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Published by Halston Media, 2020-05-06 14:29:09

The Somers Record _05.07.20

Vol. 10 No. 3 Visit TapIntoSomers.net for the latest news. Thursday, May 7, 2020

Summer camps ‘cautiously
optimistic’ about opening

Town of Somers cancels Tusker Trax, day camp

BY KATHERINE BORCHERT almost every traditional camp activity.” want to be as ready and prepared for it PHOTO COURTESY OF RICKY MANCINI
STAFF WRITER With an uncertain future, most as possible.”
A health care worker wearing one of the shields made
Summer camp leaders are planning camps are preparing for summer as Maxwell Dineen-Carey, director of by Ricky Mancini.
for multiple scenarios of how to pro- usual while knowing that any day now, Pied Piper Preschool and Summer
ceed during the coronavirus pandemic news from the Department of Health Camp, said the preschool camp has Somers grad launches
while parents remain eager to enroll or CDC could determine the fate of been planning to open on June 29. Operation Face Shield
their kids back into a routine of sun- their operations.
screen, swimming and making friend- “We’re going to continue to do the Uses 3D printers to make PPE
ship bracelets. “We are actively planning for the same thing we normally do, follow the
summer,”said Jamie Sirkin, owner and guidelines that we’re given but plan- BY CAROL REIF
However, the town of Somers made director of Summer Trails Day Camp ning-wise, we’re planning as if we’re STAFF WRITER
a somber call this week when Somers in Granite Springs. “Camp directors going to open the same day we always
Parks and Recreation Superinten- plan all year for the summer months do,” Dineen-Carey said. ree years ago, Ricky Mancini was almost literally
dent Steven Ralston announced that and we have continued to do that. Just up to his armpits in alligators.
Tusker Trax and day camp programs like the rest of the world, we are anx- Karen Grazia, director of commu-
are canceled. iously awaiting the green light from nications for the Harvey School, said e Somers man and a pal from Yorktown had trav-
the Department of Health, state o - that the Cavalier Camp is currently eled down to Texas in the summer of 2017 on their
He said the decision came after sig- cials, the CDC and all of those deci- working out how it will operate this
ni cant discussion and review of the sion-makers, that we’ll be permitted to summer. SEE FACE SHIELD PAGE 5
ever-changing guidelines put in place open this summer and we’ll be able to
by the CDC, New York State and provide a safe and fun environment for “While it is di cult to think about
Westchester County. our community.” summer fun and camp activities given
the loss and real struggles faced by
“Although it is hard to imagine a Camp Kiwi director Will Yahr said many of our local families, we believe
summer without camps, nothing is that the Carmel camp is continuously that it is important to support our
more important to us than the health, planning for this summer’s operations community by continuing to o er
safety, and welfare of our residents, and plans to open on schedule. summer programming for children in
sta and the partners with whom we a structured, safe environment,” Gra-
work,” wrote Ralston. “Current and “I would say we’re almost where zia said. “While we are waiting for the
reasonably anticipated social distanc- we would be in a normal time of year, state’s health department to provide
ing requirements for the summer we’re just being cautiously optimistic guidelines regarding summer pro-
would be impossible to enforce in the with what the outcome is going to be,” grams, we continue to create plans for
camp setting and would also prevent Yahr said. “We feel strongly that there
should be camps this summer and we SEE CAMP PAGE 4

TYhoaun.k. To all the first responders & I am grateful to live & work in such an amazing
health care professionals. community that shows so much compassion &
To all the essential workers good will towards others. My heart is with anyone
who serve the public daily.
To all of the Somers Community who is grieving or affected by the virus.
doing good deeds to comfort our
elderly, sick & families in need. We’re in this TOGETHER &
we are SOMERS STRONG!

AUDRA MACCARIELLO, Associate Real Estate Broker | Coldwell Banker

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BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE 39
CLASSIFIEDS 38
ELEPHANT’S TRUNK 9
LEGAL NOTICES 38
LEISURE
OPINION 37 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
SPORTS
10

36 Honoring Moms
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The Staff Gilda Ferrara OBITUARIES

EDITORIAL TEAM Ruhs (née Ferrara), Nicole Pe- his years at the Fife and Drum
Jodi Weinberger
tre (née Dator), Kathryn Wettje Restaurant he was known as
Editor: 914-302-5830
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Brian Marschhauser dent of Heritage Hills in Somers and John Ferrara, as well as four Joseph was born in 1924 to
Sports Editor: 914-302-5628
[email protected] and formerly of Yonkers passed great-grandchildren: Lucas and Antonio and Maria Angi at

ADVERTISING TEAM away on April 25 at the age of Ella Ruhs, Emily Wettje, and the Mt. Kisco Hospital, as it
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Paul Forhan kers to Nicholas and Filomina A Memorial Mass in her Kisco High School on W. Hyatt
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Corinne Stanton
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Jennifer Connelly
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Shelley Kilcoyne
Ferrara worked as an electronic seph J. Angi, Sr., 95, of Mt. meat and vegetable bus that
Co-Founder
914-924-9122 component tester at Curtis Kisco and Somers on Saturday, his uncles owned which would
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Gabrielle Bilik Electronics in Mt. Kisco before April 18 after contracting CO- make rounds through the village
Account Executive/Designer
[email protected] retiring in 1985. VID-19. Joseph lived a very full to sell to people in their neigh-

PRODUCTION TEAM She attended St. Joseph’s life and may be best known as borhoods. At the age of 18, he
Tabitha Pearson Marshall
Church and was a member of one of the proprietors of Pines enlisted in the Army, 8th Ar- borrowing under cover of dark-
Creative Director
Photographer the Somers Senior’s Club. Bridge Lodge in Yorktown and mored Division. He completed ness, were the topic of many

[email protected] Mrs. Ferrara is survived by a the owner, along with his wife basic training in Louisiana and pleasant hours.
Christina Rose
daughter and son-in-law Karen Rosemarie, of the Fife and eventually served in Belgium, In 1948, he married his be-
Asst Production Manager
Designer and Nicholas Dator, and a son Drum Restaurant in Mt. Kisco. France, and Germany during loved wife Rosemarie at St.

