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KEEPING US IN SUSPENSETHOMAS O’CALLAGHAN: ROCKAWAY’S OWN THRILLER WRITER

By Katie McFadden

T ere’s a thriller writer in ourmidst. Belle Harbor residentT omas O’Callaghan may beone of the nicest guys you’dmeet, so it’s hard to believethat some of the darkest, mosttwisted scenes in thriller writ-ing have come from his mind.O’Callaghan has been a pub-lished thriller writer since 2006, with two novels under his beltand he’s on currently writinghis next horrifying tale.

O’Callaghan knows that thepath to publication can be ascary one itself. Before becom-ing an author, O’Callaghanhad been working in insur-ance sales for about 20 years.Having nailed the job downpat, he found more free time toread. “I liked to read mysteriesand thrillers. I had read HelterSkelter and that intrigued mebecause of the detail and cra-ziness of it and it stuck in myhead. After reading my 12th

book in the 87th Precinct seriesby Ed McBain, I thought, I cando this,” O’Callaghan said. In1993, he sat at a typewriter andstarted to develop a story of hisown. He started working on abook called Nightkills , which would later be called Bone T ief when it was published, but thepath to publication took a lot ofperseverance.

“It took 12 years for me to geta contract to publish,” O’Cal-laghan said. “I wrote what Ithought was a good thriller.

Nightkills was my baby. I didn’t want to go the self-publicationroute. I wanted it to go througha publishing house,” he said.So he got to work. “Publish-ers require submissions to gothrough a literary agent thatscreens them. I must have sentout my rst manuscript to 500agents. I got a lot of nos. Youmail out a few opening chaptersand a letter explaining what thestory is about. A lot of people would say no thanks, or wouldsend back notes or would sayserial killers are overdone,but sometimes you’d get a re-sponse saying they liked it and wanted to see a manuscript. You send out a 400-page manu-script that you think will be thenext best seller and two monthslater you get it back with a list ofreasons why they didn’t like it.T is went on for years,” he said.

Yet O’Callaghan was per-sistent. “Every time I got a no,I’d send a new manuscript outto another agent. After work-

ing in insurance sales, I foundthat when you ask a person tobuy a product, the likelihood isthey’ll say no, but eventually,someone is going to say yes,”he said. O’Callaghan receiveda lot of feedback and was ad- vised to take his work to a pro-fessional editor or book doc-tor. He did some research and

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It’s all in your head. T at’s what my crystal ball is telling meabout my latest pain. Your back? Your shoulder? It’s in your head.

You doubt my crystal ball? Youshould. My tips and predictionsare usually a good sign to go theother way. If I say one thing, bet theopposite and enjoy the winnings.

I’m like a psychic with a mil-lion questions. Somebody notto be believed. You know howit is with psychics: What’s yourname? Where did you grow up?Did you lose a loved one? You’rethe frigging psychic why are youasking? Don’t you know?!

But like a broken psychic I’mright twice a horoscope. Last year I was giving real estate advice: buy Rockaway.

I caught some grief fromfriends who snidely remarked,oh Boyleing Points is a real es-

tate column. You’re a guru, huh? Well, just a few months after

that tip T e New York Times listedRockaway as one of the next “hot”neighborhoods. And now real es-tate agents are all scrambling forlistings because properties arebeing snatched up.

T is time my crystal ball isabout pain. I have a torn rotatorcuff and a bone spur but I’m 99percent sure the pain is in myhead. If I were 100 percent sure,there’d be no pain.

What the hell am I talkingabout? Tension, stress and ourpersonal demons cause us tofeel pain.

Yep. Real estate advice last year; medical advice this year. Yeah, I’m a quack but I’m notonly a fake doctor, I’m a patient.

I had sciatica several yearsago and was pretty much inca-pacitated. I had an MRI that re- vealed a couple of bulging disksin my back, the L-something thisand the L-something that. Sur-gery was an option but I really,really didn’t want go that way. Itried everything – nerve blocks,

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acupuncture, physical therapy,steroids, massage – and thenstumbled upon biofeedback which is basically half a shrinksession and half a relaxationsession.

A few hours after my third vis-it I was watching a basketballgame at the Summer Classic atSt. Francis. A suddenly weirdsensation washed over me – I was pain free. I was like a born-again or a blind man given Ted Williams vision.

I could only trace the newlease on life to the most recenttreatment I’d had which wasbiofeedback. So what’s biofeed-back? Well, half the time you talkabout the stresses in your lifeand the other half is spent try-ing to make a machine go quiet.T ey put a little strap that’s tiedto something that sounds like aGeiger counter. It buzzes stead-ily if you’re stressed out. T emore you relax the quieter themachine gets.

On my rst attempt, the ma-chine sounded like it was gon-na blow up and a Hazmat team

would rush in. T e second weekthe machine just burped a fewtimes. By the third week, I wasa Zen master, I’d turned the ma-chine into a mute. I’d learned torelax (which by the way did NOT work with margaritas or Coro-nas or other libations).

My pain disappeared. T eherniated discs were still in myback so why’d the pain go away?T e pain disappeared when I letgo of some of the tension and worries.

Ever since my born again ex-perience I’ve been pretty ob-noxious with other people abouttheir pain: It’s in your head, I’dsay without hesitation. I was sobad I told somebody who wasbleeding from cutting them-selves shaving that it was in theirhead.

And now, I’ve got shoulderpain and I know part of the painis in between my ears. It’s in myhead but I can’t get it out.

If this was painful to read, takean Advil, and prepare yourselffor next week – more pain’s onthe way.

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Memorial Day ParadesT is Weekend

By Katie McFadden

While we celebrate with thebeach, concession crawls andbarbecues on this uno ffi cialstart to summer, let’s not forgetthe true meaning of this three-day weekend. Memorial Day isMonday, May 30 and several cer-emonies will take place in honorof those who died while servingtheir country.

On Sunday, May 29, BroadChannel will be honoring our veterans with its annual Memo-rial Day parade. T e event, host-ed by the Broad Channel VFW will start at 1 p.m. with a wreathlaying ceremony at the 17th RoadPark Flag Pole. T e parade willthere continue along Cross BayBoulevard to George Riekers Vet-erans Memorial Park (betweenEast 4th and 6th Road), wherethere will be another wreathlaying, as well as closing cere-monies. T e parade will includelocal veterans from the Broad

Channel VFW and AmericanLegion and guest veterans fromSt. Albans Hospital, plus electedoffi cials and other communityorganizations. T e parade willbe followed with a barbecue atthe VFW Post 260 on Shad CreekRoad, where guests will have theopportunity to thank and thanksthose who served.

