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The sta� of � e Somers Record is excited to an-nounce that this � ursday,

Oct. 29, we are going live on a new website that will be all about Somers.

We have partnered with an interactive proprietary online news platform called TAPinto.net, which was founded in Octo-ber 2008 by Michael and Lauryn Shapiro, residents of New Provi-dence, NJ, who sought to provide their town’s residents with an all-online, objective, independent, daily local newspaper. Months earlier, Michael and Lauryn learned that their 1-year-old son would need open heart surgery

and Michael, a lawyer at a large � rm in New York City, decided it was time to work close to home, spend more time with the family and help the community at the same time.

At � rst, the site covered just two towns. A few months later, another was added and just seven years later, TAPinto.net covers

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BY CATHERINE FERRISFOR THE SOMERS RECORD

Heritage Hills resident Lola Marulies was 11 when she had her � rst experience as a victim of the Holocaust.

� e German Army broke the nonaggression pact with Rus-sia and marched into her small town of Poland. No more than 24 hours later, 400 Jews were killed, among them her paternal grand-

father who was coming out of a synagogue.

Marulies shared her story on Oct. 20 at the Somers Library, where she spoke of living in a Polish ghetto, having her family separated and hiding in a bunker for nine months. � e Somers Ho-locaust Memorial Commission hosted the event, which � lled the room with attendees. Artwork from local students that re� ected the Holocaust and human rights

issues was also on display. For an hour, Marulies recalled

the days of living in a Polish ghetto and living in a small room with three other families with a sheet hanging to allow just a little bit of privacy. She recalled Pol-ish natives who went on to join forces with the Nazis.

“� e unfortunate truth is that the natives went to the German police and said, ‘We want to form our own police force, and

we want to help you exterminate the Jews.’ � ese were our neigh-bors. � ese were our cohabitants. � at’s a pretty sad commentary on anti-Semitism,” Marulies said.

It was common for those living in the ghetto to experience Nazis coming through to drag people out at night to bring them to the concentration camps. One night, the same thing nearly happened to Marulies and her family. But that same night, she said a mira-

cle happened. She heard shouting outside

by the Nazis, and her father told her and the family to run to the cellar. Marulies, her mother and her brother, as well as her cousin made it into the cellar, but they discovered her father stayed be-hind to disguise the trap door with junk to divert the soldiers. He hid in the attic, despite the

Somers resident shares story of Holocaust survival

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BY TOM BARTLEYFOR THE SOMERS RECORD

In her � rst bid for elected of-� ce, deputy Town Clerk Patricia Kalba has the support of both the Somers Republican and Democratic parties to succeed her boss, retiring Town Clerk Kathleen R. Pacella.

As the No. 2 person for the past 13 years in an o� ce that touches so many residents, Kal-ba said, “I love serving the peo-ple of Somers” and called herself “excited to continue that service as town clerk for many years to come.”

In addition to issuing licenses and managing records, the clerk is Somers’ registrar, Freedom of

Information Law (FOIL) of-� cer and Board of Election li-aison. At town board meetings, the clerk is the recording secre-tary.

“Kathie and I have been a

great team,” Kalba said. When the inevitable problems arise, “We tackle them and resolve them as soon as possible,” she said. “I have no doubt that the o� ce will continue to run this way and service the people of Somers in the best possible way.”

Kalba is a lifelong resident of Somers. A graduate of Somers High School, she earned her associate’s degree at Mercy Col-lege and worked in a variety of jobs in the private sector.

“I will take those many years of experience and apply them to my town clerk duties,” she said.

Pacella will retire at year’s end, stepping down after some 30 years of service to Somers, in-cluding the last 13 as town clerk.

Kalba runs unopposed for Town Clerk

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BY CATHERINE FERRISOF THE SOMERS RECORD

Two regulation hockey goals on the multipurpose court in Reis Park have gone missing in the past week.

Steve Ralston, the superinten-dent of the Parks and Recreation Department, said the sta� had it brought to their attention when some children asked if the goals were taken out.

Ralston said they are worth about $1,000, and called it a “detriment” to the park that they went missing. � e goals are typi-cally left loose, and not bolted to the ground. However, when the goals are replaced, or if the origi-nal ones are returned, Ralston said there will be steps taken to make sure they are not removed from the property again, such as bolting them to the ground.

Ralston encourages anyone with information of the where-abouts of the goals to step for-ward, and contact the depart-ment at 914-232-8441.

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Somers Education Founda-tion’s annual autumn wine tast-ing will take place at 7 p.m. Tues-day, Nov. 10, at the Winery at St. George, Route 6, in Mohegan Lake.

Enjoy an evening with friends to bene� t the Somers Educa-tion Foundation. � rough your support, SEF has funded more than $1.1 million in grants and scholarships that enrich the cur-riculum of the Somers Central School District. Somers schools are closed the next day, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day.

Sample a variety of white and red wines and enjoy delicious foods. Receive a special discount on any wine purchases, with 15 percent of total purchases being donated to SEF. Remember to buy for your holiday gift-giving and entertaining.

Minimum donation is $50 per person for advance registration (payment must be received by Nov. 3); or $55 at the door.

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By Brian DonnellyFor The SomerS record

Jared Heller, 14, likes being the center of attention, which will come in handy as the honoree of the Arthritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run/Walk Dec. 12 at Purchase Col-lege.

“This is really my big year as the hon-oree,” said the Somers High School fresh-man, who was born with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

His team, Jared’s Jinglers, has already raised $4,980, which is the most of any team so far. Jared, the oldest of four children, has also raised the most of any individual, with $1,098. His team goal is to raise $10,000.

“The point is to raise money for arthritis, which one in every five adults have, as well as 300,000 kids, including me, in America,” he said.

Dana Miele of the Arthritis Foundation was impressed that Jared knew all of the stats and displayed such strength and ma-turity at 14 years old.

“Jared was selected as this year’s youth honoree because he is the prime example of a young boy diagnosed so early in life with arthritis, but chose to be proactive, seek care and educated himself and his family on what is going on,” she said.

All funds raised for the event go towards research, help and support, advocacy and juvenile arthritis.

Jared’s mom, Jill, and dad, Bruce, noticed something was wrong when he developed a swollen knee at 2 years old. He was al-ready receiving early intervention services because he crawled and walked late.

“His arthritis could have caused these de-lays for him,” Jill said, adding that he likely was born with arthritis. “He was lucky that he was diagnosed so early, because a lot of kids go through unnecessary tests and treatments and misdiagnosis, because peo-ple don’t necessarily think of arthritis when it’s in children.”

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common form of arthritis in children un-der the age of 17 and causes consistent joint pain, swelling and stiffness, according to the

Mayo Clinic.“When I was 2-1/2, my parents noticed

that I was moving stiffly and that I was moving more like an older man than a little kid,” Jared said.

He took oral medication up until the age of 6, when his doctor switched him to injections, which proved to be more effec-tive, Jill said. But, before he could start the injections, he had to clear out his system for 10 days.

“Day eight hit, he tried to get out of bed and he literally was walking like a 90-year-old man,” Jill said. “He literally couldn’t move.”

Now, with his medication, Jared said he doesn’t feel any pain. That is, unless he’s wheel barrel racing.

“As long as I take [the medication], I don’t feel anything much different, besides things that are weight bearing on my wrists, like pushups, or wheel barrel racing,” he said casually, pausing to let the joke sink in. “That never happened.”

Like humor, philanthropy comes natu-rally to Jared, who raised $2,000 through the sale of Hannukah candles to be able to sponsor six underprivileged kids to attend his slee-away camp, where he performed in

several theater shows. “I really like that because those were kids

who not only had arthritis, but wanted to go somewhere to do something that I love,” he said.

Impressed by his son’s actions, Bruce said Jared would have liked to meet the six kids he helped.

“I love the fact that he combined his pas-sion for camp with his immediate life issue of arthritis,” said Bruce, who has run the New York City Marathon twice to raise money for the Hospital for Special Surgery. “I think that was a great match… You make positives out of negatives.”

The young actor first got involved with the Jingle Bell Run in 2013 as a result of a project in Hebrew school.

“I needed to have an idea of an organiza-tion or charity that we would donate to,” he said. “So, I thought of the Arthritis Foun-dation.”

He contacted the foundation and, after learning more about it, decided to par-ticipate in that year’s run/walk at Purchase College, which they did despite the snowy conditions.

“I admire his ability to put himself out there, whether it’s on stage, or something

like this,” Jill said of her son. “How he’s just comfortable being the center of attention. But, also his tenacity, when used correctly will serve him well in life. He’s the kind of kid when something interests him he goes full force.”

With 40 team members already signed up with Jared’s Jinglers, the team captain said he wants to hit at least 50 members.

