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The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2007 - Page 15 Sandra and Leon Levine JCC Maccabi Games Award Winners The Sandra & Leon Levine JCC’s Sports and Fitness Department is very happy to announce the winners of the 2006 JCC Maccabi Games awards, pre sented this year during the annual Team Charlotte’s reunion party this past October. Baseball coach Larry Brown, Basketball coach Dan Vizzini and chaperone Aree Skolnik-Pearlman are this year’s winners of the Harold Josephson Memorial Award. This award, established in 1998 at the JCC Maccabi Games hosted in Charlotte and named in memory of an outstanding leader and gentleman from our Charlotte Jewish community, is presented annually to a member or members of the Charlotte JCC Maccabi Games delegation who demon strates tremendous fortitude despite adversity and who displays the perseverance to achieve goals that appear unattainable. This is the first time in the eight-year his tory of the award that credentialed adults have received this presti gious award. Previous winners have included: Matt Manes, Mitchell Gartner, Brett Stmmwasser, Courtney Rosenberg, Michael Murray, Rebecca Raphael, Alan Platock and the boys in-line hockey team from 2005 (Harry Bergmann, Jonathan, Cohen, Matthew Laxer, Matt Lepow, Zach Maniloff and Kyle Schumer). For the fourth year in a row, a fairly newer award for the JCC Maccabi Games program in Charlotte was also presented. Named in memory of Amy Beth Rosenberg, former Associate Director of the JCC Maccabi Games who very sadly and very suddenly passed away in the spring of 2003 at the age of 36 and who was one of the key continen tal staff insuring the success of the JCC Maccabi Games for many previous years, the award is pre sented annually to a member or members of the Charlotte JCC Maccabi Games delegation who displays “extra ordinary” behavior while participating at the annual JCC Maccabi Games. The winners of this award for 2006 are Alex Goldstein, Dayna Katz, Sarah Platock, Alex Widis and Amanda Widis (the Charlotte mixed girls soccer team), joining previous Rosenberg award winners Elyssa lagnocco, Jeffrey Goldsmith, Matt Gershen and Aaron Zucker. ■ Alex Goldstein is a tenth grader at Providence Day School and has been involved with Maccabi for the past two years. She has played soccer for her school for five years and made the varsity team as a freshman. Alex is the daughter of Alan Goldstein and Vicki Pennington-Bowles. Dayna Katz is a 9th grader and in the IB pro gram at Myers Park HS and has been involved with Maccabi for the past two years. She plays soc cer for the Charlotte United Futbol Club and is a member of BBG. Dayna is the daughter of Robert and Jeanie Widis and Peter and Laura Katz. Sarah Platock is a sophomore at Myers Park HS and she too has been involved with Maccabi for the past two years. She is very active in BBG and is treasurer of her chapter and a member of the Hebrew High Student Council. Sarah is the daughter of Eric Platock and " • Lisa Strause. Alex Widis is in the tenth grade at Providence Day School and has been involved with Maccabi for the past two years. She plays field hockey in the fall and soccer in the spring for her school. Alex is the daughter of Robert and Jeanie Widis and David Hansen and Emily Chatham. And last, but certainly not least, Amanda Widis is a soph omore at Providence HS and has also been involved with Maccabi for two years. She plays soccer for a Matthews Classic Club, the MARA Hurricanes, and is a mem ber of BBG. Amanda is the daugh ter of Howard Widis and Kathy Consorte. Congratulations to all of the 2006 athlete and adult Maccabi award winners for these well- deserved honors. Your enthusiasm for the JCC Maccabi Games pro gram and Team Charlotte, plus your willingness to do “whatever it takes” to be successful both on and off the field of play are an inspira tion to many others in our . Charlotte community. The Freakonomics of Tu B’Shevat By Judy H August This year, on February 3, we celebrate the holiday of Tu B’Shevat. The holiday celebrates the new year of trees. In Leviticus it states: “When you come to the land and you plant any tree, you shall treat its fruit as forbidden; for three years it will be forbidden and not eaten. In the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be sanctified to praise the Lord. In the fifth ye^, you may eat its fruit.” - Leviticus 19:23-25 So, Tu B’Shevat was created as a way to track the age of trees, and to answer the age-old Jewish ques tion, “When can we eat?” Any tree planted before the 15th of the month of Shevat is considered a year old on Tu B’Shevat, and then aged a year every Tu B’Shevat thereafter, until the fifth year when the fruit is allowed to be eaten. At its core, Tu B’Shevat shows us the important value Judaism places on caring for God’s nature over time. Interestingly, time is one element that in today’s society works against trees and the environment. Time tends to distort the econom ics of decisions affecting the envi ronment. Let me give you some examples. We make economic decisions today about how much land to devote to garbage dumps based on today’s land use and values. However, the garbage that we are dumping will be there for genera tions to come, when the land use and values will most assuredly be much higher. Evaluated in future terms, we might not be so willing to dump such a huge amount of garbage on the valuable land. That doesn’t mean that we need to elim inate landfills. It’s a matter of degree. If we care about future generations, we need to reduce the amount of garbage we dump, and with it, the rate at which we expand our landfills. We need to “reduce, reuse, recycle.” The economics of air pollution are similarly out of kilter. We incur little to no personal cost for the pollution we generate as we sit in What Can I Do To Help? * Donate to the “Foundation of Shalom Park - Environmental Fund” to finan cially support the ongoing recycling pick-up costs for all of the organizations at Shalom Park. Checks may be dropped off at the JCC front desk, Temple Beth El, Temple Israel, or any of the school offices. * Practice the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” adage at home. Once you start the habit, it becomes easy and second nature. See the Mecklenburg County website for more information: http://www.charmeck .org/Departments/Solid+Waste/. * Reduce your contribution to air pollu tion by eliminating unnecessary idling in carpool lines and drive-throughs. It is more efficient to turn off and restart most warmed-up vehicles rather than idle for more than 30 seconds. Also,- become more efficient in your use of elecp-icity by turning off appliances and lights when not needed and purchasing more efficient appliances and bulbs. Environmental Fund (see box). This year’s Tu B’Shvat initia tive will focus on air pollution. Our Jewish schools and after school programs are now partici pating in a “No Idling” campaign, to help reduce unnecessary emis sions from carpool lines, and help raise awareness of the harm and waste caused by automobile idling. It is so easy to help year- round by reducing the use of drive-throughs, turning the car engine off when waiting for any length of time, and turning the key to battery only when listening to the end of that fabulous song or talk show interview. Computer S3 First Aid In-home and small business computer services Troubleshooting Tune-ups Repairs Upgrades Lessons Backup Virus & Spyware Removal/Protection Security Setup/lnstallation Wireless Networking Remote Assistance I Show this ad for 20% off your first appointmenti~d' Call Paul Moritz at 704-891-2514 our carpool and drive-through lines idling our car engines, or make inefficient use of electricity. However, there is a cost to society, particularly in the areas of health care and global warming. Mecklenburg County is currently designated by the EPA as not meeting safe standards for ozone. Ozone has been found to con tribute to asthma, lung infections, cell inflammation, and shortness of breath, especially in children, who breathe 50% more air per body weight than adults. My car idling may bring on a child’s asth ma attack, but I pay nothing for doing so. We at Shalom Park take seri ously our Jewish obligation to care for the environment. Last year, in honor of Tu B’Shevat, we created the Foundation of Shalom Park - Environmental Fund. We were able to initiate recycling Park wide by purchasing the recycling bins and paying for the pick-up of recyclables. Because the pick-up costs are ongoing, our Environmental Fund needs replen ishing every year. 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