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Wolf Conservation Center Zephyr was the leader of the ambassador
remembers Zephyr wolves at the Wolf Conservation Center.

Popular ambassador wolf dies at 11 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER

BY GINO DE ANGELIS as the northernmost parts of the over the world, actually.” 23
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STAFF WRITER northeast, including northern e center’s mission is to help 17
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New York. e species was once spread awareness about the con-
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Zephyr the gray wolf was a natu- abundant across the country but servation e orts of gray wolves
6 Eighth-grader competes
ral leader to his siblings at the Wolf was hunted ruthlessly,according to as well as Mexican gray wolves 16 at nationals

Conservation Center in South the National Wildlife Federation. and red wolves. e programs pg 16

Salem. e 11-year-old wolf, one e center described Zephyr as at the center are focused around

of the ambassador wolves at the “the world’s favorite wolf ” due to dispelling the myths and miscon-

center who was the focus of many his popularity both among guests ceptions around wolves that are

educational programs, died on July and viewers of the 24/7 cameras commonplace in public opinion,

2 due to complications from my- in the wolves’habitat. Many guests Howell said.

asthenia gravis, an autoimmune felt a special kinship with the wolf “ e WCC’s three education

disease that a ects the skeletal and would talk about his habits, wolves reside on exhibit where

muscles. including sitting on a rock that they help teach the public about

“He was really kind of the glue overlooked his siblings, Howell wolves and their vital role in the

that held the family unit in bal- said. environment,” the center’s mission

ance,” said Executive Director “ ey felt like they belonged statement says. “ rough wolves,

Maggie Howell. “And I would say with him,”she said.“So when they the WCC teaches the broader

that de nitely his siblings looked did leave the center, they felt like message of conservation, ecologi-

up to him, and he was really a be- they had a friend they left behind.” cal balance, and personal respon-

nevolent leader.” e sta at the center have seen sibility for improved human stew-

Zephyr was the oldest of three major outreach from the public ardship of our world.”

wolf siblings at the center. He was since announcing Zephyr’s death, Howell wants the public and

the self-appointed “leader” among Howell said. ey knew that they the world to know that Zephyr

his family unit with sister Alawa would be breaking hearts, but was dedicated to this mission

and brother Nikai. said the public should know what throughout his life.

“He took it very seriously,” happened to the wolf that meant “He wanted a better world for

Howell said. “And he was a be- something to people. wildlife and especially for wolves,”

nevolent leader.” “We’re getting an outpouring she said.“And, you know, as an ed-

Gray wolves, also known as of messages of just how glad they ucator he was really good at help-

timber wolves, are found across were they got to meet him in per- ing people to work hard to create

the western United States as well son,” she said. “Messages from all that world.”

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TOWN OF LEWISBORO

Parks and Rec welcomes two new faces

BY GINO DE ANGELIS
STAFF WRITER

e Lewisboro Parks and

Recreation Department has wel-

comed two new faces to their

sta . Nicole Caviola, a former

employee of the town, has re-

turned as acting head of the de-

partment, while Nikki Santos is

the town’s new recreation leader.

“I started in Lewisboro season-

ally when I was 14 as a counselor

in training for day camp,”Caviola

said. “When I became 16 years

old, I got lifeguard certi ed and

started working at the town pool,

which I slowly moved up the lad-

der became a head lifeguard, and

then the director.”

Caviola worked at the Lewis-

boro pool on sta from 2011 until

2017, when she was the pool direc-

tor during the summer and worked

in the o ce during the o season.

She then worked overseeing the

day camps in Mount Kisco for 18 Nicole Caviola and her family Nikki Santos and her family
months, and then overseeing the
pools in Bedford until her current PHOTO COURTESY OF NICOLE CAVIOLA PHOTO COURTESY OF NIKKI SANTOS

return to Lewisboro. ‘This was like my hometown. I grew up working here, so ‘I want the residents to know that I am open and welcome
“ is was like my hometown.

I grew up working here, so this this was a perfect opportunity to come back.’ to conversations regarding all aspects of the town.’
was a perfect opportunity to come

back,” Caviola said. She is from –Nicole Caviola –Nikki Santos
Connecticut, but her mother

worked in the Parks and Recre-

ation Department, which allowed “When I rst interviewed here, interested,” Santos said. “Building giving the residents what they de- to work for Lewisboro. I want the

her to work on the programs. I honestly couldn’t believe how big a camp program where the camp- serve,” she said. “I feel like com- residents to know that I am open

“With both backgrounds and it was, and the amount of space ers are excited to come back every munity events are very important and welcome to conversations re-

overseeing the department, it was that there is to actually build on year to see this, the same sta and for the community. ey are the garding all aspects of the town,”

perfect,” she continued. programs,” Santos said. “I am not to be excited.” gateway to recreation and resi- she said. “ e department has an

Santos, who lives in Carmel, interested in changing anything Caviola, meanwhile, wants to dents learn about you when they amazing and dedicated sta and I

worked in Kent’s Parks and Rec- within the department; however, improve the department and pro- attend your special events and see appreciate the opportunity to ad-

reation Department for four years. I look forward to improving and grams as a whole as director. One what you have to o er.” vance my career here.”

