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Of Significance 

Hezitorial...................................................................................2 

Budget........................................................................................4 

Business......................................................................................5 

Community................................................................................7 

Education...................................................................................8 

Energy Matters..........................................................................9 

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Movie Reviews.........................................................................16 

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People.......................................................................................21 

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Shifting Gears..........................................................................22 

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Truth and Justice......................................................................25 

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The Hezitorial 

By Hezi Aris 

The Perception of Change May Only be 

Invoked by Benevolence of Purpose 

The elections are over. Not all the results are 

in. That was to be expected. Is anyone surprised? 

Not I. The cynicism I express is derived from 

becoming more familiar with the landscape. 

The political, economic, and education related 

issues seem to conform to an almost superstitious 

pattern. The formula of deceit and conceit 

is discernible among each of us. There are none 

more ethical than the next, though some may 

try. The seemingly chaotic patterns in reality are 

repeated within a defined pattern. It is a chaotic 

paradigm. The chaos is the smoke, the pattern 

is recognizable and therefore ripe for the telling. 

To better appreciate the chaos before us, let 

us examine a situation where we are likely to 

not be emotionally vested. The Tour de France 

is a world famous bicycle race that tests the 

planning, stamina, and execution of disparate 

teams vying for the win. The race is an annual 

affair. It pits the best against the best. The route 

is defined in advance; the lay of the land, so to 

speak. The athletes train, the teams plan, they 

support each other. The goal is to win. 

Anticipation adorns each team, embellished 

by image building press releases from the last 

Tour de France to the next. Yet on the day of 

the actual race, the dramas played throughout 

the previous year in tabloids, television and 

radio submit to the month long drama to dazzle 

the mind and test ones physical stamina. These 

are the hurdles that must be surmounted to 

earn the winning title. 

Sustaining the momentum over the month 

long trek are the moments when one lone driver, 

possibly followed by one, two or three more 

would explode in a burst of exuberance of such 

force as to leave the huddled teams behind. This 

is a planned effort. The focus required to leave 

the mass of riders behind can only be mastered 

by one at his physical peak and imbued with 

a calculated and astute game plan. The “front” 

man can only endure just so long. In time 

the group of “laggards” could catch up to the 

leading rider or small pack of riders. Timing is 

everything. It is a well thought plan. 

The political gig is likewise played, albeit 

with some twists. Rather than planned, it 

is plotted. Planning suggests concern and 

/ or interest for the public good. I believe 

governance, as exemplified by in the City of 

Yonkers, though it is similarly practiced in 

Mount Vernon, Sleepy Hollow, Harrison, and 

Eastchester, among other hamlets visited, or 

soon to be, is concerned for self, and little else. 

The telling of some of the incidents of the last 

month alone are sufficient to make any man or 

woman to lunch their breakfast. 

Not subscribing to the protocols defined in 

giving public notice to meetings held or were to 

be held by the Charter Revision Commission 

became a conduit for placing two proposals onto 

a ballot which proved itself a scam perpetrated 

upon an unsuspecting public. First off, the 

propositions were not to be found in the League 

of Women Voters pamphlet. Conveniently, this 

is a yearly occurrence. The lack of access to the 

written proposals was also an agreed upon way 

of keeping the public unaware. The fact that 

the proposals were written on the flip side of 

the ballot was also a ruse. There was room for 

everything on the ballot form to have been 

placed on one side. Instead, the Westchester 

County Board of Elections chose to have the 

Continued on page 3 

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on Tuesday, November 16th, from 10 am through 11 am, on WVOX-1460 AM on your radio dial 

and worldwide on www.WVOX.com. Yonkers City councilwoman Joan Gronowski will be our 

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Wednesday mornings at 8:35 am when he and Bob Marrone discuss issues on the Good 

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Continued from page 2 

proposals written on the back of the 

ballot. They also chose the use of a black 

felt pen which upon use to fill in the 

circles on the two proposals would bleed 

to the front side of the ballot form thereby 

forcing the scanning of the ballot by the 

new tabulating machines to be rejected. 

Inquiry by The Journal News and 

other individuals to ascertain whether 

the Charter Revision Commission gave 

timely advance public notice of all meetings 

by Freedom of Information Law 

(FOIL) requests proved to be a non 

starter. These who needed to respond 

with all appropriate correspondence 

among the protagonists chose to”hide” 

the email seen by the Yonkers Tribune 

which proved that Yonkers Corporation 

Counsel communication requesting 

public notice be given was requested a day 

after the meeting was held. So much for 

the worthiness of the FOIL mechanism 

which has allegedly been corrupted by 

those who “decide” what information they 

will share and what information they will 

allegedly “hide.” 

The continued long-term parking 

of Yonkers City Council Majority 

Leader Patricia McDow continues to 

be unpaid. The Yonkers Police department 

has not impounded the vehicle. 

the Yonkers Parking Authority, mired in 

so many other legal issues, among which 

is pending bankruptcy or bail out by the 

Yonkers taxpayer, is indicative of cover 

up an deceit. The “deals” afforded business 

to park their patrons’ cars are rates 

permitting the restaurants to make, in one 

case as much as $100,000 per annum is 

unconscionable. Yonkers Deputy Mayor 

William “Bill” Regan sits upon the YPA 

Board of Directors as its chairman. 

The hoopla over the recent swearing 

in of two new Yonkers Board of education 

Board of Trustees goes to cover up the 

stepping down of CPA Marlin Wiggins 

and Debra Martinez from that same 

board. Why did they resign? When will 

the truth ever be told? Cover up be design. 

The guilty are protected. No one knows 

anything. No one saw anything. When 

these excuses are heard being expressed 

to police at any gun shooting incident, 

people are shocked by the temerity of 

the lies, yet when it comes to the Yonkers 

Board of Education, maintaining the 

deception continues unabated. 

The Community Development 

Agency recently met and heard of the 

grand designs envisioned by developers 

who cannot raise a dime toward any 

effort. Why are we still talking to those 

who do not have the means to raise the 

funds to build Yonkers now? This too 

is a scam perpetrated on Yonkeristes. 

Development has stalled in Yonkers 

because the people we invite to the 

table do not have the means to build 

anything. There are developers with the 

liquidity and borrowing prowess that 

could employ our unemployed. Yonkers 

City Hall chooses to impose Yonkersites 

suffer while they plot to take care of 

their friends. Those in the “Family and 

Friends Network” enjoy job security on 

the taxpayers back. Yes! 

The downtown development 

project that evolved over six years from 

a so-called vision to that of a mirage 

continues to be postulated as moving 

forward. the reality is that it is stalled. The 

title to the property about which it would 

proceed is in contention. This publication 

is conducting further inquiry in search 

of archival evidence for proof and validation 

of title. The assertions expressed 

blaming certain Yonkersites for holding 

up economic development is bunk. 

2010 will be recognized to have been 

of seismic proportion. What has been 

learned is that law, protocol, demeanor, 

and respectful conduct can and often 

does trump the benevolence of character. 

You can not fight city hall when city 

hall is dressed in adversarial garb. The 

so-called remedy of the ill in governance 

is the litigious route. 

I suggest Yonkers have another 

choice. It requires resolve and it requires 

honesty to oneself. Were the consternation 

and irritation real, Yonkersites would 

have chosen a leader they could believe in 

by now. But we haven’t. we continue to 

goad each other in to deflective purpose 

to exhaust our will. We lie to each other 

rather than to resolve to help our neighbor. 

We cling to promises unkept rather than 

to expose the debauchery of such deceit. 

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THE HEZITORIAL 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010 




We trot out retreaded politicians to 

engage our time. They are empty suits. 

they are talking puppets ruled by others 

who control the purse strings. It is one big 

scheme and scam. Media is bought and 

paid for. Banks are controlled. Developers 

are given taxpayer funded subsidies. The 

poor among us are kept poor by the 

community not creating jobs by which 

“they” may be taken off the dole and 

become gainfully employed. It is a vicious 

circle where the rules are appropriate for 

some and not others. 

The process to direct Yonkers in 

specific direction has come to entrap 

everyone by the mechanisms which we 

have not learned to control. It is those very 

mechanisms that have come to bite the 

city on its bum. The one who suffer were 

not part of the mechanism of control. The 

ones who were, have extracted less than 

they had hoped for, but it is more than 

they should have taken. 

There may be a perception of change 

among some of us, but the reality is that it 

is what it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 

30 years ago, even 50 years ago. Those 

that are 70 years old may have beaten the 

system. Those who are system may have 

missed the boat or are found on it. Those 

who are 50 have some to realize the gig 

is up but they continue to fight for the 

“pension” in the sky. The 40 year-olds 

salivate still to be the recipients of wealth 

in the present transfer of wealth from the 

older generation to the younger 

The truth is nothing will change 

until a benevolent son or daughter of 

Yonkers is permitted to rise to the office 

of mayor to invoke a culture of ethics and 

conduct worthy of a city hose name must 

be respected for all it has bequeathed the 

living and for those who will endeavor 

to impart such goodness upon their 

departure.. 

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BUDGET 

Minus+Minus=1 

By I.M. Cob 

Sitting through County Executive 

Rob Astorino’s budget presentation 

was like going to a long and anticipated 

movie and walking out half way through. 

Like a bad movie, it was boring and anticlimactic. 

Long anticipated, long on hope, 

and short on delivery. At the end of the 

day Rob Astorino did what he promised 

to do during his campaign; he delivered 

a budget with a reduction in taxes. A 1% 

deduction, but a reduction none the less. 

To those of us in Westchester, who voted 

for Mr. Astorino in hopes of some real tax 

relief, this is a budget that has left most of 

us shaking our collective heads muttering, 

“Huh”? 

This almost inconsequential albeit a 

nominal cut, in Astorino’s words, “is a start.” 

He promised the voters of Westchester a 

zero based budget, but he also talked about 

a 6 to 10 per cent cut while campaigning. 

Obviously, this did not happen and 

the cuts that were made are… ummm… 

curious. Cutting the Sprain Ridge and 

Playland pools make sense due to the cost 

that would be incurred to repair them. OK, 

we get that, but what was the rationale 

behind some of the other cuts? 

Starting with the county executive’s 

office itself, there are 2 cuts. We would 

be willing to bet that they are two holdovers 

from the Spano camp. Looking at 

the budget, it shows a position for a confidential 

scheduling secretary. What is so 

confidential about making appointments? 

Hey, Mr. ce, we want to know what your 

schedule is. It is part of transparency in 

government. And while the ce loves to 

talk about accomplishing more with less, 

it will be a blast to learn with whom he 

replaces the vacancies. We here at The 

Westchester Guardian office to hear that 

one of those positions will filled by none 

other than Phil Gilles from Yonkers. It is 

alleged that Gilles has been hired to take 

that elevator ride up to the 9th floor to 

begin receiving his six figure salary this 

week. But what is he doing up there? A 

couple of little birdies have told us that 

Phil Gilles actually wrote this budget but 

in the faux transparent government we 

have, we will never really know. Like we 

never found out how and why Joey Kenner 

landed on the 9th floor after being elected 

to a position as a trustee in Port Chester. 

Was it to provide diversity? Ah, the sweet 

mysteries of life. We don’t know now, but 

sooner or later stuff like that gets revealed. 

That leaves another spot on the 9th floor 

vacant and it is anybody’s guess who will 

next be elevated. And since there are so few 

people being hired, it seems that Human 

resourcs will be down by 2 people as well. 

IT (Information Technology) is losing 

20 people due to cuts. This cut is very 

interesting. It is the antithesis of the recent 

action undertaken to upgrade the archive 

center situated in Elmsford, New York. 

Now the county cuts the IT staff by 20 

people. The original thought was that IT 

would bring about the digital age and focus 

on going paperless. Guess not, considering 

Environmental Services are also cutting 

20 jobs. While we are talking about being 

green, we should also enlighten our good 

readers that the Parks Department is losing 

7 positions. Again, it will be interesting to 

see where those staff cuts are actually made. 

It is always brow raising to me at least when 

I attend a summer function at the Kensico 

Dam and see family members of current 

county employees handling parking. Who 

says the “Friends and Family Network” 

isn’t alive and well, living, and thriving in 

Westchester County? 

Emergency Services will shrink by 

10. Lets see if the conveys to a slower 

response time by fire and EMS. Public 

Safety however will only shrink by 1. 

We’re guessing that this mini shrinkage 

will be justified by appointing Astorino’s 

campaign driver to the position of Deputy 

Commissioner. At a time when all the 

gossip during that campaign was that the 

County PD would eventually be phased 

out, it seems that they really dodged ( no 

pun intended) the bullet on these cuts. 

The Department of Health will see a cut 

of 28 employees. One wonders, who will 

oversee the outreach programs which 

serve programs that monitor illnesses like 

TB. Community mental health programs 

are seeing 42 positions eliminated. Not to 

make a bad joke worse but that’s just crazy. 

As usual, the mentally ill in this country 

(and now the county) continue to be the 

most underserved population. Perhaps it’s 

because mental illness is one of those invisible 

illnesses where those suffering 

Continued on page 5


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may not exhibit any outward appearance 

of illness. Or perhaps no one on the 9th 

floor walks down Mamaroneck Avenue on 

a regular basis to see those mentally ill and 

often homeless who sit on the benches and 

sing their day away. I guess cutting West 

heLP family homeless center also seemed 

like a good idea now that Astorino’s senior 

adviser has a good paying position on the 

9th floor and he’ll no longer have to be 

the custodian of that WestHelp money 

in conjunction with the Valhalla School 

District. The Law Department will only 

endure 3 cuts. This is probably due to the 

fact that the ce knows that the cache of 

suits from this budget will be staggering. 

Labs and Research’s cuts indicate to us 

that nobody in the County watches csI 

anymore. I guess Public Safety will be 

in charge of the scientific component of 

investigating crimes! 

Not so interestingly enough, the perks 

of political patronage weren’t cut. Rob 

Astorino announced numerous times 

that he would drive himself to work when 

elected. That he does. But he does so in a 

big gas sucking Mercury Mariner. What 

happened to his little compact car? Did 

he trade it in and give the difference to 

the County? How about cutting cars for 

Kevin Plunkett and George Oros as well. 