[email protected] and daughter-in-law Fred and During his time at the Pines WWII. His stories about com- Mary’s Church in Port Chester.

EXECUTIVE TEAM Clara Ferrara. She is also sur- Bridge Lodge he was affection- missioning items for his troop They celebrated 72 years of mar-
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Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Somers Record – Page 3

Mom spotlight: Heather Backman

BY CAROL REIF Sharon Backman, are lucky. ey both live nearby

STAFF WRITER and get to babysit while Backman, 35, works from

home as an insurance defense attorney. (Daniel

Hannah in a lilac tutu high- ving for the camera. drives a truck for a septic service; his job is con-

Hannah snuggling in her great-granny’s arms sidered essential.)

in front of a glittering Christmas tree. Of the four-generations picture taken last

Hannah rocking pink bunny ears and a chubby Christmas with Schiavone, great-grandmother

smile on Easter. Barbara Ann Pecoraro and Hannah, Backman

ese are all precious moments that rst-time says in a Facebook post: “It was such a special mo-

Somers mom Heather Backman has captured for ment that I cherish, especially now that we cannot

posterity. all be together with my grandma. I can’t wait for

But one thing that isn’t in the family photo this to be over so we can visit my grandma and

album—just for now—are pictures of the bub- give her a big hug!”

bly and curious 9-month-old enjoying the sights, Backman’s sister is a nurse who, like most on

smells and sounds at the Bronx Zoo, one of Back- the medical frontlines, is overwhelmed and ex-

man’s iconic childhood haunts. hausted. She and Backman’s brother, Joseph, both

Last year was too hot for a safari and Hannah miss their adorable little niece terribly.

was probably too little to do anything but snooze In a “Happy Quarantine Birthday” message to

in her stroller. Dawn Schiavone last Saturday, Backman wrote:

Now, the zoo has been temporarily closed be- “You are such a loving, caring and genuine person

cause of the coronavirus pandemic and, as new and your patients need you more than Hannah

parents, Backman and her husband, Daniel, are right now.”

seriously bummed. She promised to keep “her cheeks just as kiss-

e proud papa and mama had been looking able for you to kiss again someday soon.”

forward to taking Hannah there this Mother’s It’s their little angel’s ability to spread happiness

Day just to witness the wonder and amazement everywhere she is that’s keeping the young par-

on the tot’s face as she saw a gira e or rhinoceros ents going nowadays.

for the rst time. Four generations together at Christmas: Baby Hannah, mom Heather Backman admits she might have been missing
(Zebras are Backman’s personal favorites. She Backman, grandma Barbara Ann Schiavone and great-grandmother quite a few of Hannah’s milestones had she been
Barbara Ann Pecoraro. working in an o ce during this crucial bonding
can’t say exactly why, but nds them “fascinating”

and had been super-excited about showing them time.

to her mini-me this spring.) To all the struggling “work-from-home stay-

is a nity for menageries is hardly unusual at-home moms,” Backman, though a newbie her-

for someone who was born and raised in Somers, self, has some sage advice.

the so-called “Cradle of the American Circus”and “I think we are going to raise a generation of

the former stomping grounds of farmer-turned- independent children who know how to use their

entrepreneur Hachaliah Bailey whose star, an In- imaginations creatively as a result of this pandem-

dian elephant named Old Bet, is now the town’s ic. I know it seems tough now, but embrace the

totem animal. extra time you have with your children and enjoy

Bailey’s rst crew also included several pigs and the ‘ rsts’ that you would have otherwise missed

a horse; the Backmans’, two cats and two dogs. and gotten a picture of from daycare!”

Hannah hasn’t got the crawling thing com- Once the world rights itself, the Backmans and

pletely down yet, but she doesn’t let that stop her other parents of wide-eyed children will again

from having “amazing” interactions with the fam- be happily meandering through the Bronx Zoo.

ily pets, says mom. ere will be meet-and-greets with mini Nubian

Instead, the little explorer usually draws a bead goats, sheep, and donkeys in the farmyard area;

on her furry siblings and barrel-rolls on over for oohing and aahing over the antics of the ebony

some face-to-snout time. Hannah on Easter. langurs at the Jungleworld exhibit, and innocent
Lately, Hannah’s been “glued” to Backman’s giggles as brightly winged denizens of the But-

smartphone, fascinated but frustrated when she sees the and social distancing, Hannah’s milestones can only be ter y Garden land on a tiny shoulder or nose.

faces and hears the voices of mom’s friends and family. She shared with kith and kin online. And tapping a screen isn’t And that, to Hannah’s adoring mom, will be the greatest

grabs the device and peeks around the back, trying, appar- nearly as satisfying as gently patting a child’s plump cheek Mother’s Day gift of all.

