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Central Valley - This past Saturday morning at the Central Valley Pond, people began gathering by the entrance gate. They weren’t coming to relax, or, swim, or picnic. They assembled to re-member a beloved Town of Woodbury Supervisor, John P. Burke, who passed away unexpectedly last July 29th. He had been Town Supervisor since 2006.

It was dedication day. The John P. Burke Memorial Committee chose June 13, 2015 to unveil a memorial and to rename the “Pond”, as was also known as the Central Valley Pool, after Supervisor Burke’s remembrance. It is a very fitting tribute because at one point not many years ago the pool was in jeopardy of being closed permanently.

The inscription: “John P. Burke, Sr. – In memory of a wonderful man and beloved Supervisor, whose dedication and vision to the Town of Woodbury made this park possible for all our residents to enjoy. Dedicated June 13, 2015”

Members if the Memorial committee (L to R) Tom Burke, Mary Porcu, Rob Weyant, Desiree Potvin and Joe Gianzero,

From left: Tom Burke, NYS Senator Bill Larkin, and former OC Legislator Roxanne Donnery.

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John P. Burke Memorial DedicationSon Tom remembers his father; Park’s pond renamed John P. Burke Memorial PoolBy Ben Meyers

Desiree Potvin, Town and Village of Woodbury Clerk, and Joe Gianzero, Woodbury Parks Recreation Director opened the ceremony with the Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence. Mr. Gianzero then stepped behind the draped memorial and slowly unveiled a beautiful black granite bench having a low stone wall behind and on the sides of it and landscaped with a donated tree. Joe gave all of the credit for the

monument’s details to Tom Sullivan and Colin Campbell of Smith, Seaman and Quackenbush who provided and installed it.

Fr. H. DeGaris of St. Patrick Church gave a blessing and he was followed by Roxanne Donnery, former County Leg-islator. Donnery said that “John was al-ways there for me when I called.” Then she recounted one particular incident

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COLLECTOR’S TAX NOTICE - 2015 VILLAGE OF WOODBURYVillage of Woodbury, Orange Co, NY TAKE NOTICE, that I Carol Herb, the undersigned Collector of Taxes of the Vil-

lage of Woodbury, County of Orange and State of New York, have duly received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes within the Village of Wood-bury for the year 2015-2016, and payments can be made at Town Hall, Route 32, Highland Mills, Monday through Friday 9am – 3pm June 1 – 30, 2015. There is a secure drop box in the main lobby for payment of tax bills.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that taxes may be paid on or before June 30, 2015 without charge or interest. On all taxes received after such date, there shall be added interest of five percent if paid on or before July 31st, and an additional one percent for each month August, September and October if paid on or before the last date of each month.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to the provisions of the law, the tax roll of the Village of Woodbury will be returned to the Orange County Commis-sioner of Finance on the 2nd day of November 2015.

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Payment of Village 2015 taxes may be made with check or money order payable to Woodbury Tax Collector. Please contact Carol Herb if paying with cash. Visa, Discover, and Master Card are also accepted as payment. There is a 2.45% charge paid by the individual to the credit card company for this service. VISA Debit Card is also accepted at a fee to individual of $3.95.

Credit Card payments may be made at Town Hall or on line at egov.basny.com. Scroll down to Village of Woodbury, insert one item of information, and click cred-it card payment. Another page will request credit card information. Please contact Carol Herb 845-928-6062 if you have questions.

Town and Village of Woodbury tax bills are available online at egov.basny.com.Dated: May 26, 2015, Carol Herb, Woodbury Tax Collector

NOTICE: Town part-time clerk position for summer July 6, 2015 thru August 28Desiree Potvin, Town of Woodbury Town Clerk, is hiring a part-time employee for the summer beginning July 6, 2015 thru August 28, 2015.

The position is for four hours per day, Monday - Friday and the pay rate is $15.70 per hour. Duties will include, but not limited to: filing, interaction with the public, answering of telephones, light secretarial work, preparing mailings, coverage as-signments, etc. This position is open to residents of the Town of Woodbury only.

To apply please stop by the Town Clerk’s Office at 511 Route 32, Highland Mills or call 928-6829 x7 for more information. Applications are due to the Town Clerk Office by 4PM on June 25, 2015.

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Town Board meeting By Desiree Potvin, Clerk for the Town of WoodburyWoodbury - Summary of the Town Board Meetings held in May, 2015Eagle Scout Proclamation: The Board adopted the proclamation recogniz-ing Nicholas Joseph Pyzowski for his achievement in receiving the rank of Eagle Scout:

WHEREAS, the rank of Eagle Scout is the pinnacle achievement in Boy Scouting. It is a rank that requires sig-nificant effort, dedication and service to one’s home, troop and community. Nick planned and coordinated the con-struction of two benches at the Central Valley Pool basketball court.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT The Town of Woodbury, at its meeting held May 7, 2015, recognizes and commends the outstanding achieve-ment of Nicholas Joseph Pyzowski.Discussion - Audio and Visual Equip-ment: Councilman Robert Hunter said that he has received numerous complaints about the audio quality of meetings. We may need to have Ca-blevision and the audio visual company come into meet with us to discuss solu-tions to the problem.