“He’s been dealing with [arthritis] for 11 years,” Jill said. “In just that time we’ve had, he’s lucky that we’ve always found things that work for him. That proves why it’s important to raise funds for; the best thing would be a cure. But, if not, to find other medications.”

As the honoree of this year’s walk, Jared told his story at a kickoff event last week at Manhattanville College. Luckily, his act-ing experience in school and camp had him well prepared for his Jingle Bell Run/Walk spotlight.

When asked what people can do to help, Jared said, “Just jingle.”

To donate to Jared’s Jinglers or the Arthritis Foundation, visit arthritis.org/get-involved. Click on Jingle Bell Run and type in “Jared Heller” under “Find A Participant.”

Somers teen chosen as youth honoreeJared Heller is raising funds for Jingle Bell Run/Walk

Photo: Brian DonnellyJared heller with his parents, Jill and Bruce, and his younger siblings.

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fact that he would be an open target.After being hidden in the cellar, the

noise of boots were heard just upstairs, and her cousin began to cry. Just as the family began to believe they were going to die, the soldiers began to laugh. Marulies’ grandmother owned a tavern, and the li-quor was found by the soldiers. Eventually, they left and the family began to think of ways to go into hiding.

Marulies’ father heard of a man who would help people go into hiding, but when it was revealed that the family would be split up, Marulies refused to go any-where, saying she would rather die with her family than be separated. � e man left, and it was later discovered that he took anyone who was in the truck with him to the police.

� e second attempt was with a poor farmer. He arrived to gather the people, but once again, Marulies refused to be separated from her family. And once again, the man left. � is time, the German sol-diers intercepted the truck and searched it.

By 1943, a concentration camp was cre-ated in the town, and the boys and men from the age of 15 on were taken, which meant her brother, father and uncle were among those who were in the camp.

Her mother found out that her father had gotten typhus in the camp, and smug-gled herself in to save his life. Marulies remembered it was necessary for cold wa-ter to be poured over him to get the fever down. And although he was “very weak,”

he lived.It was then that there was another op-

portunity to go into hiding. � e same man whose wagon was intercepted would be coming back, and this time Marulies went with her mother, cousin, paternal grand-mother and aunt. Because they were driv-ing through dangerous territory, Marulies and her cousin devised the plan to have the taller women lay � at while she and her cousin sat tall and sang native songs to make it seem less obvious there were people escaping.

� ey were taken to the edge of the woods where there was a small farmhouse, and came to a chicken coop.

“We go down the ladder. I’ll never for-

get that. I can’t see. I see black earth and brown clay all around me. As I went down the ladder, I see six people in that bunker in front of me. What are they sitting on? Wooden boards. Raw wood. Nothing else. � ese were our beds. I look up and see two holes in the shelter to the outside. Even though it was night, you could see the holes. Two holes to the outside.”

For nine months, Marulies lived in what she described as the grave for the living.

Twice a day, the people were fed a piece of bread and some soup. � en, a portion of bread was taken away. And soon after the other portion of bread was taken. � e soup had gotten thin with some potatoes � oating with the skin.

One day, the owner of the house told the people the camp nearby was liquidat-ed and the people held were taken to the outskirts of the town to dig their graves and be slaughtered. No one was thought to be alive.

For some time, it was thought that Marulies’ father and brother were among those killed, but one day, the doors to the bunker opened and they were standing in front of them.

In March of 1944, it had been nine months since entering the shelter. Artil-lery � re was heard outside, and her father made the decision to leave the bunker, be-lieving that there was a possibility it would cave in and trap everyone inside.

“So we left. One by one. Up the ladder. Into the sun,” Marulies remembered.

Her family ran into the direction of the Russian trenches, and from there, Maru-lies and her family were able to begin a new life.

She lived in Russia for about six months, and moved back to Poland. In February of 1947, Marulies and her family came to New York, living in the Bronx, where she attended high school. She was able to move on to college, began her master’s degree and enrolled in a PhD program at the City University of New York, studying biology with a specialization in genetics.

Out of the 8,500 Jews from her town, Marulies and her family were among 193 survivors.

While Marulies has been a resident of Heritage Hills, she is currently living in Newtown, Conn., in a rehabilitation facil-ity after a fall.


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Thank youSomers!

Thank you for the opportunity to serve Somers for the past 20 years on the town board and the school board. My continuing common sense goals:

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By Tom BarTleyFor the SomerS record

The Somers Board of Educa-tion approved and sent to Albany last week a plan to spend more than $700,000 on upgrades to technology available to students.

The plan, passed unanimously after a scheduled public hearing that drew no speakers, focuses on improving the district’s overall tech infrastructure rather than trying to keep pace with rapidly changing advances in individual student devices.

Despite the lack of comment at the Oct. 20 board meeting, residents have weighed in on the technology blueprint, Dr. Ray-mond Blanch, the schools super-intendent, told the board.

The $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act, approved by voters in a state-wide referendum last November, made public input a requirement.

To qualify for Somers’ alloca-tion of $713,823, the district had to draw a plan, vet it at a public hearing, then send it to the state Education Department for ap-proval.

“We’ve gotten a pretty broad-brush stroke of conversations,” Blanch said, with students, staff and the community itself making their views known to the district. Posted on the school district’s website, somersschools.org, the plan had also drawn email and letters from residents, the super-intendent said.

Personal learning devices, or PLDs, like Microsoft’s Surface series of Windows-based com-puter tablets, are slated to go to all students in Grades 6 through 12.

He said that Christopher B. White, the district’s director of Learning Technologies, got the ball rolling last year by deploying the PLDs to a group of students known as the Gear Squad.”

“I’ve had ongoing conversa-tions, probably three or four times now, with our PTA leader-ship council . . . to get feedback on that component as well,” Blanch said.

Posted on the school district’s website, somersschools.org, the plan had also drawn email and letters from residents, the super-intendent said.

If approved by state education officials, the plan will look to up-grade the existing capacity of the Somers Central School District to transmit the digital data of the information superhighway. That capacity, called bandwidth, cur-rently lags behind U.S. standards, which require transmission ca-

pacity of at least 100 million bits of data for each 1,000 students in the school district.

“I think right now our particu-lar project is fairly straightfor-ward,” Blanch said. He identi-fied the goals as “enhancing and building on an updated infra-structure for students as we move

forward with the one-to-one devices and a heavier reliance on technology.”

The district now transmits at a rate of 81 million bits, or mega-bits, each second per 1,000 stu-dents. It expects, with upgrades, to achieve 320 megabits a second in the 2016-17 school year.

School board seeks to improve Internet bandwidth

By Tom BarTleyFor the SomerS record

Once again running unop-posed, longtime Somers High-way Superintendent Thomas Chiaverini seems a cinch to head the department for the next four years.

Chiaverini, 53, has been with the highway department for some three decades, leading it since 1999 through tough win-ters and pothole-repair battles.

A lifelong resident of Somers, he ran for re-election unopposed in 2011 after fending off a pri-mary challenge mounted by fel-low Republican Guy Baker. In the spring, Somers Democrats backed Chiaverini’s re-election. The party also backed Republi-can Councilman Thomas Garrity and Patricia Kalba, who is run-ning to succeed retiring Town

Clerk Kathleen R. Pacella.“There is a time for political

debate and a time for bipartisan unity,” said Christine Robbins, who chairs the Somers Demo-cratic Party. “Both parties are willing to stand firm when it’s a matter of principle, but we are also willing to work together when it’s in the best interest of the town.”

The Somers GOP endorsed Democratic Councilman Rich-ard Clinchy for re-election.

Chiaverini also has the enthu-siastic endorsement of Republi-can Supervisor Rick Morrissey. In the midst of a brutal winter-long battle with weather, he not-ed, “Somers roads are always the envy of other towns.”

Chiaverini did not respond to a request for comment for this pre-election profile.

Thomas Chiaverini running unopposed

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With no opponent in the upcoming November election, Republican Somers Town Justice Michael McDermott will be elected to his � fth straight four-year term.

McDermott grew up in the Bronx and moved to Somers 22 years ago. He is mar-ried to his wife Fausta, and they have four boys: Joseph, William and twins John and Philip.

He did his undergraduate work at Manhattan College where he majored in history and economics and then studied law at the University Of Dayton School Of Law.

“I don’t recall wanting to be anything other than a lawyer,” McDermott said. “Abraham Lincoln was inspiration. I re-member reading a book about him as a young boy and learning he was a lawyer. I realized that’s what lawyers do – they help people.”

McDermott has now been practicing law for 31 years and co-owns his practice with his wife. � ey have an o� ce in Man-hattan and one in Somers.