We think it might be more prudent if they 

would just go to the county fleet and sign 

out one of the little eco-friendly Prius’ that 

you see County Employees driving around 

in. As a matter of fact, why do both BOE 

Commissioners have cars? Do they deliver 

and pick up ballots in their spare time? We 

the taxpayers of Westchester want to know 

why cell phone distribution and usage 

weren’t trimmed as well. 

Rob Astorino promised the people 

of Westchester a boatload of solutions to 

their problems when he ran. As of yet, 

we haven’t seen the consolidations, or the 

transparency in government. We’ve only 

seen the fundraisers and the glad handing 

that goes with it. We’ve heard Astorino’s 

plea for us to do more with less but at this 

time it seems he can only talk the talk, 

whether he can walk the walk will remain 

to be seen. 

BUSINESS 

HomeMade Pizza Company Premieres in Rye 

By Bary Alyssa Johnson 

HomeMade 

Pizza Company, 

a family-owned 

business that first 

launched in Chicago 

thirteen years ago, is 

opening the doors to 

its newest store in Rye, NY with a threeday 

celebration to mark the event. 

HomeMade Pizza Company is 

inviting Rye and other New York area 

residents to its new location at 25 

Purchase Street to welcome new clients 

with free grilled pizza slices, salad and 

other samplers. Additional activities 

include kid’s activities and a meet and 

greet with co-founders Eric Fosse and 

his brother-in-law Matt Weinstein. The 

event will take place from 4:00-7:00pm 

on November 16-17th and from 2:00- 

9:00pm on November 18th. 

“My wife, brother-in-law and I are all 

huge foodies and we got into this with a 

goal of building a business with a strong, 

recognizable brand,” Eric Fosse, ceO 

and co-founder of HomeMade Pizza 

Company told the Westchester Guardian 

in an interview. “I felt this was an exceptional 

way to solve the riddle of pizza. 

When you go out for pizza, it’s great but 

when you bring it home it’s never as good 

as it was in the pizza parlor.” 

To solve this pizza riddle, HomeMade 

came up with the idea of offering raw, 

made to order pizzas with hand-tossed 

crust that you bake at home in your own 

oven in ten to fifteen minutes. Take and 

bake at its’ best. 

All of HomeMade Pizza’s ingredients 

are all-natural, including the meats, 

cheeses, vegetables and dough. From 

Chicago to Minneapolis, Washington 

DC to New York, all ingredients are 

bought fresh when available and from 

local farmers markets when in season. 

“We make all of the dough and sauce 

ourselves,” Fosse said. “Control of product 

is very important to us. Being all-natural 

and local is us. We’ve been doing it for 

thirteen years.” 

Fosse and family have put a significant 

amount of effort into their unusual 

twist on take-home pizza. Fosse traveled 

overseas to Italy to study the European 

market-fresh way of cooking and enjoying 

food. One of the lessons he learned while 

living in Italy was that in order to achieve 

the best possible flavor, ingredients should 

be cooked and eaten on the same day that 

they are purchased. 

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After returning back to the States with 

a strong culinary educational experience, 

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BUSINESS 

HomeMade Pizza Company 

Premieres in Rye 

chef-restaurateur of Frontera Restaurant 

fame, who is also a cookbook author and 

renowned television personality. 

Customers who want to get their eat 

on can order the fresh-from-scratch pizza 

creations either in-store or online at www. 

homemadepizza.com. HomeMade Pizza 

Company’s all-natural pizza lovers can 

also join other fans across the country to 

mingle on Facebook at www.facebook. 

com/HomeMadePizzaCo. 

With thirty store openings under the 

company’s belt, the HomeMade Pizza 

has plans to expand its business further 

in the Westchester area when it opens 

its’ doors at a Larchmont location on 

December 16, 2010. 

Gumbusters’ Cleanup 

Yonkers, NY -- Toni Garrison, 

founder/owner of Simone’s Hair Salon, 

22 North Broadway, tries her hand using 

Gumbusters power washing equipment 

while Steve Sansone, Yonkers Downtown 

BID Executive Director, looks on. The 

Downtown BID recently contracted with 

Gumbusters to remove unsightly chewing 

gum on the streets along the entire length 

of North Broadway and parts of Palisade 

Avenue and Hudson Street in the Yonkers 

Downtown. More than 50 merchants will 

have benefitted from the massive cleanup. 

The Yonkers BID has also cleaned the 

awnings of many storefronts in time for 

the start of the holiday shopping season, 

the year’s busiest. 

The Yonkers Downtown/Waterfront 

Business Improvement District was 

created to promote and implement the 

economic revitalization of the District 

and the City of Yonkers. The BID is 

also designed to maintain the downtown 

streets, contribute to public safety, landscape 

the district, market special events 

and create promotional opportunities 

to highlight the area. Visit www. 

YonkersDowntown.com to learn more. 

Atlantic Richfield Company Major Sponsor 


for two years before first opening the store 

doors to offer his product to consumers. 

“Like a lot of people I was born with a 

love for pizza, it’s one of the most popular 

foods in America,” Fosse said. “Our cheese 

pizza was voted greatest pizza in Chicago.” 

HomeMade Pizza’s additional 

kitchen-based accolades include a video 

spotlight on the company during an 

Oprah Winfrey special on the best pizza 

found across the United States. 

“Oprah loves all-natural foods and 

Brooke Shields is the one who recommended 

us,” Fosse said. “She loves pizza and 

especially that it is all-natural and healthy.” 

Other famous fans include celebrity 

chefs Grant Achatz, an award-winning 

cook and owner of Alinea Restaurant 

and Rick Bayless, another award-winning 

The Larchmont store will be located 

at 1939 Palmer Avenue. More details on 

that store opening will be made available 

as we near the date, approximately a 

month after Rye’s grand opening. Fosse 

has high expectations that the Westchester 

community will come together to enjoy 

what his family has worked so hard to 

achieve for well over a decade. 

“We try to offer great customer 

service and experience but the thing we’re 

most focused on is the food,” Fosse said. 

“At the end of the day your food has to be 

great and ours is.” 

Local resident Bary Alyssa Johnson covers 

Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, and Rye 

Brook, as well as the evolving world of electronics 

and technology. 

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LIVE Coordinator and member of the Hastings-on-Hudson Board of Trustees, Carl Carvalho, 

President of the Hastings-on-Hudson Chamber of Commerce, Margaret Moulton, member of 

the Friday Night LIVE committee, and Jeff Pucillo, guest producer of the Friday Night LIVE 

Film Festival. 

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY -- For the second year, Atlantic Richfield Company, 

a BP-affiliated company, is a major sponsor of the 2010 – 2011 Friday Night LIVE 

community events, donating $5,000 to underwrite their costs. The monthly celebrations 

promote downtown with music, dancing, films, food, shopping and other 

entertainment. 

Photo by and courtesy of Jen Corso.


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BUSINESS 

Yonkers Raceway Donates $1 Billion to New York 

State Education Fund By Nancy King 

Last week The Westchester Guardian 

sat down to hold a conversation with 

Bob Galterio, vice president and general 

manager of Yonkers Raceway. Earlier 

last month Mr. Galterio and President 

Timothy Rooney announced the raceway 

had donated $1 billion to the New York 

State Education Fund over a period of 

four years. If you do the math, that breaks 

down to $250 million every year! At a 

time when school districts throughout the 

state are facing shrinking budgets, $250 

million is a pretty nice sum of money to 

receive annually. In addition, the Yonkers 

School District, receives an additional 

$50 million annually from the race track. 

This alone may not seem like a 

terribly exciting announcement but when 

COMMUNITY 

you stop and remember, Yonkers Raceway 

ten years ago, this is enormous. Ten years 

ago, the future of the Yonkers racetrack 

was in jeopardy, and as you drove south 

on Interstate 87 there was an enormous 

FOR saLE sign plastered to the outside 

of the facility. But thanks to the vision 

and hard work of Timothy Rooney and 

longtime General Manager Bob Galterio, 

Yonkers Raceway has morphed into 

Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, 

a racino that has become a model for 

other states. 

The Yonkers Raceway/Empire 

Casino has also been a major employer 

here in Westchester County. At a time 

when corporations in Westchester have 

been shedding jobs, Empire City Casino 

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of Our Biggest Holidays” 

By Peggy Godfrey 

at Yonkers Raceway employs over 1300 

people most of who hail from Yonkers, 

Mount Vernon and New Rochelle. In 

addition, over eighty thousand guests 

attend the casino with many of them 

spilling out to watch the trotters on 

the raceway. In addition, the racetrack 

also hosts several international trotters’ 

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from the Yonkers Raceway Racino. 

The honor guard 

of American Legion 

Post 8, Jim Murphy and 

Brutus Moor Junim, 

stood holding flags 

waiting for the Veterans Day ceremony 

to begin. “This is a clear brisk 

day in New Rochelle and the veterans 

are honoring their comrades and each 

other on Memorial Highway and 

Main Street,” reported Murphy who is 

Adjutant for the American Legion Post 

8 and The United Veterans Memorial 

and Patriotic Association (UVM & 

PA) in New Rochelle. Junim, member 

of Post 8, was “glad the veterans came 

together for their cause.” 

Veterans Day commemorates the 

Peace Treaty signed ending World War 

I on the eleventh day, the eleventh 

month, and the eleventh hour, according 

to Peter Parente, Coordinator for the 

UVM & PA New Rochelle Veterans 

Day ceremony. This was the war to end 

all wars.but “little did we know” that a 

series of wars would follow starting with 

World War II. Asking everyone to keep 

all those who served in their prayers, he 

introduced William Moye, the Chaplain 

of the UVM & PA, a ninety-five year 

old and veteran of World War II. Moye 

specifically blessed all the widows and 

children of fallen service men and asked 

that everyone remember those still held 

as prisoners of war. 

Following the National Anthem 

played by the New Rochelle High 

School band, Parente emphasized that 

by looking to the left or right we can say 

thank you to veterans that have served in 

peace and war. There are millions who 

have “made all kinds of sacrifices.” 


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Veterans Day Should be “One of Our Biggest Holidays” 


Freedom and democracy come from 

those who put their lives on the line, and 

“not because of Washington, 

D.C.,” and felt this memorial must 

be kept for millions of veterans including 

those who are buried all over the world. 

Mayor Noam Bramson named the 

dignitaries present including the New 

Rochelle City Council Members, The 

City Manager, Chuck Strome, the 

County Clerk and former Mayor, Tim 

Idoni, and County Legislators Sheila 

Marcotte and James Maisano. He began 

his address by mentioning the New 

Rochelle Library exhibit of “Poignant 

Portraits: Honoring New Rochelle 

Veterans and Fallen Soldiers.’ Recalling 

a classmate’s statement that his “generation 

was soft, we never even died in 

wars,” he continued, “Our military is the 

finest that ever walked the earth... and 

it is too easy to forget the bravery.’ that 

is required of our military The participating 

veteran groups were then named 

by Parente. 

Former State Assemblyman and 

veterans administrator, Ron Tocci 

continued by stating that in 1776 a 

Declaration of Independence was signed 

which emphasized our liberty and pursuit 

of happiness “granted by God.” He 

recalled important points in this county’s 

history and various wars. “Even now” 

there is military action in the middle 

east. We are infiltrated with terrorists 

and we can never take liberty for granted. 

“People should always remember the 

contributions” of men and women who 

serve all over the globe, especially those 

who never came back. The cruelest war 

is the public relations war. It should be 

remembered: “this country has always 

been a refuge for the entire world,” for 

those that believe in liberty. Our blood 

has been shed for countries all over the 

world. 

The recent honoring of the son of 

John Gutherie who died in the Korean 

War was cited by Parente and followed by 

a moment of silence for all the honored 

The American Legion 

and 

The Westchester Guardian 

join in saluting our military veterans of all wars this 

November 11 - and every day. Thank you for serving America 

with honor, courage and commitment. 

Veterans Day 2010 

The American Legion - Serving America’s Veterans Every Day 

departed. A wreath was placed on the 

Veterans Monument by Mayor Bramson 

and Parente. A military musical selection 

by the New Rochelle High School band, 

a firing detail by the American Legion 

Post 8, and taps played by Max Gorden 

followed. Bill Moye ended the ceremony 

with a benediction asking that “our good 

Providence shield us from all harm.” 

Gene Longhi, Past Commander of 

the American Legion Post 8, felt “It is 

gratifying to see that so many citizens 

of New Rochelle continue to observe 

Veterans Day and Memorial Day 

honoring our fallen service personnel.” 

Summing up, Larry Talk of Lawrence 

Talt Realty Inc., said we owe our entire 

country to the veterans and soldiers. 

We should show a debt of gratitude 

today.. This should be one of our biggest 

holidays.” 

Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer, a 

community activist, and former educator. 

www.Legion.org 

EDUCATION 

Charles Scovil 

to Discuss 

the History of 

the Stamford 

Observatory 

Valhalla, NY -- Charles Scovil, longtime 

curator of the Stamford Observatory, 

will discuss the history of this important 

public facility at the monthly meeting of 

the Westchester Amateur Astronomers 

on Thursday, December 2nd at 8:00 pm 

at Miller Hall on the campus of Pace 

University. The event is free and open to 

the public. 

Mr. Scovil has directed the Stamford 

Observatory and its telescope, for more 

than 40 years. The observatory is operated 

by the Fairfield County Astronomical 

Society at the Stamford Museum in 

Connecticut. The Observatory houses 

a custom-designed, historically important 

telescope of 22-inch aperture, one of 

the largest in the region used for public 

outreach. Star parties are held on clear 

Friday nights. The telescope has been 

particularly active in variable star research. 

Mr. Scovil authored two important 

variable star atlases using data and photographs 

from the Observatory. 

Westchester Amateur Astronomers, 

Inc is Westchester’s only organization 

devoted to amateur astronomy, with over 

150 members of all ages and backgrounds. 

Annual dues are only $25 per family. In 

addition to the monthly lectures, the 

club schedules dark-sky observing “star 

parties” for the public each month at the 

Ward Pound Reservation in Cross River, 

at which club members bring telescopes 

of all types and sizes to show the beauty of 

the night sky. The club also holds educational 

outreach programs at schools and 

other organizations in Westchester. 

