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Some old trends never die and one is about to become a brand new ad-dition to Rockaway. On Saturday, No-vember 28, the Rockaway Beach Surf Club will hold Rockaway’s fi rst-ever burlesque show, “Beach Bunny Bur-lesque.” All adults are welcome to the RBSC located at 302 Beach 87th Street for a night of burlesque dancing and magic by host Adam Cardone. The free event starts at 8 p.m. and promises plenty of entertainment. Burlesque shows have proven popular in places like Brooklyn and Manhattan and across the world, but Rockaway has yet to get a glimpse of the entertaining striptease shows

that have been around since the mid-1800s. “This will be the fi rst burlesque show in modern times in Rockaway, as far as I know,” Cardone said. Cardone, a professional magician, has longtime experience working with burlesque performers at variety shows and he wanted to give Rocka-way a taste of what they’re like. “Bur-lesque is becoming huge and there are a million shows right now in Brooklyn and the city, but none in Rockaway,” Cardone said. Saturday’s show will include “three A-list girls who are really great per-formers and do striptease in a tasteful manner,” Cardone says. The ladies, including Velvetina Taylor, Lilin Lace and Penny Wren, will entertain the audience with burlesque dancing to a variety of music including rock and roll and surf rock, and they have plen-ty of impressive tricks up their lack-of-sleeves. Cardone will have some tricks of his own as he performs magic be-

tween each burlesque act. There may also be an opportunity for brave souls in the audience to put on their own striptease as part of a contest. As burlesque is making its intro-duction to Rockaway, some may not be familiar with what it is. “They’re entertaining shows that include strip-tease performances and are usually accompanied with comedy or other variety show entertainment,” Car-done said. Families shouldn’t bring kids, but don’t expect the ladies to be totally nude. “There are people that may do completely nude shows, but I prefer the ones that are classy and tasteful. People sometimes go to strip clubs so guys can be fl irty and hit on the girls because the girls fl irt back, but burlesque is a show. It’s a perfor-mance. You can bring money because there’s a Go Go set where the dancers will take tips, but it’s not like a strip club. Guys wouldn’t normally bring a girl to a strip club. But burlesque is dif-ferent. It makes for a great date night,” Cardone explained. Whereas burlesque will be new to the peninsula, Cardone’s talent is not. Cardone has more than 30 years of ex-perience with magic. “I started doing it in fi rst grade after I found this book called “Spooky Tricks.” I would check it out all the time until my dad actual-ly bought it for me. It changed my life. In 9th grade, I started getting paid to perform. Once I started making mon-ey doing it, I never stopped, and here I am still doing it some 30 years later,” he said. Cardone has showed off his talent at two previous variety shows at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club. On Saturday, Cardone says he may be swallowing razor blades or will per-form an escape trick, among other acts. As an avid surfer who wanted to be closer to the water, Cardone, originally from Ridgewood, moved to Rockaway more than two years ago. Having worked with Cardone pre-viously, the surf club owners were on board when he approached them with the idea of bringing burlesque to Rockaway. “We’ve always had this goal in mind to bring culture and art and entertainment to Rockaway. We’ve tried to do other interesting, cultural events before,” Bradach Walsh, co-owner of RBSC, said. “Cardone is a good friend of ours. When we did a retrospective on Playland a few sum-mers ago, he was the MC one night as part of a magic/sideshow and we’ve been good friends ever since. He’s a great performer, a local, and he’s got a great sense of humor. When he brought this to us, we were interested because we’re looking for cool things to keep people happy and keep them coming to the club all year round.” Cardone says he is excited to be in an environment where people will be experiencing burlesque for the fi rst time. “As a performer, it’s fun to watch

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Do you think the Beach 94th Street performance space could use new lighting? Should the hand-ball courts on Beach 102nd Street be painted in magenta? Whatever your idea for fi xing these two rec-reational spaces in Rockaway, all are invited to participate in a meeting to be held by the Parks Department regarding the future

for these two areas. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 30 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, located at 333 Beach 90th Street. For more information or to sign up to par-ticipate, visit nyc.gov/parks, email [email protected] or call 718-520-5939.

Beach 116th Street will offi cially get in the spirit of the season with the Holiday Street and Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, Decem-ber 4th from 4:00—6:00 p.m. The lighting will take place in front of the fi rehouse on the block. Per-formers will include Ms. Elaine’s School of Dance, the St. Francis de Sales Choir, Jump Dance School, the St. Camillus Choir, and the PS/MS114 Glee Club. Guests are in-vited to join in the festivities with complimentary refreshments and coupons for holiday shopping pro-vided. Santa Claus is rumored to make an appearance as well. On Sunday, December 6th Beach 116th Street will light the Menorah to celebrate the begin-ning of Hanukkah. The festivities will begin at 4:00 p.m. at the me-dian in front of Capital One Bank. Both events are free and sponsored by the Beach 116th Street Partner-ship.

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Not every family has a bipo-lar, thrice married, alcoholic aunt who used to be an uncle. But some do. Not every family has a smelly, noise-making weirdo that nobody wants to go near. But some do. Not every family has a black sheep, outcast or leper. But lots do. It’s pretty easy to be surrounded by or related to some real oddballs. You can’t get away from the one who talks as often as other people breathe. You smile at one another’s “hu-mor” because you’re polite but you’d rather have your fi ngernails

pulled off. You could discuss poli-tics but you won’t because that’ll just end up with someone calling for an ambulance. There’s really no escaping. Families aren’t like college cam-puses. There are no safe zones. Generally, the only ones you re-ally have to worry about are the ones who like to shop on Black Fri-day. Got one of those in your fam-ily? Now, I’m starting to feel sorry for you. If I lived in the same house as somebody who’d go to a mall on Black Friday, I’d sleep with a full dresser drawer pushed against my

bedroom door at night. It’s right there in the eyes. Some-body says, yeah, yeah, I shop on Black Friday, take a step back. See how bug-eyed they become? You wouldn’t be shocked if they sud-denly lunged at you and started gnawing on your face. But I digress. This isn’t about Black Friday, as it is about families. And here’s the thing. Say-ing you have a screwed up family is like saying you have weird dreams. It doesn’t make you different; it makes you like just about e v e r y b o d y else. It’s funny how some people try to convince others they’ve got this tidy, per-fect family. I fi gure, if they actually insist on perfec-tion at home, all they’re doing is packing a powder keg. A big ka-boom is on the horizon. Somebody in that house is gonna blow. Or join a cult. So forget perfection. Embrace

the madness and the messiness that is your family. You know what they say – you can’t change them. All you can do is change yourself. It’s Thanksgiving and it’s time to be thankful for the absurd, wacky, dysfunctional family you’re part of. You might not quite believe you’re even related to someone you just passed the plate to but be thank-ful, they make your life more inter-

esting. **Boyleing Over:

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fects. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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Work up a hunger. Burn some calo-ries before setting a calorie record on Thursday. The Turkey Day 5k spon-sored by the Rockapulco Running Club begins at 10:30 a.m. on Thanks-giving Day. Runners should go to the Gliders Gym at 11404 Beach Channel to pick up a number between 9:30-10:15 a.m. The race itself starts at Beach 107th and Shore Front.

*****The O’Leary family won free St. John’s basketball tickets simply by letting us know they were interested in getting our giveaways. You can still get on the list. Just email us at [email protected]. This week’s winner is…drum roll… James Goldberg. James, send us your mailing address and 4 tickets will be on the way.

*****Of course, we’ve got a lot of smart kids in Rockaway but then there’s world class smart. Neil Alacha, working on a 4.0 at Harvard, was just named a Rhodes Scholar and will be heading to Oxford. Previously, Neil attended Scholars’ Academy and was named the Spelling Bee champ of New York City back in 2008.

*****Want to avoid the madness of Black Friday? Shop local. More shops and boutiques are open than ever (well, at least since Sandy). And holiday boutiques spring up around here this time of year and you can get a lot of your shopping done at those. On Thursday, December 3 there is a holiday boutique at the Belle Harbor Yacht Club from 6-11 p.m. All sorts of goodies will be available. And On De-cember 12 and 13th the St. Camillus Catholic Academy will hold its Annual Christmas Boutique. Vendors are still sought. You can call 718-634-5260 for more info.