“I started as an assistant DA in Bronx County and prosecuted high-level nar-cotic o� enses,” he said. “I did that for six years and moved into private practice and then to Trans World Airline’s labor law

department, which was located in Mt. Kisco. � en I worked for Westchester County in their law department.”

McDermott said he’s had an eclectic law career that has taken him to just about every nook and cranny of the profession.

“I can honestly say that I’ve seen just about everything there is to see,” he said, noting he’s authored an array of legal ar-ticles throughout his career.

He said he knew he wanted to be a town justice almost the minute he moved to Somers.

Both judges run unopposed for four-year termTOWN JUSTICE MICHAEL J. MCDERMOTT

BY BOB DUMAS OF THE SOMERS RECORD

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With no opponent challenging him, Republican Somers Town Justice Denis J. Timone will be elected to his ninth four-year term in the November general elec-tions.

Timone and his wife, Meg, moved to Somers in 1977 and have a daughter, Anna, and two sons, Tim and James. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson where he graduated high school. He received both his bachelor’s and law degrees from Marquette University.

“My last couple of months in law school I was drafted and went to Vietnam where I was a platoon sergeant in the infantry,” he said. “When I came back, I started my law practice in New Rochelle and then moved it to Somers about 10 years ago.”

Timone specializes in real estate, cor-porate and estate law, as well as wills and trusts. He was recruited to become a town justice in 1983.

“Arthur Convey, who was a judge at the time, was retiring before his term was completed,” Timone recalled. “� e town board came to me and asked me if I would like to be the judge [and � ll out the rest of Convey’s term]. I accepted. � en I was elected in November 1983 to a full four-year term.”

Timone said being a judge was a learn-

ing process at � rst and he’s grown to enjoy the job.

“It was di� erent because I was always on the other side of the bench [as a law-yer],” he said. “� is was a di� erent per-spective of practicing law. You know the law and now you have to apply it. You lis-ten to the attorneys and make a decision based on your knowledge.

Timone said the Town of Somers, along with his court docket, has changed signi� cantly since he’s been on the bench for the last 32 years.

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Democrats and Republicans stopped the partisan warfare and began balancing tax cuts and fiscal responsibility with delivering essential county services. The results were impressive.They produced balanced and on-time budgets. The legislators cut their own spending, reducing the cost of government. They paved roads and fixed crumbling bridges, and they reached a compromise that assured the future of Playland, Westchester’s historic amusement park.The newly energized bi-partisan legislature took important steps to protect our environment: preserving open spaces and farms, creating an energy department that had been blocked by years of partisan bicker-ing and buying energy efficient cars for the county fleet.The legislators didn’t abandon their principles. They still had serious disagreements, but they worked to find common ground. They negotiated, not litigated. They treated each other with respect. They put progress for the county ahead of partisan political advantage.Under the leadership of Mike Kaplowitz, Westchester set an example of how government should work in a democracy. Now let’s hope that our U.S. Congress takes notice and learns something.

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The Greater Hudson Heri-tage Network has announced winners of the 2015 Awards for Excellence at their Creativity Connects Annual Conference that took place at Purchase Col-lege SUNY on Oct. 16.

The Greater Hudson Heri-tage Network’s Awards for Excellence program seeks to recognize and commend excep-tional efforts among GHHN members. GHHN explores the ways in which heritage and his-tory organizations can think creatively - to connect to new audiences, new funding sources, new stories to tell, and new ways to engage with their communi-ties. Awards are made to proj-ects that exemplify creativity and professional vision resulting in a contribution to the preser-vation and interpretation of the historic scene, material culture and diversity of the region.

This year’s winner includes

the partnership between the Somers Public Library (Seed Lending Library) and the Somers Historical Society. The award was given in recognition of community collaboration for the benefit of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Food Pantry Initiative.

For the second year, the Somers Historical Society col-laborated with community groups and local businesses to cultivate a garden at the Wright Reis Homestead with herbs and produce being donated to the St. Luke’s Church food pantry initiative.

Heirloom seeds donated from the Somers Seed Lending Li-brary, as well as heirloom plants donated by the Purdy’s Farmer & The Fish Restaurant and Katonah Nursery, were planted earlier this season in a herb and vegetable garden at the Home-stead by Historical Society vol-

unteers, with an assist from the Somers Middle School Living History Club, Somers Histori-cal Society student interns and members of Somers Cub Scout Pack 1, Den 7 and Somers Boy Scout Troop 376.

At the end of the gardening season, seeds will be harvested from the heirloom plants to re-turn to the Somers Seed Lend-ing Library. Supplies for the project, initiated by the Somers Public Library Seed Lending Library and Somers Histori-cal Society in 2014, have been donated by Katonah Nursery, Lawton Adams, Purdy’s Farmer & The Fish, Somers Historical Society and Somers Seed Lend-ing Library.

The St. Luke’s Food Pan-try Garden at the Wright Reis Homestead represents an exten-sion of the familial relationship between the Wright family of Somers, Somers Historical So-

ciety, Somers Library and St. Luke’s Church. The last sur-viving member of the family, Caroline Wright Reis, success-fully farmed the property until the mid-20th century, growing asparagus, apples and strawber-ries, among other crops, com-mercially. Her 84-acre farm, most of which is now Reis Park, was bequest to the Town of Somers in the late 1960s.

The property’s farmhouse and outbuildings, the Wright Reis Homestead, as well as the Wright family’s collections and archives, are cared for jointly by the Town of Somers His-toric Properties Board and the Somers Historical Society, re-spectively.

Somers Library, of which Caroline Wright-Reis was a trustee, is located on her former farm, which we now know as Reis Park. Perhaps most impor-tantly is the fact that the Wright

family has been connected to St. Luke’s Church since its found-ing in 1845. Charles Wright, Caroline’s great grandfather, was one of the first vestrymen of the church. He also is rec-ognized as being the first man to enter the cage with a lion in America.

St. Luke’s Church food pantry accepts donations of shelf stable foods and canned goods on a year-round basis. Donations may be dropped off outside the office at St. Luke’s Church or in the thrift store during regular office hours.

For more information about St. Luke’s Church Food Pantry, email Kathi Casella at [email protected]; for more infor-mation about the garden initia-tive for St. Luke’s Church food pantry, call the Somers Histori-cal Society at 914-277-4977 or email [email protected].

Library, Historical Society, win award

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ing close to the action and having a direct impact on people’s lives.”

McDermott, who spent � ve years as a member of the Somers Planning Board, said he spent several years volunteering around town to demonstrate his com-mitment to public service before running for o� ce.

“� e � rst time I ran, I actually

unseated a three-term incum-bent,” he recalled. “Since then I have had a contested election ev-ery year until this year.

“I invest in the community throughout my term; I don’t wait until the election year,” he continued. “I have an excellent relationship with the school dis-trict and participate in three to six programs with them every year — things like driver safety, some mentoring, the Law Day

program.”McDermott said being the fa-

ther of four teenage boys has pro-vided him with great training for being a town justice.

“I know � rsthand the chal-lenges that youth face today,” he said. “[Being a dad has] proven to be very e� ective. It is di� cult being a judge because you are im-mersed in young people’s prob-lems and you have to help them solve them. You have to make

sure those who come before you are shepherded onto success. We have to constantly be vigilant.”

Despite the challenges, Mc-Dermott says he enjoys being a judge — especially working with young people and helping them to � nd their way,

“I like spending time and watching the young people who come before me who turn around and become successful,” he said. “But I am not a pushover; if someone needs to be dealt with harshly, I am certainly willing to do that.”

Like his fellow town justice, Denis Timone, McDermott notes that the job requires many hours.

“Justice doesn’t take a vacation; I am on call 24/7,” he said. “I have gotten calls just about any time of the day or night. I have had to go arraign defendants and through-out the week I am conferencing with other attorneys and the state police, and reviewing search war-rants. It’s not a part-time gig. I have been a judge a long time and I approach it sincerely and hum-bly and I never take anything for granted.”

he recalled. “� e population has grown and the types of cases I get have changed. Our cases now go from DWI and drugs to petit larcenies and family o� enses — domestic disputes.”

Timone notes that being a judge does not mean just showing up on Monday nights to oversee court.

“We are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week for ar-raignments,” he said. “We go out in the middle of the night, on weekends, and that’s part of the job. We have tra� c court, we have hearings and trials. It’s not all Monday nights.

� e judge also had praise for his court clerks, who, he said, are indispensable.

“� ank God for our court clerks. � ey are our support team and we could not do our job without them,” he said. “� ey are as important as any-one else in the system. � ey deal with so many types of people and they still keep an even disposition.”

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Veterans Day parade set for Nov. 11

� e Somers VFW Post 8213 will host the Veterans Day pa-rade on Nov. 11.

