for breaking news visit www.timesnewsweekly.com AUGUST 20, 2015 • times 3 Students remember Christ the King Photo courtesy Christ the King High School teacher Richard Hartman Richard Hartman (left) with the Christ the King Math Team in 2013. Ben Carson stumps for Republican presidential votes in Forest Hills BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport Dr. Ben Carson, one of the 17 hopeful candidates seeking the Republican Party nomination for president, spoke to a packed house on the issues facing the country at the American Legion Continental Post #1424 in Forest Hills on Aug. 12. Carson gave his position on the economy, race relations, foreign policy and police/community relations, among other matters. The relationship between the police force and communities across the country has been strained for some time, especially with recent high-profile police involved shootings. Carson told the audience that he believes the best way to mend this relationship is to dissipate the communities’ fear of the police and the police force’s fear of the communities by bringing them together. “Why don’t we stop dealing with these situations and try to come up with solutions?” Carson said. “Why don’t RIDGEWOOD TIMES/Photo by Anthony Giudice we think about ways of introducing the police into those Dr. Ben Carson visited the American Legion communities, and the same police, so that they get to Continental Post #1424 in Forest Hills on Aug. know them, so that little Johnny’s first encounter with the 12 to speak on issues facing the country. police is with someone he knows…it’s relationships that solve those kinds of problems.” “That’s what we need right now in this county, is we need solutions,” he added. Carson made note of the country’s $18 trillion debt and the growing fiscal gap. He believes that unless something is done, the financial situation will only continue to get worse. “We are putting that on the backs of the next generations — not just the next generation, but the next generations,” Carson said. “We have the ability to stop this…we have got to get the economic engines functioning once again.” The way to bring the economic engines back to life, according to Carson, is to get rid of many of the government regulations which cost money and, in turn, increase the prices of goods and services. These price increases, he charged, affect the poor people who may not be able to afford them. As for foreign policy, Carson feels that extremist jihadists are a major area of concern. “The other thing that threatens to destroy us is divisiveness, fiscal irresponsibility and the radical jihadists who want to destroy us,” Carson said. “They are an existential threat to our nation.” When it comes to dealing with the jihadists, “we have two choices,” according to Carson. “We can stick our heads in the sand, drop a few bombs in the desert and think we are doing something — or we can use every resource known to us, economic resources, military resources, and we can destroy them before they destroy us,” he continued. Carson fielded questions from the audience before leaving the American Legion post to a chorus of cheers and applause. The event was hosted by Bob Turner, chairman of the Queens County Republican Party and Tom Long, chairman of the Queens County Conservative Party. Organizers cautioned that the event did not imply an endorsement of any kind by either party or party chairman. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport Christ the King Regional High School in Middle Village lost a family member last week when faculty member Richard Hartman died on Aug. 13 at the age of 75. Hartman worked at Christ the King for 10 years and coached the high school’s math team to a number one ranking statewide during the 2012-13 school year, among other achievements. His knowledge was only surpassed by his dedication to his students. Two of his former students, Joe Pennolino, who will be a senior at Christ the King in September, and Alex Singh, a Christ the King graduate, were with Hartman during his final days and remember him for the unyielding support he gave to everyone who knew him. “Mr. Richard Hartman was a man of pure brilliance with an unlimited passion for teaching,” Pennolino said. “He was always willing to help and was never too busy to help the next student in need of assistance. Though he was taken from us too soon, his love for teaching will never be forgotten.” Over the years, Pennolino and Singh formed a strong bond with Hartman during the math tutoring lessons he would hold every day at the high school. That bond quickly transformed from one of student-and-teacher to a deep friendship. “We developed a father-son relationship just because we were always together and anything that I needed or he needed we helped each other out, so we were always there for each other,” Singh said. “We always watched movies together. He would come over on the weekends…he loved game shows.” Hartman cared for his students so much that he would hold tutoring sessions outside of the school and for students from other high schools in the area. He would be there for anybody who needed his help, the students said. “His job as a teacher and his dedication to students never stopped…if a student called him and asked him a question he would stop whatever he was doing, wherever he was and make sure he found the answer,” Singh said. “He would always try to be there for the students.” The dedication and care Hartman had for his students was returned as Pennolino and Singh visited the teacher while he was in the hospital battling cancer. “The nights Alex and I were at the hospital were very difficult because we watched Mr. Hartman struggle to get better, but we knew how happy he was to see us there,” Pennolino said. When they learned of Hartman’s death, his former students couldn’t believe the news. “It was a shock because the day before I saw him and he was walking around the room. He was doing well. I couldn’t believe it,” Singh said. “It was a shock. Everything stopped for two days. I didn’t know what to do.” “I didn’t understand it until the second or third day that he wasn’t going to be in school anymore,” Pennolino added. Hartman’s legacy will live on in the students that he cared so much for and all of the people who knew him.
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