*****Of course, if you’re still looking for stocking stuffers you can order Rock-away Times t-shirts through our web-site RockawayTimes.com. We’re not going to have them at the booth. If you order them by December 12th we should be able to get them to you by Christmas.

*****With all this talk of holiday stuff, we’re reminded that Long Beach has holi-day lights along its beautiful board-walk. The lights are nautical in theme: surfboards and shells and such, but they defi nitely evoke the holiday spir-it. It’d be great to have our boardwalk lit up when it’s done.

*****You might have noticed that we had an item in last week’s High Tide about the Coat Drive St. Francis is conduct-ing. We directed you to Page 30 for more details. Well, the ad never made it there but we double-checked this week and you can fi nd out the details on Page 9.

*****Our neighborhood profi le series have garnered a lot of interest, especially online. A lot of people who moved away write and tell us how much they miss Rockaway and then share some memories of long ago. This week Edgemere gets a look.

*****You know what Rockaway has a lot of? Women entrepreneurs. Quite a few locally owned businesses are run by hard working women. They might be too busy to notice but they are among those leading the Rockaway Renais-sance. We’ll be running a series pro-fi ling these dynamic entrepreneurs who do it solo or as part of a team. We start this week with Claudette Flatow, owner of Cuisine by Claudette.

*****We know Rockaway has the best sun-sets but the rest of the world might not know. That might be changing. Katie McFadden put a 13 second video of Sunday night’s spectacular sunset on our Facebook page that reached more than 225,000 people and was shared more than 1400 times That’s almost as incredible as the sunset itself.

*****Habits are tough. How long before locals stop calling the new Stop And Shop, Waldbaums? Some people combine the name, calling it Wald-baum’s Stop and Shop which distin-guishes it from the Arverne By The Sea store.

*****Most times The Rockaway Times gets scooped up fast. It seems the only time we get leftovers is when we put Mayor de Blasio on the cover. Never again!

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By Katie McFadden

The burnt down portion of Rockaway Beach Boulevard is starting to rise from the ashes. A section of the lot between Beach 113th and 115th, where more than 10 buildings were destroyed by fi re during Hurricane Sandy, is starting to be developed. A wooden fence appeared earlier this week around 113-22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard and construction of a “national va-riety store” began on Tuesday, No-vember 24. The large green fence around the long-abandoned lot sparked some curiosity earlier this week. A work sign posted to the fence says the project will be a “one-story commercial building with 12 off-street accessory parking spaces.” A permit was granted to MNC Gen-eral Contractor Group of Brooklyn on October 8 to construct the proj-ect. The Rockaway Times reached out to the owners, Paramount As-sets based in Elizabeth, New Jersey for more information. “It’s going to be a, 8,500 square-foot retail store. It will be one story and will include state-of-the-art code compliance with all of the post-Sandy hurricane and fl ood-ing requirements. It’s going to be a really interesting building,” Jo-seph Alesso, Director of Devel-opment for Paramount, said. “It will be built to all the new speci-fi cations since Sandy, like an abil-ity to lock the building down, so if there’s a fl ood, there will be fl ood doors anywhere where there are windows or doors. There will also be this really neat feature on the side of the building, including an elevated doorway, so if there are fl oods, people can still get in an out of the building. There’s noth-ing really glamorous about the in-terior of the store but the outside will be kind of cool because of the hurricane-proof elements. We never had to build a building like this before.” The building will also include parking space on the side. The architect behind the struc-ture is Think Design, which comes from another Sandy-impacted area: Staten Island. Alesso said

construction would begin Novem-ber 24, starting with pile driving, and the entire project is expected to be complete sometime in June or July. “We’re hoping for a pre-In-dependence Day Grand Opening,” Alesso said. So what is going take over this brand new space? Alesso simply said a “national variety store,” but he wouldn’t specify which one ex-actly. “We’ll announce the store at a later date,” he said. However, it isn’t hard to guess. In June 2014, a sign was posted on a chain-link fence around the property, which said “Coming Soon-Family Dollar.” Family Dollar, a major national discount retail store, also happens to be one of the roughly 50 clients that Paramount Assets works with, according to its website. If another Family Dollar comes to the space, it will be the third one in Rocka-way, with one located just a little more than a mile away at 86-01 Rockaway Beach Boulevard and another one further east at 1479 Beach Channel Drive. As for the rest of the empty space, there doesn’t seem to be much action taking place. In April 2015, the Rockaway Times pub-lished that the western side of the lot was purchased by local resident, Dino Tomassetti, of the Laquila Group. At the time, To-massetti had said the plan was to develop two three-story mixed-use buildings, which would include 54 family residences, two commercial units and two community-based (medical e.g.) units. Tomasetti added that there would be under-ground parking and the residential units, all rentals, would be built as affordable housing under the 421A tax abatement program. He an-nounced that groundbreaking was scheduled for the fourth quarter, meaning it could still begin before the year ends. In August, Victor Fil-letti of T.F. Cusanelli and Filletti Architects fi led permits to start the project. However, when the Rocka-way Times reached out to Laquila group to ask for any new informa-tion on the plan, we were told that no one there could provide any.

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By Lou Pastina

As I walk the streets of Manhat-tan it has come to my attention that there seems to be more women, by a large factor, than men. Is it me? Or have you noticed this too? Now don’t get me wrong I am not looking for women, I have a mermaid of my own, or rather more aptly, she has me! But as I walk it seems to me that the streets of New York City are teem-ing with women. According to the US Census Bu-reau there are approximately 7.2 bil-lion people in the world. That’s a lot of people. China and India represent about 36 percent of the world’s popu-lation with approximately 2.6 billion combined. Those nations are either Buddhist, Hindu or atheist in case you are wondering. And China, until recently, limited couples to one child. They recently got crazy and have expanded that to two. That policy would knock out half of Rockaway by the way! The United States is the third most populous country in the world, who knew? If you go out west or to Alaska you can literally go hundreds of miles without seeing anyone, but we clock in as a country with over 321 million folks. By the way Russia only accounts for 142 million, so we got them beat right there. We do need to keep an eye on Indonesia though as they are creeping up on us with 256 million. As a state, New York is crawling along in fourth place behind Califor-nia, Texas and Florida. The Census Bureau notes that a person is born every eight seconds and a person dies every 12 seconds, but you would think those statistics don’t hold in Florida, just saying. As a city though we really kick everyone’s butt, as for-mer Mayor Rudy Giuliani was so fond of saying. We have about 8.5 million people living in this city and our clos-est rival is Los Angeles, which isn’t re-ally a city, it’s really just a big circular highway. Chicago tries, but there is a reason they are known as the Second City. Ironically, they are not even sec-ond anymore, but a distant third. Getting back to the women/men thing though, how many times have you heard a friend, a sister, a daugh-ter say that there just aren’t enough available guys to date? I always thought perhaps they were being too picky but maybe they are right. It didn’t seem to be the case when I was dating before being captured by my queen of the sea. It seemed that at every party, club, event I went to, the guys outnumbered the girls by at least 10 to one! And that’s not sepa-rating the pretty ones from the ones with good personalities! The actual world numbers tell a different story however. There are 102 males for every 100 females. But here

is the thing, according to the NYC De-partment of Planning: there are over 400,000 more women in New York than men. That means that New York is comprised of more than 55 percent women. But the numbers are skewed because among the 25 to 29 group there are actually 10 percent more fe-males than males in New York. That’s a big percentage. Why does it matter? Well, maybe some would like to fi nd a soul mate, settle down, start a fam-ily, and sink roots. But it also makes a difference in so many aspects of life such as our economy, who buys what; our se-curity, remember there is strength in numbers; our ability to fund the future. One of the main reasons that Europe was originally anxious to take migrants into their countries de-spite the obvious security risks was because those countries have a zero birth rate and aging populations with few who are coming along to do the work and pay for the social programs necessary to fund the aged. So New York has more women than men. Thank God, that means we are winning. By the way we may very well have a woman President soon, not that I am voting that way. But, England had a terrifi c woman leader in Margaret Thatcher and Ger-many has one of the best in Angela Merkel. We could use more women at the top of our businesses and so-cial and governmental institutions. I look at it like this; the chief mermaid and I had three children. Guess what the distribution is? Two girls and one boy. We told them they could be any-thing they wanted to be when they grew up; just work hard, be honest and live a noble life. It doesn’t mat-ter whether you are a guy or gal, just be a good person and the world will be a better place. Here is hoping that everyone believes that, too. Happy Thanksgiving! We took the train to Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance. With-out the awakening of this age of art and reason, the world would have continued in darkness for ages. The Uffi zi Museum houses some of the fi nest art in the world. The architec-ture of the Duomo is unsurpassed still. I learned that Italy is still a young country, unifi ed in 1861 and formed as a republic since 1946, the boot-like peninsula stands as one today. Even though the country is united now, it still harbors a division between northern and southern Italians. I had no idea that those feelings existed. I also didn’t know that the country has a zero birthrate – hardly seems Ital-ian to me. But I understood better as I learned more. When it was time to come home I realized I had learned so much in just

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delayed, something to think about if you have a connecting fl ight. We made our fl ight, but unfortunately our bags did not. But they arrived back in America safe and sound three days later. If you have never been to Italy I would very much recommend it, re-gardless of whether you are Italian, it will change the way you think. Ciao for now.