� e parade starts at 10:30 a.m. from the Somers Town House and ends with a ceremony at 11 a.m. on the Veterans Memorial. Refreshments will follow at the Somers Town House.

For more information, call Vice Cmdr. Tim McArdle at 914-582-3025.

Town-wide cleanup continues thru Nov.

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“O� cial” Orange garbage bags and gloves are available at:

• Somers Town House: Mon-day thru Friday: (9:00 AM to 4:30 PM) or call: 914-277-3637

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3. Wear brightly colored cloth-ing (preferably neon).

4. Leave the full orange gar-bage bags securely closed and on the side of the road.

Rotary Club holds Christmas tree sale� e Northeast Westches-

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• Publication of the book, “On My Mind,” a compilation of short stories and poems written by area and inner city high school students

• Donation of food to local food pantries

• Off ering college scholarships• Donation of special equip-

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Oct. 31: Shabbat service fol-lowed by Lunch & Learn, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 1: Adult Education, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 6: Potluck dinner fol-lowed by Shabbat service, 6:30 p.m.


Nov. 14: Shabbat service fol-lowed by Lunch & Learn, 9:30 a.m.





Hebrew Congregation of Somers is located at Cypress Lane and Mervyn Drive in She-norock. For more information, visit hebrewcongregationof-somers.org.

League of Women Voters to host post-election discussion� e Somers League of Women

Voters will host Dr. Christopher Malone of Lehman College at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the Somers Library.

He will lead a discussion abut this year’s election results and the upcoming campaigns. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Somers Manor seeking adult

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and Nursing Center is in need of adult costumes.

Hats, feather boas, make-up or anything that they can use to mix and match to make patients look and feel great for their big Hal-loween party happening at the end of the month.

Items can be dropped o� at Somers Manor or contact Mela-nie Leverich threw Facebook pri-vate message.

Bulk refuse items to be accepted through

Nov. 14Somers residents can drop o�

their bulk refuse from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7 a.m. to noon on Sat-urdays, through Nov. 14, at the Somers Sanitation Transfer Sta-tion, 241 Route 100, in Somers.

Household items such as mattresses, furniture, carpeting, wood, bicycles and non-com-mercial construction debris will be accepted. � ey will also accept propane tanks and refrigerators for a fee. � e cost for other items is $20 per car; $25 per minivan or SUV; $40 for a pickup truck and $81 per ton for a larger truck.

SEF wine tasting set for Nov. 10

Somers Education Founda-tion’s annual autumn wine tast-ing will take place at 7 p.m. Tues-day, Nov. 10, at the Winery at St. George, Route 6, in Mohegan Lake.

Enjoy an evening with friends to bene� t the Somers Educa-tion Foundation. � rough your support, SEF has funded more than $1.1 million in grants and scholarships that enrich the cur-riculum of the Somers Central School District. Somers schools are closed the next day, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day.

Sample a variety of white and red wines and enjoy delicious foods. Receive a special discount on any wine purchases, with 15 percent of total purchases being donated to SEF. Remember to buy for your holiday gift-giving and entertaining.

Minimum donation is $50 per person for advance registration (payment must be received by Nov. 3); or $55 at the door.

Register in advance at sefny.org or by mailing a check to: SEF Wine Tasting, PO Box 401, Somers, NY 10589.

High School PTSA seeking donations� e Somers High School

PTSA is seeking donations for scholarship awards for seniors.

� e PTSA Scholarship Com-

mittee awards distinguished se-niors with a $1,000 scholarship to assist with continued educa-tional costs for college, vocational or trade school.

� ey are asking for your sup-port to make these scholarships available to our seniors this year. Any amount that you can con-tribute is greatly appreciated and helps them to meet their goal. Donations to the scholarship fund are fully tax-deductible and may be increased through your employer’s “Matching Funds Program.”

Please make checks payable to: SHS PTSA Scholarship Fund and send to: Somers High School PTSA, Somers Scholar-ship Committee, P.O. Box 108, Lincolndale, NY 10540. You may also make your donations to the Scholarship Fund online at myschoolbucks.com.

For further information on the scholarship fund, visit somer-sptacouncil.org/SHS or contact Ellen Sampson, co-chair of SHS PTSA Scholarship Committee at [email protected].

Fall events and clubs for teens at Somers

Library

HIGH SCHOOL WRITERS WORKSHOP

� ursdays this fall on Oct. 29 and Nov. 12, Dec. 3 and Dec. 17

For advice & guidance on de-veloping your writing in a fun and encouraging environment, please join the High School Writers Workshop. � is program is for high school writers. Regis-tration is required. Please call the library at 914-232-5717 to regis-ter, or register online at somersli-brary.org.

THE MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK & GAMES CLUB

� is club meets every other Tuesday from 3:15-4:30 p.m. Discuss your favorite books and authors and play games. � is club is intended for middle school students in Grades 6-8. Please call the library at 914-232-5717 to register, or register online at somerslibrary.org.

ANIME CLUBJoin the group for everything

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OpinionOpinion – The Somers Record Thursday, October 29, 2015

I have a rule, Rule No. 67, that states, “What doesn’t kill you, usually really, really hurts.”

� is was certainly true a couple weeks ago when I ended up in the emergency room at Northern West-chester Hospital. I will spare you the sordid details of how I ended up there, but if I had started there, it would have saved me a lot of time.

I had sustained a laceration to the proximal phalanx of my digitus minimus manus. Okay, I cut my pinkie � nger on a beer glass. � e EMT told me it couldn’t be saved — my beer, not the pinkie. I was whisked away by ambulance, and if you’ve never been whisked, you don’t know what you’re missing. Since it wasn’t that serious, they didn’t use the siren and considered stopping at 7-11 for some snacks.

Let me tell you that a real E.R. is nothing like the television drama. For one thing, my nurse did not look like Julianna Margulies. My nurse was a dude, and he looked like he knew his way around a Harley pretty good. Also, no one yelled “Suction!” during my visit, although I did yell “� is sucks!” a

number of times. My vital signs never � at-lined, although some of my jokes did. I thought I heard the doctor say “Stat!” But it turned out he said “What’s

that?” (the nurse had the new iPhone).

� e doctor explained that he was going to use a local anesthesia, and that it was going to hurt. Well, what’s the point of that? I told him to use the express, and let’s get it over

with. He said he could knock me out us-ing his shoe, it was all the same to him.

When he stuck that Lidocaine needle into my � nger, I screamed like a 7-year-old girl (a 7-year-old girl who, very mature for her age, knew a LOT of disturbing words that say pretty much the same thing; a 7-year-old girl who was not going to earn a merit badge in bravery).

I know the E.R. doctor has heard everything there is to be heard, and I know that he did not take all the things I screamed about his immediate relatives personally, because his expression did not change. If he did take them personally, he did not seem to particularly disagree

Much pain, no gain

RICK MELÉN

ON ASSIGNMENT

Halloween brings to mind stories of my boys and their adventures.

One particular escapade be� t-ting this merrymaking occasion comes to mind. Step back with me to Halloween of ’77 when No. 3 son Matt was 12 years old.

On this day, I watched from the window while he and his brothers came o� the school bus. As they barged into the house, they were talking and planning their trick-or-treat evening. I noticed that Matt had red stu� on his arm.

“Hey, did one of your friends put fake blood on your arm?” I asked.

Matt shu� ed his feet and looked down at the � oor. “Uh no, Mom, it’s real blood.”

Disbelief and stunned silence, and then: “Good God Almighty, Matt! What did you do? Are you in pain? Tell me.”

Matt recently had mentioned that there was an after-school motocross club at the middle school where the kids, under supervision, rode bikes; he wanted to join and needed signed permission from me. Because of my fear of him getting hurt

and motor bikes in general, I hadn’t given permission. Somehow, Matt managed to cajole/charm/beg his way onto a bike. In one split second, fear became a reality: he

started the motor, put the bike in gear and plowed directly into the school wall. Result? A bloody arm and lots of pain.

I examined his arm; it didn’t seem swollen, but there was a cut which I cleaned and bandaged.

We’d again take a look in the morning to make sure there was no swelling. I sug-gested, however, it might be wise for him to forego his walk on the wild side that evening and rest. Oh, no, that was not an option. He promised he’d be careful.

“And don’t forget Mom, I’ll give you all my Baby Ruth’s and Good and Plenty’s.”

What a sly charmer!� e next morning, I knew we had a

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‘You’re kidding me! � at’s real blood?’

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OPINION – The Somers Record Thursday, October 29, 2015

For its upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen’s landmark play “A Doll’s House,” Axial � eatre —

where I am an incoming board member and student in the Howard Meyer Act-ing program — has cast in a principal role an actor once widely known as Carlos D, the bassist with popular indie rock band Interpol.

