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Columnists April 19, 2003
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Beachcomber
     A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves came to our office during the week to complain about the fact that we printed the letter to the editor from Stephen Wohl about the men and women fighting in the Gulf as well as our coverage of the support our troops rally that was held two weeks ago.
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Boyle-ing Points
Golden Memories
By Kevin Boyle
     "Down! Down! Down!" Left hand on the wheel, right arm flung over the back of the bench seat of the 1969 Vista Cruiser station wagon. The man they called The Big Dud was checking the blind spot as he switched lanes.
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Broad Channel Bits
By Liz Guarino
     On a packet of seeds, the directions said to wait till all danger of frost is past before planting. With the crazy weather we’ve had, I wonder if it’s safe to plant yet!
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Chatting with Chapey
Rabbi Blaine Addresses Homeland Security
by Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey, Democratic District Leader
     Rabbi Alan Blaine, the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El, scheduled a very important community meeting on Thursday, April 10th, to discuss homeland security.
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Dorothy Dunne
News Events/Travel Editor/Host
WNYX - TV Morning News
12:00 noon on UHF Chs. 35 & 26 Monday - Friday
     Before we left "Jo-burg" we spent an evening out at restaurant row and dined at the liveliest spot in town, Moyo, that was, on a slow night, buzzing with people from all parts of the world.
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance
by Susan Hartenstein
     For the first time, Rockaway Artists Alliance will present two separate exhibitions simultaneously in sTudio 6 Gallery and sTudio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden.
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From the Editor's Desk
By Howard Schwach
     Those of you who have been following my writing over the dozen years or so that I have been writing for The Wave know that education is one of my ongoing interests.
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Historical Views of the Rockaways
From The Rockaway Museum Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke Picture From The Attic By Denise Brunner
By Emil Lucev, Curator
     Today’s Historical View is another 1894 photo of Seaside taken two years after the Great Fire(s) of September 1892.
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Looking Backward
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Notes On Consumer Affairs
By Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer
     In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." So goes the popular saying by Benjamin Franklin. Fortunately, you have the ability to determine, to some extent, the amount of taxes you pay.
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Simon Says...
From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
     As I sat this morning watching the Iraqi people taking down the statue of Saddam Hussein, I thought of the 1989 Berlin Wall. Before I become so boisterous and screaming hurrah, I become cautiously optimistic thinking to myself what does this really mean.
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Sprayview Sticks Stones
by Environmental Reporter Bernard Blum
     The MTA recycling of Red Bird subway cars into ocean waters to the south- for fishing reefs – may be regarded as local taxpayer waste! This is so since the cars – loaded with concrete – could be used for artificial parallel breakwaters.
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The Rockaway Irregular by Stuart Mirsky
The Fog Of Debate
     With the dramatic events of April in Baghdad, which saw the jubilant welcoming of U.S. troops and the destruction and defacement of monuments to the deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, a stunned silence seemed to temporarily descend on the critics of the administration’s policies.
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