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This is the eighth in a series of articles about the neighborhoods of Rockaway. In an effort to profi le these areas we’ve talked to residents and business owners about their little slice of the peninsula. This week is Edgemere. Imagine gondoliers sculling up

Beach 45th Street, ferrying pas-sengers on a romantic trip through a small enclave of the Rockaway peninsula. If Frederick J. Lancast-er had his way, New Venice would have been a tourist attraction for New Yorkers and travelers alike, seeking to get a New World version of the Italian city’s Grand Canal. Instead, Lancaster and his busi-

ness partners set out to build a more conventional—and needless to say cheaper—waterfront resort area, which he christened Edge-mere (meaning “at the sea’s edge”). He built the short-lived Edgemere Hotel, which burned down after a year of operation. It was rebuilt the next season and more lavish estab-lishments popped up on the shore, with permanent residential dwell-ings built north of the ocean. Lancaster operated the hotel and cottages in the neighborhood until 1919. The Parks Department states, “Around 1925, Edgemere began to emerge as the Rocka-ways’ commercial hub.” Edgemere remained a hotbed for develop-ment until 1941, when Robert Moses’ urban planning methods gutted many of the seaside hotels and resorts in favor of a roadway and parking lots. According to a Forgotten New York article, the el-evated Long Island Railroad tracks were constructed in 1942, and fol-lowing a track fi re in 1950, was sold to the New York City Transit Au-thority, which now runs the A train on the tracks. Modern-day Edgemere’s boundaries are roughly from Beach 56th Street to Beach 32nd Street. The south side of the neigh-borhood remains chronically un-developed, with mile-long stretch-es of weeds and dirt occupying the barren land. The boardwalk ran all

through the neighborhood prior to its destruction from Hurricane Sandy, which on most streets here was the only southern semblance of a structure, save for some bill-boards. On the north side of the freeway though are schools, hous-ing projects, community centers, and numerous single and two-family homes. A hotly contested issue in the neighborhood is the potential opening of a La Quinta hotel on Beach 45th Street, which some res-idents worry will become a half-way house or homeless shelter. In October owners said “Majority of construction is complete. We an-ticipate to start the local inspec-tion process soon. This location is projected to open prior to the [year’s] end.” Prior to its closing in 2012 Edgemere was the home of Peninsula Hospital Center, which was founded in 1908 and served the majority of the area’s patients. At the edge of Beach 43rd Street lies some of the most secluded yet scenic views of Jamaica Bay, in-cluding waterfront houses. The neighborhood was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. Roads that were already in bad shape became downright undriveable, and the process to repave them has been slow at best. Walking up and down streets it becomes clear that nu-merous homes have been aban-

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residents via the production and growing and selling of healthy food, and also help with job creation on a very small level,” he said. “I didn’t know the area from any other in Queens. It’s got great light, air, and breezes, which makes it perfect for growing.” Sheehan said that he has found the people of the area to be the biggest attraction for him. “It goes without saying that Rockaway is beautiful with the ocean and the bay. But the people here are re-ally engaged and from all corners of the world and with fascinating stories. They love their neighbor-hood and they want to see posi-tive change and it remains a place where all types can live. They have the same concerns as everybody else, losing their neighborhood to developers.” Seeta Mahadeo moved to Edge-

mere in 2006 after marrying her husband who had been in the area for 20 years prior. “I fell in love with this place. It’s very quiet to me, very peaceful. That’s what I look for in an environment.” Like Helwig, Mahadeo’s house is adja-cent to the bay. “It’s a like a world that you can see, but they can’t see you,” she explained. “You see the airplanes, you see the beautiful birds. The fi sh are right there in the water. It’s a peace of mind that you really cherish.” Another resident, Patrick La-bossiere, has lived in Edgemere since 1973. “It’s changed a lot,” he said of the neighborhood. “Now they’re fi nally doing the roads which is a good thing. It’s getting better as time goes by. The security is better, I think it’s safe over here. It’s a good thing.” Helwig agreed with this sentiment, saying “We used to have an awful lot of gangs and drugs and prostitution at the corner. It’s been a slow process but it seems to have cleaned up now. Things have gotten so much nicer and better since Sandy. It’s becoming much more of a beach town.” Laboissiere commented

that something should be done with the southern end of Edge-mere. “There a lot of vacant spots, especially on the beach. For them to bring back businesses they need to be built on.” Mahadeo is optimistic about the future of Edgemere. “Once the street is complete we can get new neighbors. We just need the peo-ple who are here to keep the place nice and tidy. When you look at the streets people think it’s the slums but you have to fi nd what you’re looking for. I’ve found it here.” We will continue to feature dif-ferent Rockaway neighborhoods in the coming weeks. If you’d like to talk about your neighborhood and what makes it special to you, con-tact the author at [email protected].

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Who runs the peninsula? Women. A large number of local businesses and organizations are owned and operated by females, or female co-owners. And they deserve recognition. As part of an ongoing series, the Rockaway Times will profi le local female entrepreneurs each week. The fi rst in this series is Claudette Flatow, owner and opera-tor of Cuisine by Claudette on Beach 116th Street. “Women have played a vital role in the revitalization of Rockaway. All of the new businesses are being open by women right now,” Yarden Flatow said. And his own mother is just one of several females who have brought something new to the peninsula in re-cent years. Claudette Flatow has always worked for herself. “I’ve never worked for anyone because I am a strong-minded woman. I don’t think I could have any boss,” she said. When she was 22 years old, the professional chef had her own store in France. She eventually moved to the United States and has been a Rockaway resident for more than 20 years. Flatow made her-

self known through her home-based cooking classes for about 14 years and catering service before opening up a shop on Beach 116th Street in March 2012. “I taught cooking classes out of my home for a long time and I felt like the next step was to open my own busi-ness,” Flatow said. She could have opened up her fresh, homemade food shop anywhere, but Rockaway seemed like the right choice. “I live here and I felt obligated to the neigh-borhood. I could be in Brooklyn or any place, but I am very loyal to peo-ple, so it felt right to open in the neigh-borhood I live in.” Starting a business wasn’t easy for Claudette. Her husband helped sup-port her fi nancially, but many told her that she wouldn’t be able to pull it off. “Everybody discouraged me and told me I was making the biggest mistake of my life, but I had this belief that I could educate people about health-ier, fresh food and I had a vision and wanted people to know what fresh-ness tastes like because we don’t have a lot of fresh, healthy food in Rocka-way,” Flatow said. “I faced a lot of bu-reaucracy from the city when open-

ing and the city wanted so much from me before I even got started, which was discouraging, but because I am a woman, I wanted to show that I can do this.” Just seven months after opening, Flatow ran into another unexpected obstacle when Hurricane Sandy hit.