ently, to gure out where “the rest of the person is.” or tousling her curly hair.

e Backmans are frustrated, as well. In this era of PPE Hannah’s grandmothers, Barbara Ann Schiavone and PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEATHER BACKMAN

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CAMP ers are facing the same sense of know that they are in a safe envi- tion, so we’ve seen an increase in ready mode by then, but if we have
uncertainty as the rest of the coun- ronment and we also want them calls recently. Everyone is going to to wait an additional week or two,
FROM PAGE 1 try at the moment. to have a normal experience,” Sir- be in the same boat. We have a lot we would push camp if we needed
kin said. “ ey’ve had weeks or of families that are just waiting for to,” Yahr said. “Our plan is to con-
both on-campus and virtual camp Dana M. Mayclim, superinten- months of being at home and so- the government to turn back on,to tinue to move forward as best as
and learning opportunities. Once dent of parks and recreation for cialization for them is going to be give the OK.” possible using the information we
we have a clearer sense of what the town of Lewisboro, said that more important than it’s ever been have and patiently wait for the ad-
will be possible this summer, we while the town continues to plan before. Perhaps for parents, too, it’s Bertino said that Camp Nabby ditional information. We’ve been
will communicate with our camp diligently for the summer, there going to be more important that has received calls from families ea- using whatever guidance we can
community, explaining our plans are many unknowns the depart- our kids are socialized and out of ger to provide a positive summer
to safely open while following all ment must take into consideration. the house. We’re fortunate, you experience for their children, while nd that we trust.
guidelines that are in place.” know, as someone who has been in Grazia of Harvey School said that “We work with the CDC, the
Yorktown Parks and Recreation the community for over 40 years, though it has received calls for ACA [American Camp Asso-
Jim Gilchrist, recreation direc- Superintendent Jim Martorano Jr. and we’ve built a lifelong relation- summer registration, there have ciation], and we’re going to work
tor for the town of Carmel, said said the department is still consid- ship with our parents and commu- been fewer compared to a typical with our local health department
the town is currently planning to ering many factors when it comes nity members and they trust that year. on whatever those new rules and
operate summer camps on sched- to reopening camps this summer. when we do open, it’s going to be regulations would be to gure out
ule this summer but is waiting on safe to do so and that we’re going While summer camps are hope- which of our plans we’re using. e
the nal call from the Putnam De- North Salem Town Supervisor to do the things that are neces- ful they will be able to open and reality is it’s going to be a hybrid.
partment of Health. Warren Lucas said North Salem sary to ensure that we’ve upheld operate, for which many the start My team of dedicated, year-round
has not many any decisions yet the standard that they’ve expected date is June 29, they have devel- individuals have come up with
“ ey’re the ones who are go- regarding camps. Lucas is antici- from us the last several decades.” oped contingency plans should many di erent scenarios and we
ing to make the determination if pating more information from the they be required to open later or don’t know which one is going
camps are going to happen this DOH in the next two weeks. Despite COVID-19, Yahr of told not to operate at all. to be the approved one, but we’re
summer, and obviously, that will Camp Kiwi said it saw an uptick planning to be as prepared as pos-
be based on what New York State Deborah Lividini, secretary to in this year’s registration. “In March, we started planning sible for this.”
says,” Gilchrist said. school administrator for PNW for a variety of summer camp sce- However, many said the best fea-
BOCES, said its plans are on hold. “Before this all happened, we narios. We rst started hiring and ture of camp is the in-person inter-
Camp Nabby in Mohegan were having the best year in enroll- scheduling for our regular sum- actions children get to experience.
Lake is in the process of giving ev- Even so, camps are still elding ment that Kiwi has ever had and mer o erings,” Grazia said. “We “We believe the value of attend-
erything a new coat of paint and calls from parents about registra- even with this going on,we are still also created models that included ing camp lies in the face-to-face
setting up basketball and tennis tion. surpassing numbers from previous additional safety precautions and interactions of our sta and camp-
nets while owner Rita Bertino says years,” Yahr said. “We got o to social distancing measures. Finally, ers to develop both physical and
they’re optimistic about opening Mayclim said the town is receiv- a strong start and because we’re we laid out plans for an online social skills,” Bertino said. “After
this summer. ing calls daily from parents who so strong, we’ve been able to do program that could run indepen- many months of screen time, we
want to enroll their children in well. We are seeing more families dently or in conjunction with our hope children will be able to get
“As of right now, we still hope to programs for the summer. looking to come to Kiwi this year regular camp.” outdoors this summer and enjoy
open on time, but will be ready to as they’re nding out that maybe nature, so currently we do not plan
go in a variety of potential scenari- Sirkin said Summer Trails also their smaller camps or pool or Yahr said he feels a June 29 for any online activities.”
os,”Bertino said.“We are prepared is receiving calls and inquiries preschool might not be in opera- opening is still feasible.
to honor the recommendations of about summer registration.
the state of New York.” “We have a great team at Kiwi
“We are continually getting and we feel like we can camp in
However, town and camp lead- people that are interested in reg-
istering and I think that when it
comes to our children, we want to

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Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Somers Record – Page 5

FACE SHIELD Now the dad of four is turn- Now 5 years old, Aria lends a Valley in Peekskill; Danbury only get greater, he added.
ing his energies toward the CO- hand by crayoning thank-yous Hospital in Danbury, Conn.; and Mancini and Fennessy have
FROM PAGE 1

