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Bigger Boats A Helping Hand for Halloween

on the Way
Were gonna get a bigger
boat. After a summer of large
ferry crowds and many get-
ting left behind at the dock,
it looks like the NYC Eco-
nomic Development Corpo-
ration (NYCEDC) finally got
the message. According to a
September 27 report by AM
New York, NYCEDC and NYC
Ferry operator, Hornblower,
are working out an arrange-
ment to bring three 350-pas-
senger vessels to the ferry
fleet by 2018more than
twice the capacity for cur-
rent boats operating across
the citywide ferry service.
The AM New York article
said that NYCEDC will be
spending millions of dollars
to bring the new boats into
service by the summer of
2018. As of last Wednesday,
NYCEDC was formalizing
a change order with Horn-
blower. Horizon Shipbuild-
ing Inc. in Alabama and
Metal Shark in Louisiana are
currently working to build
20 ferries for NYC Ferry and
the change order will have
Metal Shark build the three
large ferries, according to
the article. The bigger boats
will cost the city between
$7 million and $7.5 million,
each.
It is not guaranteed that
the larger boats will be
strictly used for the Rocka-
way route. The larger boats
will be used across the cit-
ywide ferry service on an
as-needed basis. By the
summer of 2018, when these
larger boats are expected to
be in service, the citywide
ferry service will include
two additional routes, to the
Bronx and the Lower East
Side.
This Halloween, new venue,
Rustwoods, will be transformed
into a spooktacular site that is sure
to cause chills and thrills on Beach
97th Street. Get ready for Lost-
woods.
Since the early 1990s, artist
Geoff Rawling has helped turn
venues into fun, interactive fight
fests with creative creepy crea-
tures and costumed actors. Rawl-
ings spooky touch has been seen
in the old theater and Rockaway
Artists Alliance Building in Fort
Tilden, and in the past few years,
hes brought it to other local ven-
ues like the former Playland Grill,
and last years display sent families
on a spooky Pokemon hunt across
the neighborhood. Now Rust-
woods, at 97-02 Rockaway Beach
Boulevard is getting the Rawling
treatment this Halloween.
The dates have been set already.
Itll kick off on Friday, October 27
and continue that Saturday night,
as well as Halloween night, Tues-
day, October 31, and will be open
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event will
be free to the public, but turning
a venue into a Halloween haunt
doesnt come cheap. Rawling
could use some financial assis-
tance to help defray the cost. A
GoFundMe campaign has been
set up to held raise money for the
event. If interested in donating
and continuing this community
tradition, head to www.gofund-
me.com/lostwoods-halloween

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Citizen Jetties
somewhat infamous words: to make sure it maintained its all an international flair. Pret-
This time its different, he mountainous status. Every- ty soon youd have a real jetty
said. body got in on it. forming. Thered be talk of do-
Only it wasnt. I say we steal the idea. ing a second one.
Weve got a new boardwalk Pick out a beach, any beach, Whos to stop us? The Parks
and after that we got bubkus. and we drop a few rocks. And Department? They cant stop
Yeah, Ive got rocks in my Diddly. Jack. then a few more. We get on litterers theyre not going to
head and but now I know what Looking forward, we can social media and tell people stop people innocently tossing
to do with them. hold rallies. And we can wait. bring a rock to Rockaway. We stones into the ocean.
Its hurricane season and Both of which weve done be- get how many million visitors Seriously! A rock here and
its five years since Sandy and fore. a summer? We tell em to bring a rock there is a million miles
theres not a new jetty in sight. And heres where the rocks a rock. Bring a rock to Rocka- faster than what the Army
The beach is shrinking and in my head come in. I think we way. Corps is doing. And beach ral-
plenty of people without rocks should all take part in building I think citizen jetties are the lies would be a lot more fun.
in their heads are frustrated, a jetty. Rock by rock, pebble by way to go. The Army Corps acts People who live in glass
angry and fearful. Rallies are pebble. like theyre building the Great houses shouldnt throw stones
held and elected officials ex- Twenty-something years ago Pyramids but while they daw- but everyone else should.
press outrage over the inac- they made a movie, The Eng- dle wed be building. Citizen Jetties theres a
tion. Same old, same old. lishman Who Went up a Hill Rock after rock. Civic groups movie in this! (Not to mention
Shortly after Sandy, when but Came down a Mountain. would come armed with beach protection).
the destruction was fresh, the The story goes that a village wheelbarrows. I bet thered
Army Corps of Engineers hur- was proud of a mountain in its be middle-of-the-night boul-
ried to do beach replenish- midst but its status as a moun- der-dropping pick-up trucks
ment and finish some study tain was being threatened. A doing their part.
(the reformulation study) that surveyor alleged that it was a The New York Times would Editor@RockawayTimes.com
would bring jetties here and a few feet short of a mountain pick up the story. Then net-
bunch of other measures that and therefore it was just a hill. work news. More people
would fortify the peninsula. The villagers wouldnt have would bring rocks. And more
A nice fellow who lives in it. They devised a plan, which people. People from far away
Rockaway and actually works included carrying dirt in their places would bring their rocks
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Bigger boats on the way. Af-
ter too many people were left
at the dock too many times,
Hornblower, the NYC Ferry
operator, will bring three new
boats into service next year
which can each accommo-
date 350 passengers. The cur-
rent fleet includes boats with
149-passenger capacity. (Some
bigger boats were leased from
Seastreak and other compa-
nies when the summer crowds
swelled).
*****
100th Precinct Community
Affairs is holding a Walk For
Breast Cancer to raise aware-
ness on Sunday, October 8 at
10 a.m. It kicks off at Beach
94th Street and the Boardwalk.
All are welcome.
*****
Mary Lu Plunkett, a Belle
Harbor resident died last
weekend at the age of 89. She
was a longtime member of
the Queens Democratic Party.
Numerous officials, including
the Mayor, issued statements
expressing admiration for her
dedication and service.
*****
This is worth repeating: Civic
leaders are hard at work draw-
ing attention to the need for
storm protection. Keep an eye
out for petitions. Rockaway is
not close to being ready for an-
other major storm. Please plan
on going to the beach at Beach
129th on Saturday, October 28
to show solidarity for this most
important cause.
*****
Speaking of beach protec-
tion, this weeks Boyleing
Points column has an idea
that might shame the Army
Corps of Engineers to get mov-
ing. Boyle suggests residents
start building jetties on their
own. Rock by rock. Although
its a bit tongue-in-cheek, it
would be a great visual for TV
(and we know how TV makes
government move) if people
brought rocks to the beach to
start building the much-need-
ed jetties.
*****
Stacey Amato, New York As-
semblywoman, is supporting
Mike Scala for City Council
in the upcoming race in No-
vember. And quite frankly, we
had to ask Stacey. We havent
heard much from Mr. Scala
since he won the Democratic
primary a few weeks ago.
*****
The Inertia is an online pub-
lication calling itself the defin-
itive voice of Surf, Mountains
and Outdoors. A recent head-
line for an article: Rockaway
Sucks caught our attention.
Turns out, its a long time prop-
aganda tradition used by surf-
ers who want to keep Rockaway
a secret. If enough people hear
that the waves are no good, itll
keep the crowds away. Seems
like a lost cause these days.
*****
You never know what you
might spot off the shore. Ac-
cording to various reports, a
fisherman noticed 39-year-old
Paul Sayre's boat almost six
miles off Rockaway Point on
Sunday and called the police.
He had been stranded at sea
for days with no food and no
fuel. Sayre had been traveling
from Fire Island to Manhattan
when he ran out of gas, The
Daily News reported.
*****
Reminder: were still hap-
py to receive Photos of AF-
TER Sandy and Now photos. If
youve got photos of showing
the destruction and now the re-
build or rebirth and would like
to share, please send to Mail@
RockawayTimes.com. Thanks!
*****
Whats going on with the
old Sand Bar location joint at
Beach 116th Street and the
Boardwalk? Theyve sure forti-
fied the place and owners say it
was in response to violations.
We also asked one of the own-
ers, Esther Konig, if the rumors
were true that a Nathans was
going there. (Hey, one like the
Coney Island version wouldnt
be bad but not a generic fran-
chise). She didnt address Na-
thans specifically, shed only
say, Rumors, rumors. Gotta
love em. Seriously, nothing
concrete. Lots of negotiations
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Rockaway Raises Awareness

By Katie McFadden
One in eight women will be diag-
nosed with breast cancer in her life-
time. Each year it is estimated that
over 252,710 women in the United
States will be diagnosed with breast
cancer. On average, every two min-
utes a woman is diagnosed with
breast cancer and one woman will
die of breast cancer every 13 min-
utes. More than 3.3 million breast
cancer survivors are alive in the
U.S. today. Some of them are even
men. And among the survivors, the
afflicted, and their family, friends
and supporters, are many in Rock-
away who are taking action to bring
attention to the cause this Octo-
ber for Breast Cancer Awareness
month.
The above facts from the Nation-
al Breast Cancer Foundation may
come as a shock. Some are aware of
how large of an issue it is, especial-
ly those who are impacted direct-
ly and indirectly. Many locals are
taking action to make others aware
and do what they can to help those
who are suffering.
Rockaway WISH kicked off
Breast Cancer Awareness month
Many supported Catch a Cure. Photo by Linda Humphrey.
on Sunday, October 1 with a fun
run to honor women afflicted with
not only breast cancer, but any
cancer. The Catch a Cure 5K run
was held to memorialize women
who have passed and to raise funds
for local women who are currently
fighting their own battles with can-
cer. Around 400 participants came
out to run or walk for the cause.
St. Johns Episcopal Hospi-
tal is raising awareness by pro-
viding resources to women. On
Wednesday, the hospital hosted a
workshop on early detection. On
Wednesday, October 11, theyll be
hosting a presentation on breast
cancer awareness at 10 a.m. in the
lobby of the hospital (327 Beach
19th Street). On Monday, October
16 at 10 a.m., theyll be hosting a
workshop on healthy cooking in
the lobby. At the end of the month,
the hospital will also provide free
mammogram screenings. These
will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Tuesday, October 24 and Sat-
urday, October 28. To schedule an
appointment for a screening, call
718-869-7780.
This weekend, from 10:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m., everyone can shop for
the cause at 141-02 Newport Ave-
nue. The 2nd Annual Breast Can-
cer Awareness Fall Fundraiser
Sale will feature new and gently
used items from vendors includ-
ing clothing, shoes, purses, jew-
elry, housewares, toys and more.
Plus there will be fun for the whole
family with face painters, pizza,
pastries, coffee, bagels, popcorn
and cotton candy. Donations are
appreciated.
Finally, this weekend, the NYPD
is going pink as the 100th Precinct
hosts a 3-mile Walk for Breast Can-
cer to raise awareness. The walk will
take place on Sunday, October 8 at
10 a.m., starting on the boardwalk
on Beach 94th Street. The walk is a
powerful and inspiring opportuni-
ty to honor breast cancer survivors,
and raise awareness about steps we
can take to reduce the risk of getting
breast cancer, an event flyer reads.
Participants are asked to register by
contacting Maurice Moore at Mau-
rice.Moore@nypd.org or 646-373-
1620. Following the walk, the 100th
Precinct will also have information
and resources to raise awareness
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THE ROCKAWAY VOLLIES