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was a fi nancial challenge, but Flatow was motivated to return. “You have to prove that you’re not a failure. My kids motivated me to continue. I didn’t want to show them that I couldn’t do it,” she said. Flatow offered some advice to young women who may be thinking

about opening their own business. “Just do it. Don’t be afraid. You need to believe in what you’re doing. If you believe in it fully, you need to do it. That’s what I did. I believed that my

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stagram and Twitter. You get the paper delivered to your door and tell us you can’t wait for Thursday. Or you get the paper by email or pick it up at one of our news racks around town and tell us when you can’t fi nd the paper anywhere, that it’s all sold out – though we don’t sell it. You ask us when we’re going to charge for the paper (Never! Not as long as you keep patronizing our advertisers). Our advertisers, many of whom are friends and neighbors, have put their faith in us and in turn, Rockaway. Some don’t need to advertise but they do so because they like to sup-port local businesses themselves. They’ve told us they like the over-all tone of The Rockaway Times and want to be associated with us. That’s pretty great and we thank them deeply. To be sure, sometimes we fail or fall short but because we have so much to be thankful for, we pledge to do better. Thank you all. Happy Thanksgiving.

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No Raise No How !Dear Editor: At a time when most New York-er’s are struggling to put food on the table for their families and to pay the rent, any pay raise for the City Council is unrealistic. A Councilmember makes at least $112,000 a year when most New Yorker’s don’t make anything close to this! When the NYPD gets a raise of 1% to protect the citizens of New York City and the New York City Council is talking about giving themselves a raise……a raise of 71%.....is unrealistic and a ludi-crous idea!!!!

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Down With Mayor’s Plan

Dear Editor: Kudos to the Community Board for rejecting the Mayor’s plan for Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. There’s an old expression, Not In My Backyard; well as one com-munity board member said, “Our backyard is full.” With Rockaway it’s always one step forward two steps back. Land is relatively cheap in Rockaway (compared to other areas of the city) and that will mean it is ripe for a city dump. The mayor’s plan will bring the average median in-come down and that will mean Rockaway will get even more poor and underserved. Enough already. Other community boards will reject the mayor’s plan as well. Watch out Rockaway.

John Morton

No Place Like New Home

Dear Editor: (Regarding the 10/22 article: Brooklyn Transplants) We just cel-ebrated our fi rst year as a trans-plant from Brooklyn. The only re-gret we have is that we didn’t move here sooner. Thanks to the great neighbors for such a warm wel-come. A great community indeed!

John Reinhardt

Praise For MahonDear Editor: (Regarding Pete Mahon’s Be-tween The Bridges column about college students). So glad you said it. And quite well. I was thinking exactly the same how recent events in Paris make the whole university bag of issues irrelevant, relatively mean-ingless when viewed in context of our REAL lives. I think most people see this and realize these self contrived issues are the un-deserved privilege of a pampered overly protected generation. Not to say there aren’t a whole bunch of good kids still out there. Sadly it often takes catastrophic events to center us. The Human Condition.

R. Donnelly

$ For Boat RampDear Editor: There are lots of good ideas for the 2015-16 participatory budget for Rockaway. One idea that may have been overlooked is a small boat ramp. The only public boat ramp available in Rockaway is on Beach Channel Drive and it is in very poor condition. Launching a small boat is chal-lenging enough, why must it be done on a boat ramp with a de-scending “curve” on it ? The park-ing lot is in poor condition since the storm. The park could be de-signed for those anglers who want to fi sh off the pier as well. Rocka-way has a beautiful bay as well as the ocean, it should be celebrated, not shuttered.

Matt Whalen

Disappointed By LNG Vote

Dear Editor, I was reading the article on” LGN long gone.” For starters, “LNG” is not volatile. It is in a liquid form, so it cannot explode. It appears that everyone who was against it, has no engineer-ing back ground, so how did they come to the conclusion that this was going to be bad for the area? It was very frustrating. We all use natural gas for heat-ing and power generation. These silly attempts to make the trans-fer of natural gas diffi cult is only raising the cost and hurting our economy. This could have given

the area better paying jobs and lowered the price of natural for us all. The upsetting thing is all these folks who in the name of saving the environment turn around and use these resources, too. The project was going to be 24 miles off the coast. The Bronx is closer. I applaud some folks for think-ing about the environment, but don’t hurt the majority of people who just want to live their lives.

Marcus Wells

Mahon KnowsDear Editor: (A letter to Peter Mahon who pens the Between the Bridges col-umn): This is a short note to say how much I liked your accurate and timely article “The Barbarians Are at the Gates”. Today’s millennial cupcakes can’t do three pushups, but are quick to whine about perceived grievances. Keep up the good writing!

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The short-story writer O. Henry once said “There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to...Thanksgiving Day...is the one day that is purely American.” Baking soda buns aside, no holiday pos-sesses the American-style values of family, food and fun, quite like Thanksgiving. Potatoes mashed and whole funnel out of the oven and on to waiting plates while the feast’s fowl is sliced and diced. Cranberry sauce and gravy fl ows as generously as the wine and beer. Kids head out in the street to play cowboys and Indians and come inside to watch Cowboys and Red-skins play. Family members fa-miliar and far gather to reminisce about the past year, plans for the upcoming holidays, and if you’re lucky an argument or two about politics. The history of Thanksgiving is well documented, if somewhat shrouded in mythology. In 1621 Pilgrims who survived the daunt-ing Mayfl ower venture celebrated a successful harvest along with members of the Wampanoag tribe in modern-day Plymouth, Massa-chusetts. George Washington pro-claimed the fi rst national Thanks-giving Day on October 3, 1789, not long after offi cial Congressional recommendation for ratifi cation of the most indelible American value, the First Amendment. Fittingly, Thanksgiving as a federal holiday was permanently made into law by the president who most resem-bled a Pilgrim, Abraham Lincoln. With the nation in the grip of the Civil War, Lincoln said “I…invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thurs-day of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our benefi cent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” The holiday is now offi cially celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (which is almost always the last one of the month), a change made in 1941 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Owing to its history as a reli-giously-inspired communal cel-ebration, Thanksgiving is rife with tradition in homes across the country, with Rockaway being no exception. When I was growing up, my brother started the “tradition” of falling asleep after the main course and waking up 45 minutes

later expecting dessert. My moms Allison Lindon and Lisa Fernandez informed me of another tradition that I had since forgotten about—waking up early on Friday morning to eat pie and ice cream for break-fast. “It really started with Lisa. She used to do it as a kid,” Lindon said. “It was usually apple pie, and it was always vanilla ice cream. Lisa and I would always have a little Irish cof-fee [with Bailey’s].” The tradition ended as a result of teenage lazi-ness as me and my brother never wanted to get up early enough to carry it on. “Now I tend to get up at eat leftover mashed potatoes and stuffi ng for breakfast, with Irish coffee, of course,” Lindon said. At Last Stop Gourmet Shop on Beach 116th Street, the restaurant opens briefl y on the holiday form 7 a.m.—1 p.m. to serve a meal those who need it in Rockaway. They have been doing this for nine years. “We don’t want anybody to feel that can’t have a meal on Thanksgiving,” Dawn Lazo, one of the owners, said. Maureen Milazzo works at the eatery and said that she loves working on the holiday, even doing so at previous jobs. “I feel sorry for the people who have their own meals to go to,” she said. “You’ve gotta have a heart this time of year.” Marissa Bernowitz started a Thanksgiving tradition four years ago in the wake of Hurricane San-dy. As part of nonprofi t organiza-tion We Care New York, Bernowitz was holding a communal Thanks-giving at St. Camillus in Novem-ber 2012. “We brought the rest of the food over to the outside my mother’s house on Beach 111th Street and started serving there,” she explained. “We did that until the middle of night.” Since then, Bernowitz and her organization have held two more Thanksgiving dinners on Wednesday nights at PS 183 and the Waterside School, with their fourth annual event sched-uled for Wednesday, November 25 at 5 p.m. at Martin De Porres High School. Bernowitz said she expects about 1,000 people to come. “It brings the community together, not just the people that are hungry. A lot of the donors are local. Every-body brings a dish and then every-one else comes to eat. It brings us together in a time of need. I hon-estly wish I could do this once a week.” The Tubridy family are titans of Broad Channel and consists of one of the largest clans you’ll fi nd in the area. As such, gathering the whole family in just a house for Thanks-giving got increasingly diffi cult as

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The below Thanksgiving Procla-mation by President Abraham Lin-coln was written 152 years ago and yet the words contained therein re-main as powerful today as they were back then. Lincoln’s simple juxta-position of the misery of the ongo-ing Civil War and the “blessings” enjoyed by the citizens of this great nation is one all of us should keep in mind during this coming holiday. “The year that is drawing to-wards its close has been fi lled with the blessings of fruitful fi elds and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraor-dinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military confl ict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fi elds of peaceful industry to the national de-fense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settle-ments, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundant-ly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-fi eld; and the country, rejoicing in the con-sciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large in-crease of freedom. No human coun-

sel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fi t and proper that they should be solemnly, rever-ently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our benefi cent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the as-criptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His ten-der care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or suf-ferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interpo-sition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to re-store it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tran-quility and Union.” In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be af-fi xed. Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-dred and sixty-three, and of the In-dependence of the United States the Eighty-eighth. By the President: Abraham Lin-coln, October 1863 Broad Channel – why would any-one want to live anywhere else?

