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Santa’s coming to town! who attend Increase Miller El- such a hit with families because

e jolly old elf will venture ementary School and who live in their children were able to get the

from the North Pole for his tradi- the Golden’s Bridge Fire District full Santa experience in a safe and

tional visit to the Golden’s Bridge (all of Golden’s Bridge and swaths streamlined way, that we decided

Firehouse on Sunday, Dec.  18, of Somers and North Salem) was to keep it going again this year, but

from 1 to 3 p.m., when the Gold- adjusted to a curbside event last with some additional fun ameni-

en’s Bridge Fire Department hosts year due to pandemic concerns. ties,” explained Mines, who said

“Children’s Curbside with Santa But curbside with Santa was such a that everything, of course, is free.

Holiday Extravaganza.” Have your sensation with the community, that “Why wait in long lines at the

cameras ready, because Santa will GBFD o cials decided to make crowded mall for a picture with

chat and take photos with all chil- this year’s holiday extravaganza the Santa when you can take your own

dren and provide them with gift second-annual curbside event, ac- at the Golden’s Bridge Firehouse

bags lled with treats, candy, crafts cording to re ghter and holiday without the wait, and where Santa’s

and more. Santa’s elves will also be party event chair Steven Mines. helpers are handing out donuts, hot

dishing out hot dogs, donuts, candy “Last year, we went curbside out dogs, and gift bags – all for free?”

canes and snacks to kids and adults of an abundance of caution. But we added Mines.

while they wait in their vehicles for stumbled onto something new and

the photo op and chat with Santa.  exciting that provided a fresh take For more information, call or text

Santa arriving at e popular decades-long tradi- on a storied tradition at the Gold- the Golden’s Bridge Fire Department
last year’s event.
tion of the Golden’s Bridge Fire en’s Bridge Firehouse. With ev- community representative at 914-
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South Salem man faces charges in fatal hit and run

BY TOM BARTLEY injured a woman on Dec. 1 in the on multiple charges in the death of 9 o’clock last ursday evening. dered to be held in county lockup
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Cross River shopping plaza then Randi J. Blattberg, 65, of Mount Dickens drove o , the police said, when he could not post either a
Vernon. but was apprehended in Purdys at $35,000 cash bail, $100,000 bond
A South Salem motorist is ed. about 6 p.m. on Friday. or $200,000 partially secure bond. 
due back in court next week for a Unable to make bail, Je rey State police said Dickens hit
hearing on charges that he fatally S. Dickens, 62, was being held in Blattberg as she was walking in the After arraignment in Lewisboro SEE ACCIDENT PAGE 24
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The Pound Ridge Nursery
sign, devoid of the

usual Christmas Shop
announcement.

