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Columnists August 31, 2007
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Broad Channel Bits
Commentary By Liz Guarino
      Have fun this weekend- here's what's happening this coming week: Dan McIntyre sent an e-mail telling what the weekend holds: "The firehouse will be holding countdown night at the firehouse from 7 p.m. till midnight on Friday, August 31."Dancing in the Streets" will have fun events for all.
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Chatting with Chapey
Kingsborough Community College and You: A Perfect Match
Commentary by Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey, Democratic District Leader
      How fortunate we are to have a great educational institution located near us in Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn. Kingsborough Community College is part of the City University of New York. It offers a first-class education in beautiful surroundings.
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance Two Exhibits To Run Concurrently At RoCA At Fort Tilden
Commentary by Susan Hartenstein
      RAA Contact Info: Phone: 718-474-0861; Fax: 718- 474-4373; e-mail: rockart116@aol.com; website: www.rockawayartistsalliance.org. Two Exhibitions Concurrently On View @RAA: Sunday, September 9-October 7, 2007: Artsplash 2007: RAA's annual juried, multimedia cultural event is a major showcase for ...
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From the Editor's Desk
The Wall Between Church And State Is Crumbling
Commentary By Howard Schwach
      In his support of a new publicly funded school that will focus on Arabic language and culture, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the school would be no different than the many duallanguage programs that are already running and that focus on Chinese, French and Spanish.
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Health & Harmony
Commentary By Dr. Nancy Gahles
      "To be healthy is to be holy. Holy means to be whole, perfect. To be perfect means seeing imperfection with the eyes of the Master: the eyes of loving understanding and acceptance. Strive for tolerance. Never condemn your brother or sister - love them.
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Historical Views of the Rockaways
Is This Broad Channel Before The 1880 Bay Railroad?
From The Rockaway Museum Commentary by Emil Lucev,Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S.Locke
      For decades now, yours truly has been looking for a picture of Big Egg Marsh (today's Broad Channel) that shows the many fishermen and baymen's shacks scattered about. These shacks were reported in and around Jamaica Bay marsh islands and at various points on all bay shores.
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In Quarters
By Chris 'Bubba' Kalisak Firefighter/EMT: Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department
      Hello again, all my faithful readers. How is your summer going? Mine has been great so far; I just came back from Nags Head, North Carolina and Virginia Beach on a long-deserved vacation! I have been told that many of you have been supporting the Mardi Gras for the BCVFD, and we appreciate it!
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It's My Turn…
Creating Unity Within The Community While Still Respecting Diversity
By Richard Altabe
      Whether we like it or not, the Wave is "Rockaway's Newspaper" for the entire Rockaway Peninsula. As such, it needs to represent a diverse constituency with diverse lifestyles and views.
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MovieScope
"Live-In Maid" - Class Co-Dependency
Review By Robert Snyder
      The film, "Live-In Maid," turns TV's "Upstairs-Downstairs" upside down. Writer-Director Jorge Gaggero's first feature is a microcosm of class struggle during Argentina's economic crisis in the beginning of the last decade, as personified by two women, the upper class Beba (Norma Aleandro) and her...
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Notes from the High C's
Rockaway Music and Arts Council
by Sharon Gabriel
      It's just one more week until our Fall Festival, and things are moving along, but I can't say smoothly. There have been more bumps and turns in the road this year than at any other time. Gateway has become quite restrictive in what people are allowed to do in the park and that has created new twis...
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The Brag Bag
By Robin Shapiro
      It seems every year the summer goes by faster and faster... now it's already time to send our children (and ourselves) back to school... I don't know how it happened, but I am joining the "empty nesters"; my youngest child, Leah, is off to her first year at Boston University! Andrea and David Kat...
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The Rockaway Irregular
Woe Is Me!
Commentary by Stuart W. Mirsky
      Writing in last week's Wave, fellow columnist John Paul Culotta (The Progressive) opined on the way the U.S. government under the Bush administration is fighting terrorism. "Does a war on terror entail an abrogation of our civil liberties?" he asked.
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