8A THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018 ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT CHRONICLE Obituaries In Memoriam ROCHESTER Passed away on June 18, 2018, age 33. Survived by his wife, Christina Miller; 2 sons, Michael, Makhi daughter, Miller; parents, Selena Simpson Thomas Hopkins; 8 brothers and 4 sisters; a host of other relatives friends. Calling, June 23rd from 9-11 at Ark of the Covenant, 60 Lo- rimer St. with Funeral immediately following at 11 AM. Ref.
Regency Funeral Chapel. Richard Michael Miller FAIRPORT June 20, 2018. Predeceased by parents, Charles and Jennie Daniels. Syma is survived by her loving husband of 54 years, Patrick; children, Mark Mulich and Joelle Mau- rer; grandchildren, Da- vid and Jenna Maurer; sister, Judi Rosenfield; nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to a Graveside Service, Friday 11 AM at Oak- wood Cemetery, 1975 Baird Penfield.
The family will be re- ceiving friends for Shiva at house, Friday 4-7 PM and Saturday 6-9 PM. Those wishing may direct donations to Girl Scouts of Western New York, 1000 Elm- wood Ave. Suite200, Rochester, NY 14620. Syma Daniels Mulich PALMYRA, NY Died on Sunday June 17, 2018 at the VA Hospi- tal in Canandaigua, NY. Family and friends are invited to attend a Me- morial Service at 11:30 am on Saturday, June 23 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints located at 2801 Temple Rd.
in Palmyra, NY. Robert was born in Coldwater, NY to Howard Skeels and Grace Wentz. He retired from Garlock after 44 years of service as a Ma- terials Engineer. He also served in the Armed Forces of the US Navy. He is survived by his wife of 42 years Nancy Aliff Skeels; children James R.
Skeels, Karen L. Miley of New Port Richey, FL and Robin A. Phillips of Dallas, TX; 9 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Robert Monroe Skeels LIMA June 17, 2018 at age 75. She is survived by her loving daugh- ter, Mary Houghton; sister, Ann Marie Wal- czyk; brothers, Tom and Tim Smock.
She was predeceased by her sis- ter, Bonnie Schneider; brother, Jack Smock. Family and friends are invited to call Friday 5-7 PM at the nell-Dougherty Fu- neral Home, 2041 Lake Lima where her Funeral Service will be held following calling hours at 7 PM. Inter- ment, St. Rose Ceme- tery, Shortsville. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alz- Association, St.
Jude Hospi- tal or Lollypop Farm. To share a memory or send a condolence, visit: oconnelldoughertyfu- neralhome.com Margaret F. Smock SPRINGWATER Age 95, peacefully, Wednes- day, June 20, 2018. Call- ing 4-6 pm Friday at Walter E. Baird Sons Funeral Home, 300 W.
Naples Way- land. Funeral 11 am, Saturday at Springwa- ter United Methodist Church, 8001 Main Springwater, NY 14560. A complete obituary is online at Marion W. Walker Obituaries In Memoriams SHARE YOUR CONDOLENCES SIGN A GUEST BOOK SHARE MEMORIES ONLINE AT WWW.DEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE.COM/LEGACY Starkweather, Martin D. John 11: 25-26.
We love and miss you. Mom and Dad. ROCHESTER Me- morial Service to be held on Saturday, June 23rd at 11 AM at St. Episcopal Church, 25 Westmin- ster Road, Rochester, NY 14607. Anne Welter Vilas continued from page 7A OBITUARIES Express Your Condolences Visit death notices online to read or sign guestbooks, donate to charities or send flowers or gifts.
OCEANPORT, N.J. Arthur Rosen puzzled over the photocopied sheet of paper listing all sorts of exotic bets on baseball games, including one in which the number of runs scored and hits made in Tuesday New York Yan- kees-Seattle Mariners game had to ex- ceed 29. lived in Vegas 20 years and I never heard of a bet like the 83-year-old retired truck driver said. Rosen was one of more than 100 peo- ple at a New Jersey racetrack at 1:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, ready to plunk down money on professional sports in the week it has been legal here.
