May 2014

CALE celebrates 65th anniversary

Founded in the Woodmere home of Harriette Wolff on Burton Avenue in 1949 — it was formerly the Five Towns Senior Center, and first formed as the Golden Age Club — the Center for Adult Life Enrichment (CALE) marked it 65th anniversary with gala luncheon at the Seawane Club in Hewlett Harbor.
CALE, now housed in the carriage house on the campus of Hewlett High School, boosts more than 300 members from the Five Towns and surrounding communities and offers a variety of programs ranging from college-level lecturers to concerts, health seminars, exercise, creative writing sessions, book discussions and trips.

NY Rising money remains elusive

Though the state’s NY Rising Committee approved the projects that communities throughout New York submitted, including the Five Towns, the promised money has yet to be released to the administering municipalities and agencies as 2014 ended.
The Five Towns is expected to receive $27.6 million for projects in Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Meadowmere Park, Inwood, Hewlett, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck. Officials said that the paperwork to administer $20 million of that money was submitted by Nassau County, which will oversee the Five Towns projects, to the state in the fall.

Hewlett-Woodmere, Lawrence school budgets pass

The Hewlett-Woodmere and Lawrence school districts budgets for 2014-2015 were approved by comfortable margins on May 20. By a count of 1,538 to 976, the $112.1 million Hewlett-Woodmere spending plan passed. The approved budget is $2.49 million larger than the previous year. Despite a low turnout in Lawrence, the $95.6 million fiscal plan was approved by a count of 986 to 345. This budget is $2.6 million larger than the prior one.
Incumbent Board of Education Trustees Scott McInnes and Cheryl May won re-election in Hewlett-Woodmere and Murray Forman and Asher Mansdorf did the same in Lawrence.

HAFTR remembers the Holocaust

During a school assembly, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School students listened to several of their peers recount their experiences when they traveled to Poland and saw Holocaust memorials and visited Auschwitz concentration camp.