Supervisor Ralph Caruso recom-mended appointing a two-member

committee to look into the matter. Councilman Hunter and Councilman Timothy Arone volunteered to look into the situation, meet with the nec-essary people, and come back to the board with information and their rec-ommendations.Electric Energy Prices: Supervisor Caruso stated that he received this in-formation late this afternoon regard-ing new energy prices. He read over the different pricing information with the Board. It was decided by the Board that since our current contract does not expire until September 2015, they will table this matter until everyone can re-view the information in more detail.Schedule Public Hearing - Local Law to Modify Justice Salary: The Board scheduled a public hearing to be held at 7:30PM on June 18, 2015 in order to receive comments and suggestions regarding the proposed temporary in-crease to Judge David Levinson’s salary while he covers Judge David Hasin’s docket, and to review any potential adverse environmental impacts of the proposed local law.

125th Highland Mills Fire Co. Anniversary - Smoking Hot Day of Golf Monday, August 10th at Falkirk Estate & Country Club

By Mike Kling

Highland Mills - The Highland Mills Fire Company will be hosting the Smoking Hot Day of Golf – 125th Anniversary Edition on August 10th at the Falkirk Estate and Country Club in Central Valley.

Registration begins at 10 a.m. with an 11 a.m. lunch and a Shotgun Start at noon. Numerous contests will be held during the day including longest drive, closest to pin, Hole-in-One for a new car and putting contests. There will also be a silent auction for sports memorabilia and other items. After golf join a Cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvres followed by the Awards Dinner and presentation of prizes. Pre-register by July 4th and get a FREE Limited Edition 125th Anniversary Pull-Over, a $50 value. Registration is $150.00. Applications for the day can be downloaded at www.woodburyfire.com. For more information or if you wish to be a sponsor see the website or call: Ray Beharry 917-647-8341 or Bob Kauer 516-322-8441. Watch out for details on the Anniversary Parade being held September 26, 2015!

More Photos of Events…Soon you can look at more photos at www.WoodburyGazette.comThe Woodbury Gazette will provide access to many of the pictures taken at events. Links will access event files. We hope you will enjoy them.

THIS Saturday – WOW Antiques Appraisal Day Great Opportunity to find out what that family hand-me-down is worth

Women of Woodbury fundraising event: Antiques Appraisal Day, Sat. June 20th, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Women of Woodbury raise money for local community events and schol-arships for graduating Woodbury stu-dents & women returning to college. The organization is a not for profit community organization.

Tickets $15.00 for up to three items appraised must be purchased in advance at the Highland Mills Senior Center located at 16 County Route 105, Highland Mills. Open between 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. only. No Firearms. Call to reserve a time slot & info. 845-928-9225 or 845-928-9007.

to illustrate her point. It was about the Kiryas Joel pipeline.

Donnery was on her way to her office early one morning and decided to use the Seven Springs Road route because the pipeline construction had been un-derway in KJ. As she neared the KJ and Woodbury boundaries, she was star-tled because they were about to cross into Woodbury. She called Supervisor Burke and he replied that he’ll be right there. She blocked the big equipment with her car and almost immediately John pulled up and parked his there, too. When he got out of his car, “ He planted his feet beside mine,” she said, “and folded his armed across his chest and blocked their way into Woodbury.” Donnery added, “When the State Po-lice were about to arrest me, John looked over at them and told them that they would have to take him, too! That was John!”

John’s son Tom Burke spoke for the family. He began by explaining that his family originally came from the Fordham Road area of the Bronx and

their home was near the park which his mother loved. Tom continued,

“So when my father was accepted as a teacher in Nanuet, he took a map, and told mom ‘This is where I’ll be working’…he drew a thirty mile circle around Nanuet and told her… ‘Your job is to find a house within this thirty mile area!’ Well she visited Woodbury, loved the pond and the open area. After we moved here, she also explained with a smile that it also three miles outside of his thirty mile limit.”

Tom also was thankful to many and said, “On behalf of all the children and grandchildren, we are so humbled and would like to express how great it is to have the pool renamed as a legacy of love for his town.

“Special thanks to Colleen Pierce, owner of Jay’s Deli, Tom Sullivan of Smith Seaman and Quackenbush, Dan Vaughan for the two beautiful signs, and those who attended making this ceremony so memorable for us all.”

