Letter: Thanks to Local Merchants
Laura Schultz
Vice President
Residents For a More Beautiful Syosset
Letter: Thank You Jericho District Voters
Thank you to all of our Jericho School District residents who came out to vote this week. I truly appreciate the support we received for our school budget and the vote of confidence I received in being re-elected to the Board of Education. As your board trustee, I will continue to do my very best to represent the values and concerns of our community and I look forward to hearing from you when you have an issue or matter of concern to share with the board.
I had the privilege of running with two very talented candidates, Mark Basile and Bill Ferro. My sincere congratulations to Bill Ferro on his election to the Board and I am looking forward to working with him. I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to Mark Basile for his dedication to our students and his service to our community over the past three years as our Board trustee. It was a pleasure working with him.
Over 60...and Getting Younger: May 22, 2009
Double Trouble
As the summer approaches, we see a definite increase in the number of invitations and dates we will receive. People seem to live more lustily and more lively in June, July and August.
One guarantee I can give my readers is that there will be one or more scheduling conflicts. Two appointments listed for the same time and same day are an abundance of riches. However, a decision must be made. Sometimes in a marriage it is the wife’s family versus the husband’s family. This requires delicacy.
A Bird’s Eye View
Birding Brooklyn’s Hot Spots
Last spring I went to Brooklyn, where I’d never birded, with a small group to see the annual spring migration at two hot spots, Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. It was early May but it felt like early March. As we pass the Ebbets Field Apartments, in my mind’s eye the gray 2008 morning is transformed into a sunny 1950s May afternoon. I’m in the Ebbets Field bleachers during batting practice, before a Brooklyn Dodgers game, holding a pink Spaulding-type rubber ball. It was a “dead” ball that someone had thrown to Dodgers right fielder Carl Furillo. When he threw it back, the ball stuck in my hands; I never forgot it.
Now minutes later, with binoculars in hand, we’re at Prospect Park, a 585-acre park that has a 60-acre lake and the borough’s last forest. It is before 6:30 a.m. when an orchard oriole, a drabber cousin of the more common Baltimore oriole, which has a richer orange breast, is one of the first avians we see. A male rose-breasted grosbeak perches atop a tree. Its color combination of a black head, white breast and a rich, rose-colored breast make it eye-catching. There is another lower on a nearby tree and soon both fly off leaving the moment divested of brightness.
Over 60...and Getting Younger
Free Range Kids
Free Range Chicken: We have all seen that delicacy on the menu of expensive restaurants. The restaurant is telling us that the chicken we are about to devour has not been kept in a box compartment, just to lay eggs. No, this chicken has been given the free range of the property and fends for itself and gets its own food. Why this makes a difference to the gourmet is a puzzlement to me. Does it taste different?
This also holds true for the salmon we spy on the menu. We are told that free swimming salmon are healthier and are a better choice when choosing a salmon dish.
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