Vets Day Ad.indd 1 

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ENERGY MATTERS 

Explosion Forces Eighth Nuclear Plant Shut Down 

By Roger Witherspoon 

An explosion 

and fire in a transformer 

at the Indian 

Point power station 

last Sunday evening 

forced the eighth 

shutdown in two 

years at one of the site’s twin nuclear 

reactors. 

There were no injuries resulting from 

the blast, and Entergy Nuclear Northeast, 

which owns the site, did not report any 

immediately detectable damage to its 

nuclear reactor safety systems. But the 

blast, at 6:39 PM Sunday, triggered the 

declaration of a “nuclear alert,” which 

prompted officials in the four surrounding 

counties – Rockland, Westchester, 

Putnam and Orange – to open their 

emergency response centers in preparation 

for a regional evacuation if the 

situation deteriorated. But the damage 

was confined to the transformer system, 

which connects the nuclear plant to the 

regional electric grid, and the alert was 

lifted about 11 PM. 

The “alert” is the second lowest of the 

four stages of emergency declarations at 

the nuclear site. Officials emphasize that 

there was no danger to the public at any 

time during this event. But if the situation 

had escalated, it would have affected all of 

North Jersey as far south as Newark. 

The sudden loss of the 1,000 megawatts 

produced by Indian Point 2 had 

no noticeable effect on the region’s electric 

consumers and little impact on the 

state’s power distribution network. Ken 

Clapp, spokesman for the New York 

Independent System Operator, which 

operates the state’s power grid, said New 

York State has 37,000 Megawatts of 

generating capability and the New York 

City / Westchester region served by Con 

Edison has 11,087 Megawatts of locally 

produced energy. The New York system 

can also tap electricity, when needed, 

from New Jersey’s power plants which are 

connected to the adjacent Penn-Jersey- 

Maryland grid. 

On Sunday evening, demand 

throughout the state was down considerably, 

with the peak for day at only 20,200 

Megawatts. As a result of the reduced 

demand, Entergy may 

have been selling much 

of its electricity to other 

regions of the state, or 

neighboring states and 

Canada. But the sudden 

dropoff of 1,000 megawatts 

did affect the 

temporary stability of 

the grid, Clapp said, and 

had to be replaced. 

“We maintain 

a reservoir of 1,200 

megawatts which can 

be added within 10 

minutes, and another 1,800 megawatts 

which can be added within a half 

hour,” Clapp explained. “The electricity 

produced by Indian Point was replaced 

in the system by the short term reserve 

within 10 minutes.” 

Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the 

federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(Nrc), said the huge transformer sits in 

the open next to the non-nuclear, electric 

generating building. 

“These transformers fail occasionally,” 

Sheehan said, “and there is a blast wall 

adjacent to the transformer and a deluge 

water system that activated and tamped 

down the fire. The company’s fire brigade 

on site responded and sprayed foam to 

ensure the flames were out.” 

Indian Point 2 and 3 are located in 

Buchanan, NY, on the site of a sprawling, 

former amusement park on the bank of the 

Hudson River opposite Bear Mountain, 

about 25 miles north of Manhattan. The 

twin reactors produce a combined 2,000 

Megawatts of electricity, most of which 

is sold into the NYC-Westchester service 

area of the power grid. Their output is 

about 16 percent of the 9,000 to 12,000 

MW delivered daily by Con Edison, the 

regional electricity distribution company 

which sold Indian Point 2 to Entergy in 

2001. 

The Buchanan Fire Department 

responded to the blast, but its firemen 

were not allowed on the restricted site. 

The explosion occurred in a 900,000- 

pound transformer serving Indian Point 

2. The transformers take the electricity 

coming out of the plant’s generators at 

Failed Indian Point 2 Transformer photographed on 

November 11, 2010. 

22,000 volts and step it up to 345,000 

volts to feed into the regional power grid. 

The transformer serving the adjacent 

nuclear plant, Indian Point 3, exploded in 

2007. 

David Lochbaum, the nuclear safety 

engineer with the Union of Concerned 

Scientists and a former consultant to the 

Nrc, said the key components in the 

transformer – called bushings – at IP 3 

had been in service since 1976, when the 

plant opened. 

“When the plant operates the bushing 

is energized and heats up,” Lochbaum 

explained, “and when it shuts down the 

bushing cools and shrinks. Entergy’s later 

analysis stated that the thermal cycling 

apparently caused a failure to be introduced 

so electricity leaked out, caused a 

spark and lit the oil. 

“Their report said they had tested the 

bushing a few months before the explosion 

and found it was unusually warm, but 

not outside the manufacturer’s limits, so 

there was no reason to fail it and replace 

it.” 

Lochbaum said there are about six 

transformer explosions annually, with 

about two thirds caused by parts wearing 

out and the remaining third caused by 

“power uprates,” in which the plants are 

allowed to operate at higher temperatures 

than their original design plans called for. 

These uprates typically increase the power 

output of the nuclear plant 10 percent 

to 20%, with corresponding increases in 

temperatures. 

“When you increase the power 

output,” said Lochbaum, “you put more 

electricity through the lines, more flows 

Replacement last year received by Entergy of the transformer 

spare at the Indian Point docks which shows the size and scale 

with the workers securing the unit. 

through the bushings, and you can cause 

them to expand more than they have in 

the past. That puts stress on parts that did 

not handle stress well.” 

While the Nrc’s records show that 

Entergy replaced the bushing in its IP 3 

transformer, there is no indication that 

they replaced those serving the sister 

plant, though IP 2 is actually three years 

older. Entergy is already being investigated 

by the Nrc for possible systemic 

issues in its program to manage ageing 

equipment and systems that are common 

to both facilities. (http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/ 

more-troubles-at-indian-point-nuclearpower-plant 

) 

Lochbaum, who spent 2009 working 

for the Nrc upgrading its safety manuals 

and training reactor operators, said 

currently “the Nrc tracks incidents at 

Indian Point 2 and 3 on an individual basis 

even though they are on the same site and 

there are common factors affecting both 

units. 

“But the Nrc does try to look at how 

the plant is being maintained and what 

their procedures are to see if they are up 

to the industry norms. When they start 

having events, the agency looks closer 

to see if perhaps Entergy has the same 

procedures as the rest of the industry, but 

aren’t as skillful at implementing it. So far, 

however, they haven’t found a common 

link other than that events are occurring 

at Indian Point.” 

Photos by and courtesy of Entergy. 

Roger Witherspoon writes Energy Matters at 

www.RogerWitherspoon.com


MAYOR Marvin COLUMN GOVERNMENT 

Assessment and Oblique Photography 

By Mary C. Marvin 

This past 

summer Westchester 

County contracted 

with a company to 

produce oblique (angle) aerial and street 

photography for every property in the 

County. Weather permitting, this project 

will begin this week in Bronxville. Oblique 

photography is taken from a plane and 

may not even be noticed. However, the 

street level effort will be quite obvious. 

A van with a FaceT Technologies logo 

will go down every street with numerous 

cameras taking pictures in every direction. 

The aerial photography will capture 

panoramic views. The aerial photographs 

can then be used to create or update footprints 

of structures; measure height and 

number of stories of buildings, thereby 

calculating total gross square footage, and 

to find accessory structures such as decks, 

pools, sheds and garages. 

The street level photography is a cost 

effective way to verify addresses, section, 

lot and block numbers and enhance 

property card information. The photos 

will also capture the exterior quality 

of construction and materials and the 

general “curb appeal” of each residence or 

business. 

These photos will particularly benefit 

the assessment offices throughout the 

County by providing additional accurate 

information about properties in 

order to make transparent and equitable 

valuations. 

The information will also be shared 

with police, fire and emergency medical 

services. These departments will use the 

information in a myriad of ways including 

pinpointing locations with even greater 

precision in case of emergencies. Also 

Planning and Public Works Departments 

will use the photographs to locate 

manholes, storm drains, fire hydrants and 

observe the condition of street trees. 

The Village will receive the photographs 

and related software for no 

additional fee above and beyond what we 

pay in County taxes. The information will 

have many applications in almost every 

Village department and further refine and 

improve our record keeping in general. 

All departments in our Village are 

anxious to have this material to upgrade 

their databases. 

In the same spirit of good news, it 

has been a week of various celebrations 

and milestones in our Village. Two of 

our stores, Silver Spoon and J. Pocker & 

Son, are celebrating ten years of business 

in our Village. We thank their proprietors 

Barbara and Liba for their excellent 

service and unfailing generosity to our 

Village. 

The new incarnation of Pete’s Park 

Place Tavern opened this past weekend. 

It is a family friendly spot with burgers, 

wings, and steak on the menu. Thanks to 

assistance from our Bronxville Historical 

Conservancy, the space is decorated with 

beautiful reproductions of Bronxville 

scenes past and present. We welcome new 

owner John Lugano and his staff to our 

Village. You will also notice that a very 

beautifully appointed Sotheby’s Realty 

has also opened on Park Place. Our 

empty stores are continuing to fill up with 

new and quality businesses. 

Right here in Village Hall, 

Department of Public Works staffer, 

Luigi Mignardi, received one of the 

highest awards for service given by the 

New York Chapter of the American 

Public Works Association. Those of you 

who know Luigi, know there is no one 

more deserving of being honored for hard 

work and professionalism. Luigi is best 

known as the man who is out early in the 

morning running the sweeper. He is the 

longest tenured Department of Public 

Works employee, having served the 

Village with pride for over 36 years. Luigi 

started his career as a landscaper and 

continued in that profession even after 

he was hired by the Village. He works 

closely with the Bronxville Beautification 

Committee and takes great pride in using 

his considerable talents to make our 

Village more attractive. His favorite part 

of the job is just talking to our residents 

and catching up with their families. So 

next time you see Luigi, congratulations 

are certainly in order. 

Staying in the good news mode, our 

Bronxville Historical Conservancy is 

reprinting Bronxville’s popular history 

book, Building a Suburban Village. First 

published during the Village’s centennial 

celebration in 1998, it sold out completely 

nearly two years ago. In response to 

repeated requests for copies, it will be 

available in early December through the 

Conservancy’s website, www.bronxvillehistoricalconservancy.org 

or at Womrath’s 

Bookstore. In addition, the Conservancy 

has also reprised the self-guided historical 

stroll through our business district 

that was also created at the time of the 

Centennial. The expanded guidebook for 

the “stroll” is available at the front desk at 

Village Hall. 

Mary C. Marvin is the Mayor of the Village 

of Bronxville. 

HEALTH 

Free Rabies Vaccinations for Dogs, Cats and Ferrets 

One-day Vaccination Clinic Sponsored by the Westchester County Health Department 

Sleepy Hollow, NY -- The 

Westchester County Department of 

Health, in conjunction with Sleepy 

Hollow Animal Hospital, is sponsoring a 

free rabies vaccination clinic for the cats, 

dogs and ferrets of Westchester residents 

on Wednesday, December 1. 

The clinic will run from 10 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. at the Sleepy Hollow Animal 

Hospital, located at 340 North Broadway 

in Sleepy Hollow. Appointments are 

necessary. To make an appointment, or 

for more information, please call Sleepy 

Hollow Animal Hospital directly at 

(914) 631-0606. Cats and ferrets must be 

brought to the clinic in carriers and dogs 

must be on leashes. Aggressive dogs must 

be muzzled. 

“Rabies is a fatal disease that is spread 

through the bite or saliva of infected 

animals” said Westchester County 

Acting Health Commissioner, Dr. 

Cheryl Archbald. “Vaccinating your pet 

against rabies will protect your pet and 

your family in case your pet has contact 

with a rabid or potentially rabid animal.” 

Animals most commonly infected by 

rabies are raccoons, skunks, bats and 

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HEALTH 

Free Rabies Vaccinations for Dogs, Cats and Ferrets 


foxes. However, domestic animals 

such as cats and dogs are also at risk 

because they can easily contract rabies 

from wild or stray animals. 

Under New York State law, dogs, 

cats and ferrets are required to receive 

their first rabies vaccination no later 

than four months after birth. A second 

rabies shot must be given within one 

year of the first vaccination with additional 

booster shots given every one or 

three years after that, depending on the 

vaccine used. Owners who fail to have 

their pets completely vaccinated for rabies 

may be fined up to $1,000. A pet that 

is up-to-date with its rabies vaccinations 

would only need to get a booster dose of 

INVESTIGATION 

Eastchester, New York 

By Nancy King 

vaccine within five days of the pet’s exposure 

to a known or suspect rabid animal. 

Animals not up-to-date with rabies vaccinations 

would need to be quarantined or 

potentially euthanized following contact 

with a rabid or suspect-rabid animal. 

A change in an animal’s behavior 

is often the first sign of rabies. A rabid 

animal may become either abnormally 

aggressive or unusually tame. Staggering 

and frothing at the mouth are sometimes 

noted in infected animals. Individuals 

should avoid touching unfamiliar, stray or 

wild animals. Children should immediately 

tell an adult if they have been bitten 

or scratched by an animal. 

All animal bites or contacts with 

animals suspected of having rabies must 

be reported to the Westchester County 

Health Department at (914) 813-5000. 

Outside of business hours, callers should 

follow instructions in the recorded 

message for reporting public health emergencies 

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Take one suspended police officer, add 

a chief with a questionable background, a 

retired cop, who is accused of throwing 

a punch at the chief at a board meeting, 

and a supervisor who may or may not be 

a domestic abuser. Throw in a dash of 

public support for the suspended officer 

and you have the Town of Eastchester in a 

nutshell. This case is sad and maddening 

on so many levels; sad because alleged 

corruption exists in so many small municipalities, 

and maddening in the fact that it 

is nearly the end of 2010 and we still have 

racial bias. What is even more gross is 

the fact that this alleged bias comes from 

the very individuals we elect to office and 

their police officers who we think are 

supposed to protect us from injustice. 

Eastchester is a small, tightly knit, 

conservative Republican community 

administered under the aegis of 

Supervisor Anthony Colavita. At one 

time it was believed that he would be the 

man who would challenge Andy Spano 

for the position of Westchester County 

Executive. But Mr. Colavita was apparently 

going through a bitter divorce 

and the vetting committee decided he 

would not be such a great choice after all. 

The police department is led by Chief 

Timothy Bonci who himself has a past 

not considered as pure as the driven snow. 

