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GOP state senator suggests ‘dissolving Detroit’ as bankruptcy looms

DETROIT – For the third time this year, the city of De-troit is staring at potential bankruptcy as legal wrangling over “control” has caused $10 million in state aid to be withheld from the city. The continued issues between the city and state of Michigan have led the state legislature to talk about numerous options for the city, including poten-tially dissolving the city altogether.

“If we have to, that is one idea we have to look at,” State Sen. Rick Jones said. Jones, a Republican represent-ing Michigan’s 24th district, said that dissolution would be a drastic step but everything is “on the table” including Chapter 9 Bankruptcy.

“We really have to look at everything that is on the ta-ble,” Jones said. “Again, if this goes to federal bankruptcy, every employee down there will suffer, the city will suffer and the vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone.”

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder also acknowledged that anything was possible in terms of how to handle Detroit’s financial situation, even though dissolving the city would be a last resort. Last week, the Detroit City Council rejected a contract with the law firm Miller Canfield that would’ve allowed the firm to help handle the city’s financial recovery plan.

The rejection was apart of an ongoing power struggle between the state, city council, and Detroit mayor Dave Bing, which could ultimately lead to Detroit becoming the largest American city to ever file for bankruptcy. Bing has already threatened city employees with temporary layoffs starting in January as the city stands to be short by $30 mil-lion.

“In order to compensate for the deficit, the city will be-gin to institute unpaid furloughs and other cost-saving ac-tions, effective January 1, 2013,” Bing said on Nov. 21. “We will ensure that revenue-generating departments are not impacted by these cost-cutting measures. These actions are necessary to keep the City from falling into further fi-nancial distress.”

Some city residents and advocates insist that the city does not need the state’s help and that it is the state of Michigan who needs to answer to Detroit. To others, in-cluding former city communications director Karen Dumas, the city needs to face the reality that it no longer has any leverage in the matter.

“[Bankruptcy] would be unfortunate and unlikely for it to happen only because of the impact of it doing so and the impact that it would have on the state and the surrounding areas,” said Dumas, who served under Bing as well as for-mer Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. “On the other hand, it would also erase some of the legacy costs and debt that the city has been burdened by because people are unwilling to recognize the damage those things have caused.

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The GOP’s unusual campaign against Susan Rice

ANALYSIS- When Republican Senators Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham and John McCain emerged from Tuesday meetings with Susan Rice still unsatisfied with her explanation about her initial, in-correct statements about the Sept. 11 attack of a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, it only furthered the mystery: why are Republicans so focused on preventing Susan Rice from becoming the next Secre-tary of State?

Rice’s initial statements about the attack that killed four Ameri-cans, including the ambassador, were not unusual. Other administra-tion officials, including Press Secretary Jay Carney, were also hesi-tant at first to call it a terrorist attack. Rice, as United Nations Ambas-sador, had little role in determining the security of diplomatic out-posts, and criticism that the four Americans were not sufficiently pro-tected would be more appropriately directed at President Obama or Hillary Clinton, who formally runs the State Department.

But in Washington, it’s usually at least clear what the underlying motivations for opposition to a person are. In 2005, when Condo-leezza Rice was nominated to be Secretary of State, Democrats listed a host of reasons to oppose her, but their clear frustration was in Condi Rice’s role in backing the Iraq War. When George W. Bush tried to appoint one of his longtime aides, Harriet Miers, to the Su-preme Court, Republicans claimed she was unqualified but it was also clear they did not know if was sufficiently conservative.

With Susan Rice, the true reasons for the GOP opposition are hard to discern. There are certainly other officials, including the president, who can be more directly blamed for the administration’s initial reaction to the attack in Benghazi. If Republicans are simply

mad at Obama over the election and eager for revenge, they could op-pose him directly on the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations. If Repub-licans are concerned about Obama’s overall foreign policy approach, Rice is an odd target, as she has a limited role in the administration’s decisions as the UN Ambassador.

And there is little evidence that Rice’s own foreign policy views are very unusual in their own right, justifying strong opposition to her as Secretary of State, or that distinct from John Kerry, the other lead-ing candidate to be Secretary of State and to whom the Republicans have raised little objection. Some have suggested racial animus may be at play, but Republicans have not raised concerns about Eric Holder serving in a second term under Obama, as is now expected, even as Holder was perhaps the most vocal member of the administra-tion in speaking on racial issues over the last four years.

It remains unclear if Obama will tap her for the post, and how much of a role this Republican opposition will affect his consideration of her candidacy. But the Tuesday meetings suggest that Republican senators, particularly McCain, will not easily acquiesce to Rice’s as-cension.



White man allegedly kills unarmed black teen over loud music; invokes ‘Stand Your Ground’ law

There has been another controversial shooting of an unarmed black teen in Florida and once again the “Stand Your Ground” law is being evoked by the gunman.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old Florida resident, allegedly shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis after the teenager and his three friends refused to turn their music down during a confrontation at a Jack-sonville area gas station.

“Jordan and Dunn exchanged words, and Dunn pulled a gun and shot eight or nine times, striking Jordan twice,” reports the Sentinel. Jordan was sit-ting in the back seat and no one else was apparently hurt.

Dunn, who is reportedly a gun collector, was ar-rested in his home on Saturday on charges of mur-der and attempted murder. He is currently being held without bail.

“He got threatened and had to do what he had to do, and it’s sad, so sad,” the shooter’s daughter Re-becca Dunn said in an interview with ABC 12. “A terrible tragedy on both sides. It really is. I don’t know. What are you going to do in that situation? You don’t know what you are going to do. He just re-acted.”

“He didn’t think he had harmed anybody and he just thought he had scared them off and he wanted to report it, but he didn’t want to go in a sense, throw himself to the wolves in a strange city without repre-sentation,” said Dunn’s attorney Robin Lemonidis.

According to Huffington Post, “Davis was a stu-dent at Samuel W. Wolfson High School, a magnet school in Duval County. He will be buried in his hometown of Marietta, Ga. His family plans to start a foundation in his honor for at-risk youth who have been the victims of tragedy.”

This year the nation has been riveted by the George Zimmerman trial, in which another white Florida man killed an unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, after an alleged scuffle.

Zimmerman has claimed he was acting in accor-dance with the Stand Your Ground law, which gives considerable leeway to citizens who are armed and believe they are in harm’s way.



SEN. LAUTENBERG, REP. MCCARTHY

INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO FIGHT ASTHMA

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY-4) introduced the “Family Asthma Act,” which encourages partnerships at the fed-eral, state, and local levels to address the asthma epidemic in the United States. With more than 25 million Americans affected by asthma, the bill seeks to develop comprehensive state plans to fight the disease and increase public education and awareness of its effects.

“No one should have to struggle to breathe—and no one should suffer unnecessarily from a manageable disease,” said Lautenberg. “Arming individuals with the information needed to control this disease can improve the quality of life for millions of Americans impacted by asthma. We need a better understanding of how this disease impacts communities across the country so we can target the people who need help the most.”

“Whether it's the chronic effects of neighborhood pollution or the more immediate threat posed by mold in homes flooded by Superstorm Sandy, asthma is a problem that can be avoided but still affects too many Americans of all ages. The Family Asthma Act can help save lives and help reduce the billions of dollars in healthcare costs that our nation spends on this too-common dis-ease,” said McCarthy.

The “Family Asthma Act” requires the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention (CDC) to partner with state and local health de-partments to develop state asthma plans and carry out public educa-tion campaigns about asthma. The bill bolsters data collection to help target asthma interventions more effectively. It also requires CDC to make recommendations about the future of asthma prevention and management efforts.

The American Lung Association has endorsed the legislation. “The American Lung Association has worked tirelessly for many years to improve the lives—indeed, save the lives—of people with asthma. The Family Asthma Act will make a significant step for-ward in that effort, and will make a meaningful difference in the lives of people living with asthma,” said Paul G. Billings, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Education at the American Lung As-sociation.

Asthma affects more than 25 million Americans, 13 million of whom have had an asthma episode or attack over the last year. The disease kills 3,300 people and contributes to an additional 7,000 deaths every year. In addition, asthma causes 10.5 million missed school days and 14.2 million missed work days and costs the United States $50 billion in healthcare expenditures every year.

Asthma attacks can be triggered by air pollution and allergens, including cigarette smoke and exhaust smoke, as well as animal dan-der, pollen, and molds. In 2011, CDC reported that less than half of people with asthma had been taught how to avoid asthma triggers. CDC concluded that more education about triggers, proper treatment, and asthma management methods are needed.

Tawana Brawley 25 years later: Controversial NYC case still unsettled

Twenty five years ago, 15-year-old Tawana Brawley was report-edly found dazed and confused lying in a garbage bag with torn and burned clothing, feces smeared over her body and “KKK,” “ni**er,” and “b*tch” written on her torso, in Wappingers Falls, New York and taken to the emergency room.

Eventually, Brawley, through nods, shrugs and written notes, re-vealed to a black officer that she had been kidnapped and raped in a wooded area by white men over a four-day period.

Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steve Pagones was among the white men implicated in the horrendous act, as well as part-time police officer Harry Crist, Jr., who committed suicide on December 2nd, days after Tawana Brawley was found on November 28, 1987.

For nearly a year after Brawley was discovered, her story fueled New York City media coverage, even though Wappingers Falls is some 70 miles from New York City.

The story made national headlines as well, landing in People and other publications and dominating broadcast news programs, thanks to Brawley’s trio of handlers that included Reverend Al Sharpton and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox. In fact, the Brawley case propelled Sharpton to national prominence.

A grand jury investigation, with which Brawley and her team did not cooperate, dealt a crushing blow in late 1988 when it proclaimed in its findings, printed by the New York Times on October 7th, that “There was no medical or forensic evidence that a sexual assault was committed on Tawana Brawley.”

In essence, they found Brawley’s story to be untrue, a hoax even. Still, there are many who reject those conclusions and Brawley her-self, even at a rare appearance in New York in December 1997 cov-






Gregory Honors Chiefs at Installation Dinner for North

Babylon Fire Department AMITYVILLE, NY—Legislative Majority Legislator DuWayne

Gregory (D‐Amityville) attended the installation dinner on Novem-ber 24th for incoming Chief of Chiefs James Harrington Jr. of the North Babylon Fire Company. Gregory gave a proclamation to honor outgoing Chief Jeffrey Thompson’s service. The induction ceremony took place at the North Babylon Fire Company HQs on Hale Rd.

“We’re still, as a city, still managing some rules and un-ion contracts that, much like the 1967 conversation, ex-tremely outdated. We have too many people in this city do-ing too little for too few.”

Dumas, who currently runs a public relations company in Detroit, described the city as being inefficiently run and said has many officials she feels are invested in maintain-ing the status quo. She also said the city needs to be made more operationally efficient instead of waiting on incre-mental aid from the state and federal government.

“We look at getting money from the state at $10 and $20 million increments to hold us over,” Dumas said. “That’s not changing the fabric of how this city operates. We’re just like people who are financially compromised situations in their homes. [The city] is living check-to-check.”

On Thursday, Bing said during a taped interview that he felt that members of the city’s government carried a sense of entitlement and referred to his job as “probably the sec-ond most difficult in the country.” Bing told theGrio in Au-gust that his administration inherited a “hell hole” in 2009.

“We are in an environment, I think, of entitlement,” Bing said in the video. “We’ve got a lot of people who are city workers who for years and years, 20, 30 years, think they are entitled to a job and all that comes with it.

“Nobody wants to go backwards, but in order for us to move the city forward, we are going to have to take a step or two backwards and then, I think, all of us have to partici-pate in the pain that’s upon us right now.”

Bing said that within 10 years that the city will have a renovated riverfront, thriving downtown, and stable, more densely populated neighborhoods. Detroit, which is 140 square miles, has sections where residents currently have only one or two occupied homes in their neighborhoods, including some that have no working streetlights.

“We’re going to try to convince those people that they need to move, so there’s density in all of our neighbor-hoods,” He said. “I don’t think Detroit is going to be what it was [in the 1950s]. We have to look at ourselves differ-ently. I don’t know that we’re going to be the same blue-collar town that we were.”

Dumas, who was let go by Bing in 2011, feels that the entitlement culture has helped exacerbate the problem and led to contentious – often racially charged – meetings be-tween residents and city leaders. She feels that part of the problem also lies with the residents not using good judg-ment in electing officials, often “recycling” familiar names.

“In this community, we have a 50 percent illiteracy rate that has to be acknowledged,” she said. “We also have peo-ple that have been elected to ‘lead’ – for lack of a better term – based on emotion, name recognition, and based on their ability to be recycled from other areas.

“I believe that a lot of these [city officials] understand that much of the voter base functions on emotions, as well as being uninformed or misinformed and they capitalize on that at the expense of the people that they serve. They men-tion civil rights, or racism, or ownership. People get upset,

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but they don’t know why.”

With the potential of bankruptcy looming in the coming new year, time may be running out on the city to make up its mind. Fear of not being “in charge” has pushed the city once again to the brink and has the city staring at an uncer-tain future and rhetoric about “dissolving” the state’s largest city will likely not help matters.

“Making that [dissolving] statement just seals the discon-nect,” Dumas said. “The likelihood or reality of dissolving a city is all but non-existent. That’s not the way to solve the problem.

“I do think that at a certain point, people in the city – both those that live here and those that are charged with leading it – have to recognize that there may be some drastic options around the corner if there’s not some proactive en-gagement. The city of Detroit did not get this way over-night, and it’s not going to be addressed overnight.”



Gregory Appoints Local Advocate to

Disabilities Advisory Board

AMITYVILLE, NY—At last Tuesday’s General Meet-ing of the Suffolk County Legislature (November 20th), 15th district Legislative Majority Legislator DuWayne (D‐Amityville) took great pride in appointing one of Amity-ville’s very own to an important committee that seeks to help those with disabilities.

The Legislature unanimously adopted Gregory’s ap-pointment of Douglas King to the Suffolk County Disabili-ties Advisory Board. Born with the physical disability Spina Bifida, Douglas uses a wheelchair every day. Doug holds a B.A. in Business Administration/Science and Hu-manities degree. He has been involved in wheelchair sports for over 20 years.

An 8 time gold medal winner in the New York State Games for the Physically Challenged in both Track & Field

events, Doug was also a pitcher for the wheelchair softball team of the New York Yankees, taking the mound in 2 World Series games of the 2008 season at Shea Stadium. Douglas has been a member of the New York Strikers In-door Wheelchair Soccer Team for the past 7years. He was part of the winning 2007 and 2011 Gold medal team in the national Soccer Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia and New York. Douglas is also part of the U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete Speakers Referral Network. He is also runs Wheels in Motion Consulting, a firm that caters to helping those with disabilities meet the challenges of everyday life.

Working with the Office for People with Disabilities, the Suffolk County Disabilities Advisory Board serves the 283,000 county residents with disabilities, including: coor-dinating County services; developing programs that assist people with disabilities in becoming more self-sufficient; advocating for changes to resolve issues facing the dis-abled; provide information and referrals for County resi-dents with disabilities; and provide specialized services not available through other County departments. In addition, the Office ensures County government compliance with federal mandates under the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act.



