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“Saving Mr. Banks”

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OK, so just to get this over with since everyone I see is already asking me: YES, I will go see Saving Mr Banks. And I am sure it will be nice. And as it shows some of the people I remember from my childhood with tremendous respect and affection, specifically Don DaGradi and the Sherman Brothers, and I hope my grampa, I'm sure it will be fun. But I will eat my hat if this review is not right on the mark. What my family's business has done is to dumb down and middle-ify and oversimplify (ok, ok DISNEYFY) so much, and while that has rightly and admirably brought a lot of pleasure--joy even-- to a lot of people who needed it given that life can be hard and pleasure hard to come by, it has also encouraged that most grim and American tendency to gloss over the untidy complexities of life, sometimes at great cost to the lived experiences of many others. Were we as a people, for instance, more inclined to welcome stories involving moral complexity and nuance we might not be so quick to accept the ever increasing and frequent invitations of our presidents to jump in with both feet to "defend our freedom" in far away places we know nothing about at great cost to innocent people who couldn't give less of a shit about our freedom and don't even understand why we think they are a threat to it.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY

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Small Business Saturday has finally entered the cultural vernacular, with U.S. consumers spending a total of $5.5 billion with independent merchants on SBS last year, according to US Chamber statistics. American Express has a series of recommendations, which every local chamber member should read, learn from and put into practice ASAP.

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On Saturday @ 7P Amanda Bear Party Rentals will host a small opening event as they welcome everyone into their business at 474 City Island avenue. This is the same exact location were the hair salon was doing business for years.

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HISPANIC BUSINESS GROWING

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As the Latino population in this country surpasses that 50 million plus figure, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. is now expected to nearly double in the past decade.

That’s the finding of a recently released study by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Geoscape, a company that provides demographics data. The findings analyze U.S. census data and other information and projects nearly 3.2 million Hispanic-owned businesses in this country this year, up from nearly 1.7 million in 2002.

"Fill Up the Food Banks"

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Fill Up the Food Banks" food drive is underway! In observance of Mother Teresa’s 103rd birthday, I am teaming up with Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, asking area residents to bring donations of nonperishable food (pasta, sauce, soup, canned fruit and vegetables, cereal, etc.) to the corner of Lydig and Holland Avenues, beneath the street sign reading “Mother Teresa Way,” at 11 AM on Monday, August 26. We will be there, along with volunteers, to collect the food and deliver the donations to the Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway food pantry.