Manhasset’s Own Melissa Errico To Headline Landmark on Main Street’s Gala Concert November 3rd

Landmark on Main Street is delighted to announce that the 2007 Gala will be held at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater for a magnificent Concert starring Melissa Errico and Brian d’Arcy James on Saturday, November 3rd. 

Manhasset native Melissa Errico is one of Broadway’s most cherished young leading ladies, as well as a blooming recording artist and songwriter.  Her Broadway credits include My Fair Lady, High Society, Amour and Dracula. 

As Landmark’s Gala returns to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater, it was most apropos to feature Melissa Errico’s return “home” for a debut performance.  About this she states, “I am all aflutter to come back to my hometown area to sing. I feel like I have waited a decade for a chance to share with my hometown how much I appreciated where I grew up, and how much I love the people I knew. I hope it will be the beginning of a frequent appearance, as I would love to share my music with people I know and maybe introduce this music to the younger people too.”

Reminiscing about growing up in Manhasset, Melissa recalls, “Manhasset was a fantastic place to grow up. I took dance lessons in Port Washington, and loved their library, and we went there fordinners out all the time. Landmark on Main Street has been so fantastic about all the preparations and I can’t wait to sing and get to know the theater, and be a big supporter. I mean what would I DO without LONG ISLAND!? I met my husband {Patrick McEnroe} in kindergarten in Roslyn!  I was 5 years old and he was my brother’s inseparable best friend!”

The Gala will mark the debut of Melissa’s new show that she created along with Brian d’Arcy James who starred in Titanic, Sweet Smell of Success, MTC’s The Wild Party, Carousel, Blood Brothers and Les Miserables.

The Gala is the major fundraising event for Landmark on Main Street and will honor long time Port Washington Resident and philanthropist, Claudia Caruso Rouhana.  Supporting the efforts are gala chairs,  Fern and Hersh Cohen, Angela and Scott Jaggar, Stuart Johnson, Elaine & Ken Langone, Anne and Vincent Mai, Gay and Bill Schmergel, Dot and Ed Slade, Deanne Spiegel and Pam and Larry Tarica; together with honorary chairs, Patrick Foye, Bob and Jane Harding and Lillian McCormick.  The emcee for the evening is NBC4’s Sports Anchor, Len Berman.  The evening will feature the concert, immediately followed by dancing and an elegant dessert reception.

Landmark’s major fundraiser for the year, the gala is vital to Landmark’s survival and growth.   Funds raised go to maintaining its vibrant community center and to presenting first-rate programs, such as this season’s concerts with The Bacon Brothers, Lesley Gore, Stephen Schwartz and Joan Osborne in the lovely Jeanne Rimsky Theater.  For information regarding reservations call 516-767-2355 or gala@landmarkonmainstreet.org.

Landmark on Main Street is a not-for profit community center, located at 232 Main Street in Port Washington, housing the beautiful Jeanne Rimsky Theater.  Visit http://www.landmarkonmainstreet.org/ for more information. 

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Sharon Maier-Kennelly
Executive Director
Landmark on Main Street
232 Main Street, Suite 1
Port Washington, NY  11050
516-767-1384 extension 101
FAX 516-767-7261
http://www.landmarkonmainstreet.org/

Adam Pascal From Rent at Landmark January 11th

Landmark on Main Street is proud to present Film and Broadway star (and Syosset native) Adam Pascal in concert on Friday, January 11th at 8:00 PM.  The concert is sponsored by Schreiber High School Blue & White Night with additional program sponsorship from Harding Real Estate and Wachovia Bank.

Originating the role of Roger in Rent, Adam Pascal became a part of what was to become the definitive Broadway hit of the decade.  In 2000, Adam was back on Broadway as the lead, Radames, in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, and his performance was heralded by critics.  Adam’s debut solo CD Model Prisoner on Sh-K-Boom Records was produced by the Grammy-winning Joel Moss.  Critics heralded Model Prisoner as “a modern rock masterpiece.” 

Come see Adam Pascal rock out at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater!  Tickets Premium $40, Standard $35 with discounts for groups and Friends of Landmark.

