harrison review 11-6-2015

November 6, 2015 | Vol. 3, Number 43 | www.harrisonreview.com

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In syncOn Nov. 2, the Harrison Huskies advanced to the Class A semifinals after defeating Ursuline. For story, see page 15. Photo/Bobby Begun

2 • The hARRISON RevIew • November 6, 2015

Sunday Monday TueSday WedneSday ThurSday Friday SaTurday

1Daylight Savings ends

Turn your clocks back one hour

2 3Election Day,

schools and offices closed

Superintendent’s Conference Day

4PTA meeting for HHS, LMK

7:30 p.m., HHS

5SAT I & II

registration deadline

PT Council meeting9:30 a.m., PRE

Multicultural Night6:30 p.m., HAS

PTA meeting7 p.m., PRE

Town/Village board meeting

7:30 p.m., Municipal building

6ACT registration deadline

7SAT I & II Test

8 9Varsity, JV and Freshman

Winter Sports begin

Picture Retake DayLMK

10Architectural Review Board

meeting7:30 p.m., Municipal building

11Veterans Day,


Zoning Board meeting8 p.m., Municipal building

12Fun Night

6 p.m., PUR

Family Literacy Night6:30 p.m., PRE

13First quarter marking

period endsHHS, LMK

PTA meeting9 a.m., HAS

PTA Family Movie Night6 p.m., HAS

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15 16College Financial

Aid Night7 p.m., HHS

17Picture Retake Day

HAS

Prospective IB Diploma Candidate Night

7 p.m., HHS

PTA meeting7 p.m., PAR

Planning Board meeting7:30 p.m., Municipal building

18PTA meeting

9:15 a.m., PUR

Town/Village board meeting

7:30 p.m., Municipal building

Board of Education meeting

8:15 p.m., LMK

19K-2 Fun Night

6 p.m., PUR

Interfaith Night7:30 p.m.

20ACT late registration

deadline

Picture Retake DayPRE

Grade 2 Native American Day

HAS

Fall Drama7 p.m., HHS

21Fall Drama7 p.m., HHS

22Fall Drama2 p.m., HHS

23SAT I & II late registration

deadline

Modified Ice Hockey begins

Senior Portraits2:30 p.m., HHS

Musical Workshop3 p.m., HHS

Transition to College 7 p.m., HHS

24Musical Workshop

3 p.m., HHS

Grade 8 Winter Concert7:15 p.m., LMK

25Alumni Day10 a.m., HHS

26Thanksgiving,


27Thanksgiving recess,

schools closed

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29 30Modified Winter

Sports begin

Kids Go ShoppingPRE

Renaissance Festival7 p.m., HHS

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Sigma Alpha Mu unwelcome at SUNY Purchase By JAmeS PeRO

Staff Writer

Purchase College has never been known for its Greek life; primarily because, unlike most other universities, it’s never had any.

But for the first time in the SUNY school’s history, a group of students is actively sowing the seeds of what they hope could be the college’s first-ever school recognized fraternity; Sigma Alpha Mu, otherwise known as “Sammies.”

Ari Vizzo, 19, a sophomore studio composition major at Pur-chase, as well as the currently un-recognized fraternity’s treasurer is—with his 14 fraternity broth-ers—intent on bringing Greek life to the school in an official capacity; even if most members of the student body don’t want them there.

“A lot of kids aren’t in support of us being here,” Vizzo said.

Since its inception, Purchase College has never been espe-cially welcoming to fraternities and sororities. Founded in 1967 as a bastion for the visual, per-forming and liberal arts, its goal was to foster an environment in which all cultural identities could flourish.

According to Ernie Palmieri, vice president of student affairs at Purchase, neither fraternities nor sororities were a part of that vision.

“Since the inception of the college in the late 1960s, the founding administration at the time did not want fraternities or sororities to be part of Purchase College’s campus culture,” he said. “This in part was due to the problems experienced at other college campuses around the country with Greek organiza-tions during this time period.”

Now, he said, keeping in tra-dition with the original found-ers of the school, Purchase Col-lege plans to continue the same policy.

“The following administra-tions since the college’s found-ing have maintained this policy to the present day,” he said in a prepared statement.

In addition to Purchase’s long tradition of eschewing fraterni-ties and sororities, official school policy states that no group or organization can discriminate based on gender, religion, or any other variety of factors, mak-

ing fraternities like Sigma Al-pha Mu—which requires that its members identify as male—much more difficult to gain rec-ognition at Purchase compared to other universities.

According to Vizzo, despite the obvious appeal to being recognized by the university—school funding and resources chief among them—he said he would like the non-discrimina-tion provision of recognized or-ganizations to stay.

“While [school recognition] would be amazing…I don’t want that discrimination policy to be changed,” he said, noting that changing such a rule could open the door for gender-based and other forms of discrimination.

Still, such obstacles haven’t stopped the group of 14 students from pushing forward to legiti-mize their fraternity’s colony at the school. According to Vizzo, the brothers hope that soon their fraternity will become chartered with Sigma Alpha Mu’s national organization.

“We’re a colony,” Vizzo ex-plained, noting that such a dis-tinction is the official first step towards a legitimate fraternity. “They let you run things as if you are a chapter until we prove we can handle things on our own.”

Since word of Sigma Alpha Mu’s presence on campus has spread, a significant portion of Purchase’s student body has ral-lied to prevent the fraternity’s foray into campus life. Accord-ing to, Cassidy Hammond, a junior anthropology major at the college and president of FORTH, the school-sanctioned feminist club, the sentiments from students have been far from welcoming.

