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In this issue Departments 4 REPORTER AT LARGE • Angels among us • New Greek in town • Goodbye, good riddance • New Tourism Director • Many problems ,,, one solved • Walgreens on Main Street, <strong>Nyack</strong> • A tragic day 29 years ago page 23 6 NOVEMBER ABUNDANCE Arts & Entertainment this month 12 COMMUNITY NOTES What else is happening in <strong>Nov</strong>ember 20 CALENDAR Highlights in <strong>Nov</strong>ember 21 OP-CALENDAR PAGE useful local phone numbers Favorite anksgiving movies see page 18 Our famous public library see page <strong>10</strong> REPORTER at large Angels among us 23 HOUSES OF WORSHIP Religious services in the river villages Columns <strong>10</strong> REMEMBER THE DAYS? Our famous library 12 THEY GOT WHAT?! Donna Cox on current trends in real estate 14 MENTAL HEALTH NOTES Daniel Shaw on internalized misogyny River rowing annual gala see page 16 16 FROM THE OUTSIDE IN Thom Kleiner: why Paladino’s homophobia matters 18 AT THE MOVIES Ric Pantale’s pick of Thanksgiving movies 22 HOME TOWN LAW Peter Klose Esq. on title insurance On our <strong>Nov</strong>ember cover Bustopher Jones Giclée print by Jan Haber, © 20<strong>10</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nyack</strong> <strong>Villager</strong>, <strong>Nyack</strong>, NY story on page 22 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nyack</strong> <strong>Villager</strong> <strong>Nov</strong>ember, 20<strong>10</strong> Vol. 17 No. 3 Mailed on or about the first of each new month. Deadline for our next issue (December 20<strong>10</strong>) is <strong>Nov</strong> 15. Our e-mail address: info@nyackvillager.com <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nyack</strong> <strong>Villager</strong> is the only local magazine that is mailed to every residential address in eight river villages—Upper <strong>Nyack</strong>, <strong>Nyack</strong>, Central <strong>Nyack</strong>, South <strong>Nyack</strong>, Grand View, Upper Grandview, Piermont and Palisades NY, reaching an estimated 30,000 people in one of the nation's choicest demographics. On the Internet at www.nyackvillager.com Every time <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nyack</strong> <strong>Villager</strong> ONLINE gets a “hit” someone new sees YOUR AD. A touch of old Russia in <strong>Nyack</strong> see page 8 Beginning sewing workshop see page 13 Skatepark for <strong>Nyack</strong>? see page 12 Screening of Megamall, great documentary film see page 13 Soup Angels soup kitchen will host its Fifth Annual anksgiving Feast Wed, <strong>Nov</strong> 24, from 4 to 7pm. Anyone who needs a meal is invited to a sit-down turkey dinner with all the trimmings at the First Reformed Church of <strong>Nyack</strong>, 18 S. B'way, <strong>Nyack</strong>, NY, in the Pitkin Room. Soup Angels is proud once again to send out more than 1200 hot, nutritious take-out turkey dinners to folks in Rockland County who need a meal. If you can contribute to their anksgiving dinners or offer a donation for weekly meal costs, please check the Paypal account at www.soupangels.com or send a check payable to Soup Angels, FRC, to P.O. Box 565, <strong>Nyack</strong>, NY <strong>10</strong>960. To volunteer please contact soupangels@gmail.com ORgANIzATION & POlICIeS excerpt from Soup Angels’ Mission Statement “Soup Angels is an all-volunteer non-denominational group of service-minded individuals operating under the non-profit status of 1st Reformed Church, <strong>Nyack</strong>, and using the facilities there courtesy of the governing board. All are welcome to participate as volunteer Soup Angels regardless of religious affiliation, age, ethnicity, primary language or country of origin. Meals will be served promptly at 5:30pm every Wednesday. guests will be served at table, and service will include cloth tablecloths and real glasses, dishes and (stainless steel) silverware.” Reporter at Large continues on page 4 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nyack</strong> <strong>Villager</strong> <strong>Nov</strong>ember, 20<strong>10</strong> 3