Mangano Announces Santa in the Park this

Saturday, December 1st East Meadow, NY – Nassau County Executive Edward P. Man-

gano today announced “Santa in the Park” will take place this Satur-day, December 1st at 1:00 p.m. at the Wantagh Park Community

Clubhouse.

Santa will be arriving in a Fire Truck and all children will have the opportunity to meet with Santa and give him their wish list. Candy, cookies, and hot chocolate will be distributed by Santa’s elves.

About Wantagh Park

Wantagh Park, located in southeastern Nassau County, has been part of the county park system since 1961. Consisting of 111 acres, the park provides a waterfront location and numerous opportunities for recreation, along with seating areas that allow visitors to relax and enjoy the magnificent view. There are five tennis courts; one basket-ball court; 1-mile and 2-mile walking paths; a two-mile Fitness Trail that provides a jogging or walking trail and 20 attractive and simple fitness stations that incorporate a variety of exercises. Athletic fields include three softball fields and one baseball field, two of which are lighted; and a playground. Bocci and horseshoe courts are available, along with a game area for chess and checkers and a senior citizen

gazebo. There are eight reserved picnic areas, which include barbecue equipment, and one sheltered area. The swimming complex includes an Olympic-sized main pool, a diving pool, a “kiddie” pool, training pool, an interactive water-play area and two 30 foot waterslides. There is also a launch ramp; a fishing pier just beyond the marina which is open year-round, and marine boat slips are also available. There is also a dog run which includes separate areas for big and small dogs; it is located just up from the administration building.

For more information about the Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, please call: (516) 572-0200 or visit the website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

FEMA OFFERS GUIDANCE AT HOME

DEPOT ON BEING PREPARED FOR FUTURE

DISASTERS NEW YORK – People whose property was damaged or de-

stroyed in Hurricane Sandy and are ready to start rebuilding can get advice from experts. Specialists who are knowledgeable in all facets of cleanup and building safer and smarter to avoid future losses will be dispensing guidance free of charge, compliments of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FEMA experts will staff tables at Home Depot stores in Nassau County at 1320 Corporate Drive, No. 1300, Westbury; in Suffolk County at 346 Middle Country Road, Coram, and in Kings County at 585 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn.

Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 28, through Tuesday, Dec. 3, hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. They’ll be closed Monday. Advice and direction in flood cleanup, flood-insurance matters, and repair and rebuilding will be available to all, not just to customers who are registered with FEMA. These mitigation experts will be able to talk about elevating electrical services and appliances; installing sewer back-flow valves; removing and replacing drywall and insulation; channeling wa-ter away from foundations; repairing with water-resistant materials. They can also give guidance in the permitting process required by local authorities.

For every dollar spent on mitigation, FEMA officials say, nearly four times as much is saved when another disaster like Sandy hits.

More information on ways to protect your property from disasters to come is available at: www.fema.gov. Click on “Plan, Prepare and Mitigate.”

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and im-prove our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, re-

cover from, and mitigate all hazards. Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race,

color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency or economic status. If you or someone you know has been discrimi-nated against, call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362). For TTY call 800-462-7585.



Mangano & Nassau Police Offer Holiday Safety Tips

Mineola, NY - Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano, Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas V. Dale and the Nassau County Police Department are taking additional steps to ensure the safety of Nassau resi-dents during the upcoming holiday season. All of the Nassau County Police Department’s regular marked and plainclothes patrols will be intensifying their coverage of shopping malls and commercial areas. The patrols will be augmented by patrols from our Mounted Unit and Bureau of Special Opera-tions. Concurrently, dedicated patrols have been assigned to the major malls within the county, putting additional police officers at those locations during peak hours.

In addition to shopping safety, Nassau County Police will also be looking for drivers and occupants who are not complying with seat belt laws. This includes children who are not in child safety seats or buckled in their seat. Police Officers will also be vigilant watching for drivers who are drinking and driving on all roads in Nassau. Handicapped parking violations will be strictly enforced. Parking in handicapped spaces are reserved for those with visible permits.

Before Leaving Home · Plan your shopping trip carefully. Know where you are going and

what routes you will take to get there. · If possible, arrange for a friend to go shopping with you. There is

safety in numbers. · Let someone know where you are going and what route you will be

taking. Additionally, let them know when you expect to return. · Leave your home secure, engage alarms and give the appearance

that your home is occupied by leaving the lights on in the most frequently used rooms.

· Don’t leave valuable items out in the open. Secure them in closets, safes, etc.

When Parking · Always park in well-lit areas. · Note the location of your vehicle in the parking lot to conveniently

return after shopping. · Always lock all your doors · Remove all items, such as radar detectors, laptops or packages and

hide them in the trunk, glove compartment, out of site. · Avoid parking near vans or other vehicles with covered cargo areas. · Avoid carrying large handbags. Carry only what is necessary. · Look around the parking lot for suspicious persons before you exit

your vehicle. · Don’t get out of your vehicle until you are ready. If you don’t feel

safe, stay in the car or drive away. While Shopping · Keep your money and credit cards in your front pocket and try to

limit the number of credit cards and cash you’re carrying while shop-ping.

· To avoid being a victim of “Identity Theft”, be aware of exposing credit cards, debit cards and other identification at the cash register and ATM’s. Thieves will utilize cell phones to capture card information with-out your knowledge.

· Be cognizant of any other type of “Distraction” type of crimes that typically occur during this time of the year.

When Returning To Your Car Never leave the store with your arms full of packages. Use a cour-

tesy cart. Have your car key in hand, ready to unlock your door. Check the parking lot for suspicious people and look around before

you exit the store. Do not return to your vehicle if you see people loitering nearby. Carry a whistle or other audible device. If you feel threatened, use

it. If you’re inside your vehicle, lock your doors and honk your horn to attract attention.

Check underneath, in front and in back of your car as you ap-proach it.

Check the front and rear passenger seats inside your car before you enter it.

If you are planning on returning to the store, never leave your packages in plain view inside your vehicle. Lock them in the trunk or place them on the floor and cover them with a blanket or jacket.

ALWAYS BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS

Statement from Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams on Nassau County Attorney John Ciampoli moonlighting

as an election lawyer on the State Senate recount in Ulster County:

"On Monday night I held a forum in Freeport, along with Legislators Denenberg and Scannell, to help guide our residents who have been impacted by Sandy on the road to recovery. Over 400 residents filled the room looking for assistance from over a half dozen agencies. With that urgent need in mind, I find it deplorable that John Ciampoli, our County Attorney and chief law enforcement offi-cer, is taking time away from the Nassau residents he is supposed to serve in order to count ballots and most likely to suppress vot-ers in Ulster County. I respectfully implore County Executive Mangano to immedi-ately recall Mr. Ciampoli to Nassau so that he can continue to do the job he was appointed to do. If Mr. Ciampoli still has the urge to volunteer his time I know of residents in Long Beach, Freeport and Baldwin that would certainly welcome his assistance."



THE ROOSEVELT CHILDREN’S ACADEMY

AWARDS GALA Hempstead Town Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby (center, standing, back row) recently attended the Roose-velt Children’s Academy Awards Gala held at the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Roosevelt. Coun-cilwoman Goosby commended the school administrators, staff, and students on a wonderful event and praised the school for its solid commitment to academic excellence.



ROOSEVELT PUBLIC LIBRARY CULTURAL ARTS AUDITORIUM GRAND OPENING: Hempstead Town Council-woman Dorothy L. Goosby (5th right) recently attended the Grand Opening Gala and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of the new state of the art addition to the Roosevelt Public Library and its Cultural Arts Auditorium. Pictured (left to right) are Former Library Board Member Reginald Taylor, Former Library Board President and current School Board Member Wilhelmina Fun-derburke, Library Board Member and highly acclaimed band leader Frank Abel, Library Board Member Dr. Bola Maje-kodunmi, Library Board President Wilton Robinson, Library Board Member Mary Adams, Councilwoman Goosby, New York State Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, Emmy Funderburke, Nassau County Legislator Robert Troiano, and Nassau County Legislator Kevan Abrahams.

Strong Economic Recovery Continues After Superstorm Sandy Black Friday

Sales Increase 12.8% Mineola, NY- An increase in spending during “Black Friday

Weekend” continued the accelerating consumer spending trends ob-served since Superstorm Sandy, Nassau County Comptrol-ler George Maragos said today. This increased spending should go a long way in recovering lost economic activity and sales tax revenues during the two weeks following the storm due to the widespread devastation and extended power outages. Comptroller Maragos had earlier warned that Superstorm Sandy, in combination with the subse-quent Nor’easter, may have caused over $1 Billion eco-nomic losses to Nassau County, with a potential short term loss of sales tax revenue of approximately $30 million dur-ing the first two weeks following the storm.

“It now appears that the recovery and re-building is already in full force with the rapid financial infusion from insurance companies, FEMA’s assistance to our communities, and the surprisingly strong 12.8% increase in holiday sales as reported by the National Retail Federation,” Comptroller Maragos said. “Accordingly, the negative

$30 million sales tax impact projected during the two weeks following the storm may be mitigated to approximately $10 million or less during the entire fourth quarter, with full recovery expected in 2013.”

Utilizing the experience from Hurricane Katrina for guidance on the comparative economic damage and recovery econometrics, includ-ing the local factors, the Comptroller’s Office has revised its economic forecast for the impact of the storm. Louisiana experienced a 26% de-

crease in sales tax revenue in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the prior year as a result of Katrina, but bounced back in the fourth quarter by approximately 20% over the prior year’s fourth quarter and was up by approximately 27% for the full 2006 year over the prior year. It is unlikely that Long Island will have the same magni-tude of sales tax recovery as was experienced in Louisi-ana after Katrina due to the comparably lesser impact in Nassau County from Sandy, the lower current GCP (Gross County Product) growth rate and the greater eco-

nomic uncertainty in 2013 from the fiscal policies from Washington. At this point, we can estimate conservatively that the County should be able to bounce back and should eventually exceed lost sales taxes reve-nues by $5-$10 million, for an overall pick-up of approximately 1% to 1.5% over budget during the 2013 fiscal year.



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From the Desk of Mayor Hall

Be a Safe and Smart Shopper this Holiday Season! When consumerism is at its highest volume of the year, it is important to remem-

ber the dangers that can occur…even at the shopping mall. I want to be sure our Vil-lage residents are safe and smart shoppers.

Identity theft, shoplifting and robberies are more prevalent during the holiday season, and it is important to be proactive. To make certain that this holiday season is a joyous one, I urge you to heed the following advice:

Don’t leave any money, checkbooks,debit/credit cards or packages in your car when you go inside the stores. Doing so can encourage would-be thieves.

While you’re shopping, don’t set packages down or walk away from your cart, even for a minute.

When you go to pay for your purchases, don’t flash your wallet, the money in it, or your debit/ credit card. Keep them in your hands, and make sure credit card numbers are covered until it is time to swipe your card. Put your cash or card back into your wal-let as soon as you’ve finished with your transaction, and check that the sales associates gave you back your debit/credit card back before leaving the store.

Watch as the clerk rings up your purchases, and review your re-ceipt thoroughly.

Use caution when making online purchases; make sure the web-sites you use for shopping are legitimate.

In addition to being a safe and smart shopper this holiday season, I encourage-you to support the Village’s local businesses. Shopping in the Village isnot only more convenient for residents, butwill help maintain a strong local economy.The money spent in our local stores benefits everyone in the Village, not just the sho-powners. Shopping locally increases our municipal tax revenues – a savings that is p a s s e d o f f t o y o u , t h e c o n s u m e r . Another benefit of shopping in the Village is that, especially during the holiday sea-son, it brings us closer together. Getting to know local merchants and salespeople is a wonderful way for residents to meet others from their own countries of origin, as well as make new acquaintances with those from different cultural backgrounds. Hempstead Village has much to offer; let’s all be “smart shoppers” and enjoy a re-warding sense of community this holiday season.

To learn more about what is going on in the Village of Hempstead, including information about local organizations that serve youth and families, visit www.villageofhempstead.org. You may also join our electronic mailing list by sending your name and email address to: [email protected]. To keep abreast of the downtown revital izat ion, visi t www.renewhempstead.com. On that site, you may share your ideas for the rede-velopment and/or provide your feedback on the plan.

Sincerely,

Wayne Mayor Wayne J. Hall

Boy, 6, dies in Hempstead bus-house crash

Originally published: November 27, 2012 10:29 PM U p d a t e d : N o v e m b e r 2 8 , 2 0 1 2 3 : 0 3 A M By ELLEN YAN AND BILL MASON [email protected], [email protected]

A Nassau County bus hit a pedestrian before crashing into a mul-tifamily house in Hempstead Tuesday night, killing a 6-year-old boy in a front bedroom and injuring his 7-year-old brother and 11 passen-gers, authorities said.

The bus driver was heading west on Fulton Avenue at about 9:15 p.m., when he saw a pedestrian crossing the four-lane road and honked his horn, Nassau police said.

The pedestrian continued crossing north and the driver swerved, making a hard right. He hit the pedestrian and slammed into the front bedroom of the multifamily home on Fulton Avenue, police said.

"The bus was trying to avoid the pedestrian in the roadway and wound up hitting the pedestrian anyway," said Lt. Frank McNamee of the Hempstead Village police.

The unidentified pedestrian was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow for treatment of nonlife-threatening injuries, McNamee said. The passengers were treated for minor inju-ries at local hospitals, Nassau police said.

Police did not release the names of the brothers. The 7-year-old was taken to Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, where he was also treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.

After the bus hit the house, the 6-year-old was pinned between the vehicle and an interior part of the building, McNamee said.

He was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. at Winthrop with his par-ents by his side, police said.

Witness Alida Gutierrez, a resident of the house, said she was in-side at the time of the crash, along with several other residents. The two brothers were in the front bedroom; the older boy was sleeping while the younger one, a first-grader, was going to close the front bedroom door when the bus came through the house, she said.

After the bus hit, she and her husband and daughter ran out of the house. They found the older boy, "but the baby they didn't find," she said.

She said when the accident happened, "my daughter was close to the bus, but God was good" and the bus missed her.

There were about 20 people on the bus, police said. The accident happened at the intersection of Fulton Avenue and

Nassau Place. Police said no charges were filed. The two-story white (Continued on page 17)



house on Fulton Avenue is set back about 12 feet from a four-lane section of the street at the end of Nassau Place. A three-way intersec-tion with traffic lights ends in front of the house.

Hempstead police and fire departments and Nassau police were among the emergency units who responded to the crash, officials said.

Officials were using part of a Burger King across from the crash scene as a staging area.

Edgar Lazo, who also lives in the basement of the home, said he was sleeping when he heard a big crash and people saying, "Oh my God."

He and other residents smashed a window to try to pull out the boys. While they got the older one, they could not reach the younger boy and they searched fruitlessly for about 50 minutes in the rubble, he said, Later firefighters arrived and helped to find the boy.