He has been deadlocked for years in a 

lawsuit over “the disappearance” of over 

$675,000.00. It is a small community 

of around thirty thousand people where 

87% are white, 2% are black and 4.5% are 

Hispanic. Its police force has around 50 

officers from the chief all the way down 

to the patrol division and wonder of all 

wonders; they’re all white, too. This fact 

however is not unusual in small towns. 

Recruitment is usually extended to those 

who have grown up in a town or have ties 

to it. Strike one for Officer Rosado, he’s 

from Inwood, Queens, New York. 

Officer Rosado had been a member 

of the NYPD from April 1997 through 

August 2004 when he was recruited by 

then Chief Speidel to join the Eastchester 

Police Department. Until that time, the 

Eastchester Police Department would 

“borrow” an officer from nearby Tuckahoe, 

New York, when they needed a translator. 

Former Chief Speidel recognized the 

need for having a Latino officer given the 

changing demographics of Westchester 



INVESTIGATION 

Eastchester, New York 


County. But by the time 2005 rolled 

around, Chief Speidel had retired and 

Timothy Bonci was elevated to the position 

of Chief of the Department. 

During the first two years, Officer 

Rosado and Chief Bonci appeared to get 

along. Ramon Rosado was known as an 

aggressive cop who had a high number of 

arrests and a low number of disciplinary 

infractions. That is until Rosado made the 

mistake of pulling over Mike Santoliquido 

of San Signs of Yonkers, New York, 

on a traffic stop that led to a charge of 

drug possession being filed against Mr. 

Santoliquidio. What Officer Ramos did 

not know, was that Mr. Santoliquidio was 

a good friend of Chief Bonci. According 

to witnesses, when Officer Rosado did 

not make that arrest “go away,” the chief 

made up his mind to make Rosado go 

away. The subtle harassment began almost 

immediately in the form of a Garrity 

Hearing which is sort of like a kangaroo 

court within a police department. They 

accused Rosado of filing an illegal report. 

There was another Garrity Hearing in 

the fall of 2009. That one was for using 

excessive force in breaking up a fight at 

the Mickey Spillane’s Bar. That hearing 

occurred despite the fact that there was 

no civilian complaint filed by the individual 

who had been arrested. In essence, 

it appears that Chief Bonci was creating 

a paper trail to get rid of a guy who had 

“wronged” his friend Mike Santoliquido. 

The harassment did not stop there. 

By now, a good chunk of the entire police 

department was engaging in bullying 

tactics against Officer Rosado that would 

get most students suspended from school. 

Officer Rosado would come to work to 

find a sombrero hanging from the front 

door of his duty locker. That alone is 

laughable since a sombrero is a Mexican 

hat and Officer Rosado is Puerto Rican 

and Dominican. There were pictures of 

Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo taped 

to Officer Rosado’s locker with the word 

“Boricua” which is a slang term for Puerto 

Rican and the even more offensive the 

word “chulo,” which could mean anything 

from being culturally marginal, a bad guy 

pimp, or even a dog. Real professional 

behavior, huh? There came a point when 

Officer Rosado was made to suffer a daily 

inspection of the color of the socks he 

wore. It was this sort of harassment that 

caused Officer Rosado to file a complaint 

with the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (eeOC). Surprisingly, the 

eeOC deemed the accusations serious 

enough to warrant a bias lawsuit against 

The Town of Eastchester and ithe 

Eastchester Police Department. 

The Federal lawsuit paints the Chief 

of the Eastchester Police Department 

as a man who rules his men by fear and 

intimidation, who has little respect for 

the ethnicity of others, and a man who 

is happy to be a member of the ol’ boys 

club. And in order to get rid of Officer 

Rosado once and for all, Chief Bonci 

Set in motion a chain of events which 

would surely find Ramon Rosado a loose 

canon who should not be let out of a 

kennel much less be a police officer. Chief 

Bonci made sure that he would discipline 

Rosado using the Police Act of 1934, 

giving the Town Board and Supervisor 

the ultimate decision in what to do with 

Rosado while keeping it internal. 

The culminating incident in this case 

occurred on May 29, 2010, when a passing 

motorist flagged down Officer Rosado to 

alert him of a domestic dispute that had 

spilled onto the street. Upon seeing this, 

Officer Rosado called for back up and 

was joined by Sgt. Glen Cornacchio, who 

orders Rosado to make the arrest. Two 

individuals were arrested; one who has a 

history of arrests by the Eastchester Police 

Dept. Three days later, it is alleged Chief 

Bonci visited the Offices of Westchester 

Coun ty District attorney Janet DiFiore’s 

office and had the arrests vacated. What 

would be the purpose in that other than 

to make Officer Rosado look like a chump 

for arresting a brother and sister? Even 

if the arrest was not warranted, Rosado 

had to follow the direct order of his Sgt. 

Either way Rosado loses. 

We could go on and on about the 

Eastchester Police Department. We could 

ask why Officer Pileggi, who admitted to 

taking and dealing steroids, who mistakenly 

shot and killed a friend in his car was 

never suspended without pay, or why his 

drug usage was covered up? We can ask 

why P.O. Darren Farrell and Sgt. Cesarini 

were relieved from a case by Internal 

Affairs Department ( Iad) Officer Matt 

Keirnan when they were obligated by law 

to arrest an individual accused of domestic 

violence and witnessed contusions on the 

victims face. But wait… they could not do 

that - the victim was Supervisor Colavita’s 

soon to be ex wife. 

There are countless more questions 

than there are answers in this case but 

after you look through all the smoke and 

mirrors, it boils down to a simple personality 

conflict between two men. The 

Supervisor, Chief, and it now appears, 

the Town Board, have had a great deal 

of fun at the expense of Officer Rosado, 

the entire Eastchester Police Department, 

the taxpayers of Eastchester, and the U.S. 

Constitution itself. Officer Rosado may 

be an aggressive cop and not be a kittens 

and rainbow type of guy but there are 

better ways to counsel an employee as 

we wind up the first part of this case. It 

seems the Eastchester Town Board has 

seen fit to have an arbiter step in to hear 

the case. But wait…. it is an arbiter they 

get to choose. Wouldn’t it make more 

sense to have a neutral arbiter who does 

not have a dog in this fight? That’s just 

common sense. It is also being chatted 

about town of late that any re-broadcast 

of Eastchester Town Board meetings 

that usually loops on cable TV over the 

weekend may have been pulled from the 

viewing line up. I hope not. Don’t people 

even have the right to watch and form 

their own opinion? We guess the Town 

of Eastchester doesn’t follow the same 

United States Constitution that the rest 

of us do or else due process would have 

already been satisfied.. 

Judge Adam Seiden Says, “People Living on South 

Side of Mount Vernon are Animals!”— Caught on Tape 

By Sam Zherka 

Justice is said to be blind. In Mount 

Vernon City Court Judge Adam Seiden’s 

racist perspective has been captured on 

tape. He spews a litany of demeaning, 

bigoted concepts and diatribes directed 

against the African-American community 

of Mount Vernon residents who live on 

the south side of Mt Vernon. Cajoled by 

Mount Vernon community activist Samuel 

L. Rivers to ascertain whether allegations 

of bigotry against Judge Seiden could be 

ascertained, The Westchester Guardian sent 

an undercover investigative team about 

June 6, 2010, to find out. 

The investigation concluded about 

October 15, 2010, having amassed hours 

of tape recorded conversations between 

Judge Seiden and an undercover agent 

posing as a real estate developer with 

“tons of cash” ready to be invested. The 

damaging conversations which mentioned 

money, politics, influence peddling and 

racist remarks were all recorded at the Law 

Office of Adam Seiden, which is situated 

at 9 Prospect Avenue, in Mount Vernon, 

New York. 

Judge Seiden is heard on tape agreeing 

to the The Westchester Guardian investigator 

reiterating Judge Seiden’s desire to 

start buying property on the south side, 

that is, south of West 1st Street, which 

is inhabited by an almost 100% African- 

American populace. 

“Housing prices are sixty to seventy 

thousand dollars less on the south side,” 


Mount Vernon City Court Judge Adam Seiden’s


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states the investigator emphatically.”Is it 

because there are a bunch of N-ggers in 

this town?” 

Judge Seiden calmly responds, “It’s a 

very bad neighborhood. OK, very bad. The 

tenants are crazy in this town; they will pull 

the f__ken piping out of the wall and say 

you did it. They’ll break the heater and say 

you’re not providing heat,” continues Judge 

Adam Seiden, unaware that he is secretly 

being taped. 

Continuing, the investigator asks Judge 

Seiden, “Is this city just filled with low lives?” 

Judge Seiden responds by saying, “Yes! 

Low life scumbags who make nothing of 

themselves; who expect everybody else to 

take care of every single thing in their lives.” 

Adding insult to injury, Judge Seiden 

refers to Mount Vernon inhabitants who 

are people of color at a percentage basis of 

77.8% as “completely wild people.” 

Judge Seiden is heard on tape saying, 

“There are serious problems on the south 

side of Mount Vernon; serious problems.” 

He then concurs with the undercover 

investigator admitting that part of the 

problem is that the “people on the south 

side are animals.” 

On Thursday, November 11, 2010, 

The Westchester Guardian contacted 

Judge Adam Seiden for comment while 

informing him of the investigation and the 

ten tape recordings of conversations that 

were in The Westchester Guardian’s possession. 

The Westchester Guardian asked if 

he really believes that residents on the south 

side of Mount Vernon were “animals,” and 

why. Judge Seiden said, “I can’t talk about it, 

thank you.” He hung up abruptly. 

Seconds later The Westchester Guardian 

contacted Judge Seiden again and asked 

him to explain the comments he made on 

tape and he responded “I don’t know what 

you’re talking about; I need my client’s 

permission to discuss this, referring to the 

investigator who portrayed himself to be a 

developer. Once again, he abruptly hung up. 

The Westchester Guardian once again 

contacted Judge Adam Seiden, this time on 

a conference call with his developer client, 

who is also our undercover agent. When 

Judge Seiden was asked to explain some 

of his comments, the Judge started back 

peddling and answering questions as if he 

were being deposed under oath by saying,” 

I don’t recall,” also saying, “ Sometimes I’m 

a little iffy with my language,” and “ If I 

had the tape, I might remember,” 

Peter Davis, a respected African- 

American attorney who frequently works 

in the Mount Vernon City Courts and 

who is familiar with Judge Adam Seiden 

told The Westchester Guardian he was not 

surprised by Seiden’s comments. “Any 

judge who calls people “animals” is unfit 

to be a member of the Judiciary,” said 

Davis. “If you make blanket statements 

about people as a whole, its racist and a 

sickness that renders you unsuitable for 

public office,” noted Mr. Davis. Samuel 

Rivers told The Westchester Guardian that 

he asked the investigation be initiated 

after receiving numerous complaints of 

misconduct perpetrated by Judge Adam 

Seiden. These include allegations of ticket 

and case fixing, City Charter residency 

requirement violations, and allegations of 

racism. “For a judicial system to function 

effectively, justice must not only be done 

but be perceived to be balanced and fair. 

Public confidence and perception is of 

utmost importance in maintaining the rule 

of law. Any person of color who has ever 

had a case in front of Judge Adam Seiden 

can only be suspicious of his decision,” said 

Rivers. “We will move to the next stage of 

the investigation by having this disgraceful 

bigot thrown off the bench and disbarred,” 

said Rivers. 

Damon Jones a Mount Vernon resident 

and the the North East President of 

the National Black Police Assoc. told The 

Westchester Guardian, “Judge Adam Seiden 

shouldn’t be a judge in our Justice System. 

He should be disbarred and should never 

again be allowed to determine anyone’s 

fate. Every preacher, city leader, community 

activist and African American resident 

should be outraged,” said Jones. “Every 

decision ever made involving any person 

of color especially from the south side of 

Mount Vernon by Judge Adam Seiden 

should now be appealed,” concluded Jones. 

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Ed Koch Movie Reviews 

By Edward I. Koch 

Movie Review: “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” (-) 

In reading this week’s New York Times’ movie reviews, I was struck by Jeannette Catsoulis’ analysis of this film. Her language was 

more poetry than prose. She opened with “Visually distinctive and aurally delightful ‘Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench’ has style to 

burn.” She went on, “A soulful black-and-white commentary on love, art and their competing demands, this Boston-based musical from 

Damien Chazelle floats on a wave of spontaneity and charm.” 

Who wouldn’t rush to see it? I did, and when it ended, I felt that the one item missing in the movie is a real story. The basic plot 

involves the love affairs of a trumpet player, Guy (Jason Palmer), during a brief period with two women: a shy waitress, Madeline 

(Desiree Garcia) and the more aggressive, Elena (Sandha Khin), who sometimes courts danger. Neither of the romances are fully 

developed. Poetically speaking, they were gossamer; prosaically, they lacked gravitas. 

One memorable and sensual scene involves Elena and Guy meeting in a subway car. They are thrown together as strangers riding 

the subway often are and are immediately attracted to one another. Other than that one image, I left the theater having no fond memories 

or anything to mull over. Music continuously plays throughout the film along with occasional dance fantasies. Perhaps it was the 

music that I vastly underappreciated which others, like Ms. Catsoulis, found sufficiently satisfying so as to forgive the lack of a plot. 

I was surprised to hear the audience burst into applause when the lights went up. If you decide to see “Guy and Madeline on a 

Park Bench,” let me know if you agree with my conclusion or what it was that I missed in the picture. I saw it at the Cinema Village, 

22 East 12th Street 

Movie Review: “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” (+) 

This documentary deals with the fall of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer who while in office used an “escort” service that 

charged upwards of $2,000 an hour. An actress superbly delivers the chatty and often humorous lines provided by “Angelina,” a working 

girl who was one of Eliot’s “escorts.” The funniest and best-delivered comments are made by the madam who co-created the Emperors 

Club VIP, the escort service he patronized. 

Eliot and I are political friends and have known one another for many years. He is a brilliant man, and when he asked for my 

support in his 1998 attorney general campaign, I supported him. At the time the prostitution episode emerged, I commented that 

nothing could explain his behavior other than the fact that he had a screw loose in his head. Probably several. 