JAMAICA BAY ECOWATCHERS MAKE TREMENDOUS STRIDES TO
PROTECT THE BAY
By Kami-Leigh Agard
The Rockaway Vollies is a
special series by The Rockaway
Times highlighting the amazing
local nonprofit organizations
and volunteers who freely give of
their time and resources to help
their neighbors, not just across
the peninsula and Broad Chan-
nel, but beyond.
Jamaica Bay is New York Citys
largest open space larger than
Central Park, Prospect Park and
Van Cortlandt Park protected
by a local band of citizen scien-
tists. What is a citizen scientist?
Just ask, Dan Mundy, Sr. and his
son, Dan Mundy, Jr., both life-
long Broad Channel residents,
members of the FDNY, leaders
of the Broad Channel Civic As-
sociation and founders of The
Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers.
The Ecowatchers is an en-
vironmental organization
comprised of local fishermen,
kayakers, windsurfers, bird
watchers, scuba divers and oth-
er Bay enthusiasts who came
together to fight to preserve and
enhance the great natural re-
sources of Jamaica Bay. Though
their backgrounds are varied,
the members are united in their
determination to see the Bay
protected for future genera-
tions to come.
Mundy, Jr. says Citizen sci-
entists are the guys like us in
Broad Channel (BC), who grew
up on the Bay all our lives,
swimming, diving, fishing and
knowing the ins and outs of
the Bay we grew up on and im-
mensely love. We can tell you
the changes in water color, tem-
perature, and about the marine
and wildlife. You dont need a
PhD for that, just a sensitivity
and understanding of some-
thing weve grown up with all
our lives.
With the Ecowatchers, this is
what I am most proud of. When
we go out to meetings with sci-
entists and experts who have
doctorates, they now respect
our local knowledge and sen-
sitivity to the Bays needs. In
the beginning it was hard to get
recognition and respect, but af-
ter time, these so-called experts
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began to turn to us for our local
knowledge, and this is why I re-
fer to us as citizen scientists,
Mundy, Jr. said.
According to Mundy, Jr.,
the communitys stimulus to
launch the Ecowatchers was
due to the changes for the
worse that lifelong BC Jamaica
Bay lovers were witnessing dur-
ing the mid 1990s. Particularly
there were two issues, the salt
water loss with the wetlands
disappearing and the water
quality. We were seeing that the
water was become increasing-
ly brown and murky. So those
two issues were visible factors
that we saw which motivated us
to start going to meetings and
demand answers for what was
going on.
The National Park Service
(NPS), Department of Environ-
mental Protection (DEP) and
other agencies answered that
nothing was going on. Accord-
ing to them, everything was fine,
but we as a community were
convinced that something was
amiss. Hence, after our frustra-
tion with both the lack of aware-
ness and inability to get answers
of what was really happening to
the Bay, coupled with feelings
of powerlessness to make an
impact, we made a decision to
mobilize. It was unacceptable
that this great natural resource
that many of us in BC grew up
enjoying and loving was obvi-
ously deteriorating quickly. So
we banded together to prevent
this and make positive change,
and this is how the Ecowatchers
was born, Mundy said.
In 1995 the Ecowatchers be-
came an official organization
and began to document marsh
loss on the Bay. Then in 1999,
they became aware of the im-
pact that the U.S. Congress
ban on the Ocean Dumping
Act in 1992 was having on the
Bay after they reviewed data
from DEP Water Quality reports
that indicated nitrogen load-
ing of the bay had spiked from
30,000 pounds a day to more
than 57,000 pounds. Nitrogen
loading is suspected as a cause
for algae blooms, low dissolved
oxygen content and marshland
deterioration. That same year,
Dan Mundy, Sr., president of
the Ecowatchers (and Mundy,
Jr.s father), delivered a telling
presentation to the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers at Jamai-
ca Bay Ecosystem Restoration
Projects public hearings of the
Ecowatchers findings regard-
ing water quality and marsh
loss, and invited them to send
representatives for a boat
tour of the marshes. After the
tour, the representatives were
amazed at the losses they per-
sonally observed.
Then in 2000, Mundy, Sr.
made another presentation at a
Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting
presenting the same findings.
Findings were challenged by
National Parks Service repre-
sentatives as anecdotal and in-
accurate, but that didnt deter
the Ecowatchers.
Fast forward to the present,
the Ecowatchers work with Ja-
maica Bay got international at-
tention with the documentary,
Saving Jamaica Bay featuring
the Mundys and other BC Eco-
watchers. The documentary
written by Bay enthusiast, Dan-
iel Hendrick, directed by David
Sigal and narrated by Academy
Award-winning actress, Susan
Sarandon, tells the compel-
ling story of how BC and other
Bay neighboring communities
fought government inaction
and overcame Hurricane Sandy
to clean up and restore the Bay,
which had become a dumping
ground for garbage, sewage and
even bullet-riddled mobsters.
The documentary powerfully
underscores the importance of
citizen action and the role of
urban nature in protecting cit-
ies from the effects of climate
change.
In a NY1 Inside City Hall inter-
view, the documentarys writer,
Hendrick said, My goal with
Saving Jamaica Bay was to sim-
ply illustrate the tremendous
work people like the Mundys
with the organization, the Eco-
watchers overcame to make the
Bay something beautiful just
not just after Sandy, but with
environmental changes. They
worked really hard to come up
with creative ideas to make the
Bay and its marine and wildlife
healthier.
However, the Ecowatchers
believe that their work is far
from over. Mundy, Jr. said, The
Bay is still in great danger due
to climate change. As residents,
we are still concerned about
hurricane resiliency, not just
for us residents, but the marine
and wildlife. Of course, there
arent any easy answers, but
more tough questions to solve.
And as citizen scientists, the
Ecowatchers will keep working
towards our mission of making
the Bay habitable and safe for
everyone.
For more information on
the Ecowatchers and how you
can get involved, visit: jamai-
cabayecowatchers.org or their
Facebook page.
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Storm Protection Needed
Dear Editor:
Last Friday I was invited by
Congressman Meeks, as a rep-
resentative of Rockaway Wom-
en for Progress, to participate
in an unprecedented event
regarding storm protection in
Rockaway. With so many dif-
ferent needs from east to west
and bay to ocean, it seems our
disparate requests, demands,
and wishes have made for a
perfect environment of confu-
sion and, perhaps, delay.
We, as a peninsula, have both
completely different storm
protection needs every few
blocks, as well as many groups
from which aid comes. There is
It's not too Thanksgiving!
about
We are tak
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
the Army Corps of Engineers,
the state, the Department of
Environmental Conservation,
the city via the Parks Depart-
ment. All of these agencies at-
tempt to work in concert and
have their studies and budgets
complement one another, but
it seems the bureaucracy is
paralyzing.
Last Friday, Meeks did what
has never been done. He gath-
ered about 20 groups, govern-
mental and residential, and
put us on a five-hour bus tour
of Rockaway. Our itinerary
went from Beach 9th to Broad
Channel to Roxbury and many
stops in between. At each stop,
local invested and knowledge-
able residents explained their
issues around flooding, ero-
sion, and events the night of
Sandy. Also, at each stop, the
engineers and representatives
from the different agencies ex-
plained what has been done,
what will be done, and what
probably won't be done any-
time soon. It helped all of us
to better understand the "why"
behind some things, and it
helped to form some serious
ly to be thinking
ear
orders now!
in g
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questions. of Parks, Liam Kavanaugh, on
The most pressing ques- this and hope the Rockaway
tions are around the said $120 community does the same.
million currently available to There's time to fight for future
the Parks Department. It was funding of projects. However,
told to us that this money is this funding is ready to go, so
earmarked for "various" pro- let's discuss the best use of the
jects, including but not limit- money as a community.
ed to playgrounds along Shore The most important take
Front Parkway and a new Parks away from this day was that
Department headquarters, each area of Rockaway has
priced at $30 million. While to truly understand and care
both are important to Rock- about the specific storm pro-
away, neither seems to serve tection and flooding needs
the storm protection needs each has. Breezy has to care
of the residents. I pressed the
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about Arverne, Belle Harbor
needs to care about Roxbury,
Rockaway Park needs to care
about Far Rockaway, etc.
Going forward, Congress-
man Meeks intends to gather
us all for a de-briefing. Hope-
fully, the many areas of Rock-
away will be able to form a
concise, clear list of needs so
that all of the agencies see that
there is less confusion and
chaos in our own understand-
ing, as a peninsula, of the hard
work that needs to be done.
It was an inspiring, frustrat-
ing, educational, and hopeful
day. Thank you, Congressman
Meeks, for this authentic op-
portunity.
In a few weeks, it will be
the 5th anniversary of Sandy.
Rockaway has come so far, but
we all know how much work
needs to still be done. The
Rockaway Storm Protection
group will be hosting a rally on
the beach at 2 p.m. on Octo-
ber 28. St. Francis de Sales has
kindly offered their parking
lot for the event. Not that any
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of us need it, but the recent
hurricanes should serve as a
harsh reminder that living by
the ocean can be precarious.
Please come out and demand
better storm protection for our
beloved Rockaway. We cannot
be forgotten.
Jean Belford
More Than an Eyesore
Dear Editor:
On September 28, 2017, CBS
news reported from the aban-
doned building, (formerly
Chai Assisted Living), locat-
ed at 125-02 Ocean Prome-
nade, concerning the declin-
ing health of a local resident,
whose health condition has
been further compromised
due to the unsanitary and haz-
ardous conditions of the aban-
doned building.
A search of the New York
City Automated City Regis-
ter Information System (AC-
RIS), www.nyc.gov/acris, (for
search purposes the block is
16235 and the lot is 0039), re-
veals the present owner to be
Chai Bonim, LLC. The identi-
ty of the owner(s) behind the
limited liability corporation
is unclear as the property has
changed hands quite frequent-
ly over the past few years. The
trustee is listed as Abraham J.
Backenroth.
A search on the New York
City Department of Buildings
website, www.nyc.gov/build-
ings, reveals a long list of open
hazardous violations. The New
York City Fire Department has
marked the abandoned build-
ing with a boxed x as a warn-
ing to first responders that the
building is unsafe.
The New York City Police
Department has frequently
responded to the abandoned
building due to quality of life
complaints, including tres-
passers, graffiti and public uri-
nation.
A search on the New York
City Lobby website, www.nyc.
gov/lobbyistsearch, reveals
the owner Chai Bonim, LLC,
has spent $61,516.50, since
6/22/15 to present, targeting
City Planning Commission
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are hired to persuade someone
in authority, usually an elect-
ed member of a government,
to support laws or rules that
give their client an advantage.
The community has held a
rally. Elected officials were
present, demanding that the
owner be held accountable for
the hazardous conditions that
are a blight upon the neighbor-
hood. The local newspapers
have reported on the hazard-
ous conditions, even publish-
ing photos of the eyesore
building. Complaints have
been filed with the New York
City Department of Buildings.
Neighbors have shared infor-
mation concerning the dan-
gerous conditions on social
media.
The health and safety of the
local community and first re-
sponders is at risk due to the
dangerous and hazardous
conditions of the abandoned
building located at 125-02
Ocean Promenade owned by
Chai Bonim, LLC.
Erin M. OGrady
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Local Heralds FDNY for

