
are now coming by to have a drink.”
And while this new generation of customers is enjoying
their hard cider, Alex and the staff take that opportunity
to teach them about their locally-sourced produce, which
make up, not only the alcohol, but their food selections. Using their own produce and meats, Harvest Moon boasts a
Photos: Brian Donnelly food menu that includes bacon, egg and cheese, burgers and
an array of paninis and salads. Chiera raves about the ham- A “Cider Flight” gets you four 5-ounce glasses of Harvest
Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard in North Salem
burger, but said his favorite lunch item is grilled cheese and Moon Farm and Orchard’s bottled hard ciders.
handcrafts a variety of hard ciders that are offered in its
tasting room.
a salad. In the fall he said he’ll add a Harvest Moon soup to
By Brian Donnelly
Contributing writer
EQUINE
FROM PAGE 1
cue even more.
It includes a TLC Kids Club,
a series of classes designed to
teach children ages 8-13 about
basic care of horses, including horsemanship, grooming,
handling and feeding as well
as horse equipment. The program promises students will
learn teamwork and make new
friends while enjoying super-
vised interaction with one of
Our Farm’s rescues.
For teenagers, there is a
“Young Leaders” mentor program in which high school and
college students will receive
leadership skills under the
guidance of senior volunteers,
trainers and guest equine experts, while at the same time
mentoring the younger children in the Kids Club.
And for adults, there is a basic horsemanship program as
well, which will run throughout the fall. Participants will
be taught basic horse care including grooming, handling,
feeding and equipment. The
adult program also includes
seminars and demonstrations
from trainers, veterinarians and
hunter/jumpers.
In addition to the fall workshops and sponsorships available, the rescue holds frequent
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supplies, riding gear as well as
equine art created by local artists. They also offer custom pet
or horse portraits that people
can purchase to help rehabilitate a horse.
Seeing the plight of horses sent to slaughter was an
eyeopener for Kress, who says
many of the rescue’s horses
come from an auction facility
in New Holland, Penn., where
horses are purchased at the going meat price, and then sent
to Canada or Mexico to be
killed. It is illegal to slaughter
horses in the United States.
Kress says there are women
involved in rescues across the
country who canvas the auctions and raise money to “pull”
the horses from the auctions,
either by bidding directly for
them or purchasing them from
so-called “kill buyers” whose
sole purpose is to resell the
horse at top dollar for meat.
Over 170,000 horses are put
up for auction annually in the
United States, with many of
them going to slaughter after
being purchased by so-called
“kill buyers” who sell them to a
third party that slaughters the
horses for meat.
“Growing up riding horses
here and in San Diego, I rode
rescues, and saw firsthand that
they are not old and broken or
have something wrong with
them, Kress said, “Even when
I was a teenager, I rode an Argentinian polo pony who was
a wonderful alternative for me
who couldn’t afford a $30,000$100,000 horse.” Such horses
can range in price from as little
as $200 on the auction block,
to $1,200 if the price is marked
up by the “kill buyer” to resell
to a rescue.
The money used to purchase
the horses is known colloquially as “bail,” Kress said.
The entire process is abhorrant to Kress who said, “In
most cases, these horses have
lived as someone’s riding partner, companion, athlete, work-
er, and friend. None of them
deserves to be jammed into
crowded trailers and killed for
animal and human consumption.”
Once the horses are safe with
a rescue, such as “Our Farm
Equine Rescue,” arrangements
are made for transportation,
either using a horse trailer or
someone who offers the rescue
a discount to bring the horse to
safety. Kress admits she would
“like to save them all” and is
working on a business model
in which she rescues horses, rehabilitates them and re-homes
them and has other ways to
fund expensive things such as
veterinary care, medicines as
well as food and shelter.
The Humane Society of the
United States, in its fact sheet
about horse slaughter, characterized the industry staying,
“Horse slaughter was never
and cannot be humane because of the nature of the industry and the unique biology
of horses. Slaughter is a brutal
and terrifying end for horses,
and it is not humane. Horses
are shipped for more than 24
hours at a time without food,
water or rest in crowded trucks.
They are often seriously injured or killed in transit. Horses are skittish by nature (owing
to their heightened fight-orflight response), which makes
accurate pre-slaughter stunning difficult. As a result,
horses often endure repeated
blows and sometimes remain
conscious during dismemberment—this is rarely a quick,
painless death.”
Kress said she has big plans
for Our Farm Equine Rescue
and that they are committed
to finding homes for its existing horses and to expand and
take in additional ones. “We
can’t save every horse, but every
horse does matter and each life
is important,” she said.
To adopt or sponsor a horse
visit http://www.ourfarmequinerescue.org/.
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Grace (Gigi), a light chestnut mare rescued from a kill buyer in
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY—AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Housing monitor Johnson resigns
BY BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER
Says replacement may need years to resolve dispute
‘I don’t know what kind of impact that will have. We’ll have
to see how it shakes out, who they appoint, how that person
operates, and what their priorities are. Hopefully we will be
able to continue to work to address the (housing) settlement
and address our obligations.’
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
James Johnson, the federal
court-appointed monitor overseeing construction and promotion of
affordable housing in Westchester,
resigned from the position Aug.
10—the seventh anniversary of his
appointment.
In his exit letter, Johnson said
Westchester County still has a
long way to go to comply with the
requirements of its 2009 settlement with the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
(HUD).