“There’s a large group of the population that says ‘No,

we don’t want [a fraternity],’” Hammond said. “A lot of people come up to me and are like…‘I think it’s really dangerous.’”

According to Hammond, much of the student body’s con-cern has centered on the issue of safety, which critics of the fra-ternity say could be jeopardized by bringing an institution like Sigma Alpha Mu to the campus.

While rattling off disconcert-ing statistics about sexual as-sault, hazing, in addition to drug and alcohol abuse, Hammond explained that fraternities can bring a myriad of problems to campus life.

“I don’t think of them as in-herently dangerous people,” said Hammond referring to the members of Sigma Alpha Mu. “I think the institution [of fraterni-ties] is really dangerous.”

Though the unrecognized fra-ternity is still somewhat new to the campus, Hammond said that discussions between members of FORTH and Sigma Alpha Mu have already occasionally turned into full-blown confrontations.

During a meeting held by FORTH in which members were invited to discuss their senti-ments about a fraternity coming to the college’s campus, Ham-mond said members of Sigma Alpha Mu made an unexpected appearance that turned conten-tious quickly.

“It got pretty intense,” she said, adding that the meeting digressed into an argument be-tween about 10 fraternity mem-bers and 15 FORTH members after concerns over the fraternity were voiced.

Vizzo stated that similar con-frontations have erupted when members of the fraternity were approached by students while playing music on campus.

Whether or not Sigma Alpha Mu will go on to become of-ficially recognized is still very much in the air according to Vizzo, who cites the student body’s backlash and many ad-ministrative boundaries as major obstacles.

This, however, won’t stop him and his brothers from pushing forward with the idea.

“The end goal is not really official university recognition,” said Vizzo. “It would be more the student body wanting to work with us and join us.”

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What’s going on...and the county-wide initiative is being launched with assistance and support from the University of Fashion. The teacher, Kate Perri, has taught sew-ing and quilting for more than twenty years. The class is limited to the first ten people to arrive. For more information, call 835-0324.

Millennium Book Club The book club will discuss “The Art of Hearing

Heartbeats” by Jan-Phillip Sendker on Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Friends of the Library headquarters for this month’s meeting only, located at 19 Second St. in Harrison. A poi-gnant and inspirational love story set in Burma, “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats” spans the de-cades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Bur-mese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience and passion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

‘La Boheme’: opera in the afternoonThe library will screen Puccini’s classic opera “La

Boheme” on Friday, Nov. 13 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This opera screening series is meant to commemorate the 175th birthday of Tchaikovsky in 2015.

The $100 ChallengeOn World Kindness Day, Friday, Nov. 13 from

3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., teen teams of two will give away $100 in cash or items to make someone else’s life better. For more information or to participate in this community service event, call 835-0324.

Harrison Recreation

Download brochures and applications for all recreation programs, un-less stated otherwise, at harrison-ny.gov/recre-ation. Also see the current application page for in-formation and forms. For more information, ques-tions, suggestions and/or comments, email [email protected].

You can also call the Leo Mintzer Center at 949-5265, the Sollazzo Center at 670-3179 or the Harrison Recreation Hotline at 670-3039.

Please be aware that parents must have a current 2015 ID card to register children for all programs. Please be prepared to show proof of residency to obtain ID card: a current utility bill and driver’s license for adults, a school report card or progress report for children.

Youth basketball leagueRecreation basketball, all players welcome.

Open to boys and girls third grade through high school. Games are played on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Registration is ongoing with a deadline of Saturday, Nov. 14. All applications re-ceived after that date will be put on a waitlist and

former model and muse, Patricia, in the Norfolk farmhouse where she lives and works with her ar-chaeologist husband Nick, a man she married in order to remain in England when her student visa expired. The play unfolds exploring issues of iden-tity, home, and the place of art in our society.

Languages at the library: RussianThis 10-week-long introductory series will con-

tinue on Monday, Nov. 9 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The class will emphasize pronunciation, vocabu-lary building, basic grammar and conversation. The class is open to students with little to no back-ground in the Russian language. For more infor-mation or to register for the class, call 835-0324.

Meditation: a spiritual solutionDuring this interactive program held on Mon-

day, Nov. 9 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Jim Rose, M.Ed from Rutgers University, will engage par-ticipants through a series of exercises designed to show how meditation can be a powerful tool for dealing with stress, anger and conflict.

Teens on machinesThe second session in this three-part sewing

workshop will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. This program, suitable for children grades nine to 12, is made possible by Westchester Library System’s new initiative, Un-limited Possibilities mini-grants, funded by Con Edison, Entergy, and the H.W. Wilson Foundation. Fashion, design, and technology are incorporated

Harrison Public Library there will be a $15 fee applied. Fee is $65 made payable to Town/Village of Harrison.

Swim lessons starting in DecemberRegister now for your child to learn how to swim

on Saturday mornings starting Dec. 12 in seven, 50-minute sessions. Participants register according to grade—kindergarten and first; second and third; and fourth and fifth. The location will be the Louis M. Klein Middle School Pool. Fee is $100 made payable to Town/Village of Harrison. Enrollment is limited to 20 kids per age group and applications will not be accepted until Monday, Nov. 9. Regis-tration will end once maximum number is reached.

