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Beachcomber
     Congratulations to Steve Greenberg, who has served with distinction as the president of Community School Board 27 for many years and as the chairman of the board of directors of the Breezy Point Cooperative, on being named to the Board of Directors of the Peninsula Hospital Center.
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Boyle-ing Points by Kevin Boyle
     What would we do without the news? I just learned Pete Rose bet on baseball and George Bush was trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein before September 11.
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Broad Channel Bits
By Liz Guarino
     We shivered through winter’s biting cold last week and this week too. The
bitter cold made 30 degree days look like a heat wave! It would be great if the cold killed off some of the ‘bugs’ that people have been getting lately—it’s better to be outdoors shivering with cold than indoors shiveri...
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance
by Susan Hartenstein
     Using language of Renaissance masters, 18 th and 19th century European painters, populist American artists, images common to modern advertising and pop culture and putting these through the filter of often grotesque exaggeration and sexuality, John
Currin is a contemporary artist both lauded ...
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From the Editor’s Desk
By Howard Schwach
     A little more than a year ago, on January 25, 2003, I wrote an editorial for The Wave that was entitled, "New School Plan Worth A Try."
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Historical Views
of the Rockaways

From The Rockaway MuseumDedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke
L.L. Ketcham’s Ocean House – Seaside - 1900
by Emil Lucev, Curator
     This exceptional historical view of Seaside shows Ketcham’s Ocean House Hotel and Pavilion in Seaside. Ketcham’s was on the northeast corner of Hollywood Avenue (Beach 101 Street) and Ocean Avenue – the midway of Seaside’s amusement section.
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The Inner Voice
by Marilyn Gelfand
     How good are you at trusting in your own instincts?
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On The Bayfront
By Elisa Hinken
     Winter is a perfect time to think about warm things, like summer ac tivities for our pre-teen and teen pop ulation. The New York State Dep art ment of Environmental Con ser vation runs three youth camps upstate at different sites.
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Looking Backward
What The Wave Said
     20 Years Ago...
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MovieScope By Robert Snyder
‘Gothika’ – Berry Goes Bananas

     Like its title, "Gothika" is pretension posing as horror.
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On The Beach
With Beverly Baxter
RCJC – Bridging Two Communities
     Perhaps one of the most worthwhile community groups to recently re-emerge is the Rockaway Catholic Jewish Council, which, after several decades of promoting ethnic and religious harmony throughout the peninsula, was about to dissolve due to a lack of active membership.
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School Scope
Teaching in Today’s Schools: Have things changed that much? (Part 2)
By Norman Scott
     In Part 1, I talked about how my friend Al takes the position that "caning" is the answer to the problems of security in the schools. This led me to think about how things have changed since I became a teacher in 1967.
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Simon says...
From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
     The New Year started off with a major blessed event. We attended the wedding of two of my very close friends. After 11 years of courtship Clifford Miller and Anacelis Claudio were married on Friday, January 2 at Nativity Church in Ozone Park.
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