PHOTOS: BILL BONGIORNO

Famed Christmas shop closes at Pound Ridge Nursery

Santa Claus, cider, sleigh rides and memories 

BY BILL BONGIORNO a story here.  is rst sign of the the closing or the plans.  ere Even the stone gateway is for sale.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Christmas season always brought was simply a Facebook post of
excitement for the holidays to my appreciation thanking the patrons.  Trees stand guard at the gate like wooden soldiers.
On a recent drive into Pound family. ere was everything a Garden Center, Inc.  According hopeful.
Ridge, I passed the Pound Ridge person could want to decorate for It went on to say, “As of this to his LinkedIn pro le, he He promised more updates
Nursery and did a double take.  I the holidays, and many things one Saturday, October 29, we will be also owns Hudson Landscape to come, but no hot cider was
expected to see them in full swing would just dream of putting under closing down our Nursery Retail Contractors and Tree Care mentioned. Well,whatever comes
for the Christmas season.  or around the tree.   Operations for the season. is Specialists. He earned a degree of this Pound Ridge staple, I want
strategic move will allow us the in nance from Fordham, to thank them for the many great
I was already thinking about One of the longest standing opportunity to restructure our an MBA from Long Island memories of Christmas times
the Christmas shop with all its sights in Pound Ridge has been this current business operations and University and a Construction past with my family and all best
beautiful and unique o erings.  e nursery spanning three generations our aging facilities.” Management Certi cate from wishes for a Merry Christmas
cider was always piping hot.  I and the latest new owner. NYU.  is makes me very and Happy New Year.
needed two cups to hold it.  en It continued saying that during
of course there were the visits with New Rochelle resident Vincent the temporary “closing” it would
Santa, where my kids would sit Pasciuti purchased the land in still provide landscape design and
on his lap and tell him what they 1924 when it was the original 40- installation, seasonal containers,
wanted for Christmas.  en a acre Lockwood Estate.  property maintenance and delivery
sleigh ride, reindeer, a re and most of bulk and bagged materials. No
recently, a food truck to top it o . Lou Weinstock was part of the mention of the big guy in the
second generation of this business red suit with the white beard, no
However, there was a sign it and was the patriarch of the family. magical Christmas shop and the
was closed and not to enter.  My Lou started the tradition of giving hot cider, well… 
curiosity (and panic) got the better each child a Christmas tree seedling
of me and I drove in. I was greeted to be planted at home.  We have is fairy tale place won’t have
warmly by a worker who was planted many in our yard and some a happy ending, at least not for
watering shrubs. We chatted for a are getting bigger and perhaps now, as far as this holiday season is
while and I got the sad news about may become our decorated tree concerned.
the shop closing and being turned in the window one year.  Another
into a design studio.  e trees that reminder of wonderful memories It went on to say that if
were all around for sale, which of Pound Ridge Nursery. anyone possessed a Pound Ridge
stood at the ready like sentries in Nursery Gift Card with an open
“March of the Wooden Soldiers,” According to their website, the balance, you were encouraged
turned out to be from another Pound Ridge Nursery mission to visit them before the end
company. and vision has been to provide October, but they were holding
customers with premiere owers, “pop up” one day ash sales on
According to the person, the plants, trees, shrubs, as well as all inventory during the months
nursery had been there for some landscape services to bring homes of November and December.  
80 years under several di erent and o ces to life.
owners. I was intrigued and sensed e sad missive was signed by
e owner over the past six John R. Gualtiere, President &
years did not want to talk about Owner Pound Ridge Nursery &

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Board of Ed considers move for Vets tax break