Indoor soccer league open houseOn Saturday, Nov. 7. Happy Feet and Future

Legends indoor winter soccer league will have an open house and free trial classes at the Sollazzo Center. At 9:15 a.m. for age 2; 9:45 a.m. for ages 3, 4 and 5; 10:30 a.m. for kindergarten; and 11:30 a.m. for grades one and two.

RSVP to [email protected]. Include your child’s name and age. For more information and registration forms, email [email protected], call 401-1720, or visit the Harrison Rec-reation Department website.

Fordham University WestchesterThe Healthcare Workshop Series

Fordman University’s Healthcare Workshop Series presents their next class, Healthcare Infor-mation Systems and Data Security on Tuesdays, Nov. 10 and Nov. 17 from 7 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. This workshop will enable participants to gain an in-troductory knowledge of technology-based meth-ods used for vital functions in various aspects of the healthcare delivery system. Participants will also gain a working knowledge of the cyberspace landscape and some insight into emerging global and local cyber threats. For more information or to register for the workshop, call 367-3301 or email [email protected].

Purchase CollegeMunich Symphony Orchestra

The Munich Symphony Orchestra will per-form a concert on Friday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. The concert will be conducted by Philippe Entremont and will feature Pepe Romero as a guitar soloist and The Romeros as a guitar quartet. Ticket prices range from $50 to $95 per person. For more infor-mation or to purchase tickets, call 251-6200.

Opera At The Cinema: ‘AIDA’This film screening of the classic opera “AIDA”

will take place on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. in The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. The version shown was performed by Teatro Alla Scala di Milano, is sung in Italian and was recorded in February 2015.

Languages at the library: SpanishThis 10-week-long introductory series about the

Spanish language will continue on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The class will em-phasize pronunciation, vocabulary building, basic grammar and conversation. The class is open to students with little to no background in the Span-ish language. For more information or to register for the class, call 835-0324.

‘Sight Unseen’“Sight Unseen,” a play by Donald Margu-

lies, will be performed on Sunday, Nov. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The play centers around Brooklyn-born Jonathan Waxman who has become a very wealthy, critically acclaimed artist. Happily mar-ried, with a baby on the way, he travels to Lon-don for a retrospective of his work. While there, he decides to journey to the countryside to visit his

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John Stossel offers other side at Purchase College By JAmeS PeRO

Staff Writer

At this point in his career, John Stossel is accustomed to speaking to diverse audiences.

Having transitioned from a lengthy stint as a correspondent on ABC’s “20/20” with Barbara Walters to a career in political punditry at Fox News Business, Stossel, 68, has catered to a wide

ing various trends, particularly ones which he believed showed the inefficiency of the American government.

On the topic of Occupational Safety and Environmental Asso-ciation regulations, which have been touted by many as a major step toward important workplace safety standards, Stossel showed an unattributed graph depicting decreasing workplace fatalities following the creation of OSEA.

Then in the next unattributed graph, which depicted a trend of decreasing workplace fatalities decades preceding OSEA’s cre-ation, Stossel argued that OSEA has had little impact.

“Government is like some-body who jumps in front of a pa-rade and says ‘I lead the parade,” Stossel said. “But they didn’t.”

Not all of his graphs were well received, however; particularly one that depicted the growth of government over time. In the middle of his point, a student in-

terjected, adding that the bulk of government spending can likely be attributed to military growth.

“Do you believe in the army?... Because a lot of that is military spending,” the student said.

Though much of the night centered on political ideology, Stossel—who is originally from Chicago—would touch briefly on a few of the more personal aspects of his career, namely his transition from “20/20” with Barbara Walters where he won an impressive 19 Emmy Awards, to his recent tenure at Fox News.

“I started to criticize the cor-rosive government and suddenly my life in television changed,” Stossel said. “I’m no longer so popular; I’m no longer win-ning Emmy Awards. Someone came up to me on the street in New York and said ‘Are you John Stossel?’ Yes. ‘I hope you die soon.’”

Stossel chalks the reaction up to a perception of him that has been formulated after taking his current role at Fox News.

“It’s because he’s considering me a conservative,” he said. “In Manhattan where I live it’s like being a child molester.”

While Stossel’s lecture was contentious at times, particularly during an engaging question and answer which allowed the tradi-tionally liberal student body to broach topics of corporate greed, the sentiments from the audience members were primarily posi-tive.

“I thought this was positive,” said Mitchell Kutin, a senior phi-losophy major at Purchase Col-lege. “I think it’s an important thing to hear the other side. We know what we think; we don’t need more people to affirm our thoughts. We need to hear the other side.”


Deviating from their usual breed of speaker, Purchase College invited Fox News pundit John Stossel, who offered students and faculty a different take on politics and the economy. Contributed photo

swath of people on the political spectrum.

And on Friday, Oct. 30, when Stossel took the stage at Pur-chase College’s freshly-opened Humanities Theatre to espouse his libertarian take on modern-day America, his lecture again found an audience disparate from the norm.

During Stossel’s hour-long lecture, which was attended pri-marily by political science stu-dents and faculty at the college, he wove through various topics relating to regulation and big government as they pertain to his libertarian ideology, and more importantly how they affect to-day’s political and economic en-vironment.

“Unemployment has stayed high after this last recession be-cause we have so many rules,” Stossel said to the audience. “Because we can’t do anything unless you first ask permis-sion—it’s the ‘mother, may I’ economy.”

To bolster his libertarian ar-guments, Stossel used a series of PowerPoint graphs depict-


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harrison student selected to visit South Korea

Harrison High School sopho-more Mark Rigano had a unique front row view of history dur-ing a recent visit to South Korea. Rigano, who holds the rank of

sergeant in the Young Marines of Westchester, was selected by the unit commander Lucian Caldara to make this historic trip across the world. Caldara served in the

Marine Corps and was stationed in South Korea.