Al- though revenue be re- leased for a few weeks yet, Monmouth Park racetrack and Atlantic Bor- gata casino say they are delighted with the extra business sports betting has generated in its few days. really pleased with the early results, especially considering a slow time on the sports betting calen- said Joe Asher, CEO of William Hill US, which runs the sports book at Mon- mouth Park. Likewise, the Borgata is seeing an uptick in business at its race book, which has been expanded to cover sports bets. revenue was beyond what it would have said spokes- woman Liza Costandino. Sports betting is bringing new de- mographics into what was traditionally an older, male clientele at the horse racing betting operation.
Younger customers are stopping in to bet on sports, including more women. full bachelorette party came in and they all made sports Costan- dino said. The casinos and tracks report their sports betting revenue to the New Jer- sey Division of Gaming Enforcement, which will publicly release monthly to- tals along with traditional casino reve- nue. The next such report is due for re- lease July 12, and neither the Borgata nor Monmouth would reveal their to- tals before then. Last month, New Jersey won a U.S.
Supreme Court case that cleared the way for all 50 states to sports bet- ting, including wagers on individual games, should they desire. Delaware was the state to begin doing so af- ter the court decision; New Jersey was the second. So far in New Jersey, just the Borgata and Monmouth Park are sports betting. The soon-to-open Ocean Re- sort Casino, formerly known as Revel, is due to open June 28 and plans to sports betting on its day of opera- tion, owner Bruce said. The property will go before state gambling regulators on Wednesday to seek a casino license.
William Hill will run the sports betting operation for Ocean Resort as well as Monmouth Park. Eventually, most of Atlantic casinos (there will be nine by the end of next week) and its three race- tracks plan to sports betting. Both facilities said the early action has been mostly on individual baseball games and World Cup soccer matches. Customers also are making long-term bets on who will win the World Series or Super Bowl, a market segment expect- ed to increase as the baseball and the start of the NFL season draw closer in the fall. Michael Black, of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, was at Monmouth Park to wager on Cubs-Dodgers baseball game, betting that the two teams com- bined would score 9 or more runs.
A boiler installer, Black tends to be busier in the fall, and has been able to visit Monmouth Park several times since sports betting began last Thursday. up $175 so far, he said. soon as football opens, this place is going to be he said. has been a long time Fred Reyes, of Jersey City, had been to the track four times since last Thurs- day, and had yet to lose a sports bet. far up close to he said, betting on the Cubs to win Tues- day.
Rosen was enjoying the many novel ways he could risk money on sporting events, particularly on a bet combining runs and hits in a baseball game. Mets and Colorado is he said. a whole lot. You think the Yankees will score in the inning? tough, Business up at New Jersey track, casino with sports bets Wayne Parry Associated Press West Point superintendent retiring after 43-year Army career WEST POINT The superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy is retiring after more than 40 years in the Army.
West Point say Lt. Gen. Rob- ert L. Caslen Jr. will relinquish com- mand of the academy during a Friday morning ceremony being held in the Ei- senhower Hall Ballroom.
Caslen has spent the past years as West commanding He previously held the position of com- mandant of cadets from 2006 to 2008. Caslen, a 1975 West Point graduate, is retiring after a 43-year military ca- reer that included numerous command assignments, including in Iraq. He earned degrees from Long Is- land University and Kansas State Uni- versity. A successor as West Point superin- tendent been an- nounced yet. Maddow breaks down reading story on shelters NEW YORK MSNBC political com- mentator Rachel Maddow broke down while trying to read an exclusive Asso- ciated Press story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents at the southern border and sent to shelters.
The host of Rachel Maddow was live on the air Tuesday eve- ning when she tried to read the ex- clusive story After trying to get through the couple of sentences she said, sorry. I think going to have to hand this ending her seg- ment. Maddow issued an apology on Twit- ter with a link to the story saying, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.- Mexico border. President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S.
border. DA: NYPD officer lied about salary to avoid child support NEW YORK The Brooklyn District says a New York City police committed perjury by ly- ing about his salary to avoid paying more in child support. Michael Martinez, an 11-year veteran of the NYPD, was released without bail after his arraignment Tuesday on a 20-count indictment. Prosecutors say the 40-year-old lied about his salary during family court proceedings, thus defrauding his own child out of more than $15,000. Martinez is charged with mul- tiple false payroll statements in 2013.