Landmark on Main Street is a not-for profit community center, located at 232 Main Street in Port Washington that houses the beautiful Jeanne Rimsky Theater.  

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Sharon Maier-Kennelly
Executive Director
Landmark on Main Street
232 Main Street, Suite 1
Port Washington, NY  11050
516-767-1384 extension 101
FAX 516-767-7261
www.landmarkonmainstreet.org

The East End Arts Council Grants Application Workshop

Riverhead, NY (October 19, 2007)—The East End Arts Council is offering a free workshop for artists, teaching artists and educators on October 30th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM at the EEAC gallery at 133 E. Main Street in Riverhead. The workshop will help attendees better understand the grant process for both the Local Capacity Building (LCB) Grant, a matching arts-in-education grant program, and the Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS), a grant for individual artists.

The LCB is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and administered by the East End Arts Council.  Grants will match up to $3,000 to schools and/or teaching artists who can successfully integrate arts into the core curriculum of pre-k and k-12 public and private schools in Nassau and Suffolk. The deadline for this year’s grant is November 30, 2007.

The SOS is sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and is also administered on Long Island by the East End Arts Council.  This grant is offered in the amount of $100-$600, three times a year, to individual artists of all disciplines who have a career-enhancing opportunities.  The deadline for the next round of the SOS is February 5, 2008.

For more information on the workshop or the grants, please call Laura Helms at the East End Arts Council at 631-727-0900, or email support@eastendarts.org. You can also reach Ray Saltini, the LCB Coordinator, at 631-610-8993 or rsaltini@cleargs.com.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Laura Helms,
631-727-0900

Long Island Power Authority Issues RFP for Power Supply Management Services

Uniondale, NY-October 17, 2007- The Long Island Power Authority (the Authority) today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) soliciting proposals from firms interested in providing Power Supply Management (PSM) Services for a term of up to 10 years.  PSM Services include the bidding and scheduling of generation resources either owned or controlled by the Authority as well as LIPA’s transmission assets into the New York, New England, and Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Maryland markets in which the Authority participates as well as the operation of the Authority’s power system in a least cost manner.

The PSM Services obtained in the RFP are currently being provided by KeySpan Energy Trading (now National Grid) under two contracts that expire at the end of 2009.

“In this RFP, the Authority is seeking to lower its costs of managing its generation and transmission resources while maintaining or improving the quality of such services,” said Authority President and CEO Kevin S. Law.

The PSM Services contracts obtained from the RFP would provide the Authority with services in the three areas listed below.  The Authority may select up to three entities to provide these services.

*       Front Office:  The purchase and sale of all energy, capacity, and ancillary services to meet the needs of the Authority’s customer load and the operation of the system in a least cost manner consistent with existing agreements, policies, regulations and reliability constraints.
*       Mid Office:  Monitor performance of front and back office operations; provide on-going reporting to the Authority and related support services.
*       Back Office:  Provide accounting, settlement, dispute resolution support, and related reporting and support services.

The RFP requires that proposals be submitted to the Authority by December 21, 2007 and the Authority anticipates proposal selection to occur at the Authority’s Board of Trustees meeting in March 2008.

To facilitate communications between the Authority and potential proposers, and to ensure that all entities have access to the same information, the Authority will post the RFP and information involving the RFP on its web site at http://www.lipower.org.  In addition, the Authority will hold a Proposers Conference at the Authority’s offices in Uniondale, New York on November 7, 2007.  At this conference, the Authority’s staff will provide an overview of key elements of the RFP and answer questions from the audience.  Further details of the conference will be posted on the Authority’s web site.

Throughout the RFP process, potential proposers are encouraged to pose questions to the Authority relevant to the RFP and the Authority will make responses available to all potential proposers.

LIPA, a non-profit municipal electric utility, owns the retail electric Transmission and Distribution Systems on Long Island and provides electric service to more than 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.  The Authority is the third largest municipal electric utility in the nation in terms of customers served and the sixth largest in terms of electricity delivered.  In 2006, the Authority outperformed all other overhead electric utilities in New York State in all three major reliability categories.  The Authority does not provide natural gas service or own any on-island generation assets. More information about the Authority can be found on line at http://www.lipower.org.