“My visit to South Korea was the greatest experience of my young life,” Rigano said. “It was

an incredible opportunity and [an] invaluable experience to be able to immerse myself in the culture, meet the wonderful people, and study the history of a country so far from home.”

The two were on hand to at-tend a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Inchon Landing, a pivotal four-day battle involving the South Korean army and U.N. officials that led to a reversal of fortunes during the Korean War and the recapture of Seoul, the South Korean capital. The two met with Korean offi-cials, service members and U.S. troops stationed in South Korea and watched a re-enactment of

the Inchon Landing.“The experience was made

even more incredible because throughout the trip, Mr. Caldara and I were in the company of retired ROK Marine Sgt. Maj. Kang Kyung-seo, who is also the chairman of the Korean American Friendship Associa-tion,” Rigano said. “This added an element of adventure and ex-citement for me because I didn’t know what experiences awaited me each day.”

During his visit, Rigano was also able to visit the National Museum, the National Cemetery and the National War Museum, which tracks the country’s histo-ry from the 1600s to the present.

He also had the unique oppor-tunity to view in person Panmun-jom, where the Armistice talks between North and South Korea continue today, an ROK Marine outpost on the DMZ overlooking North Korea, a historical period Korean village, Seoul Tower and the Presidential Palace and mu-seum.

“Throughout my visit, I found the Korean people to be very kind and generous. I returned home with many incredible ex-periences and some unique gifts. I am certain I will reflect on this experience for many years to come,” Rigano said. (Submitted)


Buchwald hosts Assembly speaker on district tourThe spotlight shined brightly

on the 93rd Assembly District Tuesday, Oct. 27 as New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, vis-ited several major local attrac-tions with Assemblyman David Buchwald, a White Plains Dem-ocrat, who hosted the speaker. The tour emphasized the re-gion’s strong business, educa-tion and nonprofit communities while also communicating the need for investment in transpor-tation infrastructure.

Heastie and Buchwald vis-ited several prominent locations across the district, starting the tour at the White Plains Metro-North station where they greeted commuters and discussed the need for capital improvements at the aging station. Buchwald, a former chairman of the Met-ro-North Railroad Commuter Council, stressed to Heastie that revitalizing the nearly 30-year-old White Plains station would support regional economic growth, thereby treating the city like the commerce hub that it is.

Next on their tour was the

Mamaroneck Avenue School, an elementary school within the White Plains City School District. Mamaroneck Avenue School is one of five elementary schools within the school dis-trict, and serves students from kindergarten through grade five. The tour was led by Mama-roneck Avenue School Principal Eileen McGuire and Assistant Principal Robert Janowitz, with Principal McGuire offering a brief overview of the school at the outset.

“Mamaroneck Avenue School was honored to have New York State Assemblyman David Bu-chwald and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie visit our school,” McGuire said. “We were pleased to be able to introduce them to some of our unique approaches to learning and instructional programs in order to give stu-dents a well-rounded and high-ly-engaged learning experience. We hope that our visitors got a glimpse of our exceptional el-ementary school, where we take great pride in our relationships with students, their families and

the White Plains community.” Heastie and Buchwald then

paid a visit to MasterCard, which employs more than 1,400 people at its global headquarters in Pur-chase. MasterCard announced in 2013 that it intends to expand its offices in Purchase and, in the process, create an additional 392 jobs regionally, with 270 of them in Westchester County. Employ-ees of MasterCard who live in Heastie’s Bronx district were also on hand to join him and Bu-chwald on their walking tour.

The Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester in Mount Kisco was the next stop on the tour of the district. Heastie and Buchwald, joined by Mount Kis-co Mayor J. Michael Cindrich, were given a tour of the facil-ity by Alyzza Ozer, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of North-ern Westchester. Annually, the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester serves 1,700 mem-bers, and in the course of their 76-year existence in Northern Westchester, they have served more than 100,000 children and teenagers.

Zierick Manufacturing in Mount Kisco was the last stop on the tour. Zierick is a leading source of interconnection devic-es, particularly those involving circuit boards. The company, in Mount Kisco since 1967, em-ploys about 60 people at its facil-ity, providing jobs that support middle class families in northern Westchester.

“I’ve enjoyed traveling the state to get to know issues mem-

bers face in their home districts,” Heastie said.

“It is an absolute pleasure to have Speaker Heastie come to my Assembly district, affording me the opportunity to show him what Westchester has to offer, as well as what the region needs to grow our economy,” Buchwald said. “My Assembly district is home to wonderful schools, vi-brant businesses, and caring people that all play a major role

in this community, and I am glad that the Speaker was able to see what makes Westchester a great place to live and work.”

Heastie has been visiting in-dividual members’ Assembly districts since the start of this past summer. The tour is part of a larger effort for the Assem-bly speaker to understand the needs of the various communi-ties throughout New York state. (Submitted)

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, and state Assemblyman David Buchwald, a White Plains Democrat, are joined by state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Scarsdale Democrat, Mamaroneck Avenue School Principal Eileen McGuire, Assistant Principal Robert Janowitz, second from the left, as well as the Mamaroneck Avenue School PTA Co-Presidents in White Plains. Contributed photo


The legend lives on: Dizzie GillespieBy mARA RUPNeRS

Contributor

Musicians may pass away, in the physical sense, but they never really leave us. Their leg-acy lives on in the music they wrote, in their recordings, and in the musicians they played with, trained and inspired.