He noted that many friends from Rockland County were here for the dedication and he gave them a personal warm thank you.

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Highland Mills - Investigators surprised a property owner who has been legally filling land along Route 32 and Village of Woodbury officials. Approximately a dozen inspectors from three agencies, the FBI, EPA and DEC descended on property owned by Flair Banke.

Discussing the incident with mayor Queenan, he said that he was surprised and had not been notified of the action by any agency. And in an interview at the home with Mr. David Clark and Ms. Banke, they said that all of the truck drivers dumping fill on the prop-erty submit tickets qualifying that the fill is clean. Apparently there is a small company named Sinia located in or near NYC that is under scrutiny for il-legal dumping.

At the time of closing this edition, no other details were available.

Inspectors from three agencies descended on this area last Friday searching for…they would not comment. Photo by Ben Meyers

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Senator Larkin’s press release stated on Tuesday that, “I am pleased that we have passed my annexation oversight bills today in the Senate. We desper-ately need more appropriate oversight on annexations that could have such a significant impact on our region.

The passage of these bills have been my top priority throughout this entire process and I never stopped fighting on behalf of my constituents. The As-sembly will now be tasked with send-ing these bills to the Governor’s desk for his signature. I urge Governor Cuomo to sign these bills into law as soon as possible.”

Skoufis’ Launches Petition

Legislation authored by Assembly-man James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) to require increased scrutiny of the pro-posed Kiryas Joel annexation and fu-

ture annexations has passed both hous-es of the legislature and will soon be headed to the governor’s desk (A.7639 / S.5643). The legislation was carried in the state Senate by Sen. Bill Larkin (R-Cornwall-on-Hudson).

In conjunction with the Sen-ate’s passage, Assemblyman Skou-fis launched an online petition – SignTheAnnexationBill.com – where residents can make their voices heard by urging the governor to approve this oversight legislation.

“The Kiryas Joel annexation bids were forced forward without proper scrutiny,” Skoufis said. “We’re calling on the governor to swiftly sign this leg-islation so we can ensure that the pro-cess is held accountable.”

The bipartisan legislation would al-low county planning departments to review specific annexation petitions,

including the current ones initiated by Kiryas Joel, pursuant to General Municipal Law (GML) 239, a process that already exists for many municipal planning and zoning actions. Follow-ing a complete review of the annexa-tion, the county would send a recom-mendation of approval or disapproval to the municipalities; should the mu-nicipalities wish to override a rec-ommended disapproval and proceed with the annexation, a four out of five supermajority vote of each affected board would be required.

“Annexations that have the poten-tial to significantly impact an entire region deserve a higher threshold for approval,” said Skoufis. “It is now up to the governor to sign this critical legislation.”

Larkin’s Annexation Oversight Bills Pass SenateSkoufis Launches Petition Urging Governor to Sign Annexation Oversight Bill

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Woodbury Public Library – Children’s NewsKids Day - “Super Heroes” This Saturday, June 20

Woodbury Public Library– Adult News By Rose-Emma Calabrese, Adult Services

To register for any program by phone, call the Highland Mills Branch at: (845) 928-6162. You may also come in person to the Library during open hours. For any questions, please leave a message for Rose-Emma.

Tuesday - June 16: WPL Book Club meets for discussion in Highland Mills. We meet from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. The book chosen is titled: Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang. Come with ideas for our summer reading choices! Space is available for up to 15.

Thursday June 18: Computer Tutor Appointments. All appointments are 55 minutes and 1:1. Classes are always held on the first Wednesdays from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM and the fourth Thursdays from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM dur-ing each month. Pick up a flyer when you are in the library. Sign-up is either by phone or in person at Highland Mills. Please note: Special appointments can be made if these times do not meet your needs. Laptops and devices must be fully charged before you come and you must have all your peripheral equipment when you come to class. Make sure your anti-virus and malware protections are up-to-date! Our Wi-Fi is temporarily down at Highland Mills. June 18 appointments will be in Central Valley!

Saturday – June 20: Essential Oils –Part 2 of a 2-part program - We brought back Tina by request (for those that missed her the first time). Part two covers essential oils for family members, adults, children and the pets. Our presenter is Tina Criscione, a holistic therapist and wellness advocate from MyDoTERRA. This is based on real science! We meet at 3:30 PM and space is available for up to 30 people per class.

Wednesday - June 24: Ravelry.com’s Monroe-Woodbury Knitting Club meets at Central Valley. The Club meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month from 7 to 8:30 PM. Please join us! We are very informal in our ap-proach! Learn a new hobby or brush up on old skills with the group. The group offers ideas and tips for your knitting and crocheting projects. All are welcome!