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LIPA Contact Information:
Media Relations: (516) 222-7700
Media Pager: (516) 525-LIPA
media.relations@lipower.org

LIPA News Center
www.lipower.org/newscenter

As Heating Oil Rises Consumers May get a Break with a New Energy Center Being Built at Stony Brook University to bring Alternative Energy Sources to Nation

NY State and KeySpan/National Grid break ground tomorrow on $35 million energy center making solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen and biomass available to residents Long Island to become national leader in energy

Ground will be broken Tuesday Oct 16th for a $35 million center make alternative energy available to everyone and establish Long Island as a leader in the growing alternative energy sector. The Advanced Energy Research Technology Center being built on the campus of SUNY Stony Brook will research and promote every area of alternative energy, including solar, wind, hydrogen fuel cells, geothermal, biomass and nano-technology.

“All these energy sources are being used on Long Island and other places on the planet in a small way and we are going to see how they can be brought to the masses,” said Robert Catell, Chairman National Grid-Key Span USA Energy Corp., and a co-chair of the tech center. New York State is paying to build the state of the art building, which itself, will be striving to become one of the most energy efficient building in the state, and only one of 26 in the nation to get the top Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council  in Washington, D.C.

The AERTC will establish Long Island as an area for alternative energy research and create exciting career opportunities, said Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Rockville Centre, before the 11a.m. groundbreaking and ceremony at the Charles B. Wang  Center at Stony Brook. Long Island and the entire state are in dire need of new energy sources, said Dr. Yacov Shamash, AERTC Vice Chairman. “We are scratching the surface with a few solar panels here and a few windmills there, and a smattering of buildings using hydrogen fuel cells or geo-thermal technology,” said Shamash.

“We have the technology to produce enough alternative energy to power a nation, but we need the will and industrial structure to develop it,” he said. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico that threaten oil fineries and natural gas producers, show how vulnerable our energy supply is, said Catell. “This instability has a disastrous effect on the economy, as well as national security,” he said.

Our country has gone through oil shortages in the 1970s, when foreign countries embargoed oil shipments and yet we still import a majority of our energy needs from these same countries, he said. “The argument for a secure, efficient energy supply we control within our borders is obvious,” Catell said.

It is my hope that the center’s research will unlock the mystery to alternative sources of energy and help reduce our dependence on foreign fuels, create new jobs and enhance our economic growth,” said Sen. Kenneth P. LaValle of R-Selden

The Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center building will conform to the highest level of energy sustainability administered by the U.S. Green Building Council, a Washington D.C.-based, nonprofit coalition of building industry leaders.  The building will have a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) platinum rating, which means it has achieved maximum energy efficiency in five distinct categories: sustainable site, water efficiency, energy & atmosphere, material & resources and indoor environmental quality.

•       Sustainable Site- Parking for low emission vehicles and use of vegetation that eliminates storm water runoff, while providing shade to keep blacktop from generating heat will be used.
•       Water Efficiency- Landscaping that requires no irrigation will be used, as will a system for collecting ground water on the roof, which will be used for flushing toilets.
•       Energy and Atmosphere- Photovoltaic cells will be built into the roof to create energy and block sunlight. Windows will be used as a source of light.  Energy efficient desk lamps will be used in favor of overhead light.
•       Materials and Resources- use of recycled building materials will exceed 20%.  75% of construction waste will also be diverted to recycling sites.
•       Indoor & Environmental Quality- Extensive venting will prevent pollution during construction. An efficient air pumping system will provide fresh air, which will be carefully monitored.

The energy center will also seek to improve the efficiencies of existing fuels and improve the conservation of fuels—including oil and natural gas—that are in decreasing supply

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WHAT:  New York State Groundbreaking: on $35 million Energy Center (Advanced Energy Research and Technical Center .) To make Long Island a leader in the nation’s effort to become energy independent.