Such is the case with Diz-zie Gillespie, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday on Oct. 21. At the age of 12, Gil-lespie, the youngest of nine chil-dren, taught himself how to play trombone and trumpet, and the rest, as they say, is history. He traveled the world, jammed with all the greats, made numerous recordings, and is remembered today as an elder statesman of jazz, one of the most influential jazz trumpet players of all time.

In 1977, Gillespie was play-ing impromptu gigs throughout the Caribbean with saxophonist Stan Getz, and landed in Cuba. In Havana, he met a local man, Arturo Sandoval, who offered to show him around the city. Later that night, Sandoval, a trumpet player himself who idolized Gil-lespie, managed to play for the jazzman—and blew him away.

So began a lifelong friendship and musical collaboration, a sto-ry of jazz, travel and musical innovation. Gillespie was key to helping Sandoval gain politi-cal asylum in 1990; to this day, Sandoval lives here in the U.S. He continues to tour, and has evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classi-cal artist, pianist and composer.

And when he takes the stage, you can be sure that the leg-endary Dizzie Gillespie is right there with him.

Be a part of their story. Ar-turo Sandoval will perform for one night only on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Tickets are $45, $50 and $60, and good seats are still available.

Mara Rupners is the director of marketing at The

Performing Arts Center. The Performing Arts Center,

Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y.

10577 Box Office: 251-6200

Hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon to 6 p.m. and on weekends

before performances Website: artscenter.org

Latimer hosts Chamber Summit in Port Chester

Representatives from nearly a dozen local Chamber of Com-merce groups met at a Chamber Summit meeting, sponsored by state Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat, at the Port Chester Senior Center in September. The attendees came from communi-ties as diverse as Armonk and Yonkers to exchange ideas on growing business in their local areas, and share strategies for at-tracting membership and moti-vating residents to “Buy Local.”

“This was an opportunity for people to hear what is happening in neighboring communities, and to spark ideas that may be helpful in their own area,” Latimer said.

Chambers that participated include Armonk, Bronxville, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, Pelham, Port Chester-

Rye Brook, Rye and Yonkers.John Ravitz, executive vice

president and chief operating officer of the Business Council of Westchester, was the keynote speaker, touching on issues of governmental importance such as the minimum wage, which would affect business. He out-lined the business council’s ef-forts to positively impact local businesses with their advocacy agenda and business develop-ment initiatives, such as an up-coming trip to Cuba.

Assembly members David Buchwald, a White Plains Dem-ocrat, and Shelley Mayer, a Yon-kers Democrat, also spoke to the group, as did Westchester Coun-ty Legislator Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat.

Margaret Ricketts, president

of the Rye Chamber of Com-merce, and of Carpet Trends in Rye, said “it was very helpful to bring together people from other areas to share their experiences. We’re all running our own busi-nesses and we don’t always have the time to do this.”

Steve Josephson, president of the Mamaroneck Chamber of Commerce, and owner of the Toy Box in Mamaroneck, said, “I captured a lot of good sug-gestions from other chambers” at the program.

Latimer indicated his office would prepare an online Cham-ber Directory of contacts to be shared among the local cham-bers, as a follow-up to the event.

Any chamber may contact Latimer’s office at 934-5250 for more information. (Submitted)

John Ravitz from the Business Council of Westchester gives his keynote address to local business owners at a Chamber Summit meeting in September. The meeting was held at the Port Chester Senior Center and was sponsored by New York State Sen. George Latimer. Contributed photo


Fall: A restorative season for inside the home

As the warm season transi-tions from summer into win-ter, the birds will abandon their nests, and expanses of land will collectively display nature’s nat-ural coloring ever so beautifully. Autumn: nature’s restorative process.

During this cooler season, we will spend a great amount of time indoors. Ask Cindy says, “There is a clean-up process for rooms inside of the home as well.” It is my pleasure to sup-port an organized effort.1. De-cluttering:• Recycle extraneous paperwork.• Clear out the files in your

home office.• Donate/recycle books, CDs,

DVDs and video games.• Toss out old magazines and

newspapers.• Donate rarely-worn clothing

and gently-used toys.• Swap out lightweight clothing

and summer shoes from clos-ets and drawers. Neatly pack up these items and store them for next summer. Remember to wipe off the bottoms of your fashionable footwear.

• Toss stained and worn towels and linens.

• Streamline the junk drawer in the kitchen and tackle the spice rack, too.

2. Dusting the tops of elevated furnishings and surfaces:

• Dropping down dust allows it to be vacuumed up prior to cleaning lower surfaces and fur-nishings.• Using boutique micro fiber

(available at askcindyshop.com) to dust the tops of ceiling fans and vertical standing furnish-ings, door ledges, windowsills and crown moldings.

3. Vacuuming:• Vacuum the floors thoroughly.

This will prevent dirt and dust from soiling lower surfaces and furnishings that will be dusted next.

• Vacuum upholstered furniture: chairs, sofas, recliners, etc.

4. Dusting with boutique micro fiber:• The magnetic magic is in

the thickness of the towel, it grasps and holds dust without chemicals.

• Wipe picture frames, shelving, wood furnishings, table tops, lamps, pianos, chairs, etc.

5. Eliminating incriminating sur-face dirt and grime:• Sanitizing hard surfaces and

cleaning furnishings with ap-propriate cleaning agents will remove undesirable circum-stances.