Sunday - June 28: Summer Red, White and Blue Salads with Rose-Emma. Join us for “just in time” ideas for the July 4th Holiday. We will cover all kinds of salads to please all palates! We will meet in the Senior Center from 1 to 3 PM. Space is available for 15.

UPCOMING July and August Events:Sunday – July 12: We welcome back Ms. Kohloa. She will conduct a Cre-

ative Writing Workshop. Ms Kohloa comes from Western Sullivan County and leads a writers group there. She is an accomplished writer and an artist. The start time is 3:30 PM and space is available for up to 20.

Saturday July 25: “Joyful Foraging” with J.J. Murphy. J.J. is an avid hiker and forager in our community. Our summer theme is Escape the Ordinary and we sure will with this program! We will learn to identify local wild food and incorporate it into a delicious frittata for our consumption at the end of the program. Come in casual clothing as we will be walking around our building learning to identify these plants. We meet at 3:30 PM in Highland Mills and space is available for 15.

Tuesday August 4: The Black Dirt Storytelling Guild will present a pro-gram at 6:30 PM in Highland Mills. Madelyn Folino and Eileen Stelljes are the two founding members of the guild and they will create a special program just for us based on the summer theme, Every Hero has a Story: Escape the Ordinary. We have no patron limit for this program - for Adults only. If the weather is nice we will be outdoors (bring folding chairs) and if rain is predicted, we will be in the Senior Center. Registration required and Refreshments will be served.

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Woodbury Republican Party Endorses three Candidates Endorses Re-elections of Caruso as Supervisor & Prestia as Councilwoman and Ray Cooper seeks Council seatWoodbury - The Town of Woodbury Republican Party Committee endorsed three candidates for local office at a meeting on Tuesday May 26, 2015.

They were Ralph Caruso for re-election to the Town of Woodbury Supervisor; Marilyn (Lyn) Prestia, for re-election as Councilwoman on the Town of Woodbury Town Board; and Raymond (Doc) Cooper for election to the Town of Woodbury Town Board as a Councilman.

All three candidates have extensive supervision and management experience. Town Supervisor Ralph Caruso said, “I am so very pleased to have such qualified people running for office with me”. “Our community can be assured that all three of us will only have the best interests of our Woodbury residents when making decisions”.

The candidates and their supporters will be going door to door over the next few weeks gathering signatures for their election petitions. If you have any ques-tions, please call the Town of Woodbury Republican Committee Chairman, Don-ald Siebold, at 845-928-9310.

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Central Valley - What a great turnout! Woodbury Community Association’s Golf Committee members worked dil-igently for months to make this year’s only fund raising event successful.

Although early morning clouds threat-ened rain, golfers signed in at Falkirk’s golf course and enjoyed pastry and cof-fee before finding their golf carts. By the time carts began to roll for the Shot Gun start, the sky was beautiful.

A hot dog cart was stationed on the course offering free franks in case any-one needed a snack or refreshment. American Legion Post 779 members Ken Smith, Phil Morello, and Jerry

DiSisto raised funds for Woodbury’s Post by selling score reducing tickets on the ninth green. They thank all the guys who supported them as they help Woodbury’s American Legion.

Phil Nask of Central Valley and a long time employee for Orange County Choppers brought two awesome bikes from OCC. One beauty painted fire en-gine red was their 9/11bike dedicated to NYC Fire Fighters. Parts of it were fabri-cated from the Twin Towers debris.

By 3 o’clock most foursomes were fin-

ished their rounds and enjoying cock-tails. Later, winners of golf contests were announced during the buffet luncheon. Winning the Low Score Foursome was Ward Paving’s Kevin Schuller, Paul Clu-na and Bill Leo; while James Norberg of Central Valley won Men’s Longest Drive. Closet to the Pin winner was Pete McGoldrick and the Most Honest Golf-ers…were Colin Campbell, Brian Wal-lace and Ralph Mancino.

Pete McGoldrick and Charlie Knuth who headed the committee were pleased

to announce that between the record number of golfers, over 120, and gen-erous business sponsors, the WCA had achieved over $20,000. All of it will be donated to others helping the commu-nity of Woodbury.

Best ever WCA Golf Outing Raised funds at Falkirk C.C. to help many in Woodbury over the next year

By Ben MeyersLeft Top: Mario’s Crew - Bill Rumsey at left with John Wicks, Joe Guy, & JP.

Left bottom: The Knuth brothers get together for golf posing by Orange County Chopper’s 9/11 bike. They are Bobby, Timmy, Charlie, and Danny. Below: Peter Scalia on left with Tom Burke, and Bobby Sailer.Bottom: The Roosevelt & Cross foursome are from left; Cyrus Kasad, Jon Ponte, Pat Stanton, and Brian Farrell.