Support for Coach Bill continues

BY TOM BARTLEY erans’ bene t. So, while the ex- Last year, Westchester law- out. “We are making that deci- covering the period from July 1,
CONTRIBUTING WRITER emptions—existing minimums makers voted increases in county sion on behalf of the people who 2019, to Nov. 9, 2021, does not
and contemplated increases— property-tax exemptions for will pay more taxes. We are pre- say speci cally that the district
Veterans could get a bigger are clearly a tangible “thank those categories of veterans of suming that they would like this overspent, but maintains that of-
break on their property taxes un- you for your service,” they also $75,000/$50,000/$250,000. position, that they would sup-
der a move discussed last week impose a burden on nonveteran port this position.” cials did not follow best prac-
by the Katonah-Lewisboro property owners to make up the Other school districts have tices to assure the lowest pos-
School District board. lost revenue to the district. already enacted increases as Selesnick noted the projected sible bids.
well. KLSD surveyed 31 of 2024-25 e ective start for any
Building on exemptions voted “In the case of this exemption, them, including the Bed- new increases. “So, we do have In a response, School Super-
seven years ago in the district, a reduction [in taxes] for one ford Central School District, a little bit of time in this school intendent Andrew Selesnick
the new bene t would mir- group of taxpayers becomes an which raised exemptions to year—not a lot of time [because] and Marjorie Schi , the school
ror recent increases enacted in increase for a di erent group of $36,000/$24,000/$120,000. this has to be done by spring- board president, acknowledge
county property-tax exemptions. taxpayers,” Selesnick said. time-ish—in order to be in ef- shortcomings in the contract
KLSD is “at the minimum” fect for those years,” he said. process.
at revision spares as much e district’s assistant super- —$12,000/$8,000/$40,000—as
as $75,000 of a property’s as- intendent for business, Danelle are most other districts, re ect- AUDIT FAULTS But they note that corrective
sessed value, up from the cur- Pacella, outlined the proposed ing the gures in a 2013 state CONTRACT AWARDS steps, including new procedures
rent $12,000, for all wartime exemption increases in a pre- law authorizing the veterans’ tax and training, have been initi-
Veterans. ose who served in sentation at the school board’s break. Whatever numbers the KLSD may have spent more ated and that a number of the
a combat zone or were disabled Dec. 1 meeting. She made these board ultimately approves, they than it had to in awarding con- contracts cited in the audit were
would qualify for even larger ex- points: will result “in a tax shift from tracts for millions of dollars in awarded during the extended,
emptions. one group of taxpayers to an- projects over a more than two- atypical pressure of the corona-
Qualifying veterans—anyone other.” year period, a state audit has virus pandemic.
Whether KLSD follows suit who served in uniform dur- found.
on the county move or chooses ing speci cally de ned times Trustee William Rifkin said of PROTECTIVE
some other amounts, the school of war—now enjoy a $12,000 the bene t increases, “Obviously, “District o cials did not en- HOLDS POLICY
board would have to act by next exemption on their real estate this is a worthwhile move.” But sure that goods and services
