Cops: Burglar shot at in Lloyd Harbor

By Joy Vestal

Cold Spring Harbor

A burglary was reported yesterday at a house on Woodbury Road. The police report said entry was made through a basement window. The homeowner said jewelry was stolen.

Fort Salonga

A laptop computer, iPod and jewelry were taken during a burglary yesterday at a house on Russell Court.

Greenlawn

A rear window was found broken yesterday on a car on Brooklyn Avenue.

A man was arrested yesterday on Little Plains Road and charged with leaving the scene of a accident and failing to show his license and insurance papers.

Huntington Station

A West 21st Street resident said items were stolen from his yard yesterday.

A man was arrested yesterday on Pulaski and Depot Roads and charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and false personation. The police report said the man gave the wrong name, address and date of birth to a police officer when he was stopped.

Lloyd Harbor

A resident on Soundcrest Drive reported a burglary yesterday. Police said the resident heard a noise, came downstairs to investigate and found a strange man in the house. The intruder shot at the occupant and the bullet grazed his left arm. The resident then ran into the master bedroom and got his father’s gun and shot at the burglar. The police report did not indicate if the intruder was shot. The resident himself did not require any medical attention.

Melville

The navigation unit was stolen yesterday form a car on Pinelawn Road.

Suspicious truck at East Northport school

Marylou McDermott, the superintendent of schools in the Northport-East Northport district, issued an alert to parents yesterday after an incident involving a suspicious truck at the Pulaski Road Elementary School.

The alert, posted on the school's Web site, began:

At around 1:00 p.m. this afternoon, several fourth grade girls at Pulaski Road School were approached by someone in a teal blue pickup truck with Virginia plates. This person tried to engage the girls in conversation, and then drove away. The Principal at Pulaski immediately notified the Second Precinct and filed a report. Because it was within minutes of dismissal time, there was not enough time to send this letter home today. A letter will be sent home tomorrow. All principals and security were promptly informed about the situation.

McDermott went on to point out that the school has a safety education program in which students are given “specific suggestions for responding to incidents like this," including not talking to strangers.

To see the full alert, go to the district site.

The school is located at 623 Ninth Avenue in East Northport.

Greenlawn set for pickle festival

By Michael R. Ebert
michael.ebert@newsday.com

If you like pickles, then why not try some pickle-flavored popcorn? Or a garlic dill? Or how about some half-sour pickles sold the old-fashioned way right out of the barrel?

And that’s just the beginning. The pickle-serving styles are endless at the 2007 Pickle Festival hosted by the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association this weekend. The finger-licking event, which is in its 28th year, is ready to welcome some 2,000 residents to the John Gardiner Farm at the corner of Park Avenue and Little Plains Road, Greenlawn, for a variety of jams, jellies and pickled products.

“It’s amazing how many people love pickles,” said Deanne Rathke, executive director of the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association. “This is our way of paying tribute to Greenlawn’s early pickle industry, which had a big impact on building up the village.”

For the second straight year, the festival takes place at the historic Gardiner Farm, which is fitting since Alexander Gardiner is considered to be Greenlawn’s “Pickle Pioneer,” Rathke said. In the late 1800s, Gardiner proposed that local farmers try growing pickles, while building processing plants and establishing a freight depot along the railroad tracks.

The local pickle industry boomed until a white pickle blight struck in the 1920s, Rathke said. Some 80 years later, the farm was donated to the historical association when Gardiner’s grandson passed away in 2003. The festival was moved to the farm in 2006.

“The original farmhouse was built in the 1750s,” said Rathke, noting that little has changed since the 1860s, except for the addition of a bay window and central heat in 1910. “The house remains without bathroom facilities and with running water only in the kitchen.”

During the festival, part of the three-acre farm will be transformed into a corn maze, with hayrides also available for those wishing to tour the grounds. Farm-fresh pumpkins and other produce will also be offered, along with homemade cakes, cookies, and pies. Glen Cove-based Allen Pickleworks, Inc. will be supplying the thousands of pickles.

“Up until five years ago, we would actually can and jar all the pickles ourselves,” said Rathke of the historical association. “Not anymore. It’s a time-consuming process.”

The Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association’s 2007 Pickle Festival is slated for 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday at the John Gardiner Farm, 900 Park Avenue, Greenlawn. Donations are $2 for adults and free for children under 12. Everyone donating receives a Heinz pickle pin. For more information, call the historical association at 631-754-1180.

Greenlawn farmhouse with a past

Association Trustee Joanne McNamara, Executive Deanne Rathke, Town Councilwoman Glenda Jackson and Association President Russ Vollmer after ribbon cutting.

A Greenlawn farmhouse built in the 1750s and made famous by a double murder in 1842 has been restored and will soon be open to the public.

Officials held a ribbon cutting Sunday at The John Gardiner Farm House at the corner of Park Avenue and Little Plains Road. The house was given to the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association by John Gardiner, the last owner of the farm. The association has been restoring the house, which had fallen into disrepair.

The house will be open to the public first as part the “Museum Challenge” weekend on Oct. 20-21, when the town’s historic organizations are opening eight historic sites. Participants who visiting the eight sites over that weekend, all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will receive a one year family membership in each of the organizations. For a previous story on the challenge, click here.

Association officials have not yet established a schedule for the house but expect it to be open to the public periodically after the Museum Challenge weekend.

The house became famous in the 19th Century when the couple living there, Alexander and Rebecca Smith, was found murdered in the front parlor. A recent immigrant from Germany who was working as a farmhand was convicted of the crime and hanged. The house is also well-known for what seem to be perpetually blooming geraniums in the window, according to the association.

For photos and more information about the house, visit www.gcha.info.

Suffolk DA funds Asharoken PD computers

Asharoken Police Officer Alex Rubino uses one of the new mobile computers installed in two of the department's patrol cars.

Asharoken police have been given two mobile computers to use in their patrol cars, providing them greater access to criminal and motor vehicle information and better communications with county and neighboring police departments.

The computers were paid for and installed with more than $20,000 in asset forfeiture funds turned over by Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota. According to the Asharoken police, the DA’s office has, over the years, provided essential equipment to Asharoken police, including radios and defibrillators.

The computers are also expected to provide a vital link in the growing homeland security network that seeks to connect all law enforcement agencies, according to the police.


Photo by Steve Silverman / Asharoken Police Department

Cops: Laptops taken in Dix Hills

By Joy Vestal

Dix Hills

A 2005 Ram 1500 truck was broken into today on Chongo Place and an American Express card and laptop computer were stolen.

A car was broken into today on Corsa Street and a laptop computer and other items were stolen.

Huntington

A woman was arrested yesterday on Davis Street and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.

A man was arrested today on Front Drive and charged with a burglary that police reported was committed in a house in Lindenhurst.

Melville

A woman reported yesterday that the body and wheels on her Toyota was spray painted with obscene graffiti while it was parked on Route 110.

South Huntington

A Miata in a parking lot on Walt Whitman Road was sprayed with paint by vandals yesterday. The police said the owner was able to wash off the graffiti in the lot.

Panel to study underage drinking

A countywide task force to study underage drinking has been formed, according to Leg. Steve Stern (D-Huntington), and it has scheduled three public hearings in coming months, including one in Dix Hills.

The 10-person task form has representatives from the Suffolk County Police Department, the County Probation and Health Services departments, the County’s STOP-DWI Program, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Students Against Drunk Driving.

Stern’s legislation, adopted June 26, has created a working task force that will study issues facing adolescents such as exposure to alcohol, peer pressure, the risk of carrying out or being a victim of physical or sexual assault or even death from injuries as a result of underage drinking.

“Several municipalities in New York State have undertaken aggressive campaigns to curb underage drinking and Suffolk County needs to do the same,” Stern said in a statement issued from the Legislature’s office of presiding supervisor. “Suffolk County must develop an effective strategy to combat underage drinking which, at a minimum, should include law enforcement and educational components. Too many families and too many communities continue to experience the pain of loss and injuries to loved ones as a consequence of underage drinking.”

The task force will hold its first public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 4 at the Suffolk County Legislature, William H. Rogers Building in Hauppauge from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A second hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 14 at the Half Hollow Hills High School East Lecture Hall, 50 Vanderbilt Pkwy., Dix Hills from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., with a final hearing to be scheduled in December.