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Monroe - This On June 20, three Girl Scouts from Troop 383 in Monroe, Tessa, Alexa and Elena will demonstrate for geocaching, a popular recreation for families somewhat similar to scavenger hunting or letter boxing.

The Scouts have set up six geocaches at the Orange County Arboretum as part of their Silver Award project and created a fun activity to bring more people to the Arboretum. They will be at the Arboretum from 1 to 3pm on the 20th to show kids and adults how to geocache. There is no charge for this event.

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Woodbury Town Clerk Desiree Potvin named NYALGRO PresidentNew York Association of Local Government Records Officers

Woodbury - The New York Asso-ciation of Local Government Records Officers (NYALGRO) announces that beginning January 2015 Town of Woodbury Town Clerk Desiree Potvin has been named President.

NYALGRO is a non-profit organiza-tion formed to provide a network to all who are responsible for records upkeep and information management for local governments, such as, towns, coun-ties, cooperative extensions, cities, fire districts, school districts, villages and BOCES.

The professional organization is a proven advisory network for the devel-opment of sound records and informa-tion management programs. Desiree has served as Town Clerk and Records Management Officer (RMO) for the Town of Woodbury since 1999 and as Village Clerk/RMO for the Village of Woodbury since 2006.

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Scout Troop 149 honors Eagle Scouts - 1967 thru today

Central Valley - Woodbury Boy Scout Troop 149 is remembering its Eagle Scouts going all the way back 1967 up to today.

If you, or somebody you know, is on this list please let us know. The Scouts from Troop 149 would like to talk Scouting and share your memories of Troop 149. Troop 149 meets Monday evenings 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. at the Carriage House located at 224 Smith Clove Road, Central Valley. Troop 149 has over fifty years of history as a Boy Scout Unit and we are currently seeking new members.

For more information contact Scoutmaster Kevin Steinhauer at 845-837-9548 or kevstein@yahoo.com

Flag Day at the Gatehouse’s Carriage House, meeting location for Troop 149, was the day that the Scout’s unveiled the list of Eagle Scouts dating back to 1967. Kevin Steinhauer Jr. (L), Gerhrig Perino and Scoutmaster Kevin Steinhauer hold the Eagle Scout honor roll. Photo by Ben Meyers

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June 19, 1798John Adams passes Naturalization Act, 217 Years agoPresident John Adams passes the Natu-ralization Act, the first of four pieces of controversial legislation known to-gether as the Alien and Sedition Acts, on this day in 1798. Strong political opposition to these acts succeeded in undermining the Adams administra-tion, helping Thomas Jefferson to win the presidency in 1800.

At the time, America was threatened by war with France, and Congress was attempting to pass laws that would give more authority to the federal govern-ment, and the president in particular, to deal with suspicious persons, espe-cially foreign nationals. The Natural-ization Act raised the requirements for aliens to apply for U.S. citizenship, requiring that immigrants reside in the U.S. for 14 years before becoming eli-gible. The earlier law had required only five years of residence before an appli-cation could be made.

Adams, in fact, never enforced the Naturalization Act. Nevertheless, he came under heavy fire from the Repub-licans, led by Vice President Thomas Jefferson, who felt that the Naturaliza-tion Act and its companion legislation was unconstitutional and smacked of despotism. So disgusted was Jefferson with Adams’ enthusiastic support of the law that he could no longer support the president and left Washington dur-ing the Congressional vote.

Former President George Washing-ton, on the other hand, supported the legislation. Adams signed the second piece of the legislation, the Alien Act, on June 25. This act gave the president the authority to deport aliens during

peacetime. The Alien Enemies Act, which Ad-

ams signed on July 6, gave him the power to deport any alien living in the U.S. with ties to U.S. wartime ene-mies. Finally, the Sedition Act, passed on July 14, gave Adams tremendous power to define treasonable activity including any false, scandalous and malicious writing.

The intended targets of the Sedi-tion Act were newspaper, pamphlet and broadside publishers who printed what he considered to be libelous ar-ticles aimed primarily at his adminis-tration. Abigail Adams urged her hus-band to pass the Sedition Act, calling his opponents criminal and vile.

Of the four acts, the Sedition Act was the most distressing to staunch First Amendment advocates. They ob-jected to the fact that treasonable ac-tivity was vaguely defined, was defined at the discretion of the president and would be punished by heavy fines and imprisonment.

The arrest and imprisonment of twenty-five men for supposedly vio-lating the Sedition Act ignited an enormous outcry against the legisla-tion. Among those arrested was Ben-jamin Franklin’s grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, who was the editor of the Republican-leaning  Philadelphia Democrat-Republican Aurora. Citing Adams’ abuse of presidential powers and threats to free speech, Jefferson’s party took control of Congress and the presidency in 1800.