On Monday, May 30, the Amer-ican Legion Daniel M. O’ConnellPost #272 Memorial Day Parade will take place in Rockaway. T eevent will start with a memorial



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Our Summer/ CommunityGuide is out! T e 96 page FREEmagazine is chock-full of infor-mation and great articles and anadvertiser index (so you’ll know where to go or whom to call). We will be distributing the guide fromnow through 4th of July weekend.Picking the cover was a toughchoice but we nally settled ona photo of a bike on the beachby Tim Burke. A bike, a beach, asunset – now that’s a cover!

***** With beaches opening and

the season getting underwayit’s sometimes easy to forgetthat Monday is Memorial Day.Last year’s parade was the bestattended in many years. T eparade hosted by the AmericanLegion Daniel M. O’Connell Postfollows 10:30 Mass at St. Francisde Sales. T e day before, onSunday, the Broad Channel VFW will hold its parade, kicking o ff at1 p.m. at 17th Road Park.

*****Stuart Richner, publisher

of more than 20 newspapersincluding the Long Beach Heraldand Riversdale Press, says ittakes two years for a reporterto know a community. Hey,that reminds us. T e RockawayTimes is almost two!

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Boys Varsity baseball team fortaking rst place in its PSALDivision.

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We Get Email / Letters section butthere’s a particularly powerfulone in this week’s paper, soplease have a look on Page 24.

*****Seals might be more popular

than Rockaway sunsets. We puttwo pictures of a seal on Instagramand both got more LIKES than anyanother picture we’ve posted. Butour video we posted on Facebook was a real show stopper. T e clipof the little guy sunning himselfaround Beach 110th Street lastSaturday reached more than140,000 people and got more than1,200 LIKES !

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the fall, there will be a Farmer’sMarket in Broad Channel. Checkout the healthy choices at theBCAC eld from 9:30 a.m. - 1:30p.m.

*****T e Joseph P. Addabbo Cen-

ter received approval fromthe Queens Borough Board toexpand some 20,000 squarefeet as they take over anadjacent vacant lot. Plans arein place for a $17 million dollaraddition. According to reports,the expansion will createapproximately 60 full-time jobs.

*****T ere was a hold up on Sunday

afternoon at the Lola Star stop onBeach 116th. T e knife wieldingthief allegedly ran through an alley

towards Beach 115th Street afterstealing a few hundred dollars.T ere’s been an undeniableuptick in panhandlers this spring. We hope police pursue this vigorously and maintain a visiblepresence in the months ahead.T e merchants are working hardto make that commercial stripattractive for all shoppers.

***** We know this is going down to

the wire but we asked NationalGrid on Tuesday if Beach ChannelDrive would reopen by MemorialDay. T ey said DOT has to signoff on it. We called DOT and weresent to voicemail…

*****Quick reminder: T e Annual

WISH Fundraiser is Fridayevening at Bungalow Bar.

*****Speaking of the Bungalow Bar,

Sunday marks a nice little traditionat the bayside fave as the Grayridersmake their annual Memorial Day weekend appearance. T e boysstart playing at 4 p.m. and go ‘tilsundown or thereabouts.

***** What a great surprise! Principal

Sheila Smith-Gonzales tells us thatUS Air Force major Sargent Laura Angeles surprised her daughters,Leah in grade 3 and Janae in pre-kindergarten at St. Camillus onMonday, May 23. She had beendeployed for many months andthe kids didn’t know anythinguntil the surprise homecoming.T e St. Camillus folks planned thesurprise with dad.


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Beaches Open Saturday By Katie McFadden

We did it. T e long winter, al-though it was a mild one, is be-hind us and it’s time for Rock-away to spring back to life. T euno ffi cial start of summer ishere. Despite ongoing boardwalk construction, beach sea-son starts this weekend andmany will be open to the pub-lic.

On Friday, May 27 at 1 p.m.,local elected o ffi cials, as wellas Parks Commissioner Mitch-ell Silver, will gather at Beach94th Street to announce the of-

cial opening of the beach forthe 2016 summer season.

According to the Parks De-partment, 80 percent of theboardwalk will be open by Me-morial Day, which includesthe latest section from Beach39th to Beach 61st Street. T eopening of Beach 106th toBeach 126th is still delayeduntil sometime in July. “We will continue to push forward work on the new, resilientboardwalk as quickly as possi-

ble while ensuring the safety ofresidents, visitors, and work-ers,” a spokesperson for Parkssaid. Due to the delay, beachaccess and swimming will belimited in these constructionareas. Starting Memorial Day weekend, Beach 108-109th will be open for swimming, as well as Beach 115th to Beach117th. “ T e remaining areas will open for swimming onceconstruction is complete inJuly, in order to ensure thesafety of swimmers, as life-guards must have ready accessto the street in the case of anemergency,” the spokespersonsaid. However, swimming willbe available throughout therest of the beach, according toParks. Lifeguards are on dutyfrom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. startingSaturday, May 28.

Surf’s up this summer! T ereis a slight change to designatedsur ng beaches this summer.T e surf beaches from Beach87th to Beach 91st remain thesame. T e surf beaches in theBeach 60s are shifted slight-

ly and will be located at Beach67th to Beach 69th. T e surfschools are permitted to op-erate in this area, but it is alsoopen to public sur ng. T is yearthere’s a new designated surf-ing beach from Beach 110th toBeach 111th, but access to thisarea is limited until July due toboardwalk construction.

With the beach openingcomes concession season.Many of the concessions had asoft opening on Friday, May 20,but they’ll be in full swing thisholiday weekend. DredSurf-er Grill returns to Beach 17thStreet, serving up burgers, hotdogs and Caribbean special-ites. Rippers’ burgers and friesare back up for order at Beach86th Street. Beach 97th Street,the largest concession, is back with favorites such as LowTide Bar, La Fruteria, Uma’s,Breezy’s BBQ, El Palenque, LaCevicheria, the Bolivian LlamaParty, CitySticks and BoardersSurf Shop. Beach 97 has a fullmusic lineup to kick o ff theholiday weekend. T ey’ll have

Djs on Friday night. On May28, Solshyne will play somegroovy tunes at 6 p.m. Wine With Sue rocks out on Sat-urday, May 29 at 6 p.m. andDeejaymaine will spin sometunes on Monday, May 30.Beach 106th is home to Ven-ezuelan fare at Caracas andthis year they welcome Broth-ers, serving juices and healthylunch and breakfast items.Big Squid will play at Caracason Friday, May 27 at 6 p.m. With Beach 67th turning intoa surfing hotspot, more ven-dors will be available. Rock-away Brewing Company willsell beer, plus there will berotating food vendors. Board-ers will rent out surfboardsand small vendors like By theBeach Cocos, MooSkyBlueand Top Pops will also be inthe area. Up in Riis Park, RiisPark Beach Bazaar will debutsome of its new vendors, in-cluding local favorites, Whit’sEnd and Cuisine by Claudette,plus much more.

