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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Medicare 101 at Gardiner Library
The Gardiner Library will host “Medicare 101” with
James Farnham MBA, MS on Sunday, Oct. 11 from 12:30
to 2 p.m. This program is designed to inform participants
about the choices they have regarding Medicare. Topics
covered include Parts A, B, C, and D; Original Medicare;
Prescription Drug Plans; Medicare Supplements; and
Medicare Advantage Plans. The goal of the program is
for participants to leave with a better overall understanding of Medicare and feel more comfortable about the
choices they are required to make.
Licensed insurance agent James Farnham has traveled the U.S. and Canada as a professional speaker and
author. He has over twenty years of experience in insur-
ance, financial services, retirement planning, and strategies for income distribution during retirement.
The talk will take place in the library community
room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike in Gardiner. The community room is equipped with a hearing loop, which
magnetically transmits sound to hearing aids and cochlear implants with telecoils (T-coils). The library will
also host Medicare talks with speaker Peter Rhein on
Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8 from
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
For directions or further information call 255-1255, or
visit gardinerlibrary.org, or the library’s facebook page.
Football field noise at Galeville Park irks neighbors
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her animals, resulting in her cows possibly losing critical
weight. Worse still, she said, a million-dollar horse she
was boarding was “bashing against the walls” of its stable, upset at the noise.
She complained about one coach’s “big mouth,” and
especially about the whistles.
“Why use whistles at practice?” Spano said. “I want to
take that whistle and put it up his [rear-end].”
Board members and Supervisor John Valk tried to
assuage her, but also reminded her that the park was
planned before Spano moved there eight years ago.
“For 12 years, we tried to find a [spot for a] football
field,” Councilman Robert Miller said. “Everybody I
know, knew there was going to be a park there.” He
agreed that practices should be held on the back field,
farther away from Spano’s place, but also cautioned that
when people purchase property, it comes down to “buyer
beware.”
“This might be just me, but when I moved in, I took
the time to look around me to see what was going on, and
what I was getting into,” Miller said. “I’m personally not
going to tell the football team not to play football.”
Gary Specht Jr., executive vice president of the football league, said there has been only a couple of games
played at the field so far this season, and that four more
were scheduled. By the end of November, he said, the
season will end and the league won’t be back until next
August.
Spano continued her list of criticism of the situation. She asked if the town had noise regulations; when
told it doesn’t, she suggested that the Department of
Environmental Conservation might have a noise ordinance to protect the bird sanctuary adjacent to the park.
She pointed out that the league wasn’t pro football, and
asked why it needed a regulation-size field. She noted
that there was an all-terrain vehicle in the park recently,
despite a ban on such vehicles. She disagreed with the
installation of a thick electrical cable to power a sound
system at the field, and the construction of a shed on the
property: “It’s town-owned property; can I store some of
my stuff in there, since I’m paying taxes on it?” She added
that a big sign near the road, saying “The Home of the
Panthers,” should be taken down because it was incorrect
since the park wasn’t exclusively for the league’s use.
Traffic was a problem during games and practices, too,
Spano said.
Specht told the board that the town fully approved the
cable, the shed and the sign. Miller agreed, adding that
the town also approved a concrete pad for the sound system. Valk suggested that the sign could be removed at the
end of the season.
Board members agreed that the 55 mph speed limit
on the county-owned road should be lowered, and said
the town’s public safety committee will look into it.
Councilman Matthew Watkins said he was concerned
when Spano claimed it took her 20