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Dot and Earl Sandstrom (l) and Mrs. Louise Kopchak, pause in the Gatehouse’s Garden of Remembrance on Flag Day. Earl is a combat veteran of the Pacific Theater during WWII, fighting on Guadalcanal – America’s first campaign against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Photo by Ben Meyers

Central Valley – The old Proctor Es-tate’s Gatehouse, a historical building, was the site of an open house on Flag Day. The Gatehouse members reserved the day to honor our national ensign.

Joining Gatehouse members were veterans, Phil Morello, Ken Smith, Doc Cooper, Jerry DiSisto, Earl Sandstrom, and Woodbury Town Supervisor Ralph Caruso and his wife Jeannette, all mem-

bers from American Legion Post 779.

Woodbury Boy Scout Troop 149 leader Kevin Steinhauer and Kevin Jr, and Gerhrig Perino also were there remembering Troop 149 Eagle Scouts going all the way back 1967.

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Everything about St Patrick’s parish picnic held last Sunday was beautiful; the Mass celebrated by Fr. G. Travers, the music, the homily, the weather, the large turnout, the many volunteers and the wonderful outpouring of love from friends and family.

Many thanks to Fr. H. DeGaris for his encouragement and support, to the incredible Woodbury Community Association for their barbecuing ex-pertise, to Colleen of Jay’s Deli for her

ever-present generosity, to ShopRite of Monroe for their food donation, to our Religious Education families for their paper goods/drink donations, to all the parishioners who brought side dishes (the spread of food was quite impres-sive!) and to the many volunteers that planned, set-up, and cleaned-up.

And a very special thank-you to Fr. Travers for celebrating his Golden Ju-bilee with us! Congratulations on your 50 years of ministry.

Left: Lenny Calone enjoyed St. Patrick’s picnic protected from the sun under the large tent behind the Education Center.

Above: Fr. Travers (L) celebrated his Golden Jubilee with us at our annual family picnic and Fr. DeGaris with him both enjoyed the “outpouring of love”.

Below: Phil Morello, a WCA volunteer, happily serves up hot dogs during St. Patrick’s 2015 annual family picnic.

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Some people think that when Christians are chal-lenged, they should roll over and play dead—to “turn the other cheek” at all times.  Oftentimes that’s exactly what we’re supposed to do as a way of submitting to one another and honoring those in authority over us.

But then there are other times when we, as follow-ers of Christ, are called to defend ourselves, to take authority over wrongs that have been done to us, and

to appeal to higher authorities.  These, too, are bibli-cal teachings.

Throughout the book of Acts, Paul takes care to walk through this maze of when to stand firm and when to run, when to submit to others and when to defend himself against them.  In Acts chapter 25, Paul takes his boldest stand against the false accusations that were made against him:  he appeals to Caesar.  Paul says this to Governor Festus who was hearing his case:

“I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you your-self know very well. If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!” (Acts 25:10-11)

Appealing to Caesar was no small deal.  Caesar was the king, the highest authority in the entire Ro-man Empire, and his decision would be final—and possibly fatal.  The appeal would be costly in terms of time and travel to Rome.  In Paul’s case, the trip itself was almost fatal, and Paul was under house ar-rest in Rome for at least two years waiting for Caesar to hear his case.

But there was nothing neither ungodly nor dis-graceful about Paul’s appeal.  He knew he was inno-cent and he knew God wanted him to continue to tes-tify about Christ in Rome.  At the very beginning of Paul’s trials back in Jerusalem, the Lord stood near to Paul one night and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also tes-tify in Rome.”  While it took great courage to appeal to Caesar and be sent to Rome, he was also simply following the clear command of the Lord.

When Paul appealed, Governor Festus conferred with his council and declared: “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!” (Acts 25:12)

Here in the U.S., an appeal is simply another step in the legal process.  It’s not a sign of defying authority, but a way of following the steps that the authorities have set up, realizing that different people come to dif-

ferent conclusions, even based on the same evidence.I’m amazed at the number of cases that are decided

in the U.S. Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 decision.  These are the some of the brightest and most highly trained people in the country regarding the law, yet they still reach completely opposite conclusions.  While it could make some people cynical of the process, it makes me thankful for it, that our country has made a way to give us as many chances as possible to prove our innocence, or for someone else to prove our guilt.

There are times when your faith in Christ will com-pel you to submit to a decision that’s wrong, regardless of whether you simply believe it is wrong or whether it’s in fact wrong.  It can be simple prudence and god-liness to submit to someone’s decision, whether it’s a judge, a boss, a spouse, a parent or a friend.