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Season’s First DFD(Down For the Day)

T is cute little guy was spotted by ourown Katie McFad-den who snappedthese pics of this seal

as he lounged on thesand at Beach 110thStreet last Saturday.Health of such crea-tures is always a con-

cern but we checked with the RiverheadFoundation whichmonitors marinelife and they saidthe seal, whichis a greyseal, ap-peared to be ingood shape andhad been seenmaking visitsalong the beachas it made its waydowntown.

T ese photos anda video of the seal waving and stretch-ing were quite thesensation online,reaching more thana hundred thousandpeople.

As a reminder,seals are wild crea-tures and shouldnot be petted or fed.Please keep a safedistance away.


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came across Dick Marek, whohad edited Silence of the Lambs .Marek worked his magic, mark-ing up O’Callaghan’s work withlots of red ink, and told him thatif he followed his advice, thebook would be ready to be sentto publishers within a year. “Ittook a year and three months,”O’Callaghan said. “I made thecorrections and sent it back toMarek and he said it’s ready andhe gave me a list of publishers.I sent it to 12 publishers andgot 11 nos. T ey said it was toodark.” O’Callaghan nally got a yes from Michaela Hamilton ofKensington Books.

At the request of the pub-lisher, O’Callaghan spent moretime editing but in 2006 his hard work paid o ff when Bone T ief was published. “ T ey printed100,000 copies and it sold very well. T ey sold the rights to thatbook to six countries where it was translated, including Ger-many, Italy, Czech Republic,Slovakia, Indonesia and China.

Just a year later, O’Callaghan’sthrilling sequel, T e ScreamingRoom, was published in 2007.

O’Callaghan’s novels followNYPD Lieutenant John Dri-scoll as he works to solve a se-ries of gruesome murders. Intrue thriller fashion, the readersknow who the killers are earlyon, but it’s up to Lt. Driscoll,his work partner and potentiallove interest, Margaret Aliganteand Detective Cedric T omlin-son to crack the case and bringthe killers to justice. Bone T ieffeatures a crazed killer namedColm, who particularly targets women that he lures to certainlocations, kills in gruesome ways and takes the bones of his victims as trophies. T e Scream-ing Room features teenage sib-lings who go on a murder spree,targeting pedophiles and childabusers, by luring them to var-ious tourist attractions aroundNew York City.

Locals may nd O’Callaghan’s works to be particularly intrigu-ing as some scenes are set infamiliar locations. T e book’smain character, Lt. Driscolllives in Breezy Point, which is

renamed Toliver’s Point in BoneT ief and he frequents Sulli- van’s Tavern, inspired by Ken-nedy’s. If you didn’t think KingsPlaza was scary enough, O’Cal-laghan’s book may encourage you to head out to Long Islandinstead for your next shoppingtrip. Bone T ief also makesmentions of Rockaway andeven features a gruesome mur-der scene that might make youthink twice about walking onthe boardwalk.

It has been nearly a decadesince O’Callaghan publishedT e Screaming Room , but he’scurrently working on the thirdbook in his Lt. Driscoll series. What’s the holdup? “I’m wait-ing for the city to nish theboardwalk so I have a placeto put the bodies,” he joked.O’Callaghan says he expectedto nish the book much soon-er, but as he was writing, an-other author came out with abook featuring the same meth-od of murder. “I was halfwaythrough my book but I put thepen down for a while after that,”O’Callaghan said. T en Sandyhit, which put the book further

on the backburner, but he hasrecently gone back to work oncontinuing the story of Lt. Dri-scoll on a brand new case fea-turing a killer named Tilden.T e new book will feature somescenes inspired by HurricaneSandy and makes mention offactual events, like the hun-dreds of homes that burneddown around the peninsula.O’Callaghan expects to submitthe third book to publishersin 2017 and he plans to haveit published as Nightkills . Healso already has plans for a 4thbook.

O’Callaghan is a member ofthe Mystery Writers of Americaand the International T riller Writers Association. He hopesto see his books come to life onthe big screen one day. Whenhe’s not busy creating hair-rais-ing thrillers, O’Callaghan can befound on the beach, spendingtime with his wife, Eileen, hisdaughter, Kelli and his grand-daughter, Kristin.

His books can be purchased on Amazon or Barnes and Nobles.See www.thomasocallaghan.com for more info.

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T e Lazer Speaks NEW ORLEANS

By Lou Pastina

I visited New Orleans forthe first time recently and wasblown away by the city: itshistory, its culture, its food,the architecture, the people,and oh yeah, the music too.It truly is a Jambalaya! Takesome American Indians, mixin the Spanish, the French,the Creoles, the Arcadian Ca- juns and you have about thebiggest filet gumbo you canfind.

Rockaway is a pretty coolplace too, but the open con-tainer policy in the FrenchQuarter ensures a 24-hourparty every day of the year,not just for Mardi Gras. Bour-bon Street, named after thatroyal family in France, is aplace where just about any-thing goes. I was not preparedfor the racy gentlemen’sclubs at one end of the streetand the truly rainbow envi-ronment at the other end. Inbetween there are bars every- where with music blaring attop volume. There is jazz,

blues, zydeco, you name itthey had it. They say that youeither love or loathe BourbonStreet. The mermaid was notcrazy about it but I found itpart of Americana.

Did you know you couldcharter your own parade? Yep,all you do is register with theNOLA Police and hire a bandand march through the streetsto your own beat. Our youngmerman scheduled his trip toNOLA at the same time forget-ting that we told him we wouldbe there too. He did mentionthat he would be in a parade with his friends, and low andbehold, as I was sitting in PatO’Brien’s he marched rightby! So I jumped out of the barand joined him, shocking him when he turned to see ME!Life is good sometimes.