Finding Her Mom After
PR Hurricane
By Kami-Leigh Agard
For seven days after Hurricane
Maria ripped its fury through
Puerto Rico on that apocalyp-
tic Wednesday, September 20,
making landfall as a powerful
Category 4 storm with 155-mph
winds, Rockaway Park resident,
Vilma Diaz did not hear from her
80-year-old mother. Though
miles apart physically, my mom
and I are really close. I was used to
speaking to her every day, some-
times even twice a day. So with
no way to communicate with her,
can you imagine my desperation?
I was glued to the news depict-
ing images of the utter destruc-
tion, people left homeless with
no power, phone service, clean
water, food, the rising death toll.
I was imploding and exploding,
Is my mom okay? an emotional
Diaz said. Her mom, Delores, (af-
fectionately called Lola), lives by
herself in Hatillo, a municipality
located on the northern coast of
the island, bordering the Atlan-
tic Ocean, one hour away driving
from Aguadilla to the west and
the islands capital, San Juan to
the east.
However, Diaz was finally able
to speak with her mom on the
phone. How this was arranged,
some may describe as a miracle.
My cousin told me that she
knew of some FDNY firefighters
going down to help with disaster
relief. I felt this was my last hope
and gave them my moms ad-
dress. I had no idea if they would
be able to get to, much less find
Hatillo, but I prayed and hoped
they would find her, Diaz said.
Then this past Sunday, Octo-
ber 1 Diaz got a call from one of
the firefighters. They found her
mother, Lola, alive.
One of the firefighters was a
Vilma Diazs mom, Lola, with the FDNY in PR.
medic who said that my mom
and her neighbors were fine and
in good spirits. Though many of
the side roads were impassable
because of flooding and a lot of
debris strewn, they were able to
find her street.
He checked my moms vitals,
and said that she was okay. I was
just so filled with gratitude that
they found her, Diaz said.
That relief was solidified when
Diaz got to hear her mothers
voice. My mother is really resil-
ient and was her stubborn self.
She said that the neighbors real-
ly banded together to help each
other before, during and after
the storm. The fire medic had me
laughing when he said that my
80-year-old mom wanted to go
stand in line for food. He said that
he told her that with the heat and
her age, it was not a good idea. So
they went in her steed, of which
she was not too pleased, Diaz
laughed.
According to Diaz, her mother
lives in a neighborhood where
most of the residents are like
herself, retirees from NY. One
neighbor has a generator in her
home, and everyone goes there
to charge their phones and store
food in the refrigerator. However,
one of the biggest problems is the
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lack of gas.
Diaz said, One of my moms
vecinos (translated to neigh-
bors) said that people would
stand in line for hours to fill up on
gas. At first you werent allowed
more than $10 in gas and then
it was increased to $20. Howev-
er, now people are afraid they
won't be able to get gas to fuel
their cars and generators. Also
folks have no idea when they will
get power and are afraid of food
shortages. Only one supermar-
ket, Amigos is operating, letting
in only 10 people at a time. Most
frighteningly is almost everyone
is out of work. Many businesses
are closed, where the majority
of locals are employed, such as a
McDonalds and Walmart, which
were destroyed in the storm. If
people cant work, where are they
going to get money to buy basic
necessities like food and gas?
Diaz said.
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Puerto Ricos lack of power
stems from the destruction of
the countrys transmission lines,
which carry electricity from pow-
er plants to distribution centers in
the cities. More than 80 percent of
these cables are out, and prac-
tically all of the power lines that
carry electricity from distribution
centers to local business and resi-
dences have been destroyed.
Another problem is that most
of the islands power plants gen-
erate two thirds of their power
from burning oil, of which 100
percent is imported. The island
needs electricity to pump water
into homes, a critical need as it
is difficult to find clean water to
drink and bathe. Catapult that
with the dire situation with Puer-
to Rico Electric Power Authority
(PREPA), which even before Ma-
ria was on the verge of collapse,
due to bankruptcy issues and
technicians who left the island in
droves to pursue more lucrative
jobs on the U.S. mainland.
This is where Rockaway resi-
dents Walter Meyer and his wife,
Jennifer Bolstad are stepping in
to help with their Resilient Power
Puerto Rico (RPPR), an initiative
with the Coastal Marine Resource
Center (CMRC), building on the
model of CMRC's successes with
the Power Rockaways Resilience
project after Hurricane Sandy.
RPPR launches with targeted
efforts to deliver solar generators
to the most under-served areas
as a relief measure to get com-
munities powered up and back in
contact, with a planned evolution
into long-term disaster-prepar-
edness and clean-energy solu-
tions to impact the entire island.
According to Denise Ofelia
Mangen, an educational design-
er and technologist at New York
University (NYU), who took leave
from her NYU post to volunteer
with RPPR, the first phase will
be to bring as much energy to as
many people as possible, using a
proven, mobile solar-electric sys-
tem that targets the hardest-hit
and most remote communities
first, especially for charging up
devices, boosting communica-
tions, filtering water and funne-
ling energy to doctors offices,
clinics with immediate triage and
food establishments.
In the second phase, our
goal is to deliver 100 mobile so-
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lar-electric kits by the end of 2017.
In each of the 78 municipalities
we will install solar systems and
train local residents during the
installation. In Phase 3, which is
expected to extend through 2021,
we will work to promote solar
electric energy for every house-
hold on the island. This plan is
a coordinated effort to address
the vulnerabilities of the island's
existing, fossil-fueled electrical
infrastructure and instead pro-
vide clean production of energy
that allows each household to be
self-reliant, Mangen said.
Meyer and his team will be
leaving this Friday for Puerto Rico
to start work. For more informa-
tion on donating or volunteering
with RPPR, visit: resilientpower-
pr.org/resilientpr/
As for Diaz, she is absolutely
grateful for the firefighters who
stayed the course and found her
mom, Lola. I plan to go to PR
later on this month and convince
my mom to return to New York
with me. Knowing her, it may be a
fight. As for the firefighters, upon
their return, I am going to treat
them to a special dinner. They are
truly New York's finest, Diaz said.
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Hard Drugs a Harsh Reality for Rockaway