The enormous public attention given to this Greek Tragedy, of how the mighty has fallen, undoubtedly had a profound effect on 

his wonderful family. Eliot is fortunate that his intelligent and beautiful wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, stood by him during the ordeal and 

continues to do so today. I don’t know his three daughters, but I have no doubt that they will in their lifetimes make great contributions 

to our society and to New York in particular. 

Eliot was a reformer. Had he not been brought down by his inexplicable conduct, he would have shaken up Albany in a positive way. 

The film provides him personally with more than a fair shake. It did not, however, adequately explain his conduct toward Wall Street 

tycoons, particularly John Whitehead, whom I recall he tracked down in Texas and threatened in an unacceptable manner. 

So far as I know, Eliot committed no crime, injured no one but himself, and was never indicted. Why he resigned as governor in 

March 2008 after serving only 15 months in office, is not adequately discussed in the movie. It is possible that he resigned to avoid 

Federal prosecution. According to other reports, he was told that he would be impeached by the Assembly and removed by the Senate, 

and that because of his “steamroller” and other insulting behavior toward the Albany legislators, only a handful would vote against 

impeachment. The grounds for impeachment are not made clear, except that a legislature can probably impeach for unbecoming 

behavior, which his certainly was. 

In any event, this picture written and directed by Alex Gibney is worth seeing. I saw it at the Angelika Film Center at 18 West 

Houston Street. 

Henry Stern said: “This picture shows how someone who is very smart can do something very stupid. It was ridiculous for him to 

believe that a governor could repeatedly patronize a prostitution ring and not be caught sooner or later. His behavior in other areas was 

increasingly erratic as the years passed: the pursuit of Troopergate, the empty threats to legislators, the tantrums with his own staff; all of 

these indicate a wonderful mind, unfortunately out of control. In his work as Attorney General, the public interest generally coincided 

with his fervent ambition. 

“He threatened media exposure which would depress stock prices in order to intimidate companies into huge settlements. He was, 

however, generally right on the merits of the cases he brought, and he served the public bravely and well. Sadly, he was possessed by 

demons, which led to his downfall, abetted by the enemies he made by his good deeds. I hope he now devotes himself to the public 

interest, rather than retreating to his father’s empire.” 

Don’t forget to check out my reviews at www.mayorkoch.com. And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter! Let him know your 

thoughts by directing email to eikoch@bryancave.com 

The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served New York City as its 105th Mayor from 1978 to 1989.


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THE SOUNDS OFBLUE By Bob Putignano 

George Thorogood and the Destroyers 

“Live In Boston, 1982” Rounder 

Electrifying, exuberant, and burning” Rating: 8 

I was fortunate to have seen George 

Thorogood and the Destroyers perform 

live right around the time this recording 

was made, and man oh man, they were 

one amazing unit, filled with all kinds of 

high speed antics, probably some high 

speed chemicals, with balancing gulps of 

alcohol. So when this disc arrived I was 

looking forward to hearing if the magic 

could be captured on record? 

This recording starts out with 

Thorogood yelling to crowd “how sweet 

it is,” as the band roars through “House 

of Blue Lights.” One of Thorogood’s 

meal tickets; John Lee Hooker’s “One 

Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” is given 

an extended treatment (13:08,) will make 

your hair stand on end! There’s a well 

executed segment with Hank Carter’s sax 

trading riffs with Thorogood’s searing 

guitar that’s stunning! The Destroyers 

take a well deserved break on Don 

Robey’s “As The Years Go Passing By.” 

But from this point forward the concert 

is a head rushing non-stop white-heated 

affair. The Destroyers up-shift into overdrive 

with Chuck Berry’s “It Wasn’t Me,” 

where the band’s breathing fire like a 

Hemi engine running on ninety-five 

octane. Then they bowl over John Lee 

Hooker’s “New Boogie Chillun,” than 

George’s “Miss Luann,” followed by 

Elmore James’ “Can’t Stop Lovin’,” Ah 

youth, these guys play incredibly fast and 

they ain’t done yet with Hank Williams’ 

classic “Move It On Over,” followed 

by a torrid instrumental cover of “Wild 

Weekend,” finally they tear down the 

curtain with the Isley Brothers “Nobody 

But Me.” Catch your breath yet? Not, 

and it’s thoroughly exhilarating! 

George and his Destroyers lived hard 

and obviously partied mightily, they also 

played that much harder and faster than 

most of their contemporaries. This special 

experience is captured perfectly, it’s also 

down and dirty, just the way you’d expect 

it to be and more. The sound quality is 

remarkable, and the mix with the audience 

is extremely well balanced. Throw 

this sucker on at your next party, it will 

definitely bring out the head-bangers, 

then pull up the carpets and let the 

dancing begin. Word of warning: if you 

live in an apartment building it will either 

annoy your neighbors, or have them 

knocking at your door to party. Kudos 

to Rounder Records Scott Billington for 

unearthing this gem nearly thirty years 

after the date of performance, the wait 

was well worth it. Enjoy the hard rocking 

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OPED ED KOCH COMMENTARY 

Yes We Can Win In 2012 

By Edward I. Koch 

President Barack 

Obama has admitted 

the Democrats were 

trounced, losing 64 seats in the House 

and six in the Senate. I predicted they 

would lose the Senate. But they were 

lucky that angry Americans had the good 

sense not to give into their rage. The 

voters rejected the ridiculous candidates 

of the Republican-Tea Party alliance, e.g., 

in Nevada and Delaware, and elsewhere 

they decided to give Democratic incumbents 

another chance. 

Will the Democratic Party learn from 

the drubbing and loss of one House? 

Probably not, but hope springs eternal. 

Maybe Democrats will take a hint and 

begin moving to a moderate left position, 

pulling back from their heretofore more 

radical left position which they prefer to 

call “progressive.” 

I believe that “progressive” as a 

description of political stance is meant 

today to convey a position several lengths 

to the left of liberal. When I was in 

Congress (1969-1977), I referred to 

myself as a “liberal with sanity.” Most 

Democrats then referred to themselves 

as liberals and a few like Bella Abzug, 

who came from a radical left background, 

called themselves “progressives” to convey 

that they were the cutting edge. 

This country is now by a plurality 

moderate conservative with moderate 

liberal a close second and independents 

deciding the outcome of elections. 

In the two years of President Obama’s 

term, he sought to align himself on 

many matters with the progressives. But 

he disappointed those progressives and 

many liberals with his opposition to 

same-sex marriage and failure to rescind 

“don’t ask, don’t tell,” and failure to close 

Guantanamo. 

Notwithstanding President Obama’s 

enormous rebuff by the voters, I believe 

he can recoup in time to win the 2012 

presidential election. Here’s how. 

Before Republicans begin their efforts 

to destroy his comprehensive health care 

bill, the President should offer his own 

amendments. He should propose letting 

all insurance carriers offer their policies 

in all 50 states to increase competition, 

regulate premium increases, and allow 

Medicare to seek volume prescription 

drug discounts – barred under the current 

law – which could save hundreds of 

billions of dollars over a ten-year period. 

He should end the Afghanistan war by 

immediately ordering our troops to return 

home and similarly direct that the 50,000 

U.S. troops now in Iraq be brought home 

now as well. He should offer legislation 

requiring doctors to accept Medicare 

payments and not as some doctors do 

require upfront payments by patients. He 

should announce that we are prepared 

to wage a 50-year war against the 

Islamist terrorists now seeking to destroy 

Western civilization and that we will not 

compromise with the jihadists under any 

circumstances, and will call them by their 

rightful name – Islamic terrorists – not 

simply militants and will ask the media to 

do the same. 

President Obama should seek to 

create three “Manhattan Projects” – 

which, during World War II, was the 

code name for the top priority development 

of the atomic bomb. First, he 

should support sufficient research and 

development funding to make available 

as soon as scientifically possible alternate 

energy sources so as to actually implement 

the statements of every President 

since Jimmy Carter, that we end our 

reliance on foreign oil: hopefully within 

the next four years. The second Project 

should be the creation of a process to 

desalinate the oceans’ waters at a reasonable 

cost before our fresh water supplies 

diminish to a dangerous point. Third, he 

should create a Manhattan Project to find 

the causes and a cure for Alzheimer’s and 

dementia. At this moment, 50 percent of 

everyone over 85 will ultimately suffer 

from Alzheimer’s or dementia, which will 

cost the government trillions of dollars 

in providing long-term care and the cost 

of the Manhattan Project to create the 

atomic bomb in true dollars today would 

be $21 billion. It was worth it. 

Above all else, the President should 

make clear to the public that he sees the 

Democratic Party not as a vehicle for 

socialism, but as a vehicle to implement 


November 2010 

Dear Members, Friends and Merchants of New Rochelle, 

As we approach this holiday season the Chamber of Commerce and the City of New Rochelle would like you to 

consider a promotion to start on November 20 th the day of the 47 th Annual Valenti Thanksgiving Day Parade. 

We would like for you create a Prix Fixe lunch or dinner if you’re a restaurant or a discount of merchandize if you 

are a retail establishment to take advantage of the potential crowds that will come to see and participate in the 

parade. The slogan will be “20 on the 20 th ”. It could be $20.00 for a three course meal 

This can be a wonderful opportunity for you, the business owners, to not only prime the pump so to speak but 

to create an incentive for the citizens of New Rochelle to do their holiday shopping locally. The chamber is 

willing to forgo its normal radio show “Chamber Chat” to read off the name of your business and location and 

that you are a participant in this discount program. The radio station will also support this effort. We want you, 

the businesses of New Rochelle, to have a successful holiday experience. 

We would like to place a sign in you window stating that you support “20 on the 20 th ”. It could be a simple sign 

that you create. If you cannot do the 20 on the 20 th please make an effort to discount your product or service 

whether it is 15% or 10% to give the buying public an incentive to visit your establishment. We are hoping that 

all merchants throughout New Rochelle, on Main Street, North Avenue, and in every mall in every hamlet of our 

fair city will participate. 

And dear citizens of New Rochelle this is a wonderful opportunity for all of us create a vibrant city alive with 

folks willing to shop locally and help grow the business community not just during this holiday season but 

throughout the coming years. This city will be as vibrant as it once was with your efforts. 

Also, please join the Chamber and the City for the Holiday lighting ceremony on Thursday, December 2 nd at 

Memorial Plaza. 

Also when we think of the holiday season let us remember a wonderful artist from New Rochelle, Norman 

Rockwell, whose paintings of the four freedoms that depict who we are as Americans and citizens of New 

Rochelle and let us reach out to help those less fortunate that may need our support during this season. 

The Chamber of Commerce of New Rochelle, its staff and members of the board, want to wish everyone a 

happy, joyous and prosperous holiday season. 

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fairness and justice in the mold of social 

Democrats who believe in our capitalist 

economic system, with rigorous but not 

onerous regulations to protect the public 

in all spheres of public intercourse and 

commerce, allowing people to rise in our 

society according to their abilities and at 

WEIR ONLY HUMAN 

the same time provide a safety net for 

those who need a helping hand. 

Indeed, for me the major difference 

between the Democratic and Republican 

parties which has made me a proud 

Democrat is that the Democratic Party’s 

policy is to provide a helping hand to 

those in need, whilst the Republican 

Party has taken the position, if others have 

made it on their own, the poor, unskilled 

and those simply having bad luck or dealt 

a bad hand will have to make it on their 

own. 

There is so much more to be said and 

so many with greater credentials than I to 

say it, but this is a beginning. Let others 

offer their advice. 

It’s important for everyone to 

remember how much we owe to this 

country for all it has given us; and how 

much we owe the future generations who 

will occupy this land, “from sea to shining 

sea.” We must continue to be seen by 

billions as a beacon of light to the world. 

They will criticize us, but they would love 

to live here if they could. 

The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served 

New York City as its 105th Mayor from 

1978 to 1989. His e-mail address is: eikoch@ 

bryancave.com 

Savages Are Walking Among Us 

By Bob Weir 

For the New England family it was 

just another July day in 2007 as Jennifer 

Petit and her daughters, Michaela, 11, 

and Hayley, 17, went shopping at stores in 

their Cheshire, Connecticut community. 

Jennifer was married to Dr. William Petit, 

a prominent endocrinologist and medical 

researcher who enjoyed gardening in his 

spare time. The family represented the 

best of civilized society, donating their 

time and money to worthy causes and 

always ready to lend a hand to those in 

need. But, even in the most cultured 

and genteel landscapes, savages are on 

the prowl. The Petit’s had no reason to 

assume that they were being watched and 

followed by two-legged creatures with 

murder on their minds. As they drove 

their Mercedes out of the parking area 

and headed for home, they never bothered 

to check the rearview mirror. If they 

had, they might have noticed that they 

were being followed by Steven Hayes and 

Joshua Komisarjevsky, a couple of ex-cons 

with a laundry list of arrests and convictions. 

Why those 2 creatures were still on 

the loose is not too difficult to imagine in 

a justice system that takes several years to 

bring a case to trial, even one as open and 

shut as this one. 

Like vultures circling over their next 

meal, Hayes and Komisarjevsky watched 

the 3 female members of the Petit family 

until they saw where they lived. Then, like 

the skulking animals they are, they broke 

into the home in the middle of the night 

and began a campaign of torture, rape and 

murder. Dr. Petit was bludgeoned into 

unconsciousness with a baseball bat, while 

his wife and daughters were subjected to 

an unimaginable ordeal. That morning, 

the 48-year-old mom was driven to a 

bank and forced to withdraw $15,000 in 

ransom money, while her two daughters 

lay bound to their beds in terror and her 

husband, lay beaten and bloodied on 

the floor of their basement. I can only 

suppose that she believed she could 

save her family if she complied with 

the demand and returned home with 

the monster waiting in a car outside the 

bank. However, before she left with the 

money, she related her circumstances to 

the teller, who called the police. Ms. Petit 

could have saved herself by staying in the 

bank until help arrived, but she was more 

concerned for the lives of her family, 

than for her own. Bravely, she got back in 

the car and was driven home, where she 

endured rape and strangulation by Hayes. 

Before the police arrived and set up 

positions outside the home, the house 

was set on fire by the murderous duo. 