• If surfaces and furnishings have gotten away from you, a real effort will need to be put forth. No getting around this fact. But an organized clean-ing process will bring back the splendor of “clean is clean.”

• Clean and organized rooms inside the home are extremely powerful in opposition to unsightliness within a home sweet home. All inhabitants will appreciate the redress ef-fort, promise.

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Prop. 1 victory means earlier budget for AstorinoBy SARAh vARNey

Staff Writer

Proposal No. 1, a referen-dum question to move the yearly deadline for the Westchester County executive to submit a budget from Nov. 15 to Oct. 15 for capital projects and back to Nov. 10 for the operating budget was passed overwhelmingly by an 82 percent margin. With 100 percent of Westchester County’s 949 districts reporting as of press time, there were 71,335 votes in favor of the change and 15,146 votes against it.

The earlier deadline will give both community members and members of the county Board of Legislators more time to review County Executive Rob Astori-no’s budget and to ask questions.

Moving up the budget dates required a change to the County Charter, which had not been al-tered since 2000 when the last

Westchester countywide refer-endum was on a ballot.

The proposal is one of 16 ideas that has come out of the Charter Review Commission, a Board of Legislators commit-tee set up in 2011. The commis-sion’s charter was to review the county rules and to make advise-ments on changes that might benefit the legislative process.

County Legislator Sheila Marcotte, an Eastchester Re-publican, reviewed the referen-dum proposal as chairwoman of the legislators’ Budget and Ap-propriations Committee, as did county Legislator Virginia Perez, a Yonkers Democrat, as chair-woman of the Legislative Com-mittee. Both expressed support for the proposal prior to Election Day and the Westchester League of Women Voters also gave the referendum the green light.

Not surprisingly, Marcotte was pleased with the approval of

the referendum. “This was a no-brainer. It’s just a matter of good government. I’m delighted,” she said.

The 2015 budget for Westches-ter County is $1.8 billion. The 2016 proposed budget is due Nov. 15, as the change to the charter will not take effect until the 2017 budget cycle and according to published reports there is current-ly a $25 million shortfall.

A representative from Astori-no’s office said the county exec-utive had supported the change.



Restaurant Week gets set for the main courseWestchester County Ex-

ecutive Rob Astorino recently joined Janet Crawshaw, publish-er of The Valley Table magazine, at the Iron Horse in Pleasantville to announce The Valley Table’s Fall Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, HVRW. During HVRW, which runs from Nov. 2 through Nov. 15, diners will have the

chance to sample cuisine offer-ings from more than 100 restau-rants sourced through local pro-duce throughout Westchester.

“Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is a great time for diners to visit Westchester County’s impressive restaurants this fall season,” Astorino said. “Come ‘meet me’ in Westchester to try

And with more than 100 restau-rants participating right here in Westchester County, we’re de-lighted to join with County Exec-

utive Astorino to officially kick-off our fall Restaurant Week. Let the feasting begin.”

For more information and a

complete list of participating res-taurants, visit HudsonValleyRes-taurantWeek.com and visitwest-chesterny.com. (Submitted)

From left, Natasha Caputo, director of Westchester County Office of Tourism and Film; Janet Crawshaw, publisher of The Valley Table magazine and founder of Hudson Valley Restaurant Week; Judith Economos, co-owner of the Iron Horse; County Executive Rob Astorino; Andrew Economos, co-owner of the Iron Horse; and Peter Scherer, mayor of the Village of Pleasantville.

out a wide selection of delicious food at a great price.”

During the kickoff event, As-torino helped prepare a new, sig-nature dish for the Hudson Val-ley Restaurant Week menu: the “Astorino Burger.”

The Iron Horse, under the ownership of Andrew Econo-mos, is an intimate restaurant located in the Pleasantville train station building.

“We are thrilled to be the site to kick off Fall Hudson Valley Restaurant Week and to offer the signature ‘Astorino Burger’ on our menu in honor of the county executive,” said Andrew Econo-mos, owner of the Iron Horse. “It is an honor to participate in such an exciting dining experience here in Westchester County.”

“When it comes to great food and great restaurants, there’s no better place to be than in the Hudson River Valley and no bet-ter time to get out and dine than during Hudson Valley Restaurant Week,” said Janet Crawshaw, publisher and founder of The Val-ley Table and Hudson Valley Res-taurant Week. “It’s one of the larg-est dining events in the country.

County Executive Rob Astorino in the kitchen making the Iron Horse’s new signature dish, the “Astorino Burger.” Contibuted photos


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much? My girlfriend is always shopping. There doesn’t even have to be a reason to shop. Is that typical or does she have a problem? I shop only when needed and usually once a year, unless I have a wedding or something.

M.W., New Rochelle

Dear M.W.:Most women don’t need a

specific reason to shop. We shop when we’re happy, depressed, need a special something, gained weight, lost weight, be-cause something is on sale, we need it, or we want it; because something is the newest and the latest, as a pick-me-up, because we are bored, or for a quick high; the list of reasons or im-pulses is endless. Some women like the thrill of the kill and the bargain hunting, while others are compulsive shoppers or are actu-ally shopping addicts.

Believe it or not, I know a lot of women who hate shopping, don’t have time to shop or just don’t know what to buy. “Retail therapy” seems to work for many women for a multitude of rea-sons. Even on a bad day, there’s always an accessory or a pair of shoes that will make a woman happy. Some men actually enjoy shopping while others, like you, will only shop when needed. Ei-ther way, allow your girlfriend to be herself and make herself hap-

py unless it puts a strain on your or her budget.