spring to put higher exemptions tax. ose who were on duty in he also addressed the “unique- were procured in the most cost- e school board adopted a
in e ect for the 2024-25 school a combat zone can add another ness” of imposing the veterans’ e cient manner, or provide ade- policy on protective holds and
year, School Superintendent $8,000, for a $20,000 exemp- break on the district’s nonvet- quate oversight of awarded con- “time-out” rooms, spelling out
Andrew Selesnick said. tion; and anyone in uniform eran taxpayers. tracts,” the report by the o ce when and how they’re employed
who was service-disabled in of State Comptroller omas and the timing of parental noti-
Unlike other school-tax wartime could be given as much “ is is explicitly saying, ‘ is DiNapoli said.
breaks like the STAR program, as $40,000 more. group pays less taxes; this group cation.
Albany does not fund the Vet- pays more taxes,’” Rifkin pointed e report, dated Nov. 28 and
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Town Board continues Oakridge Water District inquiry

BY GINO DE ANGELIS project moves forward. Sessions Consulting Engineers water demands are at their peak.” they’re hedging a little bit that
STAFF WRITER A threshold question is on Nov. 10. e rm had e consulting rm also if you get up to peak in the
completed a review of the water summer, and you consider some
e Town Board has decided presented, namely, “will the capacity in the Oakridge district recommended the town kind of restriction so that it’s
to continue discussing the Oakridge Water District extend that the board had requested at implement additional metering consistent with what they issued
water issues at Oakridge Water service connections to these new its Sept. 27 meeting. at di erent distribution points during the drought and the
District, as the Planning Board residential units?” the letter from in the district to get more detail con ict with increased irrigation
has requested a decision on Planning Board Chair Janet “It is the opinion of this o ce on usage. at that time,” Welsh said.
moving forward with the Andersen read. “ e Planning that there is adequate capacity
construction of 18 housing Board seeks response from the in the water treatment facility to “It’s di cult for me to Town Supervisor Tony
units, a project called the Villas Town Board to facilitate its serve in the project as proposed,” reconcile the two, we have them Goncalves said that at least
at Vista. review of this application and the Kellard Sessions report talking about adequate capacity the summary at the end of the
avoid a commitment of resources read. “We would recommend yet based upon the drought report to the Oakridge Water
At the Nov. 15 Planning toward a project that absent the the continuing monitoring of last summer there were days District Consumption page that
Board meeting it was decided service connections, will not go water usage within the district that exceeded the metering,” has been on the town’s website
to send a correspondence to the forward.” as needed to consider water Councilman Rich Sklarin said. since July.
Town Board, as they have nal restrictions during the summer
say in whether the development e Town Board had received months for irrigation use when Councilman Dan Welsh
a communication from Kellard echoed a similar sentiment.