Witness Ricky Hernandez, 24, of Hempstead, said a car cut the bus off, and the bus swerved to prevent an accident but instead crashed into the house.

"I was shocked like everyone else," he said. He said people get-ting off the bus complained of pain.

The owner of the home, Leo Diliberti, 84, of Levittown, said the boys' family has lived there about a year and a half.

"They're excellent people -- never give us any trouble," Dilib-erti said. "It's a tragedy. My wife was crying."

Diliberti went to the scene right after the accident but police would not let him go up to the house. "They told us we couldn't get to the house. It's not structur-ally sound. . . . I'm so sorry. The damage is nothing. The child is what's important. It's just a shame. It just broke our hearts."

The bus is part of the Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) sys-tem, officials said. A NICE bus official was on the scene and de-clined to comment.

Veolia Transportation took over Nassau's bus line on Jan. 1, nam-ing it Nassau Inter-County Express Bus, and soon after cut service to some bus routes to fill a budget gap.

The switch to Veolia from the Metropolitan Transportation Au-thority's LI Bus was made by Nassau to rein in costs for bus service, which the MTA ran for 37 years.

Nassau was providing $9.1 million toward the system's $141 mil-lion budget, and the MTA said it no longer would make up the differ-ence. Unless Nassau came up with $26 million more, the MTA said it would be forced to eliminate half of LI Bus' routes.

County Executive Edward Mangano in June 2011 chose Veolia to take over the system rather than pay MTA more, and MTA voted to terminate its pact with the county.

In the first six months of NICE's service, the rate of accidents fell by 60 percent. While the MTA said severe weather early in 2011 played a role, NICE chief executive Michael Setzer said the drop had more to do with Veolia's increased focus on safety.

With Deon J. Hampton

Victim's brother: I saw 'out of control' bus

Originally published: November 28, 2012 4:25 PM U p d a t e d : N o v e m b e r 2 9 , 2 0 1 2 1 2 : 4 8 A M By MATTHEW CHAYES [email protected]

The panicked stepfather, wielding a sledgehammer, smashed out the window of the bedroom where one child was screaming and an-other lay dying.

Both boys had been trapped in the wreckage after a transit bus crashed through the front of their Hempstead Village home Tuesday night, the family recalled Wednesday.

(Continued from page 16) "Papi! Papi! Mommy! My brother!" 7-year-old Josue Molina yelled moments later, said his stepfather, Santos Herrera, 41.

Josue, clad in a SpongeBob SquarePants pajama shirt and Batman bottoms, frantically dug through the rubble, trying in vain to save his younger brother, David Granados, 6.

"I was pulling on the rocks -- pulling and pulling -- but I couldn't find him," Josue said while his parents grieved with him nearby.

"I wished nobody invented the bus, so he would still be alive," the second-grader said.

Herrera, unable to open the bedroom door, climbed through the window but could rescue only Josue.

The younger boy was pronounced dead about an hour later at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, his parents by his side.

As the Nassau Inter-County Express bus carrying 11 passengers ran its doomed route shortly after 9 p.m., the boys were getting ready for bed in their shared room.

"We were chatting a little bit," Josue recalled. "I was in bed al-ready."

David had almost finished changing into a Transformers shirt and rocket ship pajama pants. The unremarkable bedroom routine ended in an instant, when Josue looked out the window and saw the bus

coming right at him. "I was awake when the bus came," he said. "It was out of control." In the kitchen, Mari Bel Molina was making school lunches for her sons, said Alida Gutierrez, 36, who lives in another rental unit in the house. Molina and Herrera, a cook at an Italian restaurant, had been having a late dinner of Spanish eggs and shrimp, he said. The bus hit the two-story

house with a thunderous boom. The driver had swerved to avoid a jaywalker on Fulton Avenue near Nassau Place and jumped the curb, police said.

Herrera ran to the boys. "The children, they were trapped in the room," he said, speaking

through a Spanish translator. "I went through the window. Everything was blocked."

Miraculously, Josue suffered only scrapes on his arms -- cuts he said he got going through the broken window.

When Molina couldn't find the 6-year-old, she sobbed and called out his name, "David! David!" Gutierrez said.

But, as Molina said Wednesday before retreating to her bedroom, "It was too late."

Josue, wrapped in his parents' arms, called his brother his "best friend ever -- until the bus came.

"I love him a lot. . . . I want him now. I'm sad that he died." He said he and David often played tag, hide-and-seek and Nin-

tendo DS video games. He said his brother's favorite color was or-ange, and noted David's fondness for bananas -- sometimes.

"We do our homework together every day," he said. "I help my brother go figure out every answer. I even teached him how to do pluses and take-aways. I told him how to do times, too."

Wednesday, a team of officials and psychologists from the Hemp-stead school district visited the apartment in Garden City Park where the family is now staying.

The parents are struggling with how best to help their surviving son cope. For now, they are all dealing with their grief by shedding tears, they said.

"He says he wanted another brother because his brother died," Herrera said as he packed a suitcase in their wrecked home.

As the family makes funeral plans, Josue promised never to forget David.

"He's in the sky right now, just watching," Josue said. "I'm going to miss him a lot. But he's always going to be in here." The boy pointed to his heart. "He'll be with me in my dreams."



ered by the New York Times told a crowd, “They write that it didn’t happen, that it’s a hoax….Then why are they here? Why are you lis-tening to a liar, if I lie? They know something happened, and they know who did it.”

What may or may not have happened to Brawley, however, does-n’t erase the fact that black women have long been victims of sex crimes. So much so that black women activists like Rosa Parks were among the many who spoke out and fought against it. Before that fateful day in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on that bus in Montgomery, she, as Wayne State pro-fessor Danielle L. McGuire reveals in her important 2010 book, At the Dark End of the Street, which documents incidents of black women who were indeed abducted and raped in the South, had cham-pioned Recy Taylor.

Taylor, a 24-year-old mother and sharecropper, was headed home following an evening service at Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbe-ville, Alabama in 1944 when seven armed white men forced her into their vehicle and took her to a deserted grove of pecan trees where six of them raped her before leaving her on the side of a road. Rosa Parks was the NAACP representative who responded to the travesty in Abbeville.

It’s the Recy Taylors that lent so much credence to Brawley’s story. What may have seemed fanciful to a lot of white Americans was completely within the realm of belief for far too many black Americans.

The long historical record of sexual assault against black women by white men dating back to slavery is one of the primary reasons E.R. Shipp, a New York Times writer at the time who covered legal and was placed on the paper’s Brawley investigative team, believes that many black people so eagerly accepted Tawana Brawley’s story and, to this day, insist on its validity despite a grand jury’s findings.

Shipp, a black woman from Georgia, says that Brawley’s story resonated with many of her black supporters “because they knew of instances themselves or they had known stories that had been passed down of such outrage. It was more easily believable because of his-tory but Tawana turned out to have been a flawed example of what had gone on throughout history when it comes to black women’s sex-ual assault and the willingness of the justice system to provide jus-tice, to allow justice.”

Other factors in the Dutchess County area also helped make Brawley’s story viable, says Shipp, now a journalist in residence at the historically black Morgan State University in Baltimore. “It was believable in the Dutchess County area at the time because there had been some real racial unrest there, some of it connected to the fact that there were so many prisons being built in the area and…many of those new jobs were going to whites who had not had that much ex-posure to black people in their everyday world,” the Pulitzer Prize winner explains.

“All they were seeing were the population that was typical of who was coming to prison and they began apparently to treat blacks as if they were all criminals or suspects anyway so there was racial unrest already afoot in that area and there had been some activity of would-be KKK folk so all of those things came together to form a collective memory of these kinds of injustices over the years.”

Because 1988 was a presidential election year, with New York Governor Mario Cuomo’s name frequently raised as a potential con-tender, Shipp also thinks it was easier for Sharpton, Maddox and Ma-son to attract national attention, especially given the intense racial

(Continued from page 7) tensions of the time. Les Payne, another Pulitzer Prize winner who oversaw the coverage for Newsday, while reporting on the incident himself to reveal the holes in Brawley’s story, cites additional factors like New York City’s polarizing mayor, Ed Koch, and an all-out New York newspaper war over why the Brawley story attracted headlines for nearly a year.

“You had a very explosive, hot-tempered mayor, Mayor Koch,” says Payne. Plus, “there was a very hot newspaper war between the New York Post, the Daily News, the metro section of the New York Times and so there was a legitimate heated and hotly competed four paper battle for news and stories and primacy and I think that’s one of the things that fed [the Brawley story].”

Aside from placing a spotlight on sex crimes committed against black women, the intense coverage of the Brawley case also high-lighted the media’s ongoing lack of diversity, says Payne.

“The media always has problems with black stories because they do not have sufficient black reporters. They do not have sufficient access,” explains Payne, a founder of the National As-sociation of Black Journal-ists. “Many of the black re-porters that they do have are distant themselves from what black history is about and what black current af-fairs are about.”

That was certainly evident in the Brawley case, with many news organizations gathering up not just their

black reporters but also, according to Shipp, realizing the need for younger reporters as well. The culture was rapidly changing in the state of New York and across the country.

While the age-old atrocity of white men possibly raping a black woman and KKK activity were unfortunately not new, the Tawana Brawley story did shed light on new societal concerns around crack cocaine, the prison industrial complex and hip-hop culture. And, twenty five years later, those realities have not disappeared.

Still, Brawley’s story, whether one believes it or not, continues to raise very legitimate questions about the justice system that have come up time and time again with the O.J. Simpson trial and even now with the Trayvon Martin case.

“I guess Brawley maybe kind of paved the way for debate among blacks that became louder when the O.J. Simpson case emerged again challenging us to determine the credibility of the justice system and the ability of the justice system to treat fairly blacks who were vic-tims of crimes and blacks who were the suspects in crime,” offers Shipp.

Twenty-five years later, Brawley’s story remains an important cultural marker that cannot be ignored.

“I think by negating her story or even by holding her up as the example of ‘oh you can’t trust a woman, you can’t trust a black woman who says she’s been raped by a white man,’” it deletes that whole history, that whole legacy that is at least a century old of white men assaulting and attacking black women with relative impunity,” says Wayne State professor Danielle L. McGuire.

Because, as history has shown, there have been Tawana Brawleys for whom the American justice system has not and continues not to serve.

And that’s why the Tawana Brawley story, flaws and all, will probably never go away



As minority banks fail nationwide, experts question their relevancy

From Madame Noire Business:

Black-owned banks once offered financial credit and stability to the African American community. The Huffing-ton Post found that the number of black-owned banks across the nation has decreased drastically. “In 1994, 54 such banks were identified by the FDIC; now there are just 28,” reports HuffPo.

One city where minority banks have been hit hard is Chicago. According to Chicago Business, “Before the fi-nancial crisis that hit in 2008, the Chi-cago area was home to 17 banks owned by or focused on lending to minorities. Six since have failed, and five are sad-dled with so much in troubled assets that their futures are in question.”

What remains are five banks catering to African Americans, one to Hispanics, and six to Asian Americans. But even these are struggling to stay open; two black-owned banks, Covenant Bank and Highland Community Bank, and one Asian lender, American Metro Bank, are trying to find funding in order to con-tinue operating. The one remaining La-tino bank, Aztec-America Bank, and an-other Asian bank, United Trust Bank, have high levels of troubled assets, which means they too might close their vaults.

Among those that have already failed are ShoreBank, which had $2 billion in assets and was one of the city’s most active lenders catering mainly to African Americans, and $1.6 billion-asset Mutual Bank of Harvey, an Indian-American-owned bank.

Besides the recession, other experts say minority banks are failing because they aren’t needed. “While most bank-ers and business leaders in minority neighborhoods of Chi-cago believe that loans are hard to obtain in those areas, both for businesses and consumers, they don’t all see the minority banks moving aggressively to provide that credit,” notes Chicago Business. During the 1960s and 1970s, non-white borrowers had trouble obtaining loans, so minority banks cropped up to fulfill these financial needs. But be-cause of the federal Community Reinvestment Act, a 1977 law that requires banks to lend in less-advantaged areas of their communities, this is not as of much an issue anymore.

But Monique Morris, NAACP Vice President for Eco-nomic Programs, argues that black-owned banks are still necessary. “The role for black-owned financial institutions is the same as it has always been — to support the financial

needs of the communities in which they are located. They leverage deposits and support the formation and develop-ment of emerging enterprises that will produce jobs and im-prove the economic landscape of our communities,” she writes in The Grio.

Minority banks have been reaching out to larger institu-tions for financial help. Gold-man Sachs, for example, re-cently bailed out Harlem’s Carver Bankcorp. And, finan-cial writer Suzy Khimm blogs in the Washington Post, Face-

book’s IPO included minority- and women-owned banks as underwriters. But the key for minority banks to survive, sug-gests Khimm is “[t]hey need to regain that trust to serve, or other locally minded institutions might displace them.”

Want to support a minority owned bank? Check out Of-fice of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) list of Minor-ity- and Women-Owned Banks.

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ber that when they use corporal punishment as their only method of discipline, there is a probabil-ity that a spanking will escalate into a beating when they are an-gry at a stubborn child. This may result in cuts or bruises on a child. If a child goes to school with cuts or bruises, educators must and will call CPS (Child Protective Services). CPS will come to the school to interview the child and visit the home. Your children could be removed from your home and placed in foster homes and you could be arrested.

Is It Against the Law to Spank Your Child?

Is it against the law to spank your child? No. Many new immi-grant families find themselves in trouble with the law because they didn’t know the laws that govern corporal punishment as acceptable practices vary from state to state and country to country. There are two bodies in New York State that deal with child abuse and mal-treatment of children. They are Social Services Law and the Family Court Act. Some offenses are criminal and are dealt with by the po-lice and the district attorney. Child Protective Service specialists look for two things: marks and how often the child is spanked. It is not against the law to spank your children, however, you should not be doing it everyday and you can NOT leave a mark of any kind. This indicates that you have hit the child too hard or excessively.

What’s a Parent To Do? What is really wrong with society is that we have told parents that

they should not spank or limit spanking their children. However, we have not taught them about other effective discipline methods nor how to use them. I think that while a woman is pregnant, she and her partner should be required to attend a certain number of parent train-ing workshops just like women attend Lamaze classes.

Research confirms what many parents instinctively feel when they don’t like to spank their child, but they don’t know what else to do. The latest research from Dr. Murray Strauss at the Family Re-search Laboratory affirms that spanking teaches children to use acts of aggression and violence to solve their problems. It only teaches and perpetuates more violence, the very thing our society is so con-cerned about. This research reports that children who have been spanked are more prone to low self-esteem, depression and accept lower paying jobs as adults. So, what do you do instead? Here are tips from the Positiveparenting.com website:

1 - Get Calm First, if you feel angry and out of control and you want to spank or slap your child, leave the situation if you can. Calm down and get quiet. In that quiet time you will often find an alterna-tive or solution to the problem.

2 - Take Time for Yourself Parents are more prone to use spanking when they haven’t had any time to themselves and they feel depleted and hurried. So, it is important for parents to take some time for themselves to exercise, read, take a walk or pray.