But there are other times when your faith in Christ will compel you to appeal a wrongful decision, to re-spectfully call upon someone else to step in and hear your case.

In the end, God Himself is the One who will ulti-mately decide your case.  So the important thing is to stay as close to Him as possible. Follow His wisdom for whether He wants you to pursue, or to drop, any appeal here on earth.  Maybe He’ll say to you what He said to Paul:  “Take courage! As you have testi-fied about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome” (Acts 23:11).

Prayer: Father, help me to hear from You if there’s ever a time You want me to appeal a decision that’s been made.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Eric is an ordained pastor and a technology expert, having worked as a technology researcher for a Fortune 10 corporation for nine years prior to going into full-time ministry in 1995. USA Today to called him “a new breed of evangelist,” referring to his groundbreaking work of sharing Christ over the Internet with thousands each day in over 160 countries. You’re reading lesson 25 ACTS: LESSONS IN FAITH, by Eric Elder, featuring thirty inspiring devotionals based on the lives of the very first followers of Christ

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St. Patrick’s VBS; June 29th-July 3rd – Sign up!VBS offers classes for Pre-K4 through fifth grade students – all invitedWoodbury - St Patrick’s Vacation Bible School (VBS) is almost on top of us. St. Patrick’s VBS is an ecumenical one-week summer camp held on the grounds of the St. Patrick’s Religious Education Building. It is open to all families. The cost for the entire week is $25 per child. This year it will be held from June 29th-July 3rd. The hours are 9am-1pm each day.

VBS offers classes for Pre-K4 through fifth grade students. Eligible children are those who have completed Pre-K (entering Kindergarten in Fall 2015) through children who are completing 5th grade (in June 2015). A nursery is available for young children of adult volunteers. Registration forms are available at www.stpat-rickny.org or by emailing stpatrickshmvbs@gmail.com. Information or questions can be directed to Theresa Weissburg at tweissburg@optimum.net or 781-0347

St. Patrick’s 2015 summer Vacation Bible School volunteers gather for a group photo by the Woodbury Gazette. They had just ended a meeting inside the Education Building during St. Patrick’s annual Family Picnic. Photo by Ben Meyers

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Tribute to Sam Blumenfeld; May 31, 1926 – June 1, 2015Great patriot and educator who understood that America’s freedom begins in the classroomBy Dawn Hoagland

Sam Blumenfeld wrote ten books about education, including Alpha-Phonics, a simple primer for teaching children to read. His last book was published in April. He lectured on education right up until his passing a few days ago at the age of 89.

He was one of the first people to expose the deliberate dumbing down of our pub-lic school system. He is a featured speaker on Charlotte Iserbyt’s DVD set “Exposing the Global Road to Ruin through Educa-tion.” His research is impeccable and his speaking style is extremely informative, engaging and humorous.

Sam Blumenfeld was the son of Pol-ish immigrants who placed him in pub-lic school where he received an excellent education. He was a WWII veteran who had been stationed in Italy during the war. He loved God and this country and has spent much energy and time writing and speaking about the history of our public schools and how to save them from ruin.

Sam believed that learning to read can be easily accomplished if simple instructions are utilized. He was sur-prised when Rudolf Flesch published a book in 1955 titled, Why Johnny Can’t Read. Flesch wrote, “The teaching of reading—all over the United States, in all the schools, in all the textbooks—is totally wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.” Sam and his classmates had all learned to read. Why were children having trouble now?

Sam attended elementary school dur-ing the Great Depression. His school was too poor to purchase the new reading

materials that John Dewey and the rest of the “progressive” education reformers of his time recommended. So he learned to read by the basic phonics method.

John Dewey wrote an article pub-lished in School and Society in 1898, “The Primary-School Fetish.” He wrote “…the time has come for a thorough-going examination of the emphasis put upon linguistic work in elemen-tary instruction…The plea for the pre-dominance of learning to read in early school-life because of the great impor-tance attaching to literature seems to me a perversion.” A perversion?

Blumenfeld blamed John Dewey for creating generations of dyslexic indi-viduals who have difficulty reading. Sam fought in WWII to save the world from Nazis and fascists only to discov-er Dewey’s treachery to dumb down the American population so that they would accept socialism.

John Dewey persuaded his fellow socialists that the best way to change America from a society of individuals to one in which the collective is valued would be to dumb-down the American people. The easiest way to do that was to change the way reading was taught in our schools. Dewey was a professor of Philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930. His influence at Columbia Teacher’s College on teacher training cannot be underestimated.

Dewey replaced the traditional pho-nics based method of reading instruc-tion with the look-say method in which English is taught as if it were Chinese.