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said customers have come in and taken part in the dinner and that college friends have participated as well in the past. “We do a tal-ent show—really a lack of talent show—that started out as a gong show. My uncle Mike does a top 10 list every year. Grandma Jane sang old Irish lullabies. Now my kids practice their act in anticipation. It’s a long, nonstop party. Drinks following, plenty of food and ev-erybody’s invited.”


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Councilman Eric Ulrich will hold a participatory budget meeting on Mon-day, November 30 at the Peninsula Library at 7:30 p.m. Through participa-tory budgeting, residents of 27 Council Districts across the City will decide how to spend over $30 million of taxpayer money. Rockaway was one of the fi rst areas in the city where the budget process was fi rst implemented. The meeting will allow for constituents in the Rockaways to propose idea for projects that they feel would benefi t the community. Past winning ideas include a technology lab at PS114, safety mats for the Scholars’ Academy gym, and the way money was spent to improve the remolded Peninsula Library. All members of the public are invited to attend.

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By Rick Horan

This is Part I of a two-part article on State Senator James Sanders’ an-swers to questions on important transportation issues in the Rocka-ways. 1. Select Bus Service (SBS) on Wood-haven Blvd and Cross Bay BlvdAs someone who has taken public transportation for most of my life, I understand how important it is to have fast reliable transportation to get to work, school or a doctor’s appoint-ment. I also know that with congested streets comes the potential for traffi c accidents. While Select Bus Service is an imperfect solution to both these problems, I believe it is a positive step forward, given some logistical changes. SBS can reduce travel times for some people by 90 minutes and that opens up a world of opportunity for those who really need it. In addi-tion to supporting Select Bus Service, I am also in favor of increased subway service. I don’t see this as an either or

solution. RH: But what about the people in cars (2x those in buses according to DOT) whose ride will likely be slower with two less lanes, reduced speed limits and no left-hand turns?JS: These are valid concerns that need to be taken into consideration mov-ing forward.

2. QueensRail (Old Rockaway Beach Line)I think when it comes to transporta-tion solutions that affect an entire community, everyone needs to be on the same page, and I don’t see that happening here. There is a lot of bick-ering when it comes to what should be done with this site, whether it should be brought back as a subway line or turned into a park, and there are good arguments for both ideas. The big question for most people is whether it’s worth the time, effort and money to repair these tracks. After years of neglect the line has decayed, a lot of it is covered by trash and weeds, and

it’s going to take a signifi cant fi nancial investment to make the line active again. I don’t think a resolution is go-ing to be reached any time soon. RH: Everyone’s not on the same page with SBS yet that seems to be going forward. Would a public transporta-tion advocate like yourself at least be in favor of an MTA feasibility study?JS: Absolutely, I am in favor of a study. 3. Vision Zero and 25 MPH City Speed limitVision Zero is a bold plan. I like bold, but so far it has fallen short of reach-ing its goal of zero fatalities, however, that doesn’t mean we should stop try-ing. Forcing motorists to drive slower has the potential to reduce accidents. It gives them precious added seconds to react to pedestrians or obstacles in the road. Decreasing the speed limit even if it’s only by fi ve miles an hour can mean the difference between life and death during a collision. RH: If reducing fatalities to zero would require reducing the speed to 15 miles an hour, would you favor such a change?JS: Who would say no to saving lives? However, reducing the speed limit to 15 miles an hour could cause a whole host of other problems. I think we would have to examine the implica-tions of such a measure before pro-ceeding.

4. Traffi c Calming (removing lanes, etc.)

We live in a fast-paced city, where it always seems like we have too many places to go and not enough time to get there. Under these conditions, we must look to traffi c calming measures to get drivers to slow down and focus on the road instead of their cell phone or their next appointment.In areas where speeding is a problem, the narrowing of wide travel lanes, the implementation of speed humps, and other devices can reduce accidents, but they can only be truly effective when combined with proper engi-neering, community education and police enforcement. RH: I hear what you are saying. It just seems that as our community is grow-ing and there are more cars trying to get to work there should be more roads, not less. 5. The use of Speed Cameras in un-marked School ZonesOf course we need to protect our children, but we can’t play an unfair game of gotcha with unsuspecting motorists. It’s unfair to fi ne drivers for not slowing down in areas that aren’t clearly marked. A better way to re-duce traffi c in these areas would be to post designated speed limit signs, fl ashing lights and other warnings. If these measures didn’t yield results, then I would suggest the use of speed cameras, in combination with warn-ing signs and increased police traffi c

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food was good and I believed in fresh-ness and I wanted to share that with others,” she said. Flatow’s own inspiration came from her mother, who was also a chef. “She was a chef in the government but she mostly worked for herself and did private catering for parties at a time when there were no other female chefs. All of my inspiration comes from my mom,” she said. Flatow says her mother was her fi rst teacher in the art of cuisine, before she went on to culinary school. While she originally comes from France, Flatow incorporates cooking styles from all of her cultural back-grounds including French, Moroccan, Israeli and American. She also picked up a few tips from traveling. “I travel a lot, so I took everything I learned from my travels and used to create food in the best, healthiest way,” she said. Cuisine by Claudette’s has ev-erything from gourmet soups to ar-tisanal grilled cheese sandwiches, various sides, fresh vegetables, tasty

desserts, fresh coffees and juices and meat dishes like chicken cutlets, pork and fi sh, but she says the top, most re-quested items are her turkey burgers. Flatow cares as much about her food as she does about her customer base. “I have the greatest customers in the world. They’re very loyal and we love them. I’m very close with the cus-tomers, because I want to know who I’m working for. I like to know who is eating my food because it pushes me to offer the best of the best,” she said. In addition to offering dine-in cui-sine in the restaurant, delivery and take-out, Flatow continues to offer ca-tering services, which she says is her biggest success. She is also planning to bring back cooking classes. Starting in January, Flatow will offer weekend night classes in the restaurant. Cuisine by Claudette is located at 143 Beach 116th Street. It is open fi ve days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays and 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays. For more info, call 718-945-5511.

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I grew up in a household in which the center of it all was the dinner table. All the preparation that went in to each meal on a daily basis took a lot of time. It was THE important event of the day. My mom joyed in cooking and baking. Indeed, you can taste her heart in everything she makes. Really. There is no doubt in my mind that you can put three different dishes in front of me, made by three different people at exactly the same time with exactly the same ingredients with exactly the same cooking time, etc., and I would be able to taste which one my mother made. Why? Because she cooks and bakes with love that I have known all my life. By nourishing her family with good, healthy food and delicious, decadent (at times) desserts, she shows her love. It is infused in the chopped garlic and diced onions and sautéed escarole and chicken soup and on and on and on. I think a lot of it has to do with being in the moment. Even if we don’t have a lot of time to make a meal, it is the way we do it that counts. If we do it hurriedly and anxiously and without careful at-tention, it tastes different than if we prepare it with attention to what we are doing at that moment and a sense of calm and bright in-

tention. We eat to nourish our bodies so that we may be healthy. The mind and heart-space are connected to the body, so we are also nourishing these facets of the whole being. If someone prepares a meal anx-iously, angrily, hurriedly, thought-lessly, heartlessly – it will not nourish the same way as if it were prepared calmly, happily, without haste, mindfully, heartfully. When you make a meal for your family or friends, imagine your arms reaching around everyone at the table and endow them with your inner heart nourishment. We eat to live and have opportunities every day to make others’ lives better by providing good, healthy food made with love. Give thanks for all that is good in your life and summon peace to our planet. May you be happy, may you be free, may you be grateful for all you have and do not have, may you let go of things that do not serve you, may you have inner peace.

