TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014 • 10 ‘GREEN TEAM’ ON THE SCENE Will Bring Efficient Devices To Ridgewood installation will generally take about 15 minutes. Green Team members will install six compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) in fixtures which use standard incandescent bulbs. Parker explained the CFLs emit just as much light as the incandescents but use less watts. The CFLs will be placed in areas of apartments “where it makes the most sense,” he noted, such as hallways and kitchens, where lights are left on most of the day. The Green Team will also install by Robert Pozarycki Eco-friendly light bulbs, showerheads and surge protectors will be provided for free to select Ridgewood residents later this year through an energy efficiency initiative, members of the Ridgewood Property Owners and Civic Association (RPOCA) learned at its meeting last Thursday, May 1. Lee Parker of Franklin Energy, a partner with Con Edison’s Green Team program, informed attendees at the Ridgewood Older Adult Center members of the team would go doorto door in the weeks ahead to distribute and install the devices in apartments across the neighborhood. Funded through a small surcharge collected by the Public Service Commission on monthly electric bills, the service is provided at no extra charge to consumers. The only thing recipients would be required to do, he noted, is sign a form allowing for the installation; the entire -SEE RPOCA ON PG. 54- Slice Of Justice For Cheating Gov’t Pizza Chain Owner Pays For Keeping Sales Tax $ separate defendants, also pled guilty and were fined at sentencing on Apr. 29. The defendants admitted that they stole $226,017 in sales tax––but with interest, penalty and fines were ordered to a make full restitution to the State of $497,021. The case was investigated by the State Tax Department’s Criminal A Queens pizzeria operator and several corporations he’s involved with have agreed to pay the state nearly a half a million dollars related to sales tax fraud. Syed Mehboob, 45, of Andover Drive in Syosset, L.I., was connected to six Papa John’s pizza franchises in Astoria, Corona, Woodside, Bayside, and Sunnyside. He was arrested in August of last year and charged with the theft of several hundred thousand dollars in sales tax for the years 2005 through 2010. Mehboob pled guilty to one misdemeanor charge and received a conditional discharge at his sentencing. The six franchises he’s involved with, seen in this case as six -SEE PIZZERIA ON PG. 54- SPRING CLEANING AT RIDGEWOOD GARDEN Volunteers beautified a neighborhood garden on Ridgewood’s Shaler Avenue adjacent to the Long Island Rail Road’s Bay Ridge branch during a community cleanup last Saturday morning, May 3. Organized by Civics United for Railroad and Environmental Solutions (CURES) and the Farmers Oval Civic Association, local residents removed debris and planted new flowers in the garden, created in recent years through grants from Keep America Beautiful and the Citizens Committee for New York City. (photo: Chris Bishop) EARLY CHILDHOOD OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 9:00a.m. to 11:00 a.m. St. Pancras School Early Childhood Program offers families a variety of options to introduce their children to the structure of a school environment. Our programs are more than daycare; children become accustomed to STPANCRSCH structured learning and socialization through center-based educational activities. -2014 -Newsweekly Pre-School – 3 year old Pre-Kindergarten – 4 year old Times Kindergarten – 5 year old ©68-20 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, NY 718-821-6721 ©Times Newsweekly - 2014 - WM
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