3 - Be Kind But Firm Another frustrating situation where par-ents tend to spank is when your child hasn’t listened to your repeated requests to behave. Finally, you spank to get your child to act appro-priately. Another solution in these situations is to get down on your child’s level, make eye contact, touch him gently and tell him, in a short, kind but firm phrase, what it is you want him to do. For exam-ple, “I want you to play quietly.

4 - Give Choices Giving your child a choice is an effective alter-native to spanking. If she is playing with her food at the table ask “Would you like to stop playing with your food or would you like to


ASK LISA-ANNE To spank or not to

spank? Q. My son has behavior problems. At home we spank him and it

usually works. I am tired of his school calling me everyday to tell me about his behavior. His teacher said that she can not spank my son. I feel that this is what is wrong with our schools and society today. Why are schools opposed to spanking children? Is it against the law to spank my own son?

A. Wow! You have sparked a debate that has been going on for

years. To spank or not to spank; that is the question. First let’s talk about your son. All children misbehave from time to time. Children who are in constant trouble need intervention. Children misbehave because they are scared, angry, depressed, or have a behavior disor-der. You need to have him evaluated by the school psychologist and a neurologist to rule out a behavior disorder that your son may not be able to control like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-ADHD.

What is Corporal Punishment? The Wikipedia.com web-site defines it as the deliberate infliction of pain intended to punish a person or change his/her behavior.

School Law States: Each state in America has its own Education Laws! Your

next issue is corporal punishment in schools. Believe it or not, there are states that permit corporal punishment in their school systems however, New York is not one of them. According to the New York State School Law, 30th edition, p. 453, no teacher, administrator, of-ficer, employee, or agent of a school district may use corporal punishment against a student. Corporal punishment is described as any physical force upon a student for the purpose of punishing that student. This law has not been amended as of November, 2012. Your son’s teacher is correct. She is not allowed to spank your son and you should not want her to.

According to researchers at the www.stophitting.com web-site, every industrialized country in the world now prohibits school corporal punishment except the USA and Australia. In the USA the following states allow corporal punishment in the schools: Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and South Caro-lina. All other states have banned it or have restrictions. Why has corporal punishment been banned in most school systems? Here are a few reasons:

Corporal punishment was disproportionately used on Af-rican-Americans, poor children, immigrant children, chil-dren with disabilities, and boys.

It perpetuates a cycle of abuse. It teaches children to hit someone smaller and weaker when angry.

It can easily be abused. Children’s deaths have occurred as a result of corporal punishment.

Educators and school boards are sometimes sued due to corporal punishment in their schools.

Corporal punishment is often not used as a last resort. It is often the first approach for minor misbehaviors.

Schools that use corporal punishment often have poorer academic achievement, more vandalism, truancy, pupil violence, and higher drop out rates.

Many alternatives to corporal punishment have proven their worth.

Of course many people believe strongly in corporal punishment and nothing will change their minds. However, parents must remem-



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Freeport High School Students and Staff Lend a Helping

Hand Freeport High School students and staff reacted

swiftly and generously to establish a pre-Thanksgiving food and clothing drive to benefit those affected by Super-storm Sandy.

Social studies coordinator Linda Hendrickson organ-ized the Disaster Relief Distribution Center stationed in the school cafeteria. It was open after school from 3-6 p.m. on weekdays for nearly three weeks. Faculty and student vol-unteers helped with receiving, sorting and dispensing cloth-ing, food and other donated supplies.

The disaster relief center assisted hundreds of Freeport residents before it closed. Remaining items will be donated to other organizations assisting the community.

(Left to right) Freeport High School senior Diegori Lo-pez-Rodriguez and social studies coordinator Linda Hen-drickson helped run the Disaster Relief Distribution Center in the school cafeteria. Hundreds of local residents came in for assistance.

(Left to right) Freeport High School students Ariel Alas and Bianca Molina helped sort and fold clothing at the Dis-aster Relief Distribution Center housed in the school cafete-ria.

(Left to right) Freeport High School math teacher Marie Melgar, language teacher Concepcion Riobo and lead nurse Sarah Collins-Molese volunteered their time at the Disaster Relief Distribution Center at the school. Hundred of local families benefited from the clothing and food that was col-lected from teachers, students and the community.

Photos provided by Steve Kolodny/Syntax



“The Alpha College Tour—One of the

“Go to High School, Go to College”

Programs The Eta Theta Lambda Education Foundation, a non-

profit subsidiary of the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., is currently preparing high school students to participate in its 2012 31st Anniversary GO TO HIGH SCHOOL, GO TO COLLEGE, HISTORI-CALLY BLACK COLLEGE TOUR. This great opportunity for New York City area, Connecticut, New Jersey and other high school students to visit 15 outstanding Historically Black Colleges and Universities will begin on October 20, 2012, and end on October 27, 2012. The basic cost of the Tour is $625.00 and includes hotel accommodations and bus transportation for the week. In addition to the College Tour, participants can at-tend Leadership Development Workshops which focus on topics such as College Prep, Financial Literacy and Devel-oping Study Skills & Academic Integrity. A Parent-Student Orientation session is required of all participants, and a post-trip debriefing for all participants is scheduled annu-ally where a video of Tour highlights is finalized for pro-duction. In its 31th year, the Eta Theta Lambda Education Foundation conducts an invigorating College Tour, which will visit approximately 15 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This year's Tour will span five states over a seven-day period. Since 1981, the College Tour has as-sisted approximately 3,000 high school aged youths by helping them give serious consideration to their future edu-cational pursuits. Chaperoned by members of the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and female vol-

unteers from our communities, the students who participate in the Tour can expect to meet with admissions officers of the schools visited, obtain applications and financial aid in-formation, tour the campus environment, and meet with for-mer students of the Tour to compare and share educational experiences. In addition, while on the Tour students will participate in youth development activities that foster lead-ership skills, as well as keep up with homework assign-ments. The itinerary for the 2012 College Tour is as follows (*itinerary subject to change): Morgan State University, Howard University, Bennett College, Johnson C. Smith Uni-versity, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, Tennes-see State University, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark-Atlanta University, North Carolina A&T State Univer-sity, North Carolina Central University, Hampton University, Virginia State University. We may be able to work into our schedule a pilgrimage to the recently dedicated MLK, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in DC, and a visit to the Mar-tin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (the nation's oldest Black Greek Letter Fraternity founded on a college campus) was founded in 1906 at Cornell University and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006. The Eta Theta Lambda Educa-tion Foundation's mission is to promote scholarship and academic achievement among African-American and Latino youths. Representatives from the College Tour Committee are available for presentations at schools, churches and com-munity groups. For more information, contact the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter hotline at 516.733.0442 or via email [email protected], visit our website @ www.etlEducationFoundation.org or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Start early, secure your seat on The Alpha College Tour…for next year, the 2013 College Tour, the 32nd. Call now!



ATTENTION STUDENTS, PARENTS,

AUNTS, UNCLES, GRANDPARENTS AND

TEACHERS! IN AN EFFORT TO PRAISE AND ENCOURAGE OUR

CHILDREN IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL

ENDEAVORS, WE WOULD LIKE TO SPOTLIGHT A STUDENT A

WEEK WHO HAS ACCOMPLISHED

SOMETHING SPECIAL IN SCHOOL!

If you know a student from kindergarten - college who has

graduated, won a certificate, passed an exam, written a poem, created or invented something, has significantly improved his/her grades, wrote a fantastic essay, joined the track team, sang a solo, has a part in a play or painted a beautiful picture, let us know and we’ll show him/her off in the paper! Contact Lisa-Anne Byers at [email protected]

leave the table?” If the child continues to play with her food, you use kind but firm action by helping her down from the table. Then tell her that she can return to the table when she is ready to eat her food without playing in it.

5 - Use Logical Consequences Consequences that are logically related to the behavior help teach children responsibility.

6 - Do Make Ups When children break agreements, parents tend to want to punish them. An alternative is to have your child do a make-up. A make-up is something that people do to put themselves back into integrity with the person they broke the agreement with.

7 - Withdraw from Conflict Children who sass back at parents may provoke a parent to slap. In this situation, it is best if you with-draw from the situation immediately. Do not leave the room in anger or defeat. Calmly say, “I’ll be in the next room when you want to talk more respectfully.

8 - Use kind but firm action Instead of smacking an infant’s hand or bottom when she touches something she isn’t supposed to, kindly but firmly pick her up and take her to the next room. Offer her a toy or another item to distract her.

9 - Inform Children Ahead of Time A child’s temper tantrum can easily set a parent off. Children fre-

quently throw tantrums when they feel uninformed or powerless in a situation. Instead of telling your child he has to leave his friend’s house at a moment’s notice, tell him that you will be leaving in five minutes. This allows the child to complete what he was in the proc-ess of doing. Please visit your son’s class unannounced and secretly view his behavior in the classroom. If all interventions fail have him evaluated by the psychologist at his school. You can also begin to use other methods like verbal praise for when he is behaving, set clear rules and clear consequences appropriate to his age, time out, take away privileges, games or toys, and use spanking as a last resort. You can get more information on discipline techniques from your school psychologist. You can also visit www.stophitting.com, and www.childprotectiveservices.com for more information.

Lisa-Anne Ray-Byers is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist

who has worked in education for over two decades. She holds graduate degrees in speech-language pathology and multicultural education. She also holds certifica-tion in educational administration. She is the author of the books, They Say I Have ADHD, I Say Life Sucks! Thoughts From Nicholas and They S S Say I’m a St St Stutterer, But I S S Say Nothing! Meet Kelly and co-author of 365 Ways to Suc-ceed With ADHD all available at her website. She is the Education Editor of the Community Journal newspaper in Baldwin, New York and a member of the Na-tional Education Writers Association. You may contact her at [email protected] or by visiting her website at www.AskLisaAnne.com.


FEMA Meets With Freeport Community Legislator Dave Denenberg hosted a Freeport Community Meet-

ing with FEMA representatives to address the ongoing concerns of community members in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Town of Hempstead Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby was a guest at the meet-ing and was able to update Freeport neighbors on available assistance from the Town of Hempstead.



The Magic of Gratitude

Last Thursday on Thanksgiving Day millions of people rushed to the store in the hope of finding a bargain, it is sad that we are losing the true meaning of thanksgiving.

Most people have a tendency to give thanks for one day a year, during thanksgiving and then they can’t wait to rush out to buy more stuff... more of whatever the manufacturers puts on sale.

No one can agree more this is the perfect time to express gratitude. Thanksgiving forces us to look within, to pay attention to all the good things that we take for granted daily. Writing down the things we are grateful for seems to lock it into our fiber, memory and feelings causing it to release more.

Research shows that keeping a gratitude journal builds better health, relationship and appreciation. People who are grateful have a trend to approach life with more happiness and joy, and have more love for self and others.

Begin and end each day with gratitude, starting your day with a simple thank you for the things you have not yet received, even ending the day in the same manner is beneficial.

Writing things that you are grateful for in a jour-nal is magical. I want to remind all of you to be thankful as you enter the holiday season, if you have a journal use it, if you don’t have one it is time to go shopping for a journal or a notebook as long as you log the things that you are grateful for.

Keeping a journal cre-ates abundance, meaning the more thankful you are the more abundant your life will become.

This year take time to journal and to practice meditation to live a more abundant and stress free life. Now is a good time to start no age limit.

Practicing as little as three minutes of meditation daily have some good benefits Enhanced immune system Reduces stress Increases energy Calming effect Peaceful mind Helps overcome depression, anger, confusion

and anxiety Disclaimer: This article is intended to provide general educational

information. Information provided should not be construed as medi-cal advice or instruction. No action or inaction should be taken based solely on the contents of this information; instead, you should consult appropriate health professionals on any matter relating to their health and well-being. This article is not an attempt to practice medicine or provide specific medical advice, and should not be used to make a diagnosis or to replace or overrule a qualified health care provider's judgment. Nor should readers rely upon my information if they might need emergency medical treatment. I strongly encourage readers to consult with a qualified health care professional for answers to per-sonal questions. By writing this article I do not establish a doctor-patient relationship with the readers. The information and opinions expressed here are believed to be accurate, based on the best judg-ment available to the author, and readers who fail to consult with ap-propriate health authorities assume the risk of any injuries.

Your feedback and questions are welcome. For specific personal coaching, you can email Immacula Oligario directly at [email protected] or visit us online @ www.yesicandoit2.com



theGrio’s healthy cooking series:

Chef Presceia O. Cooper

For the past year, Presceia O. Cooper has worked as assistant gen-eral manager at Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, an African-American restaurant in Boston. On the day-to-day, Cooper oversees kitchen op-erations. However, her true passion is cooking and she also serves as executive chef.

“I enjoy creating recipes, doing some cooking myself, and doing the dessert specials. It’s a great opportunities to have my hands in both,” she says.

Cooper also teaches healthy cooking to families for the Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters Program.

“In one class, we made fried chicken but it wasn’t really fried,” she explains. “We seasoned the chicken with salt and pepper, did an egg wash, then added corn flakes and baked that off.”

Cooper says that this method provides a crunch without it actually being fried.

“I think that’s a great substitute for those who want that crust on chicken without deep frying,” she adds.

At Darryl’s, the chefs also regularly implement healthy cooking techniques.

“We try to stay light on the butter and salt,” Cooper explains. “I’m actively trying to make sure that things are appropriately sea-soned without being saturated in a lot of fat, especially since high blood pressure is big in our community. We use olive oil as opposed to butter.”

The restaurant also offers specials with various vegetables, like root ragu, as well as greens and salads. And, Presceia believes a key to healthy eating is moderation.

“We should eat what is satisfying, and not just overeat because it’s there. [At Darryl’s], we’re good about our portions,” Cooper says.

“I also use a lot of fruit. I like things to be fresh and seasonal. I’ll do a cobbler or banana pudding with fresh bananas.”

Prior to her position at Darryl’s, Cooper worked as a baker at Babycakes, a bakery in Quincy, Mass. where she specialized in cakes. Although, she admits that it’s harder to substitute healthy in-gredients when baking.

“Baking is a science and the textures and flavors change when you’re not using traditional ingredients,” Cooper says. “The healthi-est of people are still going toward the traditional baking goods. I think the trick is eating in moderation.”

With respect to traditional African-American meals, Cooper shared with theGrio some tips making them a bit healthier. Use brown sugar or raw sugar instead of regular sugar. Use low-fat milk or low-fat cream instead of whole milk or

heavy cream. Opt for smoked turkey in collard greens instead of hamhocks

or pig’s feet. “Another trick I learned is using smoked paprika without any meat,” she says. “It provides that smoky flavor while remaining a vegetarian dish.”

Adding a little hot pepper to collard greens adds robust flavor as well.

For baked macaroni and cheese, use whole wheat pasta, low-fat cheeses and milk

For sides, consider a green bean casserole or brussel sprouts with turkey bacon as healthier options.

Dr. Tyeese Gaines is a physician-journalist with over 10 years of print and broadcast experience, now serving as health editor for the-Grio.com. Dr. Ty is also a practicing emergency medicine physician in New Jersey. Follow her on twitter at @doctorty or on Facebook.