Carlos Dengler plays Nils Krogstad in Axial � eatre’s Nov. 6-22 production of Ibsen’s seminal classic, directed by Axial artistic director Howard Meyer. Krogstad is a desperate man, and nemesis of Tor-vald Helmer, whose oppressive coddling of his wife Nora forms the premise of the piece that shocked audiences when it premiered.

Intrigued by the dramatic life change and artistic choice, Axial playwright Evelyn Mertens and I teamed up to ask Carlos about the newest stage of his performing career.

When did you decide to make the transition from musician to actor?

I learned how to act while I was in In-terpol. � e band was like a long-running production that went on for 10 years with no known closing date. I created, cultivated and perfected a character. His name was Carlos D and I infused my 10-year performance with everything I had learned from my rebellious youth, from

my addiction to late-’90s downtown New York City nightlife, and from my heady undergrad studies.

Carlos D was all heavy metal, goth, Dostoevsky, existentialism, David Lynch, glam, punk-rock, fascism-chic, Kafka. I stole the haircut and the ties from Steve Mackey of Pulp, and I stole the boots and the holster from Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten.

I had really been doing all of this unconsciously. I didn’t know that I was pouring all of those in� uences into my work in the band, and creating this per-sona, and it took me seven years to realize what I was doing. � at was about 2007, and then my whole world came crashing down. I spent the next three years trying to change the narrative I had begun. For many complicated reasons, it wasn’t pos-sible to stay in the band and maintain my sanity and integrity, so I left in 2010.

When I realized what I’d been do-ing, creating this character, I realized I had really enjoyed putting on a costume and playing a role in front of people. I thought it was a shame I didn’t have any-thing that could come out of my mouth, something verbal.

� at’s when I fell in love with plays. I’d already learned how to be somebody I wasn’t, and now I desperately wanted to take it to the next level, to actually make a profession out of it, instead of hijacking another profession for that purpose.

During those three torturous years of not knowing where I was going with the band, between 2007 and 2010, I dove into the classics: Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shakespeare. I fell in love and there was no going back.

with them.He spent a good long time stitch-

ing me up. I thought to myself (I never think to anyone else) that this guy must have spent hundreds of hours in a classroom training for this moment. He probably spent some time in medi-cal school, but I’m talking about home economics courses here. � is guy could really sew. I could swear he put a hem in my pinkie.

Now, there are some things in life that look best with a minimum of dressing. � e Miss America swimsuit competi-tion, for instance, or a really expensive salad. But a laceration is not one of them. He was goint to stick a couple Band-Aids on the thing, but I made him doll it up a couple of gauze pads short of “� e Invisible Man.” I am OK with wearing white after Labor Day.

I had some minor nerve damage, and I was referred to a plastic surgeon who could � x it. � e doctor told me that I would have a scar, and when he saw the look on my face, he said that on the bright side, he could do a procedure to take fat out of my butt cheeks and put it near my eyes that would make me look happy about it. Luckily, I have enough back there to put a happy face on every man, woman and child in the state of Rhode Island.

Say hello at: [email protected]. And please stop by theworldinbriefs.blogspot.com.

MELENFROM PAGE 10Indie rocker’s second act is acting

Carlos D of Interpol trades his axe to act in Axial � eatre’s ‘A Doll’s House’

‘A Doll’s House’ Nov. 6 – 22 at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $27.50; $22.50 for students and seniorsAxialtheatre.org; [email protected]; 914-286-7680.

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Recently, when I picked Matt’s brain so I could tell his story, he did mention a few things I’d forgotten: “Don’t you remember, Mom? Not only did I go trick or treating that night, but I babysat the little guy down the street while the parents took the older kids out and when I was done, I came home and watched Monday Night Football.”

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get an extra special gift.”I was so excited. I never had a

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so bad in my entire life. I’m not saying this thing has a bad reputation, but when I gave the scrip to the pharmacist, he shuddered and skittered away

without looking back at me. � en I went home and told my hus-band he should get a hotel room because things were going to get ugly and he really didn’t want to be within � ve miles of it.

Now, I’ve given birth to two children, house-trained two dogs and lived though a week of my entire family having the � u at the same time. But nothing prepared me for the things that would come out of my body over the next 12 hours. It was like the bathroom was possessed. It was

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At that moment I regretted not buying more stock in toilet paper. I also regretted not leaving the country when I turned 50. But who knew? Although everyone goes through it, no one warns you. It’s the best kept crappy secret on the planet.

Finally after about 12 hours, things seemed to slow down and I declared my insides pristine as a NASA decontamination unit. Which was a good thing, con-sidering I was about to show my doctors a full moon.

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Why did you choose New York University’s grad school for acting?

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My kids are in eighth and 11th grade. Once again, they’re bringing home not such great grades. I know they’re not rocket scientists, but they do try and the grades don’t re� ect the time they’re putting in. I’m convinced they’d do better if they knew how to study. I think many parents would appreciate another column on study skills.

� anks, -Cindy

Dear Cindy,I’m sure you’re right. Many

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1. Understand what’s being taught. So much time and en-ergy is wasted because students don’t understand the vocabulary or the concepts to which teach-ers refer. Teachers presume that students have the same common reference points or experiences they have. Unfortunately, often kids don’t know the words or the references.

2. Chunk. It’s easier to memo-rize information by breaking it into small chunks. It’s called “chunking.” Students and their parents may not realize it, but they use chunking all the time. For example, telephone numbers, ZIP codes and Social Security numbers are chunked. You’ve

probably no-ticed that the numbers are grouped to-gether, usually in threes, fours, or � ves.

3. Cre-ate graphic

organizers. Pictures and graph-ics make information easier to understand. For example, Venn diagrams are commonly used to help students sort informa-tion by using two intersecting circles. Most children have used these when writing compare and contrast papers in English class. Other kids prefer mind maps, which can be drawn in color. Color helps us remember. Mind maps can be pictures or words, whatever helps the student the most.

4. Use acronyms. An acronym is a word made up from the � rst letters of a list of words. For example, to remember the names of the Great Lakes, just re-member “HOMES.” H=Huron, O=Ontario, M=Michigan,

E=Erie, S=Superior. 5. Use associations. Connect

or associate a word or concept with a person, place, thing, feel-ing or situation. For example, the word altruistic means giving or unsel� sh. Now associate altruis-tic with someone you know who is generous. For example, kids often think of a relative who is generous on their birthday.

6. Follow your learning style. Auditory learners take in infor-mation best by hearing. Visual learners remember and under-stand best by seeing what they’re learning. Kinetic/tactile learners need to touch or manipulate to help them learn. Multi-sensory learners are kids who learn best using two or more senses at the same time.

7. Use rhyming. Do you remember, “I before E, except after C, or when it sounds like “A” as in neighbor and weigh”? Or “� irty days has September, April, June and November”? Make up a silly poem to help you remember.

8. Talk. Tell somebody about

the information you have to learn. Discuss the topic with a parent, a grandparent or a friend. Have an argument with some-one about the subject. Believe it or not, evening telling your dog or talking to yourself in a mirror helps.

9. Write sentences. Do you remember learning the silly sen-tence, “Every good boy deserves fudge” in music class? It worked! Millions of us still remember the notes. Making a sentence using the � rst letters of what you want to remember is a technique that can be used for any subject.

� ese easy-to-use study skills strategies help not only kids who want better grades, but also par-ents who have something they need to remember.

-Dr. Linda

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Less than a month after a North Salem man was released from the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishskill, he was arrested in con-junction with an alleged robbery in Croton Falls.

According to the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation from the Somers bar-racks, Michael Owoo, a 21-year-old North Salem resident, was ar-rested along with two men from Long Island on the charge of second-degree robbery, a class C felony.

It has been reported that on Oct. 7, at approximately 7:50 p.m., State Police were dispatched to investi-gate a reported robbery that oc-curred at the Croton Falls Train Station. An investigation revealed that Owoo, with the assistance of Ronnie E. Foskey, a 21-year-old Roslyn resident, forcibly stole property from the victim before fleeing the scene in a vehicle that was operated by Sean M. McCoyd, a 22-year-old Garden City resi-

dent.The victim, who disclosed

knowing Owoo to the police, fol-lowed the suspect’s vehicle and contacted 9-1-1 for assistance. Po-lice officers from the North Salem Police Department observed the suspect vehicle on Bogtown Road and stopped it.

Foskey and McCoyd were taken into custody, Owoo fled from the vehicle prior to the stop and was later taken into custody by the Bu-reau of Criminal Investigation, ac-cording to a release sent out by the State Police.

Owoo, Foskey and McCoyd were arraigned before the Town of North Salem Court. Owoo was remanded to Westchester County Jail in lieu of $15,000 cash bail. Foskey was remanded to the Westchester County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bail. McCoyd was released after posting $500 bail.