By Katie McFadden
Last weekend, a local 17-year-
old white male died from a sus-
pected drug overdose. Out of re-
spect to friends and family, The
Rockaway Times is withholding
the young mans name, and the
names of the victims to follow. At
7:15 a.m. on Sunday, October 1,
the young man was found uncon-
scious at a residential location in
Rockaway Park. EMS responded
and administered two doses of
anti-overdose serum, naloxone
and the victim was taken to St.
Johns Episcopal Hospital. The
young man was pronounced dead
on arrival at 9:20 a.m. The victims
girlfriend reportedly told police
that her boyfriend had consumed
a quantity of Xanax and metha-
done. Another friend said he had
also smoked marijuana.
Just 10 hours later, on the other
end of the peninsula, a 37-year-
old white male was found uncon-
scious due to a suspected overdose
in a Mott Avenue restaurant in Far
Rockaway at around 5 p.m. Fortu-
nately for him, the ending wasnt
grim. When patrol officers from
On September 18, Chief Boyce tweeted this photo of a dangerous new
brand of heroin.
the 101st precinct administered
naloxone, the victim regained
consciousness. He was taken to St.
Josephs Hospital by EMS. The vic-
tim had no paraphernalia on him,
but admitted to injecting heroin
he had purchased in a clear plastic
bag with no markings on it.
October has just started, yet the
latest police reports, sent to The
Rockaway Times by a source that
wished to remain anonymous,
come as no surprise following the
events of last month. In the month
of September alone, across the
city, the NYPD reported more than
145 overdose responses, including
more than 12 fatalities. And some
of those took place in Rockaway.
On Tuesday, September 26, at
9:30 a.m., a 21-year-old man was
found by patrols from the 100th
Precinct, face up in the bathroom
of a chain restaurant on Beach
Channel Drive in Rockaway
Beach. EMS arrived and admin-
istered Narcan to the victim. He
came to and was taken to St. Johns
Episcopal Hospital for treatment.
No paraphernalia was found on
the scene, but it is believed he had
done heroin.
The brand of heroin in the inci-
dent above was unknown. But this
incident came just a little more
than a week after Chief Robert
Boyce, Chief of Detectives for the
NYPD, tweeted a warning to the
Rockaway community, about a
particularly dangerous brand of
heroin laced with the opioid pain
medication, Fentanyl, that was
circulating around the neighbor-
hood. On Monday, September
18, Chief Boyce wrote on Twit-
ter, #CommunityAlert: There
were four overdoses last week
in the #Rockaways using heroin
stamped 8888 containing Fenta-
nyl. Any info call #800577TIPS.
Those four cases involved men,
ranging from 23 to 71 years old.
Two of those overdoses took
place that past Friday, September
15. That day, at St. Johns Hospital,
hospital staff found a 43-year-old
man unconscious in a bathroom.
The man was given Narcan and he
regained consciousness. He lat-
er admitted to shooting up half a
bag of heroin. That heroin, which
was found by police at the scene,
turned out to be the brand in the
8888-stamped glassine enve-
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Free Childcare
Training Info Session
Queens- Its that time of the
year again, the Business Out-
reach Center (BOC) is hosting
a free info session to announce
its free child care training
course. This childcare train-
ing is being offered to the Far
Rockaway community thanks
to funding made available by
Councilman Donovan Rich-
ards.
The Child Care Means Busi-
ness is a thirteen-week, 60-
hour intense training that
teaches business manage-
ment, nutrition, and early
childhood development to
individuals who want to start
or expand a childcare home-
based business. Individuals
who are licensed family or
group childcare providers are
encouraged to attend the info
session because of the invalu-
able information that could as-
sist with increase enrollment
and the successful manage-
ment of your home base child-
condence
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care business.
The info session will dis-
cuss the goals and objectives
of the training classes, the
days and time the classes will
meet, as well as how the child-
care training credits received
can be applied towards the
required thirty hours of train-
ing. The info session will be
held at the Blanche Daycare
Center on Monday, October
16 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The
daycare center is located at 44-
02 Beach Channel Drive, Far
Rockaway.
For further information and
to register for the info session,
please contact Annette Cohen
at 646-229-0322.
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Unused Meds
Ask the cates of this program here in the U.S.
have invoked the principle known
dinances requiring manufactur-
ers to develop and fund take-back

DOC
By Peter Galvin, MD
It is estimated that between 10
and 30 percent of medications pre-
scribed to patients are not used.
Physicians are rarely asked what to
do with unused medications and, if
asked, most physicians, myself in-
cluded, would recommend dispos-
ing of them in the household trash.
Pharmacies, with good reason, will
not take back unused or partially
used prescription bottles. Dispos-
ing of them in the toilet is not a good
idea as the medications will wind
up in our waterways where they
may be harmful to marine life. Un-
til recently the DEA and FDA both
agreed trash disposal was a safe and
environmentally friendly method
of disposing of unused pills.
Unused medications often linger
in medicine cabinets where unin-
tended recipients may access them.
Accidental ingestion of pharmaceu-
ticals is on the rise, including an ep-
idemic of opioid overdoses in adults
and children. Recent studies, how-
ever, have found pharmaceuticals
in environmental and ground water.
This finding is due to the medica-
tions seeping out of landfills. So if
medications cannot safely be dis-
posed of in trash or in toilets, then
where should they go? The answer
can be found in Canada and Europe.
Environmental activists have
been promoting pharmaceutical
take-back programs where qual-
ified entities like fire departments,
police stations, and pharmacies set
up kiosks where medications can
be safely disposed of. Medications
from these kiosks are then inciner-
ated. Canada and Europe already
have this system in place. The advo-
as Extended Producer Responsi-
bility. This principle provides that
manufacturers of environmentally
harmful products must assume re-
sponsibility for their safe disposal.
So this principle places the responsi-
bility for disposal in the hands of the
pharmaceutical industry. Naturally
the industry is balking at this, argu-
ing that other supply-chain entities
profit from the sale of their products.
Holding the producers rather than
the complex network of suppliers
and retailers responsible has the ad-
vantage of simplicity. And thus far,
the U.S. legal system, including the
Supreme Court, has agreed.
Take-back programs remain a
novel concept in the U.S., but this
may be changing. Only this year the
FDA and DEA have endorsed take-
back programs as the preferred
approach to disposing of pharma-
ceuticals. Just this spring Walgreens
introduced take-back kiosks in
some stores and other retail chains
may follow suit. Additionally, a
handful of municipalities, mostly
on the west coast, have passed or-
programs. Passing and enforcing
a national take-back program may
have drawbacks and unintended
consequences however. First of all,
the vast majority of antibiotic us-
age in the U.S. is in livestock where
a take-back program will be of no
help. Secondly, a take-back pro-
gram may inadvertently increase
accidental ingestions as many peo-
ple would undoubtedly stockpile
unused medications until they had
enough to warrant a trip to the take-
back kiosk.
More studies and research are
needed and so, for the time being,
until take-back programs become
locally available, trash disposal will
remain the recommended method
of medication disposal. Toilet dis-
posal should remain a last-ditch
disposal method and reserved for
high-risk situations like disposal of
opioids in a situation where a fam-
ily member has a substance-abuse
issue.
Please direct questions and com-
ments to editor@rockawaytimes.
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SETTLE IN
We can know ourselves. If we
stop, we can think about what
we are feeling, what we are
thinking, what we are seeing,
what we are hearing, what we
are smelling, and if were eat-
ing, what we are tasting. We
are the keepers of our sens-
es. We are the keepers of our
thoughts. We are the keepers
of our emotions.
Sometimes we are so much
outside of our bodies that we
are not in touch with what is
going on physically, men-
tally, emotionally. There is so
much going on out there. A
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lot of stimulation in our world
that is out there and we focus
on all of it. We become these
bridge beings who are some-
how originating within the
physical body but really op-
erating out there. This way
of living tends to leave us un-
settled, not peaceful, maybe a
little agitated, maybe not, but
something isnt right.
The result of which is maybe
not a restful sleep, or a little
impatience in certain situa-
tions, or a sense of heaviness
or sadness. Whatever it may
be, it is a result of not being
in tune to the inner life the
friend inside. The only way to
do that is to take the time to
settle in.
The greatest lesson my yoga
teacher shared with me dur-
ing my yoga teacher training
was this: Take the time to set-
tle in with yourself, find your
center, your wholeness, be-
fore you begin to guide a yoga
class. I have taken this into
many facets of my life, includ-
ing work. Centering in to my-
self, closing my eyes, drawing
my shoulders back so there is
a subtle openness in the heart
space, finding the secure inner
place from which the core of
my thoughts/feelings emerge.
This is the essence of who we
are. If we come from this place
in all that we do each and
every day from this secure
place we will be happy. To be
happy, healthy and whole is an
intention that we can create on
a daily basis allowing the ener-
gy to build behind the inten-
tion and propel it forward. It is
possible only if we be inside,
perhaps using the miracle of
breath to get us there.
The Rockaway Times
When we come from this
space and operate in our
home, work and recreation-
al lives, people will perceive a
difference and rally around it.
Everyone wants to feel good.
And that is the beginning. I
feel good. You perceive that.
You adapt it within your-
self. Someone else perceives
that from you. And there be-
comes a chain of good feeling,
well-being, peace and love.
We must feel secure and
whole in order to be able to
give to anyone else. Settling in
to who you are, stripping away
all of the stuff of life hard-
ship, conflicts in work or fam-
ily whatever it is will bring
you to the surface of living
above the murkiness. Life hap-
pens! A lot of stuff happens.
We can look at it as stuff or
we can look at it as all-con-
suming bringing down murk-
iness. We have a choice. What
will you choose?
May you be happy. May you
be free. May you be grateful.
May you let go of things that do
not serve you. May you have
inner peace.
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Rentals Condos and Co-Ops
137th: 3BR, 2BA home with open living room/dining room area (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,000 100th: 2BR, 2BA corner condo unit with parking spot and out door shower (MC) . . . . .$489,000
ABTS: Updated and spacious 3BD, 2BA apt with garage, yard and W/D (NC) . . . . . . . . . . .$2,700 99th: Brand new 3BR, 2BA condo with HW floors, outdoor space, gated parking (NC) . .$439,000
116th: Loft/Studio space with new kitchen and bath (CB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500
121st: 2BR, 1BA ocean facing co-op with terrace and HW floors (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$399,000
118th: Beach block 4BR, 1BA apt with huge terrace and parking (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,300
98th: Freshly painted 3BR, 1BA apartment in Rockaway Beach (MC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,250 99th: Brand new 2BR, 2BA condo with outdoor space, gated parking and HW floors (NC) $389,000
91st: 3BR, 2BA apt with HW floors, freshly painted and laundry (NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,250 91st: Spacious 1BR, 1BA condo in oceanfront elevator building (MC). . . . . . . . . . . . . .$319,000
129th: 3BR, 1BA house with finished basement (CB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,200
121st: 1BR, 1BA updated co-op with ocean views (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$299,900
118th: Beach block 2BR, 1BA apt with HW floors and parking (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,950
128th: 2BR, 1BA apt with CAC, wood floors and summer parking (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,875 81st: Large 2BR, 1BA condo with terrace and parking (NC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$269,000
125th: Beach block newly updated 1BR, 1BA apt with terrace (MC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,850 80th: Large 2BR, 2.5BA condo with low maintenance and terrace (NC) . . . . . . . . . . . .$269,000
73rd: 1BD, 1BA modern and updated bungalow rental with skylights (NC). . . . . . . . . . . .$1,800 123rd: Spacious top floor 1BR co-op with HW floors (NC/JD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$199,000
125th: 2R, 1BA with private terrace, new kitchen, W/D in building (CB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,800
118th: Spacious studio co-op with private terrace (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,000
125th: 1BR, 1BA apt with new kitchen and bath, W/D in building (CB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,700
126th: Renovated 1BR, 1BA with terrace and SS appliances (JD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,600 118th: Spacious studio co-op, renovated in boardwalk building (NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000
102nd: Spacious second floor 2BR, 1BA apt with ocean view terrace (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,600
123rd: Spacious top floor 1BR in oceanfront building with HW floors (NC/JD) . . . . . . . . . .$1,350 Commercial
118th: L shaped studio with updated kitchen and bathroom in elevator building (MC) . . .$1,250 72nd: Three lots featuring two factories and one warehouse (AD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,000,000

