Friday, September 24, 2021
Vol. 98, No.47
FOUNDED 1923
n
$1
Dedicated Se rv Outstanding ice, Results
LOCALLY OWNED AND EDITED
Norma Quigle y
Lic. R. E. Sales person
M 516.236.799 6 norma.quigley @elliman.com
Garden City Offi ce 516.307.9406 | elliman.com
n
Casino tennis
PAGE 58 n
Back to School nights
PAGE 51
© 2021 DOUGLAS ELL 110 WALT WHITMA IMAN REAL ESTATE. EQUAL HOUSING N ROAD, HUNTING TON STATION, NY 1174OPPORTUNITY. 6. 631.549.7401.
Parents press Board to join suit against state on mask mandate
ON A ROLL
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City High School Girls Varsity Field Hockey game has been on a roll with wins this week against Locust Valley and arch-rival Manhasset. Come cheer for the girls when they play at home on Saturday, September 25th.
Women to tell stories of breast cancer survivorship at Adelphi event BY GARY SIMEONE It will be an emotional evening on Wednesday, October 13, as three women will discuss their tales of surviving breast cancer. The three women, including one from Garden City, will share their struggles and triumphs with the disease at the annual Celebration of Survivorship of the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer
Hotline & Support Program. The event will take place from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. via Zoom. “This is the first year we’re doing the Celebration of Survivorship via Zoom because of the pandemic,” said Lyn Dobrin, a longtime volunteer with the breast cancer hotline. “There will be a series of speakers, including three survivors of the disease, who will tell the audience their per-
sonal stories and experiences. The audience will be a mixture of breast cancer survivors, which adds a human element to the survivorship journey.” The three women who will be participating in the hourlong event are Julie Bickar Nappi, a Garden City resident and three-year survivor of breast cancer, Arlette Hagans, a four-year survivor See page 45
Parents attending the Garden City Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, September 21st questioned why the school board has not joined a lawsuit to challenge mask mandates in the schools that has been filed by the Massapequa and Locust Valley school districts. New York state has mandated the wearing of masks in schools. Garden City School Board President William Holub said that on September 13th he and School Trustee Stephanie Granville attended a meeting hosted by the Massapequa district where districts discussed a decision by the Massapequa and Locust Valley school districts to sue New York State and the Department of Health over the state’s school mask mandate. Massapequa and Locust Valley School Districts advocate local control on measures such as requiring masks to be a worn in schools. At Garden City’s school board meeting on Tuesday night, Superintendent of Schools Kusum Sinha explained that there has been a rash of positive COVID-19 cases, with 13 confirmed cases in the school district and 30 students having to be quarantined as a result. Dr. Sinha noted that this total of 13 is more than GCUFSD experienced in all of September 2020. “Last week (cases as of September 12) Garden City was noted as the third-lowest for rates of COVID transmission, though in the definition by Nassau County transmission rate countywide the level is High. We were at the bottom up until last week, which was excellent for our community -- but then this week the positive cases doubled and we went up to being about the 12th-highest based on County Department of Health information. The increased COVID activity the County reports is being seen in our schools also, and we appreciate how parents are monitoring their children as they have been very communicative to us and letting the district know of any development. We are all working hard to make sure our children are healthy and safe before they are returning to school; for the two days the 13 new positive cases is a lot,” Dr. Sinha said. The district’s inaction to join Massapequa and Locust Valley, was heavily focused on by residents who attended the September 21 board of education meeting. Board President Holub explained, “the districts indicated that they filed the lawsuit and they were looking to other districts to see See page 44
GC Jewish Ctr returns to in-person events PAGE 36 Scouts bike pack 60 miles in W. Virgina PAGE 50