New Orleans is definitelynot all about Bourbon Streethowever. The French Quarterhas some of the best restau-rants around and the Gar-

den District made famous by

so many writers, including Anne Rice of Vampire fame,is beautiful. There is a great Aquarium, a Steamboat withdinner/jazz cruises on theMississippi, a casino, the na-tional World War II Museum,and so much more. French-men Street is a cute enclaveadjacent to the French Mar-ket with cafes and a burgeon-ing music scene of its own.

Did I mention the food?Beignets, grits, muffulettas,gumbos, and jambalaya: theygot it all going on. And cem-eteries yes the famous cem-eteries, all above ground be-cause naturally New Orleansis below sea level. Katrinaknocked the hell out of theplace, but they sure have comeback. Smart investments bythe city, state and federal gov-ernment have made NOLA theplace to visit. The people arethe friendliest too, and they allthank you for visiting and ask when are you coming back.Southern charm is not lostthere. There are homeless,and some unseemly charac-

ters on the periphery, makeno mistake this is not Dis-ney. But if you are going to beon the street this is not a badplace to do it : it’s warm, thereis music in the air, and peopledo give money.

Which brings me back toRockaway. It’s been four years since Sandy and therehas been some movement butnot the type of movement thatNew Orleans has seen. Thatplace is an economic moneymachine! How many indus-tries do you know that can se tup hundreds of the same typeof establishments right nextto each other and they alldo well. And these aren’t bigcorporations, these are indi- vidual ly owned and operatedbusinesses by entrepreneurstaking a risk that people willcome and spend money. Youknow what, I did!

Rockaway is getting thereand with a little bit of helpmaybe we can be the little en-

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Originally known as Decora-tion Day, Memorial Day (as it isnow known) is a day of remem-brance, which originated in the years following the Civil War andbecame an o ffi cial federal holi-day in 1971. T is Sunday, May 29,the Broad Channel VFW will behosting our community’s annualMemorial Day parade. T is eventis a testament to our town’s desire

to honor those men and women who have sacri ced so much forour freedom on this sacred day.

T e parade will start at 1:00p.m. with a wreath laying cere-mony at the 17th Road Park FlagPole and then travel along CrossBay Boulevard to the GeorgeRiekers Veterans Memorial Parkfor another wreath laying andclosing ceremonies.

As always, our honored guests will be those veterans from St. Albans Hospital who will be joined by our own local veteranmembers of the Broad Channel VFW and American Legion as well as our elected o ffi cials andother community organizations.

Please keep in mind that few-er than 10 percent of Americanscan claim the title “veteran.”

While the phrase “uncommon valor was a common virtue,” hasbeen so often repeated that itrisks becoming a cliché, it is noless true. In 1789 George Wash-ington said, “ T e willingness with which our young peopleare likely to serve in any war,no matter how justi ed, shallbe directly proportional as tohow they perceive the veterans

of earlier wars were treated andappreciated by their country.”

And while standing on CrossBay Boulevard watching theBroad Channel Memorial DayParade on Sunday and yourchild asks why someone hand-ed him or her a red poppy, takesome time to explain the historyof this tradition which, unfortu-nately, is either unknown to orforgotten by many of us.

Lieutenant Colonel John Mc-Crae, a doctor with the Canadi-an forces was serving in Belgiumand after witnessing the death ofhis friend, looked out upon thebattle eld and was taken abackat the sight of all the bright redpoppies growing in the midst ofthe carnage. As a result, Lieu-tenant Colonel John McCraeput pencil to paper and pennedthe poem “We Shall Not Sleep” which later became more widelyknown as “In Flanders Field.”

T e idea for a Flanders FieldsMemorial Poppy came to MissMoina Michael of Georgia whileshe was working at the YMCAOverseas War Secretaries’ head-quarters on a Saturday morningin November 1918, two days be-

fore the Armistice was declaredat 11 o’clock on November 11.T e Twenty- fth Conference ofthe Overseas YMCA War Secre-taries was in progress. A youngsoldier left a copy of the Novem-ber Ladies Home Journal onMoina’s desk and in it she cameacross a page which carried a vivid color illustration for thepoem “We Shall Not Sleep” (lat-er named “In Flanders Fields”)by the Canadian Army doctorJohn McCrae.

Reading the poem, Moina wastrans xed by the last verse - “To you from failing hands we throwthe Torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though pop-pies grow in Flanders Fields.”

She then conceived an ideaand started the practice of wear-ing a red poppy on Memorialday in honor of those who diedserving the nation during war.She was the rst to wear one,and soon began selling poppiesto her friends and co-workers with the proceeds going to bene tservicemen in need.


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By Pat Morgan

T e Riis Park Beach Bazaar’s(RPBB) mission in 2015 was toreinvigorate and reimagine thehistoric art deco buildings inthe Jacob Riis National Park andthey did just that.

As advertised on their web-site, the Bazaar provided food,music, drinks and a variety of vendors to the two million visi-tors that had visited the park last year, according to the NationalPark Service. For the 2016 Sum-mer Season, they’re cranking itup a notch.

Four local businesses are fea-tured in this year’s food lineup.Cuisine by Claudette will have abeautifully decorated tent locat-ed on the boardwalk at Bay 13for her inaugural debut. Clau-dette will be serving falafel, ahealthy vegan alternative to beenjoyed with the Atlantic Oceanas your backdrop. Beachgoers will have three choices: Tradi-tional (falafel, red slaw, shep-

herd’s salad and tahini in pita),Quinoa Plate (roasted beets,quinoa, slaw, falafel, tahini pluspita) and Hummus Plate (hum-mus, falafel, tahini, shepherd’ssalad and red slaw). Gluten freeoptions are available upon re-quest. Also o ff ered will be a va-riety of cookies and fresh fruitbowls.

Returning to the RPBB for itssecond year and the same lo-cation on the boardwalk at Bay9 is T e Paleo Factory. Own-ers Miriam Kwietniewska andSam Friedman are expandinglast year’s menu and want tobe the “healthy snack and des-sert place on the boardwalk”.Besides their agship product,Mindfulness Using Desserts(aka MUD), a delicious chilledmousse dessert, T e Paleo Fac-tory will be o ff ering dried fruitsand nuts and fresh apricots anddates in bags to go, that are easyto grab on the way down to thesurf. MUD will be served infour ounce cups in the popular

vanilla, chocolate and co ff eeavors as well as a new green

tea avor. Miriam and Sam areexcited about launching a fewnew items this summer whichincludes dark chocolate pep-permint patties and nut buttercups. Also look for seasonal a- vors for MUD, which includesfresh strawberry.

