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From the Editor's Desk
High School, Fifty Years Later: Testing Mortality
Commentary By Howard Schwach
      There is nothing like a reality check about your own mortality than attending a fiftieth reunion of your high school class. That happened to me last weekend when the Far Rockaway High School, Class of 1957, held its reunion at the Marriott Hotel in Uniondale.
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance Summer Nights, Cool Breezes and Cool Art
Commentary by Susan Hartenstein
      RAA CONTACT INFO: Phone: 718-474-0861; Fax: 718-474-4373; e-mail: rockart116@aol.com; website: www.roc kawayartistsalliance.org. TWO CALLS TO ARTISTS: ARTSPLASH 2007: RAA's annual juried multi-media cultural event is a major showcase for visual, literary and performing...
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Dorothy Dunne
Down For The Summer
      News Events/Travel Editor/Host + WNYX - TV Morning News + 12:00 noon on UHF Chs. 35 & 26 Monday - Friday Look around and you can see some of the boarded up homes are opening their doors to welcome a new summer season. Helene and Peter Danzilo are here for the summer.
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On The Beach
Commentary By Beverly Baxter Sundays In The Park With Song
      The Rockaway Music and Arts Council mounted the first of its Sunset Concert Series on the green at Fort Tilden on Sunday, June 24 with A Night At The Copa, a musical tribute to the glamorous New York nightclub era of the renowned Copacabana.
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MovieScope
'Knocked Up' - Right to Life Stoner
Review By Robert Snyder
      Its title notwithstanding, "Knocked Up" is a Right-to-Life movie in stoner disguise. Written and directed by Judd Apatow, "Knocked Up" follows the same subliminal Puritanism as does his 2005 film, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
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Historical Views of the Rockaways
When The Dunes Go… Will The Dunnage Suffice???
From The Rockaway Museum Commentary by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke
      When serious beach erosion struck the Rockaway peninsula in the 1970's and beyond, certain sections of our beachfront were affected more than others. In these specific areas, storm-driven surf had passed under the boardwalk to wash over the land and rush the Boulevard.
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The Progressive
American Ingenuity
Commentary By John Paul Culotta
      Sandburg, the great American poet, was a scholar of the life of Lincoln, and a winner of two Pulitzer prizes, one for his biography of Lincoln and the other for his poetry. He was an American original.
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Simon says...
Commentary From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
      It's quite interesting to see that the Parks Department has $40 million to spend. Let's start from the beginning of our wish list.
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