Owoo was released from prison on Sept. 17 on parole. He served two years of a four-year sentence after being convicted for second-degree assault after striking a 17-year-old male from Brewster in

the head with a socket wrench in an incident that occurred on June 29, 2012 in Brewster.

Owoo was also previously ar-rested in connection to a fight that occurred April 19, 2012 in North Salem, where two victims, an 18-year-old male and a 49-year-old female were taken to West-chester Medical Center for injuries sustained during the altercation.

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Once again it was the Fusco brothers, Greg and Matt, leading the way for the Somers boys cross country team as the Tuskers competed in the Westchester County Championships Sunday, Oct. 25, at Woodlands High School.

And while Greg was the � rst Tusker to cross the � nish line to lead Somers to a third-place team � nish, all he wanted to talk about was the performance of his twin brother Matt.

“My brother Matt was really sick, but he came out here and ran and improved a lot,” Greg Fusco said of Matt. “� e course went out really quick and the whole team ran a fantastic race.”

Greg led the way in sixth place overall with a time of 16:13 � at, and his brother Matt was the second Tusker to cross the line in 15th place with a time of 16:40.9.

� at was a pretty impressive � nish for someone who almost did not run. Matt Fusco had spent the day before in the hos-pital, and just hours before the start of the race it was doubtful that he could compete.

He came, and his performance inspired his teammates and coaches.

“Our second man, Matt Fusco, was re-ally sick, but he manned up and went on the line and raced and had the best race of his career,” Somers coach Michael Lacko said of Matt. “Without him, we don’t get this third-place plaque.”

Somers was able to take home that plaque as the Tuskers compiled a team score of 135, third behind Pleasantville in � rst at 107 and Fox Lane in second at 120. Bronxville was fourth with a score of 146 as the Tuskers � nished third out of 34 schools that had enough � nishers to com-pile a team score in the boys varsity race.

Behind the Fusco brothers, Nico Pa-palia was the third � nisher for Somers in 25th overall with a time of 17:02.5. Mark Worsley was 36th and � omas Hannon was 57th overall. Rounding out the top � ve for Somers was Adam Shelby in 75th place, while Michael Gordon was 82nd overall and Michael Emanuele was 176.

� e Somers girls varsity team also com-

peted in the county championships and � nished with a score of 262 to place ninth overall out of 24 teams.

“We had a nice day today and I was happy with the way they performed,” Somers girls varsity coach John Vegliante said. “We didn’t have Maya Watt, who was

out sick today, but other than that the rest of the girls stepped up and had a big day.”

Leading the way for the Somers girls team was senior Sydney Ericson as she � nished 42nd overall with a time of

Tusker boys have a big day at county championshipsFusco brothers lead Somers to third place � nish at Weschester County meet

PHOTOS: JIM MACLEANThe Somers girls varsity team takes off at start of Westchester County Championship race.

The Somers boys varsity team looks determined as it takes off at the start of county championship race.

Matt Fusco ran despite being sick in the hospital the day before the race.

Sydney Ericson led the way for the Somers girls with teammate Anjali Kapur right behind her.

CROSS COUNTRY

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SportSPage 26 – The Somers Record Thursday, October 29, 2015

By Jim macLeanOf The SOmerS recOrd

When the playoff seeds were announced for the Section 1 Class A football playoffs, Somers knew it stood a good chance of an-other road trip up to Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie.

Somers had traveled up to Lourdes just a few weeks ago, and the Tuskers suffered an embarrassing 40-3 loss.

This time around the Tuskers were out to prove they were better than that. Despite being decimated by injuries all season long, the Tuskers were anxious to prove they are still a good football team.

Somers scored first for an early lead, but Lourdes earned the No. 3 seed for a rea-son and the Warriors proved it by scoring 28-straight points for a commanding lead.

However, Somers did not stop as the Tuskers rallied back in the second half be-fore suffering a 37-22 setback.

“Lourdes was without question the better team, but our kids never laid down and I’m very proud of them,” Somers coach Tony DeMatteo said. “I was proud of this team tonight, I really was.”

Somers took a 7-0 lead as Spencer Brande caught a touchdown pass from quarterback Kevin Olifiers and Eric Sylvester converted the PAT for the 7-0 lead.

However, Lourdes took to the air for two long touchdown passes and a 21-7 lead at the half. Somers tried to answer late in the second quarter, but Lourdes intercepted a pass at its own 11-yard line to end the threat.

On the opening kickoff of the second half, Lourdes started a drive at its own 48-yard line and found the end zone once again for a 28-7 lead. The Warriors then added a field goal for a 31-7 lead.

However, Somers answered back as Brande broke free on the ensuing kickoff after the field goal. Brande took it to the

house as he scored on a 75-yard run. Tusker quarterback Grant Tragni then connected with A.J. Butlein on a two-point conversion pass to make it 31-15.

Lourdes answered back with another touchdown drive for a 37-15 lead, but once again the Tuskers responded on the ensuing kickoff as Jason Holland returned it to the Lourdes 48-yard line.

Two plays later, Tragni connected with Messiah Horne on a 26-yard touchdown to cut the lead down to 37-22.

Though Lourdes was able to mount a drive into Somers territory, Marco Fedele came up with a fumble recovery at the Tuskers 12-yard line to halt it.

Somers tried one last time to respond as Tragni connected with Holland on a 32-yard pass play. However, Lourdes came up with a pair of sacks to push the Tuskers back and close out the victory.

It was an end to a season that saw the

Tuskers decimated by injuries And with just two starters returning from last year, the injuries took their toll as the Tuskers tried to put it together. DeMatteo especially felt bad for senior captains Tommy Castelluccio and Jonathan Delfa as both suffered season-ending injuries in the first game of the year against Rye.

“It’s tough for the seniors and my heart goes out to Castelluccio and Delfa,” De-Matteo said. “They didn’t even get a chance to do this. It’s a shame but that’s part of football. We started off with only two start-ers back. After the fourth play of the year, we lost one in Castelluccio. Then we lose Delfa and we lost all these other guys. There were games where we were missing 14 positions with players who would have been on both sides of the ball.”

Somers will wrap up the season on the road Friday, Oct. 30, at Hendrick Hudson High.

Somers rally falls short at LourdesTuskers fall in Section 1 Class A playoffs at Our Lady of Lourdes

Andrew Ancona, right, breaks up a pass play in the end zone. Jack Gilroy grabs hold of a jersey to make a tackle.

Tusker quarterback Grant Tragni gets tripped up.

PhoTos: Jim mAcLeAnmessiah horne tries to shake a tackle.

spencer Brande breaks free for a touchdown on a kick off return.

Jason holland carries.

FOOTball

SportS The Somers Record – Page 27Thursday, October 29, 2015


As the defending state champs, the Somers girls varsity soccer team has been asked the same questions all year long: Can you do it again?

And all year long the answer has been the same. The Tuskers approach has been to not look ahead; all they care about is their next opponent.

So far, that approach has led them to an undefeated season as they head into the playoffs.

Now that the playoffs are here, the Tuskers are maintaining that same approach—one game at a time.

Unfortunately for Sleepy Hol-low, that was bad news as the No. 1 seed Tuskers did not look ahead and took care of business in the first round of the Section 1 Class A tournament. Somers hosted Sleepy Hollow and cruised to a 5-0 victory to advance to the quarterfinals.

“Trying to stay focused, our mantra all season long has been

to approach it one game at a time, and we played fine,” Somers coach Paul Saia said. “Overall, we had a good game. Anything can happen in the playoffs. You have to go out and do what you know how to do and put the game away. Now, we’re looking forward to our next game against Lakeland.”

Somers put this one away early. The Tuskers scored the first goal just 3:24 into the game and led 5-0 after just 15 minutes.

Hannon Eberts showed why she was an All-American last year. She knows what it takes to advance in the playoffs, and Eb-erts led by example on the field as she recorded a hat trick with three goals in 15 minutes.

Jenna Menta and Melina Couzis also scored goals for the Tuskers. Katrina Kurtz had two assists, while Couzis, Ciara Os-trander and Ella Beresford each had one assist.

Lizzy Hanley and Lauren Chiriboga each played a half in goal, but they were lonely back

Somers takes care of business in round oneTuskers move on to quarterfinals with win over Sleepy Hollow

File photosCiara ostrander and the tuskers hope to keep smiling throughout the playoffs.

hannon eberts kept rolling along with another hat trick for Somers in first round playoff win.

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Thomas Hannon leads a pack toward the fi nish line.

PHOTOS: JIM MACLEANGreg Fusco led the Tuskers to a third-place fi nish in boys varsity race.

Jordan Rinaldi, left, had a big day for the girls varsity.