Another local business re-turning is By T e Beach Coco-nuts, owned by brothers Dylanand Ryan Sirigiovani and Mi-chael Reen. T ey will be servingfreshly imported “young coco-nuts” from T ailand, that aresweeter than the norm. T eirpop-up location is at Bay 9.

Finally, Whit’s End will makeits presence known at Bay 9 West. He’ll be featuring his sig-nature pizza from a recently in-stalled Stefano Ferrara, a tradi-tional Neapolitan handcrafted wood burning oven, just likethe one at his Rockaway Beachlocation. He’ll be going into fullswing on Memorial Day, o ff er-ing pizza similar to his currentmenu, plus some other coolbites. Look for some surpris-es that Whit will be serving foropening day of volleyball.

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MAY 26Lloyd Carroll was born.T omas Carroll was born.Felicia Johnson was born.

1959 - Pittsburgh Pirates’ HarveyHaddix pitched 12 perfect inningsagainst the Milwaukee Bravesbefore losing, 1–0, in the 13th.1977 - George Willig, “the hu man y,” scaled the World Trade Center.

It took Willig three and a half hoursto make the climb.

MAY 27Kevin Kelleher was born.Nadia Murphy was born.Charlie Zurheide was born.Kerin Kalisak was born. Wil Hurley was born.

1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in SanFrancisco opened.

MAY 28Patricia O’Hara was born.

1957 - Baseball owners votedto allow the Brooklyn Dodgersand New York Giants to move toLos Angeles and San Francisco,respectively.

MAY 291790 - Rhode Island became the13th state in the United States,

the last of the original colonies toratify the Constitution.1953 - Edmund Hillary andTenzing Norgay became the rstto reach the summit of MountEverest.

MAY 30John Manning was born.Deirdre Cori O’Donoghue wasborn.Sean Carroll was born.

1431 - Joan of Arc was burned atthe stake as a heretic.1911 - T e rst Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun.

MAY 31 Alison Boyle was born.Lynn Olsen-Pagano was born.

1962 - Former Gestapo o ffi cial Adolf Eichmann was hanged inIsrael.

JUNE 1 Alex Karinsky was born.

1938 - T e rst issue of ActionComics, featuring Superman, waspublished.1968 - Helen Keller, blind and deafauthor-lecturer, died.1980 - Cable News Network(CNN) debuted.

T is Week in History T e Veterans of Foreign Wars

of the United States was the rst veteran organization to pro-mote a nationally organizedcampaign for the annual distri-bution of poppies assembled by American disabled and needy veterans. In 1924, the VFW pat-ented the name “Buddy Poppy”for their version of the arti cial

ower. T e sale of Buddy Pop-pies represents no pro t to any VFW post. All the money do-nated by the public for BuddyPoppies is used in the cause of veteran’s welfare.

Following the 1924 sale, the VFW believed it would stimulatelocal sales if the poppies theyused were assembled by disabled veterans in hospitals within theirown jurisdiction. T e 1924 en-campment of the VFW at AtlanticCity granted this privilege, underthe provision that all poppies would be produced accordingto speci cations set forth by theNational Buddy Poppy Commit-tee, and that all poppies would beassembled by disabled veteransin government hospitals and by

needy veterans in workshops su-pervised by the VFW.

Around the same year, the American Legion Auxiliaryadopted the poppy as the organ-ization’s memorial ower andpledged its use to bene t our ser- vicemen and their families. To-day, the poppy continues to provide a nancial and therapeuticbene t to those hospitalized anddisabled veterans who constructthem, as well as bene ting thou-sands of other veterans and theirfamilies.

Please make it a point to spenda few moments of your time to walk up to Cross Bay Boulevardto view the parade this Sundayto show your support for our veterans and to express yourappreciation for those veteransthat have sacri ced their livesfor our freedom.

After the parade all of youare invited to the VFW Post onShad Creek Road for a BBQ anda chance to greet and thankour men and women who haveserved us so well and to remem-ber those who have made the ul-timate sacri ce so that they maynot be forgotten.

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feature the following vendors(moving west to east)• Bay 14 - Oaxaca Tacos, and

Clean Shave Ice (organic, localand non-GMO fruits and veg-gie snow cones).

• Bay 9 - Ample Hills Creamery(ice cream), Fletcher’s BBQ,Bolivian Llama Party (Boliv-ian food re-imagined), WildFeast Foods (seafood), Same-sa (Middle Eastern food) andpop-up vendor La Newyorkina(paletas, similar to popsicles).

• Bay 6 - Ed & Bev’s (Detroit-in-spired menu featuring ConeyDogs and Greek-Americandishes like spanikopita andGreek salad).

• Bay 4 - pop-ups Mighty Edi-ble (Jamaican food) and EastCoast Roast artisan co ff ee.

• Bay 2 - pop-up vendors Liz-zmonade (artisanal lemon-ade), Top Pops (whole fruiton a stick) and Coney Shack(Southeast Asian Tacos).In addition to the food and

beverages, there will be plentyof activities and entertainment

at the Bazaar. T e ever-pop-ular Rockaway Beach Volley-ball League starts its weekly Wednesday schedule on May 25.T is year the RPBB will be spon-soring a team called the Rock-away Breakers! “RBVL is reallyone of my favorite things aboutRockaway and Riis - it’s just suchan awesome thing to see every Wednesday” proclaims RiisPark Beach Bazaar owner, BelvyKlein. I think we all agree.

Another weekly happen-ing beginning May 27 will beCamp re Fridays, which is inconjunction with the NationalPark Service and is an all-agesevents for everyone to enjoy allsummer long. “Killer Karaoke”is an another weekly occurrencecommencing Tuesday, June 28.T ere will also be a lot of one-off s like “Adoptapalooza: May-or’s Alliance For NYC’s Animals”large-scale adoption event onJune 18 and Brooklyn Green- way’s Epic Ride bicycle event onJuly 23.

T ere will be plenty of spon-sored live music featuring localand touring bands, DJ’s, and art-ists. Klein noted “I think it’s im-

portant to have a local presence with regards to both our vendorsand live music schedule. We didlast year somewhat but I thinkone year in, we’ve made thatmany more friends and contactshere so it’s just a natural pro-gression.” T e following localbands will be kicking o ff the sea-son: Simon & the Bar Sinisterson May 28, T e Supertones onMay 29 (both starting at noon)and Indaculture on June 11 at1 PM. T e full Events Schedulecan be found at riisparkbeach-bazaar.com/events/

T is venue is providing more wonderful options for things todo this summer. So drive, bus,bike or walk on down to check itout!