The task force will expire in January and submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the county Legislature and the county executive.

The members besides Stern, who will serve as chairman, are:

Maria Perez-Lent, coordinator, Suffolk County STOP DWI

Officer Andrea Neubauer, Suffolk County Probation Dept.

Fran Greenspan, Nassau-Suffolk School Boards

Deena Cohen, President LI Chapter MADD

Olivia Fishetti and Emily Hemendinger, SADD

Jacquelyn Best, Suffolk County Health Services

Capt. Thomas Palmieri, Suffolk County Police Dept.

Mary Silberstein, director, Pederson-Krag Center (medical expert)

Kym Laube, director, Human Understanding Growth Seminars "HUGS" (alcohol abuse prevention)

Huntington OKs $1.6M for bridge repair

The Huntington Town Board last night approved entering into a contract with RB Conway and Sons of Bay Shore for the reconstruction of the Mill Dam Causeway for $1.6 million.

The causeway, which crosses Mill Pond between the Little Neck peninsula and Huntington Beach, was closed to vehicle traffic late last month when it was deemed unsafe by the town's highway superintendent. It is expected to be closed for several months.

The board also held several hearings on proposed local laws, including one to ban private helicopters from landing in the town, and one to allow the town to designate a home as possibly containing an illegal apartment if the building has two entrances or two doorbells. That measure, if adopted, would let the town qualify for a Suffolk County program that provides funds to combat illegal housing.

Votes on both measures are pending.

Jo-Ann Raia, the town clerk, delivered copies of the town's proposed operating and capital budgets. Public hearings on the two documents are scheduled for Oct. 16.

East Northport street renamed for Marine

The Huntington Town Board last night voted to rename Madsen Lane to "Cpl Christopher G. Scherer Way/Masden Lane," in honor of an East Northport man who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 17 and was killed July 21 in Iraq, three months into his deployment there.

Scherer, a corporal who turned 21 in June, died from wounds suffered while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, according to the Defense Department. A Northport High School graduate, he was assigned to the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion.

The street is east of Lexington Court, north of 10th Avenue and south of the Long Island Rail Road tracks.

East Northport seaman finishes basic

Defense Department announcement

Navy Seaman Apprentice James P. Darcy, Jr, son of Mary Ann and James P. Darcy of East Northport, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill., the Defense Department announced yesterday.

Darcy is a 2004 graduate of St. Pius High School of Melville.

During the eight-week program, Darcy completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.

The capstone event of boot camp is "Battle Stations". This exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet. "Battle Stations" is designed to galvanize the basic warrior attributes of sacrifice, dedication, teamwork and endurance in each recruit through the practical application of basic Navy skills and the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. Its distinctly ''Navy'' flavor was designed to take into account what it means to be a Sailor.

Click here for a gallery stories about Long Islanders and spouses in the military.

Cops: Car torched in S. Huntington

By Joy Vestal

Cold Spring Harbor
The glass panes in a wooden door were broken yesterday at the Goddess Gourmet shop on Main Street.

Commack
Two cars on Commack Road were reported damaged yesterday and the catalytic converters were stolen from them.

Dix Hills
A 1995 Honda Civic was reported damaged yesterday on Old Brook Road.

East Northport
A New York City parking permit was stolen yesterday from a car on Meadowrue Lane.

A pellet gunshot broke the rear windshield on a unmarked law enforcement car on Cornflower Avenue today.

Fort Salonga
A burglary was discovered yesterday at the Bottle Bargains liquor store on Fort Salonga Road. The police report said electronic items and paperwork were stolen.

Greenlawn
A window was found broken yesterday on a car on Darrow Lane.

Huntington Station
Two cars at the Daytop Village Foundation on New York Avenue were damaged by vandals yesterday

The driver-side window was broken on a 2002 Jeep on Colorado Place today and a wallet with money and credit cards was stolen along with a cell phone.

The owner of a 1995 Honda Civic told police the car was set on fire today on Nordel Lane and Stepar Place.

Melville
A employee in the office of Nussbaum, Yates, Burg and Klein on Broadhollow Road said her wallet with credit cards, checks and cash was stolen from her cubicle yesterday.