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This Week In HistoryNovember 25Joe Mingino was born.

November 26 Robert Hauck was born.1789 - The fi rst national Thanksgiv-ing Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington.1998 - Tony Blair became the fi rst British prime minister to speak to the Irish parliament.2000 - Katherine Harris certifi ed George W. Bush the winner in Flori-da’s presidential balloting.

November 27Katie Honan was born.Melissa Fallon was born.1973 - Gerald R. Ford was confi rmed by the Senate to become vice presi-dent, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.

November 281990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; John Major took over.

November 29Greg Sullivan was born.1947 - The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.1963 - President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.2001 - Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.

November 301966 - Barbados became indepen-dent of Great Britain.1993 - The Brady Bill, requiring a fi ve-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed.1995 - President Bill Clinton became the fi rst U.S. president to visit North-ern Ireland.

December 1Sean Boyle was born.Brendan Lunny was born.Julia Dionne was born.1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sher-lock Holmes appeared for the fi rst time in print in the story “A Study in Scarlet.”1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Mont-gomery, Ala.1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientifi c pre-serve free from military activity.

December 2Mike Scala was born.Olivia Becker was born.1970 - The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) was established.1982 - Barney B. Clark became the fi rst person to receive an artifi cial heart in a transplant operation.

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I love Thanksgiving because it is a time to take a step back from the distractions in our lives and refl ect on what we are most appre-ciative of. Of course, just like most people would say, the fi rst thing that comes to mind is my beautiful family, especially our newest addi-tion, Gavin James. But something else also stands out. Every year I become more conscious of tak-ing care of my body and making healthy choices for my family. I am thankful that in this crazy world that has forgotten the importance of our food supply, there are still people that care and provide al-ternative options to industrial farming products. I am thankful that Edgemere Farm had faith in me and allowed me to experiment with a CSA. I am thankful that Kev-in gave me the opportunity to write this column, starting conversa-

tions about growing our own food and making choices about what we consume. Lastly, I am thankful that the weather has been so gor-geous this fall! I am still harvesting celery, hot peppers, winter greens and all of my herbs. As I sit at the table this Thanksgiving, like every other day, I will discuss with my daughter where the ingredients of the meal came from. But this day will be different because I will also think about how appreciative I am that we do have access to local, fresh products. Don’t throw your Thanksgiv-ing leftovers out! After you take the meat off of the turkey put the bones in a slow cooker overnight with carrots, celery, onions, fresh herbs and water. In the morning you will have a delicious turkey stock. You can also make pot pies, risotto, even poutine! The possi-bilities are endless.

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Ahhhhhh Thanksgiving, one of few holidays that every American celebrates. Of course we have Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Vet-erans Day, New Year’s Day, but for me the best of them all is Thanksgiv-ing. I mean, it’s the one holiday that we can all give thanks that we are an independent nation because of our veterans and those who gave their lives for freedom and to keep it that way! Then on December 31st we are free to celebrate the old and new year coming in, anyway we darn well please because we are free! For me, from a beach guy/Rocka-way guy and beach activist point of view, I’m probably most thankful that Hurricane Joaquin did not make it to our doorstep. Another thing I’m thankful for is the awesome start to our boardwalk. To see Phase One and Two open on schedule was a great part of seeing our peninsula move

forward. I’m thankful that all the phases of our boardwalk are on or are slightly ahead of schedule. I’m especially thankful for all the amazing people who work tireless-ly to make living on our awesome slice of heaven called the Rockaway peninsula, in the greatest city in the world, in the greatest nation in the world, the best experience anyone can have. From Far Rock to Breezy to Broad Channel, from beach to bay-Thank you to our public servants, our clergy, our educators, our elected offi cials, our civic leaders, local business own-ers, and volunteers who make this little slice of heaven on earth such an amazing place to be! Of course I’d like to give a huge Thanksgiving thanks to Kevin Boyle for giving me this soapbox I call BE-WEEN THE GROINS. God Bless Rockaway! Happy Thanksgiving!

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The nights are starting to get cool-er, so here are a few tips on how keep it a little warmer. If you’re having drafts coming in through the windows and don’t want the ugly look of plastic over the win-dows, try removable caulk (I recom-mend Seal N Peel) if you can’t fi nd it at the local hardware store, try Ama-zon or other online shopping servic-es. With removable caulk be sure to only caulk the outer seams that you’re looking to seal, not the inner ones or you will have trouble open-ing the windows come spring time. Stopping those drafts from around the doors can be just as easy. Drafts from under the bottom of the door are most common. The proper door sweep will help stop those drafts. For doors with a large gap, use a sweep with a larger rubber bottom edge and go to a smaller rubber for small-er gaps. For doors with a tight gap that is still allowing drafts, use a door sweep with a brush-like edge. Don’t forget to add door insulation around the doorframe if needed. Through-the-wall air conditioners are very well known for drafts. Using

a thin Styrofoam board, fi ll any large gaps around the sides of the A/C, also tape or caulk as needed. You can also reduce the drafts by placing a sheet of Styrofoam over the face of the A/C and then cover it with plastic and tape it into place (including all edges that may allow air to leak). For drafts where pipes run under sinks or through walls, remember “Great Stuff” is great stuff. Great Stuff is a foam insulation. Do not spray too much in holes as it will expand. Great Stuff requires water (or dampness) to fully cure, so when using it in a very dry space, mist it using water and a spray bottle for best results. You can cut any excess away using a small handsaw or a blade from a hacksaw (be sure to use gloves so you do not to cut yourself). Remember, Great Stuff is permanent, so do not use it in areas where you will want it removed later (use the removable caulk for those areas). Keep warm and have a happy and safe holiday season! Tell me what you would like to read about in future DI-Yer articles, email me at [email protected]

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Here’s a family favorite (my daughter Skylar who is a vegan came up with): an alternative salad perfect for Thanksgiving, because it sits well for hours. It is always a big hit.

Kale Lovers Autumn Salad: 1 large bunch of kale, washed, stems removed & torn to small pieces; 1 acorn squash- peeled, seeded & cut into 1 inch cubes; 1 pomegranate - cut in quarters -removed from skin olive oil & bal-samic glaze

Hints & shortcuts: First Roast acorn squash (you can buy this pre-cut to save time) in toaster oven( spray pan lightly with cooking spray) 20 minutes @ 350. Once done broil for 3-5 min-utes & set aside to cool. If you want to make your own balsamic glaze- place 2-3 cups balsamic vinegar on stove in small pot & bring to al-most boiling & reduce to very low simmer, let simmer for almost an hour to reduce, stir occasionally & set aside to cool. Pour the extra into a container & refrigerate after

used for this salad. Place kale in large salad bowl & add 1/4 cup good olive oil. Mas-sage the kale a minimum of 5 min-utes (like kneading bread), making sure it gets coated well , add more olive oil if necessary. The longer you massage , the more tender it will become. set aside. The most tedious part of this job is the pomegranate, you can also save time and buy a container already. To do this yourself: over a bowl of water carefully peel & discard skin/interior membranes from around the juicy seeds. Let the seeds fall into the bowl of wa-ter. Remove any questionable looking seeds & discard. Once you have done the whole fruit drain in colander. Toss the three main ingredients with about 1/2 cup of balsamic glaze & add more olive oil if neces-sary. There should be not dressing on bottom of bowl, it should stick to the kale. You can make this two hours be-fore serving. Also for your vegetar-ian cooks out there... here’s a great resource. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

A zesty mix of asparagus (or whatever vegetable you choose) and herbs makes an easy delicious dinner. You can also substitute salmon. Use either fresh thyme or dry instead of Italian seasoning.Ingredients:4 thin chicken cutlets2 tablespoons butter2 tablespoons olive oil2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juiceZest of one lemon1 tablespoon Italian herbsSalt and Pepper to tastePreparation:Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut 4 sheets of aluminum foil about 14-inches long. Divide the aspara-

gus into 4 equal portions. Place as-paragus in the center of the foil. In a small bowl mix the butter, olive oil, mustard, lemon juice, Italian herbs and lemon zest. Drizzle ½ mixture over the asparagus. Sea-son chicken with salt and pepper. Place the chicken over the aspara-gus. Add slices of lemon to chick-en. Drizzle remaining liquid. Wrap sides of foil inward over chicken then fold in top and bottom of foil to enclose. Place foil pouches in a single payer on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until chicken is cooked through, roughly 40 min-utes. Unwrap and serve warm. Make couscous or rice. Enjoy!