Leon Walter Watts II Memorial Scholarship The Board of Trustees for the Leon Walter Watts Scholarship Fund hosted their 8th Anniver-

sary Celebration honoring G. Arthur Blocker of Hempstead. The goal of the fundraiser is to cre-ate a Chair in Black Theology at Hood Theological Seminary in the name of Rev. Dr. Leon W. Watts II. Town of Hempstead Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby presented a Certificate of Recog-nition to Mr. Blocker who has been an innovative and visionary director of the Men’s Ensemble at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans. The Councilwoman also congratulated Jean Bligen, Chair of the event.





Life Changing Words

Moving Forward

Fearlessly 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV “For God hath not

given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

As we come to the close of this year 2008 it should make you reflect on some of your shortcom-ings in life and what can you do to improve them. When I began to think about it, mainly most of us deal with some type of fear. We fear we are not smart enough, cute enough, or rich enough so we don’t even try to achieve that which we desire. Fear has stopped many of us from moving forward into the things of God. Why? Because we have let situa-tions, circumstances, rejections, and people dictate our lives instead of GOD…

Fear will cause you to give up on something be-fore you even get started and that is the devils big-gest tactic he uses against us all. If satan can get you to fear he can also get you to fail. What do I mean by this statement? Simply this if you are too fearful to try; you will fail to succeed. See fear cause feelings of apprehension or uneasiness before you even attempt to do anything. It is in your very thoughts but what we have to realize is that it does not have to become a part of your actions. If you can push past your thoughts for just a minute you can push past your fears.

There is a new year coming and so I challenge you to make an honest attempt to address your fears through faith in God and not by yourself. I guaran-tee (according to the word of God) that God will help you conquer your fears and direct you in the way that He would have you to go. For if we would use our power (strengths and abilities God gave us), Gods love (that was shown at Calvary) and our sane mind (the Mind of Christ) there would be nothing that we could not overcome or accomplish.

Surely none of us are exempted from fear

but one thing I know is we all can conquer our fears through faith in Christ. In 2009 start Moving Forward Fearlessly for if you fear less God will and shall move you forward …Merry Christmas to All…

Prophetess Karen Deadwyler is a new author in-spired by God. Her first book titled “His Miracu-lous Way” speaks of her victory through Jesus Christ. To inquire about her book or to send com-ments email her at [email protected] or visit her website: www.godlypleasures.org She is the Vision-ary and founder of a women’s ministry called Will-ing Women of Worship Fellowship.

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Bill O’Reilly questions black reverends about conflicts between faith and Democratic party

As Election Day draws closer, last-minute efforts have been made to sway any undecided African-American vot-ers. On his show The O’Reilly Factor, political pundit Bill O’Reilly recently questioned whether black Christians could support the Democratic party in good faith, particu-larly regarding same-sex marriage and abortion. He used a video in which black religious leader Bishop E.W. Jackson of Virginia likens Planned Parenthood to the Klu Klux Klan as a point of reference when discussing the topic with two black reverends.

Reverend Jacques Degraff and Reverend Michael Wal-rond weighed in on Jackson’s fiery oratory.

“It is time to end the slavish devotion to the Democrat party,” said Jackson in the clip. “We as Christians ought to know better. Shame on us for allowing ourselves to be sold to the highest bidder.”

When asked by O’Reilly about the legitimacy of Jack-son’s criticisms, neither Degraff nor Walrond sided with the bishop’s stances, but instead decried his position as “venomous” and unconstructive. O’Reilly honed in on Jackson’s statements about the Democrats “embracing” Planned Parenthood, and the party’s abortion rights plat-form.

“I think African-Americans are intelligent enough to make the decision,” said Degraff. “People like myself who feel differently about abortion don’t reject the Democratic party for one plank in its platform,” he added, to which O’Reilly retorted that abortion is “a big plank.” Walrond also addressed Jackson’s issue with modern-day gay rights

being compared to the 1960’s Civil Rights struggle, stating, “everyone’s oppression is unique.”

As the discussion continued, it became more apparent that O’Reilly intended for his guests to agree that the De-mocratic party’s positions on social issues contradict the values and morals of Christians.

“I’m a Catholic and it would be hard for me to see Jesus Christ walking into a Planned Parenthood clinic other than to try to convert them,” said O’Reilly in his closing remarks. He also noted that a “vibrant economy” ushered in by the Republican party would benefit African-Americans. Wal-rond, however, managed to get in the last word.

“I think it would also be difficult for Jesus to walk through communities that have been ravaged by poverty,” he said, implying that the policies that perpetuate a poor un-derclass come from the GOP.

In terms of religious faith, many African-Americans it seems are being encouraged to mix church and state when it comes to expressing their spirituality, even though this is against one of the founding tenets of our democracy.

Blacks do tend to be traditionally Christian — and where we are not Christian, we might be part of a faith like Islam that similarly seems to be at odds with our culture’s secular values. And of course, many blacks are neither religious, nor devout. Despite this, how do you feel about the use of this blanket assumption by politicos to sway our commu-nity? Should leaders trying to attract blacks stay out of our religious lives as a matter of respect?

The conflict over values that O’Reilly assumes the black community should have could be seen as an intrusion into a sacred sector of our lives — exploited for the GOP’s gain.



Question: "Should a Christian run for political

office?" Answer: Whether or not Christians should run for political

office is one of those “hot-button” issues that provoke strong re-sponses on both sides of the question. There are no direct refer-ences in the Bible to Christians running for political office. But there are Christian principles we can bring to bear on the decision whether or not to seek political office. Anyone considering run-ning for office would do well to consider these principles and prayerfully seek God’s will for his/her own life. There is no doubt that countries where political officials are elected by the citizens are countries that promote freedom. Chris-tians in many countries in this world are oppressed and persecuted, suffering under governments they are powerless to change and governments that hate their faith and silence their voices. These believers preach the gospel of Jesus Christ at risk of their own lives. In the U.S.A., Christians have been blessed with the right to speak about and choose their leaders without fearing for them-selves or their families. The leaders we elect have great influence on our freedoms. They can choose to protect our right to worship and spread the gospel, or they can restrict those rights. They can lead our nation toward righteousness or toward moral disaster. Clearly, the more committed Christians that are part of government—whether at the local, state, or federal level—the more our religious freedoms will be guarded. Christians in politics can effect desperately needed changes in the culture. A prime example is William Wilberforce, a 19th century English politician who campaigned for decades to end the abominable slave trade that flourished at that time. His

campaign was eventually successful, and he is lauded today for his courage and commitment to Christian principles. At the same time, there is an old saying: “politics is a dirty business.” Politicians, even those with the best of motives, are in danger of being corrupted by a system that deals in power. Those in political office, especially at the federal level, are courted by those who hope to gain favor in an effort to advance their own agendas. Wherever money and power are concentrated, greed and covetousness are always nearby. There is great danger for Chris-tians who are involved in worldly political systems, and great care must be taken to be in that world, but not of it. Perhaps nowhere in life is it more true that “bad company corrupts good character” (1 Corinthians 15:33) than in the seats of political power. Jesus said that His kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36). The kingdom of Christ is not connected with earthly political sys-tems or national governments, all of which are in rebellion against God. The world Christians are to be concerned with is the spiritual realm, not the temporal. There is nothing wrong with Christians being involved in politics, as long as they remember that we are to be ambassadors for Christ on earth. That is our primary job de-scription and our goal is to appeal to others to be reconciled to God through Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:20). So should a Christian run for political office? For some Chris-tians, the answer is a definite no; for others, a definite yes. This is a personal decision that requires prayer and the wisdom only God can provide and which He promises to grant to those who truly seek it (James 1:5). Christian politicians must remember that their duty to the Lord must take precedence over the duties of their of-fice. Paul tells us that whatever we do, we are to do it for the glory of the Lord, not our own (1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:17). If a Christian does seek office, it should only be if he/she can faith-fully execute the duties of that office to the glory of God and with-out compromising Christian principles.



offense, averaging 14 points while lead-ing the team to a 3-2 start. Stith is a sen-ior at Fairmont; he has one year of eligi-bility left. Fairmont plays in the Moun-tain East Confer-ence, which is com-posed mostly of West Virginia schools. It’s good to see Stith back in action.

Tu Holloway, one of the most tal-ented guards to ever play for Hempstead, graduated from Xavier in May with a Liberal Arts degree. Tu’s goal remains to make into the NBA. Sometimes young men are fortu-nate enough to take a direct route from col-lege to the NBA but others take paths. Cur-rently Tu is on his own unique path, signing with Aliaga Petkim in Turkey in early No-vember, getting some valuable experience that will help him

when he looks to still make it to the NBA one day…Hempstead High Varsity kicks off its season December 7 with a road trip to Massapequa. New dreams will be made, new goals set and new horizons reached.

BJ Robinson

CATCHING UP WITH PLAYERS

On the eve of the opening of the high school basketball season, we decided to catch up with two ex Hempstead High hoop stars of a few years ago, Tu Hollo-way and Malik Stith. Holloway and Stith are legendary Hemp-stead talents – they lit up high school courts as well as the Ken-nedy Park gym during hot summer evenings and AAU venues across the country. Both young men are still playing the game they love in some form and doing their part to represent Hempstead and to set examples for young athletes by living the refrain, “Practice makes perfect.”

Last year, Malik withdrew from St. John’s University, citing “personal” rea-sons. In August he enrolled at Fairmont State University, in West Virginia, where he is a starting point guard, running the



Antron Brown becomes 1st black NHRA autoracing champion

POMONA, Calif. (AP) — Antron Brown became the first black champion in any NHRA pro series when he won the Top Fuel title on Sunday at the season-ending event.

Brown suffered minor burns to his hands when his engine popped in an opening-round loss during eliminations, then had to wait to celebrate his victory until the final, when teammate Tony Schumacher lost in a photo finish to Brandon Bernstein.

“I feel so blessed to be in this moment right now and this is a big huge moment,” Brown said. “I am just glad we could bring it home for Don Schumacher Racing. To win the world championship the way the competition has been this year in Top Fuel and to run and compete how we’ve been doing all season long is just phenomenal. We all switched the lead back and forth a bunch of times. Is this really happening?”

Brown led Schumacher, a seven-time champion, by 67 points at the start of Sunday’s eliminations. It looked as if Schumacher might take the title until he lost the final to Bernstein by eighth-thousandths of a second.

When the win light went on in Bernstein’s lane, Brown was mobbed by his teammates, family and friends in a huge celebration at the starting line.

“If I can be an inspiration for any of the kids out there who have dreams, any Americans, that’s all I want,” said Brown, who earned six victories in 11 final rounds and was top qualifier three times en route to his title.

The NHRA has long been one of the most diverse series in mo-torsports. Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to earn a license from NHRA to drive a Top Fuel dragster and won three champion-ships, and brothers Cruz and Tony Pedregon, who are of Hispanic descent, both won Funny Car championships.

Earlier this season, Erica Enders became the first woman to win a Pro Stock event, beating four-time champion Greg Anderson in the finals at Route 66 Raceway.

Also Sunday, Jack Beckman claimed the Funny Car world cham-

pionship when he edged teammate Ron Capps by two points in one of the closest points margins in the history of the category.

Top qualifier Capps lost a close semifinal round to rookie Court-ney Force. Beckman was crowned champion before his semifinal against eventual race winner Cruz Pedregon.

Beckman’s title gave team owner Don Schumacher both nitro tro-phies, duplicating his effort from 2005 when his son Tony won Top Fuel and Gary Scelzi took the Funny Car crown.

Beckman, a cancer survivor, came on during the Countdown play-offs and moved into contention with a win at St. Louis. He took the points lead at the event in Reading, Pa. when he set a national per-formance record and was the No. 1 qualifier.

The major historian of the sport and former drag racing school driving instructor was thrilled with the title.

“You think about this, and you dream about this,” said Beckman, a cancer survivor. “It’s going to take me a while to wrap my head around this.”

Pedregon, Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) joined Bernstein as race winners at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.



sity, was drafted in 1957 by the Cleveland Browns, where he played one season in the same backfield as Jim Brown. Campbell then played for various teams in the Canadian Football League until his football career in 1964.

Campbell was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1999 and was honored this year by the International Swim-ming Hall of Fame. In 2000, the New Jersey Sportswriters Association named Campbell its New Jersey Athlete of the Century.

In June, he was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame along with nine others, including actor Michael Douglas, author Joyce Carol Oates and the late New York Giants owner Wellington Mara.

Linda Rusch said Campbell dreamed of being a great athlete as a young boy competing with his older brother, Tom.

“He actually would look at the ceiling and say ‘I am going to be the world’s greatest athlete’ every day,” she said. “He needed to beat his brother.”

Rusch said Campbell became a motivational speaker, and main-tained a positive outlook despite the loss of a son to cancer and as he himself fought the disease. In addition to Rusch, he is survived by three grown children.

“Someone would say, ‘How are you feeling?’ He’d say, ‘Great,’” Rusch said. “He was such a fighter. And with this cancer, he tried to fight it until the end. For his wife. For his family. And for his friends.”

Rusch said Campbell was a whirlwind of activity — playing tennis as well as riding bikes, horses and motorcycles — until cancer treat-ment began slowing him down. She said the past year was a special one, with him being honored by the New Jersey and the International Swimming halls as well as being invited to attend the Olympic trials in Oregon.

“People called and said, ‘We need you out here,’” she said. “He didn’t get the recognition in the ’50s. He got it all this year and he died.”

Milt Campbell, 1st black Olympic decathlon winner, dies

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went on to play pro football and become a motivational speaker, has died, his family said. He was 78.

Linda Rusch, Campbell’s partner of 13 years, said Campbell died Friday at his home in Gainesville, about 55 miles northwest of At-lanta. She said he had been fighting prostate cancer for a decade.

“He was extremely disciplined,” Rusch told The Associated Press on Saturday. “He had huge passion. For you to win the gold you have to be so self-motivated and so self-disciplined. And you have to have a very strong mind.”

“He literally had to train himself to have this incredible mind, to be such a positive thinker,” she added. “He carried that way of life throughout his whole entire being.”

A native of Plainfield, N.J., Campbell was a rising high school senior when he won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, finishing second to Bob Mathias. The Ameri-cans swept the decathlon that year. Four years later, Campbell won gold at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.

“World record holder Rafer Johnson was hampered by injury, but even in full health he probably couldn’t have beaten Milt Campbell in Melbourne,” according to The Complete Book of the Summer Olym-pics by David Wallechinsky.

Campbell had hoped to qualify for the Olympic team as a hurdler, but he finished fourth during tryouts.

“I was stunned,” Campbell said in the book. “But then God seemed to reach into my heart and tell me he didn’t want me to com-pete in the hurdles, but in the decathlon.”

The 6-foot-3, 217-pound Campbell, who attended Indiana Univer-





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Did Wendy Williams fail to pay $419,000 to a Chinese

shoe manufacturer resulting in kidnapping, protests?