WHEN:  11a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007

WHERE: Charles Wang Center State University at Stony Brook,  Long island expressway exit 62, Nicolls Road , stony Brook , N.Y.

WHO: AERTC Co-Chair Robert Catell (Chairman, KeySpan/National Grid USA ), AERTC Co-Chair Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny (President, Stony Brook University ), State Senator Kenneth LaValle, Kevin S. Law (Chairman, LIPA), Dr. Yacov Shamash (Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and VP of Economic Development, Stony Brook University).

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FLUSHING SBA-FEMA RECOVERY CENTER TO CLOSE

NEW YORK, N. Y. — New York State and federal officials remind those who were affected by the August 8 severe storm and flooding that they only have until next Wednesday to visit the Small Business Loan Administration (SBA)-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Recovery Center in Flushing.

The SBA-FEMA Recovery Center located at the Tzu Chi Foundation  in Flushing on Northern Boulevard, will close on Wednesday, October 17 at 7 p.m. Current hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The SBA-FEMA Recovery Centers that will remain open are located:

Mobile SBA-FEMA Recovery Center
Parking Lot One Block South of Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York
110-31 Merrick Boulevard (between 111th Avenue and 111th Road)
Jamaica (Queens), NY
This center is open 11:00 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday – Friday; closed on weekends.

SBA-FEMA Recovery Center at Williamsburg Public Library
240 Division Avenue (Basement Auditorium),
Williamsburg (Brooklyn), NY
The library will be closed Monday October 15.
This center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesday 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Thursday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; closed on weekends.

SBA-FEMA Recovery Center at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
552 59th Street (6th Avenue)
Brooklyn (Sunset), NY
This center is open 11:00 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday – Friday; closed on weekends.

The SBA-FEMA Recovery Centers focus on helping people fill out applications for low-interest disaster loans from the SBA and learn more information about their application with FEMA.

Affected Queens and Brooklyn residents, who have not registered with FEMA yet, can do so online at www.fema.gov or by calling toll-free 1-800-621-FEMA (3362). Speech or hearing impaired individuals should call (TTY) 1-800-462-7585.  Telephone lines are open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday.

New York State and FEMA join the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in reminding New Yorkers seeking assistance to complete and send in their SBA loan application. The SBA disaster loans are the primary source of long-term recovery aid.

FEMA coordinates the federal government’s role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror.

Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, economic status or retaliation. If you or someone you know has been discriminated against, you should call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362) or contact your State Office of Equal Rights. If suspicious of any abuse of FEMA programs, please contact the fraud hotline at 1-800-323-8603.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency
Room 350 500 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20472
United States

SOPRANOS WHACK CHEFS IN LI COOKING COMPETITION    
 

Last Saturday TV wiseguys did a real life “hit job” on local chefs dishes in a Merrick cooking competition.  “Battle of Restaurants” took place at East Bay Farms on Merrick Rd where local restaurants competed Iron Chef style to win the first annual title.

The event was hosted by WBLI’s Astra and MTV / Food Network’s DJ CHEF who also spun the beats and served up some fabulous finger foods. Celebrity judges looking to whack unsatisfying dishes were Sopranos Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy) & Federico Castelluccio (Furio Gunta) along with Joe from the “Wise Guy Show” (Sirius radio) and actor Paul Vario from the mob movie “This Thing of Ours”. Over 1,000 excited guests turn out for the star studded event. DJ CHEF kept the energy up spinnin’ pop tracks mixed with rat pack / party classics that had a crowd dancing and singing while the cooking action was taking place. Lisa Rosen from Bellmore says “This is amazing, it’s like Food Network meets MTV — cooking, music & celebrities…what’s better than that!.” La Strada from Merrick turn out victorious with classic pasta dish that had the judges asking for seconds. Photos & recipes from the event are posted on http://www.djchef.com/
 
For further info contact:
Marc Weiss
516-263-2433
djchefevents@gmail.com

Long Island NAACP to Hold News Conference in Wake of Racial Incident at Columbia University

Brentwood, NY – NAACP Islip Branch President Dr. Roderick Pearson will hold a news conference tomorrow, Friday October 12th from 8am – 2pm at the Suffolk Community College Brentwood Campus in the Sagitos Building with members of Suffolk Community College administration and students to discuss the after affects of the recent noose that was hung from the door of a Professor at Columbia University and other pertinent topics of this nature. They will also be discussing a recent initiative being instituted by the NAACP educate children of color and of all races throughout Long Island.