Primarily, the county must have
funding in place for 750 affordable
housing units in 31 mostly white
communities by the end of this
year. While there was much dispute
along the way, both parties agree
that requirement is nearly complete. What the county has failed
to do, Johnson said, is “create, fund
and implement” an adequate public
education campaign. It has also not
submitted an Analysis of Impediments (AI) to fair housing that is
“acceptable to HUD,” he wrote.
“Accordingly, the new monitor
should recognize that the assignment may extend for months, if
not years, beyond the end of year,”
Johnson wrote.
The reports included in Johnson’s
analysis are intended to identify
racial and socio-economic “barriers” in municipal zoning codes. The
county said in a statement June 20
that it had submitted—and HUD
rejected—eight analyses amounting to thousands of pages.
Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino charges
that HUD failed to read all of the
reports before scrapping them.
Though the county detailed watershed issues in the 2010, 2011 and
2013 AI reports, Astorino said, a
HUD regional administrator recently told the County Board of
Legislators that the agency was
not aware of watershed issues until
2014.
“It is hard to know whether
HUD has been lying to the public, is incompetent, or both,” Astorino said. “In any case, HUD owes
Westchester some honest answers
to explain its behavior,” explainedCounty Board Chairman Michael
Kaplowitz, explained adding that
the county has a “pretty good shot”
to finalize the 750 units by year’s
end. He said he “is less optimistic”
about the AI dispute being resolved anytime soon.
In 2014, as the war of words between Astorino and HUD dragged
on, Kaplowitz asked Johnson to
-Francis T. Corcoran
Westchester County Legislator
James Johnson
complete his own reports and submit them to the county. The reports
determined that 10 municipalities
in Westchester had “exclusionary
zoning.”
Westchester County Legislator
Francis T. Corcoran, who represents North Salem, said he’s cautiously optimistic about a change
in housing monitors.
“I don’t know what kind of impact that will have. We’ll have to
see how it shakes out, who they
appoint, how that person operates and what their priorities
are. Hopefully we will be able to
continue to work to address the
(housing) settlement and address
our obligations.”
Many municipal leaders have
worked with the monitor on altering its zoning and five of the
10 municipalities were eventually
removed from the list. Kaplowitz
said this is proof that the “sky is
not falling,” as Astorino makes it
sound.
“Of the 43 [municipalities], 38
are now in the clear,” Kaplowitz
said. “Housing has reaped tremendous benefits. We have made
progress and we have moved in a
good direction there. There’s still
work to be done.”
In his biennial report submitted in April, Johnson said four
municipalities (Somers, Yorktown, North Salem and Cortlandt) are home to 41.5 percent
of the affordable housing units
built as part of the settlement.
Kaplowitz said he does not
think Johnson’s departure will
dramatically change the housing
dispute one way or the other.
“It’s a new umpire,” he said.
“The strike zone might be slightly different but it’s the same
game.”
No replacement for Johnson
had been announced as of Tuesday morning.
Sue Guzman contributed to this
article.
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immigrants
t is not easy to emmigrate from
your native country and make
a new life for yourself and your
family in a strange new country. It
is heartbreaking to leave the home
and the area where your family
has lived for sometimes hundreds
of years, and make a new home
among strangers who don’t speak
the same language you speak, or
have the same customs your family
has practiced for many years before
you were born.
The history of the United States
is really a history of immigrants.
We are the descendants of people
who came to the area we now call
the United States, either recently, or
many years or centuries ago. They
were all immigrants even many
years and many centuries long ago.
According to historians, the
people we now call American Indians or Native Americans were also
immigrants many thousand years
ago. We can’t call these people Indians because their ancestors certainly
didn’t come from the peninsula in
South Asia we now call India. The
name “Indian” comes from explorer
Christopher Columbus’ false assumption that the land near the
Caribbean was really part of India.
The real India is many thousand
miles away in Asia.
According to some scientists,the
first humans came to the Americas
from what is now Siberia across
a land bridge called the Bering
Straits. No one seems to know if
there were humans here before this
migration. Scientists believe modern human beings evolved in Africa
and gradually spread into Asia and
Australia. Some time after they
reached the Pacific coast of Asia,
they crossed the Bering land bridge
to the west coast of North America.
From there they are believed to
have spread all over North America
over the centuries, and later all over
South America to the tip of that
continent on the Antarctic Sea.
These were the people we now call
Indians.
There was no significant mass
migration to the Americas until
about the year 1000 A.D. when
Scandinavians began to come
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across Iceland and Greenland
to northeastern North America.
They made permanent settlements
in Iceland and Greenland and
attempted to settle in what is now
eastern Canada.
Of course the floodgates of
European immigration opened
beginning in 1492 when Columbus
made his historic voyage to the
West Indies, opening the doors to
Spanish domination of much of
what was called the New World.
Since that time, and even up to the
present time, immigration to the
Americas has never stopped. Individuals and whole families and even
people affiliated only by religion or
nationality have come here to get a
better life and to accumulate wealth
and status. They also came to escape
oppression and racial, religious or
nationalistic discrimination.
An example would be my wife,
Gloria’s grandfather. He left Russia
at the age of 15 to avoid being
drafted into the Russian army for
25 years. He had to sneak across the
Russian border into Germany and
walk many hundreds of miles to the
North Sea ports of Hamburg or
Bremerhaven to get on a ship going
to America. He had no money but
he volunteered to be a coal stoker to
pay for his passage.