The Riis Park Beach Bazaaris located at 167-02 RockawayBeach Blvd. Queens, NY 11694.Hours of operation are Mon-day through Friday: 12 noon– 8 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday11am – 9 p.m. On Wednesdaysthey are open until 9p.m. Forgeneral information or to signup for their mailing list, their website is riisparkbeachba-zaar.com/

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Andrew Jackson opposed papercurrency. He now appears on the$20 bill.

T ough regarded as a "perfectdocument," the United StatesConstitution contains manyspelling and grammatical er-rors. Just ask the delegate from"Pensylvania."

T e Flintstones was the mostpro table network cartoon fran-chise for 30 years before beingunseated by T e Simpsons.

T e rst American Footballcheerleaders were male. It's onlyafter WWII that females becamethe standard.

Roman general Marcus Crassus

created Rome's rst re ghtingcrew with a team of 500 men.His team would respond to a

re, and then Crassus wouldforce the owner of the burningbuilding to sell him the propertyat an exorbitantly low price, or letit burn to the ground.

Steve Carell never watched morethan 10 minutes of the originalOffi ce, for fear of copying RickyGervais' character.

Plants make ca ff eine to defendthemselves against pests.Caff eine is toxic to birds, dogs,cats, and it has a pronounced

adverse e ff ect on mollusks, various insects, and spiders.T e number of vasectomiesduring March Madness goes up

50+% because men schedulethe procedure during that timeso they can sit around and watch basketball for days duringrecovery.

Aerosmith earned more moneyfrom Guitar Hero than from anyof their albums.

Despite it calling itself the“Sunshine State” Florida is notthe sunniest state. Arizona is thesunniest followed by Nevada.

Canada consumes the mostdoughnuts and has the mostdoughnut shops per capita ofany country in the world.

(T ese facts are delivered weekly by Sean McVeigh. Wedon’t verify the facts but we likereading them!)

Facts You Probably Don’t NeedIT’S A FACT

MCVEIGH GRADUATES

Sean McVeigh who suppliesthe Rockaway Times with the widely enjoyed Facts You Prob-ably Don’t Need column each week graduated from LeMoyneCollege on Sunday.

Way to go, Sean!

Surfers Present;Beach Not So MuchOn Monday morning surfers

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BreezyGrass Kicks Off Aviator Music SeriesT ere’s music just across the

bridge. On Friday, May 20, localartists BreezyGrass played theinaugural performance of the Aviator Summer Music Series.Joined by harmonicist extraor-dinaire, Charlie Wolfe, the band warmed the chilly spring air withthe sounds of their unique and

rootsy versions of Americana/Bluegrass covers as well as orig-inals. An enthusiastic crowd enjoyed the music within the tent-ed con nes of Aces Patio thatincluded an outdoor bar andfood truck.

T e boys will be back at Avi-ator on Friday, August 26. An-

other local band, Wine WithSue, will be playing the ven-ue on July 29. For more in-formation on the series, visitaviatorsports.com/things-to-do/summer-music-series/.For BreezyGrass’ upcomingschedule, visit breezygrass.com/

Local Work GetsPraise at Film& Animation

FestivalBy Pat Morgan

Jeremy Goldberg, local anima-tor and graduate of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan,received much praise for thescreening of his animated short

lm/thesis project, Precipita-tion. “ T e lm touched a lot ofpeople, which is exactly what I wanted to do” Goldberg said.Jeremy graduated with a Bache-lor of Fine Arts in Animation ata ceremony at Radio City MusicHall on May 18.

Jeremy inquired about the whereabouts of the seal featuredin a Rockaway Times Facebook video post last Saturday, that hasreached over 125,000 people.Maybe there is another Rocka- way inspired animation in the works?

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Rockaway’sMiddle Name

So it’s without a doubt thatthe Rockaway Peninsulaneeds a middle name. Andthat should be EROSION.

With the most recent s tor iestalking about the amount oferosion uptown and us surf-ers and residents noting theamount of sand continuallydisappearing in the 90’s area,it was on a recent reconnais-sance surf check downtownin the 30’s that got me gob-

smacked. There was at least a20-30 foot escarpment look-ing east and west of Beach36th St. If you wanted beachaccess, bring a parachute toget down.

Rumors Become True.Many years ago with the on-going debate how the Associ-ation of Professional Surfers(ASP) World ChampionshipTour (WCT) could do someimproving, it was then that

rumors spread about KellySlater’s (11x World champi-on) involvement with a g roupcalled ZoSea. Well, histo-ry would tell you that ZoSeaended up taking over the ASP& WCT calling themselves World Sur f League Holdingsand branding the WCT as the WSL.

This all doesn’t seem sig-nificant except for a factthat back in those days there was a rumor that Kel ly Slat-er was working on a man-made wave, with his eventu-al hopes that his man made wave des ign would eventual-ly be a contest amongst the WSL.

What just dropped this week in a huge announce-ment was that WSL Holdings jus t bought the lion’s shareof the Kelly Slater Wave Com-pany. If you haven’t seen this wave that Kelly designed andit’s subsequent videos that al-most broke the internet then you’re in for a shock. It has tobe the most perfectly formed wave that is imaginable for asurfer. Do yourself a favor, if

you haven’t seen it, and goog-le “Kelly’s wave.”

Back to the Erosion. Be-cause of the sand dumpingand subsequent erosion, wehave extraordinary set ups forsand bars, which in my opin-ion are dangerous at shallowtides, especially for kids as the waves are dumping very hardin the shallow banks. Take ex-tra precaution with the kidsand try not to land head firstduring your wipe out, I knowa few people who’ve fracturedtheir necks surfing Rockaway.

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Tennis CourtOutrage

Dear Editor:T is was sent to the O ffi ce

of the Inspector General, NYCSchool Construction Authority:

Dear Inspector General (Ma-ria Mostjo):

I am calling for an investiga-tion of where the 4.9 milliondollars that was allocated toBeach Channel High Schools was spent.