The whole word is viewed as a picture which actually accesses a different part of the brain than phonetic decoding. Children have to memorize little words. It is called a sight vocabulary. Children are encouraged to memorize these “sight words” before they even know the sounds of the letters. Here is an excerpt from a Sam Blumenfeld lecture:

“Do you know what that does? That creates a sight reflex, a picture reflex in the brain. And that becomes an ob-stacle to seeing the phonetic structure of our words. And that reflex, because it’s automatic, and creates this obstacle against seeing the phonetic structure of our words, creates dyslexia. Dyslexia!”

Blumenfeld is very emphatic about the importance of learning the phonetic structure of our English language. It en-hances brain power, expands vocabulary and allows students to be able to read anything, including our founding docu-ments and American history. Our free-dom depends on a literate population.

After WWII, there was a boom in the American economy and new education-al materials were rapidly reproduced and distributed widely into most public schools. This is the point at which our schools became a mixed bag of opportu-nities and transgressions. Some teachers simply closed their doors and contin-ued to teach phonics as they had always done with excellent results while others adopted the new methods.

By 1986, enough new teachers had been trained to deliver the “look say” method to students in their classrooms that pho-

nics began to fall by the wayside. Publish-ers had been encouraged to print books and materials aligned to the new “whole language” approach to teaching literacy.

Whole language was studied, ana-lyzed, compared to the phonics method and pronounced inferior in 1998 by the United States National Research Council’s Commission on Preventing Reading Dif-ficulties in Young Children and in 2000 by the United States National Reading Panel. It has been proven that children learn to read well exclusively with phonics.

It is amazing to me that in 2015 we are still recycling the discredited whole lan-guage method. It is now called “Balanced Literacy” in which supposedly the best components of both the whole language and phonics programs are simultaneous-ly taught. If Sam Blumenfeld is correct, teaching sight words to children who cannot decode words phonetically yet is a crime. The effects can be devastating.

Crimes of the Educators: How Uto-pians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children by Sam Blumenfeld and Alex Newman was published in April, 2015. The premise of the book is that to continue to use a method that can cause dyslexia and life-long reading disabilities when a perfect-ly good method for teaching reading is available is criminal. Read the book and decide for yourself. Sam is gone but his ideas are still here for us to share with our locally elected school boards.

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Serving Orange, Dutchess, Putnam & Westchester Counties

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Celebrating our 16th Year!

(845) 928-3637 Highland Mills

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Twilight Specials • Senior and Junior RatesMemberships Available

League Openings Available • Lunch SpecialsNew Pub Featuring 7 HD Screens

Corporate Outings • 18 Hole Championship Golf Course

206 Smith Clove Road, Central Valley, NY 10917 • golf@falkirkestate.comwww.falkirkestate.com

Weddings/Events 845-928-8060 • Golf 845-928-8022

The Highland Mills Fire CompanyProudly Presents Our 125th Anniversary

super smoking Hot DAY OF GOLF Monday - August 10, 2015

Falkirk Estate & Country Club 206 Smith Clove Rd. Central Valley, NY 10917

10:00 am - Registration 11:00 am - Lunch 12:00 noon - Shotgun Start * after golf - Cocktail Hour with hors d’oeuvres followed by the Awards Dinner & presentation of prizes**

Team Scramble Format with prizes for:Longest Drive - Closest to the Pin - Hole in One wins a New Car

Bigger ra�es, silent auction, giveaways and so much more...

*includes beer **includes beer and wine - (cash bar available)

Please complete the REGISTRATION FORM below and return it with a check made payable to: HMFC Golf 2015 - P.O. Box 162 - Highland Mills NY, 10930 - Attn: Golf Committee For more info call: Ray Beharry (917-647-8341) or Bob Kauer (516-322-8441)

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PLEASE NOTE: ALL REGISTRATION FORMS and FEES ARE DUE ASAP

Per Player Fee: $150.00 (Fees are Non-Refundable) Yes I will attend, enclosed is my check in the amount of $__________ for 1 2 3 4 Player(s) please print clearly 1 - Name:_____________________________ Shirt Size: 2 - Name:_____________________________ Shirt Size: 3 - Name:_____________________________ Shirt Size: 4 - Name:_____________________________ Shirt Size:

No I cannot attend, enclosed is my check in the amount of $__________ to support the Highland Mills Fire Company

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Sign up by July 4th and get a free Limited Edition 125th Anniversary Pull Over (a $50 value)

StarStarBrightBrightDiner and Restaurant

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner • Cocktails

(845) 928-2877

Monday - Thursday 6am-1amFriday & Saturday 6am-2am

Sunday 6am-Midnight

Free WiFiGroup Events

Yes, We Cater!!

Route 32 Central Valley

Your neighborhood diner with a full menu and selection of food made fresh to order!

All BakingDone onPremises

“Let ’s meet at the Bright Star! ”