WHEN: Tomorrow, Friday October 12th 2007 from 8am – 2pm

WHERE: Suffolk Community College Brentwood Campus, Sagitos Building

This is the first event of its kind on Long Island and will feature the state education chair for the NAACP as keynote speaker.

There will also be programs and events for children ages 4 – 10

For more info please contact:

Alicia Figueras at NAACP 631-741-5616 | itbnaacp@aol.com

DIRECTIONS:

The Grant Campus, Brentwood:
The Health, Sports, Education/Convention Center
From the east or west take the Long Island Expressway to Exit 53. Follow signs to Wicks Road. Go south ½ mile on Wicks Road to campus entrance on right-hand side.

The Grant Campus, Brentwood:
The Sally Ann Slacke Center (Workforce Development)
From the east, take the Long Island Expressway to Exit 53. Follow signs to Wicks Road. Go south ½ mile on Wicks Road to campus entrance on right-hand side. Take the Loop Road to the right to parking field 2B.

From the west, take the Long Island Expressway to Exit 52, Commack Road. Cross over Commack Road, stay to right to Crooked Hill Road. Right on Crooked Hill Road to the campus entrance on the left. Take the Loop Road to the left to the Sally Ann Slacke Center. Take a right after the center to parking field 2B.

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NAACP

Todd S Shapiro Associates
45 Main Street
Southampton NY 11969

Rick Eberle
516-729-6872

LIPA Saved Over $20 Million During Summer with Neptune Cable Bringing Low Cost Power from New Jersey to Long Island

New Cassel, NY-October 11, 2007-The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) today announced that it saved over $20 million this summer by using the new Neptune electric transmission cable to bring nearly 1.2 million megawatt hours (MWh) of low cost power to Long Island during the peak summer season in July, August and September when demand for electricity is highest.

The Neptune cable, which is privately owned and operated and links Long Island directly to Mid-Atlantic power supply resources for the first time, is estimated to save LIPA hundreds of millions of dollars in energy supply costs over the next 20 years.

When coupled with the nearly $200 million in savings by importing lower cost energy via the Cross-Sound Cable since June, 2004, the savings derived by the Neptune cable will help LIPA’s efforts to minimize its power supply costs.

“This historic power project has given Long Island direct access to a lower cost, more diversified power supply in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland (PJM) power market that stretches from New Jersey to Illinois,” said LIPA President and CEO Kevin S. Law.  “The money saved this summer is significant and in the long term will help us meet our objective of holding down our power supply charges as much as possible.”

The 65-mile long Neptune Regional Transmission System began commercial operations on June 30, 2007.  It is an undersea and underground High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable that runs from Sayreville, New Jersey to New Cassel in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County.  It can carry 660 megawatts (MW) of power, which is enough to meet the average electric demand of about 600,000 homes.
In 2004, Neptune was selected by LIPA as the off-Island component of a diverse portfolio of resources developed under a comprehensive request for proposals (RFP) process.  The on-Island component is the Caithness Long Island Energy Center project, a 350 MW combined cycle generating facility currently under construction in Yaphank, Suffolk County, which is expected to be in service by the summer of 2009.

The PJM Interconnection controls more than 165,000 MW of electric generating capacity in all parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.  By comparison, the electric generating capacity in the LIPA service area is about 5,000 MW.

PJM’s relatively low cost power sources include hydroelectric, biomass, natural gas, nuclear, coal and wind.
Under LIPA’s 20 year agreement with Neptune, up to 660 MW of electricity is delivered to a station in Sayreville, New Jersey, where it is converted from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) for efficient transmission to Long Island via the undersea and underground HVDC cable.  The cable route travels east 51 miles under sea from the Jersey shore to a point south of Jones Beach on Long Island, then goes north underground to another station in New Cassel where the electricity is converted back to AC for use on LIPA’s system.  The power is delivered to LIPA’s Newbridge Road Substation in Levittown.