I am one of the children of immigrants. My father came to New
York with his family from Romania
when he was 5-years-old. My
mother sailed with her family from
Russia when she was only 3-yearsold. They all became American
citizens and now many years later
we are all just as equal Americans
as the people whose ancestors came
over on the Mayflower. So we don’t
want anyone to build a wall to stop
other people from becoming loyal
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OPINION
I
have an anniversary next
month: Number 33, thank
you. But before Elyse and I
reach that milestone, I have to
navigate three other wives, a couple of whom are millstones. Or
are written that way, at least.
Some folks belong to a bowling league or look forward to
a regular poker game. I get my
off-hours jollies by acting. My
real-life wife, Elyse, will tell you
that, on occasion, my on-stage
theatrics find their way home,
far from the footlights, when
I might act overheated in the
course of a conversation. “Stop
acting!” she will implore me.
(Ironically, it’s the exact same
two words we are taught to abide
by as actors. The point is to act
natural, rather than be, as Elyse
calls it, a “dramarama.”)
This coming weekend, I am
acting in a summer workshop
that features 12 original, highly
inventive and entertaining oneacts by home-grown playwrights.
As fate—and the casting director—would have it, I play three
husbands in three different
pieces. Hey, practice makes
perfect! (I wish.)
Different though they may
be, the plays (and the couples)
resonate with truisms about
marriage that audiences quickly
will recognize and relate to. I
know being in these pieces has
made me think harder—even
after 33 years—about some of
my antics through those years,
and the adage that it’s never too
late to change for the better.
Two of the three male spouses
are not the nicest guys you’ll ever
meet. I like to think that means
those roles, for me, are quite a
long stretch, and have me cast
“against type,” as they say in
show biz.
Take hellacious Herman.
First, he cracks and poisons wife,
Myrna. Her crime? For 37 years,
she never let him get a word
in edgewise. Myrna heads to
Heaven. Then, realizing he literally can’t live without her, Herman poisons himself. He goes
somewhere south of Heaven,
and it ain’t the South Pole.
All is not lost for Herm,
though. He has one shot at a
transfer to Heaven, and Myrna
holds the key. “It’s About
Forgiveness,” as the play’s title
states. Written by Albi Gorn
of Hastings-on-Hudson, it’s a
clever, tender piece that, beneath
its antic surface, has a poignant
message for all marriages. Myrna
is played by Anna Fawcett of
Mount Kisco.
On the lighter side is Charlie,
who invites divorced co-worker
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Dave ( Jeff Callan of Montrose)
to a blind date dinner at his
house to meet Charlie and Alyssa’s single neighbor, Bianca. As
soon as Dave arrives, he makes it
quite obvious he’s quite different,
and we’re off to the races.
Suffice it to say that Bianca
( Jean Cudjoe of Sleepy Hollow)
keeps asking Charlie for more
wine, while Charlie keeps his
bottle of Scotch nearby, and his
wife Alyssa (Laurie Bonante of
Somers) just wants everyone to
have a good time. The breezy
10-minute play is “Like a Virgin”
by Stephen Baluzy of Brookfield,
Conn.
Then there’s my third character, Harry, who is self-conscious
not only about his own weight,
but also about the weight of his
mate, Eleanor, played by Marilyn
Collazo of Ossining. We join
the lovebirds (or so it seems) as
they begin a meal at American
Bounty, a gourmet restaurant
at the Culinary Institute of
America (the “other” C.I.A.) in
Hyde Park.
Harry and Eleanor have different cultural tastes. He reads
Proust, she reads People. He’s
highly regimented, she goes with
the flow. Those and other differences are teased out during their
dinner conversation.
The couple has been immersed
in one of those holistic fitness
regimens that combine a diet,
exercise and coach.
When Eleanor announces, just
as the entree is served, that she
secretly has abandoned the strict
diet, Harry loses his appetite and
his patience. As the ending suggests, he also may lose Eleanor,
who suddenly finds her true
identity and, along with it, her
independence.
The appetizing play is aptly
titled “Loss.” It’s by award-winning playwright Howard Meyer,
formerly of Yorktown, who now
resides in Poughkeepsie. He is
the founding artistic director of
Howard Meyer’s Acting Program, a drama school that puts
on the summer workshop. It is
an affiliate of Mr. Meyer’s Axial
Theatre, a professional company
headquartered in Pleasantville.
Those three ladies I act alongside are what’s known as “stage
wives.” At the end of the day,
it’s my off-stage spouse, Elyse,
who keeps me well-directed, and
forever grateful that she’s by my
side and has my back. I am not
worthy, but don’t tell anyone,
please. If Elyse were to exit stage
left, it would be curtains for me.
There are nine other playlets
in the acting workshop program,
which is titled “Second Chances”
to thematically connect the unrelated pieces. In addition to the
aforementioned actors, Northern
Westchester is well represented
on stage with Catherine Banks
of Ossining, and Yorktowners
Andrea Aboulafia, Dan Forman,
and William C. Saldanah, along
with me. Also, Stephanie Gualtieri of White Plains, Krisana
Soponpong of Yonkers, Emily
Aronoff of Pelham, and Patricia
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Signage needs to be balanced
To the North Salem Chamber of Commerce and North Salem Town Board,
During my tenure as town supervisor the question of business signage was discussed.