Dear Tonia:What should I wear to my

40th class reunion, a dress or slacks? It’s on a Saturday night at a hotel.

L.B., Scarsdale

Dear L.B.:Today, sadly, no one re-

ally gets dressed up anymore. I would suggest wearing some-thing you love, that flatters your figure and makes you feel beau-tiful. Whether you go with a dress or pants, wear something dressier than daywear and sexier than office wear. Don’t overdo it or go too glitzy unless that is your signature style.

If you’ve put on weight, don’t hide behind clothing that is too big or oversized. Wear a good-fitting black pant with a nice camisole or blouse tucked in with a belt and jacket in a fun, trendy or striking color. The belt is essential for creating the il-lusion of a smaller waist. Add accessories that will make the outfit pop. Sometimes dropping a few pounds will boost your confidence but don’t go on any crash diets to impress anyone else. All people tend to remem-ber is whether you looked happy.

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tween active and yoga wear? I see so many women wearing what I would describe as work-out clothing all day long. What’s the best yoga wear?

C.M., Mamaroneck

Dear C.M.:There is no real difference

between active wear and yoga wear. A key element to buying the correct yoga wear is comfort and modesty. It must fit comfort-ably without binding or reveal-ing too much. Look for stretch-able, cotton-blend tees or tank tops that hug the torso. I like the foldable waist pants for warmth and comfort. Capris have also been popular.

Yoga wear has expanded into fashionable bright prints and patterns rather than basic black. For fashion divas, yoga wear can be found with details like distinct patches, rhinestones, mesh and embroidery. Today, women are wearing active wear as everyday clothing ei-ther to make a statement or be-cause they feel more comfort-able. Personally, I don’t think it should be worn as daywear, especially if it doesn’t flatter a woman’s figure. One prob-lem with wearing active wear all the time, just like sweat-pants, is that you will not no-tice if you are gaining or losing

The magic of first grade

Peek into any school on any day and chances are, you will see a little magic. Or a lot. I peeked into Public School 347 on East 23rd Street in Manhattan last week and who should be there but Gregory Jbara, star of stage—he plays the father in the Broadway musical “Billy Elliott”—and screen—he’s on the CBS drama “Blue Bloods”—reading out loud about some very scary carrots.

Next to him stood an interpret-er signing every word, because this is the American Sign Lan-guage and English Lower School.

“Jasper knew his parents were wrong. Creepy Carrots were real!” Jbara intoned as a group of about a dozen first graders sat at his feet on the rug, wriggling a bit, of course, but wide-eyed with interest.

“Where are the carrots?” Jbara asked the kids, pointing to a page of tombstones.

“In the deadness!” yelped a little boy.

“In the graveyard, yes,” Jbara nodded.

So what brought a Tony Award winner to a school where all the kids are deaf, hard of hearing, or “deaf-allied,” including children of deaf adults, CODA?

Facebook and fandom. Gary Wellbrock, the kids’ teacher, has always been a Broadway fanatic. He was a performing arts major himself back in the day. Now he has a doctorate in deaf education. But if you’re a theater fan and you work in New York City and you’re active on Facebook, after

a while, your worlds merge. So on July 3, just to see what would happen, Wellbrock posted about an idea he’d been percolating. He called it “Broadway Books First Class.”

His idea was to invite Broad-way performers to come to his first grade class and read a book aloud. Why not? The city’s bud-get for arts education had been dwindling, so here was a way to give the kids a glimpse of the the-ater world, and a hint of the gift that belongs to all New Yorkers: we live in the capital of the arts. Soak it in!

“I just posted, ‘Is anybody in-terested?’ And within hours, he was like, ‘Yes. I’m in,’” Well-brock recalled, nodding at Jbara. “I typed back, ‘That would be cool,’ but I was really running around like, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!’” The two had never met, but here was Broadway royalty saying, “See you soon!”

By the Fourth of July, Well-brock had four stars signed up. And now his growing list in-cludes drag legend Charles Busch (should be a great class), actress Alison Fraser who plays the strip-per Tessie Tura in musical “Gyp-sy,” as well as Brooklynite Eden Duncan-Smith, 15, who starred in “The Lion King” on Broadway, is in the movie “Meadowland” with Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, and also happens to be a former student of Wellbrock.

Like I said, if you’re in New York and love Broadway, your worlds will eventually merge.

“Let’s thank Mr. Jbara,” said Wellbrock as the actor closed his book. In addition to a chorus of audible thank yous, many hands waved in the air—the deaf form

of clapping. “Some of the kids want to grow up and become ac-tors too,” Wellbrook told him.

“I want to be a doctor!” shouted one boy.

“I want to be a slapper of things!” shouted another, pro-ceeding to slap himself in the face until everyone told him to cut it out.

“Do we have any questions for Mr. Jbara?” Wellbrock jumped in.

“Have you danced on TV?” one kid asked.

“I have.”“How do you make movies?”

asked another, to which Mr. Jba-ra gave a kid-friendly descrip-tion of a typical filming day.

“Did you always want to be an actor?”

Bingo! That question sent Jbara back to the time he was exactly the same age as these kids. “We learned a song called ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ and the teacher decided she wanted one of the students to dress as Frosty,” he told them. “Every-body wanted to be Frosty, but the teacher decided it was actu-ally going to be me.”

He looked a little misty, recall-ing his first gig. After all, it set the stage—as it were—for the rest of his life.