Land For Sale 98th: Unique store front with 3 attached renovated bungalows (MC) . . . . . . . . . . . $1,200,000
134th: Build your 3500 sq ft masterpiece! 72x100 lot (LJ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500,000 92nd: Extra large space with high ceilings and out door space (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,800
Arverne: 2 x FAR=6,600 square feet of condos or apts may be developed (MC) . . . . . . .$499,000 116th: Ground floor 2,000 square foot rental space (CB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500
87th: Build your Rockaway Beach dream home on 38x110 lot (MC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$350,000
120th: Newly renovated 2500 sq ft space w/ reception counter (MC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,000
Edgemere: 5946 square foot lot with waterfront access, zoned C3 (MC) . . . . . . . . . . .$329,000
Arverne: 6,000 Square feet of commercial land (NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$325,000 92nd: 850 sq ft of prime space for your dream business (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,000
Arverne: 2,000 Square feet zoned C3, Marina/Yacht (NC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$120,000 116th: Prime location, 1,100 sq ft, reception area plus 4 rooms (BF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,800
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917-742-7779

Lorraine Tom Kiyan Hagan

Heart of BELLE HARBOR

ALL BRICK THREE FAMILY COLONIAL STYLE HOME NEW EXCLUSIVE
LOCATED ON THE SECOND BLOCK 60x100 PROPERTY BREEZY POINT
LOT HAS IT ALL!! BEACH BLOCK
OWNERS main level APT HAS THREE BEDROOMS
LR,DR, open Kitchen one full bath UPSTAIRS APT HAS Unique in size, this home is situated on a 50 x 100 corner
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TRA CT
a large terrace
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Dayton Plaza Entryways Repaired!
By Kami-Leigh Agard
Collaborative community ad-
vocacy does work! If you are walk-
ing or driving through Rockaway
Commons, locally referred to as
Dayton Plaza on Rockaway Beach
Boulevard, you may be pleasantly
surprised to see that all the metal
grates and catch basins at each of
the four entryways have been re-
paired, and most importantly, no
longer pose a danger to shoppers.
Last week The Rockaway Times
(RT), informed by angry locals and
local civic associations, contacted
the owner of the plaza, the Mala-
chite Group, questioning when the
metal grates would be repaired af-
HARD DRUGS A
HARSH REALITY FOR
ROCKAWAY
Continued from Page 18
That night, at a residential ad-
dress on Almeda Avenue in Arv-
erne, a mother found her 23-year-
old son unconscious on the
bathroom floor. Cops responded
and administered naloxone. The
young man regained conscious-
ness. He was taken to St. Johns
Hospital to be treated. Police had
recovered a spoon at the scene, as
well as five bags of heroin with the
number 8888 stamped on them.
Police were also probing anoth-
er incident for the 8888 connec-
tion, which took place on Sun-
day, September 17. At 6:30 a.m.,
a mother found her 25-year-old
son unconscious in bed at a Rock-
away Park residence on Rockaway
Beach Boulevard. He was pro-
nounced dead at the scene. The
family said the young man had a
history of heroin use. Police found
11 blue glassine envelopes in his
right, front pocket, but they did
not contain the 8888 stamp.
Drug overdose continues to be a
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
ter an elderly man fell through and
his leg was severely sliced by rusty
metal sticking up from the grate last
Monday, September 25. (See Sep-
tember 28 RT issues article: Local
Man Badly Injured at Dayton Pla-
za. Note that this was the second
time, RT reported on the plazas
conditions since August).
Within a day, work commenced
on repairing the metal grates at
each catch basin. And as of press
time, the last entryway in front of
CVS is under repair. According to
the workmen on site on Tuesday,
October 3, the work would be com-
pleted by the end of the day.
Kudos to local residents, Dillon
major problem across the country,
the state, the city, the borough, and
Rockaway. According to the New
York State Department of Health
County Opioid report, published in
July 2017, the amount of drug over-
dose responses had almost dou-
bled from 2015 to 2016. In 2015, the
number of outpatient emergency
department visits for opioid over-
doses (including heroin) in Queens
was 168 in Queens and 1,025 across
New York City. In 2016, the num-
ber in Queens was 313, and 1,754
in New York City. According to the
NYC Office of Chief Medical Exam-
iner and the Department of Health
& Mental Hygiene, in 2016, 1,374
people died from overdose deaths
across NYC, more than any other
year on record. More New York-
ers died from heroin and opioid
overdoses in 2016 than from car
accidents, homicides, and suicides
combined.
The NYPD has been doing what
it can to combat overdoses. They
have been making progress to-
wards stopping illegal drug distri-
bution at the source. Most recent-
ly, investigations led the NYPD to
recover 213 pounds of fentanyl,
heroin and cocaine at an apart-
Banks and Jeffrey Williams-Mai-
sonet and civic leaders, Edwin
Williams, president of The Heart
of Rockaway Civic and John Cori,
president of the Rockaway Beach
Civic Association for their persis-
tent efforts to follow through and
see that these repairs were done,
and reaching out to the RT to help.
However, locals want more
to be done. Banks, in his online
Change.org petition (https://
www.change.org/p/newly-reno-
vated-strip-mall-newly-renovat-
ed-and-sa) launched this past Au-
gust, stated, The mall in its current
state is dirty, unsafe and lacks qual-
ity stores. The parking lot needs to
ment building in Kew Gardens
on August 1. A few weeks later, on
September 5, 55 pounds of heroin
and fentanyl were recovered from
a vehicle in the Bronx.
As for the case of tracking down
the local source of the 8888
brand of heroin laced with fenta-
nyl, NYPDs Office of the Deputy
Commissioner, Public Informa-
tion (DCPI) told The Rockaway
Times that, the investigation is
ongoing. Anyone with informa-
tion is urged to call 800-577-TIPS.
According to DCPI, the NYPD
investigates each reported over-
dose and more than 17,000 uni-
formed members of the service
have been trained in the use of
naloxone.
Police arent the only ones that
can be prepared. In March, Dr.
Janie Simmons, a local resident,
a medical anthropologist and
the Principal Investigator for the
National Development and Re-
search Institutes, helped bring
her program, GetNaloxoneNow,
to the Rockaway area. Through
the program, Simmons helps ed-
ucate people about naloxone,
which counteracts overdoses, and
supplies the serum to workshop
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be repaved and re-marked. Pan-
handlers and dollar vans loiter all
day and deter potential customers.
The mall needs a complete facelift
and security. The local residents
and visitors have spent millions in
this dilapidated mall and it is now
time for the owners to give back
and make this a respectable and
safe place again. As we go to press,
more than 430 people have signed
the petition.
Williams-Maisonet succinctly
summed it all: Lets stand togeth-
er on this and fight the owners to
make this mall clean, safe, and wel-
coming to ALL of Rockaway and
visitors.
participants for free. A grant from
the Fund for Public Health in New
York, in conjunction with the NYC
Department of Health, allowed
her to run the program locally as
a pilot for four months. Having
successfully trained more than
450 Rockaway and Broad Chan-
nel residents and providing more
than 370 of them with naloxone,
the program was a success and
was allowed to continue.
On Thursday, October 5, from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m., there will be a Rock-
awayGetsNaloxone Open House
at the RISE Center at 58-03 Rocka-
way Beach Boulevard. Guests will
get free training on how to pre-
vent, recognize and respond to an
overdose emergency, obtain na-
loxone for free, and will be better
prepared to save a life.
For more information on Rock-
awayGetsNaloxone, check out
Simmons website www.GetNa-
loxoneNow.org and follow Get-
NaloxoneNow on Facebook. She
can be contacted directly at sim-
mons@ndri.org or 212-845-4558.
Also look out for future Rocka-
wayGetsNaloxone events in the
Things to Do section of The
Rockaway Times.
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Shore Front Sculpture Exhibit Comes to End

