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North Hempstead Fireworks Offer Patriotic Tribute

Happenings around the town.

Despite thunder and some brief rain shows in the late afternoon, the 2012 Town of North Hempstead Memorial Day tribtue went on as planned Saturday at  in Port Washington. 

Honoring those who gave their lives defending the United States, the town hosted a night of pyrotechnics and musical performances by Beginnings, a Chicago tribute band, and Early Elton, an Elton John tribute band.

Setting the scene for the evenings’ festivities, the United States Marine Corps Color Guard, the Nassau County Police Pipe Band, the Volunteers of America firing detail, and local veterans’ organizations honored the fallen from the nation’s armed forces. 

Next Town Board Meeting

North Hempstead's Board of Trustees meet next on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at . See the agenda.

Nancy May 28, 2012 at 06:39 pm
More from our corrupt carnival barker Joni Kaiman
Average Port May 28, 2012 at 07:10 pm
"panem et circenses" from Latin means bread and circus. Worked for the Romans to buy off the masses as the decline started. Amazing how history repeats itself. What is old is now new.
Nancy May 28, 2012 at 07:18 pm
This article is about a concept in political satire. For other uses, see Bread and circuses (disambiguation).
"Bread and Circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. It was the basic Roman formula for the well-being of the population, and hence a political strategy unto itself.[citation needed] In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace.[1][2][3] The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the common man (l'homme moyen sensuel). In modern usage, the phrase is taken to describe a populace that no longer values civic virtues and the public life. To many across the political spectrum, left and right, it connotes a supposed triviality and frivolity that characterized the Roman Republic prior to its decline into the autocratic monarchy characteristic of the later Roman Empire's transformation about 44 B.C.
John Chalker June 6, 2012 at 07:39 am
Wow ! Yea verily !!!!

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