The kids seemed to under-stand, and one came over wear-ing a bunny puppet on his hand which he hopped up and down Jbara’s arm.

“What’s this?” Jbara asked.“A lion,” the boy replied.First grade can be a magi-

cal time, especially if there’s a teacher who makes sure it is.

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LIve MIKeMike Smith

This past weekend, I was forced to stand by and watch as a team I swore my allegiance to in my youth fell to a superior squad in a postseason elimination game, thus ending a spirited playoff run.

Amazingly, I don’t mean the Mets.

On Saturday, Oct. 31, despite several intriguing sectional match-ups, I headed to McKenna Field to cover the Huguenots’ Class AA semifinal game. The reason I chose to cover this game over the others on the schedule is simple: I used to play for Scarsdale.

I know that there’s no rooting in the press box, or on the side-lines where I can often be found taking photos. And when it comes down to it, when I do have a root-ing interest, I’m usually throwing my support to our local teams. But I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to watch my Raiders compete in a semifinal game, something that

Divided allegiancesseemed like a fairy tale, at least back when I donned the maroon and white.

See, the Raider teams of my year were not exactly what you would call “good.” We weren’t pushovers by any stretch of the imagination, but we weren’t world-beaters either. We were a middle-of-the-road team with a stingy defense and a lot of pride in what we did on the field.

We were convinced back then that we were building something, a bridge of sorts between the pro-gram’s glory days of the late 1980s and a bright future where battling for a section title wouldn’t seem like such an impossibility.

Sure, it took a little longer than we had hoped—11 to 12 years to be exact—but I couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride as the No. 3-seeded Raiders took to the field last Saturday, ready to take on the top dog in Section I.

And then, the game started.If there were any questions

about New Rochelle being as good as advertised, they were quick-ly put to bed as the Huguenots

outran, outhit and outplayed the Raiders from start to finish, beat-ing them 33-7. And as much as I had hoped that Scarsdale would make it a game, I couldn’t help feel ecstatic for New Rochelle’s players, who have approached this season with truly refreshing enthusiasm.

New Rochelle deserved to win; they deserved to make the Class AA title game, and, bias aside, I think they deserve to beat John Jay on Saturday, Nov. 7.

But as happy as I am for the Huguenots and their fans, I was equally as happy for the Raiders. It was a great year for the kids, a great year for the program, and hopefully, a sign of things to come.

Maybe in another 12 years or so, some of those Scarsdale se-niors from Saturday’s game will come back to watch the Raiders celebrating a section title.

Hopefully, though, it won’t take quite that long.

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Scarsdale quarterback Michael Rolfe tries to elude New Rochelle’s Tyler Cohen on Oct. 31. For Sports Editor Mike Smith, a former Scarsdale football player, covering a game between the Huguenots and Raiders was a task that was both a welcome and a challenge. Photo/Mike Smith

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Huskies headed to semisBy mIKe SmIThSports Editor

Through the first two rounds of the postseason, the Harrison volleyball team has been up to the task, topping Lincoln and Ursuline for back-to-back 3-0 wins to reach the Class A semi-finals, and their toughest test to date. With a showdown against top-seeded Walter Panas loom-ing, the Huskies know full well that it will take their best effort to earn a berth in the section championship game.

On Nov. 2, the No. 4 seed Huskies soundly defeated the No. 5 Ursuline squad in straight games, winning 25-19, 25-15, 25-19 to advance to the semis. Although Harrison coach Candy Light said she entered the post-season with confidence in the way her team had been playing, she admits she was somewhat surprised with the outcome of the team’s quarterfinal match.

“We expected it to go four, maybe five games, because I know [Ursuline] was a bet-ter team than what the scores showed,” she said. “But we’re very happy with the way our girls stayed tough and did the things we had to do.”

Senior Val Sprovieri had a big game for the Huskies with seven kills and six aces, but it was sophomore Kayla DeMar-tini who led Harrison’s offense in the win, notching 11 kills on

the afternoon. “[Kayla] has been a great

player for us the entire season,” Light said. “She’s been work-ing hard, using more types of swings and placing the ball well, so we’ve been very happy with her since she joined the program.”

At 25-4-1, Harrison earned the right to take on No. 1 seed Walter Panas in the semifinals on Nov. 4, after press time. Pa-nas has compiled a record of 40-5-1 on the year and has been one of Section I’s flagship programs over the last several seasons.

“In some schools, the foot-ball program is the big thing, but in Panas, they’ve really got-ten their community to rally around the volleyball program,” Light said. “Fans come out to see them play, girls come out for the team, and it’s always a great atmosphere to play there.”

Light acknowledges that the highly-charged atmosphere at Walter Panas High School will be one factor working against her club when the two teams square off.

“It’s definitely a bigger stage with so many fans there cheer-

ing,” she said. “It will definitely have that big game feel.”

As for the Huskies’ oppo-nents on the court, Light be-lieves the her girls will need to play their best game of the season if they hope to reach the section finals.

“We need to have every sin-gle player focused and on their game; we need to stop their big hitters and also have a great passing game,” she said. “We have to be on top of our game on offense and defense.”


Kayla DeMartini hits the ball on Oct. 27. Against Ursuline, DeMartini led the team with 11 kills.

Megan Clow goes up for a block during Harrison’s Oct. 27 game against Mahopac. On Nov. 2, Harrison advanced to the Class A semifinals with a 3-0 win over Ursuline.

Maxine Lieblich launches a serve against Mahopac. Photos/Bobby Begun

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