At the time I stressed that our town is a living, breathing entity and rather than preserve
it as something desiccated under glass, the town signage should serve the current needs
of the community.
At the same time, we do have a desire to preserve the rural nature of our community,
which makes North Salem a somewhat unique and an enjoyable place to thrive.
In order to address the entire spectrum of our needs and desires, I would propose that
we require signage of a colonial design in keeping with our town’s history and the usage
of color combinations generally recognized as those used during our area’s colonial era.
The question of the safety of roadside business signage should be easily addressed by the
building inspector in conjunction with the advice of the highway superintendent.
Sy Globerman
North Salem
Geller wrong on Giuliani
To the Editor,
On reading my old buddy Herb Geller’s column on Mayor Giuliani two thoughts occurred to me.
First of all, Herb states that he still calls Rudy Giuliani by the title of mayor. As a longtime newspaperman Herb should be aware that once elected to any position the title of
the office becomes a lifelong title. As for Giuliani having the unofficial title of “America’s
Mayor”, I believe that the valor and leadership, which he exhibited at ground zero on 9/11
and during the months following, have earned him the continuation of that title also.
More important is the last paragraph of Herb’s column in which he suggests that
Mayor Giuliani’s vocal support of Donald Trump might erase the recognition of Mayor
Giuliani’s peerless stewardship of New York City, having restored it from the cesspool into
which it had deteriorated.
It is this very type of denigration of people who have opposing views and opinions that
is tearing our country asunder and has resulted in the bitterness between segments of our
population to the point that we now have a non-functioning Congress.
Sy Globerman
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E
very couple of years, I always wish I of people assuming things about me that
had time to watch the Olympics, but are primarily true. The Luxembourg team
I just don’t. That’s why I usually end promenaded through the arena. That’s a
up apologizing to my boss that some stuff place where you always feel like you overdidn’t get done because
paid for something, but I
I was watching the
can’t put my finger on it.
Olympics. I checked out
Spain entered, wearing
ON
the opening ceremoASSIGNMENT Panama hats that made
nies, which were rivetthem look like they just
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ing, because I love the
came from somebody’s
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pageantry. I don’t know
50th birthday party.
exactly what pageantry
Chinese Taipei was there,
is, but I love it.
a country smart enough to
My favorite is the
include their blood type
“Parade of Nations.” People walked into
right in the name. You never know when
the arena from every country in the world, there might be some kind of mishap with
which was already amazing because not
the javelin throw or something.
every country is within walking distance.
Samoa, where they make great Girl
There were oddly-dressed people on large
Scout cookies, by the way. Micronesia was
tricycles leading each country’s team in;
represented. You have to root for their
people that looked like they would have
country to grow so you can at least see it.
been asked to leave if it were any place
Kazakhstan had a team. I tried to use Kaother than Rio. I felt like a character in
zakhstan in Scrabble once but it wasn’t in
“Alice in Wonderland,” only I had eaten
the Scrabble dictionary and I lost my turn,
the wrong dosages of things. Sometimes it so I am rooting against them, obviously.
looked like a group of people had wandered France strolled in wearing some slightly
in looking for Pokemon Go. Other times it goofy-looking outfits. Those bon vivants
looked like Pokemon had already gone.
looked like tourists for once.
The athletes were videotaping everyone
The president of the Olympic Comin the audience, and everyone in the audimittee gave a speech. I was watching it on
ence was videotaping the athletes. There
television in a bar, and my Spanish lanwasn’t anyone in the arena with more than guage lip-reading isn’t as good as it could
one eye showing. Which is sad because
be, but it was obvious to me that he was
if you think about it, this is basically the
quoting from a Michelle Obama speech
cream of the crop of the human race; just
from 1998.
about everyone on the floor of the arena
There wasn’t one person there who
has achieved great feats through their body didn’t look like they were having the time
and skills. Hardly anyone was there because of their life, and that alone was refreshing.
of their great personality.
I heard all these stories that Brazil was
Some countries were so small, they
in shambles, and the corruption, and the
only had a couple of athletes, maybe a
Zika virus, and the pickpockets, and the
ping-pong player and a guy who is really
doping scandals, and the blah-ba-di-blahgood at playing the trombone, which is
ba-di-blah. As each delegation walked in,
not a recognized Olympic event, at least
and no one said the word “Trump” even
not yet. I don’t want to seem like more of
once, I realized that Rio might not be so
an ignoramus than usual, but there are so
bad after all.
many countries that you just flat-out forget
are even out there.
Say hello at: [email protected]. Watch
Djibouti, for instance. The harder I try
the cutest dog in the world in “Gidget gets
to pronounce it correctly, the harder I get
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wrights represented are Evelyn Mertens
of Briarcliff, Robin Anne Joseph of
Hastings-on-Hudson, Gabrielle Fox of
Yorktown, and Ed Friedman of New
Rochelle. Also Lloyd Pace and Linda
Giuliano of Manhattan, and Lori Lowe
of Brookfield, Conn.
“Second Chances” performances are at
Axial Theatre’s space at 8 Sunnyside Ave.