I am a resident of Rockawayand our local tennis courts atBeach Channel High Schoolhave been in need of repair forthe past several years. T esecourts were in poor condi-tion prior to the devastation ofSandy and have only contin-ued to deteriorate after Sandy. According to reports, T e Of-

ce of School Construction Authority was awarded morethan 4.9 million dollars in fed-eral grant money from FEMAto Beach Channel High Schoolto clean up the School and thesurrounding area.

As of today the courts are un-safe to play on. Why have thesecourts been allowed to dete-riorate to these unsafe levels? Who is responsible for the careand management of the courts?

When was the last scheduledmaintenance on these courts? When will the courts be sched-uled for an overhaul? Whyare the Rockaway Residentsand especially the students ofBeach Channel High Schoolbeing subjected to these poorconditions?

Over the last nine months Ihave written to State SenatorsSchumer and Gillibrand, New York State Assembly PhillipGoldfeder and New York CityCouncil Member Eric Ulrich.Phillip Goldfeder was the onlyperson who responded thathe would investigate the sit-uation. I have also called theSchool Construction Authorityand left messages for GordonTung and Daniel Schaaff andhave gotten no return calls. I will continue to pursue thismatter until the residents ofRockaway have tennis courtsthat are equal or better thanthose in other surroundingcommunities.

Jeanette Calciano

Another Take

Dear Editor: With response to the Ferry

Sensible letter in the May 19,2016 edition of T e RockawayTimes, I have a few comments.Everyone in Rockaway knowsthat there were many people

ghting for our ferry, includ-ing Laura Deckelman. Laura worked tirelessly on gettingour ferry back even when somany gave up when we lostour ferry. Laura never gave upand continued to send emails,tweets and make phone calls.She hounded the politiciansfor meetings and was grant-ed them. In my opinion she isa large part of why we got theferry back. I am sure if some-one were to check the names ofthose who signed the petition,they would nd the names ofothers who worked hard forour ferry. I believe Laura neverasked for the dock to be namedafter her but it was the people who put her name forward.Saying that 1,600 signatures is asmall percentage of the 100,000people who live on the penin-sula is a small percentage, but when have 1,600 people on thispeninsula ever agreed on anything? Rockaway already hasa tribute to those of our loved

ones who died on 9/11 calledTribute Park where I go all thetime and remember the fallen.Rockaway also has many he-roes so how would we pick oneof them if that were the way togo? My vote today, tomorrowand the day after will be forLaura Deckelman.

Kathy McLoughlin

DOT MisleadsDear Editor:DOT continues to lie and

mislead the public regardingthe proposed Woodhaven Se-lect Bus Service route and ap-parently your reporter is one oftheir victims. In her May 19tharticle, Katie McFadden statedthe number of left turn restric-tions were reduced from about12 to 5 in the city’s updatedplan. The numbers shown inDOT’s latest report shows thenumbers were reduced from18 to 6 since April 2015, but

Moms OwedPlenty

Dear Editor:T ank you for the Boyleing

Points “Mother’s Day” arti-cle, “Owed More T an A Day”(5/5/15). It touched upon feel-ings that were only half-buriedduring the years and decades ofmy life. In the early 1950s whenI was three months into being8 and in the third grade of el-ementary school, my broth-er, sister, and I lost our fatherEugene to the curse of alcoholabuse. It was Christmas Eve,December 1953.

T ere was no heat in ourhome, no food in the fridge,and no presents under the tree. When the bars closed at 3 a.m.,Dad came staggering home with more broken promisesand no money in his pockets.

My mother, who wished tobelieve that the children stillmattered to him, who still be-lieved in the power of prayerand the mercy of God, wassadly disappointed. An argu-ment ensued that turned thisman into an angry drunk. He,in his rage threw our prize, ablack and white TV where mybrother and I watched car-toons, out the window.

In our beds, under theblankets, Kathleen, Vincent,and I could hear the crying,the accusations, and his yell-ing back, “To be left alone.”He then picked up a kitch-en chair and smashed it onthe table. My mother was ashort 5’3” Italian lady whohad been warned about theIrish. Though they are cute,handsome, charming beyondbelief, there is in t heir naturea brutish violence that coulderupt at any time. Excessivealcohol was the poison thatturned this big lug, my dad,

into a nasty drunk.

That night my mother putmy winter coat over my “Su-perman” pajamas, over mybrother’s “Mickey Mouse”PJs, and over my sister’sprincess nightgown. Moth-er, pregnant with her fourthchild, then took us to herfriend’s house next door who was aw akened by the crash ofthe TV. She borrowed somemoney and we took a cab toGrandma’s home. GrandmaRose gathered us to her bos-om with kisses and words ofcomfort. When she put us tobed, the nightmare of thatChristmas Eve was over. It was Chr istmas Day and I fel tsafe.

From that point on, we were father les s chi ldren withthe stigma of shame that wehad failed. Everyone else inthe neighborhood, every-one else in my life at thattime seemed to have a happy1950s TV family. Ma, Pa, andsome kids. I felt the pain ofthat loss then and sometimesI still do, but from that dayon my mother, bless her, be-came the lioness that wouldbare her fourth child, finda job, feed us, clothe us, all while she modestly held herhead up above the shame ofa broken marriage. She may

have felt alone, at times over- whelmed, but she was ourhero, our Wonderwoman.

All four of us went on to col-lege, marriages, careers andlives where we coped withthe storms of life with bravehearts. My mother taughtus how to find happiness ina world that can be unkind.She did this by showing ushow to love and be loved. Years lat er, we rewarded her with eight grandchi ldren, ba-bies that were like puppies –curious and adorable.

So on this Mother’s Day,Kevin, as you remember theloss of your father when you were 11 years old and cele-brate your mother’s struggles,strength, and her courage asshe cared for her six children,I too say, as you wrote, Mothersare “Owed More T an A day.”

Your words have the powerto inspire. T ank you. (If pub-lished, my name may not beused. Sign it, Anonymous)

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even that is incorrect. (Slide52 of DOT’s on line presenta-tion). (http://www.nyc.gov/html/br t /downloads/pdf /b r t -woodhaven-may2016 .pdf) Eighteen restrictions wasDOT’s proposal in December2015. About 26 left turn re-strictions were proposed in April 2015, not 18 as claimed.The 26 were only documentedin newspaper accounts, sinceDOT only announced a fewrestrictions at each one of theprevious round of workshops,never posting the total ontheir website.