VID-19 pandemic, another kind to rst responders and dropping Mount Sinai Hospital in New launched a GoFundMe site and

own dime—along with legions of natural disaster that’s wreaking the notes into each box of shields York City, to name a few medical the community response has,

of other volunteers—to help havoc on people physically, men- that goes out. institutions. they said, “grown organically.”

with recovery e orts after Hurri- tally and nancially. “It truly is a family a air,” e New York City Police De- ey also hope to set up Opera-

cane Harvey caused catastrophic Mancini has several relatives Mancini said Wednesday, April partment has just put in a request tion Face Shield as a nonpro t

ooding and many deaths. who work in hospitals, sel essly 29. for 50 shields, Mancini said. organization that can be de-

A family friend who has a putting themselves—and, possi- ey also have a 9-month-old At rst, Mancini and Fennessy ployed for fundraising e orts of a

search and rescue operation in bly, their families—in harm’s way daughter, Josie, while Mancini were footing the bill themselves. di erent nature in the future.

New Mexico came through with every single day. has two children from a previous As word of mouth spread, the As of Tuesday, they had raised

a team of cadaver dogs and some As hard as it is to believe, the union: daughter Milan, 14, and demand grew to the point that $4,236 of a $10,000 goal on their

boats that he and fellow Somers wealthiest and most medically son Ricky III, 13. it was straining the family’s - GoFundMe site.

High School grad Michael Ot- advanced nation on Earth sim- Mancini’s cousin, a nurse, and nances. In his GoFundMe post, Man-

tomanelli used to help the Army ply isn’t supplying doctors, nurses her colleagues have been plagued Fennessy is lead area sales cini thanked donors.

National Guard and the U.S. and rst responders with enough by “blisters and bleeding” behind manager for UPS Global Freight “ is operation has grown

Marines search for bodies—a masks, gloves and other protec- their ears from having to wear Forwarding. Mancini, formerly very near and dear to my heart,

grim task that often required tive gear to do their jobs, he and face masks all day long. So he in real estate, had been contem- as I have poured countless hours

wading waist-deep through others have said. is also making “ear savers,” de- plating opening up a café before into the manufacturing of these

murky, critter- lled waters. Enter the Mancini PPE fac- vices that allow the masks to be COVID-19 knocked the stu ng shields from my home. Please

e depth and breadth of tory. He and his ancée, Danielle tied behind their heads, instead. out of the restaurant biz. consider giving a gift to these

the devastation was just unreal, Fennessy, a UPS executive, have Since snugness is all-important, Fortunately, Fennessy’s com- men and women who give so

Mancini said, recalling being es- squeezed nine 3D printers into protection-wise, the little plas- pany “stepped up to the plate” by much each and every day.”

pecially touched by a multigen- their home so they can churn tic doodads can be adjusted four donating a 3D printer and raw When asked why folks like

erational family whose members out parts for face shields using a ways to accommodate heads of materials. him are spurred to do these self-

had literally lost everything but design approved by the National di erent sizes. “ ey’ve been awesome,” less acts, Mancini cited an old

the clothes on their backs. Institutes of Health. To date, Operation Face Shield Mancini said. proverb, adapted from a saying

After setting up a collection e machines have been liter- has donated shields and ear sav- ey plan to eventually do- about ethical reciprocity by the

drive to help them get back on ally running night and day for the ers to hospitals and rst respond- nate multiple 3D printers to ancient Jewish sage, Hillel the

their feet, Mancini said, “ ey last month, he said. ers all over the country, Mancini the Somers, Yorktown and New Elder: “If not you, then who? If

have a long road ahead of them e couple’s daughter Aria was said. Fair eld, Conn., school districts’ not now, when?”

and will never again return to the just old enough to know what Closer to home—basically the STEAM programs. To help out, go to the Op-

normalcy they’ve known.” was going on in 2017 with the epicenter of the country’s out- Unfortunately, with no appar- eration Face Shield GoFundMe

It’s a sentiment that Mancini hurricane rescue e orts. break—those life-saving items ent end in sight to the spread of (Katonah, NY) site, https://

probably didn’t know he’d ever “She used to say, ‘Daddy’s on have gone to Monte ore Medical the deadly disease and health of- gf.me/u/xyhtmn, or email Man-

have to apply to his fellow New TV ‘cause he’s helping people,’ ” Center in the Bronx; NewYork- cials predicting a second wave cini at richardmancinijr@gmail.
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Schools close for OBITUARIES
remainder of academic year
FROM PAGE 2
BY CAROL REIF plans for their eventual reopening that will min-
STAFF WRITER imize the spread of the coronavirus. Steven A. Steinfeld