Things don’t work in China the way they work in the United States,” a lawyer representing a manufacturing company in China told New York’s Daily News about the strange case of Wendy Williams’s shoe line. Called Adorn, the popular television host of her Wendy Wil-liams Show had contracted the Chinese firm Max Harvest International Holdings to deliver 12,140 pairs of shoes.

The alleged failure of the talk show host and her husband Kevin Hunter to pay the resulting $419,000 bill has sparked a spiral of chaos that is not typical of American business practices.

Associates of the factory hired by Max Harvest to produce the shoes took aggressive action on two fronts upon not receiving their remunera-tion. Workers from the plant pro-tested holding aloft a giant red banner demanding that Williams, by name, “Pay us now.” Fists held in the air in a gesture reminiscent of a black power salute, the stiffed workforce stood shoulder to shoulder with shopping bags bearing Wendy’s Adorn logo held to their chests like breast plates.

Additionally, the owner of the shoe plant kidnapped a Max Harvest manager in retaliation. “The kidnappers held the man for two weeks before releasing him shaken but unharmed,” the Daily News reports.

The Hong Kong couple that owns Max Harvest International Holdings have fled their city and wish to remain anonymous according to sources. Speaking through their Los Angeles-based attorney, the pair related their intention to sue Williams in Manhattan Supreme Court if the star does not pay her bill soon.

The lawyer claims her clients have been trying to resolve this matter for months. Representatives of Wendy Williams were contacted by theGrio for comment, and did not respond to messages in time for publication. Wil-

liams declined to comment to the Daily News.

Jamie Foxx criticized after calling Obama as ‘our Lord and savior’

Jamie Foxx quickly drew criticism from some Christians after he called President Barack Obama “our Lord and savior” during the 2012 BET Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas.

According to E! News, Foxx praised the re-elected president after he took the stage. The show, which aired on BET just this past Satur-day, had been taped only a few days after the 2012 election.

“It’s like church over here. It’s like church in here,” the Oscar winning actor told the audience. “First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and savior Barack Obama.”

He then encouraged the crowd to stand to their feet. While those in the audience cheered in response to Foxx’s comments, others found the remarks offensive.

John Hayward, from conservative blog Human Events, wrote, “Practicing Christians are not amused by the portrayal of modern secular politicians as replacements for Jesus. But presumably their feelings don’t count, because they won’t burn anything doing in out-rage.”

Bill Donahue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States, released a statement in re-sponse, writing, “Foxx’s epiphany is startling.”

In the statement, Donahue refers to a 2011 red carpet interview during which Foxx admits to not knowing what God means to him.

“It just goes to show that even though Obama did not succeed in stopping the oceans from rising (as he promised to do in 2008), he succeeded in convincing Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists,” he wrote.



Nick Minaj blasts Steven Tyler over ‘racist’ comment

Nicki Minaj has lashed out at former American Idol judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler over remarks he made, which the rapper deemed racially insensitive.

In an interview with MTV, Tyler questioned Minja’s ability as a judge to nurture and get the best of contestants.

“If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying,” said Tyler.

The rapper responded to Tyler’s comments with a series of tweets, calling the statement “racist” and telling the rocker to “go f**k [him]self” in another tweet.

Minaj’s tweet response to Steven Tyler Tyler also criticized the Minaj and Mariah Carey for

their public feud because he felt the two were putting per-sonal matters over their roles as judges on the show.

“I know that they’ve got something going on on the judges’ panel, [and] it shouldn’t be that, it should be just the opposite: They should have something going on, which is called ‘camaraderie’,” said Tyler.

“They should have something going on so thick and beautiful that they can lay it over the new talent that’s try-ing to birth itself. It needs to be birthed, not judged by ‘entertainment’ factors, it needs to be judged by people that [are] honest, true, that have the ‘it’ factor. Not the ‘it’ factor because they can fight. The f**k is that all about?”

Minaj and Mariah made headlines when they were both recorded on a camera phone in a heated argument behind the scenes of American Idol, an incident that Carey’s hus-band, Nick Cannon, believes Idol producers were using for publicity.

Mike Tyson takes one-man show on national tour

After a limited run on Broadway, Mike Tyson is taking his one-man show on the road.

The stage play, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, will kick off its 10-week na-tional tour in February 2013, stopping in over 36 cities including Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

“I’m excited to take [the show] on tour and share it with my fans across the country,” Tyson said in a statement. “Undisputed Truth is my story — I’m giving my all. I’m proud to take the show nationwide.”

According to the official site, the show, directed by Spike Lee and written by Tyson’s wife Kiki, is a “rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most complicated men ever to wear the heavyweight crown.”

“In the beginning, she painted me too soft,” Tyson told the Chicago Sun-Times about his wife. “I told her ‘this is not me. This is not the man you fell in love with. Just like we have to be honest with one another to make a great relationship, we have to be honest with the audience to make a great story. They already know the story. You can’t fool them.”

Kiki told the newspaper she initially decided not to include more painful mate-rial until her husband convinced her otherwise.

“Originally I didn’t put the Robin [Givens] story in,” she said. “My natural inclination was to protect him. But he said that if this is truly going to be Mike Ty-son: Undisputed Truth, we have to talk about Robin. He was right.”

Tyson has had cameos in feature films The Hangover and The Hangover 2, but he says he enjoys performing on stage the most.

“It’s instant gratification. With a live audience, they can connect with me more and I know they’re enjoying it,” he said.

The tour will kick off at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis on February 12.



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Comedian Katt Williams allegedly leads police on a tricycle chase in Sacramento

Comedian Katt Williams is under investigation after allegedly leading Capitol Protection CHP officers on a hot pursuit chase in downtown Sacramento on Sunday, according to TMZ.

Williams was spotted driving down K Street when he almost hit five pedestrians on a tricycle. Officers are not amused by the incident, and this most recent escapade could land the comedian behind bars in a Sacramento jail cell.

Sacramento police were first called to the Hyatt hotel Sunday af-ternoon after a complaint was received that Williams was disturbing the peace. Police arrived and decided not to file charges at that point.

Later in the day, Williams went on to ride his motorized tricycle down the L Street sidewalk and when officers tried to pull him over, he turned down a section of K street closed to traffic.

The comedian just narrowly missed hitting pedestrians and con-tinued down the blocked-off street. Around 10th and L street Wil-liams reportedly stopped his bike, took off his helmet, turned around and yelled, “I’m not going to stop!”

Williams went on to drive down Capital Street at speeds up to 35 mph when CHP called off the pursuit for safety reasons. Williams now faces the possibility of felony evasion.

This particular incident comes as no surprise, as the comedian has been involved in a number of altercations recently.

Williams faces a lawsuit over a recent comedy show on Novem-ber 16 in which the comedian reportedly, “confronted a heckler, took

his clothes off, and attempted to fight at least three audience mem-bers,” according to the suit.

The show went on to end within ten minutes of it beginning. On November 15th, Williams made headlines for reportedly getting ar-rested in Oakland, California for his alleged involvement in a club fight.

Earlier in November, Williams was arrested and charged with bur-glary and criminal trespassing of a Georgia home, according to Co-weta County Sheriff’s Office Major James Yarbrough.

Finally, on October 17th Williams was arrested for one of several gun violations he’s racked up, this one outside of Supper Club in Los Angeles earlier that morning.

Williams now faces jail time, multiple lawsuits and an image in serious need of rehabilitation.



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Rev. Run promotes his weight loss; advocates for diabetes

Run-D.M.C. co-founder Joseph “Rev. Run” Sim-mons’ recent weight loss for a concert has inspired him to keep up with the diet and exercise routine, not just to look and feel good, but to combat what he says is his higher-than-average risk for Type 2 diabetes.

Simmons started his weight loss regimen because he was headlining the 7th Annual Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas with Darryl “D.M.C” McDaniels, and said he felt good and had a lot of energy.

Simmons has dropped 22 pounds so far, and he told Huffington Post, “I just did a concert with D.M.C. after 13 years, and after losing some pounds for that, I felt really good … We got good reviews for having lots of energy on stage and I realized that if I’m going to con-tinue to do shows … I gotta be in Mick Jagger-type of condition.”

At 48, Simmons said he’s getting up there in age and needs to be more health conscious because his father de-veloped diabetes in his older age.

Although Simmons is in part motivated by the his-tory of diabetes in his family, Jeannette Jordan, a diabe-tes educator who works for Novo Nordisk’s “Ask. Screen. Know.” says that diabetes being hereditary is a myth.

Ask.Screen.Know. is a national program that advo-

cates for early diabetes screening and detection and Simmons is an ambassador for the initiative.

Though he mentions relying on to his brother, Rus-sell Simmons, and his daughter daughter Angela Sim-mons for support, Rev. Run added, “My dad had diabe-tes, so it doesn’t mean just because Russell stands on his head and does yoga, and Angela’s in perfect health that they don’t have it.”



Chicago teacher headed to ‘Jeopardy!’ finals

This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins ‘Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair.’”

You may not know the answer, but 28-year-old Chicago AP His-tory teacher Colby Burnett got it right and now he’s headed to final rounds of the Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament.

According to the Huffington Post, Burnett, who teaches at Fen-wick High School, won the semi-final round Friday after answering, “What is ‘Clair de lune?’”

Jeopardy! describes the tournament as a two-week competition among fifteen of the country’s brightest educators. The winner of the final round next week will take home $100,000 and secures a spot in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

“Teachers play such an important role encouraging and motivat-ing our students to reach their full potential,” said executive producer Harry Friedman. “This tournament gives them a chance to shine and reminds us how imperative good educators are in shaping the future of our children.”

According to the Chicago Tribune, Burnett is a self-proclaimed trivia buff and a former scholastic bowl competitor. Also an alumni at Fenwick, Burnett said if he wins the grand prize, he’ll buy a home for his mother who worked the night shift to pay for his high school tui-tion.

“My mother has sacrificed so much and never complained,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “If I could repay that in kind, that’d be great.”

He also said he’s more excited than nervous for the opportunity to be on the show.

“If I walk away knowing I did the best I could, I’ll be happy,” he said.

Burnett will compete against teachers from Charlottesville, Vir-ginia and Montgomery, Alabama on Monday and Tuesday for the grand prize.

Mangano Announces Holiday Celebration Calendar

of Events East Meadow, NY – Nassau County Executive Edward P. Man-

gano today announced the dates of the annual Nassau County holiday events and celebrations.

“I invite residents and visitors to pause their busy schedules to en-joy Nassau’s wonderful holiday celebrations,” said County Executive Mangano. “As we approach this holiday season, I encourage all that are able to participate in the Toys for Tots Holiday Gift Drive to bring a new unwrapped toy to one of the convenient locations around the county, and bring a smile to a child’s face this holiday season.”

Nassau’s Holiday Celebration Calendar of Events:

Now – December 20th: Toys for Tots Holiday Gift Drive

Now – December 17th: Mail Your Letters to Santa

December 1st at 1:00 p.m.: Santa in the Park at Wantagh Park Community Clubhouse

December 1st at 7:00 p.m.: Holiday Spectacular at the Butler Building at Mitchel Athletic Complex

December 2nd at 12:00 p.m.: Gingerbread University at Old Bethpage Village Restoration

December 8th, 9th, 15th, and 16th at 5:00 p.m.: “Candlelight Eve-nings” at Old Bethpage Village Restoration

December 10th at 6:00 p.m.: Menorah Lighting in Eisenhower Park with Rabbi Perl of Chabad of Mineola

December 11th at 6:00 p.m.: Tree Lighting in Eisenhower Park

December 27th at 12:00 p.m.: Kwanza Celebration at Roosevelt (Continued on page 11)



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Suffocation, Entrap-ment Risks Prompt Recall of PeaPod Travel Tents. Children can become trapped between the mat-tress and the fabric sides of the tent and suffocate.

DiNapoli Cautions New Yorkers To Read Fine Print When Purchasing Holiday Gift Cards. State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli urged New York-ers to pay special attention to fees and expiration dates when purchasing gift cards as holiday gifts.

A day of music, art, dance, drama, crafts on Sunday, December 2, Noon to 5pm, at Hofstra Univer-sity's Student Center Thea-ter. Join us to support the work of The Interfaith Nu-trition Network (The INN,) to help the hungry and homeless on Long Island at this particularly difficult t i m e o f y e a r . F a c e b o o k . c o m /artforhungerssake.

aster called SANDY. I am sure that our lives, actions and thoughts will be changed for-ever. Our challenges will make us stronger, however, I’m sure that such devastation never entered our minds, not in our wildest dreams. Stay strong and pray to the Lord for his intercession and assistance.

I had the great fortune to at-tend the celebration of the 39th Anniversary of the founding of the 100 Black Men of Long Is-land, Inc. held at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legisla-tive Building in Mineola. A rather large gathering came to join with Curley M. Dossman, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Directors, 100 Black Men of America, Inc. which boasts 118 chapters and over 10,000 mem-bers who strive to improve the quality of life in our communi-ties and enhance the educational and economic opportunities for African Americans. The organi-zation has more than 100,000 youth participants annually in its mentoring and youth develop-ment programs. Their emphasis in youth is well-placed and quite admirable.

Following the program, aptly handled by my good friend, Ray Thomas, a feast was catered by Garden City Pizza, and spon-sored by TD Bank.

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I pray that all of you will be able to recover from this horrible dis-

housing counselors will be on-site to work one on one with home-owners to assist them with any mortgage challenges they are cur-rently facing.

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Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc., a major maker of generic Lipitor, has issued a massive re-call of the cholesterol-cutting tab-lets, which may be contaminated with tiny glass shards. The recall covers 41 lots of atorvastatin, the generic version of Lipitor. Each lot contains thousands of pills. The recall includes 10 mg, 20 mg, and 40 mg dosages. It does not include 80 mg atorvastatin tablets.

BREAST CANCER??? Now, a new scientific study has confirmed that most women "diagnosed" with breast cancer via mammog-raphy never had a cancer prob-lem to begin with! 93% of "early detection" has no benefit to the patient. That's the conclusion of a groundbreaking new study pub-lished in the New England Jour-nal of Medicine.

Free Legal Clinic for Seniors The Nassau County Bar provides free monthly legal consultation clinics for Nassau residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportu-nity to meet with an atty who vol-unteers to provide a half-hour pri-vate consultation on any topic of concern. The next Free Clinic will be held Thurs, Dec 13, 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. at NCBA, 15th and West Sts, Mineola. Registration 516-747-4070

HARLEM — Harlem's police precincts are now headed by Afri-can American commanding offi-cers for the first time ever. The landmark lineup was completed when transit cop Captain Steven Griffith recently took charge of West 126th Street's 26th Precinct. He joined Deputy Inspector Kevin Williams at the 28th Precinct, Deputy Inspector Ruel Stephen-son at the 30th, and Inspector Rodney Harrison at the 32nd.



.Mangano Announces “Mail Your Letters to

Santa” Program at County Parks

Mineola, NY – Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano today announced that the children of Nassau County will once again be able to send their holiday lists directly to Old St. Nick at the North Pole via a special network of Santa’s Mailboxes at Nassau County Parks, beginning Monday, November 17th through Friday, December 17th.