20:47.5. Anjali Kapur was not far behind as she was the second Tusker to cross the � nish line at 20:50.1 in 45th place overall, and Katie Melly was 49th with a time of 21:02.3.

Elisabeth Van Tassell was the fourth Tuskers � nisher in 72nd place, and Jordan Rinaldi was � fth in 74th.

“She is only a freshman, she ran her � rst varsity race last week and this week she just exploded,” Vegliante said of Rinaldi. “A huge race and a [personal record] for her. We really needed her today.”

Lily Rezai � nished 83rd, and Keelyn Foley was 103rd over-all as they completed the tough course at Woodlands.

Both the Somers boys and girls teams will now prepare for the Section 1 Championships to be held at Bowdoin Park in Pough-keepsie on Saturday, Nov. 7.

CROSS COUNTRYFROM PAGE 25

Mike Emanuele rounds the fi nal corner.

Nico Papalia, right, was third Tusker to cross the fi nish line.

Katie Melly toughed it out to fi nish strong.

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� e Croton-Harmon/Hen-drick Hudson/Somers varsity swim team is on the rise and is quickly becoming a team to be reckoned with in Section 1.

� e team competed with some of the best squads in the section and held its own with a third-place � nish with 302 points at the Conference 1 League 2 Championships on Oct. 24 at the Boys and Girls Club in Mount Kisco.

Sophomore Rachel Townsend quali� ed for states in the 100-yard breaststroke while junior Emily Sullivan made states in the 200-yard IM. Townsend placed second at the conference meet in the 100 breaststroke in a time of 1:08.34. Sullivan � n-ished fourth in the 200 IM with a clocking of 2:12.70.

“� ey’ve made it before, but for them it’s always a real hon-or,” coach Jen McArdle said of Townsend and Sullivan qualify-ing for states. “� e competition is really tough so for them to be able to make it is a big deal.”

In addition, the medley relay team of Townsend, Sullivan, se-nior Skylar Adams and junior Lauren Siegel also made states. � e team placed second at divi-sionals behind Horace Greeley with a time of 1:51.53.

� ose athletes will all com-pete at sectionals in their listed events. Townsend and Adams also made sectionals in the 50-yard freestyle, placing second (25.65) and third (26.19) re-spectively, at divisionals. Sul-livan also quali� ed for section-als in the 500-yard freestyle, placing fourth at divisionals in 5:19.31. In the 100-yard backstroke, Siegel and Adams � nished second (1:00.63) and third (1:00.86), respectively, to qualify for sectionals.

“I think the girls did ex-tremely well,” McArdle said of her squad. “Many of them set personal records.”

Sophomore Carolyn Kochek quali� ed for sectionals in the 200-yard freestyle relay, 100-yard butter� y and 500-yard freestyle. She took � fth at divi-sionals in the butter� y in a time of 1:02.56 and was sixth in the 500 freestyle in 5:35.11. Junior Emily Szpynda, sophomore Elena Cohen and freshman Raina � omas will join Kochek

Tuskers have standout performance at divisionalsTownsend, Sullivan, medley relay team qualify for state swim meet

Nicole Quigley swims butterfl y.

PHOTOS: ROB DIANTONIOJulia Meier swims freestyle. Raina Thomas comes up for air in butterfl y race.

GIRLS SWIMMING

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SportSPage 30 – The Somers Record Thursday, October 29, 2015


The Somers boys soccer team was hoping to finish strong with a good run in the playoffs, but anything can happen in the play-offs and it was not the finish the Tuskers were hoping for.

Instead, Somers suffered a first round exit as the No. 8 seed Tusk-ers hosted No. 9 seed Beacon and fell by a score of 2-1.

Somers knew Beacon would be a tough first round opponent, and the Tuskers were in trouble as the Bulldogs came out flying and opened up a 2-0 lead in the first half.

“Beacon was a strong team and they played very hard all game,” Somers coach Chris Pietris said. “The game was a back and forth battle which, unfortunately for us, ended up going Beacon’s way.”

The Tuskers responded in the second half and put the pressure on. Josh Sampson was able to score for the Tuskers to cut the lead down to 2-1.

However, that was the only goal Somers would get as the Beacon defense was able to hold on for the victory.

With the win Beacon ad-vanced to the quarterfinals, while the Tuskers were left with a tough loss to end the year.

“It is always heartbreaking to know that your season has come to an end,” Pietris said. “How-ever, we need to remember that we had a lot of successes this sea-son, and we’ve made a lot of great memories. I’ve coached some of the guys on and off since they were in middle school, and we’ve had a lot of great times together. I’ll miss the seniors next year, and I wish them the best in their fu-ture soccer endeavors.”

Tuskers fall short in playoff loss to Beacon

Somers senior captain Anthony Smajlaj heads the ball.

Josh Sampson moves the ball past a Beacon midfielder.

Evan Kieltyke blocks the pass to win the ball.

Jack Maher looks to pass.

PhotoS: DEEnA BEllnicholas Fierro makes a move towards the goal.

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Goalie Lizzy Hanley and the Tusker defense was barely tested in 5-0 fi rst round playoff win.

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there recording just one save in the game as the Tusker defense kept the ball away.

With the victory, Somers im-proved to 17-0 on the year and

kept its unbeaten streak going at 39 straight games. � e Tusk-ers were set to host Lakeland in the quarter� nals on Tuesday, Oct. 27, with the winner of that game advancing to the semi� nals on � ursday, Oct. 29.

SOCCERFROM PAGE 27

in the 200 freestyle relay. � e 200 freestyle relay team

of � omas, Szpynda, junior Morgan Murphy and junior

Hannah Sgaglio placed third at divisionals with a time of 1:51.67.

Szpynda � nished 11th in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 59.05. Sgaglio was right be-hind her in a time of 59.42. Sz-

pynda came in seventh in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:07.68.

� e Section 1 Champion-ships will take place on Nov. 2-3 at Felix Festa Middle School.

SWIMMINGFROM PAGE 29

PHOTOS: ROB DIANTONIORachel Townsend competes in breaststroke race.

Elena Cohen swims breaststroke in divisional fi nals meet at the Boys and Girls Club in Mt. Kisco.

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Seared Autumn Bonito Sashimi With Apple Mustard DressingServes 4Ingredients

13 ounces katsuo (bonito) fillet with skin, cut in 3-section fillet (see below)Dressing

1/4 cup onion, grated1/3 cup apple, grated1/3 cup su (rice vinegar)1/4 cup sake1/2 cup koikuchi shoyu (soy sauce)2 teaspoons sesame oil4 teaspoons vegetable oil2 teaspoons coarse-grain mustard1/2 teaspoon superfine (castor) sugar1/2 teaspoon shichimi togarashi (7-spice chili powder)1 teaspoon white sesame seeds4 medium cloves, grated1 inch ginger1/3 ounce naga negi (long Welsh onion), finely minced; substitute with white part of scallion (spring

onion), if necessaryGarnish

1 ounce daikon, cut in thin slivers and refreshed in cold water (see below)1 ounce kyuri (Japanese cucumber), cut in thin slivers and refreshed in cold water; substitute with deseeded Western cucumber, if necessary1 teaspoon murame, omit if unavailable2-1/2 tablespoons banno negi; substitute with fine scallions (spring onions), finely chopped crossways, if necessary5 shiso (perilla) leaves, cut in thin sliversInstructions

1. Place the fillet skin-side-down on a cutting board and pierce the side with three metal skewers in a fan shape. Sprinkle the flesh lightly with sea salt. Hold the skewered fillet, skin-side-down, over a high gas flame. When the oil begins to bubble and drip and the skin in nicely charred, turn around and sear the other side lightly. Plunge into iced water for 15 seconds to arrest the cooking process.

2. Pat excess moisture away and slice into brick cut (see below) about 1/2-inch thick. Arrange on a platter, the sliced side facing up, in a circular pattern.3. Combine all the dressing ingredients and mix thoroughly with a whisk. Pour the dressing on and around the fish slices.4. To arrange the garnish, pile the daikon and cucumber slivers in the middle of the fish slices and top with murame, chopped banno negi and shiso leaf slivers. Three-section fillet: Place the fish on the cutting board with the tail on the right, belly side closer to you. Insert the knife into the fish above the pelvic fin, keeping the cutting edge flat, and cut till the head.Turn the fish around so that the tail is on your left; insert the knife into the fish above the dorsal fin, keeping the cutting edge flat; cut to the tail.Lift the upper side of the fish and insert the knife with the blade flat. Cut with a slide motion along the backbone toward the tail (do not cut any of the bones) until you have completely freed the top fillet all the way to the tail and the fish

is cut into two sections. Flip the fish over and repeat on the bottom sides.Now you have three sections. Place the middle section (the section with bones) so that the fins hang over the edge of the cutting board, then cut the dorsal and ventral fins off. Save the bones to make soup.Needle-thin slivers refreshed in water: Cut into 2-inch lengths. Make a vertical cut halfway until the core.Remove the core.Unrool the outer layers and flatten on the cutting board. Slice

vertically into needle-thin slivers. This takes time and practice, and a well-sharpened knife. Take your time and cut diligently in a straight and an even motion.Place slivers in a bowl of cold water. Refresh for 10 minutes, except for perilla, which should be refreshed very briefly so as not to lose its flavor.To brick cut: Place the thicker side of the saku away from you; insert the knife perpendicular to the thinner side and pull the knife toward you by snapping your wrist. Arrange on the dish perpendicularly.