“I think the key here is that

BOE applied to youngsters with dis- to the mats last week even as pointment to his part-time done for two decades. After
abilities and other needs. Bill Swertfager continued his coaching position two weeks the rst 10 speakers, at about
FROM PAGE 4 quest to return as their coach. ago following an unspeci ed 9:30, school board President
Matthew Goglia of South Sa- complaint last year apparently Marjorie Schi called for a
Reading a resolution of more lem was a leader of the parents’ More than 50 supporters of associated with a 2021 girls 45-minute executive session.
than 1,000 words, board Policy Special Education Advocacy the wrestling program’s long- softball game, in which had had Supporters waited till members
Committee Chairman William Group, which became a famil- time leader lled the high been a voluntary coach. KLSD returned then resumed their
Rifkin said that any “emergency iar and vocal presence at board school library for the school o cials have cited privacy con- pleas.
interventions” must be reviewed meetings from the spring of board’s Dec. 1 meeting. It was cerns and legal restrictions in
by district supervisors and that 2021 till this past May. He said the rst time since October not specifying what prompted Despite the board’s Nov. 17
parents must be told of the ac- this week, in response to a re- that the board convened in its them to refuse Swertfager’s re- appointment of a roster of win-
tion the same day it occurs. porter’s question, that the group usual meeting location after appointment. ter season coaches that did not
had not been consulted on the a crush of public support for include Swertfager, his attorney
e new policy follows a year- language of the new policy. Swertfager forced both No- As they did at the Novem- and the district’s continued un-
long campaign by the parents of vember meetings into larger ber meetings, Swertfager sup- de ned negotiations last week,
special-education students to COACH’S BACKERS venues. porters politely and passion- the coach told KLSD leader-
challenge the district’s handling TURN OUT ately pleaded for the coach’s ship in the public comment
of those children. ey called for Swertfager, a Katonah busi- reinstatement to the job he’s period.
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Happily Ever After

One-legged turkey

How was your anksgiving? competition lters down to me and Prairie Home Companion,” which is mouth and it jumped right in, but I
People ask that all the time, my sister Kath, because we understand one of my favorite things to do this wish it would have waited until I cut it
and what they want to best that games are just a metaphor for time of year. If you are a writer or a into a smaller piece. My mouth is open
musician or both, and you can’t nd quite a lot, so it wasn’t a particularly
know is, how bad did you ght with survival in today’s world. something to love in that show, there’s unusual occurrence.
something wrong with you. At my age
your relatives? I had a nice holiday, My strategy is to throw everything there’s usually something wrong with Now that I’m working with only
me anyway, so loving things rarely one usable leg, I’ve bene ted from the
although due to circumstances beyond into the pot and see what simmers. makes it worse. Stevie Wonder E ect. ere used to be
a theory that because Stevie Wonder
our control I was at’s also how I got Garrison Keillor was back onstage does not have the use of his eyes, all
after a forced sabbatical during which his other senses were heightened,
forced into the kicked out of the he was dropped by his sponsoring radio and that’s how he was able to excel in
network for “misconduct.” I don’t know music. e theory doesn’t account for
kitchen on one foot, MAN kitchen earlier in the much about a lot of things, but I do the fact that Stevie Wonder has more
know that what goes on between two talent in his pinky nger than most of
where my basting OVERBOARD day. Kath’s approach is people is something NOBODY knows us have in our whole body. ank god
much about, which makes it hard to he still has the use of his pinky nger.
was lambasted, my to know all the rules, come to black-and-white conclusions. I Anyway, it seems that since I can’t use
also know that “misconduct” sounds like my right foot, all the other parts of my
stu ng didn’t have RICK and tell me only the something a maestro should be red for. body are proving to be more useful and
talented than they ever were before.
the right stu , my MELÉN ones she thinks I need Anyway, the show hearkens back For instance, I went up and down the
to the nostalgic days of radio comedy, stairs at the restaurant on my butt. en
mashed potatoes were to know. is rivalry complete with an old-fashioned sound- I proceeded to drive home through
e ects man. I would give anything to midtown Manhattan using only my left
bashed and even the goes all the way back be in charge of sound-e ects, but my foot, which as far as I know is neither
wife thinks that I would be better suited illegal nor smart. I can’t wait to see what
turkey complained to our childhood, when to noise-e ects. Either way, I would else my left foot can do, not to mention
welcome any excuse to do a little more my butt, and now I’m sorry that I did
about where I took its temperature. we spent the hours that we should hearkening. mention it.