All children who send letters to Santa will receive a reply in the form of a “Santa-Gram” from the North Pole, with Santa’s elves at

the Parks Department pitching in to send cheery but noncom-mittal letters in response to children’s letters. To assure a reply, each letter must contain the child’s name and address, written legibly. There is no postage necessary for the Santa letters. The “Santa-Grams” will be sent before the holiday.

Colorful red and green mail-boxes will be accessible from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily at the administration buildings of

the following parks: Cantiague Park in Hicksville, (571-7056); Chris-topher Morley Park in Roslyn-North Hills, (571-8113); Grant Park in Hewlett, (571-7821); Rev. Arthur Mackey, Sr. Park in Roosevelt, (571-8692); Wantagh Park in Wantagh, (571-7460); and at Eisen-hower Park’s Special Activities Building at Parking Field No. 8, (572-0348); and the Nassau Aquatic Center at Parking Field No. 1A, (572-0501). The letters can also be dropped off at the Parks Depart-ment’s Administration Building in Eisenhower Park, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., (572-0396).

For more information about Santa’s mailboxes, please call (516) 572-0396 weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., or visit Park’s De-partment website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

Field Mall (Macy’s; southeast side of mall)

Toys for Tots Holiday Gift Drive drop-off boxes for new, un-wrapped toys will be located at the following Nassau County loca-tions through December 20th:

East Meadow:

· Eisenhower Park, Main Lobby of Administration Building

· 100 Carman Avenue, Main Lobby of Corrections/Sherriff’s De-partment

Mineola:

· One West Street, Main Lobby

· 1550 Franklin Avenue, Main Lobby of Theodore Roosevelt Ex-ecutive and Legislative Building

· 1490 Franklin, Nassau County Police Department, 2nd Floor Training wing

· 240 Old Country Road, Main Lobby

· 262 Old Country Road, Main Lobby of District Attorney’s Of-fice

· 400 County Seat Drive, Nassau County Probation Department, Director’s Office

· 200 County Seat Drive, Main Lobby of Consumer Affairs

Westbury:

· 1194 Prospect Avenue, DPW/Fire Marshal, 2nd Floor Reception

Hempstead:

· 40 Main Street, in front of Suite C Office

· 16 Cooper Street, Main Lobby of Traffic and Parking Violations Agency

Uniondale:

· 60 Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Department of Social Services, out-side cafeteria

· 106 Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Health Department, kitchen

Colorful red and green “Mail Your Letters to Santa” mail-boxes will be accessible from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily at the administration buildings of the following parks:

· Cantiague Park in Hicksville (571-7056)

· Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn-North Hills (571-8113)

· Grant Park in Hewlett (571-7821)

· Rev. Arthur Mackey, Sr. Park in Roosevelt (571-8692)

· Wantagh Park in Wantagh (571-7460)

· Eisenhower Park’s Special Activities Building at Parking Field No. 8, in East Meadow (572-0348)

· Nassau Aquatic Center at Parking Field No. 1A, in East Meadow (572-0501)

· Nassau County Parks Department’s Administration Building in Eisenhower Park, in East Meadow (572-0396); Monday through Fri-day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

All children who send letters to Santa will receive a reply in the form of a “Santa-Gram” from the North Pole, with Santa’s elves at the Parks Department pitching in to send cheery but noncommittal letters in response to children’s letters. To assure a reply, each letter must contain the child’s name and address, written legibly. There is no postage necessary for the Santa letters. The “Santa-Grams” will be sent before the holiday.

For more information about the Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, please call: (516) 572-0200 or visit: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.




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B. B. KING Throughout the 1990's as well as the 1980's, 1970's,

1960's and 1950's, there has been only one King of the Blues - Riley B. King, affectionately known as B.B. King. Since B.B. started recording in the late 1940's, he has released over 60 albums many of them considered blues classics, like 1965's definitive live blues album "Live At The Regal", and 1976's collaboration with Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Together For The First Time".

Over the years, B.B. has had two number one R & B hits, 1951's "Three O'Clock Blues", and 1952's "You Don't Know Me", and four number two R & B hits, 1953's "Please Love Me", and 1954's "You Upset Me Baby", 1960's "Sweet Sixteen, Part I", and 1966's "Don't Answer The Door, Part I". B.B.'s most popular cross-over hit, 1970's "The Thrill Is Gone" went to #15 pop.

But B.B. King, as well as the entire blues genre, is not radio oriented. His classic songs such as "Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss", "Caldonia", " How Blue Can You Get", "Everyday I Have The Blues", and "Why I Sing The Blues", are concert (and fan) staples.

Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation in Itta Bene, Mississippi, just outside the Mississippi delta town of Indianola. He used to play on the corner of Church and Second Street for dimes and would sometimes play in as many as four towns on a Saturday night. With his guitar and $2.50, he hitch-hiked north to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1947 to pursue his musical career. Memphis was the city where every important musician of the South gravitated and which supported a large, competitive musical community where virtually every black musical style was heard. B.B. stayed with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most renowned rural blues performers of his time, who schooled B.B. further in the art of the blues.

B.B.'s first big break came in 1948 when he per-formed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM out of West Memphis. This led to steady per-formance engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis and later to a ten minute spot on black staffed and managed radio station WDIA. "King's Spot", sponsored by Pepticon, a health tonic, became so popular that it was increased in length and became the "Sepia Swing Club". Soon, B.B. needed a catchy radio name. What started out as Beale Street Blues Boy was shortened to Blues Boy King, and eventually B.B. King. Incidentally, King's middle initial "B" is just that, it is not an abbreviation.

In the mid-1950's while B.B. was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, a few fans became unruly. Two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove, setting fire to the hall. B.B. raced outdoors to safety with everyone else, but then realized that he left his $30 guitar inside, so he rushed back inside to re-trieve it, narrowly escaping death. When he later found out that the fight had been over a woman named Lucille, he decided to give the name to his guitar. Each one of B.B.'s guitars since that time have been called Lucille.

Soon after his number one hit, "Three O'Clock

Blues", B.B. began touring nationally, and he has never stopped, performing an average of 125 concerts a year. In 1956 B.B. and his band played an astonishing 342 one night stands. From the chitlin circuit with its small town cafes, ghetto theaters, country dance halls, and roadside joints to jazz clubs, rock palaces, symphony concert halls, college concerts, resort hotels and prestig-ious concert halls nationally and internationally, B.B. has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 60 years.

B.B.'s technique is nonetheless complex, featuring

delicate filigrees of single string runs punctuated by loud chords, subtle vibratos, and "bent" notes. The technique of rock guitar playing is to a large degree de-rived from B.B.'s playing.

In the army, B.B. was introduced to the music of

such guitarists as Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker. "I heard an electric guitar that wasn't playing spiritual", recalls B.B. "It was T-Bone Walker doing "Stormy

Monday", and that was the prettiest sound I think I ever heard in my life. That's what really started me to play the blues".

Over the years, B.B. has developed one of the world's most

readily identified guitar styles. He borrowed from Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise vocal like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable com-ponents of rock guitarist's vocabulary. His economy, his every note counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players including Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Jeff Beck.

B.B. KING

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TIME MAGAZINE’s #1 Musical of the Year "Porgy and Bess is a glowing tribute to a phenomenal stage production that transcends time and race: polished, respectful and packed with the

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Actor Larry Hagman, TV's J.R. Ewing of 'Dallas,' dies

Actor Larry Hagman played the iconic role of J.R. Ewing in tele-vision's "Dallas," which had been revived by the TNT network. He died Friday at 81.

Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of "Dallas," died on Friday, according to a co-star. He was 81.

Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his battle with throat cancer, the Dallas Morning News reported, quoting a statement from his family. He had suffered from liver cancer and cir-rhosis of the liver in the 1990s after decades of drinking.

Linda Gray, who played J.R.'s long-suffering wife, Sue Ellen, was with Hagman in Dallas when he died, the actress' spokesman, Jeffrey Lane, said in an email.

"Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years," Gray said in a statement. "He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, funny, loving and talented, and I will miss him enormously."

Hagman's mother was stage and movie star Mary Martin and he became a star himself in 1965 on "I Dream of Jeannie," a popular television sitcom in which he played Major Anthony Nelson, an as-tronaut who discovers a beautiful genie in a bottle.

"Dallas," which made its premiere on the CBS network in 1978, made Hagman a superstar. The show quickly became one of the net-work's top-rated programs, built an international following and in-spired a spin-off, imitators and a revival in 2012.

"Dallas" was the night-time soap-opera story of a Texas family, fabulously wealthy from oil and cattle, and its plot brimmed with back-stabbing, double-dealing, family feuds, violence, adultery and other bad behavior.

In the middle of it all stood Hagman's black-hearted J.R. Ewing - grinning wickedly in a broad cowboy hat and boots, plotting how to cheat his business competitors and cheat on his wife. He was the vil-lain TV viewers loved to despise during the show's 356-episode run from 1978 to 1991.

"I really can't remember half of the people I've slept with, stabbed in the back or driven to suicide," Hagman said of his character in Time magazine.

In his autobiography, "Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life," Hagman wrote that J.R. originally was not to be the focus of "Dallas" but that changed when he began ad-libbing on the set to make his character more outrageous and compelling.

'WHO SHOT J.R.?'

To conclude its second season, the "Dallas" producers put to-gether one of U.S. television's most memorable episodes in which








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New York, New York - Caribbean Born Author Pens Book Females

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York – Caribbean Born Author Dr. Neva Helena Alexander Pens Book Females Guide to Understanding Leadership. Women in Small Business are flocking to buy book Females Guide to Un-derstanding Leadership written by Dr. Neva Helena Alexander. Dr. Neva Helena Alexander’s book helps readers harness their unique potential to become better leaders in new global arena that has emerged during the last decade. Women in Small Business are increasingly turning to leader-ship development in the new global marketplace and are plan-ning to meet the new demands by sharpening their business acu-men and skills in several critical areas. Leadership development has been pushed to the forefront as a means to topple the glass ceiling throughout the international arena. Book: Females Guide to Understanding Leadership ISBN No. 9781477487617 Author: Dr. Neva Helena Alexander Book Description: Females' guide to understanding leadership (Available on Amazon.com) This book is created from a female perspective for women around the world. Unlike many other books about leadership, this one com-bines practical experience from the classroom, boardroom, and research on women’s studies. The aim of the author is for fe-males to become better leaders in the many avenues of their lives. This book helps you to understand the definition of leadership and you, how to lead with passion, being a critical thinker, groups and teams effectiveness, how to represent values to people, eth-ics, performance, strategic planning, the dynamics of working in the community, organization, behavior change leadership, gender and cultural influences on leadership, and the link between entre-preneurship and leadership. This book presents case studies to help readers better understand the book. This book will give you

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preparation for life, but is life itself. As a veteran educator committed to public education, Dr. Judith Kronin pens Creating Smart Schools, a book that pro-poses a model that makes it possible for every student to attain a quality edu-cation.

Ron Edmonds spoke in an uncompromising voice, “All children can learn.” Today, Kronin speaks with the same resounding spirit and says, “All educators can teach.” Creating Smart Schools is a book that offers a process for the creation of effective schools through the development and implementa-tion of the Educational Instructional Coaching Model. This model, (EICM), will enable American students to earn top scores on the Programme for Inter-national Students Assessment (PISA). EICM evolved from research and a set of core beliefs, which include the following:

The major goal of educators is to inspire students to become critical thinkers and independent learners.

Educators must create environments of small learning communities where a major portion of instruction is devoted to problem solving.

Educators must create lesson plans that inspire students to increase their enjoyment of good questions and help them work out their own under-standing of “static” knowledge like mathematics, science, and reading.

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Internships/Volunteer Positions Available at the Nassau County Film Office

The Nassau County Film Office has nonpaying, part-time internships and volunteer positions available in our Mineola office. The Nassau County Film Office helps production companies find locations and ser-vices when they are filming in the Nassau County area. We work with major studio films, independent films, commercials, industrial videos and fashion pho-tography.

We work very closely with the Long Island Film/TV Foundation on producing the Filmmakers Connection Meetings and the Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE).

Some of our past interns have gone on to become Promotions Managers of local radio stations, lawyers at the State Attorney’s Office, Location Scouts, Place-ment Managers in the entertainment field, and other varied positions in the film and commercial industries.

You must be good on the phone, computer literate and dependable. The Nassau County Film Office is open from Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4:45 pm. We ask that you work 2 – 3 days within those days/hours.

A successful internship can earn you a highly re-spected letter of recommendation, college credits, contacts in the film industry and possible job referrals. If you are interested in a career in the film/tv/commercial industries, make yourself a more viable job candidate by learning what goes into a film shoot from the ground level up. We provide training.

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Museum Mission Statement The mission of the African American Museum of Nassau County

[AAM] is to provide programming and events that foster the intellectual development of community members and visitors with an interest in Af-rican-American art, history and culture. A primary goal is to dissemi-nate the history of African-Americans on Long Island and the African-American contribution to the social and cultural development of Ameri-can society through material and visual culture. The AAM, located in

Hempstead, New York, opened in 1970, at the height of the black power movement, as the Black History Exhibit Center. It is the only African American history museum on Long Island, and is located to serve Nas-sau County’s largest African-American population. The museum is a multi-disciplinary cultural institution that provides art installations, historical exhibitions, film programs, commu-nity service events, and educational program-ming. This 6,000-square-foot facility, offers a rotating series of exhibits showcasing local and national African American artists. The Afri-can American Museum also houses the African Atlantic Genealogy Society. This organization provides workshops and individual research instruction in family genealogy. The museum has installed a new E-Learning Program that offers an innovative pedagogical approach, using subject headings relative to Americans of African descent, for con-ducting research on the internet. The AAM is currently working on methods to expand the community’s understanding of knowledge or-ganization methods, literary warrant, and information retrieval and how these relate to African-American social history.

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THEATER WACKINESS ON THE LICM STAGE Are you suffering from holi-

day stress? The Long Island Children’s Museum has a solu-tion— settle in to a comfy seat in the LICM Theater for a week-end of wacky fun. This week-end’s schedule includes circus pranks and a musical perform-ance featuring some of the weirdest instruments you’ve ever see.

Program & Performance Schedule – Dec. 18-23, 2012

Cup o’ Snow, Man! Tuesday, December 18

through Friday, December 21 from 2:30-4 p.m.

Join us in the Inner Lobby to build your own snowman to take home. Bring to life a “cute as a button” pal with its own unique personality using cups and other fun materials!

All ages. Free with museum admission.

Language Immersion at LICM

Tuesday and Thursday (December 18 & 20) from 11:30 a.m. to noon

Children’s language skills develop rapidly, absorbing eve-rything they hear. Why not in-troduce another language to your child while they are young and receptive to new things? Join us while we explore basic themes in French in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Workshops are drop in and do not require advance sign up.