A laptop computer was stolen yesterday from a table in the restaurant of the Marriott Hotel on Walt Whitman Road.

South Huntington
The doors and passenger seats were stripped from a car and the stereo was stolen yesterday on Dix Hills Road.

Police reported that a car was set on fire today on Iceland Drive.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra violinist ready to rock Huntington students

By Michael R. Ebert
michael.ebert@newsday.com

Ten years ago, Juilliard-trained violinist Mark Wood says that high school teachers never would’ve allowed him near their students.

“I was too radical for most teachers,” admitted Wood, a Port Washington resident and founding member of the symphonic-rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra in 1996. “But there’s a new breed of teachers today. We’re facing a resurgence in music education.”

Next week, the resurgence hits Huntington Public Schools, when Wood performs with 150 of the district’s middle and high school students as part “Electrify Your Strings,” a program that transforms students into a full-fledged rock orchestra. As part of the effort, Wood will accompany students to perform music by Led Zeppelin, Cream and The Beatles.



He’ll also rehearse with the teens in a workshop for acoustic and electric strings that will teach them techniques for improvisation, composition and personal expression.

“A lot of kids play in garage bands and know these tunes, so it’s exciting for them,” said Lisa Leonardi, orchestra director at Huntington High School, who met Wood at an American String Teachers Association event earlier this year and was eager to book him. “I must say, the kids have been practicing hard. They’re more excited than I’ve ever seen.”

So far this year, Wood’s school program has visited sold-out audiences in Dix Hills, Levittown and Patchogue, with a concert at Deer Park High School slated for next month.

The most interesting part of the 10-song classic rock concert, according to Leonardi, are the improvisational opportunities, which is something most students haven’t done before.

“Improvising requires a good concept of harmony and chord structure,” she said.

Wood agreed, but noted that – from a technical aspect – rock music might be simpler for students to play than traditional classic compositions.

“It’s more about expression,” he said. “Some rock musicians might not even know the actual chord progressions they’re playing, but they’re really connecting with people. Through this program, I want to continue a classical repertoire, but mix American elements. When you think about it, American music has impacted the world greatly in recent decades, and the fact that it hasn’t been integrated into classical music is something I want to change.”

During his career, Wood has studied under Leonard Bernstein, while working with musicians such as Celine Dion, Lenny Kravitz, Billy Joel and Everclear. He’s also the owner and operator of Wood Violins, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electric violins.

The “Electrify Your Strings” concert is slated for 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 at Huntington High School. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for children, and can be obtained by calling the high school’s music office at 631-673-2053.

Tracing roots at Huntington lecture

By Lynn Petry
lynn.petry@newsday.com

Want to find out more about your family tree?

As part of their fall lineup of events, the Huntington Historical Society presents a free genealogy lecture at 7 tomorrow night at the Huntington Library, 338 Main St. with guest speaker Dorothy Dougherty, Public Programs Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, New York City.

"Family History Research Within the Custom House Records of the National Archives-New York," features an in-depth discussion that helps you trace your family's background. Ms. Dougherty highlights actual paper records including ship logs, rather than computer or website information, to help you get started on your journey.

According to Arthur Sniffin, program coordinator at the society, "It's critical that people go back to the original primary sources, like birth, marriage and death records or ship logs to make sure that the historic information they are gathering is accurate."

The genealogy workshops sponsored by the society, have been providing technical help to families searching for their ancestry since the mid 1970s. Their next workshop, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 31, features Stephen P. Morse speaking on "One Step Web Pages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools," at the South Huntington Public Library on Pidgeon Hill Road.

Also, the Society's Resource Center and Archives, at 209 Main St. in Huntington, contains family histories and more than 250,000 photographs focused on the Town of Huntington. Hours are 1-4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays and by appointment. There is a $4 entry fee to the center; for information call 631-427-7045, ext. 401. A monthly genealogy workshop newsletter is also available for $10, for folks who become members of the Society.

Huntington board considers helicopter ban

The Huntington Town Board meets tonight to consider banning many helicopters from landing in the town.

The board will hold a hearing on the “motorized aircraft” ordinance, which was described by an official as preemptive, since private helicopters are not now landing in the town and no one has applied for permission to do so.

