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Gift of Life honors its host families, contributors Photo by Alan Peariman The Gift of Life Board of Directors Chairman William Sanock (left) with Northport Rotary President Jim Ryan, who presents regional Gift of Life Director Winter Brook Ryan with a $40,000 check to help fund life-saving heart surgeries for indigent children from Honduras. Poet Laureate at Northport library Daniel Thomas Moran, Suffolk County's Poet Laureate, is scheduled to read at the Northport Public Library on Laurel Avenue on Tuesday, November 22 at 7:30 pm. The event is being sponsored by the Northport Arts Coalition (NAC), chairwom- an Isabella Eredita Johnson said. Attendees will have the opportunity to get a preview of Moran's new book, Farnan's Well, which will be pub- lished carly next year by the University of Salzburg in Austria. Moran, a Shelter Island dentist who read at Art, Music and Poetry in the Park in July, said he looks for- ward to his engagement at the library. photo by Karen Moran County poet laureate. \We host many artistic events, and poetry is a significant component of our organization.\ -- ELISE PEARLMAN that to have the opportunity to host the Suffolk AS A PARENT, YOU GET TO CHOOSE WHERE YOUR CHILD GOES TO SCHOOL Come see how your child can blossom in our- KINDERGARTEN | CURRICULUM NIGHT 7:00-8:30 pm - ; 178 Coder Rd., East Northport _ _ see-2600 __ BY ELISE PEARLMAN The Gift of Life Program for |_ Suffolk County held its annual appre- ciation dinner at the Insh Coffee Pub in East Islip last month to honor indi- viduals whose efforts | N'port Rotary donates $40,000 uves of 30 Suffolk County Rotary Clubs. was a way of thanking these \families of heroes.\ Ryan sad Robert Tedesco. the imcormung gover nor of the Suffolk Rotary dstrici. presided as master of have helped provide ceremonies life-saving heart L L Forty indrviduals surgery to- indigenmn The Gift of Life were honored with a children from for Suffolk plaque tor hosting one Honduras and other L or more children impovensxped nations. County aims to Ronaldo Rall director “fumeri’Brook Ryan. sponsor another of Helping Hands tox a director of the region- & - Honduras. was hunored al prograin, said the 50 child?\ in tor his work in arrang families that host a the COMIMG yG@3L ing tor 100 children to | child and chim or her caretaker during their 30-day stay in the United States are key to the success of the program, which 1s sponsored by The Gift of Life International, Inc The dinner, which was attended by 175 individuals including representa- be brought here from Honduras He spoke of the Honduran \blind trust\ motiv ated by the desper ate need to save their children's Ines and about the miraculous results of surgery. Northport resident Marilyn Continued on page A10 Where to draw the line on financial disclosure forms? Village trustees debate need for vendor credit checks BY JOSHUA DiAMANT The Northport Village Board of Trustees is considering a resolution that would require vendors who do business with the village to disclose all possible conflicts of interest. A provision on the proposed dis- closure form led to a heated dispute between Trustees Victor Howard and Ed Perlin at the November 1 board meeting. The resolution was tabled as a result. The proposal stipulates that ven- dors and contractors who expect to do business in excess of $500 a year with the village must list the names of all shareholders who hold at least two percent of the company's stock. That would include people who have at least a two-percent interest in the company by means other than stock holdings, as well as members of its board of directors, corporate officers and counsel. Personal. family or professional relationships between any of those people and a village official would likewise need MICHELE MARTIN . 1028 FT. SALONGA RD NORTHPORT {631} 261 4200 ~- mchelemartin@allstate.com PS. Call for a free quote. 'If I were giving someone a loan, I'd want to run a credit check on them, sure, but if I'm just buying screws from someone? What's the point? - TRUSTEE ED PERLIN to be disclosed to the village board. Neither Perlin nor any other trustee stated objections to those stipulations. The resolution would, however, also require vendors to submit either a financial statement, a credit refer- ence letter or a credit report, a step that Perkin said he considers unnec- essary and wasteful. \I'm a small-business owner,\ sard Perkin, who runs a management consulting firm in Manhattan. \If 1 were giving someone a loan, I'd want to run a credit check on them, sure, but if I'm just buying screws from someone? What's the point?\ Although Howard placed the provision about credit checks on the disclosure form, he seemed recep- tive to the idea of removing it at the meeting. He did not return calls tor further comment by press time Perlin said the resolution was not prompted by any particular problem between village and vendor \There have been issues over time.\ he said. \But there's nothing specifi cally mnght now It's in everybody s best interest.\ He added. I agree that there should be disclosure In fact. | think :t should be extended for nonunion employees and board members. But #4 don't think we need the financial information that was being asked for ~ CALL ME. YOU MAY BE SURPRISED AT HOW AFFORDABLE ALLSTATE COVERAGE IS. Rotes will vary, Imorance offered only vith select companmes and seb; Rotee v p and: icohors Alsote in: o..