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6. Rockaway Ferry – How can we pre-vent this from being a political foot-ball?This is not a game. This is a major issue that affects our everyday lives. Yes, we know the mayor has prom-ised that the East River Ferry will have a stop in the Rockaways in 2017, but that’s too far away. Residents here de-serve equal access to transportation,

now. We are tired of it taking forever for us to get where we need to go. RH: Agreed, yet it seems that most changes to our infrastructure and laws are designed to slow us down.

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One of the unexpected benefi ts I have encountered from losing 70 pounds are the emotional differenc-es one feels when clothes shopping. I recently realized that when I was a Fat Man, I walked into a store and instead of shopping by style or color, I headed for the large size rack. I was buying clothing by size. If they had my size, there was a good chance I would buy it. That’s what happens when you wear size 4XL and size 56 pants. Of course blimps can shop in a Fat Man’s shop but that’s a whole other experience that I’ll talk about later. BTW, how come there are shops called “ Big And Tall Men” or The Casual Male? The Casual Male? As if a large man spends all his time lounging around, watching sports and snacking!

Why are there are no stores named “Fat Woman Emporium?” The ladies shops hide their explicit purpose with names like Lane Bry-ant with descriptions like “for FULL fi gured women” or “plus sizes.” Does that mean that if you’re not a chubby lady you are bordering on an EMPTY fi gure or a wear a “minus size?” Forget trying to buy anything fashionable. I am certain that the most common complaint from larger ladies and gentlemen is that plus-size outfi ts tend to be dowdy and frumpy with acres and acres of polyester. For some reason design-ers think larger people want to dress like their grandparents. Hey, I’m a grandparent and I want to dress like a millennial! It can be humiliating walking into a plus-size section of a store. You feel

like everyone is looking and judg-ing, so you work your way through the normal size section while sidling towards plus-size land. Worse still is walking directly into a plus-size store. First of all, the cutesy names — like Figuresque and Torrid — are enough to make you gag. Secondly, the clothes on win-dow mannequins are all pulled back tight with clamps so the fashions don’t look as large. The message that sends is just appalling! Also, fat clothes cost more! They use much more fabric and baggy costs money!! There is NOTHING to buy for fat men in The Gap or Lucky Jeans or Old Navy. Don’t even walk into Abercrombie & Fitch. Pictures of young, skinny men are plastered throughout the store and you can’t help but feel people staring at you

wondering, “What is this big guy do-ing here?” But now I can walk into a lot of stores that I could not shop in be-fore. In fact I bought a great Doors - Riders on The Storm t-shirt a few days ago on Lincoln Road in South Beach, where ALL clothing stores seem to be off limits for Chubolas! So... What all you skinnies have taken for granted all your lives has become an enlightening and joyful experience for me. Another unex-pected perk of healthy living! And on this special holiday, I leave you with this thought: May your stuffi ng be tasty, May your turkey be plump, May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs!

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Neil O’Connor, formerly of Beach 127th St. and long-time resident of Ft. Lauderdale, FL turned 90 years old on November 11, 2015. It is appropriate that his birthday falls on Veteran’s Day as he served in both WWII and Korea! Pictured is Neil celebrating the historic event with friends and family, in a Rockaway Times tee shirt of course! Meanwhile Joe Keenan was also in Florida and found a chair and shirt that fi t him just right.

On Friday, November 20, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for an affordable housing project on Beach 44th Street called Beach Green North. The apartment building will be the largest Passive House multi-family building in the country. The high performance apartment building will be affordable to very low-, low-, and moderate-income households with smart resilient features to ensure the safety of residents during storm events in the Far Rockaway community. Beach Green North is just one part of Mayor de Blasio’s affordable housing plan across New York City. The entire development, which costs $32.5 million will

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BY HOWARD BARBANEL (ED NOTE: With a long weekend for many, what better time to offer a movie review.) According to the writers of the lat-est (and 24th) James Bond fl ick, the greatest threat to civilization right now is the centralized control of in-telligence, data and undue intrusive digital surveillance by the criminal geniuses at that nefarious crimi-nal cartel that goes by the name of “SPECTRE.” Back in the good old days, Agent 007 was sent to save the world from nuclear blackmail, errant satellites, cornering the gold market and so on. In 2015 we’re treated to a crusade to rid the world of super computers and spy cameras. If that comes across as sounding slightly less than scintillating, that’s the point. Spectre opens in bravura Bond style with an intriguing locale, pow-erful pyrotechnics, astonishing hero-ism and awesome effects. Unfor-tunately, after the fi rst half hour the movie becomes dark and dour and plods on for a total of two and a half hours which must set a running time record for the Bond franchise, which is not a good thing. The climax of the movie, when it fi nally arrives is really

an anti-climax because the very best part of the fi lm was in the beginning. Daniel Craig is a superb James Bond, probably the best since Sean Connery. Craig gives 110 percent to everything he does in the fi lm. Also very good is Ralph Fiennes as the new “M,” the head of Britain’s MI-6 “Double-O” spy service, replacing Judi Dench in the role. The movie’s shortcomings don’t lie with Craig or Fiennes, it lies with the story, the writing and the directing. The writers conducted an archeo-logical dig to unearth SPECTRE, fi rst introduced in 1962’s Dr. No. SPEC-TRE is an acronym for “Special Ex-ecutive for Counter-intelligence, Ter-rorism, Revenge and Extortion,” lead by the scar-faced Ernst Stavro Blofeld (played by Christoph Waltz). View-ers are tasked with accepting essen-tially a reboot or alternate introduc-tion of SPECTRE in 2015 as if no one had ever seen any Bond fi lms from the 60s or 70s, which is a mighty big stretch. The producers may be think-ing about young people and future generations with the SPECTRE re-boot but for veterans nothing about 2015’s SPECTRE seems as menacing as prior iterations. I couldn’t shake fl ashbacks to the Austin Powers fi lms (major Bond

parodies) and Mike Meyer’s “Dr. Evil.” One scene in particular comes to the fore – Seth Green playing Dr. Evil’s son Scott confronts his dad about the idiocy of giving Austin Powers a tour of the facilities, explaining the mas-ter plan and keeping him alive. Scott wants to just put a bullet in him. Dr. Evil won’t hear of it. In Spectre, Blofeld proffers Cham-pagne, shows off his impressive se-cret lair constructed inside a crater in the Tunisian desert and despite thousands of bad guys at his disposal manages to be defeated in a mat-ter of minutes by a small explosive hidden in Bond’s watch and a few well aimed shots from a machine gun at some kind of a gas line. It’s like the producers just phoned it in. It seems like something right out of Austin Powers. A parody of a parody. It should be noted that this is not the end of the fi lm, it goes on for another

20-plus minutes. The “Bond Girls” in this fi lm, Monica Bellucci as a not so griev-ing widow of a top SPECTRE leader (who succumbs to Bond’s charms in nanoseconds and spills everything) and Léa Seydoux as the main female heroine (of course she’s a doctor), while competent brings no frisson to the fi lm. Nothing is shaken or stirred. Neither of these comely ladies pos-sess the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring looks of many a prior Bond babe. These two seem kind of real, which is not why guys go to Bond movies. Spectre is worth seeing, but on your home fl at screen for no more than $4.95. Die-hard Bond fans will like it but it could have been vastly improved by cutting 30 to 40 min-utes. The fi lm gets a “B” rating be-cause of Craig, the cinematography, the sets and the special effects.

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Saturday, November 28,

11 a.m. to1 p.m.

DOG PARKRockaway Freeway Dog Park

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Sunday, November 29,

9 a.m.

