Kevin McCaffrey hacks bamboo as he hacks

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NY PML Sec 109 violates the rights of even Lindenhurst bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3

 

 

 

Kevin McCaffrey - Village Trustee (Deputy Mayor) Trustee Kevin McCaffrey was first elected to the Village Board in 1990 after serving as Chairman of the Planning Board. He was re-elected in 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.  Kevin is the current Deputy Mayor and is a liaison for the Fire Council, Parks Department and Finance Committee. Past President of the Meridale Park Civic Association, he is active in the Lindenhurst National Little League and CYO Basketball. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Irish-American Teamsters. President of Teamster Local 707, Chairman of the Unions Health, Welfare & Pension Funds. He is a 1972 Graduate of Berner H.S. in Massapequa, he attended SUNY Farmingdale. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus OLPH Council 794 and was also the 2011 winner of the Knights of Columbus Irishman of the Year Award.  He has been a resident of Lindenhurst since 1984 where he resides with his wife Julie and his children Michael and Katie.

 

 

Lindenhurst OKs restrictions on bamboo use

Originally published: March 7, 2013 8:50 PM
Updated: March 7, 2013 8:55 PM
By DENISE M. BONILLA  denise.bonilla@newsday.com

Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | Bamboo grows in the Town of Huntington. (June 20, 2012)

The Village of Lindenhurst has become the latest Long Island municipality to try to restrict the growth of bamboo.
Village board members unanimously passed a new law Tuesday night mandating that homeowners contain the stubborn, fast-growing plant.
In addition to brush, grass and weeds, which were already regulated, residents must also maintain bamboo, which they cannot allow to migrate to adjoining property. To prevent migration, residents are required to install an "impenetrable" barrier that is at least 4 feet deep.
Residents who fail to heed a warning from the village face penalties for a first offense of a fine of $50 to $250 "or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or both."
Lindenhurst's law follows similar legislation proposed or passed in other communities, including Huntington, which has been massaging the language on proposed laws since last year.
"We've received a series of complaints over time, and we saw other municipalities were looking into it, and so we decided to as well," said Lindenhurst village Clerk-Treasurer Shawn Cullinane.
The board passed the legislation by a vote of 5-0, after a public hearing in which a handful of residents spoke of ongoing struggles to rid their yards of invasive species of the plant.
Andrea Dykstra, 71, brought photos of the yard of her daughter, Virginia Peck, who was unable to attend. The photos showed towering bamboo plants leaning over from Peck's neighbor's yard and thick stalks sprouting up through her grass. "I can't dig them up, I'm too old for this," Dykstra told the board.
A lone dissenter, Jim Barthelmes, testified that he likes bamboo and felt it wasn't the place of government to limit its use. "I think it's a neighbor issue," he said. "I don't think the government should be involved in people's plants."
Barthelmes said he planted bamboo 10 years ago as a barrier between his house and another rather than erect a tall fence. "It's gorgeous bamboo, it's a beautiful hedge," he said.
"I'm very unpopular, I realize that," Barthelmes said, acknowledging that the plant "spreads like wildfire."
"But it doesn't hurt anybody, it's not poisonous," he said before deadpanning, "Pandas love it."

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.