(St. John’s Episcopal Church), Pleasantville. There are two programs featuring
six plays each; show times for Part 1 are 8
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p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, and 2 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 20; show times for Part 2 are 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 20, and 4 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 21. All tickets are $15. For workshop reservations or information on fall
classes and future workshops, those interested can call 914-286-7680 or inquire at
[email protected].
Looking ahead, this Nov. 4-20, Axial
Theatre will present Howard Meyer’s
searing new work, “Maybe Never Fell,”
about present-day inheritors of the
Holocaust in America and Germany who
are coming to grips with their interlocked
legacies.
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OPINION
The age-old question: nature or nurture?
Hello Dr. Linda,
I am a nurture practitioner in Wales, Great Britain,
working with a varied group,
i.e., ADHD, ADD, ASD,
AP, dysgraphia, dyslexia,
dyscalculia, etc.
The children I work with
are from low socioeconomic
backgrounds. The majority
have rarely, if ever, been to a
shop let alone know any value
of monetary significance.
They haven’t experienced a
beach, a different village/
town. They rarely experience a
park or extracurricular activities.
May I ask in your opinion
if there may be a rise in all
the above additional needs
due to environments or
whether environmental placing creates mirrored needs?
I find it all a bit of a struggle
with the knowledge of educational needs versus educating
society.
I would love to hear your
thoughts.
Sarah F.
Dear Sarah,
Basically, you’re asking an
age-old question. For a child to
drugs and alcohol on child deSTRONG
velopment, but it doesn’t stop
LEARNING there. Once a child is born, if
he’s spoken to, held, attended
DR. LINDA
to and fed well is at an advanSILBERT
tage compared to a child who
suffers from malnutrition or
neglect.
succeed in life, what will influSchool achievement is the
ence his or her success more— same. The child who is read
nature or nurture? From all my to at an early age develops
years of experience, I believe
language early. In most cases,
it’s a combination of both.
they will be able to pick up
Nature plays a large role
reading easily and quickly.
in cognitive development, as
Although the speed of learning
with other parts of the brain.
is impacted, even if the child
Dyslexia and difficulty with
has inherited dyslexia or other
certain math issues, for inbrain-related dysfunctions, the
stance, appear to have strong
child who is nurtured has a
genetic relationships, as well as greater chance of overcoming
memory and aptitude.
the obstacle.
However, so does nurture.
No matter how much
Whereas nature may deterpotential they may have at
mine the potential of brain
birth, children whose parents
development, nurture, in my
are unable either through
opinion, determines whether
ignorance, absence or financial
or not a child will attain that
challenges to give them the
potential. That’s why two chil- same learning experiences as
dren with similar initial intelchildren in intact families are
lectual potential at birth can go at a disadvantage. For example,
through school, one achieving vocabulary suffers and in turn
and one failing.
so does phonetic decoding of
Most of us are aware of the
words. If you’ve never seen an
pre-natal effects of nutrition,
apple, no connection is made
between the letters in the word
and the object it represents,
and no changes occur in the
brain. Learning anything
new—no matter what subject
area—requires that new neurons are developed in the brain
(nature) and that we are able to
connect that learning to things
we either already know or have
experience with (nurture).
In short, as I said above, the
success of a child and how far
he or she will go depends on
both nature and nurture and
the interaction between the
two.
Dr. Linda
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A birthday celebration in honor of Support Connection’s 20
years of service to the
community was held
last Wednesday at The
Briarcliff Manor.
The Yorktown-based
not-for-profit organization, which provides
support to breast and
ovarian cancer patients, was founded in
July 1996. In the two
decades since Support
Connection was established, it has helped
thousands of women
and families cope with
the challenges that result from a breast or
ovarian cancer diagnosis.
Purdys resident Dottie McHugh was recently named an embassador for Support
Connection’s
annual
Support-A-Walk.
Support Connection’s
co-founders,
Nancy
Heller and Rich Adamski, both of Yorktown
Heights, were on hand
for the festivities, as was
founding Executive Director Katherine Quinn
of Shrub Oak.
“It’s hard to believe
that 20 years has gone
by,” Quinn said.
The celebration included
unlimited
wine, cheese and hors
d’oeuvres. There were
also music, raffles and,
of course, a birthday
cake.
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Henry Harde, Margaret Harde and Gerry Tiberi enjoy the food.
Deborah Walker, Linda Wiesz, Kathy Michel and Joanne Amorese
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ticket in the
bag.
Tom and
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PHOTOS: DEENA BELL
Falk, Boak to face off in Democratic senate primary
Winner will face Murphy in general election
By Bob Dumas
contributing Editor
Two Democrats will face off
in a Sept. 13 primary to see
who will challenge incumbent
Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy to represent the 40th Senate District.
Attorney Andrew Falk, a Patterson resident, will face former
Pound Ridge Councilwoman
Alison Boak in the Democratic
contest.
Andrew Falk
This is not Falk’s first attempt
to reach the state legislature.
He was twice defeated by incumbent Assemblyman Steve
Katz, a Yorktown resident, in
2012 and 2014. Last November,
he fell short in his bid for Patterson town supervisor.
“Every time I’ve run, I’ve
done better than the previous
time,” Falk said. “This is like a
grassroots type of thing. There
were so many people encouraging me to get into this race, and
I feel I get the opportunity to
carry the flag for a lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t be
able to have a voice. If [winning
elections] was easy, we’d all be
state senators.”
