Wallkill Valley Times May 08 2019 | Page 2

2 Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, May 8, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 33 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 PUBLIC AGENDA MONDAY, MAY 13 Town of Montgomery Industrial Development Agency, 5:30 p.m., Town Hall, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. Valley Central Board of Education, 6:30 p.m. Administration building, 944 Route 17K, Montgomery. Maybrook Village Board, 7 p.m. Village Hall, 111 Schipps Lane. Town of Montgomery Planning Board, 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. TUESDAY, MAY 14 Pine Bush Board of Education, 7 p.m. Pine Bush High School, 156 Route 302, Pine Bush 2019-20 school budget hearing. CORRECTIONS Mary Ellen Matise is the former Walden Village historian. Her role was incorrectly stated last week. Diana Revoir is the current Walden Village Historian. The coaches of the EJR Odyssey of the Mind team are Doreen Sandor and Naomi Bush and the coach of the Crispell team is Stacey Mark. Their respective roles were reversed in last week’s paper. 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La Campana serving up home cooking By LAURA FITZGERALD [email protected] Inspired by her mother’s cooking, La Campana owner Kasia Hernandez is bringing traditional home cooking to Walden. “I just want everybody to enjoy my food; I’m putting a lot of love into it,” Hernandez said. Opened in December, the restaurant serves Latin and Caribbean dishes, including popular dishes from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Some customers enjoy finding foods they experienced while on vacation, such as mofongos, churrasco, chuletas fritas, jerk chicken and more. Hernandez said she wants her food to harken back to her mother’s generation, when families would make fresh, home- cooked meals. However, her generation and her son’s generation doesn’t always have time to cook and prefers take-out. Her recipes are partly inspired by her mother’s home cooking. “We have my mother’s generation where we have home-cooked meals. But, then you have my generation or my son’s, where it’s more take-out food. So, you kind of lose that home feeling of home- cooked meals,” Hernandez said. “That’s what I wanted to provide for the working Kasia Hernandez is serving Latin and Caribbean home cooking at La Campana Restaurant in Walden. class, that if you’re not coming home to a home-cooked meal, you can still pick up something here, and it will still feel like a home-cooked meal.” Hernandez said her favorite part of the restaurant business is meeting people from all walks of life and learning about their experiences. “You learn a little bit from everyone,” Hernandez said. Hernandez was a bartender in college and spent time in an accounting firm for a few years. When she realized it wasn’t for her, she took time off to open a daycare. When that was unsuccessful, her friend told her about a job at a restaurant. She did everything, from bookkeeping to hosting to bartending to waitressing. She realized her love for restaurants and decided to open her own with her friend. They eventually found the restaurant in Walden. She has found the community to be very supportive and appreciates residents’ support. “We saw the town, and we fell in love with it,” Hernandez said. Restaurants are in her blood. Her father owned a restaurant, as well as her aunt and cousins. Her earliest memories of the restaurant are standing behind the counter to greet customers. “You have to work at something you’re passionate about,” Hernandez said. “I love food; I love meeting people. I love to see people happy.” La Campana is located at 81 E Main Street, and is open Sunday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. To learn more, visit lacampanawalden.com or call 845-713-5028. Pine Bush issues measles warnings Continued from page 1 school. Students with only one dose of MMR vaccine will need to receive a second dose before returning to school. Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus that is spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people. Symptoms include a fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis and/or runny nose. Symptoms usually appear 10 to 12 days after exposure but may appear as early as 7 days and may take as long as 21 days. In an effort to be proactive, Pine Bush Superintendent Tim Mains said the district is urging teachers, staff, parents and students to review their immunizations records, so they know if they are protected or not in the event of an outbreak. “We have an alarming measles outbreak in our area, and we need to be vigilant and prepared for the possibility that it could visit us,” Mains said. As of May 3, the district did not have confirmed cases of measles, Mains said. Valley Central Assistant Superintendent Michael Bellarosa confirmed his district did not have any measles cases. Gelman encouraged any parent or child who has been exposed to measles or are having any of these symptoms to keep their child home and contact their health care provider immediately by phone or the Orange County Department of Health at [phone] before seeking care to avoid exposing others to illness. Bruderhof appeals demolition denial Continued from page 1 historical elements of the building have been destroyed by neglect and the subdivision of the house into apartments. Aiello warned of potential liability due to vandalism and squatters in the house. They concluded the cost of repairs would be incredibly expensive and the house could not be restored to its former historical value. “The entire house is a shell of its former self,” Pennings said. “It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore the house to modern standards. It can never be restored to its original historic character.” Boller said the logic that was used on the barn should be extended to the house, which is structurally compromised. “The barn is every bit as old and ‘historic’ as the house, and if the HPC agreed to take that structure down based on the building inspector’s opinion that the barn was structurally suspect, common sense would dictate that the same logic be extended to the house as well if in fact the house is structurally compromised,” Boller states. ” The town assessor’s card for 18 Coleman Road claims the oldest barn dates to 1900, while the house dates to 1760.