Finally I was told to just prepare the have been studying hidden in attic Afterwards at the restaurant I Look for Rickster Melen on Facebook! Say
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I served it in the perfect shape of a tin vague suspicion that not doing my

can, you’re welcome. homework might a ect my actual life

We had a few of my sisters over and career, but I thought I might roll

for the big dinner, and we get along the dice and nd out. I consider myself

great for 90% of the day. ere’s never a pretty good sport because I don’t care

any talk of serving yams, green bean if I lose, as long as the other players

casserole or giblets, so we all agree on don’t win. I choose to remember that I

that. If the conversation ends up in used to win most of those games, and I

the swamp of politics, we all agree on choose to forget that Kath maintained

who brought it there. But eventually a straight-A average while I graduated

the board games come out, and that’s high school with a 1.7 grade point

when the gloves come o . Some people average.

erroneously think that games are all We capped the holiday weekend o

about having fun, so eventually the with a trip into Manhattan to see “A

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Saving the pond LETTERTOTHE EDITOR

IN CASE cocktails cold the following summer. town, with the help of a committee To strengthen election
YOU When the subdivision was composed of neighbors and town process, strengthen
MISSED IT o cials, is trying to gure out how voting rights
developed, the homeowners to save the pond before it becomes a
DON SCOTT association was formed. Neighbors muddy meadow. To the Editor:
took care of the property, mowed It was disappointing to read Don
My rst involvement with the grass, picked up litter and held e rst solution considered, after
local government began an annual picnic at the pond. e consultants reviewed the situation, Scott’s subtle dissemination of MAGA
when I volunteered beautiful property was the focal was dredging and moving the disinformation [“Election corrections,” Nov.
to be the president of our local point that brought homeowners “spoils” o -site. e estimated price 24] in outlining some “reforms” related to his
neighborhood association. e together a few times a year. e tag was over $3 million. at was assertion that the recent midterm elections
Cherry Ridge Lake Association was association’s annual dues of $20 a nonstarter. A lower cost method were “less-than- awlessly executed.”
created primarily as a social group more than covered the $300 liability known as “hydro raking” was tried.
but it also oversaw its only asset, a insurance bill. After paddling around the shoreline Since 2016, Republicans have actively
4.5-acre property containing what for a couple of days with a boat that been sowing doubt about the integrity of
locals referred to as Todd’s Pond. I One year, when the insurance bill looked like something out of a Mad elections. However, numerous studies, court
guess the rst meeting back in the grew to $5,000, members starting Max movie – no joy. e hard, rocky rulings and bipartisan commissions since
early ‘50s centered on rebranding heading for the exits, not wanting bottom made it impossible for the then have found few systemic problems
Todd’s Pond as Cherry Ridge to shoulder the new expense. I Rube Goldberg contraption to do with elections nationwide, consistently
Lake. More cachet. When a pond approached Town Supervisor John its magic. pronouncing them to be administered in a
becomes a lake, do real estate values Dinin and asked whether the fair, professional and secure manner. Just last
of the surrounding properties rise? association could be covered by omas Edison said, “I have not week, the Associated Press reported that new
Maybe. the town’s insurance. at wouldn’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways state voter fraud units have found few cases
work, but Dinin suggested we sell that won’t work.” Well, we have tried from the midterms, which were conducted
e pond is man-made. Legend the property to the town for a dollar a couple of ways that didn’t work. “free of feared chaos.”
has it that the stream that ows with the promise it would maintain Hopefully, it won’t take 10,000
through the meadow that is now the the property in its pristine condition more attempts to save the pond. If Mr. Scott truly wants to strengthen
pond was damned up in the 19th and give neighbors the same access the election process, he could encourage his
century in order to make ice for to the pond – problem solved, as the e next experiment underway Republican colleagues in the new Congress
residents. After the shallow pond town covered the insurance liability. is to temporarily drain the pond, to reintroduce the John R. Lewis Voting
froze, the ice was cut up, harvested, which will compress the muck and Rights Advancement Act, which would
and then dragged down the hill to Over the past 30 years, the kill some of the vegetation. is restore and revitalize the Voting Rights
a Katonah ice house to keep the condition of the pond has also will provide the added bene t Act of 1965 but has so far been uniformly
deteriorated and become mucked of seeing exactly what the bottom opposed by GOP lawmakers.
up as silt and decaying leaves have of the pond looks like and perhaps
started to ll it in, causing grasses uncover other solutions to bring Lloyd Trufelman
to grow, shrinking the pond, and the waterbody back to its original Katonah
creating unsightly mud ats. e beauty. Stay tuned.