Falk said he continues to run
for office because the “issues are
the same” since he first ran four
years ago.
“Since day one, I’ve been
fighting for the middle class,”
Falk said. “It has not gotten any
better up in Albany.”
Falk, who runs a law office
in Brewster, said his number
one priority is ethics reform.
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limits.
“There are loopholes you can
drive a truck through,” he said.
“People apparently are trying to
walk as close to the line without
going over, and that’s not ethical.”
Falk criticized Murphy, who
ran on the Stop Common Core
ballot line in 2014, for not doing enough to eradicate the
education reform. He also said
he would support raising the
minimum wage, but only if
businesses receive tax cuts.
During the campaign, Falk
said he plans on closing his law
practice. If elected, he said he
would not take on any new clients and would be a “full-time”
state senator.
Alison Boak
Boak served a four-year term
on the Pound Ridge Town
Board from 2011 to 2015.
Her resume also includes her
creation of a multi-disciplinary
task force to coordinate a community response to human trafficking in Westchester County;
she’s been an international advocate and activist for exploited youth for more than 20
years,She also served on Bedford Central School District’s
Subcommittee on School District Budget Comparisons and
is a co-founder of the Pound
Ridge Partnership. She was a
Girl Scout troop leader from
2009-13 and a Peace Corps
volunteer from 1994-96. She
received a Masters of Public
Health degree from the Joseph
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L. Mailman School of Public
Health at Columbia University
in 1998 and graduated magna
cum laude with a Bachelor of
Arts from SUNY Albany in
1993.
The former councilwoman lists restoring public trust
in Albany; the environment;
women’s equality; college affordability; reducing taxes, and
building strong communities as
the key points of her campaign
platform.
“I was ask to run by a number
of committee chairs and elected
officials,” she said of her decision to enter the senate race.
“What inspired me to run is I
am fed up with Albany politicians’ corruption. I am tired of
having these politicians being more interested in helping
themselves than helping the
people of their districts.”
Boak said she has a welldocumented history of fighting
corruption due to her experience fighting human trafficking,
“I am the only candidate with
experience taking on corruption,” she said. “In my experience with human trafficking
work in 22 countries, I have had
to work with corrupt governments, corrupt police forces and
organized crime. I have had to
take that on.”
Boak said she has taken the
Clean Conscience Pledge,
which calls for her to limit her
outside income and conflicts
of interest, and close the LLC
loopholes to “limit the influence of big money,” as well as
make discretionary spending
fully transparent.
“I want to go to Albany to get
things done,” she said. “I have
built my career finding solutions and working across the
aisle as a town board member
and have a reputation of putting
my money where my mouth is
and getting results.”
She resides in Pound Ridge
with her husband, Allan Weinstein, and their four daughters.
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County: Take precaution against Zika, West Nile viruses
BY BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Downplaying the threat of the
Zika virus, county officials are urging residents to take preventative
measures against the mosquitoborne disease, especially if traveling to an area where it has already
spread.
“One of the questions we get is:
‘I have a family vacation planned
for Florida. Do I still go?’” said
County Executive Robert P. Astorino. “That’s a decision you need
to make, but I think if you are not
pregnant, don’t plan on becoming
pregnant, the risk is very, very low
of anything happening, so use precautions, as you would here, so you
don’t bring it back. We can’t shut
down our lives for something that
might be.”
Astorino, joined at the press
conference by Dr. Sherlita Amler,
county health commissioner, said
to avoid the threat of the Zika or
West Nile viruses, residents should
use insect repellant, dress appropriately and drain stagnant bodies of
water before they become breeding
grounds for mosquitoes.
“If you do that, you should be
OK,” he said.
If residents do travel to an area
where the Zika virus is present,
such as the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, Amler said they
should continue to apply insect
repellant for three weeks after they
return home.
“What this does is hopefully
prevent our mosquitoes from biting you, becoming infected with
the Zika virus, and then potentially
transmitting it to someone here,”
Amler said.
There are no locally acquired
cases of Zika or West Nile in
Westchester this year, Astorino
said; however, Rockland County
and New York City have reported
several batches of mosquitoes that
have tested positive for West Nile.
The mosquitoes were collected in
Orangetown the week of July 10
and on Staten Island, Queens and
in the north Bronx in June and
July. While no mosquitoes found
in Westchester have tested positive
for the virus to date, this is the time
of year when the health department expects to find them.
“Given the fact that our neighbors have reported positive mosquitoes, it is safe to assume that
mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus are also present here in Westchester County,” Amler said. “The
recent rain provides optimal breeding conditions for mosquitoes that
can carry viruses.”
Amler urged all residents to remove standing water from their
property, ensure their window
screens are tight-fitting and free of
tears. Open trash cans, uncovered
boats, clogged rain gutters, fountains and bird baths, water bowls
for pets, wagons and other toys,
ponds, tires, leaky holes, neglected
pools, and rot holes in trees are all
common household locations that
need to be checked, she said.
“[Mosquitoes] only travel 150
meters in their lifetime, so if you get
Zika [or West Nile], you probably
grew that mosquito,” Amler said.
Last year, 17 positive mosquito
batches of West Nile were found in
Westchester County and two human cases were reported. This year,
the health department has sent
168 batches of mosquitoes for testing since it began collecting them
in early June, and will continue
collecting batches of mosquitoes
throughout the season.