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement last “We want schools to start now developing a 1952 - 2020
week that all schools and colleges will be closed plan to reopen and the plan has to have proto- Steven A. Steinfeld, a resident of Somers for more
for the rest of the academic year because of the cols in place that incorporate everything that we than 25 years, died ursday, April 23, 2020 at North-
COVID-19 crisis is really putting educators to the are now doing in society and everything that we ern Westchester Hospital following a erce battle with
test. learn,” the governor said. cancer. He was 67.
Steven was born on December 2, 1952 in Far Rock-
A day after making the announcement, Cuo- at means coming up with social distanc- away, Long Island. He grew up in Merrick, LI, gradu-
mo issued an executive order delaying school ing protocols that cover everything from the ated from Kennedy High School in Bellmore, NY and
board elections and budget votes until June 9. classroom, transportation and extracurricular attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, LI.
activities such as sports to steps to ensure stu- He is the beloved husband of nearly 24 years to
Cuomo’s order also delayed local special dis- dent mental health and alternative academic Terri Lee (nee Alford) and devoted father of Tyler and
trict and village elections until Sept. 15. calendars. Sidnee. Steven is also survived by his mother, Marilyn
(nee Bachman) Miller and his brother, David, both of
Voting will be conducted by mail and all qual- All plans will be reviewed and approved by the Boynton Beach, FL; his mother-in law, Shirley (nee
i ed voters will be sent an absentee ballot with state. Maestry) Alford; three sister-in-laws, Robin (Carl)
return postage paid. Habeck, Allyson McCormack, both of SC and Tina
Schools also will be required to continue meal (Bob) Powers of NM, along with several cousins and
“We’ve made great progress to reduce the programs and child care services for essential many nieces and nephews. en last, but not least, is
spread of the COVID-19 virus, but we still don’t workers. Bailey, their feisty Labrador Retriever. He was prede-
know when this pandemic will end and we don’t ceased by his father, Morton Steinfeld; father-in-law,
want to undo all the work we’ve already done to e state will make a decision about summer Sonny Alford and brother-in-law, Billy Alford.
school programming by the end of this month. Steven enjoyed his job as Project Controller/Project
atten the curve,” Cuomo said Friday, May 1. Manager at OND Builders, a commercial construc-
Cuomo has also ordered schools to create Statewide, an estimated 4.2 million students tion rm in NYC, NY and he thought highly of his
are a ected by the closures. coworkers. He was an avid member of Mahopac’s
Sons of American Legion Squadron 1080. Steven was
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Congratulations Congratulations SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO
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Food For The Front Line in Westchester

BY KERI REITMAN in many cases double shifts, to serve our local community. rant & Pizzeria ornwood, Salsa Collectively we are all working
GUEST WRITER save lives. Last month, concerned
northern Westchester residents Food or produce is not easy for Verde Somers, Mission Taque- TOGETHER while APART
So many of us are struggling and restaurateurs, wanting to help,
with being told to stay home and joined forces with the group who the nurses and doctors to get dur- ria Pleasantville and Taste Deli to make a di erence during these
a feeling of helplessness while started #FoodFor eFrontLine
there are thousands of dedicated in New York City so as to focus ing long 12-hour shifts, and even Somers. Produce boxes being sup- unprecedented times and have de-
doctors, nurses and hospital sta on providing expertly prepared-
throughout Westchester County meals and fresh produce for em- if a supermarket or restaurant is ported by Rengi Wholesale. livered over 1000 meals and 200
who are working long hours and ployees at several hospitals that
open, the doctors and nurses are We have navigated the con- take-home bags of fresh produce

trying their best to limit addition- tacts at the hospitals to make since we began on April 1. Soon

al contact by going out in public. sure they get through seamlessly after we began this initiative, Eli

ey are also not easily able to either direct or with their Meal Yates, a sophomore at Somers

get to a grocery store to buy fresh Train site. ey are also working High School, joined our fundrais-

fruits and vegetables to take home to guide us on produce and fruit ing e orts by bringing the #front-

to their own families. Even if they suggestions for the “take home” stepsproject to Somers. e Front-

are able to go, by the time they get produce boxes. StepsProject was started in Boston

there, the shelves are close to bare. e goal is 3-fold: as a way to connect people in these

Many of the town restaurants 1. Raise money to spend isolating times and raise money for

that have chosen to stay open are locally at restaurants to keep sta local charities. ese photo sessions

family owned and operated. We employed and continue operation are short and sweet (5-10 min)

want to support these restaurants, 2. Send Food to the Frontline taken from at least 10 feet away

help them cover costs, and keep 3. Provide to-go “take home” of your family on your front steps

their already scaled back sta , produce boxes with fruits and and is a snapshot of this moment

mployed. e produce suppliers vegetables in history for your family.

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Somers students receive Trumpeting hope
awards for science projects
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIA MCGUIRE
e Tri-County Science & Technology Fair was pared to Healthy Controls, P3 and ∆BPND”
held virtually for the rst time this year and the 2nd Place: Maeve Janecka (Chemistry) for “Anal- Jayden Simpson, 4th grader at Somers Elementary School,
Somers Science Research winners were announced walking through Shenorock playing "God Bless America" on
recently during a Facebook Live event. Students ysis of Heavy Metal Concentrations in JUUL Elec- his trumpet.
submitted video presentations of their research for tronic Cigarette Vapor Based on Vaping Topography
judging and Somers Science Research students per- Identi ed from a Survey of Young Adults”
formed extremely well with almost 20 percent of the
awards from the competition going to Somers stu- 2nd Place: Isabella Sirchia (Medicine and Medical
dents. e following students received awards: Science & Technology) for “Con rming the Target
Protein Expression for Chimeric Antigen Receptor
1st Place: Adrianna Tagayun (Engineering / T-cell erapy in Glioblastoma Multiforme”
Technology) for “Bulk Heterojunction Morphol-
ogy for E cient Organic Solar Cells by Surrogate e Grand Prize at the Tri-County Science &
Modeling” Technology Fair is awarded to the top four highest
scoring projects at the fair. ese students are invited
1st Place: Robert Lusthaus (Math / Computers) to present their research at the STANYS New York
for “Predicting Con ict in the Legend of Zelda with State Science Congress in Syracuse in June. Of those
Arti cial Intelligence” four top-scoring projects, two of them were Somers
Science Research Students.
2nd Place: Melissa Amante (Biology) for “Volu-
metric Analysis of the Primary and Associative Au- Congratulations to Isabella Sirchia and Robert
ditory Cortex in Patients with Schizophrenia com- Lusthaus for receiving the Grand Prize for their re-
search!