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Business & Real estate The Somers Record – Page 33Thursday, October 29, 2015

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

PRINTING SEMI-ANNUAL PROGRAM BROCHURES PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TOWN OF YORKTOWN

The Town of Yorktown seeks bids from qualified parties to supply the following goods:

Printing of the Town of Yor-ktown Parks and Recreation Department Semi-Annual Pro-gram Brochures the specifica-tions of which are more fully set forth in Part Three of this docu-ment. Bids will be received by Alice Roker, Town Clerk of the Town of Yorktown, Westches-ter County, at Town Hall, 363 Underhill Avenue, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598, until Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 11:00am for furnishing and de-livering the Program Brochures for the Yorktown Department of Parks and Recreation.

Bidders should, before submit-ting a bid, carefully examine and understand the contents of each Part of this bid package includ-ing the Summary of Bid, Speci-fications, General Terms and Conditions (and any Appendi-ces), the Non-Collusive Bidding Certificate. These documents set

forth the character and quality of the work and materials to be pro-vided by the bidder.

Bidders shall have (7) business days prior to the bid opening date to bring to the attention of the Town Clerk any errors or defects in these specifications which would prevent Bidder from pro-viding a responsive bid.

Bidder must be fully qualified to deliver the goods specified in the Specifications. The town reserves the right to request ref-erences from other parties for which Bidder has provided simi-lar goods.

Town has an option to extend the contract for one year at its sole option.

ALICE E. ROKER Town Clerk

Town of Yorktown Dated: October 2015

LLC FORmaTIONNotice of Formation of LEV-

EL UP HR CONSULTING, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/21/15. Office Loca-tions: Westchester County, NY. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2 Saw Mill Rd.,

Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

BID #15-4 DISINFECTION SYSTEM ULTRAVIOLET LAMP REPLACEMENT FOR THE WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT TOWN OF YORKTOWN

Sealed proposals will be re-ceived by the Town Clerk of the Town of Yorktown, Westchester County, New York, at the Town Hall, 363 Underhill Avenue, Yor-ktown Heights, New York, until 10:00 A.M., on Friday, Novem-ber 13, 2015, for the Disinfec-tion System Ultraviolet Lamp Replacement for the Water Pol-lution Control Plant, Bid #15-4.

Specifications and standard proposals for the bid may be ob-tained at the office of the Town Clerk at said Town Hall.

The bidder assumes the risk of any delay in the mail or in the handling of mail by the employ-ees of the Town of Yorktown. Whether sent by mail or means of personal delivery, the bidder assumes the responsibility for having bids in on the time and the place specified above.

The Town of Yorktown reserves the right to waive any informali-ties in the bids, to reject any or all bids and reserves the right to accept that bid which it deems most favorable to the interests of the Town of Yorktown. No bid-der may withdraw his bid within thirty (30) days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

If mailed, sealed proposals must be addressed in care of the Town Clerk at the above address.

ALICE E. ROKER Town Clerk

Town of Yorktown Dated: October 2015

PUBLIC HEaRING NOTICEPLEASE TAKE NOTICE

that the Town of Somers will conduct a public hearing on No-vember 12, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Town House, 335 Route 202, Somers, New York on a Lo-cal Law to amend Chapter 170 entitled Zoning, Section 170-70 entitled Accessory Apartments, to delete Section 170-70L of the Code of the Town of Somers.

All persons having an interest in the proposed local law are in-vited to attend the public hearing and will be afforded an opportu-nity to be heard. A copy of the

proposed local law will be avail-able and may be examined in the Office of the Town Clerk during regular business hours.

By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Somers Kathleen R. Pacella

Town Clerk Dated: October 29, 2015

PUBLIC HEaRING NOTICEPLEASE TAKE NOTICE

that the Town of Somers will conduct a public hearing on No-vember 12, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Town House, 335 Route 202, Somers, New York for the Town Board to consider an increase in the 2016 Water Charges for the Amawalk-Shenorock Wa-ter District, the Windsor Farms Water District and the Amawalk Heights Water District.

All persons having an interest in this matter are invited to at-tend the public hearing and will be afforded an opportunity to be heard.

By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Somers Kathleen R. Pacella

Town Clerk Dated: October 29, 2015

LegaL Notices

You may be quite willing to plan an investment strategy for your retire-

ment years. After all, it can be enjoyable to

think about traveling the world, pursuing your hobbies or par-ticipating in any of the activities you’ve associated with an active retirement. However, once you do retire, you’ll need to “shift gears” somewhat to focus on your legacy. Specifically, to protect your loved ones and ensure your intentions are clear and carried out, you’ll need to do some more planning – and you’ll need to share your thoughts with your family.

Here are some moves to consider:

• List your assets and debts. Your family needs to be aware of your assets and debts, so share this information with them while you are alive and well.

• Create a durable power of attorney. Give a trusted friend or family member a durable power of attorney to pay bills and make financial choices on your behalf if you are unable to do so.

• Choose an executor. An executor is the person or entity you name in your will to carry out your wishes. An executor has a variety of responsibilities, so pick someone who is honest and

capable of dealing with legal and financial matters. Talk with an attorney about how best to name your executor.

• Update your will. You might have written a will many years ago, but, over time, many aspects of your life may have changed. Review your will with your at-torney to ensure it reflects your current wishes.

• Review benefits of a living trust. A simple will may not be enough to accommodate your estate-planning needs. You might want to consider establishing a living trust, which provides you with significant flexibility in dis-tributing your assets and can help you avoid the time-consuming, expensive and public process of probate. To create a trust or other estate-planning documents, you will need to work with a qualified legal professional.

• Review your beneficiary designations. The beneficiary designations on your financial

accounts (401(k), IRA, etc.) and your insurance policies can even supersede the directions on your will, so it’s essential that you update these designations to reflect events such as divorce and remarriage. And make sure your beneficiaries have the facts they need to claim their benefits.

• Share location of your legal documents. Your loved ones should know where you keep documents such as your birth certificate, will and living trust. If you keep these items in a safe de-posit box, tell your family where you keep the key.

• Encourage two-way commu-nication. It’s obviously necessary to communicate your final wishes to your family members – but listen to their wishes and con-cerns, too. For example, ask your children to agree on who gets those objects of special concern to them, such as furniture, memen-tos and heirlooms.

Daniel Tanaka is a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones Investments, located in the Somerstown Shopping Center in Somers. He can be reached at 914-669-8133. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

Get your affairs in order for an orderly estate

After more than 140 years as Putnam County Savings Bank, the bank today announced a name change to PCSB Bank to reflect expansion throughout Westchester County.

“While our new name is in-dicative of our expansion, we maintain an unwavering focus on meeting each of our cus-tomer’s banking and financial needs,” says Joseph D. Roberto, chairman, president and chief executive officer of PCSB Bank. “Our hallmark is offering a higher degree of customer satis-faction and flexibility as a dedi-cated neighbor and business partner to our customers.”

The name change follows the bank’s recent acquisition of CMS Bancorp, which served as a platform for PCSB’s deeper expansion into the Westches-ter market. PCSB Bank now operates 15 banking centers, with eight branches in West-chester County and others lo-cated in Putnam, Rockland and Dutchess counties. The new name has received approval by the New York State Banking

Department.The announcement is ac-

companied by a new logo with the tagline: “True Local. True Banking.” This exemplifies the bank’s commitment to under-standing local communities and providing individualized service.

According to Roberto, the merger and name change meet a need for a customer-driven bank in the Westchester market. PCSB’s size and structure allow for a high degree of flexibility and responsiveness as it relates to consumer and commercial lending options.

Established in 1871, PCSB Bank grew over the years as more people started businesses throughout the Lower Hud-son Valley. The bank developed a reputation for understanding and caring about its customers and the towns in which they live — a mission that continues during its current expansion pe-riod.

“The name may be different and the footprint larger, but our core values and service remain the same,” Roberto said.

Putnam County Savings Bank expands, changes name

Will now be known as PCSB BankDANIEL S. TANAKA

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