“I was responsible for handling expanding on current programs of her focuses is to renovate the ey also said they wanted resi- “I’m always willing to listen

all the scheduling for their major and special events as well as grow- bathhouse at the pool, which is dents to know they’re always open and take any recommendations

sports programs,” she said. ing new ones.” something she said she wanted to to feedback. Santos said she has or any suggestions,” Caviola said.

Lewisboro has a larger depart- Both women want to expand do since she started in the town. had a big transition coming from “If somebody’s got a new program

ment than Kent, she said, which on the programs that are currently She also wants to expand person- a smaller town, but that her co- idea, or they think a park could

is what drew her to want to take being o ered by the town, as well nel and o er the town more pro- workers are what really helped her, bene t from something then I’m

on the recreation leader position as introduce new ones. grams. and she wants to pay that forward always willing to listen and always

in a new town. She will oversee “To build and expand on what’s “Improving the parks and the to the community. looking to make the facilities and

day camps in the summer as well already been brought to the table facilities within the parks, trying “I am extremely excited and the park and our department bet-

as special events in the o season. is something that I de nitely am to bring back what used to be, and grateful to have the opportunity ter for the community.”

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The Staff LEWISBORO SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

EDITORIAL TEAM Gas-to-electric campaign
BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER Aims to lower noise, fumes
EDITOR: 914-302-5628
[email protected] BY GINO DE ANGELIS “ e great thing about it is said. e focus is on lawn of the relative e ciency of the
STAFF WRITER that it’s something that’s not equipment, not just because motors,” Alkon said.
VIM WILKINSON just bene cial for the climate, of the noise pollution and
SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR e Lewisboro Sustainability it’s bene cial for the individuals excess fumes, but also the low Electric equipment also
[email protected] Advisory Committee is who make the switch from e ciency of things like gas- requires less maintenance
holding a gas-for-electric lawn gas to electric because they’re powered leaf blowers. Using one throughout the year, and the
ADVERTISING TEAM equipment exchange campaign less exposed to the noise and of these machines for one-hour reduction in noise and fumes
PAUL FORHAN through July 30. Residents can fumes, and it’s bene cial to produces emissions equivalent are a big deal to neighborhoods
bring their old gas-powered the whole neighborhood, too,” to driving a Toyota Camry where many people now work
(914) 806-3951 lawn equipment to the town’s said committee member Meir for 1,100 miles, according to from home, Alkon said. ese
[email protected] recycling center at 11 Main St. Alkon. the California Air Resources three levels — individual,
and receive a voucher that can Board. neighborhood, and global
BRUCE HELLER be used for $100 o an electric Municipalities around the — are the real focus of the
(914) 486-7608 alternative at participating country have been doing similar “It’s actually worse for campaign.
[email protected] businesses in town. programs for years, which have climate emissions, it’s worse for
been very successful, Alkon carbon emissions, just because “It’s really a slam dunk for
LISA KAIN everybody, for individuals who
(201) 317-1139 Judi R McAnaw participate in the program,
[email protected] FiJnuadnicRialMAcdAvinsoarw and for the whole town, but
CORINNE STANTON also for climate change,” he
(914) 760-7009 JFuindainRciMalcAAdnvaiswor3SSJFuoo3inmm2daRieenrroRsscu,FitMNaeinYl1ca0AnA100cdni5Sav8alui9CswiS3S9toeeoo31S3S9F4nmm2r3oo31i-tn4mm02Ree6e-arro6r0Reess6un9,rro6FtN-ssceuiS395,nYFit13N-aaoe3i052nn1Yl001m392ca0Ai25n1Sa0089Rcelud9iC5iSartov8eelusinu9Cs3ittF0oteeeer0nir3nt0e1ar00n0ciSaluCiteen3t0er0 said. “So, you know, even if you
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JAY GUSSAK 914-669-5329 program for you.”
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[email protected] Recycling the equipment has
SHELLEY KILCOYNE the added e ect of not just taking
(914) 924-9122 the gas engines out of circulation,
[email protected] but also providing metal that can
be used as new building material,
PRODUCTION TEAM and not just end up in a land ll.
TABITHA PEARSON MARSHALL Participants in the program are
asked to empty any piece they
CREATIVE DIRECTOR turn in of gas and oil, which state
PHOTOGRAPHER law requires be collected by local
gas stations.
[email protected]
NOAH ELDER e vouchers that are being
DESIGNER o ered were funded from
a grant from the New York
[email protected] State Energy Research and
Development Authority, and
EXECUTIVE TEAM thus don’t require any funding
BRETT FREEMAN from the town. e vouchers
CEO & PUBLISHER can be used at either Copia
845-208-8151 Home and Garden or Chubby’s
Ace Hardware,which both o er
[email protected] electric equipment options.