This five week series will cover a different theme each week. A class project and song will be used each week to rein-force learning. Take home ac-tivities will also be distributed at the end of each class. (Spanish language classes will be offered January 8-February 7, 2013)

Ages: 3-5. Fee: $3 with mu-seum admission ($2 LICM mem-bers)

Circus Renaldo Saturday, December 22 at

11 a.m.,1 and 3 p.m. Witness the juggling,

pranks, magic and humor of the Remarkable Renaldo, the ring-master clown of Circus Renaldo. Renaldo has performed with the leading circuses around the world, including Big Apple Cir-cus, Toronto’s Garden Brothers Circus, England’s Zippo’s Cir-cus, SeaWorld in Florida, Circus Sara-sota and the Royal Hanneford Circus. Come celebrate the holidays with hu-mor. Renaldo’s alter ego, Al Calienes will be present too; sign-ing copies of his children's story book "Renaldo Joins the Circus."

Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $4 with mu-seum admission, $3 LICM members, $10 theater only.

Hoot ‘n Annie Sunday, Decem-

ber 23 at 1 and 3 p.m.

Hoot ‘n Annie have delighted audi-ences around the world with their mix of traditional Ameri-can music, folk songs and humor. They are multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, who play 17 of America’s wackiest and weird-est instruments, many at the same time. Settle in and enjoy performances including the washboard, nose flute, slide-whistle, washtub bass and musi-cal saw. We are delighted to bring them back to LICM as a delight for the whole audience.

Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $4 with museum admission, $3 LICM members, $10 theater only.

New Exhibit - Building Boom with KEVA ® planks

Through Sunday, January 6 Get ready to explore the

simple and complex possibilities of construction as you move from the drawing board to the construction crew. Building Boom with KEVA® planks en-

courages you to conceive, then build, the design project of your dreams -- bridges, skyscrapers, castles, airplanes, trestles, spi-rals and more. You’ll develop a first-hand understanding of the physical forces at work in the design process as you apply principles of balance, proportion and geometry to your design.

Building Boom with KEVA brings out the designer, architect and engineer in each of us as you problem solve and think in three dimension. Uniform in size, KEVA planks use only

gravity – no glue or connectors. You'll dabble with physics to achieve balance, proportion and stability. Stumped for a design project? Draw inspiration from 50 permanent building models on display.

Local exhibit support for Building Boom with KEVA is provided by Astoria Federal Savings (logo).

All ages. Free with museum admission.

KaleidoZone Gallery - Chaos and Containment

Through January 6 Chaos and Containment are

two psychological states all hu-man beings experience in vary-ing degrees and intensity. This exhibit intends to inspire and foster conversations pertaining to the differences and parallels

between art made by artists with and without mental dis-abilities. Visitors will learn to appreciate the work produced, regardless of the background of the artists who created them. Chaos and Containment will feature a selection of work s submitted through a request for artwork, as well as pieces cre-ated in art therapy workshop conducted by Ed Regensburg, ATR-BC, LCAT at Family Residences & Essential Enter-prises (FREE).

All ages. Free with museum admission. Early Childhood Pro-grams Language Immersion Class: Tuesday and Thursday (November 13- December 13) from 11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. † stART (Story + Art): Tuesday to Friday from 12:30-1 p.m. † Music and Movement: Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. -12 p.m. † Messy Afternoons: Sat-urday-Sunday, from 3:30-5 p.m. †Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members). Advanced sales are avail-able for theater perform-ances are available start-ing October 1, unless oth-erwise noted. Tickets may be purchased with a credit card (American Express,

MasterCard or Visa) by calling (516) 224-5801 until 4 p.m. the day before the performance. There are no phone sales on the day of an event. Same day tick-ets may be purchased at box office on a first come, first serve basis. All advance tickets are non-refundable.

All activities will be held at the Long Island Children’s Mu-seum, 11 Davis Avenue, Gar-den City, NY. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mu-seum admission: $11 for adults and children over 1 year old, $10 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional infor-mation, contact 516-224-5800.



Ewing was shot by an unseen assailant. That gave fans months to fret over whether J.R. would survive and who had pulled the trigger. In the show's opening the following season, it was revealed that J.R.'s sister-in-law, Kristin, with whom he had been having an affair, was behind the gun.

Hagman said an international publisher offered him $250,000 to reveal who had shot J.R. and he considered giving the wrong infor-mation and taking the money, but in the end, "I decided not to be so like J.R. in real life."

The popularity of "Dallas" made Hagman one of the best-paid actors in television and earned him a fortune that even a Ewing would have coveted. He lost some of it, however, in bad oil investments be-

fore turning to real estate.

"I have an apartment in New York, a ranch in Santa Fe, a cas-tle in Ojai outside of L.A., a beach house in Malibu and think-ing of buying a place in Santa Monica," Hagman said in a Chi-cago Tribune interview.

An updated "Dallas" series began in June 2012 on the TNT network with Hagman reprising his J.R. role with original cast members Gray, who played J.R.'s wife, and Patrick Duffy, who was his brother Bobby. The show was to focus on the sons of J.R. and Bobby.

Hagman had a wide eccentric streak. When he first met actress Lauren Bacall, he licked her arm because he had been told she did not like to be touched and he was known for leading parades on the Malibu beach and showing up at a grocery store in a gorilla suit. Above his Malibu home flew a flag with the credo "Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration)" and he lived hard for many years.

In 1967, rock musician David Crosby turned him on to LSD, which Hagman said took away his fear of death, and Jack Nicholson introduced him to marijuana because Nicholson thought he was drinking too much.

Hagman had started drinking as a teenager and said he did not stop until the moment in 1992 when his doctor told him he had cir-rhosis of the liver and could die within six months. Hagman wrote that for the past 15 years he had been drinking about four bottles of champagne a day, including while on the "Dallas" set.

LIVER TRANSPLANT

(Continued from page 18) In July 1995, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which led him to quit smoking, and a month later he underwent a liver transplant.

After giving up his vices, Hagman said he did not lose his zest for life.

"It's the same old Larry Hagman," he told a reporter. "He's just a littler sober-er."

Hagman was born on September 21, 1931, in Weatherford, Texas, and his father was a lawyer who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hag-man would later come to portray. He was still a boy when his parents divorced and he went to Los Angeles with Martin, who would become a big name in Hollywood and a Tony winner on Broadway, where she starred in "Peter Pan" and "The Sound of Music."

Hagman even-tually landed in New York to pursue acting, making his stage debut there in "The Taming of the Shrew." In New York, he mar-ried Maj Axels-son in 1954 while they were in a production of "South Pa-cific. The mar-riage produced two children, Heidi and Pre-ston.

H a g m a n served in the Ai r Force , spending five years in Europe as the director of USO shows, and on his return to New York he took a starring role in the daytime soap "The Edge of Night." His break-through came in 1965 when he landed the "I Dream of Jeannie" role opposite Barbara Eden.

In his later years, Hagman became an advocate for organ trans-plants and an anti-smoking campaigner. He also was devoted to solar energy, telling the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar panel system at his Ojai estate, and made a commercial in which he por-trayed a J.R. Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime member of the Peace and Freedom Party, a minor leftist or-ganization in California.



Name of Church Telephone Number

1. Antioch Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 485-1499

2. Antioch Citadel of Hope (516) 485-6071

3. Apostolic Faith Church (516) 538-6058

4. Assembly of God Church of Hempstead (516) 489-7337

5. Adonai Christian Center (516) 489-8105

6. Believing Gods Word Church (516) 505-3501

7. Calvary Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church (516) 292-3685

8. Cham Sarang Korean Methodist Church (516) 485-2103

9. Christ’s First Presbyterian Church (516) 292-1644

10. Church of Christ (516) 505-2160

11. Church of God of Prophecy (516) 486-7010

12. Church of the Four Leaf Clover (631) 588-6802

13. Congregation Beth Israel (Conservative) (516) 489-1818

14. Congregational Church of South Hempstead (516) 489-3610

15. Curtis Riley Ministries (516) 486-3026

16. Christian Fellowship Center (516) 280-3125

17. Church of God (516) 292-9348

18. Church of the Redeemer (718) 435-4914

19. Centro Espiritual Los Pastors (516) 538-0237

20. Changing Lives Church (516) 481-9371

21. DRC Christian Fellowship (516) 292-4008

22. Eglise Evangelique (516) 543-4380

23. Faith Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 538-3335

24. Faith Fellowship Christian Center (516) 565-1480

25. Faith, Hope and Charity Church of God Inc. (516) 483-1063

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Long Island Chapter (516) 481-7322

27. First Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 483-6330

28. First Hempstead AME Church (516) 485-5550

29. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Paul (516) 483-5700

30. God’s Miracle Temple (516) 292-7647

31. Greater True Deliverance Evangelists Ministry (516) 292-1025

32. Gospel of Peace International (516) 414-6810

33. Good News Faith Tabernacle (516) 795-1985

34. Hempstead Seventh day Adventist Church (516) 481-3252

35. Hempstead Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 292-8807

36. Iglesia Pentecostal Roca de Salvacion, Inc. (516) 489-4530

37. Iglesia La Luz Delmundo (516) 414-2594

38. Iglesia Apostoles Y Profetas (516) 485-1776

39. Iglesia Presbiterian Hispana (516) 564-0201

40. Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de

Jesus Cristo International (516) 292-1063

41. Jackson Memorial AME Zion Church (516) 483-2724

42. Joyful Heart Baptist Church (516) 485-1631

43. Judea United Baptist Church (516) 485-5770

44. Kings Chapel of Hempstead Holiness

Apostolic Church PAW (516) 483-2452

45. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses (516) 292-0932

46. Korean Church of the World Crusade (516) 485-2102

47. Lutheran Church of the Epiphany (516) 481-9344

Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, 35 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead is interested in being included in the Village of Hempstead Church Directory. Please include the following information: Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, 35 Fulton Avenue (between Mead and Hilbert Streets), The Rev. Clifford A. Lewis, Interim Pastor, Phone: 516-481-9344 email: [email protected]. Sunday worship with Holy Communion 9:15am (English) and 11:00am (Spanish).

48. La Iglesia de Dios Monte Sion (516) 565-1190

49. Living Faith Church (516) 307-8803

50. Long Island Council of Churches (516) 565-0290

51. Long Island Family Church (516) 481-7322

52. Macedonia Church of the 7th Day Adventist (516) 483-8532

53. Mt Zion Beth-El Holiness Church Inc. (516) 538-7456

54. Miracle Christian Center (516) 505-2595

55. Mack World of Gospel (516) 565-4863

56. Ministries Holy Ghost (516) 481-5777

57. Ministry Escrito ESTA (516) 342-9077

58. Mt Calvary Church of God Christ (516) 465-8881

59. New Horizons Ministries Inc. (516) 481-5769

60. New Life Ministries (516) 414-0357

61. New Generation Church (516) 214-6358

62. Our lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church (516) 489-3675

63. One Offering (516) 833-7473

64. Pilgrim Tabernacle Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 481-0306

65. Progressive Holiness Church (Apostolic) (516) 486-9621

66. Perfecting Praise Ministries (516) 481-2250

67. Pentecostar Iglesia (516) 750-5392

68. Pentecostal Church of Hempstead (516) 292-1780

69. Pilgrim Tabernacle-Seventh (516) 481-0306

70. Rehoboth Fellowship (516) 505-0514

71. RCCG Chapel (516) 279-6280

72. St. George’s Episcopal Church (516) 483-2771

73. St. John’s Episcopal Church (516) 538-4750

74. St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church (516) 489-0368

75. St. Vladimir’s Ukranian Catholic Church of the Eastern Rite (516) 481-771

76. Salvation Army Church (516) 485-4900

77. South Hempstead Baptist Church (516) 481-7090

78. Stand Up Ministry (516) 564-0058

79. Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 481-3252

80. SHRI Vishnu Sai Inc. (516) 833-5022

81. The Temple of the Living God Inc. Harvest Time (516) 485-4544

82. Union Baptist Church (516) 483-3088

83. United Methodist Church of Hempstead (516) 485-6363

84. Unity Church of Hempstead (516) 481-2300

85. Universal Tabernacle of Love, Peace & Joy (516) 481-2555

86. Union Baptist Church Parsonage (516) 483-1317

87. Union Christian Church (516) 489-2316

88. Victory Christian Tabernacle (516) 538-3604

89. Worldwide Revival Ministries (516) 486-4590

90. Whole Truth Prayer Tower (516) 483-0511



Monday

7:30-7:45 a.m. Life in The Word/Joyce Meyers

7:45-8:00 a.m. Sid Roth's Messianic Visions

8:00-8:30 a.m. Valley Stream Baptist Church

8:30-8:45 a.m. Miracle Revival Hour/Pastor David Paul

9:00-10:00 a.m. Invite Health Radio Show

10:00-11:00 a.m. Overcomer Ministries - Bro. Stair

2:00-2:15p.m. Life in The Word/Joyce Meyers

2:15-2:30 p.m. Sid Roth's Messianic Visions

3:00-3:05 p.m. Time to Laugh

Tuesday







11:30-12:00 p.m. Intimate Connection with Pastor Larry Davidson

2:00-2:15 p.m. Life in The Word/Joyce Meyers



Wednesday







2:00-2:15 p.m. Life in The Word/Joyce Meyers



3:30-4:00 p.m. Gospel Artist Spotlight

4:15-4:30 p.m. Hempstead Happenings

4:30-4:45 p.m. Inside Freeport

Thursday







11:30-12:00 p.m. Kingdom Cars Unlimited - Cynthia Boone

12:00-12:15 p.m. Gospel of Deliverance/ Rev. Ward

1:00-2:00 p.m. Pastors United/Dean, Thomas & Watson


Friday







12:00-12:15 p.m. Quest for Truth Elder. Eric Scott

1:00-2:00 p.m. W.A.M. Seretta Mcknight

2:00-2:15 p.m. Life in The Word/Joyce Meyer


2:30-3:00 p.m. Christian Car Connection - Bobby Banks


Saturday

7:30-8:00 a.m. Freewill Baptist Church

8:00 -8:30 a.m. The Glorious Word of Life/Greater Refuge Ministries

8:30 -9:30 a.m. Heavenly Communications/ Bishop Basil Anderson

9:30-10:30 a.m. Inspirational Soul Gospel Ministries - Deacon Wil-liam

Adams

10:30-11:00 am First Baptist Church of Westbury/Pastor Harvey

11:00-1:00 p.m. Genesis Productions/Cornelius Robinson

2:45-3:15 p.m. Holy Ghost Time/Rev. Foster

3:15-3:30 p.m. Wisdom, Power & Honesty -Charlene Ward

3:30-4:00 p.m. Glorious Gospel of JESUS CHRIST - Apostle E. Alston

Sunday

8:00-8:30 a.m. With God You Will Succeed/Tom Leding Ministries

9:00-9:30 a.m. Univ. Tab. Love, Peace, Joy/Pastor Dunbar

9:30-10:00 a.m. The Voice of Bethel/Pastor John Boyd

10:00-10:30 a.m. Merrick Park Baptist Church

11:30-12:00 p.m. Bible Church of Christ Bishop Roy Bryant

12:00-3:00 p.m. Overcomer Ministries - Bro. Stair

3:30-4:00 p.m. Front Page Jerusalem

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