March  2006  IT’S TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP

Civic Board of Directors

This month’s general membership meeting brings the annual election for our civic board of directors. This year there are four open positions and currently  four individuals running for those positions.  The incumbents are Frank Klement and Kathy Rousseau. The newcomers are Phil Harrington and Rita Miszuk. Anyone else interested can be nominated from the floor that evening.

Phil Harrington- Phil Harrington has been a resident of Miller Place for the past three years, along with his wife Wendy and their daughter Helen.  A schooled engineer and educator, Phil is an instructor at Brookhaven National Laboratory.  At night he is an adjunct professor at Dowling College and Suffolk County Community College.  Phil has also written eight books.  Seven of his books discuss different aspects of the science of astronomy, while his eighth, coauthored with his wife, covers bicycling in and around the New York tri-state area. His primary interests and concerns about MP involve our development and impact on the environment.   Frank Klement (incumbent) - Frank has been a resident of Miller Place for 30 years and a board member for the past two. He was a purchasing agent in the defense industry and the commercial construction field.  He is chairman of our Traffic Safety Committee and was  successful in obtaining the "No Thru Truck Traffic" signs along Miller Place Rd. south of Rte. 25A and additional speed enforcement from SCPD.  He  was  involved in the North Country Rd. sidewalk and island improvement project, the Town Highway Dept.'s road and drainage repair program, and the placement of the No turn on red signs at Miller Place Road and 25A.                          Rita Miszuk-Rita worked as an art teacher in the Bronx after graduating from N.Y.U. She moved into art for children with special needs and then became a full time special education teacher. She relocated to Long and worked in the special education department in the William Floyd School District. Upon moving to Miller Place she began teaching in the Comsewogue School District .

After teaching for ten years, she decided to enter the fields of banking, real estate and mortgaging. She is
currently a 20 year veteran certified N.Y. State Real Estate Appraiser with her own appraisal business.
Rita has been working on cleaning up and landscaping the Marbeth Circle Sump and the Sylvan Avenue Sump as well as the LIPA R.O.W., the Subways shopping center and the Parkside Deli shopping center. She is the mother of a 16 year old MP High School Student and a 26 year old State Trooper upstate.

Kathy Rousseau (incumbent) - Kathy has been a resident of Miller Place for 17 years. She is an occupational therapist providing services primarily to infants through elementary school children. She has served as President of the MPCA for the past two years and as Vice-president prior.  She maintains the membership list, prepares newsletters, manages and delivers e-mail communications and is a member of the Zoning  and Beautification Committees.  Responsibility has been to  coordinate general communication and plans of the MPCA, and over site of committees.

Beautification

Robotics Team members after their much appreciated clean-up of Miller Place Road

Our annual clean-up held on May 13th was successful despite the hovering clouds and threat of more rain.  Troop 204 was in full force along with members of the Robotics Team.  Beautification chairperson Andrea Kinsler did a wonderful job planning, organizing, and advertising the event. We thank her along with everyone who volunteered that day.

The Robotics group held their own mini-clean-up a few weeks back. They cleaned from the High School (including the driveway) up to the intersection at 25A.  They  cleaned roughly 20 large garbage bags full in addition to some finds that were too big to be bagged (cement bricks, hub caps, biology textbooks,etc.).

            10th  Annual

Joe Keany Memorial 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Family Fun Run/Walk

 

 

 

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