Deadlines “We think it’s a good idea
and wanted to be part of the
THE KATONAH-LEWISBORO TIMES program as a convenience to
DEADLINE the members of the town,”
Chubby’s owner Joe DiPietro
THE DEADLINE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS said. “Electric equipment is
getting more popular.”
AND EDITORIAL SUBMISSIONS IS THE
e vouchers are good for any
THURSDAY BEFORE THE NEXT electric leaf blower, trimmer, or
PUBLICATION DATE. lawn mower at the retailers, the
committee said.
FOR MORE INFORMATION,
CALL BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER AT “ e main point is that we
914-302-5628 OR EMAIL want to help encourage and
[email protected] support people in making the
switch from gas to electric,”
Location Alkon said. “So we will do that.”

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Project for veterans TOWN CROSSING
receives community support
BBQ & Blues for you keep your brain and body
Bedford healthy as you age. Learn
about research in the areas of

Sunday, July 17, 4-7 p.m., diet and nutrition, exercise,

Bedford Village Memorial cognitive activity and social

BY GINO DE ANGELIS said. e committee is working on Park, 65 Greenwich Road, engagement, and use hands-
STAFF WRITER design proposals, and the goal is to
have the memorial be a permanent Bedford on tools to help you incorpo-
Grant Vialardi started Project
Honor as a way to recognize vet- xture, he said. He added that the Returning from its suc- rate these recommendations
erans in the Lewisboro communi- community reaction is much better
ty. e project, in which the John than he could have hoped for. cessful launch year in 2019 into a plan for healthy aging.
Jay student collects, repairs, and
sells old watches and cameras and “I’ve received a lot of emails and is BBQ & Blues for Bedford. is free in-person pro-
donates the money for local vets, comments and private messages
has been a success so far, he said. through GoFundMe and on Face- Details about and tickets for gram takes place in the ac-
book, and people are very support-
“It’s going great,” he said. “I’ve ive of it,” he said. “ ere’s one man the evening of live music, cessible lower-level Garden
been collecting and I’ve gotten a who said if we reached out to him
lot of donations from people in and told him how close we were to food and fun can be found at Room at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July
the community, I have all sorts of our goal, he would make sure we
di erent cameras and watches.” reached the nal goal.” bbq22.eventbrite.com. is 19. Register on the library’s

Vialardi is working with the e current goal for the Go- collaboration of the Bedford website, or call the Alzheim-
Veterans Advisory Committee, FundMe is $1,000, which is higher
which he says all the donations than the initial goal of $500, Vial- Armonk Rotary and the Li- er’s Association at 800-272-
will go to, both from the refur- ardi said. He added that if the goal
bished pieces as well as a Go- is reached before the end of the ons Club of Bedford Village 3900.
FundMe that has raised $675 so project, it will be raised to $1,500.
far. e current plan is to accept raises funds for the Com- Lewisboro Library
donations through Veterans Day, He said that enthusiasm was so munity Center of Northern
with a plan to build a memorial high that people were donating
on the grounds of John Jay High things that he says he’s not experi- Westchester and Mount
School to honor alumni who enced enough to work on, includ-
served and died. ing a leaf blower. Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry. e Lewisboro Library is

“On that memorial, we’ll have “I think it strikes a chord be- Help for Your located at 15 Main St., South
a pretty comprehensive list of cause we don’t have a memorial Salem. Register for programs
names of the John Jay veterans for John Jay students, and I think
that died in combat, and they people really recognize that that’s Aging Brain at lewisborolibrary.org.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF GRANT VIALARDI needs,” he said. Tuesday, July 19, 7 p.m., TEEN ENGINEERING

A Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Katonah Village Library, 26 WITH LITTLEBITS
Vialardi recieved as a donation.
“After cleaning, lubricating and Bedford Road, Katonah On Tuesday, July 19, at 4
adjusting some of the internal
components and replacing the is education program is p.m., the library is holding a
leather cover, the camera is now
able to take pictures,” he said. presented by the Alzheimer’s “Teen Engineering with Lit-

were the ones we would want to Association. tleBits” workshop for teens
put on the memorial,” he said.
For centuries, we’ve known in middle and high school.
e memorial itself would be
some form of plaque or engraving that the health of the brain Experiment with engineer-
with all the names on it, Vialardi
and the body are connected. ing by playing with a variety

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Mixed marriages Changing times

Last month, I volunteered to a friend of mine says, “It’s hard to As I pulled up to the gas station, I “Smart” washing machine had detected an
serve as an election inspector hate up close.” Successful marriages felt like the proverbial old geezer “uneven load – UE” and had attempted to
for the Democratic and focus on what brings one another who says things like, “I never continue spinning and adding more water

Republican primaries for governor. together. thought I’d see the day...” From gasoline to try to re-balance the wet comforter

Volunteering I rst became to a dozen eggs, prices keep changing. cover. I followed the instructions in the

might be a bit curious about the Earlier that day I had manual and pried the
IN CASE phenomenon of
misleading since just nished writing wet comforter cover o
the Board of
Elections does pay YOU the political mixed a short story. After I READING, one side of the washing
pretty well, in my WRITING &
MISSED IT marriage when I was printed it out, the HP machine and then pressed
printer displayed a series CHOCOLATE several buttons to re-start
on the campaign

case enough for DON SCOTT trail locally. One of ominous messages KIM the process. I aged about
that new 3-wood I day, I knocked on a
on the tiny screen: KOVACH ten years waiting for

have my eye on. door looking for a Ink Sensor Warning! the washing machine to

It was a long, Republican husband e Y cartridge may be nish and play the correct

but enjoyable, day. to sign my petition counterfeit or used! tune.

One moment sticks out. A young so that I could appear on the ballot. What the heck? I always purchase my I then placed the wet comforter cover

couple came to vote. As I looked e registered Democrat wife ink cartridges at Staples in those plastic inside the clothes dryer and set the dryer

up their registration to determine answered the door and informed covers that need to be unlocked at the cycle for 50 minutes. When the timer

which ballot to give each of them, I me that her husband was not a register. I rarely print in color, mainly sounded that the drying cycle had ended,

discovered that she was a Democrat Republican. After I told her that just black ink. e ominous messages on I reached in to nd that the comforter

and he was a Republican. I kidded he was registered as a Republican, the tiny printer screen continued: e cover was still wet! e dryer had been

them that they were in a mixed she replied, “not for long.” Peaceful original HP ink in one or more cartridges spinning for 50 minutes but no heat!

marriage and asked them their secret coexistence is easier in some homes has been depleted. If they were sold to you as Without a distressing song or ashing

for marital bliss. He o ered with a than in others. new genuine HP cartridges they might be diagram on a screen, I had no idea that I

smile, “I have learned to keep quiet A little research of local voter counterfeit. HP does not warranty non-HP now had a clothes dryer problem.

when her parents are visiting.” She rolls shows there are a few hundred ink. To continue using the cartridges select I am still waiting for the dryer repair

smiled, too. mixed marriages in our community, OK. person. Apparently there is only one

eir story brought to mind which I nd fascinating. ose I did not select OK. Is this a marketing quali ed appliance technician in the tri-

political pundits from a few years couples have honed skills that many scam? I had installed the Yellow ink state area. ree weeks without a working

back, Mary Matalin and James of us may have forgotten when it cartridge on August 28, 2021. After all of clothes dryer! Oh, sure I can still wash my

Carville. ey both had successful comes to reaching across the aisle this time it seems odd that the printer is clothes in the washing machine but do

careers as campaign operatives and and getting along with our cross- now warning me the Yellow ink may be you know how long it takes to air dry a

political commentators on opposite party neighbors. Since our partisan counterfeit. wet bath towel, especially with the rainy,

sides of the aisle. Famously, he politics seem to have moved friends e short story I had just nished damp and unseasonably cool temperatures

was one of the architects of Bill and neighbors into sometimes rocky writing and printing out was a science we’ve experienced these last few weeks?

Clinton’s victory in 1992 and earned relationships, maybe there is much ction piece about a woman staying in a I have wet clothing and towels hung up

the Louisiana native the nickname to learn from these couples. “Smart” hotel room tted with high tech around the house.