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Opinion

Happily
Ever
After

Contemplation and re ection Reverse nostalgia

Ilove watching old movies. Most THE Well, you just never know MAN
anything made between 1939 and SEASONED what you’ll come to ap- OVERBOARD
1990 had a plot you could follow, CITIZEN preciate during a pandemic.
actors who could act, and a real ending. It’s gotten to the point where I just RICK
My favorites were the older ones, shot ADRIENNE can’t wait to have the skies open up MELÉN
in black and white, where the nuances KAVELLE on me unexpectedly as I’m riding
depended not on computer generation my bicycle from my o ce to Grand boys of summer will have grown up by
but rather on lighting and camera angles and not so very many decades ago. Time Central Station, soaking me down to the fall. Empty nesters have re-stocked
and human ingenuity. Even the back- really is relative. A minute can feel for- my socks so that even the receipts in their nests full of those way past the
ground music was more subtle, never ever and a few hours can be over in the my wallet are running. I kind of miss
overwhelming as it sometimes is today, blink of an eye. Looking forward life that at the moment. And I can’t wait edgling stage. Women with attened
adding to the story and not detracting appears to be endless, while looking back to see Gary Sanchez, batting with his curves are nally trending.
from it. makes it seem to have gone by in a hop, third 3-0 count in the game, manage
skip, and a jump. to strike out for the third time. I can’t Even the President has been going
Older movies, though, are poignant to wait for my steak at the restaurant to a little whackadoodle too, working
watch because they allow us to see how Life may really be, as Edgar Allen Poe arrive smothered in garlic sauce, even overtime developing more weird theo-
quickly we age, telescoping the actors’ says, “A dream within a dream”, but I say, though I told the waiter three times ries about disinfectants and ultraviolet
lives. For example, Elizabeth Taylor as a being the dreamer, you create your own to leave it o and made him sign a lights and the like. I remember an
non-credited beautiful little girl in Jane destiny. In the beginning, you can in u- waiver to that e ect, but he’s not the episode of “Forensic Files” where a
Eyre and, seemingly too soon, a seasoned ence your own fate, and toward the end, one who actually brought it out. I can’t woman put antifreeze into her hus-
citizen in a made-for-TV movie shown your own way of acceptance. wait to get stuck in a room for an hour band’s Jell-o and poisoned him to
back to back; Mary Astor, the quintes- at close quarters with a car salesman death, because antifreeze used to taste
sential seductress, overnight becomes the I like to feel that everything is just saturated in Musk for Men who won’t a little bit like Jell-o. e wife insisted
mother in Meet Me In St. Louis. It’s starting and play it from there; that each even leave to talk to his manager. is that she did the same thing every
even more apparent in TV sitcoms. One new stage is a window to what comes is the kind of nostalgic world I’m liv- 3,000 miles, and the husband never
minute Andy Gri th is Opie’s young next and we can either choose to close it ing in now, and maybe you are, too. once overheated. I don’t know what an
father in e Andy Gri th Show and or jump. In the words of the French poet ultraviolet light tastes like, but if I do
next, the elderly attorney in Matlock; Apollinaire: Because here we all still are, to- ingest one I’m going to eat it power
Angela Landsbury, the dance hall diva gether at home, in these challenging cord last so I can plug it in if I need
in e Harvey Girls and next minute, “Come to the edge he said times, all in this together, now more to, and I’ll chase it down with a Jimi
middle-aged Jessica in Murder She They said we are afraid than ever, we’re here for you, staying Hendrix poster.
Wrote; Bea Arthur a brunette in Maude Come to the edge he said safe while piano music plays slowly
and a white-haired seasoned citizen in They did on the television with no narration, \Since no one can see how bad it’s
Golden Girls. He pushed them…and they flew” so that I have to stop what I’m doing going, I’m taking the opportunity
So make the best of whatever life of- and read what the captions say (all of to grow a beard. I pictured myself
Seeing them side by side we wonder, fers…open the window and y. the above). It’s dragging on, and we’re
“Where did all the years go?” With still waiting, we’re still hoping, still SEE MELEN PAGE 11
this unexpected ‘leisure time’ we’re now Contact Adrienne at [email protected] coping. May/December romances are
experiencing we can contemplate all our being put o until July/February. e
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MELEN e instructions said to leave it to have to do the right thing, the they get any smaller. I’m going danger only to themselves. en
on for ve minutes, then wash it safe thing, and learn to like it. to plan something to do every I can nurse a frozen margarita
FROM PAGE 10 o . About three hours later, my single night, and no one is going outside the comfort of my own
wife said, “Weren’t you sup- ere’s going to be a logjam at to complain that I’m never at home, overpay for it and enjoy
looking like a woodcutter, the posed to wash that crap o your the end of the tunnel where the home. Actually I had to make a warm fuzzy feeling in my
type of person to rescue Hansel face?” I jumped up in a panic and light is. I’ve been saving a ton of that complaint up myself. Maybe gut that’s not entirely alcohol-
and Gretel if I ever come across hosed it o , but my beard was money on things that I haven’t we can ship all the conspiracy related. Nostalgia is its name. I’m
them in the woods, the ones I black as tar and looked like a been able to do, and not com- theorists and the science deniers missing all these things, and for
didn’t cut, running away from a fake plastic King Tut beard after muting to work, and vacations and the anti-vaxxers o to their once, they’re missing me, too.
cottage with no driveway, good I went to all the trouble of grow- that were cancelled. I propose own leper colony so they can
luck getting a washing machine ing it. So I had to get another that we take that money and point the nger at each other, Say hello at: [email protected]
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It just makes you want to stream

