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Beachcomber
     More and more residents have been contacting The Wave to complain about illegally parked cars with police placards in their front windows. Those personal cars, many belonging to officers who are simply in Rockaway to go to the beach, park all day on no-parking blocks and are not ticketed even though...
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Broad Channel Bits
By Liz Guarino
     This weekend will be a very busy one. There are so many different activities going on, an organizer is needed to keep track of all of them! Come to the Carnival by the American Legion Hall this weekend and have a good time.
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Chatting With Chapey
The Gwirtzman's: Making A Major
Positive Difference

By Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey
     Our community has been immeasurably enhanced through the strong leadership provided by Leroy H. Gwirtzman (deceased on September 1, 1992) and his wife Sally Heller Gwirtzman.
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Dorothy Dunne
     The International Gift Show was tremendous this year……not only did it take up the entire Javits Center, two Piers (92 and 94) but the Gift showrooms on Fifth Ave.
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Dot on Roxbury
     Kellijean and Stephen Collica are proud to announce the birth of their son Stephen Nicholas. He was born on July 25,2002 at 9:02 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20 inches long.
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From The Artists Studio
     IMPORTANT: Deadline is August 30. Open Call to Artists deadline for ARTSPLASH 2002 is August 30. This is the deadline for submission of application and accompanying material to enter ARTSPLASH 2002, RAA’s 3rd annual October arts festival in Fort Tilden.
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From the Editor’s Desk
By Howard Schwach
     The mayor likes the members of the City Council to think that they have something of a say in governing this city. On paper, the city council has some shared powers with the mayor, but, in reality, the council does not have much power at all.
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From the G-Man
President Bush: ‘The Wacko Kid!’
By Gary G. Toms
     Hey people! Back in February of this year, The G-man took some pretty tough shots from outraged residents of the Rockaway community because they felt I was unpatriotic and unsupportive of the United States in its so-called "War on Terrorism.
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LOOKING BACKWARD
What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago This Week
     A near tragedy was averted last week when Charles Milazzo, an alert maintenance man, noticed smoke coming from the rear wall of the gymnasium at St. Camillus RC Church in Rockaway Beach.
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On The Beach… With Beverly Baxter
Olympic Games 2012: Everywhere But Here!
        While there is lots of change on the horizon for Rockaway's future, much of the landscape around the five boroughs will change as well, as New York prepares to welcome and host the Olympics in 2012.
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Simon Says….
From the Desk of Lew M. Simon,
Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
     This has been another week of the three H's, hazy, hot and humid. The good thing is that LIPA and Con Ed had no blackouts in the area I represent. A note of reminder to those who don't have air conditioning: there are two great places to cool off.
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The Inner Voice
By Marilyn Gelfand
     Make yourself happy–in small ways and big ones. So much in the world is out of our control, but we still have a large domain over and inside of ourselves.
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