“the Ragin Cajun.” She worked for Interestingly, a national devices. e irony was not lost on me. Have you ever touched a large bath

President Reagan and both Bushes. organization known as Braver In my story, the woman is informed that towel after air-drying for several days?

eir romance started during that Angels was formed in 2016 after the the lights and faucets are all operated by It feels like sandpaper! Sti and rough

’92 campaign when they faced o as bitter presidential election brought motion-sensors and the bathroom mirror like a slab of dried salt cod that you nd

combatants. ey have been married partisan rancor to new heights. e uses “Flattery” technology to adjust in specialty markets. I tried drying my

for over 30 years and have two group conducts workshops that the angle of re ection according to her hands with an air-dried kitchen towel and

grown daughters. bring “reds” and “blues” together to appearance. e tension builds as the almost sloughed o the top layer of my

When asked how they avoid try to understand one another better main character vs. the “Smart” hotel room. epidermis!

having their political di erences get and to turn down the temperature is was the same week that my

in the way of a successful family, of our politics. eir workshops “Smart” LG washing machine took Kim Kovach complains about technology and

Matalin said, “Our marriage isn’t a rely on couples therapy techniques two hours to wash my winter comforter then writes about it. www.kimkovachwrites.

democracy. We have a higher calling to conduct the sessions. Marriage cover before nally playing a sorrowful com

and responsibility to our family. therapy may be a good metaphor to tune and ashing the letters UE. e

Considerations in marriages are achieve a less divided country. Like

way di erent than considerations in a family, we all have to live together

politics.” since we are stuck with one another. Letters and Op-Ed Policy
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O ce with smiles on their faces. other, so we better gure out a way

It is hard to imagine a picture like to get along and run the country

that being taken now. Part of our together.” ere may be lessons to

current problem may be that people be learned from those in mixed

from opposite parties don’t come marriages among us.

into contact with one another. As

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Decorating not in the budget

MUSINGS: I still had the old canvases, I told her I was not willing to Editorial Submissions
PAST AND most of which I had never sell the picture that I had made Press releases and photos should be submitted to The
PRESENT for myself, but that I would Katonah-Lewisboro Times by the Thursday before the
nished because I decided make her an exact replica, and next publication date. Submissons can be emailed to klt@
MARILYN A. I had absolutely no talent. then promised never to make halstonmedia.com or mail it to Katonah-Lewisboro Times,
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too, so I decided to create a price. I even had to ask her Send a self-addressed stamped envelope if you’d like your
When we rst moved my own artwork to cover for a down payment so I would photo returned.
to Katonah we my bare walls. Most of the have enough money to buy a
were, “Poor as new pieces were abstracts, new canvas and more paints
church mice,” as the saying but a few I salvaged from my and brushes.
goes. is was our rst house, previous attempts, and found I
and there was so much more had a couple of landscapes and Fast forward a few years, and
decorating needed than in one still life. Many I hung as one day when I was substitute
the tiny apartment where they were, but a couple I felt teaching, I had a child in
we had previously lived. needed frames. class with the same unusual
I took my canvases down last name as the person who
e landscaping was very to a place in Katonah called had purchased my painting.
overgrown and really should Repair It. I was not yet While at recess, I asked the
be replaced, because it was familiar with the area, but little boy if he had a picture
so leggy. at we could not someone told me that this hanging over his replace of a
a ord to do, but it would man did frame work. (Little very colorful, abstract tree. His
at least need a professional did I know that most of the eyes widened and he asked,
trimming — costly also to frames he worked on were “Do you know my family, and
say the least. e living room for masterpieces and owned have you been to my house?”
and dining room were knotty by the Rockefellers, etc.) I “No,” I assured him, “But I
pine, and with the property next took my new endeavor, am the person who painted
so overgrown it looked like a large abstract tree I had just that picture.” “Oh! My! I can’t
twilight all day long. Here completed, down for him wait to go home and tell my
was a big paint job and added to frame as I had the others mother,” he said. I knew he
expense we had not expected. before. A few days later I would not understand if I tried
got a call, and the voice said, to explain that his mom had
We quickly realized that “I told you you were getting actually commissioned me to
spending money on anything better.” I quizzically asked who do the painting and paid me
but absolute essentials was was calling, and he identi ed for my endeavor. I gured she
not possible. We did have the himself as “Repair It.” Next would be happy to explain how
walls painted a nice bright he came back with, “Someone it all came about.
white, though, and then wants to buy your painting.”
they de nitely needed some I was in a state of disbelief. With his registered surprise
decorative touches. A number Once he assured me it was and enthusiasm, and knowing
of years before, when I had not a joke, he gave me the my painting was still hanging
woman’s name. I called her many years later, he left me
rst started my teaching career, immediately, and she and I with the feeling that I had
I took some painting classes. made arrangements to meet. actually become a contributing
member of the art world.

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