The board is also scheduled to:

Amend its regulations on accessory apartments in order to qualify for a Suffolk County program that provides funds to combat illegal housing. The measure would add having two doors or two doorbells to the list of indicators of accessory apartments.

Authorize the supervisor to execute a contract with RB Conway & Sons for reconstruction of the Mill Dam Causeway in Centerport.

Schedule public hearings for Oct. 16 on the town’s operating and capital budgets.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at town hall. For a full preliminary agenda, click here.

Tiki Barber scores big in Huntington

“Great!”

That’s what 9-year-old Dwzia Etete of Huntington and his mother, Zeze, above, answered simultaneously last night when asked what it was like to meet former New York Giant running back Tiki Barber.

They were among the more than 200 people who came to a book store in Huntington to meet Barber and get him to sign his new book, “Tiki: My Life and the Game Beyond.” When asked to elaborate, Dwzia said “Great, awesome, amazing.”

Barber began at 7 p.m. signing books and greeting fans, many of them youngsters wearing football jerseys with his number, 21. By 8:30 the line still stretched through the store, The Book Revue, and down New York Avenue to Main Street.

Brianna Cuiffo, 10, and Alec Forys, 11, with Barber, center

Brandon Kalten and Joey Guastafeste, both 12 and from Cold Spring Harbor, after the signing

Police: $6,000 theft in Huntington Station

By Joy Vestal

Commack

An attendant at the Alex Petroleum station on Commack Road said a man drove off Friday without paying for his gas. The attendant gave police the license plate number of the car.

A resident on Cottonwood Drive said two tires were slashed on his car Saturday.

Dix Hills

Savings bonds, jewelry and personal papers were taken during a burglary yesterday at a house on Livingston Place. The police said entry was made through a sliding glass door in the back of the house.

Elwood

A Thadford Street resident said a car drove across her front lawn Saturday and damaged it.

Greenlawn

On yesterday two men were seen trying to break into a coin operated vacuum outside a laundromat on Broadway. The police said they broke the padlock but were unable to get the change out of the machine.

Huntington

A dumpster was reported stolen Friday behind a building on Route 110.

The doors were reported stolen off a Jeep yesterday that the owner said she had not used in a year but kept in her backyard on Wendover Drive. She said the doors that were stolen only fit the CJF Jeep model.

Vandals broke a side-view mirror on a car on Sheridan Street yesterday.

Huntington Station

The steering column was found damaged yesterday on a car parked on New York Avenue.

A garage was broken into today on West 19th Street and two bicycles, a table saw and power planer were stolen. The homeowner placed a value of over $6,000 on these items that were taken.

Melville

The owner of a 2008 Chevrolet said someone splashed gray paint all over the car yesterday in a parking lot on Walt Whitman Road.

Town to honor man after accident

The town council will honor a Huntington man tomorrow night for stopping a driver who struck a 5-year-old boy and then fled earlier this month.

Dan Frazier, 23, will be given a proclamation by Councilwoman Glenda Jackson at 7 p.m., just before the council meets.

Police gave the following account of the incident that put Frazier in the spotlight:

On Thursday, Sept. 13, at about 6:40 p.m., Irma Ramirez, 37, of 371 Hancock St., Brentwood, was driving a 2000 Ford van north on Washington Avenue in Brentwood. Near the intersection of White Street, her vehicle struck Freddy Argueta, 5, of Brentwood, who was crossing the street with his mother. The vehicle then left the scene. Frazier witnessed the incident and chased and confronted Ramirez a short distance away. Ramirez struck Frazier’s vehicle and left again, and Frazier was finally able to corner Ramirez at Arlington Road and Standish road in Brentwood, where he held her for police. Argueta was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and admitted for his injuries.

Ramirez said after the accident that she fled because Frazier confronted her. “I did not see the boy before he hit the windshield,” Ramirez told Newsday. “I am so sorry this happened.”

Ramirez was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injury, leaving the scene of an incident and endangering the welfare of a child. She was released on bail and is scheduled to appear at First District Court at a later date.