So should DOT be com-mended for listening to thepublic by cutting the proposedleft turn restrictions from 26to 6? Or should they be rep-rimanded by making such asoutlandish proposal in thefirst place before collectingany traffic volume data? Andthere are still at least two trou-bling restrictions that remain:southbound at Union Turn-pike and Rockaway Blvd.

This latest round of work-shops still presents only oneside of the story. Check outSlide 45 from their latest web-site presentation that is con- veniently not posted at the

workshops. It shows that av-erage AM northbound peaktravel speeds for general traf-fic declined by 38 percentfrom an average speed of 19.5mph to only 12 mph and busspeeds declined as well sinceinstituting a peak hour buslane north of Metropolitan Avenue last year. So who ben-efits? No one.

Based on those data, why would anyone in their rightmind propose new bus lanesoperating 24/7 that are evenmore restrictive to motorists?The three general traffic travellanes are not even contiguous where there are service roadsand can only be accessedthrough slip lanes every quar-ter mile or so.

As for the Q52 extension,they will use that as a bargain-ing chip with the MTA sayingit will be contingent on theapproval of SBS. And when Q52ridership increases as a result,the credit goes to SBS.

Allan Rosen

WE GET EMAILContinued from Page 24

Keeping Classical Music Alive with Kettle CornBy Katie McFadden

Classical music didn’t dieout with Beethoven or Mozart.Rockaway native Alex Weiseris keeping the genre alive in a way that breaks down bound-aries of contemporary classi-cal music and makes it morefun. Composer Weiser, with hisnonpro t group, Kettle CornNew Music, pairs the genre with popcorn.

“It started as a joke with myfriends in college at Yale. We

were all music students and we would go to this kettle corn ven-dor down the block after classand we’d hang out and eat kettlecorn while listening to music. Atsome point someone made a joke that we should have con-certs where we serve kettlecorn. One day I was in UnionSquare and I ran into the ownerof Kettle Corn NYC and broughtup the idea of holding theseconcerts and asked if he’d bea sponsor and he was into it. It wasn’t long after that we hit theground running,” Weiser said. Weiser and his friends formedthe group in the spring of 2013.

With KCNM, Weiser hasmade a way to present con-temporary classical music in arelaxed environment. “We’re

trying to bring music to more

people by taking it to this greatenvironment where the level ofmusic remains high, but it’s notpretentious. We try to create anexperience that is inviting andfun, yet doesn’t sacri ce artis-tic integrity,” Weiser said.

Each year, the group hoststhree or four concerts in whichthey invite composers andmusicians from a range ofbackgrounds and experienceto one stage, while the audi-ence gets to enjoy beer, wineand of course, kettle corn. KC-

NM’s spring concert “Alice in Wunderbar” will take place at7 p.m. on Friday, May 27 andSaturday, May 28 at the DiMen-na Center (450 W 37th Street)in Manhattan. T is weekend’sshow will feature vocal and in-strumental ensemble CantataProfana, performing works by various composers. T e worksinclude Unsuk Chin’s Akros-tichon Wortspiel sung by Jes-sica Petrus and a world pre-miere piece “ T ree Epitaphs”by Weiser, sung by Kate Mar-oney. T ere will also be a per-formance of Anton Webern’siconic arrangement of Schoen-berg’s Chamber Symphonyfor piano trio, ute, and clar-inet and György Ligeti’s T ree Weöres Songs. All are invited

to this casual experience of

classical contemporary mu-sic, paired with popcorn andalcohol, which is included inthe $20 ticket price. Tickets areavailable at the door or can bepurchased at kettlecornnew-music.com

Another aspect of KCNM isintroducing the people behindthe music in a fun way. KCNMhosts a video series in which Weiser or another member willsit down with the composersthat are featured in their shows,and chat while enjoying pop-

corn. “It’s a fun, more intimate view of these composers thatshows that they’re approach-able,” Weiser said. T e videoseries can be found on the You-tube Channel for KettleCorn-NewMusic, or on their website.

Kettle Corn New Music is anonpro t that is supported bygrants, donations and ticketsales. Weiser says the move-ment has developed a follow-ing, which he is hoping to groweven further. “We want to sharethis music we love with lots ofpeople through a platform thatis sustainable and create op-portunities for new music tobe written and shared with aneven bigger audience. We wantto take people on this journeyand keep the genre alive and

well,” he said.

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May Musical Madness Concert Rocks the RAA T eatreBy Pat Morgan

Performed music is some-thing you don’t hear on a weekday. Usually it is therhythms of heavy machinerypounding the streets. Things were different on Wednesdaymorning, May 18 when therustic Rockaway Artists Alli-ance T7 Gallery was filled withthe pleasant sounds of song,eagerly performed by the stu-dents of PS 53K.

PS 53K is a New York CityPublic School for students withdisabilities which has locationsall over Brooklyn. T e perfor-mance was orchestrated bylocal residents and musiciansMr. Robert (Bobby) Butler(bass player in the band Indac-ulture) as well as his colleague,Ed McKenna (from the bandFirst Nature). Both are part ofthe same program, with Butlerhandling the middle and gradeschool students and McKennathe high school students. T eyare both supported by Princi-pal Heather Leykam.

The students performed aforty-minute, six-song set thatincluded renditions of JustinBieber’s “What Do You Mean?”and “Sorry,” “Day-O (The Ba-nana Boat Song),” “Iko Iko,”“La Bamba” and the finale“Stand By Me.” The changingensembles included students who are on the Autism spec-trum and hearing impaired.

T e encouraging audienceincluded students and teachersfrom PS 42 in Rockaway, RAAmembers, friends and family.T ere was even a little stand-upcomedy with a few of the vocal-ists tapping the microphone andasking the audience “Is this on?”

A beaming Butler, who is inhis fth year of this program andloves working with these chil-

dren, conveyed his pleasure bysaying “this program inspirescon dence, provides a commongoal and helps these studentsexpress themselves. I have stu-dents who have trouble commu-nicating, but can get up on stageand sing.”

Principal Leykam was happyto see the students performingin a professional musical settingsuch as the RAA, which is specialexperience for them.

T e ensemble performs ap-proximately ten times per year.T e next performance is fromthe high school students, which will be at St. Francis College, 180Remsen St, Brooklyn on Tues-day, May 31 at 10 AM.

Butler’s own band haslaunched a new website, in-daculture.com, which has acalendar feature containingtheir performance schedule.T eir rst gig this season is partof the Connolly’s Summer KickOff Weekend, on Sunday, May29th at 10 PM. You can ndMcKenna and First Nature onFacebook.

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