Prosecutors say when he was asked about apparent pay discrepancies, he allegedly lied under oath by claiming he was working a night shift when he was not. Martinez is currently on duty, assigned to the Housing Bureau in Manhattan. He declined comment as he left court Tuesday. Associated Press STATE BRIEFS NEWBURGH New York City is in the midst of a plumbing repair job of monumental proportions. Hard-hat workers are toiling deep underground, 55 stories beneath the Hudson River, to eliminate gushing leaks in an aging tunnel that carries half the water supply over 85 miles from Catskill Mountain reser- voirs.
Using a cylindrical, space-rock- et-size borer, they are carving through solid rock to create a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel around the worst of the leaks. When they the $1 billion tun- nel in 2022, the entire Delaware Aque- duct will be shut down for months to prepare for the diversion. And if they do it right, New Yorkers turning on their faucets will never even notice. really the largest and most com- plex water tunnel repair that the city of New York has ever said Vincent Sapienza, commissioner of the city De- partment of Environmental Protection. The Delaware Aqueduct is to the city what the aorta is to our circulatory sys- tems: a necessary channel to keep ev- erything running.
It was drilled and blasted out mostly during World War II and carries about 600 million gallons a day, entirely by gravity, from four Cats- kill region reservoirs to a holding reser- voir just north of the city line. Along with the complementary Catskill Aqueduct, the two help con- nect a complex system that serves 9.6 million people in New York City and up- state municipalities. Engineers and politicians compare the network of 19 reservoirs, three lakes and connecting tunnels to the grand aqueducts of an- cient Rome. But the Delaware Aqueduct is show- ing its age at a weak point where it crosses through limestone beneath the Hudson River near Newburgh, New York. Limestone is less dense and has more than the neighboring shale, so crews protected that length of the concrete tunnel with a steel sleeve.
But for an unknown reason lack of fore- sight, lack of steel during wartime they did not extend it through the en- tire limestone formation. Leaks formed in that gap, with some of the water burbling up into the river. About 18 million gallons 3 percent of the or enough to about 27 Olympic-size swimming pools escapes from the pipeline every day. The loss is too big to ignore, but the tun- nel is too vital to simply drain for a mul- ti-year repair. City eventually settled on the parallel bypass tunnel, which allows for a shutdown measured in months instead of years.
fathom shutting down the said Paul Rush, deputy commissioner of the environmental department. Workers began digging two giant ac- cess holes on either side of the river in 2013, and actual tunneling started last summer. A long, cylindrical machine nick- named presses into the rock face with a spinning 21.6-foot diameter embedded with 41 spin- ning, steel blades. The tunnel boring machine, the sort used worldwide for major water and transportation pro- jects, is named for civil engineer Nora Stanton Blatch Deforest Barney. The pulverized rock comes out the back via conveyor belt to be loaded onto rail cars and hauled topside.
Dozens of workers are deep down at a time. They work controls, bolt together pieces of the ever-lengthening concrete tunnel, operate rail cars and tend to material going up and down the 900-foot shaft. a construction site in a cave and a wet one. Miners are constantly sloshing through puddles from the seeping groundwater. Draining the aqueduct in 2022 will give crews time to reroute the water un- der the Hudson and to seal other leaks some 25 miles up the aqueduct.
Those losses in Wawarsing, New York, are far smaller, but they did contribute to a lo- cal plague of basem*nts and sodden lawns that resulted in the gov- ernment buying some homes. Cutting half the water sup- ply for up to eight months sounds like a recipe for disaster, but the environ- mental agency has been preparing for years. The city will rely on water from res- ervoirs in suburban Westchester Coun- ty and the Catskill Aqueduct. NYC a massive plumbing leak, 55 stories underground Michael Hill ASSOCIATED PRESS.