When they became aware that the place 

was surrounded, they jumped in the 

family’s minivan and rammed the vehicle 

barricade. Seconds later, they were 

subdued and arrested. The two young 

girls, bound to their beds and conscious, 

were consumed by the flames. Later, 

it was determined that the 12 yearold 

had been raped by Komisarjevsky 

before being doused with gasoline and 

set afire. Dr. Petit, blood gushing from 

head wounds, 

miraculously 

survived by 

crawling 

over to a 

Joshua Komisarjevsky, and Steven Hayes 

neighbor’s 

house. Keep 

in mind that the sub-human creatures 

who committed these horrible acts were 

caught at the scene; yet, it took 3 years to 

have a trial, a guilty verdict and a death 

penalty. And that was just for Hayes; the 

other Neanderthal will be tried next year. 

Furthermore, there was a delay in the 

punishment phase because some people 

are squeamish about capital punishment. 

It wouldn’t surprise me to know that the 

Petit family was squeamish about it too, 

but that was before they found themselves 

face-to-face with cold-blooded 

savagery. Dr. Petit lived it and made it 

clear that these cretins deserve to die. 

Some say it’s a cry for revenge. Well, 

what’s wrong with that? Perhaps, as a 

society, we need to scream bitterly for the 

satisfaction of revenge, if only to let the 

word go forth that convicted murderers 

will face an angry and implacable group 

of righteous citizens who will give them 

as much mercy as they gave their victims. 

After what was done to that helpless 

family during what must have seemed 

like an eternity of torture and morally 

repulsive indignities, these murderers 

should feel lucky to be executed quickly. 

In a country less constrained by inhibitions 

about punishment, these monsters 

would be begging for 

the relief of death, rather 

than contemplating 

the span of life. The 

vermin who killed these 

innocent people have 

already lived too long, 

and other predators are 

out there watching the 

long delays, soft treatment 

and permissive 

attitudes and they’re 

learning that murder is not really taken 

that seriously, so why not take a chance? 

Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with 

the New York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten 

of which were performed in plainclothes 

undercover assignments. During his early 

years with NYPD, Bob earned a Bachelor 

of Science degree, cum laude from New 

York Institute of Technology. He retired 

as a sergeant after supervising patrol in 

Midtown Manhattan, the busiest precinct 

in the country. After owning and operating 

a wine and liquor retail business in Long 

Island for 5 years, he sold it and moved to 

Flower Mound, Texas. Bob began a writing 

career about 12 years ago and had his first 

book published in 1999. Bob went on to 

write and publish a total of seven novels, 

“Murder in Black and White,” “City to Die 

For,” “Powers that Be,” “Ruthie’s Kids,” 

“Deadly to Love,” “Short Stories of Life and 

Death,” and “Out of Sight,” are available at 

Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Books-amillion, 

and other major online book sellers. 

He also became a syndicated columnist 

under the title “Weir Only Human”. His 

perspective may be read within the pages 

of the Westchester Guardian, Westchester 

Herald and the Yonkers Tribune.


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PEOPLE 

Mamaroneck Woman’s Club 

Services Local Communities 

By Bary Alyssa Johnson 

POLITICS 

Northern Westchester Tea Party 

Patriots Announce Future Plans 

Vincent Graziano, 

local funeral home 

director, joined the 

Mamaroneck Woman’s 

Club last week for 

their regular luncheon 

rituals and to discuss Graziano’s recent 

book debut “Die Laughing.” 

Graziano spoke to the group of Ladies 

who Lunch about the semi-autobiographical 

novel, which stars a struggling 

fledgling comedian who moonlights in 

the family undertaking business in New 

York City. The author, in line with the 

Woman’s Club underlying tenet of philanthropy, 

donated a half dozen books to the 

Club’s elder population of members. 

“This book is good for us because we 

know we’re headed to the funeral parlor 

soon too,” one member said, laughing 

with the others at her table. 

At this stage in their lives, these 

women meet once or twice per month for 

social and charitable events. The mission 

of the Club, which was established in 

1925, is philanthropic in nature, but 

includes fun activities and outings for its 

members as well. 

The Club is broken into daytime and 

nighttime groups, with current membership 

totaling approximately 90 women in 

all. Most of the members hold some type 

of functional role at the meetings. 

The meetings begin with each of these 

women being called on to report to the rest 

of the group any pertinent information 

to their roles, which include: Treasure & 

Dues, Upcoming Events, Charity Work, 

New Member Introductions, Publicity, 

Review of Minutes from previous meetings, 

and more. Lunch, coffee and tea, 

and then desserts follow the business 

issues. Then the fun and games begin. 

“I started coming for a place to go 

play bridge,” long-time member Mary 

Barto told The Westchester Guardian in an 

interview. 

However, the Club’s purpose is to help 

those who are in need, and the women do 

this in numerous and varied ways. 

“For holidays we give food to families 

in need and toys for the children at 

Christmas,” Barto said. 

Rosemarie Santullo, sitting President 

of the Club for the past three years, 

elaborated on their charitable missions. 

According to Santullo, the Club does a 

lot of its work for the community through 

Holy Trinity Church. They also donate 

money for scholarships for students in 

Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Harrison, 

as well as to the Mamaroneck Ambulance 

Corps. The Club gives to the Larchmont/ 

Mamaroneck Food Pantry and donate 

their time doing volunteer work at Sarah 

Neuman Nursing Home and the St. 

Thomas Thrift shop, amongst others. 

The Woman’s Club membership 

is open to any interested female in the 

Larchmont-Mamaroneck-Harrison area 

of Westchester County. The dues run 

at $75 per year for the luncheons, plus 

optional monetary extras for outside 

fundraisers, like plays and dinner parties. 

Meetings are run at the official clubhouse, 

located in Mamaroneck. 

For those wishing to join or to get 

more information about the club, you 

are asked to notify them by mail at 504 

Cortland Avenue, Mamaroneck, NY 

10543. Please include your name, address, 

and phone number and you can expect a 

rapid response from the membership 

department. 

“We would love people to come to our 

luncheons and see what it is all about,” 

Santullo told The Westchester Guardian in 

an interview. “It’s a good group and we do 

a lot for the community.” 

South salem, NY -- The Northern Westchester Tea Party Patriots applaud the midterm 

election results from last Tuesday, said Bill Bongiorno, co-founder with John Sauro. 

“What we saw was a validation of our work over the past year and a change in power 

and personnel in the Congress and also of the candidates we endorsed, including Dr. 

Hayworth for Congress. We now need to watch with a careful eye that they follow through 

on their campaign promises. We look forward to working with her and others on the state 

level to put forth bills that will limit the size and scope of government,” said Mr. Bongiorno. 

“This was a repudiation of the Obama administration and its socialist agenda it has 

been ramming down the throats of a free people the last two years. We have already begun 

work on the 2012 elections, whereby 33 Senate seats are up for election, including Kirsten 

Gillibrand’s, who said during a debate that the tea party movement was bad for America. 

Yes, Ms. Gillibrand, We the People paying attention to how you vote for the socialist 

agenda is bad for you, so you demonize it and try to squelch it – shame on you!” 

He continued, “We are drafting our platform of what we want our newly elected office 

holders to do over their terms. We will be rolling it out over the next several weeks.” 

“We will also continue educating the public about Constitutional issues, free markets, 

limited government and maximum freedom in a free society. We eagerly look forward to a 

post-progressive America, where the power is with the people and not the government and 

where equal opportunity reigns, not where equal outcomes rule. This fake class warfare the 

socialists in Congress and the White House have tried will end in 2012, ” he concluded. 

The Northern Westchester Tea Party Patriots are the local group of Tea Party Patriots, 

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/. The group was formed in response to non-constitutional 

tyrannical measures being imposed by both major political parties. This has been formed 

as a party of WE The PEOPLE. All are welcome regardless of political affiliation or any 

other difference. This is a means for all people to come together and unite in one purpose, 

to limit government, maximize freedom for all, and restore the Constitution as the guiding 

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SHIFTING GEARS 

Party Time, Fiesta Style 

By Roger Witherspoon 

If nothing else, the 

commercials for the 2011 

Ford Fiesta will grab your 

attention. 

When the compact sedan starts, bells 

ring, whistles blow, carnival performers 

materialize as if by magic and the Fiesta 

is the center of an impromptu celebration. 

That’s a lot of fanfare for a little car. So 

what is this Fiesta and what, exactly, is the 

fuss about? 

The car’s aluminum power plant 

produces only 120 horsepower and 112 

pound/feet of torque, but that’s more 

than enough give the lightweight, manually 

operated Fiesta a sporty feel. You may 

have to downshift the five-speed manual 

transmission to produce enough torque 

draw a satisfied, long lasting smile. 

Roger Witherspoon writes Shifting 

Gears at www.RogerWitherspoon. 

com 

Nominally, the Fiesta represents an 

ambitious effort by Detroit’s most profitable 

car company to engineer a real 

competitor into the small sedan segment 

dominated by the Honda Fit, Nissan 

Versa, and Toyota’s sub compact Yaris and 

the larger, Corolla. That is a tough, established 

crowd for an American upstart to 

try and muscle into. But the Fiesta does 

come into the home market with a bit of 

road experience. Ford has already sold a 

half million Fiesta’s worldwide and, at 

this juncture, feels it is ready to roll on the 

main stage. 

The Fiesta is the automotive equivalent 

of a sweet onion: as you peel back the 

layers, the more goodies you find. On the 

surface, it is a compact sedan with about 

the size you’d expect for set of wheels 

selling for under $20,000. But Ford took 

some time in the design of its little car, 

avoiding the appearance of a cheap little 

box. The Fiesta has more of a stretched 

egg shape, beginning with a small, black, 

smiling grill and gently, smoothly curving 

up and around a surprisingly big passenger 

compartment and ending in flat-back half 

hidden under a small spoiler. And while 

the four-cylinder engine will never be 

mistaken for a racing motor, the spoiler 

seems appropriate rather than an out of 

place conceit. 

to avoid slowing down on steep hills, 

but once you’ve done that, the Fiesta will 

accelerate nicely. In fact, the Fiesta’s top 

speed is 120, and when you are cruising in 

the triple digits, its responsive on curves, 

instantaneous handling and maneuvering, 

and effortless gear shifts bring the driving 

experience far closer to the feel of an Audi 

A-4 than that of the other compact vehicles 

nominally in its class. 

Inside, Ford has borrowed a lot of 

technology from the company’s larger, 

more established small sedan, the Focus. 

But its design is completely new. The 

windshield, for example, looks extra large 

– a design cue borrowed from the long 

lasting VW Beetle. But there is so much 

glass all around the Fiesta that the interior 

seems to incorporate the great outdoors. 

As a result, there is a feeling of spaciousness 

not usually found in a compact. The 

interior roof line arches up sharply to 

make sure that those on the north side of 

six feet tall are comfortable in the front 

and back seats. And while the seats are 

manually operated and cloth covered, 

they are, surprisingly, heated. 

Generally, cars in this price range have 

a fairly plain dash and the interior feel is 

one of economy instead of style. Not so 

with this party car. The center of the dash, 

with the gadget console, arrogantly curves 

inward so it is easy to reach for the driver 

or a front passenger. And items – such as 

cd, radIO, and PHONE – are clearly 

written out in block letters so one does 

not have to fumble for the right controls 

for the climate control or entertainment 

functions. And the items are back lit for 

easy location in the dark. 

There are also soft lights under the 

dash, in the doors and cup holders to 

make it easy to find items when driving 

at night. And the color can be changed or 

the night lights turned completely off at 

the touch of a button. 

The Fiesta lacks a navigation system, 

but it does have the Ford SYNC system, 

which uses voice or manual controls to 

activate the broadcast or satellite radio, 

phone, single disc cd player, or the 

auxiliary systems containing docks for 

iPods, MP3 players or usB drives. These 

systems may also be activated using 

fingertip controls on the leather-wrapped 

steering wheel. 

The cargo area, by itself, is small. But 

the rear seats fold flat and, in that mode, 

the hatchback has an ample amount of 

storage space. 

It is unlikely one will hear brass bands 

playing, see people dancing, or be regaled 

by singing skydivers when you get behind 

the wheel of a 2011 Fiesta. But it may well 

2011 Ford Fiesta 

5-Door Hatchback 

MSRP: $18,590 

EPA Mileage: 28 MPG City; 37 MPG 

Highway 

Top Speed: 120 MPH 

Performance / Safety: 

1.6-Liter DOhc, aluminum 4-cylinder 

engine producing 120 horsepower and 

112 pound/feet of torque; front wheel 

drive; 5-speed manual transmission; 

independent MacPherson strut front 

suspension; twist beam rear suspension; 

power assisted front disk and rear 

drum brakes; 4-wheel, anti-lock braking 

system; electronic stability control; 

16-inch aluminum alloy wheels; heated 

mirrors; driver knee airbag; side and 

curtain airbags. 

Interior / Comfort: 

AM/ FM/ Sirius Satellite radio; six 

speakers; single disc cd player; MP3, 

iPod and usB connections; Bluetooth 

cell phone connection; SYNC voice 

activated command system; leather 

wrapped steering wheel with fingertip 

cruise, phone, and entertainment controls; 

heated cloth seats; adjustable ambient 

night lights.


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SPORTS 

M2 Hockey on Ice / Off Ice Training for the Next Generation 

By Albert Caamano 

What type of training does one really 

need? There all kinds of camps, clinics, 

teams, weight training, on ice/ off ice, it 

can get mind blowing. 

Kevin Muller and Jason Myers have 

probably heard and seen it all and decided 

they can answer the questions and help 

with the necessary tools needed to 

become an all-around hockey player, both 

have had extensive playing and coaching 

and realized that a lot of time is not taken 

into account in what each player needed 

according to their skill level and their 

individual rate of progression so pulling 

there combine knowledge together came 

up with M2Hockey. 

Albert Caamano: How did you get 

started in hockey? 

Kevin Muller: My playing career 

started from a school field trip – I was 

instantly hooked. The next year I started 

playing hockey and taking power skating 

instruction – which I took throughout my 

entire playing career. 

After playing 2 years of Ncaa DIII 

hockey, I moved back to Wisconsin and 

THE SPOOF 

Spider-Man’s Broadway Musical 

Delayed, Co-stars Furious 

By Gail Farrelly 

“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” which had been slated to 

open on Broadway on Dec. 21, now will not open until January. 