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Experience a Taste of My MTV years
the Amalfi Coast
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KIM week, to watch an ever-
KOVACH changing selection of music
videos for entertainment.
In the 1980s and 1990s,
many of us watched our e excitement of a “world
favorite music groups premier” of a new video was
on MTV. Songs became sure to guarantee that young
visual entertainment with people across the country
stage performances and would be glued to their TV
mini-movies adding to the screens (and setting their
enjoyment of the actual VCR’s to record).
song lyrics and music. To Do you remember the
this day, Michael Jackson’s videos from e Police,
“ riller” video stands the test Madonna, INXS, Prince, U2
of time for visual creativity, and Twisted Sister? What
combining dancing zombies about the graphic animation
with a catchy song. of the video from A-ha for
“Take on Me” or the colorful,
MTV premiered on cable campy Cindy Lauper video
on Aug. 1, 1981. e music with the wrestler Lou Albano
video programming was for “Girls Just Wanna Have
hosted by a roster of hip, Fun”?
young VJs (video jockeys). I remember Madonna
in her video for “Papa
e rst music video played Don’t Preach” and Michael
on MTV was “Video Killed Jackson in “Beat It” and
the Radio Star” by e Gerardo in “Rico Suave.”
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Your creative side KOVACH a funeral and Slash playing his
wailing electric guitar outside
My friend Bev has a true creative streak. look and I boldly asked if it was possible to teach FROM PAGE 10 in a eld by a country church in
Over the years she has dabbled in someone, with no talent, to paint. When he the rain.
painting, all kinds of crafts, knits art- answered “yes,” I knew which category I fell into! the most unusual or cinematic
short video to accompany each MTV was synonymous
fully, and is a fan of any kind of music. She loves In college I was able to avail myself of an art new hit song. Two popular with youth and pop culture.
music videos were Van Halen’s
attending theater produc- MUSINGS: appreciation course and have “Hot for Teacher” and Robert e group Dire Straits gave a
Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.” nod to the in uential music
tions where others show o been fortunate enough to view video format in their hit song
MTV music videos featuring “Money for Nothing” in 1985
their talents for acting and PAST AND the masterpieces at the Met- Billy Idol, Journey, Bon with the refrain, “I want my
Jovi, David Bowie, Duran MTV.”
performance. Her true gift PRESENT ropolitan Museum of Art, e Duran, Def Leppard, George
lies, however, with dressing Guggenheim, the Louvre and Michael, Janet Jackson, Bruce We enjoyed the humorous
Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana “parody” videos from Weird
herself and her home. Bev is MARILYN A. the Prado in Spain. Tour guides and Metallica de ned MTV in Al Yankovic, as he presented
the 1980s and 1990s. We were his over-the-top silly
always so well put together PELLINI and their in-depth explana- pulled into the songs and may interpretations of rock and
have even tried a few of the pop songs. Some of the videos
whenever she ventures out. tions of each artist helped me choreographed dance moves in from Devo and the B-52’s were
the privacy of our own living goofy and fun, too.
She is tall and slim, so wears identify the special qualities rooms. MTV was like the “must
see TV” viewing for the cool Many of us
clothes very well. e way each possessed and why they kids. We could tune in to see twentysomethings took our
and hear the latest hit songs fashion cues from those 1980s
she combines her out ts is what makes her stand became so notable. and new videos from rapper MTV videos. Dressing like
Eminem, rocker Pat Benatar, Madonna or sporting extreme
out. She will wear a scarf draped just so, or a Writing – what a blessed gift it is to com- the British duo known as e hairstyles like the musicians in
Eurythmics, e Cars, Talking the Flock of Seagulls videos. At
chunk of jewelry that perfectly accentuates her municate the written word skillfully. is is not Heads, and hits by Elton John, one point, I wore one long thin
Billy Joel, John Mellencamp braid amid my shoulder-length
out t. When she enters a room, people turn to a gift given to all. Many now are self-producing and Lionel Richie. curly locks like singer Aimee
Mann from the group Til
look. Her home, too, re ects this same air. She books and articles, but true fame comes to very People talked about the Tuesday. I really liked her video
latest music videos on college for the song “Voices Carry.”
had her furniture placed so nothing touched few. I try to hone my favorite craft each and campuses and in o ce settings.
I thought the video for Guns Kim Kovach still has video
the walls long before this became a decorator’s every day, and am fortunate to have a person N’ Roses “November Rain” was cassettes of performances by INXS
a masterpiece with a love story, but sadly no working VCR.
delight. She grouped pictures in odd but exciting who does my research and one who produces my www.kimkovachwrites.com.