By Katie McFadden
All summer long, Shore
Front Parkway was bright-
ened up with a splash of art.
But all good things must
come to an end. The outdoor
14 Sculptors On the Rock
sculpture exhibit is wrapping
up.
In May, a variety of sculp-
tures from a sky-high whales
tail to a roller coaster of rel-
ics, to a recycled material
mermaid, started to appear
between Beach 73rd and
Beach 108th and Shore Front
Parkway. In June, curators
and artists Christina Jorge
and Esther Grillo kicked off
the official opening of the
14 Sculptors on the Rock ex-
hibit featuring 17 different
pieces. The artwork thrilled
visitors and locals alike, but
the time has come to re-
store Shore Front Parkway to
its pre-sculpture days. The
sculptures will begin to be
taken down starting Satur-
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following weekend.
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Pulling off a public exhibit
of this scale was no easy task.
It required a lot of time and
preparation and a lot of work
and money. None of the art-
ists were paid to put their
work out there and many of
the artists paid out of pocket
to create their work and have
it installed, plus 14 Sculptors
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for the duration of the exhibi-
tion, Jorge said. While some
inquired why there wasnt
work from one end of the
peninsula to the other, Gril-
lo says it isnt as easy as one
would think to display that
much art. We reviewed the
work of many who had a good
track record and at times we
found a persons work to be
too fragile or dangerous for a
public space, so they werent
accepted. The artists also had
to pay to install their pieces.
One spent $6,000 because it
required hoists and two trucks
to transport it, Grillo said.
Some other challenges the
organizers encountered in-
cluded vandalism and even
theft. I dont think people
realize the risk an artist takes
by putting their work out in
the public. Sui Parks piece,
Sprout on Beach 106th in-
cluded 10 small works, and
in June, two of the parts were
missing. Park didnt want to
risk the other eight, so she
de-installed the rest and we
took the financial loss, as we
didnt have theft insurance,
Jorge said. Another piece, a
chain-link heart on Beach
If a piece is defaced, you
only have 48 hours to repair
it or it has to be removed, so
the artist had to come repair
it, Jorge said.
Despite the challenges, the
organizers believe the exhib-
it was a success. The goal
did that. The Parks Depart-
ment said this was the most
ambitious art project seen in
the Rockaways, Jorge said.
This has been very exciting
and we were happy with the
love that Rockaway showed
for the work.
This helped make Rock-
away hit the map even more
and brought attention to
our beaches, Grillo said. In
addition to the artwork, we
held educational compo-
nents where groups of sen-
iors or children would come
to see the world and wed ask
them to write about the expe-
rience. One child wrote us a
card that said it was the best
day of their life. We were able
to bring the art to people and
that was a gift, Grillo said.
The sculptures will now
come down and be put up
for sale by the artists. For
inquiries, call Grillo at 718-
945-3131. While the art will
no longer be around, the or-
ganizers will continue some
of the programming that ac-
companied the exhibit. For
instance, many got to take
tours, hear lectures and learn
about the history of Rock-
away, and make their own
art. Details about future pro-
grams will be available in
future editions of The Rock-
away Times in the Things to
Do section.
For more information about
whats next for 14 Sculptors,
check out www.14sculptors.
com. To see those who were
involved in making the Rock-

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Keeping Up With the RCA

By Katie McFadden an American Flag Paddle Painting
The Rockaway Civic Association just Project for members. Members and
wrapped up a busy summer and is now their families created their own
gearing up for their fall and winter events. unique American flags out of pop-
Throughout the summer, the Rockaway sicle sticks on a Saturday afternoon
Civic Association (RCA) worked to beauti- in the park on Beach 109th Street.
fy many beach block gardens throughout On Saturday, September 23, mem-
the neighborhood. In August, they worked bers were welcome to participate
on their biggest garden yet at Beach 109th in a sunset paint out in which peo-
Street. With resources from the New York ple created their own renditions of
Restoration Project, DSNY Organics Pro- the Rockaway sunset as seen from
gram and NYC Parks, many helped vol- Tribute Park on Beach 116th Street.
unteer with the RCA to make the garden Many came out for the last mem-
come to life and beautify the area. bership meeting on September 14.
The RCA has also helped to bring arts Our membership was skyrocket-
and entertainment to the area. Over the ed, RCA member Pat Wood, said.
summer, the RCA hosted its Beach Flix Many members donated gift cards
series and brought outdoor movies to and cash, which were passed on
the beach. On September 9, they held to the Graybeards to assist in their
Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
The meeting featured an update
from Parks Department admin-
istrator Portia Dyrenforth, plus
updates on sanitation and trans-
portation. Councilman Eric Ulrich
was also on hand to help the RCA
present awards to Dyrenforth for
her work with Parks and to local
Joe Hartigan for all the work hes
done, especially for advocating for
the ferry.

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

but FREE EVENTS
On the Rock 2017 Public Art
Shore Front Parkway | B. 108 St. to B. 73 St. continue!
The SCULPTURES are going...
With gratitude 14 Sculptors, Inc. acknowledges
our partner NYC Parks & participating artists:
Dan Bergman, Allan Cyprys, Carmen Frank,
Laura Frank, Sean Febrications, Esther A. Grillo,
Christina Jorge, Bibiana Huang Matheis, Sui
Park, Siena Gillann Porta, Carl Rattner, Herb
Rosenberg, Stan Squirewell, Chuck Von Schmidt, PS 183 STUDENT THANK YOU NOTES / ART
Anne Stanner. Special thanks to Larry Ossei-
Mensah. We appreciate our funders for their
program support and the Rockaway
community for the love you've shown our work.
14 Sculptors Inc. and Project Coordinators
Christina Jorge and Esther A. Grillo
For event info call 718 945-3131
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October 7 & 8, 12 p.m.
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Food, music, beer. See Patsy on
Saturday and The Supertones on
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Sunday.
Saturday, October 7, 1 p.m.
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF
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available online Join a ranger for a walking tour
and learn how Jamaica Bay came
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WALK FOR BREAST CANCER
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Join the 100th Precinct Commu-
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raise awareness for breast cancer.
Register by contacting Maurice
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Sunday, October 8, 10 a.m.
WAVE TO END DOMESTIC
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Beach 94th Boardwalk
Join for 3 mile walk to bring
awareness to domestic violence,
followed by resources, giveaways,
refreshments and more.
Sunday, October 8, 11 a.m.
OSPREY WATCH GUIDED WALK
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Learn about the osprey on this
guided walk of West Pond Trail.
Tuesday, October 10,
7:15 p.m.
COMMUNITY BOARD 14
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Knights of Columbus
333 Beach 90th Street
Fort Tilden Army center update,
budget update, bus stop discuss,
summer recap, etc.
Saturday, October 14,
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
HIP HOP HALLOWEEN
RISE Center
58-03 Rockaway Beach Blvd
Join the RBA for Halloween cele-
brations with pumpkin painting,
face painting, and festive food.
Free.
Saturday, October 14, 6 p.m.
PENNY SOCIAL
American Legion
209 Cross Bay Blvd
Join for a fun night of raffles to
raise money for the VFW and vet-
erans. $10 admission.
Tuesday, October 24, 7 p.m.
FRIENDS OF FIREFIGHTERS
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For tickets go to friendsoffirefight-
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Saturdays and Sundays,
12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
RAA SALON SHOW
RAA T-7 Gallery, Fort Tilden
RAAs newest art exhibit.
Mondays, 8 p.m.
MEDITATION & DHAMMA TALK
Rockaway Summer House
504 Beach 68th Street
Meditation with a Buddhist monk.
Free but donations are welcome
to sustain the program.
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years and some will require a
few tools and possibly a trip to
your local hardware store, but
I assure you that all of them
could add up to saving you a
ton of money this year. Well
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is not out, be sure to keep them
closed to help aid in sealing
drafty windows.
3. Ceiling fans are often only
thought of in the summer to
move air to cool a room. If your
ceiling fan spins in a clockwise
direction at a low speed, it will
push warm air down and keep
the heat in your room for a
longer time.
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throughout the day dries the
air out rapidly. Run a humidi-
fier instead of the heating sys-
tem to warm whatever room
you choose.
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Your oven not only cooks your
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youre cooking dinner, keep
the heating system off and
youll see just what a differ-
ence it makes.
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Basements are typically not
heated and the cold tempera-
tures cause the temperature of
your water heater to drop very
quickly. While youre at it, turn
the temperature setting on
your water heater down too.
Its probably too high in the
first place.
8. Pay attention to your
thermostat. This is a big one,
which few people do. Most
people set their thermostat to
a pre-determined tempera-
ture like 68 just as a habit, and
theyll stick with it no matter
what. You may very well need
that setting on a windy 28-de-
gree day, but for most of the
winter days its probably too
hot. Try a few degrees cooler.
Youll see that it feels just fine
on days that are above 40 de-
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The combination of con-
stant news, social media and
an unfiltered fire hose of opin-
ion has created a tsunami of
political news, comment, and
often times downright fiction
that can best be described as
overwhelming - especially to
many of us who are already
beset upon at all times by
our own personal problems
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and struggles. This almost
pandemic infection of rancid
political diatribes on the part
of our nations self-perceived
aristocracy who seriously be-
lieve they are eminently more
qualified and knowledgeable
in all things than the rest of
us hoi polloi who (at least in
their minds) exist simply to
take up space and resources.
This has, over time, served to
taint the places and spaces
that used to provide or respite
from the drudgery of the dai-
ly grind sporting events,
movies, television shows, en-
tertainers, and simple neigh-
borly conversation are in-
stead becoming part of the
ongoing and seemingly nev-
er-ending political conversa-
tion of revisionist history.
Recently it has become com-
monplace for our progressive
political gentry to refer to our
nations founding fathers as
nothing more than a bunch
of racist, sexist and misogy-
nist old white men. The Dec-
laration of Independence as
a flawed and systemically
racist document and our Na-
tional Anthem as an insidious
government scam to get our
boys and girls to go overseas
and kill people. Our universi-
ties are actually attended and
administered by individuals
who think the First Amend-
ment to the Bill of Rights
should be revised to allow for
a restriction of "freedom of
speech" where such speech
might make an individual un-
comfortable. Our police have
been the subject of a contin-
ual stream of invective in an
attempt to inculcate a socie-
ty-wide characterization of
them as nothing more than a
group of racist assassins.
The sitting President of the
United States is continually
referred to as a "racist plan-
tation owner," a misogynist, a
pedophile, a sexual predator,
a clown, a sociopath, a Ne-
anderthal, the "Homer Simp-
son" of Presidents, scary, cra-
zy, the "Bum in Chief," a Nazi,
a batsh*t crazy fascist, men-
tally incompetent, etc. Social
media is also a conduit for
calls for the President's assas-
sination.
Recently, yet another po-
litical infected abscess has
erupted on the skin of our
nation as we now all have to
deal with the take a knee
syndrome thats infested pro-
fessional sports, the last bas-
tion of apolitical entertain-
ment. Now if you want to play
a football game, strict adher-
ence to the politically correct
code of social justice requires
you to kneel while the nation-
al anthem is played because if
you simply stand respectfully,
hand over heart, you will have
identified yourself as a racist.
Of course, back in 2011 when
Denver Broncos quarterback,
Tim Tebow, took to a knee
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not during the anthem, he
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a polarizing figure, criticized
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display of faith and mocked
by his fellow players. Go fig-
ure. Sadly, any pretense on
the part of the ever-bellicose
progressive elite of having
enough curiosity to actual-
ly engage in meaningful dis-
course or even to simply lis-
ten to opposing points of view
has long since left the station.
There are times I admit
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everything, thus causing me
to despair against any strug-
gle or rage at the dying of
the light. Yet, every so often,
someone comes along and re-
stores my tenuous faith that,
like all other things in life,
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less volatile subject. We were
watching a rerun of the TV
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Amelia Earhart, you know the
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From The Rockaway Business Alliance
STREET FESTIVALS IN THE FALL!
Yes, we know that summer-
time in Rockaway is hard to beat.
But as temperatures start to drop
and the leaves begin to change,
the peninsula still has plenty to
offer in the off-season.
Whether youre a year-round
resident or just down for the day,
events like the Rockaway Busi-
ness Alliances Rock-A-Block
Boulevard festival are a great
reminder of what a wonderful
community weve got all year
round.
Last Saturday, the Rockaway
Business Alliance hosted its
first-ever street festival on Rock-
away Beach Boulevard. Rock-
A-Block Boulevard featured an
abundance of programming for
both kids and adults. Favorite
activities included henna tattoos
from Zingara Vintage, perfor-
mances from JUMP Dance Stu-
dio and the Bayswater Players,
pizza AND pie eating contests, a
surfing demo from Black Surfing
Rockaway, a skate park from Sta-
tion RBNY, and much more.
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In addition to bringing the
Rockaway community togeth-
er and offering a fun day for
families, street festivals are an
awesome opportunity to bring
attention to local businesses.
Businesses on Rockaway Beach
Boulevard from Umas to Ep-
steins were bustling with cus-
tomers all day long during Rock-
A-Block.
Missed it? Fear not! Theres an-
other festival coming up this Sat-
urday, October 7 on Rockaway
Beach Boulevard from Beach
94th to Beach 90th Streets.
In addition to the program-
ming from last time, Rock-A-
Block Blvd on Saturday will also
offer massage/ acupuncture
demonstrations from NurtureU
Wellness, square dancing with
The City Stompers, not one but
TWO bounce houses (thanks to
the generosity of House on Rock
Church), performances by the
House on Rock choirs, a live reg-
gae band, and an animal talent
contest (yes, you heard that right
bring out Toto and let him
show off that special thing that
he does).
The Rockaway Times
Here are some other fun
things going on in Rockaway
this fall:
*Thursday Night Trivia at
Bungalow Bar
*Sunday Night Football at
Jamesons
*Thursday Night Open Mic at
Rockaway Brewing Co.
*The Bayswater Players Pres-
ent: The Adams Family, Octo-
ber 21 through November 5 at
the Bayswater Jewish Center
*Oktoberfest at Riis continues
on October 7 and 8, and fea-
tures live music and the grand
opening of Rockaway Chef Julia
Steinbergs new seaside restau-
rant The Dropout. Our member
business Zingara Vintage will
also be hosting a pop-up mar-
ket there.
Hope to catch you this Satur-
day on the Boulevard!
This report was submitted
by The Rockaway Business Al-
liance (RBA) for more info,
please email info@rockaway-
businessalliance.org
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PHEFFER AMATO KICKS OFF