Investigative reporting at The Spoof reveals that Spider-Man’s 

co-stars lay the blame for the delays squarely on the star of the show. 

But Spider-Man just shrugs and says, “Being on time was never my strong suit. 

Constantly dealing with webs just does that to you.” 

These are some of the complaints his co-stars have about him: 

-- Instead of concentrating on rehearsing, he insists on reading aloud over and 

over again his two favorite Spider-Man stories: Man in the Mummy Case and 

There Are Martians Among Us. “How boring can you get?” whispered a member 

of the cast to an interviewer from The Spoof. 

-- When an emergency arises in the city (as announced by police sirens or fire 

trucks, for example), Spider-Man stops rehearsals and rushes into the street to 

offer help. 

-- If anybody spots a spider in the theater, he insists on examining it under a 

microscope to make sure it isn’t radioactive. He wants to make sure that no 

one else replicates what happened to him. That is, being bitten by a radioactive 

spider and, as a result, getting special powers. He is selfish enough to want to 

be the only one alive with super powers. 

One of the actors in the show hopes that the following message can be delivered 

anonymously to Spider-Man: “Grow up, you’re almost half a century old, for Pete’s 

sake. We know you want to save the world. But how about saving THIS play and the 

jobs of all your co-workers? C’mon Spidey, have a heart!” 

Gail Farrelly (www.FarrellySistersOnline.com) writes mystery novels and short stories 

as well as Op-Eds. She also publishes satire pieces (Gail Farrelly’s satire and parody 

stories) on TheSpoof.com, a British website. Her latest mystery novel is Creamed at 

Commencement: A Graduation Mystery. The first chapter is available on her website. 

Gail is working on a fourth mystery, The Virtual Heiress. 

received a call that the local organization 

was in need of a coach for their high 

school program. 

Albert Caamano: Why did you start 

instructing and training? 

Kevin Muller: I wanted to give kids 

the same opportunities I had growing 

up in the game. I’ve always had a drive 

to help people, so I thought it would be 

a great way to mold young athletes to 

become not only better athletes, but more 

importantly better people. 

Albert Caamano: What types of 

programs do you provide at camps and 

clinics and what levels and ages? 

Kevin Muller: Jason and I have 

worked with a wide age-range. We are 

both heavily involved in our local development 

program where we work with kids 

from 4-10 yrs old, but we also work with 

kids in juniors. Every summer, we run 

camps ranging from Mite (8U) to Midget 

18U. We take each camp individually and 

look at the group talent and formulate our 

plan from there. I’m not big on a “one size 

fits all” type of hockey camp. I think each 

camp should be tailored to the talent you 

have on the ice. 

Albert Caamano: Do you teach 

different programs according to age or 

skill level? 

Kevin Muller: Absolutely, I think 

you have to in order to run an effective 

camp. Hockey skills need to be taught 

in progression. Advanced skills build 

off the basics. There are physical limitations 

of teaching younger skaters some of 

the advanced techniques. Often times 

younger players are physically incapable 

of performing tasks with absolute perfect 

form because their bodies have not developed 

enough strength. 

Most people agree you wouldn’t have 

an 8 year old doing a lot of heavy weight 

lifting; instead you need to train agespecifically 

in order to effectively train the 

athlete. 

Albert Caamano: What type of 

equipment do you use and is it different 

for age or skills? 



SPORTS 

M2 Hockey on Ice / Off Ice Training for 

the Next Generation 


Kevin Muller: I’m really only picky 

about my skates and stick. For skates, I 

use Graf. I’ve tried almost all the others, 

but to me, there’s nothing like the feel of a 

Graf skate. They’ve been, by far, the most 

comfortable and durable skates I’ve used. 

For my stick, I use a one-piece Base 

stick. They’ve got a great feel and can be 

customized (lie, curve, shaft, graphics, 

etc.) to whatever you’re comfortable with. 

Oh, and the best part – they’re about half 

the price of a regular one-piece. 

Albert Caamano: Can you give an 

overview of what you should consider 

when picking out your first complete 

set of ice hockey equipment and 

maintenance? 

Kevin Muller: First, when getting 

your first set of gear, don’t use the “he’ll 

grow into it” mentality. Go with something 

that fits your player and properly 

protects them. 

Second, don’t go cheap on skates!!! 

Get a GOOD pair of skates – they don’t 

have to be this year’s model, but they 

should be high quality skates. For young 

skaters who grow quickly, there is nothing 

wrong with used equipment. Since kids 

grow so fast, you can usually find secondhand 

skates in good condition for a 

fraction of the cost of new ones. 

Finally, don’t even think of buying a 

$200 one-piece stick unless your player is 

at least 150 lbs. and can actually make use 

of the stick. There’s nothing wrong with 

wood sticks – especially for the younger/ 

smaller players. If you are looking at a 

one-piece stick, be sure to get one with the 

proper amount of flex. A one-piece stick 

shOULD flex when you make a hard 

pass. I can’t tell you how many players I’ve 

seen buy a 100 lb. flex (Easton) and cut 

several inches off the shaft – it’s a recipe 

for disaster. If you can’t properly flex the 

shaft of the stick, you’re losing power in 

everything you do. To give you a frame 

of reference, I’m 6’ 2”, 180 lbs. and I use 

a 100lb. flex stick….and even that is a bit 

stiff for me! 

Albert Caamano: How do you feel 

the game has changed and what advice 

do you give to kids who have no idea how 

to proceed and who are having difficulty 

deciding on an outline and course? 

Kevin Muller: The biggest change 

I’ve seen lately is the return to skill play 

at the higher levels. It’s no longer about 

being a big guy with a descent set of skills, 

now it’s about who has the best skills. 

Top-level leagues are rewarding skilled 

players. Patrick Kane at 5’ 10” and 178 

lbs. has helped pave the way. 

Bottom line….you can never be too 

good to work on your basic skills. If 

you don’t know where to start, start with 

skating – NHL teams bring in power 

skating instructors to work with their 

players, so you can’t tell me power skating 

is a waste of time at the youth levels. 

Albert Caamano: What are the best 

levels to play in order to make a college 

Team and what tournaments are considered 

the showcases for a player with a lot 

of talent? 

Kevin Muller: Certainly the more 

competitive levels you can play at, the 

better off you’ll be in terms of making it 

to college. The vast majority of college 

teams – DI, DII, and DIII – have been 

shifting more toward taking players from 

juniors as opposed to straight from highschool. 

There are a hundred different 

routes to making it into the college ranks, 

but playing the most competitive level of 

junior hockey you can will certainly help 

your chances. 

The two tournaments/showcases that 

come to mind are the NahL Showcase 

in Blaine, MN and the Nike/Bauer tournament 

in the Chicago, IL area. High 

profile tournaments like these make it 

easy on scouts because there are so many 

talented players in one location. Instead 

of traveling hundreds of miles to watch 

one game, the scout has the ability to see 

many teams and watch players over the 

course of multiple games. 

If you need any more advice or want 

information on M2 hockey visit www. 

M2Hockey.com or www.HockeyShare. 

com - we have lots of skill-based videos 

available for free, along with some other 

training tips and programs. 

Albert Caamano has coached ice hockey for 15 

plus years to include recruiting young players 

in preparation for college, prep schools and 

tournaments, and also worked Goalie camps 

and clinics with former Olympic coaches and 

college players. 

TRAVEL 

Bright Lights, Branson City 

Have Yourself an Ozark Mountain 

Christmas By Barbara Barton Sloane 

With dozens of 

star-filled Christmas 

music shows and a glittering 

array of light displays, including 

the one-mile Branson Area Festival of 

Lights drive-through, “The Live Music 

Show Capital of the World” kicked off its 

annual Ozark Mountain Christmas celebration 

on November 1 and it continues 

through December 30. 

Sights, Lights and…Ducks! 

I had a brilliant and glowing visit to 

Branson, Missouri recently and experienced 

the most outstanding Christmas 

spectacular ever. We were dazzled by 

Branson’s star entertainers and their elaborate 

holiday production numbers. From 

the voice of “Mr. Christmas” – Andy 

Williams, to the Oak Ridge Boys and the 

rousing carols of the Twelve Irish Tenors, 

there’s a multitude of entertainers that 

showcase Branson’s Christmas spirit. For 

the kids, there’s a special Holiday Lights 

Ride the Ducks to see the sights and lights 

on a sing-along holiday adventure through 

a lighted forest of twinkling snowflakes, 

candy canes and holiday ornaments. 

Bah? Humbug? Not Here! 

A place that is truly magical for the 

holidays is Silver Dollar City. They 

present a most charming production: A 

Dickens’ Christmas Carol, with extremely 

accomplished actors, singers and dancers, 

a production we found truly Broadwayquality. 

This 1880s-style theme park 

transforms into an evening wonderland 

featuring the Christmas on Main Street 

light and sound show, 1,000 decorated 

Christmas trees, a 5-storey special effects 

Christmas Tree, a Holiday Light Parade, 

festive holiday foods and over four million 

(you heard it right) lights! 

We can Make-Believe…on the 

Showboat 

We took a ride on the Showboat 

Branson Belle, bedecked in Christmas 

finery, and enjoyed a rousing, fun-filled 

holiday show topped off with a tasty 

lunch. And one of the most memorable 

events on my Branson visit was touring the 


Branson 411: 

Branson Lakes Area Convention 

and Visitors Bureau 

800-214-3661 

www.ExploreBranson.com 

Kids Kountry 

417-334-1612 

www.BransonTracks.com 

Ride the Ducks 

417-266-7600 

www.BransonDucks.com 

Showboat Branson Belle 

800-775-2628 

www.ShowboatBransonBelle.com 

Titanic Museum Attraction 

800-381-7670 

www.TitanicAttraction.com 

Silver Dollar City 

800-831-4386 

www.SilverDollarCity.com


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Bright Lights, 

Branson City 

Have Yourself an Ozark 

Mountain Christmas 


absolutely fabulous Titanic, the world’s 

largest Titanic museum, state-of-the-art 

and world-class, which was decorated with 

lights and holiday trimmings that recalled 

an elegant Christmas past. 

If you still haven’t had enough 

Christmas lighting displays, consider 

touring the Branson Area Festival of 

Lights and the Trail of Lights at Shepherd 

of the Hills Homestead. Also, on the first 

Sunday in December, thousands of people 

will gather in downtown Branson to 

watch a Christmas parade which respects 

this most reverent of seasons and without 

a hint of commercialism. 

So, you say it’s not yet Thanksgiving 

and the Christmas spirit has yet to hit 

full force. Visit Branson soon and you’re 

gonna feel it – big time. In fact, you may 

just consider it your most enchanting 

vacation ever. After all, Andy Williams 

has made a career by informing us that 

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the 

Year.” In this town, Christmas celebrations 

are like nowhere else on earth, and 

when it’s time to return home, you will 

leave with a little more elf in yourself and 

a little more jingle in your bells! 

Travel Editor Barbara Barton Sloane is 

constantly globe-hopping to share her unique 

experiences with our readers; from the exotic 

to the sublime. As Beauty/Fashion Editor 

she keeps us informed on the capricious and 

engaging fashion and beauty scene. 

The Multi-Faceted Human Costs Of 

Wrongful Conviction 

By Jeff Deskovic 

On November 9, 2010, the New York 

Times reported that Bobby Ray Dixon, 

wrongfully incarcerated for 32 years, 

passed away at age 53 from brain and lung 

cancer, after having been exonerated less 

than two months ago. 

Dixon and his co-defendants Philip 

Bivens and Larry Ruffin, were wrongfully 

convicted in Mississippi for murder 

and rape prior to DNA evidence showing 

both their innocence and the guilt of the 

real perpetrator. Dixon, Bivens, and Ruffin 

were coerced into falsely confessing under 

the threat of the death penalty. Bivens 

and Dixon falsely implicated Ruffin, were 

coerced into pleading guilty and testifying 

against Ruffin at his trial in exchange for 

life sentences. Bivens recanted his testimony 

a month later in a sworn affidavit 

sent to the court. 

At the trial Dixon explained that he 

had been kicked in the head by a horse, as 

a result of which he gets frequent seizures 

and his memory had been affected. “I don’t 

have the right mind, my mind comes and 

goes, and I don’t like to see nobody took 

away for nothing they ain’t done” and 

stating that he hadn’t been with Ruffin and 

Bivens the night of the crime, and didn’t 

know what the victim looked like. But 

Ruffin was convicted, and died in prison 8 

years ago. 

Dixon and Bivens were formally exonerated 

at a hearing which Ruffin’s family 

attended, while Ruffin is expected to be 

post-humously exonerated within the 

next few months. Shortly after the hearing 

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Dixon went to Ruffin’s grave site, accompanied 

by Ruffin’s family. Ruffin’s family 

prayed, sang hymns, and released balloons. 

Dixon cried at the grave site. 

Dixon’s brother Jerry was happy that 

his brother had previously been released 

on medical parole, had lived to see his 

name cleared, and had a chance to do a 

few things that he wanted to do, saying, 

“He knew his name was cleared before he 

left. He wanted to be baptized again, and I 

thank God he got to do that,” Jerry Dixon 

said Tuesday. “He wanted to ride a bicycle 

and he got to do that. He had been locked 

up for 32 years.” 

Dixon’s story brings to mind the multifaceted 

human cost of wrongful conviction. 

There are the horrors of wrongful imprisonment, 

its impact, and incalculable 

human costs. Exonerees frequently suffer 

post-traumatic stress disorder and have 

their personalities altered. The closest 

event that resembles wrongful incarceration 

is that which a soldier returning from 

a war zone experiences. 

The natural cycle of life and rites of 

passage are missed, as are the simple things 

most of us take for granted. Dixon appreciated 

riding a bike and attending religious 

services while free. There is laughter, having 

fun, being able to come and go as one 

wishes, friendships, dating, finding love, 

travel, experiencing new things, self actualization, 

a life free of being surrounded by 

violence and its threat, education, career, 

accomplishments, and pursuing one’s 

creative side. Then there are family events 

that are missed: holidays, births, family 

events and milestones, and deaths. 