BRUCE curiosity streaming sounded like consumption. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU SACRED SILVER SCREEN
THE BLOG in 1998. Ravenous is what you call it One website breathlessly told For the entirety of Hollywood

BRUCE I couldn’t resist parodying when whatever passes for an Star Wars fans they could, for history, there’s been a sacred
APAR the new technology’s sputtering “average American” (according the rst time, watch every one of cow in its dealings with lm
connection hiccups -- which it to a survey by OnePoll) cur- the 11 franchise movies in order exhibitors. Real movies don’t go
More than two decades was notorious for in its infancy rently is watching 8 hours a day (9 episodes + 2 spin-o s), on a straight to video. ey rst go
ago, during my tenure -- by waxing poetic, writing, of streamed movies, TV shows, single service, for free. to the silver screen. eatrical
in the business of “bu ering, bu ering … su er- pilates, comedic babies, cuddly releases are royalty. Direct-to-
media industry periodicals -- ing, su ering.” cats, or anything that will mask All they need do is sign up for videos are commoners. It’s as
spanning Hollywood movies our semi-solitary frustration. Disney Plus’s 7-day free trial and simple as that.
and digital technology, when A generation later, with high- binge on the 43-year-old cre-
we still were oohing and aahing speed connectivity as its essential ere’s been a scrum of new ation that made George Lucas a Net ix single-handedly has
over the new miracle of rocket- engine, streaming has become streaming services jostling for billionaire before the trial ends loosened the grip of that theatri-
science DVDs (a moon jump the coin of the realm for con- position to score points with in a hung jury, then they can exit cal stranglehold, with several of
from smokestack-science VHS), sumers who want to cut the cord us. HBO Max, NBC’s Peacock, free and clear. its self-produced movies -- like
I sco ed at the appearance of to cable service so they can cut Apple TV, Hulu, Vudu, Quibi,
a new title that called itself its exorbitant cost before they Tubi (presumably pronounced e 11 lms premiered on e Irishman -- getting street
Streaming Media. cut their wrist. 2B, not tubby). Disney Plus, naturally enough, cred in recent years by way of
on what has come to be known Oscar nominations.
“Good luck with that geeky A NIAGARA FALLS OF e bait to reel in subscribers as Star Wars Day: May the 4th
market,” I thought. What a CONTENT is a free trial period, although (Be With You). Now, the once-untouchable
Pluto TV, owned by CBS, is “theatrical window” looks like it’s
Add to the spreading taste totally free. As of a couple weeks ago, the about to crack even further. e
for cost-cutting cord-cutting world of streaming became as reason is a rather ironic e ect of
the Coronavirus crisis cocoon Marquee movie entertain- dramatic and suspenseful as a movie theaters being o -bounds
culture, and voila! Streaming has ment never has been so plentiful, Hollywood thriller. Not to be to patrons during the pandemic
gushed into a Niagara Falls of convenient, and in our face -- all a spoiler, but the home viewer shutdown.
uncorked content and ravenous at once. looks to be the one who comes
out on top. When Universal Studios re-
leased Trolls: e World Tour on
April 10 digitally, those comput-
er-animated adorables brought
the studio more money within
three weeks ($100 million) than
the rst two Trolls movies made
in ve in release.

Serving Somers & Surrounding Area For Over 30 Years DECLARATION OF WAR
at stark contrast in box
It’s our mission to provide a safe and clean
environment for our customers and employees o ce bucks spurred the studio
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• We are keeping our gas pumps and surrounding areas sanitized soon as theaters re-open, we
• We are observing social distancing, a civic responsibility expect to release movies on both
• We continue to offer our pick-up and delivery service and we formats.”

have suspended pick-up and delivery fees during the at’s industry jargon for
Coronavirus crisis “simultaneous release,” mean-
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Thank You For Your Patronage on the day it opens.
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To the ears of theater owners
President, Aries Automotive like AMC, and their colleagues
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www.ariesautomotiveofsomers.com Adding fuel to the re, Uni-
versal also said that this June
it plans to release e King of
Staten Island, a new Judd Apa-
tow comedy starring Saturday
Night Live’s Pete Davidson, di-
rect to digital for home viewing,
bypassing theaters.

eater owners, by now
apoplectic, had heard enough.

ey informed the Hollywood
studio that they will stop exhib-
iting Universal movies on their
screens.

In social media parlance,
you’ve got to wonder, who’s troll-
ing whom?

To nd out what happens
next in this saga, stay tuned --
on your home screen, of course.
Clearly, that’s where all the ac-
tion is these days.