The department has evaluated 59,530 catch basins. Of those,
nearly 42,534 were treated with
larvicide. The department also gave
The Zika virus is often transmitted from a mosquito bite.
away 400 pounds of free minnows
to property owners with ponds.
The minnows reduce the mosquito
population by feeding on larvae
and pupae before they emerge into
adult mosquitoes. Once positive
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And whenever the retired New York
City firefighter gets the chance, he
likes to use his hobby to do some
good. This year, to raise money and
to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, he and
some companions from FDNY will
ride their bikes on a five-day journey from Long Island to the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
It marks the fifth year in a row
that Carroll will participate in what
is known as the FDNY 343 Ride
“The main thing with the fire department is that we will never forget,” Carroll said. “These boys went
into that building and they never
came out. I lost a lot of friends, a
lot of family. So we do this ride for
them.”
Carroll, a Mahopac resident, and
his companions will hit the road
on the morning of Sept. 7. Former
FDNY members and Army veterans are scheduled to cycle from
Montauk all the way down to the
nation’s capital.
“This is a major undertaking,”
said Carroll, a Vietnam veteran
(1965-67) who can often be seen
riding his bicycle on Route 6 in the
morning. “It’s not like you’re just
going to get here and bike a few
miles. It is a major undertaking for
guys to get physically fit and it is
for a reason. You need that passion
to do it. All the guys that I know
have been in burning buildings. We
know what it’s like, but we came
out.”
All 80 riders will stop and pull
over when 343 miles are reached
in what is known as the “Mile a
Man” Ride. Every one of the 343
firefighters’ names that were killed
in the World Trade Center will
then be mentioned after a cross and
American flag are raised.
The ride will gather the bikers
into one line as troopers ride their
motorcycles on the left and right
sides of the cyclists while they move
through each township on main
roads.
The group plans to find motels
each night (already accommodated
for), and resume at around 6 a.m.
A crowd of disabled veterans and
their families will be at the finish
line waiting.
“There was a kid who I rode for
in the very first one named John
Curtin,” Carroll said. “He is in
Brewster. We were all going to ride
for a veteran. So I just happened to
look at the Mahopac News, and
who’s in the front is this kid with
no legs. Blonde head, good-looking
kid. I said, ‘I’m riding for that kid.’
He never knew me. I reached out
to him and got permission from the
family and the only time that I met
him was when I got to Washington.
And there he was in the wheelchair.
I went up to him and said ‘John
Curtin, I’m Ken Carroll and I just
rode 343 miles for you.’”
The FDNY Ride has grown
greatly since the inaugural event
in 2011. The ride has raised over
$400,000 since then. Jerseys have
also been made for the event.
“There is more support,” Carroll said. “From the very first one to
now, it’s quite a bit more.”
An American Legion Post 1080
and VFW Post 5491 member, Carroll sells raffle tickets to raise money
for the event. Its sole cause is to aid
veterans who have returned from
duty. Personal donations are also
made to fdny343ride.com.
“All of the money goes right to
the disabled,” Carroll said. “The
money doesn’t go anywhere. It’s not
for this lawyer, it’s not for advertising. None of that. Someone comes
back, and they get it right there.
There is no gray area here.”
NYSC in Somers Commons,
where Carroll teaches indoor cycling, has provided major support
for the ride. Bikeway of Mahopac
has also donated money and biking gear for the long trip. Sponsors like the Carriage House and
Chophouse Grille have chipped in
as well.
A 25-year FDNY firefighter,
Carroll recalls his experience spending time with the injured Army veterans for whom he is riding.
“Once a year they have a dinner for those who supported these
kids,” Carroll said. “The dinner is
downtown and you see six of these
kids in these wheelchairs with distorted faces or no vision. Arms are
gone, scars, and they got a smile on
their face.”
BACK TO SCHOOL
County seeks backpack donations for needy kids
Westchester County is once
again teaming up with The Sharing Shelf, a program of Family
Services of Westchester (FSW), to
collect and distribute school supplies so that children in need can
start the school year ready to learn.
This year, people can donate online
at fsw.org/backpacks, or see the list
below for the nearest drop-off location.
“Since launching our backpack
partnership, we have helped give
vital school supplies to thousands
of children in Westchester County,” said County Executive Robert
P. Astorino. “As always, our goal
is to help as many children as we
can.”
Donations can be made online or at collection bins
Backpacks to School is a collaboration between The Sharing
Shelf and the county’s Department
of Social Services. Local businesses
have also opened their doors and
will serve as drop-off sites for donations.
“We can buy and fill a backpack
for $25,” said Deborah Blatt of The
Sharing Shelf. “This year, we’ve
made it easy and created a special
link that allows people to help us
purchase everything at fsw.org/
backpacks. We’ve seen an increase
in demand each summer for new
school supplies and backpacks. We
need the community’s support to
make a positive difference in the
lives of local children, many of who
would otherwise start school without the basics.”
For more information about
Backpacks to School, contact
Deborah Blatt of The Sharing
Shelf at 914-305-5950 or [email protected]; or Joseph D.
Kenner or Bryan Paler of the Department of Social Services at 914995-3287, 914-995-3987 or [email protected].