It’s sad that Dixon missed all of those 

things, his life stolen from him via misconduct 

by police and prosecutors, save for a 

brief, fleeting moment of freedom. Ruffin 

didn’t even get that. Exonerees don’t magically 

get their life span extended to make 

up for the lost time; when it’s over it’s over. 

Life and freedom are irreplaceable. 

Brothers, sisters, parents, and extended 

family members are affected. There is 

the physical absence of their loved one, 

including at family events. Many prison 

Bobby Ray Dixon 

systems, including New York’s, house 

the inmates in prisons that are far away 

from their home, making visits difficult, 

if not impossible, and expensive. Prison 

guards often discourage visitors by means 

of verbal abuse, subtle harassment, and 

unnecessary delays in visit commencement. 

Cumulatively, the impact is that 

families grow apart, and frequently lose 

touch altogether. But even where contact 

is maintained, and exoneration is obtained, 

it is difficult to reestablish the relationship 

after growing apart. Personalities of 

the exonerated change, which is often not 

apparent during visits because conversations 

center on proving one’s innocence 

and regaining freedom. Additionally, long 

periods of time often pass in between visits. 

Wives miss spending quality time with 

their husbands, and have the conundrum 

of deciding whether to stay with who 

they love and assume the hardships attendant 

thereto, or leave in order to pursue a 

normal relationship. Children miss their 

parents, and it is never easy to explain to 

them why Daddy or Mommy is absent, 

particularly on birthdays and holidays. 

Society loses as well; each time the 

wrong person is convicted, it leaves the 

real perpetrator free to strike again. The 

real perpetrator identified by the DNA, 

Andrew Harris, raped another woman two 

years later. 

Jeffrey M. Deskovic is a Criminal Justice 

Advocate and Exoneree. To learn more, visit 

his website: www.JeffreyDeskovicSpeaks.org.


LEGAL NOTICES 

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 

ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO.: 19545/09 AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC Plaintiff, vs. EXINORD DOR- 

VEUS, TEANA DORVEUS, ET, AL. , Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 123 EDGEPARK ROAD 22-1429-16, WHITE 

PLAINS, NY 10603 SBL #: 22-1429-15 22-1429-17 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to 

answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this 

Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this 

Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally 

delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken 

against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in 

the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Westchester. The basis of the venue designated above is the location 

of the Mortgaged Premises. Dated this 19th day of October, 2010, TO: EXINORD DORVEUS and TEANA DORVEUS, 

Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. 

RICHARD B. LIEBOWITZ of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 14th day of October, 2010 and filed 

with the Complaint in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, in the City of White Plains. The object of this action is 

to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by EXINORD DORVEUS and TEANA DORVEUS 

dated the 18th day of August, 2004, to secure the sum of $356,000.00, and recorded at Instrument No. 442860223 in the 

Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, on the 15th day of February, 2005; which mortgage was duly assigned 

by assignment dated the 21st day of August, 2009, and sent for recording in the Office of the Clerk of Westchester County; 

The property in question is described as follows: 123 EDGEPARK ROAD, WHITE PLAINS, NY 10603 SEE FOLLOWING 

DESCRIPTION Section 22, Block 1429 and Lot 15, 16 and 17 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings 

and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greenburgh, County of Westchester 

and State of New York, being shown on Subdivision Map of Parkway Homes, Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, 

New York, made by Wulff Engineering Co., Tarrytown, New York, June 22, 1927 and filed in the Office of the Clerk, Division 

of Land Records, formerly Register’s Office of Westchester County, New York, on July 21, 1927 as Map No. 3185, 

and described as follows, Block 26, Lots 8, 9 and 10 and which said lots, when taken together as one parcel, are more 

particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Westerly side of Edge-Park Road formerly 

known as Archer Avenue, distant 175 feet Northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Northerly side of 

Augustine Road, formerly known as Bronx Street and the Westerly side of Edge-Park Road and which said point is also 

where the division line between Lot Nos. 7 and 8 in Block 26 as laid out on the aforesaid map intersects the Westerly 

side of Edge-Park Road; RUNNING THENCE on a course of North 78 degrees 37 minutes 00 seconds West and along 

the division line between Lot Nos. 7 and 8 in Block 26 on a distance of 100 feet to the Easterly line of Lot No. 33, in Block 

26; THENCE on a course of North 11 degrees 23 minutes 00 seconds East and along the Easterly line of Lot Nos. 33, 32 

and 31 in Block 26 a distance of 75 feet to the division line between Lot Nos. 10 and 11, in Block 26; THENCE on a course 

South 78 degrees 37 minutes 00 seconds East and along the division line of Lots 10 and 11 in Block 26, a distance of 100 

feet to the Westerly side of Edge-Park Road; THENCE on a course of South 11 degrees 23 minutes 00 seconds West 

and along the Westerly side of Edge-Park Road a distance of 75 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. SUBJECT to 

covenants and restrictions in Liber 3114 Page 316 and Liber 3758 Page 129 as modified by Liber 3825 Page 259, Liber 

4393 Page 477 as modified by Liber 4950 Page 79. Premises known as 123 Edgepark Road, White Plains, New York HELP 

FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT 

THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF 

LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE AC- 

TION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IM- 

MEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT 

YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your 

options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government 

agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to 

work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained 

by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at 

WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to 

“save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from 

a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay 

them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract 

which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any 

money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER 

OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the 

attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the 

court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where 

your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a 

payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY 

OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH 

THE COURT. DATED: October 19, 2010 Steven J. Baum, P.C., Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 220 Northpointe Parkway Suite 

G, Amherst, NY 14228 The law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who 

are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 

West Square Foods, LLC Articles of 

Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 

10/8/2010. Office in Westchester Co. 

SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon 

whom process may be served. SSNY 

shall mail copy of process C/O Stanley 

Chin P.O. Box 956 Bronxville, NY 

10708. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 

Twenty Ten Foods, LLC Articles of 





shall mail copy of process C/O Stanley 

Chin P.O. Box 956 Bronxville, NY 


NEW GENERATION AUTO CARE LLC 

Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/4/2010. 

Off. Loc.: Westchester Cnty. SSNY 

designated as agent of LLC whom process 

may be served. SSNY shall mail 

process to: c/o The LLC, 210 Webster 

Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: 

all lawful activities. 

Seo Media LLC Articles of Org. filed 

NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/5/2010. 

Office in Westchester Co. SSNY 

design. Agent of LLC upon whom 

process may be served. SSNY shall 

mail copy of process to C/O Michael 

Rossi 44 Loop Road Bedford, NY 


Registered Agent: Michael Rossi 44 

Loop Road Bedford, NY 10506. 

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability 

Company (LLC): Name: The 

Liberty Blue Group, LLC. Articles 

of Organization filed With the Secretary 

of State of New York (SSNY) 

on 09/24/2010. Office location: Westchester 

County. SSNY has been 

designated as agent of the LLC 

upon whom process against it may 

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of 

process to: C/O The Liberty Blue 

Group, LLC, 265 Old Mamaroneck 

Road, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: 

Any Lawful Purpose. Latest 

date upon which LLC is to dissolve: 

No Specific date. 

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability 

Company (LLC): Name: Pink 

Lotus Consulting LLC, Articles of 

Organization filed with the Secretary 

of State of New York (SSNY) on 

09/27/2010. Office location: Westchester 


designated as agent of the LLC upon 

whom process against it may be 

served. SSNY shall mail a copy of 

process to: C/O Pink Lotus Consulting 

LLC, 2 Canfield Avenue Apt 724, 

White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: 

Any Lawful Purpose. 

Health&Saftey Options, LLC Authority 

filed with Secy. of State of NY 

(SSNY) on 8/23/2010. Office location: 

Westchester Co. LLC formed in Iowa 

(IA) on 10/19/09. SSNY designated 

as agent of LLC upon whom process 

against it may be served. SSNY shall 

mail process to The LLC 109 W Main 

St PO Box 86 Lime Springs, IA 52155. 

IA address of LLC: 109 W Main St PO 

Box 86 Lime Springs, IA 52155. Arts. 

Of Org. filed with IA Secy. of State, 

321 E 12th St Des Moines, IA 50319. 

Purpose: any lawful activity. 

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability 

Company (LLC): TRAVELKIN. 

COM, LLC, Articles of Organization 

filed with the Secretary of New York 


Westchester County. SSNY has 

been designated as agent of the LLC 

upon whom process against it may 

be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of 

the process to TRAVELKIN.COM, 50 

Barker Street, Apt 336, Mount Kisco, 

NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful business 

activity. 

Eventastic Parties LLC Articles of 


9/15/2010. Office in Westchester 

Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC 

upon whom process may be served. 

SSNY shall mail copy of process 

Anna Cuneo 54 Forest Lake Drive 

West Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: 

Any lawful activity. 

Jessy A. Samuel Consulting, LLC Articles 

of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 

(SSNY) 8/10/2010. Office in Westchester 

Co. SSNY design. Agent of 

LLC upon whom process may be 

served. SSNY shall mail copy of process 

Corporation Service Company 

80 State Street Albany, NY 12207. 

Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered 

Agent: Corporation Service 

Company 80 State Street Albany, NY 

12207. 

Im Ip Law PLLC Articles of Org. filed 

NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/22/2010. 

Office in Westchester Co. SSNY 

design. Agent of PLLC upon whom 

process may be served. SSNY shall 

mail copy of process The PLLC 61 

Broadway, Suite 513 New York, NY 


Donna Garr & Associates, LLC Articles 

of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 


Co. SSNY design. Agent 

of LLC upon whom process may 

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of 

process The LLC 80 Whitlockville Rd 

Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any 

lawful activity. 

Jas Photography, LLC Articles of 






Corporation Service Company 80 

State Street Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: 

Any lawful activity. Registered 

Agent: Corporation Service Company 

80 State Street Albany, NY 12207 

Simply Diamond Music LLC Articles 

of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 



whom process may be served. 

SSNY shall mail copy of process The 

LLC 208 Pound Ridge Road Bedford, 

NY 10506. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 

Registered Agent: Rosanne La 

Blanc 208 Pound Ridge Road Bedford, 

NY 10506. 

Anne L. Boffoli Bentzen LCSW PLLC 

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 


Co. SSNY design. Agent 

of PLLC upon whom process may 

be served. SSNY shall mail copy 

of process The PLLC 380 Route 202 

Somers, NY 10589. Purpose: Any 

lawful activity. 

Northern Westchester Counseling 

Associates LCSW PLLC Articles of 



Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC 



The PLLC 380 Route 202 Somers, NY 


Kim Schwartz LCSW PLLC Articles 



SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon 





Erica Chambers LCSW PLLC Articles 



SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon 





Cindy Smith-Menchin LCSW PLLC 

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 


Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC 





Notice of formation of Curuzu Real 

Estate, LLC filed with Sec’y of State 


Westchester County. SSNY designated 

as agent of LLC upon whom 

process against it may be served. 

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 

Curuzu Real State, LLC at 17 Sunny 

Ridge Rd. New Rochelle, NY 10804. 

Purpose: any lawful activity. 

NOTICE OF SALE 

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF 

WESTCHESTER, DEUTSCHE BANK 

NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, 

AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR THE 

REGISTERED HOLDERS OF AME- 

RIQUEST MORTGAGE SECURI- 

TIES INC., ASSET -BACKED PASS 

THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 

2003-AR2, Plaintiff, vs. DENNIS 

PAPA, ET AL., Defendant(s). 

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure 

and Sale duly filed on August 

24, 2010, I, the undersigned Referee 

will sell at public auction at the 

Westchester County Courthouse, 

Lobby, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Boulevard, White Plains, NY on November 

30, 2010 at 9:30 a.m., premises 

known as 13 Timber Ridge, Mount 

Kisco, NY. All that certain plot, piece 

or parcel of land, with the buildings 

and improvements thereon erected, 

situate, lying and being known as 

Unit No. 13 in the building known 

as 2B in the Timber Ridge Condominium 

in the Town of Mount Kisco 

and Town of New Castle, County of 

Westchester and State of New York, 

Section 80.73, Block 1 and Lot 8.13 

and Section 82.19 Block 1 and Lot 

26.-13. Approximate amount of judgment 

is $304,407.86 plus interest and 

costs together with an undivided 

1.886 percent interest in the common 

elements. Premises will be sold 

subject to provisions of filed Judgment 

Index # 13334/09. 

John Perone, Esq., Referee Knuckles, 

Komosinski & Elliott, LLP, 565 

Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 

10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Foundry Productions, LLC Articles of 





shall mail copy of process C/O Steven 

J. Wohl, ESQ. 1025 Westchester Avenue 

Suite 305 White Plains, NY 10604. 

Purpose: Any lawful activity. 

Wells Park Drive, LLC Articles of 






Corporation Service Company 80 

State Street Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: 

Any lawful activity. Registered 

Agent: Corporation Service Company 

80 State Street Albany, NY 12207. 

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 

KGM AUTO DETAILING, LLC Filed 

8/23/2010 Westchester County, 200 

Main Street, New Rochelle, NY, NY 

Sec of State desig agent and mail 

copy to Bus Filings Inc. 187 Wolf Rd., 

Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205 for any 

process served. All lawful purposes. 

Foundry Productions, LLC Articles of 





shall mail copy of process C/O Steven 

J. Wohl, ESQ. 1025 Westchester Avenue 

Suite 305 White Plains, NY 10604. 

Purpose: Any lawful activity.


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LEGAL 

Dano Associates, L.P. Articles of 





shall mail copy of process The LLC 

97 Fanevil Place New Rochelle, NY 


Perkins Realty LLC Articles of 





SSNY shall mail copy of process The 

LLC 21 Union Avenue Tarrytown, NY 


315 Coster Street, LLC Articles of 



Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon 


shall mail copy of process The LLC 

44 Fenimore Road New Rochelle, NY 


NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIM- 

ITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 

Sasha’s Place Property Management, 

LLC. Articles of Organization 

were filed with the Secretary 

of State of New York (SSNY) on 

10/14/10. Office location: Westchester 


designated as agent of the LLC upon 

whom process against it may be 

served. SSNY shall mail a copy of 

process to the Corporation Service 

Company, 80 State Street, Albany, 

New York 12207. Purpose: For any 

lawful purpose. 

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