St. Francis de Sales ChurchHelp support the local cub and

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Sunday. November 29,

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Studio 6 Gallery Fort TildenSee the RAA’s last exhibit of the year featuring the best from its

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Monday, November 30,

2 p.m. to5 p.m.

Rockaway YMCA207 Beach 73rd St

Project Restoration aims to understand the long-term

mental health impact of Sandy on adults and link people to

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Tuesday, December 1,

5:30 p.m.

LIGHTINGBCAC Memorial Field

Treats, Santa, vocal and dance performances.


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VFW Hall Broad Channel 713 Shad Creek Road

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Thursday, December 3,

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Saturday, December 5,

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Wednesday, December 9, 9:30 a.m. to

3 p.m.St. John’s Hospital

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Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

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On Saturday, December 27, two EMT’s from FDNY EMS station 47 responded to a call over the radio of a baby that wasn’t breathing. EMTs Ian D’Souza and Chayim Spiegel retrieved a three-month old baby girl from a property near Beach 71st Street on Beach Chan-nel Drive. The EMTs provided assisted ven-tilation to the infant and took her to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital. According to a statement from St. John’s, the child was brought to the Emergency Department “due to cessation of breathing. At the ED, she was stabilized and treated until her oxygen levels rose from 78 percent to full functioning 100

percent. Once she was fully sta-bilized she was referred to Cohen Children’s Hospital where the pa-tient is known to them.”

Thursday, January 1

NEW YEAR’S DAY WALK

Meet at Bldg. 1 in Fort Tilden for brisk walk along the beach. Enjoy champagne , coffee & cake after at RAA building. Call 718-474-0896 or

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11:00 a.m.

NEW YEAR’S DAY PLUNGE

Various , including Beach 119th, 126th, 146th Streets, Noon

Wednesday, January 7

PUBLIC HEARING ON PORT AMBROSE

LNG PROJECTJFK Hilton

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CDBG ACTION PLAN PUBLIC HEARINGBeach Channel High School

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PARKS AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

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Knights of Columbus, 333 Beach 90th Street

Discuss local crime with commanding officers of 100 and 101 precinct

Discuss closing beach or limit swimming between Beach 9th and Beach 20th

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Another fantastic surf con-test in the bag! There was a great turnout of competing surfers and also spectators for this year’s NYC Longboard Challenge, however, because of the scatter brained surf forecast by so many report-ing agencies, a few surfers were no-shows thinking the waves just wouldn’t be there, but there they were. The surf started off clean with offshore winds and 1-2’ easterly swells, then started picking up a bit when the wind turned more east and the temperature dropped, giving surfers a variety of condi-tions to perform in. And while the turnout was bigger than last year, it was more important that there were many fresh new faces signing up. There were many standouts throughout the event, one of which I was super proud to witness. While Mia Naim in the U14 divi-sion is new to the sport, and pos-sibly knowing she wasn’t going to win, she still plugged away catch-ing as many white wash waves as

she could with a tremendous fi ght-ing spirit. A true pro to come! There were some great contest rivalries being created as well. Poor Bridget Klapinski didn’t think she was going to compete due to prior commitments out of state, how-ever a little shuffl e of heats got her into the Women’s Final where took a courageous second place behind out-of-towner Kim Romagnesi from Long Beach. Same results as last year, but this year there was

less than a point between them. Ashley Wood surfed fantastic as well and came in third. The men’s event saw a ton of action through at least 10 heats to get the fi nal six, with all man-ner of different styles, a tough call for the judges to separate them. Some guys went for the consistent smaller waves, while some others braved and waited for the infre-quent set waves, however, those guys that did wait were rewarded with exceptionally long rides. Jer-emy Jones was a standout doing such a thing and nabbed 3rd place overall. Mar Cubillos from Colombia via Santa Cruz and now Brooklyn is one of the new faces to Rocka-way who brought some great style, as did Paul Schmidt, with his local

board brand “Paul Surf.” Mar end-ed up getting second picking off the insiders as did repeat winner, 18-year-old Brandon Gardener, who literally surfed circles around me. Using the rip to his advantage, he would catch a wave and be back out catching another one be-fore 51-year-old yours truly could be back in position to get the next one… sucks getting old! The awards ceremony and pre-sentations were held at Uma’s right after the contest and all win-ners got some fantastic swag. Such a great vibe overall and so many people stoked on the event and looking forward to more of these by the Rockaway Beach Surfer’s Association. And lastly, personally I’d like to give thanks to all the contestants that come out to these contests, the families who support the surf-ers and all the people involved. We are growing at a steady pace, but more importantly, we are add-ing such a wonderful positive vibe to our community, which in turn puts beautiful smiles on the faces.

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Men’s - Brandon Gardener

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On November 14th under the lights at Randall’s Island, Rocka-way Rugby Club fought their way to a 31-17 victory over Brooklyn Rugby Club to win fi rst place in the NYC D3 Division, capping off a 9-1 season. With the lights of the Manhat-tan skyline glowing along the ho-rizon, and a cold wind blowing in across the dark churning waters of the East River, the Fisheads took the fi eld to face off against their crosstown division rivals, who had handed Rockaway their sole loss of the season a month earlier. With matching records of 8-1, and the division title hanging in the bal-ance, both squads came to the pitch determined to prove once and for all who ruled the roost. Brooklyn made their presence felt early. After a hard-fought drive into Rockaway territory within the fi rst fi ve minutes of play, Brook-lyn scored the opening try, though they were unable to make the con-version kick. To add to Rockaway’s troubles, key players- forward, James Dougherty, and inside cen-ter, Pete Amabile, were forced to

leave the fi eld with concussions after a bone-crushing collision with a Brooklyn ball carrier and his support players during their down-fi eld advance. Rockaway, however, refused to allow the unfortunate opening minutes to dampen their spirits, and with the help of reserves off the bench, launched a tenacious counter-attack. After pushing Brooklyn deep within their own territory, Rockaway’s dogged de-fense resulted in a fumbled pass between the Brooklyn scrum-half and fl y-half. The loose ball was recovered by forward, Ciaran O’Hara, who quickly spun it out to wing, Andrew Simpson, who was able to bring it home into the

Brooklyn try-zone. Fly-half Tom Gaynor converted the try with a sharp kick through the uprights, giving Rockaway the lead, which they would hold onto for the re-mainder of the match. A vicious Brooklyn counterat-tack in the second half led by their forwards was matched by Rocka-way’s pack. A series of particularly brutal crashes near the sideline evoked audible gasps from specta-tors. Injuries continued to mount for Rockaway, including a partially torn hamstring and broken hand for outside center Joe Wolfer, inju-ries he would dutifully ignore until the game had ended, and a shat-tered nose for loose-head prop Mike Falatyn that would make Quentin Tarantino queasy. Rockaway’s reserve players continued to prove their worth by fi lling in the ranks of the fallen Fisheads. Scores by fl y-half Tom

Gaynor, 8-man Brendan Murphy, fl anker Rob Tobin, lock Grouch McCann and fullback Max Dolenk would help seal Brooklyn’s fate and propel Rockaway to their fi nal vic-tory and a top seed in the upcom-ing league playoffs this Spring, where the boys from Brooklyn will also be advancing, and no doubt, seeking revenge. Overheard On The Sideline this Season: “I need game fees.” “I didn’t know Shaggy’s left arm had two elbows.” “Why would Dougie have his wedding during the sea-son; on game day; during game time?” “Our Kiwi breaks leg dur-ing garbage time? Great, thanks Coach” “Did our Wing just throw up green fruity pebbles or green coco puffs?” “Where’s Tim Kelly, did he quit again?” “Kevin, you gotta fl ip the freakin burgers and roll the hot dogs.” “Gotham doesn’t want to reschedule and watch the World Cup Rugby Championship LIVE, like real men!?” “That’s really Mike’s nose!” “One Wedding = Only Loss, great.” Why don’t we win Line Outs anymore?” “Hold the date: January 23rd.The 16th Annual Bob Johnson Appreciation Din-ner & Dance. Game fees, people!” “I can’t believe the best player on the fi eld is a guy we just met at the Beach 116th Subway station an hour ago.? Tracy, can we rent the basement for one more year?… please!”

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