con gurations. Bev has a talent few can replicate. pieces via computer. at leaves me free to write

When I took my rst job as a kindergarten and edit, and edit, and edit. While I held a job,

teacher, I decided to take some painting classes there was little time to try my hand at writing,

in my after-school hours. I found a gentleman but it became great therapy upon my husband’s

who held lessons for novices, and although he death. After months and months of work, I

was quite famous himself, he had enormous pa- produced a book titled “Dear Al, A Widow’s

tience teaching those who had not held a brush Struggles and Remembrances.” Hopefully my

before “paint by numbers.” For the rst class, he words have brought solace to other widows and

set up a still life and we were to reproduce it. Try widowers who are as bewildered as I was about

as I might, I could never quite see the light he where to take life from that point forward.

explained was falling on the bowl and the fruit SEE PELLINI PAGE 16

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Communities welcome

the holidays!

BY GINO DE ANGELIS and Peppermint Parade still occurred.
STAFF WRITER e tree lighting in front of Saint Luke’s Episco-

TREE LIT AT BEDFORD HILLS TRAIN STATION pal Church was delayed until Monday, Nov. 28, but
e Bedford Hills community gathered on Dec. a sizeable crowd of community members still gath-
ered to sing carols and watch the lights go up in an
3 for a tree lighting ceremony at the Bedford Hills event sponsored by the Katonah Chamber of Com-
train station, sponsored by the Bedford Hills Neigh- merce. Member Rita Carrozza led the ceremony and
borhood Association and the town. Community dedicated it to Joe Kelleher, who had been a staple of
members sang carols and greeted Santa as he was the lightings for years.
escorted to the tree by the Bedford Hills Fire De-
partment. e parade on Dec. 3 still made its way down Ka-
tonah Avenue despite the rainy weather, and groups
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One down, two to go PELLINI Cooking for a family, especially when
you have picky eaters, is also an art form.
JUST Fun Facts FROM PAGE 12 Getting good foods into the diets of our
JO ANN by Jo Ann children means cooking creatively. Cook-
Architecture and sculpture are also ing was not one of my great loves or
JO ANN The New Year’s Eve ball in considered inspiring art forms. ose skills, and so I have but two recipe boxes
FRANCELLA Times Square is 12 feet in producing massive skyscrapers and with dishes I repeated over and over if
majestic bridges or sculpting the bust of they were a hit. I remember making a
One down, meaning diameter and weighs a famous person give us all an oppor- quiche once that called for black olives
anksgiving in the holiday 11,875 pounds. tunity to view the results of the world’s to be placed with the hole side up and
trio. I think if I were a creative geniuses. e Sydney Opera covering the entire top of the quiche. It
young child or even a teenager, I People began celebrating New House, draped along the shoreline of took a number of cans of olives and a
would feel badly that one holiday Year’s Eve in Times Square Sydney Harbour in perfect harmony with half-hour of my time, but the creation
has already been spent. Of course, in 1904. the sea, is a splendid example of this art was a true picture when it emerged from
children and teens don’t have to form. So, too, is the Vietnam War Me- the oven. My two children, being total
prepare for weeks to put together polishing the good silver, baking morial constructed deep in the ground, devotees of black olives, actually request-
a fun and delicious day. But I do about 20 di erent desserts and as are the graves of those who lost their ed seconds.
understand. Christmas looms ahead buying and preparing the turkey lives in this far o country. e obelisk of
and children can’t wait to see if and all the side dishes. ese days I the Washington Monument pointing its Homemaking unto itself is an art form.
Santa brought what they so badly have someone who cleans my home way skyward and Rodin’s “ e inker” Creating surroundings that are both
want. Teens await the latest fashions every two weeks and if I’m lucky, my and the beauty of its sinewy body form pleasant and functional at the same time
and/or phones to outshine their cleaning day will fall on the day or possess such sleek lines and seem to brings joy to those living under the same
friends and lovers make plans to two before anksgiving. I’ve also caress the objects and the area that sur- roof. Colors, textures and arrangements
surprise each other with meaningful cut down on the amount of desserts round them. How about the sculpting give us “eye candy.” Our moods and
loving gifts such as rings. For us I make. of Mount. Rushmore? I stood frozen at productivity levels are greatly a ected by
seniors, there is usually a new the foot of it soaring majesty and had what we see in our surroundings. Com-
vacuum or appliance and we’re When I was younger, Ken and tears streaming down my face, as did my fort is a major quality that makes a house
thrilled to receive it. I loved to get up at 6 a.m., take husband. a home. We might want our living room
the defrosted turkey out of the with textures that are somewhat formal,
I’ve always been in charge of downstairs refrigerator, cut it loose Can we all be so fortunate as those but a family room with furniture that is
anksgiving for our big extended of its plastic covering and ght with who became famous for the masterpieces easily cleaned when a spill occurs gives a
family and I love doing it. I must it as we tried to pull out the neck they produced? Not at all likely, because feeling of contentment and relaxation.
admit, I no longer oat through the and bag of giblets. many people have never explored their
three weeks before anksgiving true talents. Women especially need to Tuning in to all that life holds means
cleaning the dishes and glasses and SEE FRANCELLA PAGE 17 pay attention to, and nurture, their cre- recognizing and exploring our hidden
ative side. Even raising children can be creativity. We all have that special some-
a true art form. Teaching our little ones thing to help us appreciate and explore
the skills they will need to learn their life to the fullest and often brings lots of
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the sandbox, and anticipating their lives we want most often on the receiving end
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