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• Westchester County Michaelian Office Building, 148 Martine
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• Department of Social Services
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Post Road, White Plains, 914995-5000
• Peekskill District Office
(DSS), 750 Washington St., Peekskill, 914-862-5078
• White Plains District Office
(DSS), 85 Court St., White Plains,
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What schools are doing about childhood obesity
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention indicates that childhood obesity
rates have more than doubled
in children and quadrupled in
adolescents in the last 30 years.
This is happening in spite of indications that childhood obesity
could reduce life expectancy by
five years or more. Many children are not participating in
free-time physical activity and,
according to Blank Children’s
Hospital, only 25 percent of
children in the United States eat
a healthy diet.
Considering children spend
six or more hours at school and
many eat school lunches or re-
ceive in school-provided breakfasts, schools can play a pivotal
role in helping to control the
rising epidemic of childhood
obesity. Here’s a look at just how
schools are taking on that challenge.
• Discussing obesity in health
and physical education classes:
Information is power, and one
way to help curb obesity rates is
to give children the data needed to make informed decisions.
Some schools have implemented
healthy eating and exercise initiatives and made nutrition and
other health-related topics key
parts of health curricula.
• Modifying school lunch of-
ferings: Schools are taking in- and display healthy foods.
and extracurricular offerings.
ventory of not only the foods
• Teaching children how to
Childhood obesity may be an
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Reiner leads Tigers in loss
North Salem’s O’Sullivan and Thayer named summer league all-stars
BY MIKE SABINI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
North Salem played a spirited second half, led by two goals
from rising sophomore Jessica
Reiner before falling to Valhalla
4-2 in the seventh-place game
of the Hudson Valley Summer
Field Hockey League on Aug. 8
at Lakeland High School.
“I am really happy that she
stepped up,” North Salem coach
Jen Frohman said. “She didn’t get
a lot of time this year because she
had been injured, but she actually
was on our varsity as a freshman
but didn’t get any playing time
really because she’d been injured,
so it’s nice to see her back and at
full strength and able to step up
when we needed it.”
Reiner’s second goal cut Valhalla’s lead to 3-2 in the second
half.
“We were all fighting really
hard in the circle for it and I was
able to get a touch off it, a hard
shot into the corner,” Reiner said.
Valhalla scored the final goal of
the game for the two-goal difference but it couldn’t take away the
improvement North Salem made
from the first half of the game,
when it trailed 2-0.
“Coach gave us a good pep talk
Analisa Posa advances the ball.
Jessica Reiner passes the ball.
at halftime,” Reiner said. “She
was like, ‘We don’t care if we lose
the game 10-0, as long as we are
using our skills and playing better.’”
North Salem (4-4-1) also was
able to nicely develop its field
skills in this contest as each team
was playing without a goalie.
“You are able to sometimes get
in goals that normally the goalie
might be able to block,” Reiner
said. “It can be hard defensive
wise but it helps us get better at
defense.”
Reiner said she enjoyed her
time playing in the summer
league and felt it was beneficial to
her team.
“It’s definitely always good to
get extra practice and that’s what
this summer league is all about
for our team,” Reiner said. “We’re
not always going for the win,
we’re not always trying to get
first place but we always get lots
of extra playing time to get ready
for the season.”
Frohman felt this summer
league is extra important for her
team since it lacks senior leadership.
“We lost six seniors to graduation, we have no seniors,”
Frohman said. “There is a lot we
are trying to figure out. We are
a young group here playing, but
we’re trying to find some leadership out of this group. There were
some really big shoes to fill of the
girls we graduated, so it’s a work
in progress.”
Another reason why Frohman,
who is entering her 19th season
this fall, likes summer league is
for the opportunity to play on
turf.
“We don’t have turf so it’s
great to get to play on a better
surface,” Frohman said. “They
worked on their smaller game
and their ball control that we
don’t get a chance to work on every day because we play on grass
at North Salem.”
The summer league also held
its all-star game on Aug. 8 at
Lakeland, with the Blue All-Stars
defeating the Red All-Stars 3-2.
North Salem’s Ally O’Sullivan
and Kaitlyn Thayer both played
for the Blue squad.
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N.S. woman named to Westchester Land Trust Advisory Board
BY SUE GUZMAN
EDITOR
North Salem resident
Pam Pooley is among
three new members added
to the Westchester Land
Trust’s Advisory Board of
Directors. In addition to
Pooley, Joe Edgar of Pound
Ridge and Megan Kulick of
Scarsdale were also named
to the advisory board.
WLT is a regional land
conservation organization
with headquarters in Bed-
ford Hills.
Pooley is the founder of
MEADOWORKS, LLC, a
landscaping and garden design firm. Her work can be
seen at the native plant garden located at the entrance
to the Leon Levy Preserve
in Lewisboro, which is
protected by a WLT-held
easement.
She also currently cochairs the North Salem
Conservation
Advisory
Council and writes a regu-
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and land stewardship in the
Lewisboro Ledger.
In addition, Pooley is a
board member of SPACE
at Ryder Farm and provides
support and leadership to
the Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation
Partnership, a cross-boundary conservation program
co-lead by WLT.
She resides in North
Salem along with her husband, Eric, and two daugh-
ters.
“WLT will benefit enormously from the diverse
talents of our new Advisory
Board members,” said Vice
President Kara H. Whelan.
“They share a passionate
commitment to land conservation and will bring
insightful perspectives to
both advance land protection projects and engage
community members in
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While your home might be
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Working from home can pay
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