Bruce Apar is a writer, actor,
consultant, and community
volunteer. He can be reached at
[email protected]; 914.275.6887.

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Remembering what you learn

STRONG ber it. Where do I nd more increase our knowledge about often hard. Unless… and skills they need
LEARNING material to give them so that a given subject, we know that learning happens to rehearse and practice…in
they practice more—not that repetition is the key. Practice unconsciously, as games. e beauty is that when
DR. LINDA they’ll do it! makes perfect, as the old adage a side e ect of playing games, kids don’t even
SILBERT says. doing something know that they’re practicing—
Jen else, especially much less learning—and yet
Dear Dr. Linda, Dear Jen, at’s all well and good something fun. they do and fast. ey’re just
As a mom of three kids, all in if you’re an adult with goal- Let’s be hon- busy having fun—playing with
elementary school, I’m nding What you’re describing setting skills and the matu- est—most golfers others, developing social skills
that their teachers are sending is what happens in school, rity to anticipate the positive would be much like waiting their turns and
them packets and packets of too—not because teachers consequences of achieving more likely to they’re focused on trying to
work to do. want that, but because the those goals. And yet, we expect go to the driving win the game (which sneakily
curriculum requires that kids children, especially young range and practice requires that they improve in
ey can’t do it on their learn too much too fast. Some ones, who are just beginning their golf swings the skill involve). As one child
own, so I’m pretty much kids do just ne. ey learn to learn the foundational skills than to stay at home in one of my summer programs
teaching them all day. ey something and they remember of reading to practice those and read the manual based on playing games to
seem to pick up each new it. However, for most kids, just beginning skills over and for how to operate a new learn how to read said, “I don’t
lesson and get through it because they’ve been exposed over—despite the fact that software program for work. know how it happened, but
pretty fast, but they move on once or twice, they may not they aren’t yet developmentally And they would advance a lot now I can read.”
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term to long-term memory. ate what gaining a new skill or foundational skills of reading poseful, playful practice of terms
No matter what we set out acquiring new knowledge can and math they need to master? and skills they’re learning as
to learn—whether it’s how to potentially do for us, motivat- By embedding the knowledge part of their school curricula, go
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LETTERS

Contact tracing predicted 1.5 to 2.5 million deaths in the business that have worked, in some cases Uncertain conclusions
United States. e number of deaths is for decades, to build a business to support
To the editor: now nearing 60,000. For comparison, each their families and enrich their communi- To the editor:
By His own statistic the Supervisor of year in uenza deaths range from 30,000- ties are shut down. Some will declare Welcome to the world to whom I listen.
80,000. Social distancing was implement- bankruptcy, others will never re-open. De- e president, the governor, our mayor,
the Town of Somers, Mr. Rick Morrissey ed to atten the curve. Now, the curve has pressions cause massive su ering and some
indicated that as of Wednesday, April 29, estimate more deaths than COVID-19 our senators, representatives, a friend, our
there were 165 positive COVID virus attened but social distancing continues. itself. Is the cure worse than the disease? neighbor, my spouse or none of the above.
cases (24 of which were in Heritage Hills.) Companies were forced to make tens of It’s impossible to listen to even two of
thousands of ventilators which are not Vitamin D, vitamin C and Zinc proven them, let alone the entire ensemble.
Since Heritage Hills contains some of being used because they are not needed. immune builders are never mentioned or
the most vulnerable to the virus in NY Children who have near zero risk of death ridiculed. Some hospitals are going broke Everyone seems to have their own fa-
State, I would like to see the supervisor from COVID-19 have been locked out of because they are not allowed to conduct vorite. If you average all of them together
support a contact tracing program, which schools, forced indoors, deprived of exer- crucial services. Most importantly, basic the answers come to certain conclusions.
would identify the source of the virus and cise and sunshine impairing their immune inalienable rights such as free speech,
recommend quarantine for those who are systems. Some elderly COVID-19 victims free association, freedom of religion, and ey are as follows:
responsible for spreading the virus. Such have been sent to nursing homes result- the right to work and support oneself as 1. e Covid-19 virus will continue
a program is vital to ensure the health and ing in the spread of the virus in nursing enunciated in the constitution are denied. anywhere from two weeks to the end of
safety of our fellow citizens. homes. Elderly with underlying conditions Herd immunity which many doctors, epi- human life on earth.
comprise the major target demographic demiologists, and scientists believe is the 2. Deaths will routinely happen from
Frank Gray and the most deaths. best way to get rid of the virus is prevented the virus....
Somers with lock downs. ere is a lot more. But 3. e reopening of the economy will
Deaths and hardships such as suicides, you get the idea. So, can you name just one happen....
Wrong response homicides, and heart attacks due to stress, thing the government, its agencies and 4. e continuation of wearing gloves
divorce, domestic violence and mental advisers have done right during this crisis? and masks will be...See #1.
To the editor: health issues are also known to increase 5. What we really need is a leader who
Any takers? Can you name one thing during times of depressions and recessions e media is another story. will convincingly lie to us about all the
due to the high unemployment rate. Right Brian Murdock possibilities and make us happy and care-
our leaders, advisers (CDC, FDA, WHO) now an astounding 26 million people free until...See#1.
on all levels of government have done are unemployed. More expected. Small Somers
right during this “COVID-19 Crisis?” Jay Spear
With social distancing, assumed models
Somers

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