READING AWARDS TOUR AT P.S. 114
Assemblywoman Stacey Phef-
fer Amato launched her first
Summer Reading Awards Tour
at P.S. 114 in Belle Harbor on
Wednesday, September 27, by
handing out certificates of com-
pletion to dozens of students for
making regular reading a part of
their summer. Pheffer Amato did
her first Summer Reading pro-
gram starting in May, when she
supplied schools with materials
for their students to track their
progress over the summer. Par-
ents and schools have mailed the
materials back, and Pheffer Am-
ato has produced a certificate for
each student who completed the
Summer Reading Challenge.
This is a fun, straightforward
way to get kids to read and be-
cause its so easy, it works! Phef-
fer Amato said. These kids have
done something really amazing.
They got themselves in the hab-
it of reading over the summer.
Even when school was out, they
made a substantial contribution
to their education.
Im so grateful to all the par-
ents, teachers, administrators
and students at P.S. 114 who kept
everything on task and made it fun,
she continued. Well be going
all throughout the district award-
ing young readers, and theres no
better place to start than with the
bright, enthusiastic kids of P.S. 114!
Facts You Probably
Dont Need
New Jersey and Oregon are
the only U.S. states that cur-
rently ban self-service gas
stations.
If you have three quarters,
four dimes, and four pen-
nies, you have $1.19. You
also have the largest amount
of money in coins without
being able to make change
for a dollar.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup
bottles represents the num-
ber of varieties of pickles the
company once had.
Karaoke means "empty or-
chestra" in Japanese.
The first person selected as
Time Magazine Man of the
Year - Charles Lindbergh in
1927.
During the filming of The
Exorcist, multiple sets burnt
down, actors got mysteri-
ously injured, and one of
the actors, John MacGow-
ran, even died of influen-
za. Eventually, a priest was
brought in to bless the set.
In 2002, 3/4 of the human
population owned a TV set.
41 Percent: The estimated
growth of the human popu-
lation by 2050.
22: The number of years
since the last time the av-
erage life expectancy in the
U.S. dropped before 2016. In
2016, heart disease caused a
drop in average life expec-
tancy.
2.8 Billion: The amount of
people in the world who live
off of less than $2 (U.S. Dol-
lar) a day.
Facts from Sean McVeigh,
factologist.

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ROCKAWAY GOOD TIMES
By Kami-Leigh Agard
Our days of the Rockaway
Groan, (succinctly coined by
Rockaway Times Publisher,
Kevin Boyle) are almost over,
but dont weep, theres still
much to enjoy! Local hotspots
are still hopping with fabulous
live music, theater and arts. So
stick around, theres still a lot
to do on the Rock!
LIVE MUSIC:
Friday, October 6
6:30 p.m.
Kick off your Columbus
weekend at Bungalow Bar with
the amazing acoustic musical
stylings of much-loved band,
Neutral Corners. Gear up for
a beautiful night of bay views
and vibes as the duo pumps
out their arousing mix of rock,
soul, blues and R&B.
377 Beach 92nd Street
Saturday, October 7
12 p.m.
Guys, strap on your lederho-
sen and gals, your dirndl and
head down to Riis for NYC's
only oceanfront Oktoberfest
with fabulous eats, beats and of
course, beer! As you clink your
colossal steins in uber German
fashion, get ready to be on your
feet as Patsy throws it down
Rockaway style. Also dont
miss the chance to check out
The Dropout, Riis new off-sea-
son restaurant.
Riis Park Beach Bazaar (16702
Rockaway Beach Blvd.)
Saturday, October 7
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
ROCK! AWAY! brings rock-
in reggae to the Rock-A-Block
street festival with Rockaways
first reggae movement, RCK 97,
The Foundation Band and sur-
prise guests!
Beach 90th to Beach 94th
Streets, Rockaway Beach Blvd.
Saturday, October 7
8 p.m.
The Rockaway Theatre Com-
pany presents NYCs premiere
nonprofit musical ensemble,
The Rhapsody Players per-
forming your favorite songs
from the 60s, 70s and 80s in
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
extraordinary cabaret style.
This one night only of singing
magic is RTCs Giving Back
benefit concert for a special
Rockaway friend in need of
lifesaving surgery. All pro-
ceeds will go towards medi-
cal treatment. Tickets are $20.
Note, reservations are not
necessary, but this show will
sell out! Email broadwayjack@
earthlink.net or call 646-335-
2710 if you want to reserve
your seat in advance.
Post Theater, Bldg. T4, Ft. Til-
den,
Saturday, October 7
9 p.m.
In a stomping mood tonight?
Then make a beeline to Rogers
as the insanely popular musi-
cal duo, Keegan & Soogs brings
the pub down and has you on
your feet, as they belt out their
famous eclectic blend of Amer-
ican classics.
203 Beach 116th Street
Sunday, October 8
12 p.m.
Catch the last wave of Okto-
berfest at Riis as NYCs #1 top
surf music band, the Super-
tones drops in on your senses
with their infectious wave-rid-
ing music. Also dont miss the
chance to titillate your taste
buds at The Dropout, Riis new
fabulous off season restaurant.
Riis Park Beach Bazaar (16702
Rockaway Beach Blvd.)
Wednesday, October 14
7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Big-name entertainment
company, UNIR NYC brings
you Stogies and Brew at the
Rockaway Brewery. This is go-
ing to be a night for the books
offering cigars by Line of Duty,
music by Walker Brotherhood
of the Grape and the ever-no-
torious Whitney Aycocks ad-
dictive food and service. Tick-
ets are $25 in advance/ $35 at
the door. For FDNY, NYPD and
military personnel, tickets are
a flat $25. Proceeds from sales
of Line of Duty cigars and ap-
parel go towards charity. For
tickets and further info, email:
unir.nyc@gmail.com
415 Beach 72nd Street
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Sundays visit: www.rockawayartistsal-
6 p.m. liance.org/upcoming-exhi-
Come out and be blessed by bitions, call 718-474-0861 or
live and direct positive vibra- email: info@raanyc.org
tions at Reggae Sunday Splash sTudio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden
at the Rockaway Brewing Com-
pany hosted by Rockawavesra- Wednesdays
dio, Max Power Productions 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ROCK AWAY Rockaway and Rockaway Artist Alliance Oils
Vinyl Makes Me Happy Hour. & Acrylics Painting Class with
This weeks special guest instructor, Joseph Perez (www.
The Foundation Band. seapainter.net). Students bring
415 Beach 72nd Street their own supplies.
$20 RAA Member / $30
Thursdays Non-member
8 p.m. to 11 p.m. sTudio 6 Gallery, Fort Tilden
Rockaway Brewing Com- RAA offers a wide variety of
panys Open Mic Night with art classes. To receive week-
guest host, Jesse Katz features ly updates on series of class-
an eclectic array of musicians es and one-time workshops,
and vocalists who take the email: j.dalid@raanyc.org or
stage to share their live music. call 718-474-0861
Of course, guitarist extraordi-
naire, Jammin' Jon, and Irish Saturdays and Sundays
crooner, John Baxter are local 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
favorites, but dont be afraid to On weekends through Octo-
take the mike and share your ber 8, the RAA showcases its Sa-
musical talents! lon Show 2017. This non-juried
415 Beach 72nd Street exhibition features artists dis-
playing a variety of themes and
OTHER ART NEWS mediums, including but not
Saturday, October 14 limited to painting, watercolor,
1 p.m. to 9 p.m. photography, print, poetry and
Rockaway Times columnist, literature and sculpture. For
Enchantress Shane Kulman further info., call 718-474-0861
presents Unraveling Inner Pos- or email: info@raanyc.org
sibilities - Improv Theatre for sTudio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden
Non-Actors. In this play shop,
Kulman leads self-expression Theater in Rockaway (Yes,
through improvisational act- Rockaway has its own theater
ing, centering and relaxation company!)
practices leading to authentic In 2011, the Rockaway The-
communication. The workshop atre Company brought you
is 1 to 5 p.m. with a dinner and Rockaway Cafe A Decade of
celebration break from 5 to 6:30 Dynamite! and by popular de-
p.m. Then the day culminates mand, its back! Come and en-
with a show at the Rockaway joy the musical revue directed
Artists Alliance where your in- by John Gilleece, and musical
vited guests get to witness your arrangements and direction by
performance! Tickets are $50. the amazing duo, Jeff & Heath-
For more info, email: your- er Arzberger that has titillated
beautifulchild@gmail.com audiences for over a decade.
RAAs Camp kidsmART, Fort Note that the show sells out
Tilden quickly, so seize the chance to
get your hands on some tickets!
The RAA is calling for mem- Show dates are November 3, 4,
bers-only entries for their up- 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19. Visit:
coming ArtSplash 2017 exhibit. www.rockawaytheatrecompa-
In this juried exhibition, artists ny.org
are free to explore any theme
and all media. $35 entry fee for Got info. on live music and art
a maximum of six works. Sub- exhibitions coming up in Rocka-
missions must be received by way and Broad Channel? Send
October 20. For further info., it to kami@rockawaytimes.com
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Skudin Surf Rallies To Help Rincn Rebuild
After Hurricane Maria
By Kami-Leigh Agard
Skudin Surf is dropping in,
in a positive way to help with
Hurricane Maria relief efforts
in the surfing communities of
Puerto Rico in Rincn, Agua-
dilla and surrounding areas.
For almost a decade, the Sku-
din brothers, Cliff and Will,
have brought the sport of surf-
ing to people of all ages and
abilities in the seaside towns of
Rockaway Beach, Long Beach,
Atlantic Beach, Lido-Nicker-
son the Beach and Rincn,
Puerto Rico.
They have launched a Go-
FundMe online fundraising
campaign through their non-
profit, Surf For All, an organ-
ization in which they educate
and teach people with a vari-
ety of disabilities about surf-
ing. Through their GoFund-
Me campaign, 100 percent of
proceeds and donations will
go towards hurricane disaster
relief.
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Cliff Skudin said, We start-
ed this fundraising initiative to
help out the local businesses
and residents of Rincn, whom
we know well and love. We are
working with JetBlue to trans-
port cargo such as chain saws,
generators, water and other
critically-needed supplies. We
are mainly focusing on what
the communitys needs are
for rebuilding. For example, a
good friend of ours basically
lost everything in his surfing
business surfboards, pad-
dleboards, you name it. But
we are determined to help him
and other local businesses get
back up and running.
Skudin said that their goal is
to reassure people that once
Rincn is up and running,
dont cancel your trips, at least
hopefully not by the holidays.
I feel like the media is exag-
gerating when they say the en-
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tire island is down for the next
10 years. A lot of pro surfers
down there are saying thats
not true. Together we can and
will rebuild in a bigger and
better way, and remember the
awesome waves will always be
there, Skudin said.
As of press time, within two
days, the Skudins online cam-
paign has raised $2,655 of the
$50K goal. To donate towards
the Skudins GoFundMe cam-
paign, visit: https://www.
gofundme.com/rinconhurri-
canemariarelief
Also on Saturday, October
14 from 6 to 9 p.m., they will
be hosting a Rise Up Rincn
relief fundraiser at the Beach
House, located at 906 W
Beech Street in Long Beach,
featuring reggae sensation
JahStix, open bar, appetizers
and raffle prizes. For more in-
formation, visit Skudin Surf s
Facebook page or email info@
skudinsurf.com
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LOCAL COLOR:
READERS SEND IN
THEIR PIX
We might be a little biased but we think some of the best photogra-
phers in the world live in Rockaway. Here are some shots that readers
shared with us this week. Send your photos (limit to 2 per week) to
mail@rockawaytimes.com and well do our best to print them (space
permitting). We do receive more than we can print.