To get the power out to LIPA’s grid, the Newbridge Road Substation was substantially upgraded, and new underground transmission lines were installed that connect it to the East Garden City Substation to the west, and the Ruland Road Substation to the east in Melville.  Both the East Garden City and Ruland Road substations underwent major upgrades to receive the power and make it deliverable to LIPA’s customers all across Long Island.

The LIPA Board of Trustees approved a firm transmission capacity purchase agreement (FTCPA) for the Neptune project in September 2004.  The Office of the State Attorney General and the Office of the State Comptroller reviewed the FTCPA and approved it in January 2005.  Construction of the Neptune system began in July 2005.
Neptune is the second interstate off-island cable connecting LIPA’s grid to the mainland. In June 2004, the 330 MW Cross-Sound Cable went into regular commercial service, linking Shoreham, Long Island to New Haven, Connecticut.  Together, the Neptune and Cross-Sound cable systems provide LIPA with direct access to two independent power pools in the PJM and New England markets.  They add a combined 990 megawatts of off-Island resources to LIPA’s supply.

For more information on the Neptune Cable visit http://www.neptunerts.com or http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/neptune.html.

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LIPA Contact Information:
Media Relations: (516) 222-7700
Media Pager: (516) 525-LIPA
media.relations@lipower.org

LIPA News Center
www.lipower.org/newscenter

East End Arts Council Presents An Evening with the Masters
 
Riverhead, NY (October 11, 2007) — The East End Arts Council Community School of the Arts will be hosting an afternoon of professional development workshops for educators on Tuesday, November 6, 2007.

Workshops will include a look into arts integration in the public school classroom and creatively teaching and reaching students with Arts Integration Consultant Glenn McClure; an introduction to professional recording in the new EEAC recording studio with composer and performance specialist George Cork Maul; and a talk with inspirational artist, author and illustrator Michael Killelea. Workshops will be followed by dinner where artists and educators will have the opportunity to meet and network with one another. Workshops will be held from 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Dinner will be served at 5:45 PM.

For information and registration please call the Community School of the Arts at 631. 369. 2171.

Workshop Presenters

Glenn McClure is composer and arts integration consultant. His compositions have enjoyed a wide audience in the US. He offers 500-600 concerts and workshops annually that animate learning with hands-on musical activities.  His work in designing and implementing these programs in both general and special education environments has gained the attention of numerous grants and foundations.  He has presented his work at educational conferences at both the state and national level.  He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the New York State Alliance for the Arts and works extensively in professional development projects for teachers and artists.

George Cork Maul is a composer and performance art specialist who has written and recorded numerous works including modern songs, suites and dance pieces, contemporary operas, musical theatre works and music for software. He teaches piano, digital recording and composition both privately in his home studio and at the EEAC Community School of the Arts. Mr. Maul has created and directed numerous multimedia arts projects, has worked in collaboration with numerous Long Island arts organizations and is director of the Long Island Composer Alliance.

Michael Killelea is an inspiring artist whose unique approach to watercolor painting is one that reveals the changing light and moods of the outdoors. He manages to capture the scenes that surround him wherever he goes, which has lead to the creation of travel journals filled with paintings and anecdotes of some of the most exotic and beautiful places in the world. Mr. Killelea’s work is included in the Smithsonian Museum and the US Navy Museum in Washington, and has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Cummer Art Museum in Jacksonville, FL, the US Merchant Marine Academy Museum, Kings Point, and in the Vero Beach Art Museum in Florida. Many of his paintings and prose are spotlighted in two books he created that feature Long Island’s rural North Fork. Mr. Killelea worked as art director and photo editor at Newsday, the Daily News, and the Boston Herald American. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and regional representative of the American Society of Marine Artists.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Melissa Elkins Tyte
Maggie Kritsberg
631. 369. 2171 

East End Arts Council
133 East Main Street
Riverhead, NY 11901
(631) 727-0900
http://www.eastendarts.org