I have developed and try to live by the motto that Mountains are not obstacles to block our path. Rather, they are our creator’s way of giving us an opportunity to stand on top of the world.
The Film Maker
By Robert Golomb
Left to right: Actress Glynnis O’Connor, Miles Doleac
(Director) & Mackenzie Westmoreland (Producer).
The film “The Historian”, which is rumored to have already begun to draw the attention of several American film industry investors who have already pre-screened it, will have its NY Premiere on May 20th at the SOHO International Film Festival (SIFFNYC), which runs this year from May 15th to May 22nd at the Village East Cinemas located at 189 2nd Avenue in East Greenwich Village.
But in order to make the film- a two hour drama exploring the emotional, sexual and professional odyssey of a college professor whose wife has left him and casting well known television and cinema veteran actors William Saddler (The Shawshank Redemption, Iron Man 3, The Green Mile), John Cullum (ER, Law and Order SVU, Northern Exposure), Colin Cunningham (Falling Skies, The L Word, Flashpoint) and Glynnis O’Conner (Our Town, Law and Order, The Boy in The Plastic Bubble) – The Historian’s forty five year old producer, Mackensie Westmoreland, had to overcome some very serious physical challenges.
Voting is the privilege and responsibility of every citizen of the United States. We enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly and religion, freedom from illegal searches and seizures, the right to bear arms and to a fair trial. In return for these freedoms, we exercise our right to vote in order to sustain our Constitutional Republic, established by our Founding Fathers. Millions of Iraqi and Afghani voters risked their lives going to the polls to vote. Our soldiers valiantly fought and gave their lives in every war since the American Revolution, to preserve our liberties and our privilege to vote.
The April 3rd General Club Meeting featured informative presentations on the Common Core State Standards Initiative by two dynamic speakers. Here is the complete video of their presentations in five parts.
This past November the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) informed 34 year old attorney Senator Lee Zeldin, whose NYS Suffolk County Third Senate District covers major portions of Islip and Brookhaven, that he would be placed on their congressional candidate “ Radar List’’. The NRCC, which is known to have its eyes set on expanding its current hold of 34 seats in the House of Representatives, reserves placement on this list to Republican congressional candidates in competitive races thought to have legitimate chances of winning in this coming fall’s election. Placement on this list is known to be followed with what the NRCC has written to be, “ the tools they [the candidates} need to run successful winning campaigns against their Democrat opponents.”
Multi award winning actor Tony Lo Bianco should be an authority on the important role that a teacher can play in the life of a student. Currently starring in the critically acclaimed one man play, The Little Flower, Lo Bianco -whose 102 performances over 4 decade movie career includes major or starring roles in the films the Honey Moon Killers, the French Connection, Blood Brothers, Jesus of Nazareth and Marciano (the latter two were TV movie productions) and whose career in television includes starring in the iconic 1980’s series Police Story – credits his initial interest in acting to his eleventh grade English teacher in Brooklyns Grady Vocational High-School.
Calling it his “Small Business bill tour,” Rep. Steve Israel was campaigning on March 18 at Usha Foods Inc. on Hillside Ave in Floral Park. Joseph R Concannon and Phil Orenstein were there to protest. Concannon talked with reporters and passersby asking when will Rep. Israel repeal the Affordable Care Act which is destroying jobs and harming businesses across America. A reporter from the Queens Tribune smeared Concannon with the 
Northeast Queens Face-off
Early in March, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino announced he is running for governor. The Republican Astorino easily won his second term as County Executive by a wide margin in a heavily Democratic County, due in large part to voter outrage about the overreach of the federal government regarding the county’s 