“He’s a perpetual Good Samaritan,” explained Susannah Mrazek, a council legislative aide. “A few years back he had pulled two dogs off of a woman who was being attacked, and basically hit one of the dogs with a baseball bat in order to get it off. So he seems to run into these cases, which a lot of people would run away from, and he’s right there.

Group prepares to run Northport farm

By Michael R. Ebert
michael.ebert@newsday.com

With a joint purchase by Suffolk County and the Town of Huntington being finalized, the 117-year-old Lewis Oliver Dairy in Northport will soon be facing some minor changes. Namely, the nonprofit group Friends of the Farm will assume full-time caretaker duties.

“We’re becoming more of a managing entity,” said Pam Veitch of Northport, president of Friends of the Farm, which formed in 1996 after learning that the owner, John Cobb, Jr., could no longer afford to care for the animals. “We’re extremely excited, but nervous at the same time. It’s a big project. We’re looking for all the help we can get.”

Located on Burt Avenue, the farm includes a barn, farmhouse and an array of animals including three sheep, three goats, two cows, six rabbits, one pig, two peacocks and a horde of ducks and geese. Earlier this year, the county temporarily stalled the purchase when a survey determined the property was 1,476-square-feet less than originally reported. Eventually, Councilman Stuart Besen was able to convince Cobb to lower his selling price.

Early last month, the Suffolk County Legislature agreed to split the $1.6 million cost with the town. As part of the deal, the 24-member Friends of the Farm will serve as the animals’ caretaker, which can require $1,000 a month for feed such as hay, grain and corn.

“I think we all have different reasons for being involved in Friends of the Farm,” said Veitch, noting the farm has shrunk from 50 acres to under two since the early 1900s. “For me, it’s mostly about the historical preservation of what Northport used to be. We’re one of the village’s oldest farms now. Decades ago, there were cows everywhere.”

To raise funds, Veitch holds a number of fundraisers such as an annual barn dance, which attracts up to 200 people each spring. The group also hosts holiday hayride events and Christmas caroling, which is offered to the community for free, according to Veitch.

For support, the Red Cross provides helping hands as part of community service.

“Pam is preserving something very special to many people in this community,” Besen said recently. “The Lewis Oliver farm has been in this town for more than 100 years, and I am personally amazed by the work of Pam and her group.”

Councilwoman Glenda Jackson agreed, calling the group’s task “enormous.”

“I’m trying to get Cornell Cooperative Extension to help when we are caretakers,” said Veitch. “Friends is a very passionate group, but we don’t have as much farm experience as other people. We’re always welcoming new members. The more faces, the better.”

Friends of the Farm meets at Lewis Oliver Farm the first Monday of every month at 7 p.m. Meetings are open to everyone. For more information on Friends of the Farm, visit their website at friendsofthefarmnorthport.org.

Volunteers clean Northport-area beaches

Members of Cub Scout Pack 52 at the cleanup.

We asked Eva Browne, the head of the Asharoken Conservation Board, to let us know how yesterday's beach cleanup went. The event is part of a state effort to clean up the shoreline this month and document the kinds of trash found in the sand. Here is her report:

The International Coastal Cleanup in the Northport area was a huge success. We topped last years number of volunteers and we are still counting. Not all the forms have been returned yet. The 186 volunteers included Northport, East Northport, Centerport and Kings Park residents.
The following groups worked together Harborfields HS Honor Society,Centerport Garden Club,Northport Rotary Club,Eatonsneck Homemakers,Cub Scout Pack 42,Brownie Troop 1706,Weeblo Scouts and Cub Scout Pack 52.
A fabulous luncheon was donated by Auntie A's,Copenhagen Bakery,Crossroads Cafe,Maroni Cuisine,Nocello,Northport Harbor Deli,Pumpernickels Restaurant,Robkes Country Inn and the Ritz Cafe of Northport.I'll have the total weight of the garbage collected locally in a few days.
Thank you to all for a successful event.

Brownie Troop 1706 with bags of trash they picked up yesterday.

The week so far . . .

We met a new adult ed chief.
We were invited to clean the beach.
We heard the rebate checks are coming.
We riffed on John Coltrane’s house.
We learned about a free flight for some veterans.
And we saw a new source of dinner on the horizon.