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Printing: FORECASTING WOES
Letterheads, Envelopes, Bumper Stickers, So the latest on the street
is that Surfline just acquired
Custom Invites, Labels, Flyers, Business Cards Magicseaweed, one of its
competitors in the surf fore-
Silk Screen casting business. Might not
sound like much, but having
Printing independent companies try-
ing to have the best forecast-
Plaques ing models is big business
Trophies these days, at least compared
to the local phone numbers
Graphics one would call to get a report
only 15 years ago.
Tee Shirts Surfline acquired Magic-
Hoodies
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seaweed from the Austral-
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Posters SurfStitch overshot things
N E
by trying to merge surf fore-
Caps
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casting with ecommerce
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and journalism, buying Aus-
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tralias STAB magazine and
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U.S.A based e-commerce site,
SWELL. In the end, they sold
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M Hou s
them all back to their origi-
E
nal owners. SurfStitch paid
$13.8 million for both Magic-
In
seaweed and Stab Magazine
combined in 2015. Thats a lot
of money!
Why the woe? Well Surfline
T-Shirts completely overshot the fore-
cast for the last month-and-a-
Custom Made - No Minimum half s worth of swell. In some
instances only two to three
Custom Banners days out, Surfline was calling
for days to be in the 12-15ft
Signs range, meanwhile Magicsea-
weed was more modest call-
Large Color Print-Outs ing for 5-7ft. The same for
other competitor, SwellInfo.
Print Your Art & Jeff Berg, CEO of Surfline
Photos On Canvas told Shop-Eat-Surf.com:
Car & Truck Magnets Your Company We believe we can provide
What You Sell Here the talented team at Magic-
Truck Lettering (Your) Phone-Num
seaweed support in places
Custom Refrigerator Magnets theyve never quite had it. We
are also investing a lot in the
next generation of products
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Rockawaygraphics@verizon.net Ben Freeston, the founder/
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CEO of Magicseaweed, is a
real talent and I think hes go-
ing to add a lot of value across
all the brands in several are-
as. We believe that there are
always going to be different
types of surfers looking for
different types of products
at different price points in
the market. The portfolio of
brands will allow us to better
serve more surfers, especially
overseas.
Having been a part of many
big business merger/acquisi-
tions in my professional ca-
reer, what tends to happen
is consolidation of resources
and merging technologies.
So, in all honesty, this could
swing either two ways: Sur-
flines reports comes more
in-line with Magicseaweeds
algorithms or Magicsea-
weed will be reduced to use
the power house reporting
agency Surflines resources.
Usually when the buyer con-
sumes the other, they push
their resources on the other
for ROI purposes.
Whichever the case, this
just gave competitor Swell-
info a good kick in the pants
for business. With upwards
of five million plus subscrib-
ers between all three surf
forecasting agencies, its now
become an intense battle to
come out on top. The one
that can report correctly on
all the thousands of local surf
breaks bathometry (seafloor
shape and slope) worldwide
will come out on top.
Like with any forecasting,
such as weather, always use
a variety of tools to figure out
what might happen. Then
again, just go old-school, get
to the beach and see for your-
self what its like.
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Snowflake League Week 3 Recap

By The Commissioner's Office
This umpiring crisis has tak-
en itself to a whole new lev-
el. So short and sweet: if any-
one has any umpiring ability,
please friend request 'Snowflake
League' on Facebook. Once add-
ed as a friend, please upload
your resume onto the page. This
should be fun. And remember,
if you make a bad call, it was
probably the right call. And if
you made the right call, it was
probably God awful. There is
really no in between. Not with
this cast of gentlemen. But if
you are free Monday-Thursday
nights, and are looking for pock-
et change, contact the Commis-
sioner's Office via Facebook. Ya'
never know. Maybe we can find
a diamond in the rough. In the
famous words of that little kid in
Disney's Angels in the Outfield,
"It could happen!"
Monday night's action had Ma-
rine Park taking on Rock Fam.
The game started with Rock Fam
taking a 2-0 lead but that's all
they'd get. Marine Park put to-
gether nine unanswered runs
to eventually win the game by a as a rivalry game and that billing to take the game and the sweep.
touchdown. In the second game, certainly did not disappoint. The The sweep scores were 6-5 & 12-7.
Rock Fam held a 6-2 lead midway amount of trash talk that went on Standings: (head to head, run
through the game but that lead in that game would make Andrew differential, winning %)
wasn't held either. Marine Park Dice Clay look like a priest. Game Marine Park 6-0
answered with seven runs to win one saw the Alchoballics jump Ruffle Bar 6-0
game two by a field goal. A sweep out to a 5-1 lead in the second in- Cereal Killers 4-2
by Marine Park with scores of 9-2 ning. Game ended though with a Black Sox 2-4
and 9-6. This whole league is in 5-0 run by the Cereal Killers and a Sons of Pitches 2-4
good hands with Allstate when it walk-off Sac fly. Game two was a Rock Fam 1-3
comes to any sort of insurance, lot more offense. Cereal Killers hit Alchoballics 1-5
but Ruffle Bar was in really good three different kinds of homeruns Allstate 0-4
hands Tuesday night. Ruffle Bar
came out swinging and threw
down a 14 run mercy shutout on
Allstate in game one. The second
game was a little closer but ended
with the same result. Ruffle Bar
took both with the scores 14-0
and 8-3.
Wednesday night action was
between the Sons of Pitches and
the Black Sox. Both games were
close and low scoring. Black Sox
won the first by four runs by the
score of 6-2 and the S.O.P. won
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